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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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| US 06889539 | Edelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elazer Edelman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kumaran Kolandaivelu (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow system device used for testing/creating fluid flow. The system comprises at least one fluid filled loop and a rotor stage for maintaining at least one rotor. The loop is positioned on the rotor. The device also includes a driving motor for rotating the rotor stage and a motion controller for controlling the speed and directional motion of the motor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/629471 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/64.410 |
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| US 06889998 | Sterns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creative Action LLC (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronni S. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Harvey L. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Anthony A. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Charles A. Nelson (Akron, Ohio); James J. Kilcoyne (Akron, Ohio); Wayne D. Porter, Jr. (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A foldable utility cart (10) includes a pair of spaced, parallel frame members (22). A collar (50) is disposed about each of the frame members (22) and is slidable therealong. A pair of front legs (40) and a pair of rear legs (46) are pivotally connected to the collars (50). The front and rear legs (40, 46) each support a wheel (44, 48). The collars (50) can be moved from a raised position where the legs (40, 46) and wheels (44, 48) are folded adjacent each other, to a lowered position where the legs (40, 46) and wheels (44, 48) are extended to support the cart (10) for movement on the ground. The cart (10) includes a moveable basket carrier assembly (18). The basket carrier assembly (18) includes toothed racks (110) that are connected to channel members (24) for movement therealong. A ratchet clutch (136) is used to permit up or down movement of the racks (110) and to maintain the racks (110) at any desired vertical position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/296663 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890076 | Roorda |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Austin Roorda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning laser ophthalmoscope incorporates adaptive optics to compensate for wavefront aberrations in the eye. Light from a light source is scanned onto the retina. Light reflected from the retina is detected for imaging and is also used for wavefront sensing. The sensed wavefront aberrations are used to control an adaptive optic device, such as a deformable mirror, disposed in the path of the light from the source in order to compensate for the aberrations. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231491 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
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| US 06890487 | Sklar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Technology Corporation ©UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick W. Kuckuck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means for introducing a separation gas between each of the plurality of samples in the fluid flow stream; and means for selectively analyzing each of the plurality of samples for the particles. The present invention also provides a flow cytometry method employing such an apparatus. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/501643 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/93 |
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| US 06890515 | Contag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela R. Contag (San Jose, California); Christopher H. Contag (San Jose, California); David A. Benaron (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods an compositions for detecting and localizing light originating from a mammal are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for targeting light emission to selected regions, as well as for tracking entities within the mammal. In addition, animal models for disease state are disclosed, as are methods for localizing and tracking the progression of disease or a pathogen within the animal, and for screening putative therapeutic compounds effective to inhibit the disease or pathogen. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319610 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 06890516 | Tully et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Tully (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Jerry Chi-Ping Yin (Huntington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of assessing the effect of a drug on long term memory and for screening a pharmaceutical agent for its ability to modulate long term memory are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/419371 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
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| US 06890537 | Selsted et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Selsted (Irvine, California); Yi-Quan Tang (Irvine, California); Jun Yuan (Dove Canyon, California); Andre J. Ouellette (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an isolated cyclic peptide, theta defensin, having antimicrobial activity, and to theta defensin analogs. A theta defensin can have the amino acid sequence Xaa1-Xaa2-Xaa3-Xaa4-Xaa5-Xaa1-Xaa6-Xaa4-Xaa4-Xaa1-Xaa1-Xaa6-Xaa4-Xaa5-Xaa1-Xaa3-Xaa7-Xaa5, wherein Xaa1 to Xaa8 are defined; wherein Xaa1 can be linked through a peptide bond to Xaa8; and wherein crosslinks can be formed between Xaa3 and Xaa3, between Xaa5 and Xaa5, and between Xaa7 and Xaa7. For example, the invention provides a theta defensin having the amino acid sequence Gly-Phe-Cys-Arg-Cys-Leu-Cys-Arg-Arg-Gly-Val-Cys-Arg-Cys-Ile-Cys-Thr-Arg (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein the Gly at position 1 (Gly-1) is linked through a peptide bond to Arg-18, and wherein disulfide bonds are present between Cys-3 and Cys-16, between Cys-5 and Cys-14, and between Cys-7 and Cys-12. The invention also relates to antibodies that specifically bind a theta defensin and to isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding a theta defensin. In addition, the invention relates to methods of using theta defensin or a theta defensin analog to reduce or inhibit microbial growth or survival in an environment capable of sustaining microbial growth or survival by contacting the environment with the theta defensin. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/313994 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 06890716 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eileen White (Princeton, New Jersey); Anju Thomas (Warren, New Jersey); Gary Kasof (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Lakshmi Goyal (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides recombinant cell lines and screening methods useful for identifying agents that induce apoptosis in target cells and therefore may be used to advantage in the treatment of neoplastic disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/674876 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06890717 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Ping Li (Brookline, Massachusetts); Wei Chen (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides nucleic acid molecules derived from human osteoblasts. The nucleic acid molecules are used in applications such as diagnostic methods, screening assays and as hybridization probes and primers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724304 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06890727 | Tanzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolph E. Tanzi (Canton, Massachusetts); Ashley I. Bush (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert D. Moir (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed invention relates to assays for detecting and quantifying Aβ peptide, using solid supports that are coated with heavy metal cations, such as zinc (II) or copper (II) form of a nitriloacetic acid. Further, diagnostic kits are described which are used to carry out the assays of the present invention. An improvement in an assay for detection of Aβ peptide is suggested which comprises forming a heavy metal cation/solid support complex. The preferred heavy metal cations for this improvement are zinc (II) or copper (II) form of a nitriloacetic acid. Finally, methods and kits for bulk purification of Aβ peptides from biological fluids are taught. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/425956 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.940 |
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| US 06890738 | Walker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ameae Walker (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant nucleotide sequences encoding mutated prolactin are described. Expression of the sequences result in mimics of a phosphorylated prolactin corresponding to a selected species. A particularly preferred mimic is mutated at serine 179 (corresponding to human PRL) where serine is substituted by an aspartate residue. This aspartate mutant is a very effective antagonist and shows no ability to stimulate Nb2 to cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/065330 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.400 |
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| US 06890743 | Dutta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anindya Dutta (Brighton, Massachusetts); Suman K. Dhar (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the use of geminin and/or Orc3N molecules for inhibiting viral replication. Use of the molecules and related molecules in the prevention and treatment of viral infections, such as papillomavirus infections, polyomavirus infections, and herpesvirus infections, such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections, are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178055 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.330 |
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| US 06890752 | Chappell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky); The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Chappell (Lexington, Kentucky); Kathleen R. Manna (Georgetown, Indiana); Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Courtney M. Starks (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel synthases and the corresponding nucleic acids encoding such synthases are disclosed herein. Such synthases possess an active site pocket that includes key amino acid residues that are modified to generate desired terpenoid reaction intermediates and products. Synthase modifications are designed based on, e.g., the three-dimensional coordinates of tobacco 5-epi-aristolochene synthase. with or without a substrate bound in the active site. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/893820 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 06890898 | Bachovchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); 1149336 Ontario Inc. (Toronto, Canada); New England Medical Center Hospitals, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Bachovchin (Melrose, Massachusetts); Andrew G. Plaut (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Drucker (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for modification and regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism, generally to reduce insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoprotein-emia (such as chylomicrons, VLDL and LDL), and to regulate body fat and more generally lipid stores, and, more generally, for the improvement of metabolism disorders, especially those associated with diabetes, obesity and/or atherosclerosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190267 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06890914 | DeLuca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hector F. DeLuca (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Rafal R. Sicinski (Warsaw, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of modifying or altering the structure of a 1α-hydroxylated vitamin D compound to increase its biological activity by altering the conformational equilibrium of the A-ring to favor a chair conformation that presents the 1α-hydroxyl in the axial orientation. This is accomplished by either locking the A-ring chair conformation in a geometry having an axially orientated 1α-hydroxyl, or by the addition of one or more substituents to the A-ring which interact with other substituents in the molecule or on the A-ring to provide a driving force to the A-ring to adopt a chair conformation which presents the 1α-hydroxyl in the axial orientation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/241555 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/167 |
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| US 06890917 | Snader 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) | Kenneth M. Snader (Germantown, Maryland); B. Rao Vishnuvajjala (Rockville, Maryland); Melinda G. Hollingshead (Middletown, Maryland); Edward A. Sausville (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A geldanamycin derivative exhibiting significant preliminary in vivo activity, particularly significant oral in vivo activity, and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a host comprising administering a geldanamycin derivative to a host in an amount sufficient to treat or prevent cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/432581 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 06890933 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Feng (Brookline, Massachusetts); Tarun M. Kapoor (New York, New York); Thomas Mayer (Brookline, Massachusetts); Zoltan Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts); Justin Yarrow (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for compounds, compositions, methods and systems for inhibiting cell growth. More specifically, the present invention provides for methods, compounds and compositions which are capable of inhibiting mitosis in metabolically active cells. Compounds, compositions and methods of the present invention inhibit the activity of a protein involved in the assembly and maintenance of the mitotic spindle. One class of proteins which acts on the mitotic spindle is the family of mitotic kinesins, a subset of the kinesin superfamily. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/791339 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/292 |
