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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 12, 2005
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| US 06877310 | Leyva |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivett Alejandra Leyva (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock wave reflector includes a number of reflective units positioned along a longitudinal direction and separated by a gap G. Each reflective unit has a length L. The length L and the gap G are governed by a relationship L+G≧λ. The variable λ characterizes a cell size for a detonation mixture. A detonation chamber includes a receiving end, a discharge end, and a wall extending along a longitudinal direction between the receiving and discharge ends. The detonation chamber further includes a number of reflective units formed in the wall and positioned along the longitudinal direction. The reflective units are separated by a gap G, and each reflective unit has a length L. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/107653 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06877724 | Petty 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) | Jimmie D. Petty (Columbia, Missouri); Walter L. Cranor (Columbia, Missouri); James N. Huckins (Columbia, Missouri); David A. Alvarez (Columbia, Missouri); Gary Robertson (Henderson, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A zero emmission device and method for delivering constant concentration of a vaporized substance allows for the regulated use of chemical or biological substances, such as calibrating, exposure or therapeutic substances. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402870 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas and liquid contact apparatus 261/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06877964 | Burns 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) | Daniel J. Burns (Rome, New York); Thomas E. Renz (Marcy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for inducing, impeding, selectively filtering or otherwise effecting fluid flow in microfluidics applications. Opposing mesh layers are placed into relative motion by a variety of motive forces. Fluid between the opposing mesh layers is compressed so as to be pumped through the mesh layers when the relative motion of the layers is toward each other. Mesh layers may also be offset from each other though an actuating force so that one mesh layer blocks the openings in the other mesh layer, thereby creating an impediment to fluid flow. The degree of offset may be varied so as to create a partial impediment to fluid flow, thereby presenting a filter effect. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/289539 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/410.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878100 | Frykman 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) | Peter N. Frykman (Natick, Massachusetts); Everett A. Harman (Natick, Massachusetts); Michael E. LaFiandra (Merrimack, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A force sensing treadmill preferably including a pair of treadmills mounted in tandem, each on its own independent force platform attached to a common chassis. Preferably, each of the force platforms, which are separated by a minimal gap, provides a plurality of signals representing forces in the x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis, and torques about these three axes enabling separate information to be collected from the left and right foot during walking and running the entire time that either foot is in contact with the belt. The grade of the treadmill preferably can be changed from uphill to level to downhill and back without storming the belt or having the user stop walking or running. Each treadmill unit preferably includes a belt around a plurality of rollers and preferably within the space inside the belt is located the drive system and forceplate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393349 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878259 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Faraday Technology Marketing Group, LLC (Troy, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Jennings Taylor (Troy, Ohio); Chengdong Zhou (Salem, Oregon); Jenny J. Sun (Tipp City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A smooth layer of a metal is electroplated onto a microrough electrically conducting substrate by immersing the substrate and a counterelectrode in an electroplating bath of the metal to be electroplated and passing a modulated reversing electric current between the electrodes. The current contains pulses that are cathodic with respect to said substrate and pulses that are anodic with respect to said substrate. The cathodic pulses have a duty cycle less than about 50% and said anodic pulses have a duty cycle greater than about 50%, the charge transfer ratio of the cathodic pulses to the anodic pulses is greater than one, and the frequency of said pulses ranges from about 10 Hertz to about 12000 Hertz. The plating bath is substantially devoid of levelers and may be devoid of brighteners. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/823751 |
| 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 25/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878466 | Lange et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick F. Lange (Santa Barbara, California); Masa P. Rao (Isla Vista, California); Antonio Javier Sanchez Herencia (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Reliable, flaw-tolerant brittle materials are produced by incorporating layers under residual compression on the surface and throughout the bulk of the material that act to trap and contain the propagation of otherwise catastrophic cracking. The residual compression within these layers acts to reduce the stress intensity of the cracks, thereby causing them to arrest until further loading is provided. This highly desirable stable, subcritical crack growth mode persists with increased loading until the applied stress is large enough to drive the crack completely through compressive region, after which failure occurs. The exact level of stress needed to accomplish this is dictated by the architectural design of the compressive layers such that the material can be designed to have any minimum strength desired, within the limits of the materials system used. This results in a truncation of the strength distribution, such that there is virtually zero probability of failure below this minimum value, i.e. the material possesses a threshold strength. Consequently, sensitivity to flaws that would ordinarily cause catastrophic failure at stresses below the threshold strength is eliminated. Furthermore, the potential exists for the complete elimination of the strength variability, hence improving reliability, through the creation of nearly deterministic, i.e. single-valued, strengths by increasing the threshold strength above the stresses at which failure normally initiates from intrinsic flaws. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/670918 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878519 | Parker 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) | Jill E. Parker (Floresville, Texas); Johnathan L. Kiel (Universal City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A PCR-based method for the identification of Bacillus anthracis is described. The method utilizes novel primer sets; designated 2Xlg3F (SEQ ID NO 3), 2Xlg3R (SEQ ID NO 4), 2Xlg3F2 (SEQ ID NO 5), 2Xlg3R2 (SEQ ID NO 6), 4XH1a2F (SEQ ID NO 7), and 4XH1a2R (SEQ ID NO 8). |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339259 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878593 | Khan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Latham, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhammad Asif Khan (Irmo, South Carolina); Remigijus Gaska (Latham, New York); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Jinwei Yang (Lexington, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure for producing nitride based heterostructure devices having substantially lower reverse leakage currents and performance characteristics comparable to other conventional devices. The method and structure include placing one or more layers of nitride-based compounds over a substrate. Additionally, a dielectric layer including silicon dioxide is placed over the nitride-based layers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647714 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878699 | Hemscheidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Hemscheidt (Honolulu, Hawaii); Susan L. Mooberry (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, there have been identified extracts from