FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, March 01, 2005
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| US 06860156 | Cavallaro 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) | Paul V. Cavallaro (Raynham, Massachusetts); Claudia J. Quigley (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ali M. Sadegh (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An in-plane shear and multi-axial tension or compression testing apparatus having four-bar linkages pivotable to two sleeves on an opposite vertices with the sleeves of each vertex rotationally attached to each other. Lateral links of each linkage are pivotally attached to load transfer plates in which the plates secure a test specimen. Each linkage is rotatable to the other linkages while the vertices are subjected to a compression or tensile load. The vertices are also capable of rotation by a testing machine for shear testing. During compression or tension of the vertices of the apparatus, the plates respectfully move toward or away from each other thereby applying compression or tension to the specimen. The bars of one linkage can be rotated with respect to the other, thereby applying torsional loading to the specimen. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851748 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/819 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06860346 | Burt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian T. Burt (Edina, Minnesota); Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A powered wheel assembly, and method and ground-engaging vehicle (e.g., a robotic vehicle) using the same, are provided. The vehicle incorporates at least one of the wheel assemblies on its chassis body. In addition to its ability to propel the vehicle across a surface, the wheel assembly is reconfigurable between a retracted configuration, wherein the wheel assembly has a first rolling diameter, and an expanded configuration, wherein the wheel assembly has a second rolling diameter greater than the first rolling diameter. A drive motor assembly may both rotate the wheel assembly, e.g., propel the vehicle across a surface, and selectively actuate the wheel assembly from the first rolling diameter to the second rolling diameter, or to any intermediate rolling diameter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417296 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/8.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06860450 | Muylaert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal W. Muylaert (Apache Junction, Arizona); Angelo A. Scardullo (Mesa, Arizona); Conan A. Hansen (Mesa, Arizona); Aidan T. Foley (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises providing six helicopters. Each helicopter has a fuselage, a main rotor assembly extending out from the fuselage and rotatable about a main rotor axis, and four main rotor blades coupled to the main rotor assembly. The main rotor blades of each helicopter are moveable relative to the main rotor assembly between a deployed position and a stowed position. The deployed position is a position in which the four main rotor blades extend radially from the main rotor. The main rotor blades have a blade rotor diameter of at least forty seven feet when in the deployed position. The four main rotor blades are coupled to the main rotor assembly when in the stowed position. The method further comprises positioning the six helicopters relative to each other such that all six of the helicopters are simultaneously contained within a parallelepiped region having a height of less than fifteen feet, a width of less than twenty feet, and a length of less than one hundred forty five feet. The four main rotor blades of each of the six helicopters are in their stowed positions when the six helicopters are simultaneously contained within the parallelepiped region. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329250 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/17.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06860712 | Pisano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan David Pisano (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); James Patrick Conaty (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Matthew William Wiseman (Fairfield, Ohio); Sabrina Anne Sequeira (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A control strategy for a gas turbine engine which exchanges future lifetime of the engine for present thrust. Gas turbine engines, such as those used in aircraft, sometimes incur damage, as when they ingest birds, or are struck with ballistic objects fired by an enemy. The invention detects the damage, and invokes a control strategy wherein the engine is operated in a more harsh manner, thereby sacrificing a significant part of the remaining lifetime of the engine, in order to obtain thrust currently. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631657 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06860910 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratories, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Kenneth Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia); Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976425 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861151 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Kenneth Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia); Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of: starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and/or mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold and/or the use of fibrous carbonaceous layers to obtain selected reinforcement to enhance bending and/or impact resistance. Carbon foams of a homogeneous composition comprising at least fibrous carbonaceous mat as a reinforcing element are also described. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/905344 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861208 | Benson 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) | J. David Benson (Burke, Virginia); John H. Dinan (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael Martinka (Springfield, Virginia); Leo Anthony Almeida (Alexandria, Virginia); Phillip R. Boyd (St. Leonard, Maryland); Andrew J. Stoltz, Jr. (Stafford, Virginia); Andrew W. Kaleczyc (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithographic imaging method of the present invention includes the initial step of providing a substrate made from Mercury, Cadmium and Telluride materials (HgCdTe). The HgCdTe substrate is coated with a diazonaphthoquinone (DNQ) Novolak photoresist material to establish an imaging medium. The imaging medium is exposed to an image pattern and then developed in a tetra-methyl ammonium hydroxide (TMAH) solution. The TMAH solution includes a fullerene (C60) material dissolved therein to retard the subsequent etching of the imaging medium. The incorporation of fullerene into the photoresist material indirectly via the developing solution avoids the solubility and ultraviolet (UV) absorbance disadvantages inherent in adding fullerenes directly to the photoresist prior to placement on the substrate. After development, the imaging medium is etched to transfer the recorded image pattern to the substrate. The fullerene cooperates with the photoresist material to slow the etching process, which allows for a highly reticulated HgCdTe detectors and IR images having greatly enhanced resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/389760 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861221 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas A. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975498 |
