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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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| US 06866843 | Habener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Viacell, Inc. (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel F. Habener (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); Henryk Zulewski (Basel, Switzerland); Elizabeth Abraham (Quincy, Massachusetts); Mario Vallejo (Madrid, Spain); Denise L. Faustman (Weston, Massachusetts); Melissa K. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for the treatment of type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and other conditions using newly identified stem cells that are capable of differentiation into a variety of pancreatic islet cells, including insulin-producing beta cells, as well as hepatocytes. Nestin has been identified as a molecular marker for pancreatic stem cells, while cytokeratin-19 serves as a marker for a distinct class of islet ductal cells. Methods are described whereby nestin-positive stem cells can be isolated from pancreatic islets and cultured to obtain further stem cells or pseudo-islet like structures. Methods for ex vivo differentiation of the pancreatic stem cells are disclosed. Methods are described whereby pancreatic stem cells can be isolated, expanded, and transplanted into a patient in need thereof, either allogeneically, isogeneically or xenogenically, to provide replacement for lost or damaged insulin-secreting cells or other cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/731255 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 06866845 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Ward (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Markus Huber-Lang (South Lyon, Michigan); Vidya Sarma (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the prevention and treatment of blood-borne and toxin mediated diseases, and in particular anti-C5a antibodies for the prevention and treatment of sepsis in humans as well as other animals. The present invention also relates to methods of generating anti-C5a antibodies employing C-terminal truncated C5a peptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/651685 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
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| US 06866851 | Milbrandt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Milbrandt (St. Louis, Missouri); Robert H. Baloh (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric GDNF family ligands which activate a GFRα/RET are disclosed. Included are chimeras which activate GFRα1/RET but do not activate GFRα2-RET or GFRα3-RET. The chimeras are useful in providing trophic support to a mammalian cell or in producing differentiation of a mammalian cell, or both, particularly when the cell is in a patient suffering from various diseases, in particular Parkinson's Disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/473551 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
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| US 06866854 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Chang (Irvington, New York); Patrick S. Moore (Irvington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid which encodes a Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen 2 polypeptide (LANA2) or a fragment thereof and also provides the LANA2 polypeptide. This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid comprising consecutive nucleotides having the sequence of a promoter of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen 2 transcription. This invention also provides a method of inhibiting p53 mediated apoptosis of a cell and a method of producing an antibody which comprises introducing into a cell a replicable vector of the subject invention. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656499 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/229.100 |
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| US 06867008 | Mendelsohn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New England Medical Center Hospitals, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Mendelsohn (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for assaying compounds that affect cell division by determining the interaction between estrogen receptor ERβ and MAD2, a cell cycle checkpoint protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/352570 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| US 06867017 | Dean 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) | Michael Dean (Frederick, Maryland); Rando Allikmets (Monroe, New York); Amy Ann Hutchinson (Fort Lee, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a novel ATP-binding cassette gene (ABC7), polypeptide and methods of detecting mutations therein. Further, the disclosure provides methods of detecting ABC7 associated disease and treatments thereof. In particular, the disclosure provides methods of detecting X-linked Sideroblastic Anemia and Ataxia associated with a mutation in the ABC7 polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/422840 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 06867020 | Powell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry S. Powell (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The Apa I restriction fragment of the human erythropoietin gene, for producing high titers of biologically active hormone from stably transfected cell lines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975063 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.400 |
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| US 06867022 | Imperiale |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Imperiale (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel replication deficient adenovirus vectors and methods for making and using these viruses. The invention also provides vector systems and kits using a serotype specific strategy for making adenoviral vector preparations substantially free of replication competent “helper” virus. The helper virus-free preparations provide novel pharmaceutical compositions substantially free of helper virus for use in gene transfer and gene therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/488867 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — 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 435/91.400 |
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| US 06867034 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of The University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hannah Alexander (Columbia, Missouri); Stephen Alexander (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for methods of screening agents for cancer therapeutic and prophylactic activity. In particular embodiments, cells of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum are contacted with candidate agents and the expression of genes in the Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) and Base Excision Repair (BER) pathways are examined. Such genes include the helicases repB and repD, and the apurinic-apyrmidinic endonuclease APE. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863670 |
| 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 435/252.300 |
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| US 06867038 | Liotta 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) | Lance A. Liotta (Potomac, Maryland); Michael Emmert-Buck (Silver Spring, Maryland); David B. Krizman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Rodrigo Chuaqui (Las Condes, Chile); W. Marston Linehan (North Bethesda, Maryland); Jeffry M. Trent (Rockville, Maryland); Robert F. Bonner (Washington, District of Columbia); Seth R. Goldstein (Bethesda, Maryland); Paul D. Smith (Annapolis, Maryland); John I. Peterson (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of microdissection which involves forming an image field of cells of the tissue sample utilizing a microscope, identifying at least one zone of cells of interest from the image field of cells which at least one zone of cells of interest includes different types of cells than adjacent zones of cells, and extracting the at least one zone of cells of interest from the tissue sample. The extraction is achieved by contacting the tissue sample with a transfer surface that can be selectively activated so that regions thereof adhere to the zone of cells of interest to be extracted. The transfer surface includes a selectively activatable adhesive layer which provides, for example, chemical or electrostatic adherence to the selected regions of the tissue sample. After the transfer surface is activated, the transfer surface and tissue sample are separated. During separation, the zone of cells of interest remains adhered to the transfer surface and is thus separated from the tissue sample, the zone of cells of interest may then be molecularly analyzed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/780234 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 06867177 | Pinsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Pinsky (Cresskill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing thrombotic or ischemic disorders in a subject which comprises administering an agent to the subject, wherein the agent inhibits ADP-mediated platelet aggregation by increasing ADP catabolism, and a method for determining whether a compound inhibits platelet aggregation by increasing ADP catabolism so as to treat or prevent thrombotic or ischemic disorders in a subject, comprising: (a) inducing thrombotic or ischemic disorders in an animal, which animal is an animal model for thrombotic or ischemic disorders; (b) measuring the stroke outcome in the animal, (c) measuring platelet deposition and/or fibrin deposition in ischemic tissue, and (d) comparing the stroke outcome in step (b) and the platelet deposition and/or fibrin deposition with that of the animal model in the absence of the compound so as to identify a compound capable of treating or preventing thrombotic or ischemic disorders in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/374586 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06867180 | Tosato 