a tropical plant that initiate paclitaxel-like microtubule bundling. Bioassay-directed purification yields the steroid taccalonolide A. Taccalonolide, like paclitaxel, initiates the formation of abnormal interphaes and mitotic microtubules. Cells treated with taccalonolide exhibit thick bundles of microtubules that appear to nucleate independent of the microtubule organizing center. Abnormal mitotic spindles consisting of multi-polar spindles are initiated by taccalonolide and resemble abnormal mitotic spindles found in the presence of paclitaxel. Like paclitaxel, taccalonolide causes the breakdown of the nucleus into micronuclei. Taccalonolide causes G2/M arrest, Bc1-2 phosphorylation and initiates an apoptotic cascade that includes the activation of caspase 3. Taccalonolide is an effective inhibitor of proliferation against both SK-OV-3 and MDA-MB-435 cell with IC50 values of 2.3 μM and 2.1 μM respectively. In contrast to paclitaxel, taccalonolide is effective against the multidrug resistant SKVLB-1 cellline and thus appears to be a poor substrate for P-glycoprotein-mediated transport. Although taccalonolide is almost equipotent with paclitaxel in its effects on cellular microtubules, it is much less potent than paclitaxel in its ability to initiate the polymerization of purified tubulin and microtubule protein. Taccalonolide A is the first microtubule stabilizing agent to be discovered from a plant since identification of the mechanism of action of paclitaxel and it is the first natural product steroid identified to have these cellular effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/979447 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878814 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas A. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/973638 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878856 | 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) | Byung J. Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Neal R. Adrian (Champaign, Illinois); Clint M. Arnett (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioremediation system converts a waste stream, at least part of which is a fluid containing energetics, to carbon dioxide (CO2), water, and environmentally benign end products. It uses gas-enhanced sequencing-batch-reactors (SBRs), treating the waste stream in three SBRs seriatim. The first SBR uses a nitrogen purge, the second a hydrogen gas supplement, and the third an oxygen gas or forced air supplement. Each reactor may be supplemented with additives to optimize conditions such as pH, dissolved oxygen, and nutrient level. The system may be implemented under manual control, semi-automated, or fully automated, as needed. A waste stream of consideration is the pink water resultant from munitions fabrication and handling. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096659 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878951 | Ma |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lijun Ma (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for generating helical electron beams that can be used for radiation therapy is disclosed. The device contains a tertiary collimating cone that can be attached to a gantry of a linear accelerator or placed directly below the gantry. The tertiary collimating cone has a dynamic energy compensator and a magnetic electron collimator to modify the energy of electrons and to generate a helical trajectory. A multileaf collimator may be present within the tertiary collimating cone. A computer coordinates the movements of various components. The helical electron beam produced by this device can be targeted to tumors better and safer and reduce the amount of radiation hitting normal tissue than current devices. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259561 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878974 | Heeger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan J. Heeger (Santa Barbara, California); David Braun (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Visible light LEDs are produced having a layer of conjugated polymer which is cast directly from solution or formed as a gel-processed admixture with a carrier polymer. The LEDs can be formed so as to emit polarized light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/223917 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879011 | Hamilton |
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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 J. Hamilton (Heltonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetically shielded circuit board having a conductive solenoid to repel high speed charged particles away from an integrated circuit chip. The conductive solenoid is embedded in the circuit board, or located around the circuit board, or located within an integrated circuit package, the integrated circuit package have been connected to the circuit board. The conductive solenoid is used for conducting an electrical current, the electrical current forming a magnetic field. The magnetic field will repel high speed charged particles away from the integrated circuit chip, the integrated circuit chip being within the integrated circuit package. The circuit board can be used in a space vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/091529 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879012 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California); Roland K. Kawakami (Riverside, California); David D. Awschalom (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Ferromagnetic semiconductor-based compositions, systems and methods that enable studies of the dynamics and magnetoresistance of individual magnetic domain walls, and which provide enhanced magnetic switching effects relative to metallic ferromagnets. Aspects of the present invention are enabled by recent studies of the Giant Planar Hall effect (GPHE), and in particular GPHE in (Ga,Mn)As—based devices. The GPHE generally originates from macro- and micromagnetic phenomena involving single domain reversals. The GPHE-induced resistance change in multiterminal, micron-scale structures patterned from (Ga,Mn)As can be as large as about 100Ω, four orders of magnitude greater than analogous effects previously observed in metallic ferromagnets. Accordingly, recent data provide sufficient resolution to enable real-time observations of the nucleation and field-induced propagation of individual magnetic domain walls within such monocrystalline devices. The magnitude of the GPHE is generally size-independent down to the submicron scale indicating that for applications involving nanostructures it is capable of sensitivity comparable to SQUID-based techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602537 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879081 | Howard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond T. Howard (Franklin, Massachusetts); Bruce B. Gamble (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Peter M. Winn (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); William T. Sand (Cumberland, Rhode Island); Swarn S. Kalsi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A stator support system for supporting a stator coil assembly includes a inner support tube having an outer surface; spaced windings supported on the inner support tube with spaces between adjacent windings defining gaps; support members, each disposed within one of the gaps and having a first and second edge configured to mechanically engage the outer surface of the inner support tube; and a cross support positioned over the spaced winding and extending perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the stator coil assembly. The cross support having a first edge configured to mechanically engage the second edge of the support members. The stator coil assembly can include a stator coil having at least one conductive winding; an electrically insulating material disposed around the stator coil; at least one cooling conduit for receiving a coolant from an outside source, the at least one cooling conduit disposed adjacent a first portion of an outer surface of the stator coil; and a thermally conductive member including graphite and disposed around the at least one cooling conduit and a second portion of the outer surface of the stator coil to transfer heat from the second portion to the at least one cooling conduit, thereby reducing the temperature gradient in the electrically insulating material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/632601 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879082 | Erten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clarity Technologies, Inc. (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gamze Erten (Okemos, Michigan); Mark D. Chuey (Northville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A positioner has a first surface with a plurality of controlled electromagnets and a second surface having a circular cross-section movably positioned relative to the first surface. A plurality of magnetic positioners are disposed around the second surface. Control logic energizes a sequence of the controlled electromagnets to create magnetic interaction with the plurality of magnetic positioner and thereby move the second surface relative to the first surface. A rotor may be positioned to rotate relative to the second surface. Electromagnetic pickups in proximity with the rotor receive a time-varying electromagnetic field from rotor magnets as the rotor rotates, thereby generating electrical energy. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393758 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879190 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joohee Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Marios C. Papaefthymiou (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an energy recovering driver that includes a pull-up control, a pull-down control and a transmission gate. The pull up control is responsive to a pull-up control signal and a clock signal to turn the transmission gate ON and OFF and predetermined positions of the clock signal. The pull-down control is responsive to a pull-down control signal and the clock signal to turn the transmission gate ON and OFF at other predetermined locations of the clock signal. The transmission gate transmits the clock signal when at an ON condition and does not transmit the clock signal when in an OFF condition. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406367 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879256 | Redfern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Charles Redfern (Glassboro, New Jersey); Ted Arthur Heinritz (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A watertight door seal compression indication apparatus is provided that includes a watertight door in a frame that has a casket disposed in a channel around the periphery of the door. A knife-edge on the doorframe is positioned to compress the gasket upon latching the door shut. Numerous switches are placed between the channel and the gasket and the switches are closed when the knife-edge edge fully compresses the gasket. A display that is responsive to the switches indicates whether the gasket was sufficiently compressed or not by either a green LED or a red LED respectively. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654885 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/545.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879397 | Lloyd |
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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) | Jack Lloyd (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method permits measuring of near-direct forward scattering functions in water to enable acceptable underwater imaging for detection, classification, and identification of objects, such as mines. A source of light mounted on a housing member receiving ambient water emits a beam of light along an axis to a scattering detector assembly mounted on the base member. The detector assembly has a central active region disposed in the axis to receive portions of the light beam emitted along the axis and a plurality of concentric active regions are located radially outwardly from the central active region and the axis to receive scattered portions of the light beam. The central and concentric active regions provide signals representative of the magnitudes of the axial and scattered portions of the light beam for determination of the scattering function of the ambient water. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/950240 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879543 | Ruffa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for estimating the size of an object from a region of a fluid medium when that object is emitting acoustic radiation of known wavelength λ on its own or as the result of being interrogated by acoustic pulses that reflect from the object. The acoustic radiation is monitored using a line array of N acoustic receivers such that N signals indicative of the acoustic radiation are generated. M time series summations are formed using the N signals. Each of the M time series summations is formed using a unique time delay predicated on a corresponding unique estimated speed of propagation of the acoustic radiation where M estimated speeds of propagation are defined. For an object in the region having a diameter D on the order of λ, the M values will vary as a function of the M estimated speeds of propagation with the resulting distribution of the M values being indicative of diameter D. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637074 |
| 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 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879544 | Sermarini |
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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) | Christopher A. Sermarini (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Manatee vocalizations are detected by performing a variety of frequency domain processing operations on sound signals detected in an underwater region. Overlapping time windowed portions of digitized sound data are converted to the frequency domain where power spectrums therefor are estimated. Each such power spectrum is then normalized with each resulting normalized spectrum value indicative of broadband noise having a value that is less than a normalized spectrum value indicative of narrowband tones. Normalized spectrum values indicative of narrowband tones that occur (i) in windows of frequency bins encompassing frequencies lower and higher than each of a lowest resonant frequency (associated with manatee vocalizations) and its harmonics and (ii) with a specified degree of variance with respect to frequency separation therebetween, are filtered out. Remaining normalized spectrum values indicative of narrowband tones are assigned to a frequency based harmonic set. A scoring routine is applied that uses the normalized spectrum values in each harmonic set. A manatee vocalization is indicated when a threshold score is achieved across at least a portion of the overlapping time-windowed portions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699441 |
| 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 367/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879545 | Cooke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Cooke (Greensboro, North Carolina); Kenneth M. McGovern (Burlington, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A woven fiber protection cable assembly for use in an optical fiber hydrophone module. The assembly comprises an elastic woven fiber strap with at least one tube attached to one or more sides of the strap in a sinusoidal pattern. The strap at a first end and longitudinal middle portion is substantially aligned with the central axis of the hydrophone module. Two layers of the strap are fastened together in the longitudinal middle portion, and the first end of the strap comprises a loop. The two layers at the second end of the strap are spatially separated and on opposite sides overlap a fiber transition segment, around which one end of the tube is coiled. The elongation of the strap causes the period of the sinusoidal pattern to increase without imparting damaging stress to the optical fiber. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604160 |
| 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 367/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879547 | Updegrove |
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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) | Darryl Updegrove (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination stabilizer system and cylindrical-shaped undersea package improves validity of data collected from ambient sea by orienting the package in an upright attitude and eliminating motion or rocking due to wave action and/or sea currents. An outrigger base assembly has a flat base surface to rest on the sea floor and is provided with upper surfaces having semi-circular cross-sectional configurations to contiguously fit adjacent to round outer contours of an undersea package. The outrigger base assembly also has laterally extending outrigger portions extending the flat base surface for increased stability. First and second case clamps have curved surfaces with semi-circular cross-sectional configurations that extend above the outrigger base assembly. The first and second clamps clamp the curved surfaces and upper surfaces onto the round contours and secure the undersea package in an upright orientation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627196 |