| 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 06861252 | Lejeune et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agentase, LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith E. Lejeune (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Markus Erbeldinger (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for the detection of an analyte includes a first reagent in one section of the housing and at least a second reagent in another section of the housing. The sensor also includes a reservoir of a carrier fluid (that is, a liquid or a gas) within the housing. A release mechanism of the sensor is in operable connection with the reservoir so that when the release mechanism is activated, the carrier fluid is released from the reservoir. The carrier fluid mobilizes the second reagent to contact the first reagent with the second reagent. The interaction of the first reagent and the second reagent is affected by the presence or absence of the analyte to cause a measurable change of state within the sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269487 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861448 | Brouillette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virtual Drug Development, Inc. (Brentwood, Tennessee); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne J. Brouillette (Pelham, Alabama); Lawrence DeLucas (Birmingham, Alabama); Christie Brouillette (Pelham, Alabama); Sadanandan E. Velu (Birmingham, Alabama); Yong-Chul Kim (Gwangsan-gu, South Korea); Liyuan Mou (Birmingham, Alabama); R. Stephen Porter (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds that inhibit the microbial NAD synthetase enzyme. For example, disclosed are compounds of the formula Ar1—X—Ar2—Y—L—Z—Q, wherein Q is Q1Ar3 or Ar3Q1; Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 are independently aryl or heteroaryl, optionally substituted with one or more substituents; X, Y, and Z are independently selected from the group consisting of a covalent bond or groups containing one or more of C, H, N, O, S atoms; L is a linker and Q1 is an alkylenyl, alkylenyl carbonyloxy alkyl, or alkylenyl carbonylamino alkyl group, optionally having a substituent; a covalent bond; a group containing amidine or guanidine function wherein the amidine or guanidine may be optionally N-substituted with an alkyl; or a zwitterion; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed are methods which involve the use of the compounds of the present invention, for example, in treating or preventing a microbial infection in a mammal or plant, killing a prokaryote or decreasing prokaryotic growth, disinfecting a material or environment contaminated by a microbe, increasing food animal production, controlling harm to plants by a pest or insect, and combating agroterrorism. Examples of microbes affected by the compounds of the present invention are bacteria and fungi. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/080279 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861497 | Lindsay 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) | Geoffrey A. Lindsay (Ridgecrest, California); Richard A. Hollins (Ridgecrest, California); Peter Zaras (Ridgecrest, California); Andrew J. Guenthner (Ridgecrest, California); Andrew P. Chafin (Ridgecrest, California); Mathew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California); Stephen Fallis (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyimide is disclosed of the formula: CG1 and CG2 are independently electron-accepting and/or electron-donating groups; x is an integer from about 3 to about 3000; ODAH is any of a number of known dianhydride residues; ODAM is any of a number of known diamine residues; and m, n, o, and p cumulatively add to 1.0, with the sum of m and n ranging from about 0.05 to about 1.0, the sum of o and p ranging from about 0 to about 0.95, the sum of m and o being about 0.5 and the sum of n and p being about 0.5. In addition, a film structure comprising the polyimide and devices utilizing the film structure are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/282307 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861501 | Sanderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Sanderson (North Ogden, Utah); Laura J. Martins (Ogden, Utah); Michael A. Dewey (Plain City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided in which at least one multi-functional alcohol having a hydroxyl functionality of at least two serves as a polymerization initiator. The multi-functional alcohol initiator is optionally, although preferably, reacted with a catalyst to form a catalyst-initiator complex, which is then used in the polymerization of glycidyl nitrate. The resulting poly(glycidyl nitrate) has a functionality substantially equivalent in number to the hydroxyl functionality of the multi-functional alcohol initiator. The poly(glycidyl nitrate) is cross-linked with at least one aromatic polyisocyanate having at least one aromatic ring and, on average, more than two isocyanate moieties bonded directly to the aromatic ring. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/055725 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861617 | Dull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Edison Welding Institute, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randal Martin Dull (Columbus, Ohio); James R. Dydo (Groveport, Ohio); James Joseph Russell (Hilliard, Ohio); Janak Shanghvi (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to minimize the distortion, such as buckling, caused in the welding of thin plate by utilizing transient thermal tensioning to induce areas of residual tensile stress. Distortion of such welded plates after stiffeners are welded to the plates is due to large areas of unsupported residual compressive stress following the tensile stress that is induced along the weld lines by the welding of the stiffeners. Application of transient thermal tensioning by moving heat sources at the time of welding of the stiffeners induces areas of residual tensile stress that minimize the tendency of the plates to buckle. Multiple heat sources of variable intensity may be utilized, and multiple stiffeners may be welded to a single panel by the method. Minimization of distortion improves the function and appearance of the finished plates and minimizes post-welding repairs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453732 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/137.