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) | Giovanna Tosato (Bethesda, Maryland); Sandra E. Pike (North Bethesda, Maryland); Lei Yao (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inhibiting endothelial cell growth and angiogenesis, and suppressing tumor growth using calreticulin, fragments of calreticulin and variants of calreticulin are provided. Such methods are useful for the treatment of cancer and diseases associated with unwanted angiogenesis, for example chronic retinal detachment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/807148 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06867187 | Clevenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles V. Clevenger (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); J. Bradford Kline (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A human prolactin-binding protein and compositions and methods using this protein are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/029079 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 06867190 | 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 | Thursday, July 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/904090 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 06867194 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng George Wang (Troy, Michigan); Xuejun Wu (Detroit, Michigan); Xiaoping Tang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Sugar-modified SIN-1 compositions are provided. The compositions are useful for generating NO in response to hydrolytic activity of a glycosidase specific for the O-glycosidic bond between the sugar and SIN-1 moieties. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the sugar-modified SIN-1 compositions and methods of using the compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/925816 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/26 |
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| US 06867196 | Wolff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mirus Bio Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon A. Wolff (Madison, Wisconsin); Hans Herweijer (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry F. Whitesell (Lodi, Wisconsin); Matthew R. Wolff (Middleton, Wisconsin); Sean D. Monahan (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul M. Slattum (Madison, Wisconsin); James E. Hagstrom (Middleton, Wisconsin); Vladimir G. Budker (Middleton, Wisconsin); David B. Rozema (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for delivering a nucleic acid to a cardiac tissue cell in a mammal is described, comprising introducing a composition consisting of a nucleic acid to a blood vessel, which subsequently delivers the nucleic acid to the cardiac tissue cell. The nucleic acid can be DNA or RNA or plasmid DNA or viral. This process is for purposes of gene therapy, and research. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/330909 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 06867219 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Horwitz (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Stuart T. Hazeldine (Taylor, Michigan); Thomas H. Corbett (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); Lisa Polin (Oak Park, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein Y is F, Cl, Br, methyl or methoxy; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are effective antitumor agents. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I or a salt thereof, intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I, and therapeutic methods comprising administering a compound of formula I or a salt thereof to a mammal in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210781 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/312 |
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| US 06867227 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. David Wilson (Atlanta, Georgia); David W. Boykin (Atlanta, Georgia); Richard R. Tidwell (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetric derivatives of furamidines with one of the phenyl rings of furamidine replaced with a benzimidazole have been found by quantitative footprinting analyses to bind GC containing sites on DNA more strongly than to pure AT sequences. These compounds have been shown to bind in the minor groove at specific GC containing sequences of DNA in a highly cooperative manner as a stacked dimer. Compounds of the present invention find use in selectively binding mixed sequence DNA, and may also be used in methods of regulating gene expression, methods of treating opportunistic infections and cancer, as well as in methods of detecting certain sequences of DNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653677 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/375 |
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| US 06867289 | Gorenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Bruce A. Luxon (Galveston, Texas); Norbert Herzog (Friendswood, Texas); Judy Aronson (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention generally relates the generation of aptamers and to the use of aptamers as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods using combinatorial chemistry to prepare aptamers having controlled thiophosphate replacement in the phosphate backbone for improved binding efficiencies to a target and to RNA and/or DNA products having novel nucleotide sequences and enhanced target binding efficacies. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/425804 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — 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 06867292 | Band et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamid Band (Brookline, Massachusetts); Francescopaolo Borriello (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to nucleic acids encoding a cbl-SL protein, including fragments and biologically functional variants thereof. The invention also pertains to therapeutics and diagnostics involving the foregoing proteins and genes and agents that bind the foregoing proteins and genes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/434708 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 06867298 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); Artis Klapars (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jon C. Antilla (Malden, Massachusetts); Gabriel E. Job (Quincy, Massachusetts); Martina Wolter (Berlin, Germany); Fuk Y. Kwong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gero Nordmann (Boston, Massachusetts); Edward J. Hennessy (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to copper-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming methods. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of an amide or amine moiety and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In additional embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between a nitrogen atom of an acyl hydrazine and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In other embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic, e.g., indole, pyrazole, and indazole, and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-oxygen bond between the oxygen atom of an alcohol and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. The present invention also relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-carbon bond between a reactant comprising a nucleophilic carbon atom, e.g., an enolate or malonate anion, and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. Importantly, all the methods of the present invention are relatively inexpensive to practice due to the low cost of the copper comprised by the catalysts. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435719 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/489 |
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| US 06867302 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton R. Smith, III (East Lansing, Michigan); Robert E. Maleczka (Dewitt, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing organic substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic compounds including biaryl and biheteroaryl compounds in a two-step reaction. In the first step, the aromatic or heteroaromatic compound is borylated in a reaction comprising a borane or diborane reagent (any boron reagent where the boron reagent contains a B—H, B—B or B—Si bond) and an iridium or rhodium catalytic complex. In the second step, a metal catalyst catalyzes the formation of the organic substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic compound from the borylated compound and an electrophile such as an aryl or organic halide, triflate (OSO2CF3), or nonaflate (OSO2C4F9). The steps in the process can be performed in a single reaction vessel or in separate reaction vessels. The present invention also provides a process for synthesis of complex polyphenylenes starting from halogenated aromatic compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194859 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/250 |
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| US 06867305 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Shawn J. Stachel (Perkasie, New Jersey); Chul Bom Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark D. Chappell (Noblesville, Indiana); Zhical Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing epothilones, desoxyepothilones, and analogues thereof. The present invention further provides novel compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer and additionally provides methods for the treatment of cancer which has developed a multi-drug phenotype. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/796959 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/204 |