| 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 367/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879705 | Tao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hai Tao (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (W. Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for tracking multiple objects in a video sequence. The method defines a group of objects as a configuration, selects a configuration for a current video frame, predicts a configuration using a two-level process and computes the likelihood of the configuration. Using this method in an iterative manner on a sequence of frames, tracks the object group through the sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/615971 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879885 | Driscoll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Goodrich Pump and Engine Control Systems, Inc. (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Driscoll (Cheshire, Connecticut); Jason Hull (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jeffrey S. Mattice (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for determining the total torque required at the main and tail rotors of a helicopter for use in feed-forward rotor torque anticipation which includes a polynomial neural network adapted and configured to predict the aerodynamic torque at the main and tail rotors with the helicopter in motion based upon a plurality of pilot inputs and airframe inputs, a main rotor load map for determining the torque at the main rotor in hover out of ground effects based upon main rotor speed and collective stick position, a tail rotor load map for determining the torque at the tail rotor with the helicopter stationary based upon main rotor speed and pedal position, and a processor for calculating the required total torque at the main and tail rotors by summing the outputs of the polynomial neural network, and the main and tail rotor load maps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/292046 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06877210 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a squirrel cage rotor of copper material for use in AC or DC motors, includes forming a core with longitudinal slots, inserting bars of conductive material in the slots, with ends extending out of opposite ends of the core, and joining the end rings to the bars, wherein the conductive material of either the end rings or the bars is copper. Various methods of joining the end rings to the bars are disclosed including electrofriction welding, current pulse welding and brazing, transient liquid phase joining and casting. Pressure is also applied to the end rings to improve contact and reduce areas of small or uneven contact between the bar ends and the end rings. Rotors made with such methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/345550 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/598 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06877375 | Greenwood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret S. Greenwood (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining a property of a fluid based on ultrasonic diffraction grating spectroscopy includes a diffraction grating on a solid in contact with the fluid. An interrogation device delivers ultrasound through the solid and a captures a reflection spectrum from the diffraction grating. The reflection spectrum including a diffraction order equal to zero exhibits a peak whose location is used to determine speed of sound in the fluid. A separate measurement of the acoustic impedance is combined with the determined speed of sound to yield a measure of fluid density. A system for determining acoustic impedance includes an ultrasonic transducer on a first surface of a solid member, and an opposed second surface of the member is in contact with a fluid to be monitored. A longitudinal ultrasonic pulse is delivered through the solid member, and a multiplicity of pulse echoes caused by reflections of the ultrasonic pulse between the solid-fluid interface and the transducer-solid interface are detected. The decay rate of the detected echo amplitude as a function of echo number is used to determine acoustic impedance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430474 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06877376 | Schuster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Schuster (Kennewick, Washington); Susan L. Crawford (Richland, Washington); Steven R. Doctor (Richland, Washington); Robert V. Harris (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | One form of the present invention is a technique for interrogating a sample with ultrasound which includes: generating ultrasonic energy data corresponding to a volume of a sample and performing a synthetic aperture focusing technique on the ultrasonic energy data. The synthetic aperture focusing technique includes: defining a number of hyperbolic surfaces which extend through the volume at different depths and a corresponding number of multiple element accumulation vectors, performing a focused element calculation procedure for a group of vectors which are representative of the interior of a designated aperture, performing another focused element calculation procedure for vectors corresponding to the boundary of the aperture, and providing an image corresponding to features of the sample in accordance with the synthetic aperture focusing technique. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339358 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06877979 | Abbasi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamid Ali Abbasi (Naperville, Illinois); Yaroslav Chudnovsky (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for heating flat or curved surfaces comprising injecting fuel and oxidant along the length, width or longitudinal side of a combustion space formed between two flat or curved plates, transferring heat from the combustion products via convection and radiation to the surface being heated on to the material being dried/heated, and recirculating at least 20% of the combustion products to the root of the flame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454021 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878254 | Yeung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward S. Yeung (Ames, Iowa); Wei Wei (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A sieving medium for use in the separation of analytes in a sample containing at least one such analyte comprises a monomeric non-ionic surfactant of the of the general formula, B-A, wherein A is a hydrophilic moiety and B is a hydrophobic moiety, present in a solvent at a concentration forming a self-assembled micelle configuration under selected conditions and having an aggregation number providing an equivalent weight capable of effecting the size separation of the sample solution so as to resolve a target analyte(s) in a solution containing the same, the size separation taking place in a chromatography or electrophoresis separation system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/085656 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878255 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Baomin Tian (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Eskil Sahlin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for conducting a microfluidic process and analysis, including at least one elongated microfluidic channel, fluidic transport means for transport of fluids through the microfluidic channel, and at least one thick-film electrode in fluidic connection with the outlet end of the microfluidic channel. The present invention includes an integrated on-chip combination reaction, separation and thick-film electrochemical detection microsystem, for use in detection of a wide range of analytes, and methods for the use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/705100 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878479 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California); Nerine Cherepy (Oakland, California); Roger L. Krueger (Ripon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bipolar, tilted embodiments of high temperature, molten electrolyte electrochemical cells capable of directly converting carbon fuel to electrical energy are disclosed herein. The bipolar, tilted configurations minimize the electrical resistance between one cell and others connected in electrical series. The tilted configuration also allows continuous refueling of carbon fuel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170879 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878643 | Krulevitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Julie K. Hamilton (Tracy, California); Klint A. Rose (Mt. View, California); James Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Mark S. Strauch (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A peel and stick electronic system comprises a silicone body, and at least one electronic unit operatively connected to the silicone body. The electronic system is produce by providing a silicone layer on a substrate, providing a metal layer on the silicone layer, and providing at least one electronic unit connected to the metal layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323219 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878752 | Aubert |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Aubert (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a one-container foam by dissolving a polymer in liquified gas at a pressure greater than the vapor pressure of the liquified gas and than rapidly decreasing the pressure within approximately 60 seconds to foam a foam. The foam can be rigid and also have adhesive properties. The liquified gas used is CF3l or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/145994 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878943 | Tao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiquan Tao (Starkville, Mississippi); Christopher B. Winstead (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A monitor is provided for use in measuring the concentration of hexavalent chromium in a liquid, such as water. The monitor includes a sample cell, a light source, and a photodetector. The sample cell is in the form of a liquid-core waveguide, the sample cell defining an interior core and acting as a receiver for the liquid to be analyzed, the interior surface of the sample cell having a refractive index of less than 1.33. The light source is in communication with a first end of the sample cell for emitting radiation having a wavelength of about and between 350 to 390 nm into the interior core of the waveguide. The photodetector is in communication with a second end of the waveguide for measuring the absorption of the radiation emitted by the light source by the liquid in the sample cell. The monitor may also include a processor electronically coupled to the photodetector for receipt of an absorption signal to determine the concentration of hexavalent chromium in the liquid. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227191 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879279 | Stappaerts |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eddy A. Stappaerts (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new differential technique for forming optical images using a synthetic aperture is introduced. This differential technique utilizes a single aperture to obtain unique (N) phases that can be processed to produce a synthetic aperture image at points along a trajectory. This is accomplished by dividing the aperture into two equal “subapertures”, each having a width that is less than the actual aperture, along the direction of flight. As the platform flies along a given trajectory, a source illuminates objects and the two subapertures are configured to collect return signals. The techniques of the invention is designed to cancel common-mode errors, trajectory deviations from a straight line, and laser phase noise to provide the set of resultant (N) phases that can produce an image having a spatial resolution corresponding to a synthetic aperture. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402053 |
| 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 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879729 | Kamath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrika Kamath (Dublin, California); Chuck H. Baldwin (Dublin, California); Imola K. Fodor (Oakland, California); Nu A. Tang (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a data de-noising system utilizing processors and wavelet denoising techniques. Data is read and displayed in different formats. The data is partitioned into regions and the regions are distributed onto the processors. Communication requirements are determined among the processors according to the wavelet denoising technique and the partitioning of the data. The data is transforming onto different multiresolution levels with the wavelet transform according to the wavelet denoising technique, the communication requirements, and the transformed data containing wavelet coefficients. The denoised data is then transformed into its original reading and displaying data format. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/877962 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 06878254 | Yeung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward S. Yeung (Ames, Iowa); Wei Wei (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A sieving medium for use in the separation of analytes in a sample containing at least one such analyte comprises a monomeric non-ionic surfactant of the of the general formula, B-A, wherein A is a hydrophilic moiety and B is a hydrophobic moiety, present in a solvent at a concentration forming a self-assembled micelle configuration under selected conditions and having an aggregation number providing an equivalent weight capable of effecting the size separation of the sample solution so as to resolve a target analyte(s) in a solution containing the same, the size separation taking place in a chromatography or electrophoresis separation system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/085656 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878524 | Peng et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Peng (Hershey, Pennsylvania); James E. Hopper (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Tamara Vyshkina (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for cytoplasmic detection of protein—protein interactions, nuclear export/localization sequences, and galactose-independent inducible Gal4p-mediated gene expression through the utilization of GAL regulatory factor, Gal80p, and the yeast galactose regulon. |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165873 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878556 | Sklar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Technology Corporation @ UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry A Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick W Kuckuck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means for introducing a separation gas between each of the plurality of samples in the fluid flow stream; and means for selectively analyzing each of the plurality of samples for the particles. The present invention also provides a flow cytometry method employing such an apparatus. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193268 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/286.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878715 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Peter Klein (Vashon, Washington); Stephen J. Klaus (New York, New York); Anil M. Kumar (Puyallup, Washington); Baoqing Gong (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel heterocyclic compounds having a six membered ring structure fused to a five membered ring structure are found to be useful for the treatment and prevention of symptoms or manifestations associated with disorders affected by Interleukin-12 (“IL-12”) intracellular signaling, such as, for example, Th1 cell-mediated disorders. The therapeutic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives (e.g., resolved enantiomers, diastereomers, tautomers, salts and solvates thereof) or prodrugs thereof, have the following general formula: Each X, Y and Z are independently selected from a member of the group consisting of C(R3), N, N(R3) and S. Each R1, R2 and R3 is substituted or unsubstituted and is independently selected from a member of the group consisting of hydrogen, halo, oxo, C(1-20)alkyl, C(1-20)hydroxyalkyl, C(1-20)thioalkyl, C(1-20)alkylamino, C(1-20)alkylaminoalkyl, C(1-20)aminoalkyl, C(1-20)aminoalkoxyalkenyl, C(1-20)aminoalkoxyalkynyl, C(1-20)diaminoalkyl, C(1-20)triaminoalkyl, C(1-20)tetraaminoalkyl, C(5-15)aminotrialkoxyamino, C(1-20)alkylamido, C(1-20)alkylamidoalkyl, C(1-20)amidoalkyl, C(1-20)acetamidoalkyl, C(1-20)alkenyl, C(1-20)alkynyl, C(3-8)alkoxyl, C(1-11)alkoxyalkyl, and C(1-20)dialkoxyalkyl. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544984 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878813 | Bock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan C. Bock (Salt Lake City, Utah); Veronique Picard (Bourg la Reine, France); Pedram Zendehrouh (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses modified antithrombin III compounds and methods. The amino acid compounds of the present invention are useful in treating blood clotting disorders, as well as other disease states associated with enzymes in the coagulation pathway. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/014658 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878814 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas A. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/973638 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878830 | Smith, III |