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| US 06890949 | Shayman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Shayman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Norman S. Radin (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel amino ceramide-like compounds (1) are provided which inhibit glucosyl ceramide (GlcCer) formation by inhibiting the enzyme GlcCer synthase, thereby lowering the level of glycosphingolipids. The compounds of the present invention have improved GlcCer synthase inhibition activity and are therefore highly useful in therapeutic methods for treating various conditions and diseases associated with altered glycosphingolipid levels. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/030963 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/422 |
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| US 06890954 | Resh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Marilyn D. Resh (New York, New York); Yael Webb (Haifa, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of inhibiting Fyn/Lck fatty acylation and protein palmitoylation in a cell in an individual in need of such treatment comprising the step of administering to said individual a pharmacologically effective dose of 2-bromopalmitate. Also provided is a method of treating an individual having an autoimmune disease comprising the step of administering to said individual a pharmacologically effective dose of 2-bromopalmitate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/089141 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/558 |
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| US 06890998 | Alferiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Alferiev (Clementon, New Jersey); Ilia Fishbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyurethane having a thiol substituent pendant from at least one nitrogen and/or at least one carbon atom of the polyurethane. A polyurethane having a thiol substituent pendant from at least one nitrogen and/or at least one carbon atom of the polyurethane, wherein the thiol substituent has a formula: —RL—(S—R1)n wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3; RL is an (n+1)-valent organic radical having at least one carbon atom; and R1 is a member selected from the group consisting of H, C(O)R3, and SR4, wherein R3 is a member selected from the group consisting of C1 to C6 alkyl and R4 is a heterocyclic group or an electron deficient aromatic group. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672893 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/452 |
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| US 06891024 | Marsh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antoinette Marsh (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to particular monoclonal antibodies that find use in the identification and purification of Sarcocystis neurona and related antigens. In particular, these antibodies permit the diagnosis of Sarcocystis related diseases such as equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/140754 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.600 |
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| US 06891028 | Kawabata et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroshi Kawabata (Los Angeles, California); H. Phillip Koeffler (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated nucleic acids encoding TfR2 polypeptides, or fragments thereof, and isolated TfR2 polypeptides encoded thereby. Further provided are vectors containing the nucleic acids of the present invention, host cells transformed therewith, antisense oligonucleotides thereto and compositions containing antibodies that specifically bind to invention polypeptides. Methods of detecting TfR2 protein in a cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/358755 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 06891031 | Frazer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly A. Frazer (San Mateo, California); Edward M. Rubin (Berkeley, California); Gabriela G. Loots (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides CNS sequences that regulate the cytokine gene expression, expression cassettes and vectors comprising or lacking the CNS sequences, host cells and non-human transgenic animals comprising the CNS sequences or lacking the CNS sequences. The present invention also provides methods for identifying compounds that modulate the functions of CNS sequences as well as methods for diagnosing defects in the CNS sequences of patients. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/789529 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 06891043 | Boger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Potent inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) are constructed having K1's below 200 pM and activities 102-103 times more potent than the corresponding trifluoromethyl ketones. The potent inhibitors combine several features, viz.: 1.) an α-keto heterocylic head group; 2.) a hydrocarbon linkage unit employing an optimal C12-C8 chain length; and 3.) a phenyl or other π-unsaturation corresponding to the arachidonyl Δ8,9/Δ11,12 and/or oleyl Δ9,10 positions. A preferred α-keto heterocylic head group is α-keto N4 oxazolopyridine, with incorporation of a second weakly basic nitrogen. Fatty acid amide hydrolase is an enzyme responsible for the degradation of oleamide (an endogenous sleep-inducing lipid) and anandamide (an endogenous ligand for cannabinoid receptors). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/267530 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/115 |
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| US 06891046 | Smith, III et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); Ralph F. Hirschmann (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Hu Liu (Thousand Oaks, California); Hiroyuki Ikumura (Toyono-gun, Osaka, 563-0105, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a new process for the preparation of polypyrrolinones (I) of various sizes which have found to be useful peptidomimetics. One aspect of the invention is a new process utilizing α-amino-α-substituted-valerolactones as synthons. A second aspect of the invention is a process for the synthesis of polypyrrolinones using solid-phase techniques. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/841951 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/519 |