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861633 | Osborn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon V. Osborn (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sun sensor includes a filter, microlens, aperture and a folded MEMS optical element combined with an active pixel sensor array to form an integrated spacecraft sun sensor in an integrated sealed package, offering lower power, smaller size and higher performance for use on spinning spacecraft useful in attitude determinations. Multiple like sun sensors can be disposed for increasing the reliability, spatial coverage or spatial resolution for a specific performance requirement. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177165 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861914 | Photiadis 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) | Douglas Photiadis (Falls Church, Virginia); Angie Sarkissian (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical oscillator is provided for use in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for application in radio frequency filters and oscillators, motion and pressure sensors and other micro applications. The oscillator is of monolithic construction and has a high Q with little energy loss because of teeth attached to the oscillating member which contain energy and prevent losses. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259860 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861935 | Leupold |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent magnet comprises a shell surrounding a cavity. The shell has a magnetic remanence Br(θ) configured such that a magnetic field taper extends through the cavity and wherein the shell includes a non-distortive access region that is substantially magnetic field. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914786 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862147 | Sonstroem |
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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) | Jamie Sonstroem (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An IR sensor device in accordance with the present invention includes an optical train, a focal plane array (FPA) for receiving incoming ray bundles that have passed through the optical train, and a decentered plano-convex field lens positioned therebetween the filed lens is decentered in that it is positioned so that the optical axis intersects the fields lens at an offset distance from the geometric center of the lens perimenter. When the field lens is positioned in this manner, optical ray bundles that pass through the field lens establish a revised image plane. To compensate for the revised image plane, the FPA is titled until the FPA is co-planar with the revised image plane. Any reflected optical ray bundles are refracted as they pass back through the field lens and directed away from the pupil, to prevent reflected optical ray bundles from entering the optical train and leaving the sensor as an IR retro-reflection during operation of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690668 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862199 | Escobar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerardo Escobar (Stoughton, Massachusetts); Alex M. Stankovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Paolo Mattavelli (Padua, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A controller (130) for compensating reactive power and selected current load harmonics in an unbalanced multi-phase power distribution system. Control current is injected from a multi-phase voltage source inverter (118) into the multi-phase power distribution system as a function of the voltage and current provided by the source inverter 118. The injected current is operative to balance the load seen by the power distribution system including non-linear/distorted and unbalanced loads in each phase. The controller includes an inner loop control processor (216), an outer loop control processor, and an adaptation processor. The adaptation processor (238) is operative to estimate a selected set of predetermined harmonic components in the periodic disturbance which is a function of the unknown system parameters, the source current, the source voltage, and their time derivatives in stationary coordinates. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/467007 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862324 | Lui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gee L. Lui (Westminster, California); Kuang Tsai (Santa Ana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Data aided carrier phase and symbol timing synchronizers are implemented at baseband as digital modulators isolating input signal inphase and quadrature component signals fed into inphase and quadrature Laurent transforms that function as data detector to provide odd and even data bit multiplexed output data signal while cross coupling the inphase and quadrature transformed outputs for removing data modulation in error signals to correct phase errors and timing errors in the received signal so as to provide reliable data demodulation of noisy received signals having dynamic carrier phase and symbol timing errors as found in continuous phase modulation communications systems such as Gaussian minimum shift keying communications systems. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/696525 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862387 | Howerton 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) | Marta M. Howerton (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Roger Krahenbuhl (Huber+Suhner AG, Switzerland); Robert P. Moeller (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a device and method for making same. The device includes a substrate suitable for supporting pathways for optical signals; separate pathways disposed on the substrate suitable for propagating optical signals, the pathways including an input and an output optical pathway; and a reflective surface in operative contact with the input and output pathways for receiving an optical signal from the input pathway and reflecting the optical signal into the output pathway. The method for making the device includes the steps of providing two separate optical pathways on a single substrate, one being an input pathway and the other being an output pathway; providing a reflective surface