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| US 06867310 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); John P. Wolfe (Brighton, Massachusetts); Jens Ahman (Sandwich, United Kingdom); Malisa Troutman (Irvington, New York); Michael Palucki (Belle Meade, New Jersey); Ken Kamikawa (Brookline, Massachusetts); Andre Chieffi (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides transition-metal-catalyst-based methods for the arylation and vinylation of activated methyl, methylene, and methine carbons with aryl halides, vinyl halides, and the like. The methods of the invention provide several improvements over existing methods, including the ability to synthesize efficiently and under mild conditions α-aryl and α-vinyl products from a wide range of starting materials, including ketones, esters, hydrazones, and imines. Furthermore, the methods of the invention may be used in an asymmetric sense, i.e. to produce enantiomerically-enriched chiral α-aryl and α-vinyl products. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/239024 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/453 |
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| US 06867349 | Ekker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Ekker (St. Paul, Minnesota); Aidas Nasevicius (St. Paul, Minnesota); Hyon Kim (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Saulius Sumanas (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides sequence specific polynucleotide analogues and methods for determining the function of a nucleic acid of known sequence. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/918242 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — 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 8/21 |
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| US 06867415 | Hughey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Newton Scientific, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara J. Hughey (Lexington, Massachusetts); Paul L. Skipper (Belmont, Massachusetts); John S. Wishnok (Boston, Massachusetts); Ruth E. Shefer (Newton, Massachusetts); Naomi A. Fried (Oakland, California); John T. Mehl (Westfield, New Jersey); Steven R. Tannenbaum (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface for introducing a non-gaseous sample as a predetermined gaseous form into an accelerator mass spectrometer which comprises a nebulizer that receives the non-gaseous sample to provide a fine spray of the sample, a converter that receives at least a portion of said fine spray and converts the desired elements to the predetermined gaseous form and a flow line that transports the predetermined gaseous form to the accelerator mass spectrometer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/938277 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868221 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy M. Wood (Buffalo, New York); William R. Potter (Grand Island, New York); Kenneth R. Weishaupt (Hamburg, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an apparatus which includes a polypod support which includes a fiber optic supporting platform. The fiber optic supporting platform includes an opening. The apparatus further includes at least three legs forming a tripod, each of the legs having two ends, a first end being secured to the fiber optic supporting platform and the second end being adapted for attachment to the skin of the patient, a first tube having an outer diameter, a second tube having an outer diameter and an inner diameter, where the inner diameter of the second tube surrounds the outer diameter of the first tube and where the outer diameter of the second tube is slidably mounted within the opening of the fiber optic surrounding platform and a fiber optic. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/434420 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06865977 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Kim (Lyndhurst, New Jersey); Stephan P. Kaiser (Oberahr, Germany); Michael W. Selk (Rockaway, New Jersey); James F. Zoll (Flanders, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective packaging device provides mitigation of the blast effect and fragmentation of a hand grenade when the grenade is detonated. The device includes at least one protective housing assembly, formed by inner and outer nested housing members, in which the hand grenade is received, and which, in response to detonation of the grenade, retains fragments of the grenade while providing controlled release, through the mesh material, of gases formed upon detonation. A cushioning container includes a cushioning material having a plurality of open compartments therein in which a corresponding plurality of the protective housing assemblies are received. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604320 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosive-charge making 086/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06865990 | Greene 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) | Michael L. Greene (Fort Washington, Maryland); Jacob Tallman (Indian Head, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a device that uses a flexible material, preferably in a mostly square shape, having substantially orthogonal grooves scored into one side. An explosive charge, usually in the form of a sheet of explosives, is cut to fit the side opposite the grooves, in substantially the same shape as the grooves, without extending beyond the periphery of the flexible material. An initiating means is connected to the explosive charge so that upon initiation, the grooves focus the explosive charge so that a plurality of petals cantilevered are formed in the target material, substantially between the ends of the grooves, to define a fragment-free opening in the target material. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339256 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866233 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehul P. Patel (Streetsboro, Ohio); Jack M DiCocco (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a reconfigurable porous technology for fluid flow control system and more particularly to reconfigurable porosity fluid flow control system for vehicles such as aircraft, missiles, ground and water vehicles to improve the performance of such vehicles. The present invention further relates to a method of operating the reconfigurable fluid flow control system. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a reconfigurable porosity system for fluid flow control on the surface of an aircraft, missile, water-craft or ground vehicle comprising a porous outer skin comprising individual pores; individually addressable valves corresponding and connected to the individual pores for opening and closing the pores; and a pneumatic system for connecting the pores wherein fluid from a high pressure area of the porous outer skin can be directed to a low pressure area of the porous outer skin by opening and closing the individually addressable valves. In another embodiment, the present invention includes a method of fluid flow control using reconfigurable porosity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336113 |
| 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 244/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866512 | Ebersole, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Information Decision Technologies, LLC (Bedford, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Franklin Ebersole, Jr. (Bedford, New Hampshire); Mark Stanley Bastian (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The purpose of the invention is to protect an instrumented firefighter's fire hose nozzle from shock and undesirable environmental pollutant penetration. The invention provides for doing this through the use of a rugged cover on the equipment as well as soft equipment mounts. The cover provides the instrumentation with protection from impact as well as protection from contamination by environmental pollutants. On the inside of the cover, the shock sensitive equipment is seated on an island that is mounted by one or more soft vertical posts, which protect this equipment from shock. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/213677 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866762 | Gascoyne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Gascoyne (Bellaire, Texas); Jon Schwartz (Sugar Land, Texas); Jody V. Vykoukal (Houston, Texas); Frederick F. Becker (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric gate and related systems and methods for controlling fluid flow. A dielectric gate includes one or more electrodes coupled between an inlet fluid pathway and an outlet fluid pathway. The electrodes are configured to draw fluid from the inlet fluid pathway to the outlet fluid pathway in a precise manner by using dielectric forces arising from electrical signals applied to the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/028945 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866764 | Dalman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Molecular Institute (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Dalman (Midland, Michigan); Petar R. Dvornic (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An inexpensive process for depositing an electrically conductive material on selected surfaces of a dielectric substrate may be advantageously employed in the manufacture of printed wiring boards having high quality, high density, fine-line circuitry, thereby allowing miniaturization of electronic components and/or increased interconnect capacity. The process may also be used for providing conductive pathways between opposite sides of a dielectric substrate and in decorative metallization applications. The process includes steps of depositing a radially-layered dendritic copolymer on selected surfaces of a dielectric substrate; cross-linking the radially-layered dendritic copolymer to form a dendritic polymer network; sorbing metal cations into the cross-linked dendritic polymer network; reducing the metal cations to form a nanocomposite composition exhibiting adequate surface electrical conductivity for electroplating; and electroplating a metal onto the nanocomposite composition to form an electrically conductive deposit. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/080295 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867281 | Martin 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) | Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia); Ranganathan Shashidhar (Woodbridge, Virginia); Nikolay Nikolov (Woodbridge, Virginia); John C. Mastrangelo (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound comprising the formula: wherein R1 is a fluorinated organic group and R2 and R3 are independently selected organic groups. A compound comprising the formula: wherein R1 is a fluorinated organic group and R2 and R3 are independently selected organic groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396443 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867289 | Gorenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Bruce A. Luxon (Galveston, Texas); Norbert Herzog (Friendswood, Texas); Judy Aronson (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention generally relates the generation of aptamers and to the use of aptamers as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods using combinatorial chemistry to prepare aptamers having controlled thiophosphate replacement in the phosphate backbone for improved binding efficiencies to a target and to RNA and/or DNA products having novel nucleotide sequences and enhanced target binding efficacies. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/425804 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867304 | Tan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); Ramamurthi Kannan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are new TPA chromophores of the formula: wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and Q is —C6H13, —CH2—C6H5, or —C6H11. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/784312 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867443 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Ming Zhang (Urbana, Illinois); David Andrew Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated probe array for nanolithography and process for designing and fabricating the probe array. The probe array consists of individual probes that can be moved independently using thermal bimetallic actuation or electrostatic actuation methods. The probe array can be used to produce traces of diffusively transferred chemicals on the substrate with sub-1 micrometer resolution, and can function as an arrayed scanning probe microscope for subsequent reading and variation of transferred patterns. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647724 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867444 | Hughes |
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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) | Harold L. Hughes (West River, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor substrate incorporating a neutron conversion layer (such as boron-10) that is sensitive enough to permit the counting of single neutron events. The substrate includes an active semiconductor device layer, a base substrate, an insulating layer provided between the active semiconductor device layer and the base substrate, and a neutron conversion layer provided between the active semiconductor device layer and the base substrate. The neutron conversion layer is located within the insulating layer, between the insulating layer and the base substrate or between the active semiconductive device layer and the insulating layer. A barrier layer is provided between at least one of the neutron conversion layer and the active semiconductor device layer and the neutron conversion layer and the base substrate to prevent diffusion of the neutron conversion material provided in the neutron conversion layer. Further, a plurality of trenches may be formed in the active semiconductor device layer. In such a case, a trench neutron conversion layer is formed in at least one of the trenches to improve device sensitivity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693846 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867538 | Adachi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chihaya Adachi (Hokkaido, Japan); Marc A. Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphorescent OLEDs having a double doped-layer structure wherein the OLEDs include a hole transporting layer (HTL) having a phosphorescent material doped therein, and an electron transporting layer (ETL) having the same phosphorescent material doped therein. Typically, these phosphorescent OLEDs have an anode, a first HTL over the anode, a second HTL that is doped with a phosphorescent material over the first HTL, a first ETL that is doped with a phosphorescent material over the second HTL, a second ETL over the first ETL, and a cathode over the second ETL. These phosphorescent OLEDs preferably include blue phosphorescent OLEDs with high efficiency levels. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/087417 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867681 | Bower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QorTek, Inc. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Bower (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Gareth Knowles (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A current control device is described wherein a pressure conduction composite is compressed and decompressed to alter its conductivity and thereby current conduction through the device. The pressure conduction composite is composed of a nonconductive matrix, a conductive filler, and an additive. The invention consists of electrodes and pressure plates contacting the composite. Electrically activated actuators apply a force onto pressures plates. Actuators are composed of a piezoelectric, piezoceramic, electrostrictive, magnetostrictive, and shape memory materials, capable of extending and/or contracting thereby altering pressure and consequently resistivity within the composite. In an alternate embodiment, two or more current control devices are electrically coupled parallel to increase power handling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/832705 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867727 | Mitra |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atindra Mitra (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system-of-systems avionics architecture that is compatible with futuristic multi-function multi-platform sensor applications. The method and device of the invention is based on localized “adaptive” waveform and spectrum allocation for ultra-wideband radio frequency and microwave signals. The invention includes a plurality of system platforms with each platform comprising a common radio frequency front end for receiving ultra-wideband signals, a common radio frequency back end for transmitting ultra-wideband signals and a plurality of sensors for exchanging data between platforms. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794544 |
| 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 342/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867728 | Hanna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig A. Hanna (Vestal, New York); James A. Johnson (Newark Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Signals-of-interest are identified by distinguishing such signals from signals constituting environmental or internal receiver noise. A received signal is rapidly sampled in order to set a dynamic, system threshold. Signals above the threshold constitute signals-of-interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701473 |
| 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 342/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867737 | Ryken, Jr. 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, Jr. (Oxnard, California); Albert F. Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A GPS conical shaped microstrip antenna array which receives GPS data and which is adapted for use on weapons systems such as a missile or smart bomb. The microstrip antenna array has a center frequency of 1.575 GHz, a frequency bandwidth of twenty megahertz and provides for right hand circular polarization. The microstrip antenna includes a four aligned copper antenna elements which have a square shape, and a copper etched feed network which provides for a signal phase shift of ninety degrees resulting in right hand circular polarization of each of the four aligned antenna elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648715 |
| 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 06867742 | Irion, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Irion, II (Plano, Texas); Nicholas A. Schuneman (Dallas, Texas); Richard E. Hodges (Corona, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna apparatus (10) includes an antenna element (12, 412, 512) that has conductive material with a recess therein. The recess includes a balun hole (36, 536), and a tapered slot (37, 537) communicating at its narrow end with the balun hole. The balun hole is approximately rectangular, has a peripheral edge defined by conductive material, and contains air. The tapered slot has a shape which is optimized as a function of factors that include the balun hole design. Each slot edge follows a predetermined curve other than a first-order exponential curve. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/023229 |