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| US 06891081 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Stern (Great Neck, New York); Shi Du Yan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a transgenic non-human animal whose cells contain a recombinant DNA sequence comprising a nerve tissue specific promoter operatively linked to a DNA sequence which encodes amyloid-beta peptide alcohol dehydrogenase (ABAD), and exhibits at least one phenotype from the group consisting of: overexpression of ABAD, elevated levels of basal ATP; protection from metabolic or ischemic stress. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/638695 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/12 |
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| US 06891082 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a substantially purified growth differentiation factor (GDF) receptor, including a GDF-8 (myostatin) receptor, as well as functional peptide portions thereof. In addition, the invention provides a virtual representation of a GDF receptor or a functional peptide portion thereof. The present invention also provides a method of modulating an effect of myostatin on a cell by contacting the cell with an agent that affects myostatin signal transduction in the cell. In addition, the invention provides a method of ameliorating the severity of a pathologic condition, which is characterized, at least in part, by an abnormal amount, development or metabolic activity of muscle or adipose tissue in a subject, by modulating myostatin signal transduction in a muscle cell or an adipose tissue cell in the subject. The invention also provides a method of modulating the growth of muscle tissue or adipose tissue in a eukaryotic organism by administering an agent that affects myostatin signal transduction to the organism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/841730 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891964 | Doi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kunio Doi (Willowbrook, Illinois); Masahito Aoyama (Hiroshima, Japan); Qiang Li (Clarendon Hills, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated computerized scheme for determination of the likelihood of malignancy in pulmonary nodules. The present invention includes steps of obtaining at least one computed tomography medical image of a pulmonary nodule in determining if the pulmonary nodule is malignant based on the examination of seven patient or image features. The method can be implemented when instructions are loaded into a computer to program the computer. The significance of employing seven patient or image features is that statistically, seven features are the most practical based on the unique implementation of statistical analysis. Out of the seven features that are now analyzed to determine if a pulmonary nodule is malignant, these features are selected to optimize the accuracy of the diagnosis of a pulmonary nodule. Through a unique sampling scheme, different embodiments of the present invention utilize different combinations of features to optimize the accuracy of the method of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, November 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/990310 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892089 | Prince et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry L. Prince (Lutherville, Maryland); Nael F. Osman (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of measuring motion of an object such as a heart by magnetic resonance imaging. A pulse sequence is applied to spatially modulate a region of interest of the object and at least one first spectral peak is acquired from the Fourier domain of the spatially modulated object. The inverse Fourier transform information of the acquired first spectral-peaks is computed and a computed first harmonic phase image is determined from each spectral peak. The process is repeated to create a second harmonic phase image from each second spectral peak and the strain is determined from the first and second harmonic phase images. In a preferred embodiment, the method is employed to determine strain within the myocardium and to determine change in position of a point at two different times which may result in an increased distance or reduced distance. The method may be employed to determine the path of motion of a point through a sequence of tag images depicting movement of the heart. The method may be employed to determine circumferential strain and radial strain. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/959311 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Hinkley (La Mirada, California); Edward J. Simburger (Agoura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive hinge is made of a superelastic shape memory alloy such as nitinol (NiTi) having a large elastic strain limit for enabling the hinge to bend to a small radius during stowage and flexible return to a trained rigid hinge position by training the shape memory alloy to assume a predetermined deployed configuration when released from a stowage configuration. The hinge is trained by forging at a temperature above a training temperature. The hinge is stowed and released in the superelastic state to deploy solar cell panels as the hinges unfold to the trained deployed configuration. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457927 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06889624 | Mulhern |
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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) | Francis M. Mulhern (Riverton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A grapple anchor device suspended underwater from an unmanned watercraft has prongs pivotally mounted on its tubular housing for hooked engagement with a tow line extended from a retrieval ship so as to tow the watercraft underwater toward the ship. A tow rod within the grapple anchor housing, connected by an anchor line to the watercraft being towed, undergoes dampened axial displacement to condition the grapple anchor device for automatic release of the prongs from the tow line in response to a reduction in the towing force exerted through the tow line after the watercraft is towed into position adjacent the retrieval ship and undergoes crane lift up onto the retrieval ship by its shipboard crane so that the tow line may be withdrawn while the watercraft is transferred onto the ship. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826902 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890153 | Demers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Edward Demers (Ipswich, Massachusetts); Mohammad Esmaail Taslim (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil includes pressure and suction sidewalls joined together at opposite leading and trailing edges, and at a forward bridge spaced behind the leading edge to define a flow channel. The bridge includes a row of impingement holes. The flow channel includes a row of fins behind the leading edge, a row of first turbulators behind the pressure sidewall, and row of second turbulators behind the suction sidewall. The fins and turbulators have different configurations for increasing internal surface area and heat transfer for back side cooling the leading edge by the cooling air. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425262 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890154 | Cunha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade is provided comprising an internal cavity into which cooling air is flowable, an external wall and a first, second and third cooling circuits embedded with the wall. The cooling circuits include inlets that connect each respective cooling circuit with a cavity to provide a cooling air flow path into the respective cooling circuit. The cooling circuits also include an exit aperture that provides a cooling air flow path out of the respective cooling circuits. The cooling circuits are configured to increase the temperature of the cooling air as it travels from the inlet to the exit aperture. In the exemplary embodiment, the inlets are aligned with the direction of counter-rotating flow circulations experienced by the inner surface of the wall caused by Coriolis flow effects on the cooling air flowing inside the cavity. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637448 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890233 | Hsu |