in operative contact with the pathways whereby an input optical signal is passed through the input pathway, reflected by the reflective surface into the output pathway, and passed out of the output pathway, whereby the device can be made on a lithium niobate substrate with titanium-diffused pathways with a loss of about 1.0 dB or less, in a space that is at least ⅕ the space required by the same or similar prior art device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165940 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862710 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for internet navigation using soft hyperlinks is disclosed, in connection with an illustrative information retrieval system with which it may be used. The navigation tool provides freedom to move through a collection of electronic documents independent of any hyperlink which has been inserted within an HTML page. A user can click on any term in a document page, not only those that are hyperlinked. For example, when a user clicks on an initial word within the document, the disclosed system employs a search engine in the background to retrieve a list of related terms. In an illustrative embodiment, a compass-like display appears with pointers indicating the first four terms returned by the search engine. These returned terms have the highest degree of correlation with the initial search term in a lexical knowledge base that the search engine constructs automatically. The disclosed system allows the user to move from the current document to one of a number of document lists which cover different associations between the initial word clicked on by the user and other terms extracted from within the retrieved list of related terms. The disclosed system may further allow the user to move to a document that is considered most related to the initial word clicked on by the user, or to a list of documents that are relevant to a phrase or paragraph selection indicated by the user within the current page. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/533884 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/501.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06861001 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey R. Morgan (Sharon, Massachusetts); Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based on the discovery that certain membranes, which include side chains or molecular “brushes” having, for example, tertiary amino functional groups, can be used as highly effective filters to capture viruses/virus particles from liquids without removal of proteins. New methods based on this discovery include removing viruses from liquids such as blood or plasma, removing viruses from pharmaceuticals, concentrating and/or purifying viruses, e.g., for use in gene therapy, and producing recombinant viruses in new bioreactors. The invention also includes new methods of therapy or adjunct therapy for viral infections, in which a patient's blood or plasma is filtered through the membranes to remove viruses to reduce the viral load. The invention also includes new bioreactors and viral filters containing the membranes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/728882 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861211 | Levy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Narendra Vyavahare (Erial, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of stabilizing glycosaminoglycans in a biological tissue (e.g. a bioprosthetic implant) in conjunction with cross-linking of protein in the tissue. The methods of the invention improve the mechanical integrity of the device and improves its stability in vivo. The invention also includes biological tissues having stabilized glycosaminoglycans and cross-linked proteins and kits for preparing such tissues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/933680 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
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| US 06861221 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas A. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975498 |
| 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 06861222 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Ward (Madison, Connecticut); Patricia Bray-Ward (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and a method for detection of nucleic acid sequences. The disclosed method uses a structured probe to distinguish between sequences. Structured probes are bifunctional molecules where one function is as a probe to a target nucleic acid sequence and the other function is as a detection sequence to facilitate detection of the probe. Structured probes include a detection sequence, sequence complementary to a target sequence, and sequences that form duplex regions (higher order structures). The duplex region is stable unless the probe hybridizes to the target sequence. The disclosed method involves hybridizing the structured probe to a target sequence and detecting the detection sequence on the structured probe. The detection sequence is available for detection only if the duplex region of the structured probe is disrupted. This links detection of the structured probe with the hybridization of the structured probe to the target sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/037469 |
| 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 06861228 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey S. Goodman (Berkeley, California); Thomas Kidd (Berkeley, California); Katja Brose (San Francisco, California); Marc Tessier-Lavigne (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and compositions for identifying agents which modulate the interaction of Robo and a Robo ligand and for modulating the interaction of Robo and a Robo ligand. The methods for identifying Robo:ligand modulators find particular application in commercial drug screens. These methods generally comprise (1) combining a Robo polypeptide, a Slit polypeptide and a candidate agent under conditions whereby, but for the presence of the agent, the Robo and Slit polypeptides engage in a first interaction, and (2) determining a second interaction of the Robo and Slit polypeptides in the presence of the agent, wherein a difference between the first and second interactions indicates that the aget modulates the interaction of the Robo and Slit polypeptides. The subject methods of modulating the interaction of Robo and a Robo ligand involve combining a Robo polypeptide, a Slit polypeptide and a modulator under conditions whereby, but for the presence of the modulator, the Robo and Slit polypeptides engage in a first interaction, whereby the Robo and Slit polypeptides engage in a second interaction different from the first interaction. In a particular embodiment, the modulator is dominant negative form of the Robo or Slit polypeptide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/289776 |