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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) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing a ring-substituted arene borane which comprises reacting a ring-substituted arene with an HB organic compound in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of an iridium or rhodium complex with three or more substituents, excluding hydrogen, bonded to the iridium or rhodium and a phosphorus organic ligand, which is at least in part bonded to the iridium or rhodium, to form the ring-substituted arene borane. Also provided are catalytic compounds for catalyzing the process comprising an iridium or rhodium complex with three or substituents, excluding hydrogen, bonded to the iridium or rhodium and optionally, a phosphorus organic ligand, which is at least in part bonded to the iridium or rhodium. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194809 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878834 | Holton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Holton (Tallahassee, Florida); Carmen Somoza (Madrid, Spain); Yukio Suzuki (Tallahassee, Florida); Mitsuru Shindo (Tokushima, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for the preparation of a derivative or analog of baccatin III or 10-desacetyl baccatin III having a C9 substituent other than keto in which the C9 keto substituent of taxol, a taxol analog, baccatin III or 10-desacetyl baccatin III is selectively reduced to the corresponding hydroxy group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/765692 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878930 | Willoughby et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ross Clark Willoughby (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Edward William Sheehan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Carolyn A Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a delivery means of material to be deposited onto thin film surfaces with precise spatial, temporal, compositional, and energy resolution for controlled reactions, patterning (2-dimensional and 3-dimensional), and removal of materials or reaction products of materials from thin film surfaces. The device includes a near atmospheric pressure means of generating ions, ion clusters, or charged particles as a material form to deliver said materials onto substrate surfaces. The device relies on shaped, patterned, conformal ion lenses, and individually addressable lens elements of a lens arrays to create an integrated deposition system for printed patterns of thin films. The devices and methods provide a novel approach to delivering materials to a surface, removing materials from a surface, or creating new materials at or on the surface. These methods and devices may be used in applications of thin film deposition, micro-electronics and semi-conductor manufacturing, printing, surface interfacial layers, coating, painting, sample and reagent treatment, preparation for sensors, chemical analysis, and fabricating 2- and 3-dimensional structures and devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/785441 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878933 | Coon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J. Coon (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides improved methods for injecting ions into a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer (QIT-MS). The methods of the subject invention are applicable to procedures involving atmospheric pressure laser desorption (AP-LD) of a sample to be investigated. Specifically, the subject invention involves controlling the pulse frequency of the laser such that the laser pulses are synchronized with changes in radiofrequency (RF) amplitude levels of the QIT-MS. Advantageously, by utilizing the methods of the subject invention it is possible to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of the results while improving duty cycle and reducing sample consumption. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/732972 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879156 | Chesler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Chesler (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for collecting data representative of a magnetic resonance image includes two or more data collection cycles in which different gradient fields are applied. A first data set collected in the first cycle leaves a portion of k-space inaccessible because of dead-time in the MRI machine. The second data set, collected in the presence of a different gradient, reaches back to populate a portion of the previously inaccessible portion of k-space. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/440019 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE38723 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Probes, Inc. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fei Mao (Eugene, Oregon); Ram Sabnis (Sacramento, California); John Naleway (Eugene, Oregon); Nels Olson (Homer, Alaska); Richard P. Haugland (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides substrates useful for analyzing the metabolic activity in cells by improving the retention of a detectable reporter molecule only in intact cells where a particular enzyme is present. In particular, improved retention results from a two part process involving conjugation of haloalkyl-substituted derivatives of a reporter molecule with intracellular cysteine-containing peptides while unblocking the reporter molecule. The substrates have the form XR-SPACER-REPORTER-BLOCK wherein -BLOCK is a group selected to be removable by action of a specific analyte, to give REPORTER spectral properties different from those of the substrate, -REPORTER- is a molecule that, when no longer bound to BLOCK by a BLOCK-REPORTER bond, has spectral properties different from those of the substrate, -SPACER- is a covalent linkage, and XR- is a haloalkyl moiety that can covalently react with an intracellular thiol (Z-S-H) to form a thioether conjugate (Z-S-R). After the substrate enters the cells, the analyte removes BLOCK to make REPORTER detectable by the change in spectral properties, and the haloalkyl XR reacts with the intracellular thiol to form the thioether conjugate inside the cells, which is well-retained in the cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/910090 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06878780 | Gates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cognis Corporation (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Gates (West Chester, Ohio); Michael S. Sharp (Brookville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Powder coating compositions having reduced volatility and improved processibility compared to conventional powder coatings consist essentially of a copolymer having pendant functionalities or pendant groups capable of reacting with a dicarboxylic acid such as the glycidyl groups of glycidyl acrylate or methacrylate copolymer and a cross-linking effective amount of a dicarboxylic acid. The reaction of the above pendant groups and the dicarboxylic acid cross-links or cures the powder coating after application to a substrate. The dicarboxylic acids according to the invention eliminate the need for a third component which is a flow control agent which improves the processibility of a two-component powder coating. The dicarboxylic acids according to the invention have a sublimation temperature great enough to decrease or prevent their vaporization during the curing of the powder coating and have a melting point low enough to impart improved flow properties to the powder coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462263 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878783 | Yeager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary William Yeager (Schenectady, New York); Malgorzata Iwona Rubinsztajn (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Epoxy resin compositions are disclosed which comprise (A) at least one cycloaliphatic epoxy resin, (B) at least one anhydride curing agent, (C) at least one a boron containing catalyst that is essentially free of halogen, (D) at least one cure modifier, and, optionally (E) at least one ancillary curing catalyst. The encapsulant may also optionally comprise at least one of thermal stabilizers, UV stabilizers, coupling agents, or refractive index modifiers. Also disclosed are packaged solid state devices comprising a package, a chip, and an encapsulant comprising an epoxy resin composition of the invention. A method of encapsulating a solid state device is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425906 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/533 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879016 | Skidmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George D. Skidmore (Plano, Texas); Aaron Geisberger (Plano, Texas); Matthew D. Ellis (Allen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is disclosed that strengthens the structural integrity of trench-fill electrical isolation techniques. One embodiment provides for etching a series of interlocking geometric trenches into a device layer and filling the trenches with a non-conductive dielectric material. The dielectric material establishes electrical isolation while the interlocking geometric trenches strengthen the structural integrity of the separation by providing at least one surface on the interlocking separation that experiences a compression force for each direction that the electrically isolated MEMS component is moved. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/266726 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/499 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879715 | Edic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Michael Edic (Albany, New York); Armin Horst Pfoh (Niskayuna, New York); Shankar Visvanathan Guru (Brookfield, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method of processing a collection of uncorrected radiographs are described with the apparatus comprising an X-ray scatter compensator and a controller. The compensator is configured for iteratively generating a refined value of a normalized estimated X-ray scatter signal corresponding to an uncorrected radiograph of said collection of uncorrected radiographs. The controller is configured to be coupled to the compensator and further configured to subtract said refined value of said normalized estimated X-ray scatter signal from a corresponding normalized total X-ray signal of a respective one of said uncorrected radiographs so as to form a corresponding corrected radiograph. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/683255 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879851 | McNamara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lightlab Imaging, LLC (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward I. McNamara (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Ron B. Lamport (Pelham, New Hampshire); Christopher L. Petersen (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Joseph M. Schmitt (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic probe and a balloon catheter used in conjunction with optical imaging systems, in particular with systems which deliver and collect a single spatial mode beam, such as a single photon, a multiphoton, confocal imaging and ranging systems, such as fluorescence imaging systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/876834 |
| ART UNIT | 3757 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06878361 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. F. Clarke (Seabrook, Texas); Daniel L. Feeback (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing stable dispersions of single-walled carbon nanotube structures in solutions are achieved utilizing dispersal agents. The dispersal agents are effective in substantially solubilizing and dispersing single-walled carbon nanotube structures in aqueous solutions by coating the structures and increasing the surface interaction between the structures and water. Exemplary agents suitable for dispersing nanotube structures in aqueous solutions include synthetic and natural detergents having high surfactant properties, deoxycholates, cyclodextrins, chaotropic salts and ion pairing agents. The dispersed nanotube structures may further be deposited on a suitable surface in isolated and individualized form to facilitate easy characterization and further processing of the structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/932986 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879708 | Wernet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Wernet (Sheffield Village, Ohio); Amy F. Mielke (Cleveland, Ohio); Jaikrishnan R. Kadambi (Richmond Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a mass flux of an entrained phase in a planar two-phase flow records images of particles in the two-phase flow. Respective sizes of the particles (the entrained phase) are determined as a function of a separation between spots identified on the particle images. Respective velocities of the particles are determined. The mass flux of the entrained phase is determined as a function of the size and velocity of the particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/865137 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879875 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American GNC Corporation (Simi Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guohui Hu (Simi Valley, California); Ching-Fang Lin (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The design of the low cost GPS/IMU positioning and data integrating method, which employs integrated global positioning system/inertial measurement unit enhanced with dual antenna GPS carrier phase measurements to initialize and stabilize the azimuth of the low cost GPS/IMU integrated system, is performed. The utilization of the raw carrier phase measurement for the integration speeds up the ambiguity search. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946598 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879893 | Woodard 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) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Neil C. Coffey (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia); Keith L. Woodman (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A monitoring system for a fleet of vehicles includes at least one data acquisition and analysis module (DAAM) mounted on each vehicle in the fleet, a control module on each vehicle in communication with each DAAM, and terminal module located remotely with respect to the vehicles in the fleet. Each DAAM collects/analyzes sensor data to generate analysis results that identify the state of a plurality of systems of the vehicle. Each vehicle's control module collects/analyzes the analysis results from each onboard DAAM to generate vehicle status results that identify potential sources of vehicle anomalies. The terminal module collects/analyzes the analysis results and vehicle status results transmitted from each control module from the fleet of vehicles to identify multiple occurrences of vehicle anomalies and multiple occurrences of those vehicle systems operating at a performance level that is unacceptable. Results of the terminal module's analysis are provided to organizations responsible for the operation, maintenance and manufacturing of the vehicles in the fleet as well as the plurality of systems used in the fleet. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/675502 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06878830 | Smith, III |
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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) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing a ring-substituted arene borane which comprises reacting a ring-substituted arene with an HB organic compound in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of an iridium or rhodium complex with three or more substituents, excluding hydrogen, bonded to the iridium or rhodium and a phosphorus organic ligand, which is at least in part bonded to the iridium or rhodium, to form the ring-substituted arene borane. Also provided are catalytic compounds for catalyzing the process comprising an iridium or rhodium complex with three or substituents, excluding hydrogen, bonded to the iridium or rhodium and optionally, a phosphorus organic ligand, which is at least in part bonded to the iridium or rhodium. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194809 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878838 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbin Lin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Aiguo Hu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Helen L. Ngo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Chiral porous zirconium phosphonates containing metal complex moieties are provided, synthesized via a molecular building block approach, and characterized by a variety of techniques including TGA, adsorption isotherms, XRD, SEM, IR, and microanalysis. These hybrid solids may be used for enantioselective heterogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation of aromatic ketones with remarkably high e.e. values of up to 99.2%. Similarly prepared chiral porous solids may be used for asymmetric hydrogenation of β-keto esters with e.e.'s of up to 95%. The solid catalysts can also be easily recycled and reused multiple times without the loss of activity and enantioselectivity. Ready tunability of such a molecular building block approach allows the optimization of these hybrid materials to provide practically useful heterogeneous asymmetric catalysts. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395375 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06878858 | Stachowiak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michal K. Stachowiak (East Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an animal model for Parkinson's Disease and a method for generating such a model. The method comprises the steps of transfecting dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra with a dominant negative mutant of FGFR1 with deleted tyrosine kinase domain. The animals are characterized by a reduction in the number of tyrosine hydroxylase neurons in the SNc area. |
| FILED | Monday, August 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/216986 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06879083 | Doherty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kieran Doherty (Oro Valley, Arizona); William M. Scherzinger (Tucson, Arizona); David E. Stout (Tucson, Arizona); Simon L. Waddell (Tucson, Arizona); Shannon W. Rogers (Alpharetta, Georgia); James Ritter (Colts Neck, New Jersey); Shirley Pszczola (Lakehurst, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The coil end-turn segments of a generator exciter rotor are retained using an end-turn retention assembly that includes an inner band and an outer band. The inner band is located around at least a portion of each of the end-turn segments and has two ends. The outer peripheral surface of the inner band is tapered such that the thickness of the inner band varies between its ends. The outer band is located around the inner band and also has two ends. The inner peripheral surface of the outer band is tapered in a fashion that is reverse to that of the inner band outer surface, and such that the outer band thickness varies between its ends. By forming oppositely configured tapers in the inner and outer bands, the outer bands will remain in place and not migrate axially away from the lamination core during exciter rotor rotation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633282 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 06878871 | Scher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Scher (San Francisco, California); Mihai A. Buretea (San Francisco, California); Calvin Chow (San Francisco, California); Stephen Empedocles (Mountain View, California); Andreas Meisel (San Francisco, California); J. Wallace Parce (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocomposite photovoltaic devices are provided that generally include semiconductor nanocrystals as at least a portion of a photoactive layer. Photovoltaic devices and other layered devices that comprise core-shell nanostructures and/or two populations of nanostructures, where the nanostructures are not necessarily part of a nanocomposite, are also features of the invention. Varied architectures for such devices are also provided including flexible and rigid architectures, planar and non-planar architectures and the like, as are systems incorporating such devices, and methods and systems for fabricating such devices. Compositions comprising two populations of nanostructures of different materials are also a feature of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656802 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ammar Derraa (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating row lines and pixel openings of a field emission array that employs only two masks. A first mask is disposed over electrically conductive material and semiconductive material and includes apertures that are alignable between rows of pixels of the field emission array. Row lines of the field emission array are defined through the first mask. A passivation layer is then disposed over at least selected portions of the field emission array. A second mask, including apertures alignable over the pixel regions of the field emission array, is disposed over the passivation layer. The second mask is used in defining openings through the passivation layer and over the pixel regions of the field emission array. Conductive material exposed through the apertures of the second mask may also be removed to expose the underlying semiconductive grid and to further define the pixel openings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430969 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879103 | Kunhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erich E. Kunhardt (Hoboken, New Jersey); Kurt H. Becker (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A glow plasma discharge device having an electrode (20, 40) covered with perforated dielectric (30) is disclose. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/381328 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879307 | Stern |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest Stern (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical panel display driver is shown in which only one driver and control bus are needed for each color. Furthermore, the elements are made with uniform film thicknesses, thereby minimizing the number of steps needed to fabricate the display. Here 6 bits are provided with temporal and aperture weighting. The use of temporal weighting generally requires the activation of most pixels twice/frame, which consumes considerable power. It should also be possible to eliminate temporal weighting by redistributing the contact area into a larger number of aperture weights and by adding a row electrode. Here pixels are activated only in response to a charge in the image. This generally reduces the drive power, since many pixels in a typical image do not change from frame to frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/150817 |
| ART UNIT | 2674 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06879886 | Wilkins, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Ryan Wilkins, Jr. (Greenville, Delaware); Kenneth Scott Harris (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight guidance system providing perspective flight guidance symbology using positioning and terrain information provides increased pilot situational awareness of an aircraft. The guidance system uses a positioning system and a detailed mapping system to provide a perspective display for use in an aircraft. A Perspective Flight Guidance (PFG) symbology set is thereby displayed on a pilot display. The PFG symbology set includes broken line symbols representing an open tunnel and providing flow field data, a half-bracket symbol to indicate that the aircraft is no longer in the open tunnel represented by the broken line symbols and a quickened flight path vector (QFPV) symbol to provide the pilot with predictive flight path information. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376914 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06880109 | Belenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the State (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kim E. Belenger (N. Dighton, Massachusetts); John L. Lehet (Waterford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided by the present invention for testing performance validity and accuracy of functional elements of a computer application. A stand-alone test tool provides an environment in which the operation of the functional element can be monitored along with a plurality of interfaces between the functional element and the computer application. The test tool permits creation of a test data file which can be viewed and edited as desired outside of the test tool environment, and permits creation of a test case generation file with the user assisted by prompts as to interface task options. In a preferred embodiment a test cooperates with an interface protocol of a type involving a memory shared by multiple functional elements and employing a mode of notifying an addressed functional element that data is ready and of specifying the location of the data in the shared memory. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/898714 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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