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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 S. Y. Hsu (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A field emitter cell includes a thin-film-edge emitter normal to the gate layer. The field emitter cell may include a conductive substrate layer, an insulator layer having a perforation, a gate layer having a perforation, an emitter layer, and other optional layers. The perforation in the gate layer is larger and concentrically offset with respect to the perforation in the insulating layer and may be of a tapered construction. Alternatively, the perforation in the gate layer may be coincident with, or larger or smaller than, the perforation in the insulating layer, provided that the gate layer is shielded from the emitter from a direct line-of-sight by a nonconducting standoff layer. Optionally, the thin-film-edge emitter may include incorporated nanofilaments. The field emitter cell has low gate current making it useful for various applications such as field emitter displays, high voltage power switching, microwave, RF amplification and other application that require high emission currents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414573 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890311 | Love et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Love (Pacific Palisades, California); Sanford H. Barsky (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for performing medical procedures within the duct of a breast are described. An exemplary embodiment of the invention includes the steps of introducing a guiding member into a breast duct; introducing and positioning a member having an internal lumen in the breast duct; introducing a wash fluid into the breast duct through the internal lumen; removing washings from the breast duct through the internal lumen; and collecting the washings for cytological analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099439 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/576 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890322 | Bertoch 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) | Todd M. Bertoch (APO, None); Ted F. Gingrich (San Antonio, Texas); Steven C. Walker (Balwin, Missouri); John M. Shepherd (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A securing device for a catheter that preferably includes a guard that covers a patient's upper or lower teeth and a latch mounted on the guard for releasably immobilizing a catheter with respect to the guard. The guard preferably includes (or is attached to) a wedge, which contacts the patient's molars to prevent the guard from shifting in the patient's mouth and assists in keeping the patients teeth apart. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/894880 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890444 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Water to be desalinated or otherwise purified is enriched by having hydrate-forming substance dissolved into it, without causing hydrate to form. Hydrate kernels are brought into contact with the enriched water to be treated, and the hydrate kernels grow outwardly into the water to be treated by incorporating dissolved molecules of the hydrate-forming substance and water from the water to be treated. Thus, substantially solid, generally spherical hydrate masses, which are preferred for hydrate-based desalination or purification, can be formed. Hydrate-forming substances can be dissolved into the water to be treated under conditions not conducive to formation of hydrate, such that hydrate does not form, using vigorous means. Hydrate-forming substance is also preferably dissolved into the water to be treated under conditions suitable for hydrate to form, but without causing hydrate to form, e.g., by being infused into the water to be treated using infusion membranes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402940 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890446 | Knappenberger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Knappenberger (Meridian, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making an emitter for a display device, an emitter array produced by such method, an etch mask used during such method, and a method for making such an etch mask are disclosed. The method for making the emitter comprises providing a substrate, forming a conducting layer on the substrate, forming an emitting layer on the conducting layer, forming an etch mask having a controlled distribution of a plurality of mask sizes over the emitting layer, and forming at least one emitter by removing portions of the emitting layer using the etch mask. The method for making the etch mask comprises forming an etch mask layer over an emitting layer, forming a patterning layer having a controlled distribution of mask sizes over the etch mask layer, and forming the etch mask by removing portions of the etch mask layer using the controlled distribution of mask sizes in the patterning layer. In both methods, the controlled distribution of mask sizes preferably contains one mask size which is a median mask size with an equal number of larger and smaller mask sizes, where every larger mask size has a corresponding smaller mask size, the average of the smaller and larger mask sizes being the median mask size. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/011135 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890504 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Syed B. Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a chemical composition with the structure shown below. The composition can be polymerized or pyrolyzed, forming transition metal nanoparticles homogeneously dispersed in a thermoset or carbon composition. The size of the nanoparticles can be controlled by manipulating the number and arrangement of functional groups in the composition and by changing the conditions of the polymerization or pyrolysis. The resulting thermosets and carbon compositions have useful magnetic, electric, mechanical, catalytic and/or optical properties. wherein A is selected from the group consisting of H, wherein M is a metal selected independently from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Ru, Co, Ni, Cr and V; wherein Rx is independently selected from the group consisting of an aromatic, a substituted aromatic group and combinations thereof; wherein Ry is independently selected from the group consisting of an aromatic, a substituted aromatic group and combinations thereof; wherein m is ≧0; wherein s is ≧0; wherein z is ≧0; and wherein m and s are independently determined in each repeating unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652081 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890515 | Contag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela R. Contag (San Jose, California); Christopher H. Contag (San Jose, California); David A. Benaron (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods an compositions for detecting and localizing light originating from a mammal are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for targeting light emission to selected regions, as well as for tracking entities within the mammal. In addition, animal models for disease state are disclosed, as are methods for localizing and tracking the progression of disease or a pathogen within the animal, and for screening putative therapeutic compounds effective to inhibit the disease or pathogen. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319610 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890715 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Gregory Sotzing (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a class of sensors prepared from at least a first material having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance and a second non-conductive or insulating material compositionally different than the first material that show an increase sensitivity detection limit for polar and non-polar analytes. The sensors have applications in the detection of analytes in the environment, associated with diseases and microorganisms. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/642115 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890743 | Dutta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anindya Dutta (Brighton, Massachusetts); Suman K. Dhar (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the use of geminin and/or Orc3N molecules for inhibiting viral replication. Use of the molecules and related molecules in the prevention and treatment of viral infections, such as papillomavirus infections, polyomavirus infections, and herpesvirus infections, such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections, are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178055 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891014 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dawn D. Dominguez (Temple Hills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An aromatic ether oligomer or polyaromatic ether comprising the formula: wherein Ar is an independently selected divalent aromatic radical; formed by reacting a dihydroxyaromatic with a dihaloaromatic; and wherein the reaction is performed in the presence of a copper compound and cesium carbonate. The polyaromatic ether is formed when neither the dihydroxyaromatic nor the dihaloaromatic is present in an excess amount. The aromatic ether oligomer is formed by using an excess of either dihydroxyaromatic or dihaloaromatic. A phthalonitrile monomer comprising the formula: formed by reacting a 3- or 4-nitrophthalonitrile with a hydroxy-terminated aromatic ether oligomer. A thermoset formed by curing the phthalonitrile monomer. Processes for forming all the above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808265 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891077 | Rothwell 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) | Stephen W. Rothwell (Columbia, Maryland); Chitra Krishnamurti (Potumac, Maryland); Thomas J. Reid, III (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are wound dressings comprising fibrinogen and at least one procoagulant such as propyl gallate in a therapeutic amount. Also disclosed are methods of treating wounds, increasing an amount of or rate of coagulation of blood from a wound, increasing an amount of or rate of clot formation over a wound, increasing blood platelet counts, activating a coagulation system, increasing the plasma concentration of fibrinogen, and decreasing the activated partial thromboplastin time. Also disclosed are an arterial bleeding model and methods of studying arterial bleeding. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/202650 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891317 | Pei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qibing Pei (Fremont, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Scott E. Stanford (Palo Alto, California); Neville A. Bonwit (Mountain View, California); Jonathan R. Heim (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes rolled electroactive polymer devices. The invention also describes employment of these devices in a wide array of applications and methods for their fabrication. A rolled electroactive polymer device converts between electrical and mechanical energy; and includes a rolled electroactive polymer and at least two electrodes to provide the mechanical/electrical energy conversion. Prestrain is typically applied to the polymer. In one embodiment, a rolled electroactive polymer device employs a mechanism, such as a spring, that provides a force to prestrain the polymer. Since prestrain improves mechanical/electrical energy conversion for many electroactive polymers, the mechanism thus improves performance of the rolled electroactive polymer device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154449 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Song (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic coupling connector for three-dimensional electronic circuits is described. The coupling connector includes two coupling layers each having multiple electromagnetic coupling elements. Each coupling element can communicate through an electromagnetic path to a mating coupling element in a separate coupling connector. A routing layer is disposed between the two coupling layers and conducts an electrical signal between a coupling in one layer and at least one coupling element in the other layer. The coupling connector can also include a device layer having devices such as analog processors, memory modules and switching processor modules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/459667 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/24.