| 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 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861247 | Miller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Miller (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Substantially pure Salmonella secreted proteins (Ssp), the sercetion of which is dependent upon the expession of PrgH; methods of diagnosing Salmonella infection; and live attenuated vaccine strains in which Ssp secretion is decreased. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 09/068804 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861256 | Ruvkun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Ruvkun (Newton, Massachusetts); Scott Ogg (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel genes and methods for the screening of therapeutics useful for treating impaired glucose tolerance conditions, as well as diagnostics and therapeutic compositions for identifying or treating such conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/205658 |
| 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 06861403 | Sanders |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Expressive Constructs, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell C. Sanders (Leicester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for expressing proteins as a fusion chimera with a domain of p26 or alpha crystallin type proteins to improve the protein stability and solubility when over expressed in bacteria such as E. coli is provided. Genes of interest are cloned into the multiple cloning site of the Vector System just downstream of the p26 or alpha crystallin type protein and a thrombin cleavage site. Protein expression is driven by a strong bacterial promoter (TAC). The expression is induced by the addition of 1 mM IPTG that overcomes the lac repression (lac Iq). The soluble recombinant protein is purified using a fusion tag. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/848780 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861405 | Desir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Desir (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jianchao Xu (Bethany, Connecticut); Pandelakis A. Koni (Martinez, Georgia); Leonard Kaczmarek (Guilford, Connecticut); Richard A. Flavell (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to weight control, control of body fat and food intake, and provides useful methods for treating, inter alia, obesity, diabetes and insulin insensitivity, and conditions, diseases, and disorders relating thereto. The invention also relates to methods of identifying useful compounds relating to weight loss, food intake, diabetes, and obesity, among other things, based on the discovery that inhibiting Kv1.3 activity mediates decreased food intake, weight loss, decreased body fat, increase glucose uptake, and increased insulin sensitivity, among other things. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167528 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861407 | Carney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for promoting cardiac tissue repair comprising administering to the cardiac tissue a therapeutically effective amount of an angiogenic thrombin derivative peptide and/or inhibiting or reducing vascular occlusion or restenosis. The invention also relates to methods of stimulating revascularization. In yet another embodiment, the invention relates to the use of thrombin derivative peptides in the manufacture of a medicament for the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/050611 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861415 | Kim 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) | Hyun K. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard P. Blye (Highland, Maryland); Pemmaraju N. Rao (San Antonio, Texas); James W. Cessac (San Antonio, Texas); Carmie K. Acosta (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the general formula: in which: R1 is a member selected from the group consisting of —OCH3, —SCH3, —N(CH3)2, —NHCH3, —CHO, —COCH3 and —CHOHCH3; R2 is a member selected from the group consisting of halogen, alkyl, acyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, acyloxy, alkyl carbonate, cypionyloxy, S-alkyl and S-acyl; R3 is a member selected from the group consisting of alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy and acyloxy; R4 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl; and X is a member selected from the group consisting of ═O and ═N—OR5, wherein R5 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl. In addition to providing the compounds of Formula I, the present invention provides methods wherein the compounds of Formula I are advantageously used, inter alia, to antagonize endogenous progesterone; to induce menses; to treat endometriosis; to treat dysmenorrhea; to treat endocrine hormone-dependent tumors; to treat uterine fibroids; to inhibit uterine endometrial proliferation; to induce labor; and for contraception. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 09/180132 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861523 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongping Yu (San Diego, California); John M. Ostresh (Encinitas, California); Richard A. Houghten (DelMar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The solid-phase synthesis of individual 1,3-disubstituted and 1,3,5-trisubstituted-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triones and libraries thereof from a resin is described. Reaction of resin-bound amino acids with isocyanates yields resin-bound ureas, which further react with chlorocarbonyl isocyanate to selectively afford the resin-bound 1,3-disubstituted-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triones. Selective alkylation at the N-5 position of the resin-bound 1,3-disubstituted-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triones produces a trisubstituted triazinetrione. The products are cleaved from their solid support and obtained in good yield and purity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071707 |
