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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 19, 2005
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 06880342 | Moorhouse |
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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) | David J. Moorhouse (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for controlling inlet shock position and airflow Mach number of a hypersonic vehicle is described wherein thermally controlled fuel is controllably injected into the airflow at the inlet of the propulsion system of the vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670097 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06880400 | Fogliatti 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) | David W. Fogliatti (Carlsbad, California); Brian K. Meadows (San Diego, California); Joseph D. Neff (San Diego, California); Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Adi R. Bulsara (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of non-identical oscillators, driven by a common external driving force, is synchronized in phase. An example application is the phase synchronizing of non-identical vibratory gyroscopes to provide enhanced gyroscope sensitivity while minimizing the need for gyroscope proof mass alteration and individual gyroscope electronics. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446284 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881283 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Lee (North Ogden, Utah); Paul C. Braithwaite (Brigham City, Utah); Steve Nicolich (Wyckoff, New Jersey); Mark Mezger (Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosive composition is provided that includes 85 to about 96 weight percent nitramine, based on the total composition weight, and about 4 to 15 weight percent plasticized binder. At least 80 weight percent of the total composition weight, and more preferably 85 to 96 weight percent of the total composition weight, comprises 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazatetracyclo[5.5.0.05,903,11]-dodecane (CL-20) particles having an average particle size not greater than 30 microns as the nitramine. Methods for preparing an explosive from the explosive composition are also provide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210863 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/19.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881317 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lotien Richard Huang (Princeton, New Jersey); James Christopher Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert Hamilton Austin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for fractionation of charged macro-molecules such as DNA is provided. DNA solution is loaded into a matrix including an array of obstacles. An alternating electric field having two different fields at different orientations is applied. The alternating electric field is asymmetric in that one field is stronger in duration or intensity than the other field, or is otherwise asymmetric. The DNA molecules are thereby fractionated according to site and are driven to a far side of the matrix where the fractionated DNA is recovered. The fractionating electric field can be used to load and recover the DNA to operate the process continuously. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/022189 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/608 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881374 | Gerhard 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) | Jack K. Gerhard (Ridgeley, West Virginia); Eric J. Lynam (Keyser, West Virginia); Mark R. Shaffer (Hyndman, Pennsylvania); Shridhar Yariagadda (Newark, Delaware); Nicholas B. Shevchenko (Newark, Delaware); Bruce K. Fink (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Dirk Heider (Newark, Delaware); John J. Tierney (Newark, Delaware); John W. Gillespie, Jr. (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for forming laminate composite structures. At least two laminae, each containing electrically conductive reinforcing fibers, are placed upon each other in contacting relationship to form a generally layered structure. The layered structure may be subjected to heat to conductively transfer heat through the layered structure and thereby improve the surface contact between two laminae. The layered structure is volumetrically heated by inductively transferring energy to the electrically conductive reinforcing fibers. The heated, layered structure is consolidated, such as by applying pressure and reducing the temperature of the layered structure. The consolidated structure is then quenched by rapidly cooling the consolidated structure in a directionally controlled manner about a midplane thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/253032 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881383 | Tschritter 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) | Kenneth L. Tschritter (Livermore, California); Brent L. Haroldsen (Manteca, California); Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California); Jerome H. Stofleth (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Raymond A. DiBerardo (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosive destruction system and method for safely destroying explosively configured chemical munitions. The system comprises a sealable, gas-tight explosive containment vessel, a fragment suppression system positioned in said vessel, and shaped charge means for accessing the interior of the munition when the munition is placed within the vessel and fragment suppression system. Also provided is a means for treatment and neutralization of the munition's chemical fills, and means for heating and agitating the contents of the vessel. The system is portable, rapidly deployable and provides the capability of explosively destroying and detoxifying chemical munitions within a gas-tight enclosure so that there is no venting of toxic or hazardous chemicals during detonation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/817484 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881411 | Stewart, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Neal Stewart, Jr. (Greensboro, North Carolina); Marian L. McKee (Great Falls, Virginia); Alison D. O'Brien (Bethesda, Maryland); Marian R. Wachtel (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention satisfies needs in the art by providing intimin, the Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) adherence protein, alone or as a fusion protein with one or more other antigens, expressed by transgenic plants and the use of those plants as vehicles for stimulating a protective immune response against EHEC and the one or more other antigens. Various plant species are transformed to protect various animal species and also humans against EHEC, against pathogens expressing intimin-like proteins, and against pathogens expressing any of the one or more other antigens to which intimin may be fused. The eae gene encoding intimin, a functional portion thereof, or a recombination that encodes a fusion protein is put under the control of a constitutive plant promoter in a plasmid and the plasmid is introduced into plants by the type of transformation appropriate for the particular plant species. The engineered plants expressing intimin or the intimin fusion protein are then fed to animals and/or humans to elicit the production of antibodies, which protect the animals/humans against EHEC colonization and infection, and against pathogens expressing the one or more other antigens and any cross-reactive antigens. The invention may also be practiced by expressing the intimin or intimin fusion protein in other host organisms such as bacteria, yeast, and fungi. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/150058 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881560 | Peoples et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Anthony J. Sinskey (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling and modifying biopolymer synthesis by manipulation of the genetics and enzymology of synthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polyesters at the molecular level in procaryotic and eukaryotic cells, especially plants. Examples demonstrate the isolation, characterization, and expression of the genes involved in the production of PHB and PHA polymers. Genes encoding the enzymes in the PHB and PHA synthetic pathway (beta-ketothiolase, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and PHB polymerise or PHA polymerase) from Zooloea ramigera strain I-16-M, Alcaligenes eutrophus, Nocardia salmonicolur, and Psuedomnas olevarans were identified or isolated and expressed in a non-PHB producing organism, E. coli. Specific modifications to the polymers include variation in the chain length of the polymers and incorporation of different monomers into the polymers to produce co-polymers with different physical properties. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341214 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881669 | Chu 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) | Tak Kin Chu (Bethesda, Maryland); Francisco Santiago (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Kevin A. Boulais (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An epitaxial barrier material provides not only a unique growth medium for growing single crystal structures of elemental metal thereon, but also provides an effective diffusion barrier at extremely thin thicknesses against migration of atoms from the metallization layer into an adjacent semiconductor substrate or low dielectric insulation layer. This invention is particularly advantageous for forming single crystal, transition metal conductor lines, contacts, filled trenches, and/or via plugs, and especially conductor structures based on transition metals of copper, silver, gold, or platinum. These metals are highly attractive for interconnect strategies on account of there respective low resistivity and high reliability characteristics. Processes for making the barrier film in a semiconductor device are also covered. The capability to use copper interconnect strategies coupled with the proviso of an extremely thin barrier film makes possible a significant increase in the component density and a corresponding reduction in the number of layers in large scale integrated circuits, as well as improved performance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853925 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881847 | Highsmith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Highsmith (North Ogden, Utah); Jami M. Hanks (Logan, Utah); Stephen P. Velarde (Ogden, Utah); Jeffrey Bottaro (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for the synthesis of nitramines and the recovery of the nitramines from a clathrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/455092 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/265.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881871 | Davis |
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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) | Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An environmentally friendly methods for making 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) compounds comprising, providing nitromalondialdehydes, providing dinitro-compounds, reacting the nitromalondialdehydes with the dinitro-compounds to produce aldol-intermediate compounds, and subjecting the intermediate compounds to a cyclodehydrative mechanism to produce 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) compounds in an environmentally friendly manner. Another embodiment includes an environmentally friendly method for making 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) compounds comprising, providing nitromethylamino-hexafluorophosphates, providing dinitro-compounds, reacting the trimethinium hexafluorophosphates with the dinitro-compounds to produce aldol-intermediate compounds, and subjecting the intermediate compounds to a cyclodehydrative mechanism to produce environmentally friendly 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) compounds. Embodiments of the present invention include the 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) compounds produced by the methods of described above. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911761 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/935 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882477 | Schattenburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Schattenburg (Wayland, Massachusetts); Patrick N. Everett (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of interference lithography (also known as interferometric lithography or holographic lithography) which utilizes phase-locked, scanning beams (so-called scanning beam interference lithography, or SBIL). The invention utilizes a high-precision stage that moves a substrate under overlapped and interfering pairs of coherent beams. The overlapped beams interfere, generating fringes, which form a pattern “brush” for subsequent writing of periodic and quasi-periodic patterns on the substrate. The phase of the fringes in the overlapped region is phase-locked to the motion of the precision stage. The invention includes methods for forming, overlapping, and phase-locking interfering pairs of beams on a variety of substrates; methods for measuring and controlling the period, phase, and angular orientation of fringes generated by the overlapping beams; and methods for measuring and controlling the effects of stage mechanical and thermal drift and other disturbances during the writing process. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/711019 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882689 | Maggio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gian Mario Maggio (San Diego, California); Luca Reggiani (Ferrara, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A pseudo-chaotic coding/modulation method. The coding method exploits symbolic dynamics of a chaotic map at the transmitter to encode data. The encoding synthesizes the chaotic map based upon the data to be transmitted. In a preferred embodiment, pseudo-chaotic iterates are generated from a digital implementation of a Bernoulli shift map. The output of the shift map is translated by a mapping, preferably implemented by a digital signal processor, to allow transitions between states in a transmitted signal to differ, and the translated map is used to drive a modulator (for example PPM, FSK, PSK, QAM, etc.). In the specific case of pulse-position modulation (PPM) the translated map is used to modulate pulse train positions within a periodic synchronization frame. The preferred embodiment uses a shift register to implement an approximation of the Bernoulli shift map acting as a form of convolutional code with a number of states equal to the symbolic states defined on the chaotic map. A receiver may use fewer states and still decode the data signal, allowing receiver scalability. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/734965 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882700 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Wang (Clifton Park, New York); Reinhold Franz Wirth (Ballston Spa, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system includes an X-ray source adapted to move in an arc shaped path and a stationary electronic X-ray detector. The system also includes a track and a mechanical driving mechanism which is adapted to move the X-ray source in the arc shaped path. A tomosynthesis X-ray imaging method includes mechanically moving an X-ray source in a stepped motion on an arc shaped path around an object using a track and irradiating the object with an X-ray dose from the X-ray source located at a plurality of steps along the arc shaped path. The method also includes detecting the X-rays transmitted through the object with an electronic X-ray detector, and constructing a three dimensional image of the object from a signal output by the electronic X-ray detector. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/063357 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882889 | Fuller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Fuller (Amston, Connecticut); Indraneel Das (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling a multivariable system includes the step of receiving a plurality of sensor signals indicating current conditions of the system and receiving a plurality of commands. The desired dynamic response of the system is then determined based upon the commands and the sensor signals. The problem of controlling the system to achieve the desired dynamic response without violating numerous actuator and physical constraints is then formulated as a quadratic programming problem. By solving the quadratic programming problem, the effector commands are determined and the physical constraints are enforced. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308286 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06883101 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Fox (Palm Bay, Florida); Ronda R. Henning (West Melbourne, Florida); John T. Farrell (Melbourne, Florida); Clifford C. Miller (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and data processing system assesses the security vulnerability of a network. A system object model database is created and supports the information data requirements of disparate network vulnerability analysis programs. Only the required data from the system object model database representing the network is imported to the programs, which then analyze the network to produce data results from each program. These data results are stored in a common system model database and within the data fact base. Goal oriented fuzzy logic decision rules are applied to determine the vulnerability posture of the network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/500269 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06880487 | Reinkensmeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Reinkensmeyer (Irvine, California); Wojciech Timoszyk (Irvine, California); Nikolas London (Cleveland, Ohio); Ray D. de Leon (Glendale, California); V. Reggie Edgerton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic system and method for locomotion assessment and training of a mammal, exemplified by a rodent. A neurologically impaired animal is suspended over a moving surface in a harness, and the animal's hindlimbs are connected to robotic arms that apply force to the hindlimbs or measure limb movement characteristics. The moving surface can be a physical or virtual surface. A single robotic mechanism comprising two robotic arms can simultaneously apply force, measure limb movement, and provide a virtual surface. Manual or automatic adjustment of load support allows the mammal to step at varying body weight loads. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/117409 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881406 | Butcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene C. Butcher (Portola Valley, California); James J. Campbell (Palo Alto, California); Lijun Wu (Reading, Massachusetts); James B. Rottman (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to specifically modulate the trafficking of systemic memory T cells, particularly CD4+ T cells, without affecting naive T cells or intestinal memory T cells. It is shown that systemic memory T cells, which are characterized as CD45Ra−, and integrin α4β7−, express high levels of CCR4. Ligands of CCR4, such as TARC or MDC, act as an adhesion trigger, wherein upon CCR4 binding, these cells undergo integrin-dependent arrest to the appropriate vascular receptor(s). This arrest acts to localize the cells at the target site. The methods of the invention manipulate this triggering, and CCR4 mediated chemotaxis, to affect the localization of T cells in targeted tissues. In an alternative embodiment, the agent is an antagonist that blocks CCR4 biological activity. An advantage of the invention is the selectivity for systemic memory T cells, without affecting native T cells or intestinal memory T cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/837446 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881540 | Cramer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Cramer (Schenctady, New York); Kaushal Rege (Troy, New York); Jonathan Dordick (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An effective technique for the high throughput screening of displacers is described. In this technique, potential displacers are employed to displace a biomolecule (e.g., protein) adsorbed on a chromatographic resin in small-scale batch displacement experiments. The amount of protein displaced from a specific resin by a defined concentration of displacer is determined by monitoring the supermatant for the protein. By evaluating the displaced protein rather than the displacer itself, this technique enables a single detection technique (e.g., absorbance, fluorescence, etc.) to be employed for all batch displacement experiments. By monitoring the amount of protein displaced, the effacy of a large number of potential displacers can be rapidly evaluated. The entire experimental procedure can be carried out rapidly and is thus amenable to high throughput parallel screening of molecules possessing a large range of affinities and physico-chemical properties. The error of the technique is within 5% of protein displaced, thus making it a very reliable technique. The technique can be extended to different stationary phase materials, biomolecules, and modes of interaction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/791317 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881551 | Heller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TheraSense, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Heller (Austin, Texas); Michael V. Pishko (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A small diameter flexible electrode designed for subcutaneous in vivo amperometric monitoring of glucose is described. The electrode is designed to allow “one-point” in vivo calibration, i.e., to have zero output current at zero glucose concentration, even in the presence of other electroreactive species of serum or blood. The electrode is preferably three or four-layered, with the layers serially deposited within a recess upon the tip of a polyamide insulated gold wire. A first glucose concentration-to-current transducing layer is overcoated with an electrically insulating and glucose flux limiting layer (second layer) on which, optionally, an immobilized interference-eliminating horseradish peroxidase based film is deposited (third layer). An outer (fourth) layer is biocompatible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/353341 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/14 |
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| US 06881553 | Kabbash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina Kabbash (Greenwich, Connecticut); Samuel C. Silverstein (New York, New York); Howard A. Shuman (Larchmont, New York); John S. Blanchard (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of selecting a compound which inhibits the enzymatic activity of enoyl reductase which comprises: (A) contacting enoyl reductase with the compound linked to an acyl carrier protein; (B) measuring the enzymatic activity of the enoyl reductase of step (A) compared with the enzymatic activity of enoyl reductase in the absence of the compound and selecting the compound which inhibits the enzymatic activity of enoyl reductase. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/366686 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowsmith Technologies LLP (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jefferson Foote (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for humanizing antibodies based on selecting variable region framework sequences from human antibody genes by comparing canonical CDR structure types for CDR sequences of the variable region of a non-human antibody to canonical CDR structure types for corresponding CDRs from a library of human antibody sequences, preferably germline antibody gene segments. Human antibody variable regions having similar canonical CDR structure types to the non-human CDRs form a subset of member human antibody sequences from which to select human framework sequences. The subset members may be further ranked by amino acid similarity between the human and the non-human CDR sequences. Top ranking human sequences are selected to provide the framework sequences for constructing a chimeric antibody that functionally replaces human CDR sequences with the non-human CDR counterparts using the selected subset member human frameworks, thereby providing a humanized antibody of high affinity and low immunogenicity without need for comparing framework sequences between the non-human and human antibodies. Chimeric antibodies made according to the method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194975 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.600 |
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| US 06881560 | Peoples et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Anthony J. Sinskey (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling and modifying biopolymer synthesis by manipulation of the genetics and enzymology of synthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polyesters at the molecular level in procaryotic and eukaryotic cells, especially plants. Examples demonstrate the isolation, characterization, and expression of the genes involved in the production of PHB and PHA polymers. Genes encoding the enzymes in the PHB and PHA synthetic pathway (beta-ketothiolase, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and PHB polymerise or PHA polymerase) from Zooloea ramigera strain I-16-M, Alcaligenes eutrophus, Nocardia salmonicolur, and Psuedomnas olevarans were identified or isolated and expressed in a non-PHB producing organism, E. coli. Specific modifications to the polymers include variation in the chain length of the polymers and incorporation of different monomers into the polymers to produce co-polymers with different physical properties. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341214 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881569 | Perry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tjorvi Ellert Perry (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Fraser W. H. Sutherland (West Lothian, United Kingdom); John E. Mayer, Jr. (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method that allows the visualization of leakage of cell culture media through a conduit wall of a tissue-engineered biological construct such as a semilunar heart valve or valve graft under controlled physiologic conditions. The apparatus and method also allows for the assessment of valve function and intraluminal flow using conventional imaging modalities such as ultrasonic and magnetic resonance imaging. The apparatus allows the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of structural and functional characteristics of a condition tissue engineered construct prior to implantation using a valve housing and chamber and a flow-pressure simulator. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056991 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/284.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881718 | FitzGerald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. FitzGerald (Rockville, Maryland); Michael J. Iadarola (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to the discovery of novel disulfide linked cell toxins which can ablate NK-1 receptor expressing cells. These toxins are used as pharmaceutical compositions for the ablation of NK1 receptor expressing cells and comprise a substance P (SP)-Pseudomonas exotoxin disulfide linked conjugate. The invention also includes methods of making and using these toxins and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/110934 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881719 | Saragovi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | McGill University (, Canada); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horacio Uri Saragovi (Westmount, Canada); Kevin Burgess (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Proteolytically stable small molecule β-turn peptidomimetic compounds have been identified as agonists or antagonists of neurotrophin receptors, such as TrkA. A compound of particular interest binds the immunoglobulin-like C2 region of the extracellular domain of TrkA, competes the binding of another TrkA ligand, affords selective trophic protection to TrkA-expressing cell lines and neuronal primary cultures, and induces the differentiation of primary neuronal cultures. The small β-turn peptidomimetic compounds of the invention can activate a tyrosine kinase neurotrophin receptor that normally binds a relatively large protein ligand. Such compounds that bind the extracellular domain of Trk receptors are useful pharmacological agents to address disorders where Trk receptors play a role, by targeting populations selectively. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/181546 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881959 | Meng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling Jian Meng (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Neal H. Clinthorne (Ann Arbor, Michigan); W. Leslie Rogers (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David K. Wehe (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating an image of the radiation density of a source of photons located in an object wherein Compton scattering and non-Compton scattering events are detected and contained within data used for image reconstruction. The system includes a multiple pinhole collimator, a position sensitive scintillation detector as used in standard Gamma cameras, and a silicon pad detector array inserted between the collimator and the scintillation detector. The problem of multiplexing, normally associated with multiple pinhole systems, is reduced by using the extra information from the detected Compton scattering events. For properly selected pinhole spacing, this leads to a significantly improved image quality. A valuable enhancement can be achieved when adding only a small fraction of gamma rays with reduced angular ambiguity. The system does not require a highly optimized Compton camera behind the collimator. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285211 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882880 | Treppo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Treppo (Richmond Hill, Canada); Alan J. Grodzinsky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Emerson Quan (San Francisco, California); Eliot Frank (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Bombard (San Francisco, California); David Breslau (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The change in tissue impedance due to the change in the extracellular matrix that results from the degradation of cartilage is utilized to detect degradation of articular cartilage. A probe includes electrodes that apply a current to the articular cartilage which results in a current distribution and electric field within the cartilage, along with an associated voltage drop across the electrodes. The amplitude of this voltage drop is then measured and divided by the current applied to determine the tissue impedance. By measuring the impedance of patient tissue and comparing the detected patient impedance to a normal value for the tissue from clinically normal tissue, a determination of whether the patient tissue is degraded, and a determination of the extent of degradation is possible. Preferably, the impedance is measured using a probe with interdigitated electrodes. By changing which electrodes are utilized, the wavelength of the current distribution changes, allowing the probe to image depth dependent focal lesions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324717 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 06880344 | Radcliff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Power, LLC (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Radcliff (Vernon, Connecticut); Bruce P. Biederman (West Hartford, Connecticut); Joost J. Brasz (Fayetteville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic rankine cycle system is combined with a vapor compression cycle system with the turbine generator of the organic rankine cycle generating the power necessary to operate the motor of the refrigerant compressor. The vapor compression cycle is applied with its evaporator cooling the inlet air into a gas turbine, and the organic rankine cycle is applied to receive heat from a gas turbine exhaust to heat its boiler within one embodiment, a common condenser is used for the organic rankine cycle and the vapor compression cycle, with a common refrigerant, R-245a being circulated within both systems. In another embodiment, the turbine driven generator has a common shaft connected to the compressor to thereby eliminate the need for a separate motor to drive the compressor. In another embodiment, an organic rankine cycle system is applied to an internal combustion engine to cool the fluids thereof, and the turbo charged air is cooled first by the organic rankine cycle system and then by an air conditioner prior to passing into the intake of the engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463457 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881131 | Parsells et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Parsells (Princeton, New Jersey); Geoff Gettelfinger (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Erik Perry (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Keith Rule (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for diamond wire cutting of metal structures, such as nuclear reactor vessels, is provided. A diamond wire saw having a plurality of diamond beads with beveled or chamfered edges is provided for sawing into the walls of the metal structure. The diamond wire is guided by a plurality of support structures allowing for a multitude of different cuts. The diamond wire is cleaned and cooled by CO2 during the cutting process to prevent breakage of the wire and provide efficient cutting. Concrete can be provided within the metal structure to enhance cutting efficiency and reduce airborne contaminants. The invention can be remotely controlled to reduce exposure of workers to radioactivity and other hazards. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138792 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881250 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond W. Wong (Mississauga, Canada); Marcel P. Breton (Mississauga, Canada); Christine E. Bedford (Toronto, Canada); Leonard M. Carreira (Penfield, New York); Arthur M. Gooray (Penfield, New York); George J. Roller (Penfield, New York); Kevin Zavadil (Benalillo, New Mexico); Paul Galambos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joseph Crowley (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an ink composition including water, a solvent, a solvent-soluble dye, and a surfactant, where the ink exhibits a stable liquid microemulsion phase at a first temperature and a second temperature higher than the first temperature and has a conductivity of at most about 200 μS/cm and a dielectric constant of at least about 60, and methods of making such ink compositions. The present invention also relates to a method of making an ink composition for use in a microelectromechanical system-based fluid ejector. The method involves providing a solution or dispersion including a dye or a pigment and adding to the solution or dispersion an additive which includes a material that enhances dielectric permittivity and/or reduces conductivity under conditions effective to produce an ink composition having a conductivity of at most about 200 μS/cm and a dielectric constant of at least about 60. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/345426 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/31.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881284 | Makowiecki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Makowiecki (Burson, California); Robert S. Rosen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge primer which utilizes an explosive that can be designed to become inactive in a predetermined period of time: a limited-life primer. The explosive or combustible material of the primer is an inorganic reactive multilayer (RML). The reaction products of the RML are sub-micron grains of non-corrosive inorganic compounds that would have no harmful effects on firearms or cartridge cases. Unlike use of primers containing lead components, primers utilizing RML's would not present a hazard to the environment. The sensitivity of an RML is determined by the physical structure and the stored interfacial energy. The sensitivity lowers with time due to a decrease in interfacial energy resulting from interdiffusion of the elemental layers. Time-dependent interdiffusion is predictable, thereby enabling the functional lifetime of an RML primer to be predetermined by the initial thickness and materials selection of the reacting layers. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032758 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881386 | Rabinovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Rabinovich (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Nikolai Alexeev (Moscow, Russian Federation); Leslie Bromberg (Sharon, Massachusetts); Daniel R. Cohn (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Andrei Samokhin (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel apparatus and method is disclosed for a plasmatron fuel converter (“plasmatron”) that efficiently uses electrical energy to produce hydrogen rich gas. The volume and shape of the plasma discharge is controlled by a fluid flow established in a plasma discharge volume. A plasmatron according to this invention produces a substantially large effective plasma discharge volume allowing for substantially greater volumetric efficiency in the initiation of chemical reactions within a volume of bulk fluid reactant flowing through the plasmatron. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/158615 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881519 | Bäuerlein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Varta Automotive Systems GmbH (, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Bäuerlein (Lindwedel, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A Ni/metal hydride secondary element having a positive nickel hydroxide electrode, a negative electrode having a hydrogen storage alloy, and an alkaline electrolyte, the positive electrode, provided with a three-dimensional metallic conductive structure, also contains an aluminum compound which is soluble in the electrolyte, in addition to nickel hydroxide and cobalt oxide. The aluminum compound is aluminum hydroxide and/or aluminum oxide, and the mass of the aluminum compound which is present in the positive bulk material mixture is 0.1 to 2% by weight relative to the mass of the nickel hydroxide which is present. In combination with aluminum hydroxide or aluminum oxide, the positive electrode further contains lanthanoid oxidic compounds Y2O3, La2O3 and Ca(OH)2, as well as mixtures of these compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/909497 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882051 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy D. Sands (Moraga, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Samuel S. Mao (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Russo (Walnut Creek, California); Henning Feick (Kensington, California); Eicke R. Weber (Oakland, California); Hannes Kind (Schaffhausen, Switzerland); Michael Huang (Los Angeles, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Yiying Wu (Albany, California); Rong Fan (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN). |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/112578 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882061 | Ashtiani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DaimlerChrysler Corporation (Auburn Hills, Michigan); University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cyrus N. Ashtiani (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Thomas A. Stuart (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus connected to an energy storage device for powering an electric motor and optionally providing a warming function for the energy storage device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a circuit connected to the electric motor and the energy storage device for generating a current. The apparatus also includes a switching device operably associated with the circuit for selectively directing the current to one of the electric motor and the energy storage device. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/224467 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/10.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882786 | Kliner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dahv A. V. Kliner (San Ramon, California); Jeffery P. Koplow (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a simple method for fabricating fiber-optic glass preforms having complex refractive index configurations and/or dopant distributions in a radial direction with a high degree of accuracy and precision. The method teaches bundling together a plurality of glass rods of specific physical, chemical, or optical properties and wherein the rod bundle is fused in a manner that maintains the cross-sectional composition and refractive-index profiles established by the position of the rods. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610127 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06880326 | Karabeyoglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Arif Karabeyoglu (Palo Alto, California); David Altman (Menlo Park, California); Brian J. Cantwell (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises a new process for developing high regression rate propellants for application to hybrid rockets and solid fuel ramjets. The process involves the use of a criterion to identify propellants which form an unstable liquid layer on the melting surface of the propellant. Entrainment of droplets from the unstable liquid-gas interface can substantially increase propellant mass transfer leading to much higher surface regression rates over those that can be achieved with conventional hybrid propellants. The main reason is that entrainment is not limited by heat transfer to the propellant from the combustion zone. The process has been used to identify a new class of non-cryogenic hybrid fuels whose regression rate characteristics can be tailored for a given mission. The fuel can be used as the basis for a simpler hybrid rocket design with reduced cost, reduced complexity and increased performance. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/505516 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06880743 | Coletta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmond R. Coletta (New Orleans, Louisiana); Mark A. Cantrell (Pearl River, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The average strength of a pull plug weld is increased and weak bonding eliminated by providing a dual included angle at the top one third of the pull plug. Plugs using the included angle of the present invention had consistent high strength, no weak bonds and were substantially defect free. The dual angle of the pull plug body increases the heat and pressure of the weld in the region of the top one third of the plug. This allows the plug to form a tight high quality solid state bond. The dual angle was found to be successful in elimination of defects on both small and large plugs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/266977 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/112.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881820 | Meador et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Ann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); James D. Kinder (Canfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a series of rod-coil block polyimide copolymers that are easy to fabricate into mechanically resilient films with acceptable ionic or protonic conductivity at a variety of temperatures. The copolymers consist of short-rigid polyimide rod segments alternating with polyether coil segments. The rods and coil segments can be linear, branched or mixtures of linear and branched segments. The highly incompatible rods and coil segments phase separate, providing nanoscale channels for ion conduction. The polyimide segments provide dimensional and mechanical stability and can be functionalized in a number of ways to provide specialized functions for a given application. These rod-coil black polyimide copolymers are particularly useful in the preparation of ion conductive membranes for use in the manufacture of fuel cells and lithium based polymer batteries. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147477 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882094 | Dimitrijevic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fullerene International Corporation (Dover, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Dimitrijevic (Tucson, Arizona); James C. Withers (Tucson, Arizona); Raouf O. Loutfy (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a nanotube coated with diamond or diamond-like carbon, a field emitter cathode comprising same, and a field emitter comprising the cathode. It is also directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from a field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes by coating the nanotube with diamond or diamond-like carbon. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from an electron field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes, which method comprises coating the nanotubes with diamond or diamond-like carbon. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/784910 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/346.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882477 | Schattenburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Schattenburg (Wayland, Massachusetts); Patrick N. Everett (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of interference lithography (also known as interferometric lithography or holographic lithography) which utilizes phase-locked, scanning beams (so-called scanning beam interference lithography, or SBIL). The invention utilizes a high-precision stage that moves a substrate under overlapped and interfering pairs of coherent beams. The overlapped beams interfere, generating fringes, which form a pattern “brush” for subsequent writing of periodic and quasi-periodic patterns on the substrate. The phase of the fringes in the overlapped region is phase-locked to the motion of the precision stage. The invention includes methods for forming, overlapping, and phase-locking interfering pairs of beams on a variety of substrates; methods for measuring and controlling the period, phase, and angular orientation of fringes generated by the overlapping beams; and methods for measuring and controlling the effects of stage mechanical and thermal drift and other disturbances during the writing process. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/711019 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06883084 | Donohoe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Donohoe (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable data path processor comprises a plurality of independent processing elements. Each of the processing elements advantageously comprising an identical architecture. Each processing element comprises a plurality of data processing means for generating a potential output. Each processor is also capable of through-putting an input as a potential output with little or no processing. Each processing element comprises a conditional multiplexer having a first conditional multiplexer input, a second conditional multiplexer input and a conditional multiplexer output. A first potential output value is transmitted to the first conditional multiplexer input, and a second potential output value is transmitted to the second conditional multiplexer output. The conditional multiplexer couples either the first conditional multiplexer input or the second conditional multiplexer input to the conditional multiplexer output, according to an output control command. The output control command is generated by processing a set of arithmetic status-bits through a logical mask. The conditional multiplexer output is coupled to a first processing element output. A first set of arithmetic bits are generated according to the processing of the first processable value. A second set of arithmetic bits may be generated from a second processing operation. The selection of the arithmetic status-bits is performed by an arithmetic-status bit multiplexer selects the desired set of arithmetic status bits from among the first and second set of arithmetic status bits. The conditional multiplexer evaluates the select arithmetic status bits according to logical mask defining an algorithm for evaluating the arithmetic status bits. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/206517 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06881321 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Banqiu Wu (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Ramana G. Reddy (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Robin D. Rogers (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Lightweight and reactive metals can be produced from ore, refined from alloy, and recycled from metal matrix composites using electrolysis in electrolytes including an ionic liquid containing a metal chloride at or near room temperature. Low electric energy consumption and pollutant emission, easy operation and low production costs are achieved. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/982190 |
| 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 25/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881560 | Peoples et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Anthony J. Sinskey (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling and modifying biopolymer synthesis by manipulation of the genetics and enzymology of synthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polyesters at the molecular level in procaryotic and eukaryotic cells, especially plants. Examples demonstrate the isolation, characterization, and expression of the genes involved in the production of PHB and PHA polymers. Genes encoding the enzymes in the PHB and PHA synthetic pathway (beta-ketothiolase, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and PHB polymerise or PHA polymerase) from Zooloea ramigera strain I-16-M, Alcaligenes eutrophus, Nocardia salmonicolur, and Psuedomnas olevarans were identified or isolated and expressed in a non-PHB producing organism, E. coli. Specific modifications to the polymers include variation in the chain length of the polymers and incorporation of different monomers into the polymers to produce co-polymers with different physical properties. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341214 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882051 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy D. Sands (Moraga, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Samuel S. Mao (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Russo (Walnut Creek, California); Henning Feick (Kensington, California); Eicke R. Weber (Oakland, California); Hannes Kind (Schaffhausen, Switzerland); Michael Huang (Los Angeles, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Yiying Wu (Albany, California); Rong Fan (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN). |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/112578 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882767 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Hannes Kind (Emeryville, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Matthew Law (San Jose, California); Benjamin Messer (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanowire switching device and method. The device has a nanowire structure comprising an elongated member having a cross-sectional area ranging from about 1 nanometers but less than about 500 nanometers, but can also be at other dimensions, which vary or are substantially constant or any combination of these. The device also has a first terminal coupled to a first portion of the nanowire structure; and a second terminal coupled to a second portion of the nanowire structure. The second portion of the nanowire structure is disposed spatially from the first portion of the nanowire structure. An active surface structure is coupled to the nanowire structure. The active surface structure extends from the first portion to the second portion along the elongated member. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032698 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882988 | Subbu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raj Subbu (Troy, New York); Arthur Sanderson (Cohoes, New York); Robert Graves (Pelham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and architecture for efficiently solving complex distributed problems uses coevolutionary agents incorporating evolutionary algorithms located at different nodes in a distributed network. The coevolutionary agents conduct localized database searches and evolve at their respective nodes while sharing information with other coevolutionary agents working the same problem. Results or solutions to the problem posed are available at each network node containing a coevolutionary agent working the problem. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/971972 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06883070 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milo M. K. Martin (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel J. Sorin (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark D. Hill (Madison, Wisconsin); David A Wood (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A cache coordination mechanism for a multiprocessor, shared-memory computer switches between a snooping mechanism where an individual processor unit broadcasts or multicasts cache coherence messages to each other node on the system and a directory system where the individual processor unit transmits the cache control message to a directory which then identifies potential candidates to receive that message. The switching is according to the activity on the communication network used by the cache coherence messages. When network activity is high, a directory protocol is used to conserve bandwidth but when network activity is low, a snooping system is used to provide faster response. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/037727 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06881308 | Denvir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian J. Denvir (Bryan, Texas); Oliver J. Murphy (Bryan, Texas); Alan J. Cisar (Cypress, Texas); Priscilla Robertson (Bryan, Texas); Kyle Uselton (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrochemical synthesis of ammonia gas comprising providing an electrolyte between an anode and a cathode, providing hydrogen gas to the anode, oxidizing negatively charged nitrogen-containing species present in the electrolyte at the anode to form an adsorbed nitrogen species, and reacting the hydrogen with the adsorbed nitrogen species to form ammonia. Preferably, the hydrogen gas is provided to the anode by passing the hydrogen gas through a porous anode substrate. It is also preferred to produce the negatively charged nitrogen-containing species in the electrolyte by reducing nitrogen gas at the cathode. However, the negatively charged nitrogen-containing species may also be provided by supplying a nitrogen-containing salt, such as lithium nitride, into the molten salt electrolyte mixture in a sufficient amount to provide some or all of the nitrogen consumed in the production of ammonia. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/090444 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/243.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06881506 — Radiant and convective heat resistant materials and emergency fire shelter made therefrom
| US 06881506 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Governors of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie Leah Anderson (Missoula, Montana); Mary Ann Davies (Missoula, Montana); Anthony Clement Petrilli (Florence, Montana); Mark Y. Ackerman (Sherwood Park, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a new heat and fire resistant material and an improved wildland fire shelter and kit. The material is made of a woven silica-based cloth layered in several possible combinations with foil and fiberglass cloth layers. The layers can be arranged in a variety of sequences to minimize the thermal radiation to the inside of the material or shelter. However, a foil layer must always be the outermost layer to provide protection from radiant heat and a layer of foil must be present between the interior of the shelter or material and any layer of adhesive to limit accumulation of gases inside the shelter if the adhesive or other substance should break down when exposed to heat. The silica cloth, aluminum foil, and fiberglass cloth may be laminated or sewn together. The shape of the fire shelter is a half cylinder with ¼ sphere at each end. The shelter is contained in an easy-open polyvinyl bag which provides for quick removal and deployment of the fire shelter. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/286176 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882279 | Shuman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Shuman (Gainesville, Florida); R. David Crompton (Calgary, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for automated monitoring of pest insects in stored products to help identify insect species and improve reliability across adverse external conditions, including environmental, biological and aging. The system includes sensor units having a microcontroller which collects, analyzes, and stores data from at least one signal pulse created by an insect falling through the sensor unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/135503 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06880485 | Massey et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James Massey (Shaw Island, Washington); David Bressler (Indianola, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling the flow of fish. The system includes a vessel containing water and having an exit aperture. The system also includes a sensor configured to sense a first fish moving through the exit aperture. In addition, the system includes a jet device in communication with the sensor. The jet device is positioned adjacent to the exit aperture and is configured to spray a jet to prevent a second fish from moving through the exit aperture. In one embodiment, the system also includes a gate positioned at the exit aperture, the gate being normally closed and configured to be pushed open by a fish moving through the exit aperture. The system may be employed for providing spacing between fish or may be employed to provide a single fish on demand. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/444757 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881498 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark VanTine Cooper (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Harsh Vinayak (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface processing method and power transmission component includes refining a surface region of a metal from a first roughness to a second roughness less than the first roughness. A solid lubricous coating or a hard coating is then deposited on the surface region. The metal has a surface hardness above 50 Rc to reduce the risk that the metal will deform under the coating and leave the coating unsupported. The surface region of the metal may be transformed into a nitrogen-containing compound or solid solution surface region before the surface refining step and deposition of the coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875977 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881873 | Gillespie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph D. Gillespie (Gurnee, Illinois); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one lanthanide element or yttrium component, which is preferably ytterbium, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717812 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 06881364 | Vane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leland Morris Vane (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ravi Prasad Ponangi (Modesto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer-ceramic mixed matrix compositions contain one or more organic polymers and a nano-sized dispersion of inorganic metal oxide particles which are dispersed throughout the composition. Materials have use in making membranes that act as transfer agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/145383 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882419 | Coleman et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Coleman (Yakima, Washington); James E. Bruya (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for the determination of NO2− and/or NO3− in water by subjecting the water sample to ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy within the range of wavelengths of 200-240 nm, and determining the presence of NO2− and/or NO3− based on the Raman spectral measurement. The method has particularly applicability to the determination of such ions in wastewater, such as in activated sludge washwater treatment reactors. The method may also be employed with advantage in the control of processes involving the removal of ammonium ions upon reaction with oxygen. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284382 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06882094 | Dimitrijevic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fullerene International Corporation (Dover, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Dimitrijevic (Tucson, Arizona); James C. Withers (Tucson, Arizona); Raouf O. Loutfy (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a nanotube coated with diamond or diamond-like carbon, a field emitter cathode comprising same, and a field emitter comprising the cathode. It is also directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from a field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes by coating the nanotube with diamond or diamond-like carbon. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from an electron field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes, which method comprises coating the nanotubes with diamond or diamond-like carbon. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/784910 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/346.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882419 | Coleman et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Coleman (Yakima, Washington); James E. Bruya (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for the determination of NO2− and/or NO3− in water by subjecting the water sample to ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy within the range of wavelengths of 200-240 nm, and determining the presence of NO2− and/or NO3− based on the Raman spectral measurement. The method has particularly applicability to the determination of such ions in wastewater, such as in activated sludge washwater treatment reactors. The method may also be employed with advantage in the control of processes involving the removal of ammonium ions upon reaction with oxygen. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284382 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06882094 | Dimitrijevic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fullerene International Corporation (Dover, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Dimitrijevic (Tucson, Arizona); James C. Withers (Tucson, Arizona); Raouf O. Loutfy (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a nanotube coated with diamond or diamond-like carbon, a field emitter cathode comprising same, and a field emitter comprising the cathode. It is also directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from a field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes by coating the nanotube with diamond or diamond-like carbon. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from an electron field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes, which method comprises coating the nanotubes with diamond or diamond-like carbon. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/784910 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/346.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06881406 | Butcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene C. Butcher (Portola Valley, California); James J. Campbell (Palo Alto, California); Lijun Wu (Reading, Massachusetts); James B. Rottman (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to specifically modulate the trafficking of systemic memory T cells, particularly CD4+ T cells, without affecting naive T cells or intestinal memory T cells. It is shown that systemic memory T cells, which are characterized as CD45Ra−, and integrin α4β7−, express high levels of CCR4. Ligands of CCR4, such as TARC or MDC, act as an adhesion trigger, wherein upon CCR4 binding, these cells undergo integrin-dependent arrest to the appropriate vascular receptor(s). This arrest acts to localize the cells at the target site. The methods of the invention manipulate this triggering, and CCR4 mediated chemotaxis, to affect the localization of T cells in targeted tissues. In an alternative embodiment, the agent is an antagonist that blocks CCR4 biological activity. An advantage of the invention is the selectivity for systemic memory T cells, without affecting native T cells or intestinal memory T cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/837446 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. M. Wold (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for inhibiting apoptosis of a cell expressing a death receptor of the TNFR family is disclosed. The method involves treating the cell with a Receptor Internalization and Degradation (RID) protein complex containing RIDα (10.4K) and RIDβ (14.5K) proteins encoded by the E3 region of adenovirus. The cell can be treated by administering to the cell a polynucleotide expressing the RID complex or by administering to the cell a composition containing the RID complex. Compositions containing a RID complex are also disclosed. The compositions and method are useful in the treatment of cancer, degenerative and immune disorders, as well as in promoting survival of tissue transplants. An adenovirus vector for delivering the RID complex to cells is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/111911 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881412 | Shoemaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig A. Shoemaker (Notasulga, Alabama); Phillip H. Klesius (Auburn, Alabama); Joyce J. Evans (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Safe and effective live vaccines against Flavobacterium columnare of fish were created through the induction of rifampicin resistance in a native Flavobacterium columnare isolate; these including rifampicin-resistant mutants NRRL B-30303 and B-30304. Single immersion exposure of fish stimulated acquired immunity against virulent F. columnare infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/020735 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881836 | McGall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affymetrix, Inc (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn H. McGall (Mountain View, California); Ngo Q. Nam (Campbell, California); Richard P. Rava (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds are provided which are useful as linking groups in chemical synthesis, preferably in the solid phase synthesis of oligonucleotides and polypeptides. These compounds are generally photolabile and comprise protecting groups which can be removed by photolysis to unmask a reactive group. The protecting group has the general formula Ar—C(R1)(R2)—O—C(O)— wherein: Ar is an optionally substituted fused polycyclic aryl or heteroaromatic group or a vinylogous derivative thereof; R1 and R2 are independently H, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaromatic, or a vinylogous derivative of the foregoing; and X is a leaving group, a chemical fragment linked to Ar—C(R1)(R2)—O—C(O)— via a heteroatom, or a solid support; provided that when Ar is 1-pyrenyl and R1 and R2 are H, X is not linked to Ar—C(R1)(R2)—O—C(O)— via a nitrogen atom. Preferred embodiments are those in which Ar is a fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and in which the substituents on Ar, R1 and R2 are electron donating groups. A particularly preferred protecting group is the “PYMOC” protecting group, pyrenylmethyloxycarbonyl, where Ar is pyrenyl and R1 and R2 are H. Also provided is a method of forming, from component molecules, a plurality of compounds on a support, each compound occupying a separate predefined region of the support, using the protected compounds described above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/348917 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06881919 | Pyritz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aeromet Corporation (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clarence L. Pyritz (Waconia, Minnesota); Frank G. Arcella (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Michael A. House (Chaska, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A powder feed nozzle for laser welding applications including a multiple outlet nozzle tip for focusing a discharged powder stream. The multiple outlet nozzle tip disperses multiple outlet streams and includes a powder discharge outlet and at least one focus gas discharge outlet, radially spaced from the powder discharge outlet, for dispersing a powder stream and a gas stream. Powder flows from a powder source through a powder channel to discharge a powder stream. Focus gas flows through a focus gas channel angled relative to the powder channel to discharge a focus gas stream. |
| FILED | Friday, December 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746727 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/76.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06882989 | Stevens |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBNT Solutions LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soraya Rana Stevens (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are genetic algorithm techniques and applications. The techniques and applications disclosed include a method of generating offspring having feasible gene traits selected from parent chromosomes, a method of assigning tasks to resources, and a method of determining feasible gene traits for a chromosome, for example, to mutate a gene to a feasible trait. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/792243 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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
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