| 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 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867753 | Chinthammit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Winyu Chinthammit (Seattle, Washington); Eric Seibel (Seattle, Washington); Thomas A Furness, III (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual image is registered among a perceived real world background. Tracking light is scanned into the real world environment, which includes at least one detector pair. A first time and a second time at which the tracking light impinges on the first detector is detected, in which the first time and second time occurs within adjacent scan lines. A time at which a horizontal scan line edge (e.g., beginning of scan line or end of scan line) is encountered is derived as occurring one half way between the first time and the second time. The horizontal location of the first detector then is determined within a specific scan line inferring the scan line edge time. The vertical location of the detector is determined within a scan frame by measuring time duration using the beginning of the frame. By determining a location independently from the temporal resolution of the augmented imaging system, the temporal location of the detector is identified to a sub-pixel/sub-line precision. The augmented image is registered either to a 3D real world spatial coordinate system or to a time domain coordinate system based upon tracked position and orientation of the user. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/281517 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867854 | Wapner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip G. Wapner (Palmdale, California); Wesley P. Hoffman (Palmdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid to solid material surface contact angle measurement system operating by way of detecting a transition in the behavior of a liquid sample with the solid material in a changing angular confinement environment along with use of a mathematical algorithm to then determine contact angle. Measurement of the angle at which the tested liquid transitions between apparent wetting and apparent non-wetting behavior, regardless of whether the liquid and solid material are truly classified as wetting or non-wetting, provides a measurement from which disclosed mathematical algorithms can predict the surface wetting characteristics of the liquid on the solid material. Automated performance of the confinement environment measurement and examples are included. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/335660 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867904 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willie W. Ng (Agoura Hills, California); Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus containing an integrated optical circuit that enhances phase stability of the injection-locking process of two slave lasers. The integrated optical circuit helps to reduce phase noise by keeping environmental or mechanical perturbations uniform everywhere on that circuit. Also, the integrated optical circuit provides connections for additional components to be coupled, which can monitor and control the performance characteristics of the integrated optical circuit and the injection-locking process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417020 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868042 | Christman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell A. Christman (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Mohamed H. Ahmed (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A data-based technique is disclosed that defines the amplitude and phase of acoustic signals for detection as they propagate across an array of sensor elements for each array incident angle of interest. The definitions of the acoustic signals are then used to constrain adaptive noise suppression operating routines from canceling desired acoustic representative of desired incident direction detector. The data-based technique of defining acoustic signals also leads to a greater reduction of noise in directions where signal is not present. The use of this technique within an adaptive-array-beamforming-processor, and more particularly in connection with the provision of data-based steering vectors therefor, results in an improvement in the ability to detect acoustic signals imbedded in noise. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/214528 |
| 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 367/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868107 | Vurgaftman 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) | Igor Vurgaftman (Pikesville, Maryland); Jerry Meyer (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for calculating the beam quality and output wavelength spectrum of a photonic crystal distributed feedback laser includes the steps of calculating at least two coupling coefficients and forming a characteristic matrix; repeating the following steps at spaced increments of time until a steady state solution is reached: repeating the following steps for one of the incremental cavity lengths: calculating a gain change and a modal refractive index change for the laser waveguide structure for one incremental stripe width; calculating a spontaneous emission term for the gain change; calculating a gain roll-off term for the gain change; applying the gain change, the modal refractive index change, the spontaneous emission term, and the gain roll-off term to at least two forward-propagating beams and at least two backward-propagating beams for the one incremental stripe width; performing a Fourier transformation with respect to the one incremental stripe width to yield a plurality of diffraction terms; adding the diffraction terms to the characteristic matrix; propagating the two forward-propagating beams by the incremental cavity length from a first section to a succeeding and adjacent second section with the characteristic matrix; propagating the two backward-propagating beams by the incremental cavity length from the second section to the first section with the characteristic matrix; performing an inverse Fourier transformation with respect to the stripe width; and applying at least one boundary condition to a facet of the laser configuration for each time increment. The steady-state solution is used as the basis for evaluating the beam quality and output wavelength spectrum corresponding to the design parameters, the additional design parameters, and the photonic crystal geometry of the laser configuration. The invention provides scientists with an approach to designing and building lasers that eliminates much of the time and resources otherwise needed in the building and testing of unsuccessful designs. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390255 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868197 | Daniels |
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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) | Danny Daniels (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface assures high-speed transmission of optical data between submerged vessels. First and second vessels have pressure hulls and have a first plate transparent to optical data on the pressure hull of the first vessel and a second plate transparent to optical data on the pressure hull of the second vessel. A first optical transceiver in the first vessel is adjacent to the first transparent plate, and a second optical transceiver in the second vessel is adjacent to the second transparent plate. A layer of water between the first plate and the second plate is optically transparent to optical data to allow the first optical transceiver and the second optical transceiver to transmit and receive optical data through the first transparent plate, the water layer, and the second transparent plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354708 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868360 | Olstad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Olstad (Panama City, Florida); Dennis G. Gallagher (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method indicate the direction faced by an operator. A waterproof housing has a mounting mechanism to engage a part of a headgear worn by an operator to position the housing in a portion of the operator's forward field of view. A two-axis gimbal mechanism is inside the waterproof housing and has a protective housing connected to the waterproof housing. The protective housing contains ring structure coupled to two orthogonal axis structures. A magnetic field sensor module is mounted on one of the axis structures and provides magnetic field data signals representative of the direction faced by the operator. An optical element has a wide field of view to transmit compass data images representative of the magnetic field data signals to the eyes of the operator. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699426 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 06865939 | Kirby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Naitonal Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Kirby (San Francisco, California); Timothy Jon Shepodd (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for surface modification of microchannels and capillaries. The method produces a chemically inert surface having a lowered surface free energy and improved frictional properties by attaching a fluorinated alkane group to the surface. The coating is produced by hydrolysis of a silane agent that is functionalized with either alkoxy or chloro ligands and an uncharged C3-C10 fluorinated alkane chain. It has been found that the extent of surface coverage can be controlled by controlling the contact time from a minimum of about 2 minutes to a maximum of 120 minutes for complete surface coverage. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245224 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866560 | Follstaedt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Follstaedt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael P. Moran (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for thinning (such as in grinding and polishing) a material surface using an instrument means for moving an article with a discontinuous surface with an abrasive material dispersed between the material surface and the discontinuous surface where the discontinuous surface of the moving article provides an efficient means for maintaining contact of the abrasive with the material surface. When used to dimple specimens for microscopy analysis, a wheel with a surface that has been modified to produce a uniform or random discontinuous surface significantly improves the speed of the dimpling process without loss of quality of finish. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339832 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866759 | Miles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin R. Miles (Danville, California); Amy Wei-Yun Wang (Oakland, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluidic channel patterned with a series of thin-film electrodes makes it possible to move and concentrate DNA in a fluid passing through the fluidic channel. The DNA has an inherent negative charge and by applying a voltage between adjacent electrodes the DNA is caused to move. By using a series of electrodes, when one electrode voltage or charge is made negative with respect to adjacent electrodes, the DNA is repelled away from this electrode and attached to a positive charged electrode of the series. By sequentially making the next electrode of the series negative, the DNA can be moved to and concentrated over the remaining positive electrodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/738462 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866768 | Bradford et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R Bradford (Underwood, Washington); Robert J. Barnett (Goldendale, Washington); Michael B. Mezner (Sandy, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrolysis of alumina dissolved in a molten salt electrolyte employing inert anode and cathodes, the anode having a box shape with slots for the cathodes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387602 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/376 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866886 | Knowles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn D. Knowles (Saint Francis, Minnesota); David J. Senor (West Richland, Washington); Steven V. Forbes (Burbank, Washington); Roger N. Johnson (Richland, Washington); Glenn W. Hollenberg (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a diffusion coating on the interior of surface of a hollow object wherein a filament, extending through a hollow object and adjacent to the interior surface of the object, is provided, with a coating material, in a vacuum. An electrical current is then applied to the filament to resistively heat the filament to a temperature sufficient to transfer the coating material from the filament to the interior surface of the object. The filament is electrically isolated from the object while the filament is being resistively heated. Preferably, the filament is provided as a tungsten filament or molybdenum filament. Preferably, the coating materials are selected from the group consisting of Ag, Al, As, Au, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Dy, Er, Eu, Fe, Ga, Ge, Hg, In, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni P, Pb, Pd, Pr, S, Sb, Sc, Se, Si, Sn, Sr, Te, Tl, Y, Yb, Zn, and combinations thereof. The invention additionally allows for the formation of nitrides, hydrides, or carbides of all the possible coating materials, where such compounds exist, by providing a partial pressure of nitrogen, hydrogen, hydrocarbons, or combination thereof, within the vacuum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406766 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866897 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyu Wang (Hockessin, Delaware); David Joseph Mitchell (Niskayuna, New York); Yuk-Chiu Lau (Ballston Lake, New York); Arnold Thomas Henry (Gloversville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing an article for use in a high-temperature environment, and an article for use in such an environment, are presented. The method comprises providing a substrate; selecting a desired vertical crack density for a protective coating to be deposited on the substrate; providing a powder, wherein the powder has a size range selected to provide a coating having the desired vertical crack density; and applying a thermal-sprayed coating to the substrate, the coating having the desired vertical crack density, wherein the powder is used as a raw material for the coating. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/065260 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867042 | Waldo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey S. Waldo (Espanola, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A solubility reporter for measuring a protein's solubility in vivo or in vitro is described. The reporter, which can be used in a single living cell, gives a specific signal suitable for determining whether the cell bears a soluble version of the protein of interest. A pool of random mutants of an arbitrary protein, generated using error-prone in vitro recombination, may also be screened for more soluble versions using the reporter, and these versions may be recombined to yield variants having further-enhanced solubility. The method of the present invention includes “irrational” (random mutagenesis) methods, which do not require a priori knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the protein of interest. Multiple sequences of mutation/genetic recombination and selection for improved solubility are demonstrated to yield versions of the protein which display enhanced solubility. |
| FILED | Monday, August 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217995 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867149 | Bajt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV Limited Liability Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasa Bajt (Livermore, California); Stephen P. Vernon (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The chemical composition of thin films is modulated during their growth. A computer code has been developed to design specific processes for producing a desired chemical composition for various deposition geometries. Good agreement between theoretical and experimental results was achieved. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256324 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867419 | Tajima |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toshiki Tajima (Alamo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser driven compact ion source including a light source that produces an energy pulse, a light source guide that guides the energy pulse to a target and produces an ion beam. The ion beam is transported to a desired destination. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/112451 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.P00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867420 | Mathies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Mathies (Moraga, California); Toshihiro Kamei (Emeryville, California); James R. Scherer (Richmond, California); Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniaturized optical excitation and detector system is described for detecting fluorescently labeled analytes in electrophoretic microchips and microarrays. The system uses miniature integrated components, light collection, optical fluorescence filtering, and an amorphous a-Si:H detector for detection. The collection of light is accomplished with proximity gathering and/or a micro-lens system. Optical filtering is accomplished by integrated optical filters. Detection is accomplished utilizing a-Si:H detectors. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269138 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867435 | 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 | Microoptical systems with clear aperture of about one millimeter or less are fabricated from a layer of photoresist using a lithographic process to define the optical elements. A deep X-ray source is typically used to expose the photoresist. Exposure and development of the photoresist layer can produce planar, cylindrical, and radially symmetric micro-scale optical elements, comprising lenses, mirrors, apertures, diffractive elements, and prisms, monolithically formed on a common substrate with the mutual optical alignment required to provide the desired system functionality. Optical alignment can be controlled to better than one micron accuracy. Appropriate combinations of structure and materials enable optical designs that include corrections for chromatic and other optical aberrations. The developed photoresist can be used as the basis for a molding operation to produce microoptical systems made of a range of optical materials. Finally, very complex microoptical systems can be made with as few as three lithographic exposures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/345732 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867536 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alok Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York); Holly Comanzo (Niskayuna, New York); Venkatesan Manivannan (Recford, New York); Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorescent lamp including a phosphor layer including Sr4Al14O25:Eu2+ (SAE) and at least one of each of a red, green and blue emitting phosphor. The phosphor layer can optionally include an additional, deep red phosphor and a yellow emitting phosphor. The resulting lamp will exhibit a white light having a color rendering index of 90 or higher with a correlated color temperature of from 2500 to 10000 Kelvin. The use of SAE in phosphor blends of lamps results in high CRI light sources with increased stability and acceptable lumen maintenance over, the course of the lamp life. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/317372 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867644 | Taubman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Taubman (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Among the embodiments of the present invention is an apparatus that includes a transistor (30), a servo device (40), and a current source (50). The servo device (40) is operable to provide a common base mode of operation of the transistor (30) by maintaining an approximately constant voltage level at the transistor base (32b). The current source (150) is operable to provide a bias current to the transistor (30). A first device (24) provides an input signal to an electrical node (70) positioned between the emitter (32e) of the transistor (30) and the current source (50). A second device (26) receives an output signal from the collector (32c) of the transistor (30). |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256651 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/563 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868035 | West |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LCC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. West (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus suitable for coupling seismic or other downhole sensors to a borehole wall in high temperature and pressure environments. In one embodiment, one or more metal bellows mounted to a sensor module are inflated to clamp the sensor module within the borehole and couple an associated seismic sensor to a borehole wall. Once the sensing operation is complete, the bellows are deflated and the sensor module is unclamped by deflation of the metal bellows. In a further embodiment, a magnetic drive pump in a pump module is used to supply fluid pressure for inflating the metal bellows using borehole fluid or fluid from a reservoir. The pump includes a magnetic drive motor configured with a rotor assembly to be exposed to borehole fluid pressure including a rotatable armature for driving an impeller and an associated coil under control of electronics isolated from borehole pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288963 |