| 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 544/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861537 | Holton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Holton (Tallahassee, Florida); Carmen Somoza (Madrid, Spain); Hyeong Baik Kim (Newark, Delaware); Mitsuru Shindo (Tokushima, Japan); Ronald J. Biediger (Houston, Texas); P. Douglas Boatman (Bellevue, Washington); Chase Smith (Ada, Ohio); Feng Liang (Kenilworth, New Jersey); Krishna Murthi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of taxol and other tricyclic and tetracyclic taxanes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194347 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861544 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Zhiyong Luo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of carrying out a reaction comprising the steps of: mixing at least one organic reaction component with at least one fluorous reaction component having the formula: X1Sn(R)n[Rs(Rf)]3-n, X1X2Sn[Rs(Rf)]2 or O═Sn[Rs(Rf)]2 wherein n is 1 or 2, R is a C1-C6 alkyl group, X1 and X2 are independently, the same or different, H, F, Cl, Br, I, N3, OR1, OOR1 SR1, SeR1, CN, NC, NR1R2, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, an alkyl group of 1 to 20 carbons, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, —C(O)R3, M((Rs′)(Rf′))3, OM((Rs′)(Rf′))3 or OOM((Rs′)Rf′))3, wherein M is Si, Ge, or Sn, and wherein R1 and R2 are each independently the same or different H, an alkyl group, —SO2R3 or —C(O)R3, wherein R3 is an alkyl group or an aryl group, and wherein Rs and Rs′ are each independently the same or different a spacer group, and wherein Rf and Rf′ are each independently the same or different a fluorous group; carrying out a reaction to produce an organic product; and after producing the organic product, separating any excess of the fluorous reaction component and any fluorous byproduct of the fluorous reaction component using a fluorous separation technique. Several compounds have the formula: X1Sn(R)n[Rs(Rf)3-n, X1X2Sn[Rs(Rf)]2 or O═Sn[Rs(Rf)]2. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/602105 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861818 | 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); Jarod C. Finlay (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling a stepper motor system includes selecting a size for at least one step to be taken by the stepper motor system and selecting a direction for the at least one step. Once the size and direction of the at least one step are selected, then at least one trigger signal for the at least one step of the selected size and in the selected direction is generated. The generated at least one trigger signal is transmitted to the stepper motor system to take the at least one step at the selected size in the selected direction. A calibrated display keeps track of the current position of the stepper motor system in response to at least one of the selected size and the selected direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/338951 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/685 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06860940 | Segelke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent W. Segelke (San Ramon, California); Bernhard Rupp (Livermore, California); Heike I. Krupka (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated macromolecular crystallization screening system wherein a multiplicity of reagent mixes are produced. A multiplicity of analysis plates is produced utilizing the reagent mixes combined with a sample. The analysis plates are incubated to promote growth of crystals. Images of the crystals are made. The images are analyzed with regard to suitability of the crystals for analysis by x-ray crystallography. A design of reagent mixes is produced based upon the expected suitability of the crystals for analysis by x-ray crystallography. A second multiplicity of mixes of the reagent components is produced utilizing the design and a second multiplicity of reagent mixes is used for a second round of automated macromolecular crystallization screening. In one embodiment the multiplicity of reagent mixes are produced by a random selection of reagent components. |
| FILED | Monday, September 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/253130 |
| 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 06861258 | Kayser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Kayser (Woodstock, Illinois); Ho-Shin Park (Chicago, Illinois); John J. Kilbane, II (Woodstock, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for introducing and stabilizing heterologous and recombinant genes in a thermophilic host in which a characteristic gene defining a detectable host characteristic is inactivated or deleted from the thermophilic host, resulting in a modified thermophilic host expressing an absence of the detectable host characteristic. A DNA fragment of interest is inserted into the modified thermophilic host together with an intact characteristic gene, whereby the detectable host characteristic is restored to the thermophilic host, thereby enabling detection and confirmation of successful transformation using plasmid vectors and integration of the DNA fragment into the chromosome of the thermophilic host. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/085388 |
| 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 435/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861273 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Anderson (El Cerrito, California); Patrick P. Naulleau (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for fabricating well-controlled, random relief, engineered surfaces that serve as substrates for EUV optical devices are accomplished with grayscale exposure. The method of fabricating a multilevel EUV optical element includes: (a) providing a substrate; (b) depositing a layer of curable material on a surface of the substrate; (c) creating a relief profile in a layer of cured material from the layer of curable material wherein the relief profile comprises multiple levels of cured material that has a defined contour; and (d) depositing a multilayer reflection film over the relief profile wherein the film has an outer contour that substantially matches that of the relief profile. The curable material can comprise photoresist or a low dielectric constant material. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/846150 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/30 |
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| US 06862125 | 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); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Simon B. Hall (Palmerston North, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-compartment reversible mirror device having a solution of aprotic molten salt, at least one soluble metal-containing species comprising metal capable of being electrodeposited, and at least one anodic compound capable of being oxidized was prepared. The aprotic molten salt is liquid at room temperature and includes lithium and/or quaternary ammonium cations, and anions selected from trifluoromethylsulfonate (CF3SO3−), bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3SO2)2N−), bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3CF2SO2)2N−) and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide ((CF3SO2)3C−). A method for preparing substantially pure molten salts is also described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430780 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862308 | Stappaerts |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eddy A. Stappaerts (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Laser material is pumped and its stored energy is extracted in a heat capacity laser mode at a high duty factor. When the laser material reaches a maximum temperature, it is removed from the lasing region and a subsequent volume of laser material is positioned into the lasing region to repeat the lasing process. The heated laser material is cooled passively or actively outside the lasing region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270748 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06860980 | Locascio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie E. Locascio (North Potomac, Maryland); Susan L. R. Barker (Charlottesville, Virginia); David Ross (Germantown, Maryland); Michael J. Tarlov (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchannel device is provided with a plastic substrate having a microchannel formed therein. Polyelectrolyte multilayers are disposed along selected surfaces of the microchannel. The polyelectrolyte layers comprise alternating net positively charged layers and net negatively charged layers. A microchannel lid has a surface facing the microchannel. In making the microchannel device, selected surfaces of the microchannel are alternatively exposed to solutions comprising positively charged polyelectrolytes and negatively charged polyelectrolytes to form the desired number of polyelectrolyte layers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/881123 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861130 | D'Evelyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. D'Evelyn (Niskayuna, New York); David C. Pender (Schenectady, New York); Suresh S. Vagarali (Columbus, Ohio); Dong-Sil Park (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Polycrystalline gallium nitride (GaN) characterized by having the atomic fraction of gallium ranging from between about 49% to 55%, an apparent density of between about 5.5 and 6.1 g/cm3, and a Vickers hardness of above about 1 GPa. Polycrystalline GaN can be made by hot isostatic pressing (HIPing) at a temperature ranging from about 1150° C. to 1300° C. and a pressure ranging from between about 1 and 10 Kbar. Alternatively, polycrystalline GaN can be made by high pressure/high temperature (HP/HT) sintering at a temperature ranging from about 1200° to 1800° C. and a pressure ranging from about 5 to 80 Kbar. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/001575 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06860099 | Xenofos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George D. Xenofos (Huntsville, Alabama); W. Neill Myers (Huntsville, Alabama); Huu Trinh (Madison, Alabama); R. Scott Michaels (Scottsboro, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An injector for use with the rocket thruster has a plurality of fuel ports separated from a plurality of oxidizer ports. The oxidizer and fuel ports are paired together directing their respective fluids along a path with radial and tangential components so that the two fluids impinge at a predetermined spaced apart distance from the chamber wall of the combustion chamber at an impingement track. By providing the fuel at a steeper angle relative to the chamber walls than the oxidizer, the fuel can be utilized to provide a fuel rich zone near the chamber walls to assist in cooling the chamber walls during operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/263297 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862558 | Huang |
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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) | Norden E. Huang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a computer implemented signal analysis method through the Hilbert-Huang Transformation (HHT) for analyzing acoustical signals, which are assumed to be nonlinear and nonstationary. The Empirical Decomposition Method (EMD) and the Hilbert Spectral Analysis (HSA) are used to obtain the HHT. Essentially, the acoustical signal will be decomposed into the Intrinsic Mode Function Components (IMFs). Once the invention decomposes the acoustic signal into its constituting components, all operations such as analyzing, identifying, and removing unwanted signals can be performed on these components. Upon transforming the IMFs into Hilbert spectrum, the acoustical signal may be compared with other acoustical signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/073957 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06861001 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey R. Morgan (Sharon, Massachusetts); Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based on the discovery that certain membranes, which include side chains or molecular “brushes” having, for example, tertiary amino functional groups, can be used as highly effective filters to capture viruses/virus particles from liquids without removal of proteins. New methods based on this discovery include removing viruses from liquids such as blood or plasma, removing viruses from pharmaceuticals, concentrating and/or purifying viruses, e.g., for use in gene therapy, and producing recombinant viruses in new bioreactors. The invention also includes new methods of therapy or adjunct therapy for viral infections, in which a patient's blood or plasma is filtered through the membranes to remove viruses to reduce the viral load. The invention also includes new bioreactors and viral filters containing the membranes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/728882 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861155 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Klaus F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A coated nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a substantially monodisperse nanoparticle selected from the group consisting of CdX, where x=S, Se, Te and an overcoating of ZnY, where Y=S, Se, uniformly deposited thereon, said coated nanoparticle characterized in that when irradiated the particles exhibit photoluminescence in a narrow spectral range of no greater than about 60 nm, and most preferably 40 nm, at full width half max (FWHM). The particle size of the nanocrystallite core is in the range of about 20 Å to about 125 Å, with a deviation of less than 10% in the core. The coated nanocrystal exhibits photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/642578 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06861403 | Sanders |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Expressive Constructs, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell C. Sanders (Leicester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for expressing proteins as a fusion chimera with a domain of p26 or alpha crystallin type proteins to improve the protein stability and solubility when over expressed in bacteria such as E. coli is provided. Genes of interest are cloned into the multiple cloning site of the Vector System just downstream of the p26 or alpha crystallin type protein and a thrombin cleavage site. Protein expression is driven by a strong bacterial promoter (TAC). The expression is induced by the addition of 1 mM IPTG that overcomes the lac repression (lac Iq). The soluble recombinant protein is purified using a fusion tag. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/848780 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06862710 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for internet navigation using soft hyperlinks is disclosed, in connection with an illustrative information retrieval system with which it may be used. The navigation tool provides freedom to move through a collection of electronic documents independent of any hyperlink which has been inserted within an HTML page. A user can click on any term in a document page, not only those that are hyperlinked. For example, when a user clicks on an initial word within the document, the disclosed system employs a search engine in the background to retrieve a list of related terms. In an illustrative embodiment, a compass-like display appears with pointers indicating the first four terms returned by the search engine. These returned terms have the highest degree of correlation with the initial search term in a lexical knowledge base that the search engine constructs automatically. The disclosed system allows the user to move from the current document to one of a number of document lists which cover different associations between the initial word clicked on by the user and other terms extracted from within the retrieved list of related terms. The disclosed system may further allow the user to move to a document that is considered most related to the initial word clicked on by the user, or to a list of documents that are relevant to a phrase or paragraph selection indicated by the user within the current page. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/533884 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/501.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06860238 | Foresman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry R. Foresman (Missoula, Montana); Cory W. Claussen (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Shelves suspended in culverts allow animals to move easily and safely under a highway. The shelves can be retrofitted to any existing culvert or can be part of a new, manufactured culvert. The shelves are removable so as not to impede water movement in times of high water or flood. The shelves are adapted to encourage all animals to use them as passageways under the highway. Ramps allow animals to access shelves. The shelf floor is mesh of the less than one inch to allow smaller animals to cross comfortably. The shelves are equipped with tubes to encourage small semi-fossorial animals to cross. The tubes provide covered protection from predators. Entrance funnels direct vole-like animals toward the tubes. The culvert shelves of the subject invention encourage animals to cross under the highway so that the highway no longer poses a barrier to these animals. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754682 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06861405 | Desir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Desir (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jianchao Xu (Bethany, Connecticut); Pandelakis A. Koni (Martinez, Georgia); Leonard Kaczmarek (Guilford, Connecticut); Richard A. Flavell (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to weight control, control of body fat and food intake, and provides useful methods for treating, inter alia, obesity, diabetes and insulin insensitivity, and conditions, diseases, and disorders relating thereto. The invention also relates to methods of identifying useful compounds relating to weight loss, food intake, diabetes, and obesity, among other things, based on the discovery that inhibiting Kv1.3 activity mediates decreased food intake, weight loss, decreased body fat, increase glucose uptake, and increased insulin sensitivity, among other things. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167528 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06859987 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Incorporated (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monty Jake Foster (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Joe Capobianco (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for crimping a ferrule onto a cable includes a base to rest the cable on, and a cable stop spaced from the base. The cable stop has a surface to rest a connector connected to an end of the cable. The surface is slanted downward and away from the connector. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/202894 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06861993 | Waldner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele A. Waldner (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a multi-loop antenna that produces an electromagnetic field having a magnitude of at least an interrogation threshold of a tag for a substantial portion of an interrogation region located in a plane parallel to the antenna. The antenna may include a plurality of loops, including one or more powered loops and one or more parasitic loops. The parasitic loops receive power from mutual coupling with the powered loops causing current to flow within the parasitic loops, which contributes to the profile of the magnetic field. As a result, each parasitic loop may be tuned to provide control over the magnitude of the electromagnetic field. The powered loops and the parasitic loops may be varied over the interrogation period to reduce any area of the interrogation region where the magnitude of the field remains below the interrogation threshold throughout the interrogation period. The powered loops and the parasitic loops may reside on a single layer or may be arranged on multiple layers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378458 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/742 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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, March 01, 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?
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FUNDED BY
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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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)
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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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)
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