| 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 367/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06867166 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph T. Yang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Joel Padin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Salil U. Rege (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel adsorbents for use in the separation of unsaturated hydrocarbons from a mixture of gases containing such hydrocarbons. The preferred adsorbents comprise metal compounds supported on high surface area carriers. The adsorbents of the invention are usable in pressure swing adsorption or temperature swing adsorption processes. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/082550 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867274 | Maughon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bob R. Maughon (Midland, Michigan); Takeharu Morita (Osaka, Japan); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to telechelic polymers having crosslinkable end groups of the formula and methods for preparing the same wherein n is an integer; is an alkadienyl group; Y is an alkyl group; and Z is crosslinkable end group. In general, the inventive synthesis involves reacting a functionalized chain transfer agent having crosslinkable ends with a cycloalkene in the presence of a ruthenium or osmium catalyst of the formula wherein: M is ruthenium or osmium; X and X1 are independently any anionic ligand; L and L1 are any neutral electron donor ligand; R and R1 are each hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted substituent wherein the substituent is selected from the group consisting of C1-C20 alkyl, C2-C20 alkenyl, C1-C20 alkynyl, aryl, C1-C20 carboxylate, C1-C20 alkoxy, C2-C20 alkenyloxy, C2-C20 alkynyloxy, aryloxy, C2-C20 alkoxycarbonyl, C1-C20 alkylthio, C1-C20 alkylsulfonyl and C1-C20 alkylsulfinyl. In another aspect of the invention, methods for controlling the molecular weight of the resulting telechelic polymer are also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/151757 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867302 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton R. Smith, III (East Lansing, Michigan); Robert E. Maleczka (Dewitt, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing organic substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic compounds including biaryl and biheteroaryl compounds in a two-step reaction. In the first step, the aromatic or heteroaromatic compound is borylated in a reaction comprising a borane or diborane reagent (any boron reagent where the boron reagent contains a B—H, B—B or B—Si bond) and an iridium or rhodium catalytic complex. In the second step, a metal catalyst catalyzes the formation of the organic substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic compound from the borylated compound and an electrophile such as an aryl or organic halide, triflate (OSO2CF3), or nonaflate (OSO2C4F9). The steps in the process can be performed in a single reaction vessel or in separate reaction vessels. The present invention also provides a process for synthesis of complex polyphenylenes starting from halogenated aromatic compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194859 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867305 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Shawn J. Stachel (Perkasie, New Jersey); Chul Bom Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark D. Chappell (Noblesville, Indiana); Zhical Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing epothilones, desoxyepothilones, and analogues thereof. The present invention further provides novel compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer and additionally provides methods for the treatment of cancer which has developed a multi-drug phenotype. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/796959 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867310 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); John P. Wolfe (Brighton, Massachusetts); Jens Ahman (Sandwich, United Kingdom); Malisa Troutman (Irvington, New York); Michael Palucki (Belle Meade, New Jersey); Ken Kamikawa (Brookline, Massachusetts); Andre Chieffi (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides transition-metal-catalyst-based methods for the arylation and vinylation of activated methyl, methylene, and methine carbons with aryl halides, vinyl halides, and the like. The methods of the invention provide several improvements over existing methods, including the ability to synthesize efficiently and under mild conditions α-aryl and α-vinyl products from a wide range of starting materials, including ketones, esters, hydrazones, and imines. Furthermore, the methods of the invention may be used in an asymmetric sense, i.e. to produce enantiomerically-enriched chiral α-aryl and α-vinyl products. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/239024 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867323 | Denmark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott E. Denmark (Champaign, Illinois); Jun Young Choi (Taejon, South Korea); Daniel Wehrli (Zurich, Switzerland); Zhicai Wu (New York, New York); Luc Neuville (Urbana, Illinois); Weitao Pan (Urbana, Illinois); Ramzi F. Sweis (Champaign, Illinois); Zhigang Wang (Montreal, Canada); Shyh-Ming Yang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods for generating a —C—C— bond by cross-coupling of a transferable group with an acceptor group. The transferable group is a substituent of an organosilicon nucleophile and the acceptor group is provided as an organic electrophile. The reaction is catalyzed by a Group 10 transition metal complex (e.g., Ni, Pt or Pd), particularly by a palladium complex. Certain methods of this invention use improved organosilicon nucleophiles which are readily prepared, can give high product yields and exhibit high stereoselectivity. Methods of this invention employ activating ions such as halides, hydroxide, hydride and silyloxides. In specific embodiments, organosilicon nucleophilic reagents of this invention include siloxanes, particularly cyclic siloxanes. The combination of the cross-coupling reactions of this invention with ring-closing metathesis, hydrosilylation and intramolecular hydrosilylation reactions provide useful synthetic strategies that have wide application. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/875777 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867415 | Hughey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Newton Scientific, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara J. Hughey (Lexington, Massachusetts); Paul L. Skipper (Belmont, Massachusetts); John S. Wishnok (Boston, Massachusetts); Ruth E. Shefer (Newton, Massachusetts); Naomi A. Fried (Oakland, California); John T. Mehl (Westfield, New Jersey); Steven R. Tannenbaum (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface for introducing a non-gaseous sample as a predetermined gaseous form into an accelerator mass spectrometer which comprises a nebulizer that receives the non-gaseous sample to provide a fine spray of the sample, a converter that receives at least a portion of said fine spray and converts the desired elements to the predetermined gaseous form and a flow line that transports the predetermined gaseous form to the accelerator mass spectrometer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/938277 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867656 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Hui Wu (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for generating in-phase and quadrature phase signals is provided. The system includes a first and a second differential output, such as from a sinusoidal oscillator. A first injection-locked frequency divider, such as one that uses an LC oscillator in conjunction with cross-coupled transistors, receives the first differential output and generates a in-phase or in-phase output. A second injection-locked frequency divider receives the second differential output and generates a quadrature phase output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463264 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06868099 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thad G. Walker (Madison, Wisconsin); Bien Chann (Madison, Wisconsin); Ian A. Nelson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power diode laser system utilizes an external cavity to narrow the spectral width of a high power multimode diode laser to change the output power normally produced by the diode from a broad spectrum to a very narrow spectrum. The power output of the laser system is concentrated over a narrow spectral range which falls within the useable range for particular applications, such as optical pumping of noble gas samples for magnetic resonance imaging. The output of the diode is received by a collimating element which directs the light on a beam path to a diffraction grating which is oriented at an angle to the incident beam. A portion of the beam may be directed from the diffraction grating to provide useable output light, and a portion of the light incident on the grating is directed back to be focused on the diode to provide feedback to cause the diode to preferentially lase at the wavelength of the light that is fed back. A polarization rotation element may be used to orient the polarization of the light passing through it to control the amount of feedback light. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/706088 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06866098 | Arndt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Dickey Arndt (Friendswood, Texas); James R. Carl (Houston, Texas); Kent A. Byerly (Seabrook, Texas); B. Jon Amini (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | System and methods for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic pulses through a geological formation. A preferably programmable transmitter having an all-digital portion in a preferred embodiment may be operated at frequencies below 1 MHz without loss of target resolution by transmitting and over sampling received long PN codes. A gated and stored portion of the received signal may be correlated with the PN code to determine distances of interfaces within the geological formation, such as the distance of a water interfaces from a wellbore. The received signal is oversampled preferably at rates such as five to fifty times as high as a carrier frequency. In one method of the invention, an oil well with multiple production zones may be kept in production by detecting an approaching water front in one of the production zones and shutting down that particular production zone thereby permitting the remaining production zones to continue operating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288799 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866733 | Denham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Denham (San Diego, California); Robert A. Dichiara, Jr. (Carlsbad, California); Vann Heng (Buena Park, California); Leanne L. Lehman (Laguna Niguel, California); David Zorger (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible insulation blanket having a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) outer layer, and a method of producing a flexible insulation blanket having a smooth, aerodynamically suitable, outer surface by infiltrating ceramic material within the outer ceramic fabric layer of the flexible insulation blanket and curing the ceramic material to form a CMC layer. The CMC layer is cured while the blanket is under compression such that the resulting CMC layer has a smooth surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611493 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06866752 | Schramm |
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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) | Harry F. Schramm (Winchester, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing an ultra thin electrical circuit integral with a portion of a surface of an object, including using a focal Vacuum Arc Vapor Deposition device having a chamber, a nozzle and a nozzle seal, depressing the nozzle seal against the portion of the object surface to create an airtight compartment in the chamber and depositing one or more ultra thin film layer(s) only on the portion of the surface of the object, the layers being of distinct patterns such that they form the circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/962704 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867040 | Helmstetter et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Helmstetter (Satellite Beach, Florida); Maureen Thornton (Melbourne, Florida); Steve Gonda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are directed to a perfusion culture system in which a rotating bioreactor is used to grow cells in a liquid culture medium, while these cells are attached to an adhesive-treated porous surface. As a result of this arrangement and its rotation, the attached cells divide, with one cell remaining attached to the substrate, while the other cell, a newborn cell is released. These newborn cells are of approximately the same age, that are collected upon leaving the bioreactor. The populations of newborn cells collected are of synchronous and are minimally, if at all, disturbed metabolically. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373130 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/376 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867533 | Su 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) | Ji Su (Highland Park, New Jersey); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrostrictive polymer actuator comprises an electrostrictive polymer with a tailorable Poisson's ratio. The electrostrictive polymer is electroded on its upper and lower surfaces and bonded to an upper material layer. The assembly is rolled tightly and capped at its ends. In a membrane structure having a membrane, a supporting frame and a plurality of threads connecting the membrane to the frame, an actuator can be integrated into one or more of the plurality of threads. The electrostrictive polymer actuator displaces along its longitudinal axis, thereby affecting movement of the membrane surface. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/696527 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06866858 | Nolen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioSensory, Inc. (Willimantic, Connecticut); Bedoukian Research, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim A. Nolen (W. Greenwich, Rhode Island); Robert H. Bedoukian (West Redding, Connecticut); Daniel L. Kline (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | 1-Alkyn-3-ol compounds of the formula: where R1 is a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms, and R2 is a hydrogen, are effective attractants for mosquitoes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/752704 |
| 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 424/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06867350 | Ferl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Ferl (Gainesville, Florida); Paul C. Sehnke (Gainesville, Florida); Hwa Jee Chung (Seoul, South Korea); Ke Wu (Gainesville, Florida); L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns materials and methods for enhancing starch production in plants. Starch production is enhanced, relative to levels observed in wildtype or control plants, by reduction of the plant 14-3-3 protein(s) which subsequently results in increased accumulation of starch in the plant. In one embodiment, the 14-3-3 protein expression is reduced using polynucleotides that are antisense to the 14-3-3 gene sequences expressed in the plant. In another embodiment, the 14-3-3 protein expression is reduced by “knockout” of a 14-3-3 gene or gene sequences. The subject invention also pertains to transformed and transgenic plants that have polynucleotides that are antisense to the 14-3-3 gene sequences expressed in the plant, wherein the transformed and transgenic plants exhibit enhanced starch production. The subject invention also pertains to “knockout” plants in which the normal functional 14-3-3 gene in the plant is deleted or replaced with a non-functional form of the gene. The subject invention also concerns the “antisense” polynucleotides of the invention that when introduced into a plant cell can function to effectively reduce expression of the 14-3-3 proteins in a plant. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/859822 |
| 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 8/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06868110 | Phelts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Eric Phelts (Stanford, California); Per Enge (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multipath mitigation method consists of locating a multipath-invariant (MPI) point of an ideal autocorrelation function and measuring the distance between the MPI point and DLL. The same MPI point is located in a received correlation function, and the distance between the point and the DLL, now affected by multipath, is measured. The difference between the ideal distance and the actual distance is the code tracking error resulting from multipath. The error is subtracted from the computed pseudorange or used to control the DLL. The method can be used to reduce the effects of all types of tracking error sources, such as signal transmission failure or code noise. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/728949 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06867177 | Pinsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Pinsky (Cresskill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing thrombotic or ischemic disorders in a subject which comprises administering an agent to the subject, wherein the agent inhibits ADP-mediated platelet aggregation by increasing ADP catabolism, and a method for determining whether a compound inhibits platelet aggregation by increasing ADP catabolism so as to treat or prevent thrombotic or ischemic disorders in a subject, comprising: (a) inducing thrombotic or ischemic disorders in an animal, which animal is an animal model for thrombotic or ischemic disorders; (b) measuring the stroke outcome in the animal, (c) measuring platelet deposition and/or fibrin deposition in ischemic tissue, and (d) comparing the stroke outcome in step (b) and the platelet deposition and/or fibrin deposition with that of the animal model in the absence of the compound so as to identify a compound capable of treating or preventing thrombotic or ischemic disorders in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/374586 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 06865926 | O'Brien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. O'Brien (Clackamas, Oregon); Thomas R. Smith (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for analyzing samples, such as gas samples, are described. One method comprises providing a gas sample, increasing pressure applied to the gas sample to compress the sample to a smaller volume and provide a pneumatically focused gas sample, and analyzing the pneumatically focused gas sample using any of a variety of analytical techniques. Also disclosed are systems for gas analysis, including systems for analysis of pneumatically focused, and thereby concentrated, gas samples and for analysis of particulate matter in gas samples. Analytical systems constructed within personal computer cases also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438517 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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