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891514 | Henry 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) | Willard Henry (San Diego, California); Thinh Q. Ho (Anaheim, California); Kevin Allen (San Diego, California); Charles Hewett (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna system includes: a) a ground plane; b) an array of antennas affixed to the ground plane, wherein each antenna element includes a stack of antenna elements; c) a dielectric spacer affixed to the array of antennas, and e) a frequency selective surface affixed to the dielectric spacer. Each antenna element includes a radio frequency element affixed to a dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392489 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/893 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891864 | Vahala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry J. Vahala (Pasadena, California); Sean M. Spillane (Pasadena, California); Tobias J. Kippenberg (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a Raman laser and methods related thereto. In the preferred embodiments, the Raman laser comprises a laser pump signal in a fiber waveguide which is optically coupled to a micro-resonator through a fiber taper. The micro-resonator is constructed from a material that has a high Q when it is formed into a micro-resonator and is phase matched to the waveguide. The lasing frequency can be determined based upon the pump input or the micro-resonator material. In the preferred embodiments, the micro-resonator is constructed from a fused silica material. The present invention provides a compact laser with improved emissions and coupling efficiencies and the ability to use stimulated Raman scattering effects to create lasers having frequencies that are otherwise difficult to obtain. Alternative configurations include multiple micro-resonators on a single fiber waveguide and/or utilizing multiple waveguides attached to one or more micro-resonators. The Raman laser can be made to operate in a continuous-wave as opposed to self-pulsing mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193023 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891987 | Ionov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislav I. Ionov (Calabasas, California); David S. Sumida (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A true-time delay feeder for multiple aperture beam steering devices. The feeder comprises a plurality of tunable time delay modules. The tunable time delay modules provide different delays to different beamlets without changing the spectrum of each beamlet. The tunable true-time delay modules provide for temporal synchronization and spatial coherence of the beam front. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/411994 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891996 | Sercel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xponent Photonics Inc. (Monrovia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Sercel (Pasadena, California); Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California); David W. Vernooy (Monrovia, California); Guido Hunziker (Monrovia, California); Robert B. Lee (Monrovia, California); Oskar J. Painter (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An alignment device includes an alignment member with one or more waveguide-alignment grooves, resonator alignment grooves, and/or an alignment groove for a second optical element such as a modulator. The various alignment grooves reliably establish and stably maintain evanescent optical coupling between the optical elements positioned therein. A method for assembling a resonant optical power control device may include: fabricating an alignment member with the alignment grooves; positioning and securing the optical elements in corresponding alignment grooves for optical coupling therebetween. Alignment grooves in the substrate and/or in one or more of the optical elements are fabricated at proper depths and positions and preferably with mating grooves and/or flanges to enable optical coupling without extensive active alignment procedures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/788301 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891997 | Sercel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xponent Photonics Inc. (Monrovia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Sercel (Pasadena, California); Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California); Guido Hunziker (Altadena, California); David W. Vernooy (Sierra Madre, California); Robert B. Lee (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-ring optical resonator comprises a transverse segment of an optical fiber differing from adjacent segments in at least one physical property (e.g., diameter, density, refractive index, chemical composition, etc) so that it may support a resonant circumferential optical mode and enable evanescent optical coupling between the circumferential mode and an optical mode of a second optical element. The resonator may be fabricated with alignment structure(s) for enabling passive alignment of the second optical element for evanescent coupling, and/or with structure for suppressing undesired modes and/or resonances. A fiber-ring resonator may form a portion of a resonant optical filter or modulator. A plurality of optically-coupled fiber-ring resonators (formed on one or more fibers) may provide tailored spectral properties. Spatially-selective techniques for forming a fiber-ring resonator may include masking/etching, masking/deposition, laser machining, laser patterning, combinations thereof, and/or functional equivalents thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/788331 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892127 | Wiseman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew William Wiseman (Fairfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for assessing damage to machine components is provided. The method includes calculating an expected parameter value based on a first parameter value indicator, calculating an estimate of an actual parameter value based on a second parameter value indicator, the second parameter value indicator being different than the first parameter value indicator, determining if the calculated expected parameter value is different than the calculated estimate of the actual parameter value by a predefined limit, and generating a damage flag based on a result of the comparison. The apparatus includes a computing device including a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the processor programmed to execute a software product code segment that includes a detection boundary module, an estimator, and a comparator wherein the computing device is programmed to assess damage within an engine. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376510 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Karen A. Moore (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert A. Carrington (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting, locating and quantifying a physical phenomena such as strain or a deformation in a structure. A plurality of laterally adjacent conductors may each include a plurality of segments. Each segment is constructed to exhibit a unit value representative of a defined energy transmission characteristic. A plurality of identity groups are defined with each identity group comprising a plurality of segments including at least one segment from each of the plurality of conductors. The segments contained within an identity group are configured and arranged such that each of their associated unit values may be represented by a concatenated digit string which is a unique number relative to the other identity groups. Additionally, the unit values of the segments within an identity group maintain unique ratios with respect to the other unit values in the identity group. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/074598 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06889560 | Sinha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for noninvasively monitoring the flow and/or the composition of a flowing liquid using ultrasound is described. The position of the resonance peaks for a fluid excited by a swept-frequency ultrasonic signal have been found to change frequency both in response to a change in composition and in response to a change in the flow velocity thereof. Additionally, the distance between successive resonance peaks does not change as a function of flow, but rather in response to a change in composition. Thus, a measurement of both parameters (resonance position and resonance spacing), once calibrated, permits the simultaneous determination of flow rate and composition using the apparatus and method of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649886 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06889710 | Wagner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn Paul Wagner (Fogelsville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Rotary sequencing valve comprising a rotor having a rotor face rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the rotor face, wherein the rotor face has a plurality of openings, one or more of which are disposed at a selected radial distance from the axis, and wherein the rotor includes at least one passage connecting at least one pair of the plurality of openings. The valve includes a flexible port plate having a first side and a second side, wherein the first side faces the rotor and engages the rotor such that the flexible port plate can be rotated coaxially by the rotor and can move axially with respect to the rotor, wherein the flexible port plate has a plurality of ports between the first and second sides, which ports are aligned with the openings in the rotor face. The valve also includes a stator having a stator face disposed coaxially with the rotor and the flexible port plate, wherein the second side of the flexible port plate is in sealable, slidable rotary contact with the stator face, wherein the stator face has a plurality of openings, some of which are disposed at the selected radial distance from the axis, and wherein the plurality of openings extend as passages through the stator. The valve may be used in pressure or temperature swing adsorption systems. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/295144 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/625.460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06889920 | Nance et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Savannah River Company (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Alvin A. Siddall (Aiken, South Carolina); William Y. Cheng (N. Augusta, South Carolina); Kevin T. Counts (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an elongated, tubular, compact high pressure sprayer apparatus for insertion into an access port of vessels having contaminated interior areas that require cleaning by high pressure water spray. The invention includes a spray nozzle and a camera adjacent thereto with means for rotating and raising and lowering the nozzle so that areas identified through the camera may be cleaned with a minimum production of waste water to be removed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/800503 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/587.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890369 | Goyal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert K. Williams (Knoxville, Tennessee); Donald M. Kroeger (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A biaxially textured alloy article having a magnetism less than pure Ni includes a rolled and annealed compacted and sintered powder-metallurgy preform article, the preform article having been formed from a powder mixture selected from the group of mixtures consisting of at least 60 at % Ni powder and at least one of Cr powder, W powder, V powder, Mo powder, Cu powder, Al powder, Ce powder, YSZ powder, Y powder, Mg powder, and RE powder; the article having a fine and homogeneous grain structure; and having a dominant cube oriented {100}<100> orientation texture; and further having a Curie temperature less than that of pure Ni. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232155 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890497 | Rau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory H. Rau (Castro Valley, California); Kenneth G. Caldeira (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to extract and sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream or volume of gas wherein said method and apparatus hydrates CO2, and reacts the resulting carbonic acid with carbonate. Suitable carbonates include, but are not limited to, carbonates of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, preferably carbonates of calcium and magnesium. Waste products are metal cations and bicarbonate in solution or dehydrated metal salts, which when disposed of in a large body of water provide an effective way of sequestering CO2 from a gaseous environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/759781 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890677 | Klitsner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Klitsner (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alan P. Sylwester (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gail N. Ryba (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Thomas E. Zipperian (Edgewood, New Mexico); Stanley H. Kravitz (Placitas, New Mexico); Andrew Hecht (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel cells and a novel membrane for use in fuel cells and manufacturing processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056736 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890679 | Johnsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Johnsen (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Chao-Yi Yuh (New Milford, Connecticut); Michael Alexander (New Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell cathode comprising a cathode body having rib regions and base regions which connect the rib regions, the rib regions being of greater thickness and of less porosity than the base regions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/226450 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890719 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustess of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel biosensor comprises at least one fluorophore and at least two quenchers, and is capable of selectively and specifically detecting the presence of an ion in the presence of other ions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144094 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890740 | Robinson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donna L. Robinson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | There has been invented an apparatus comprising a separation barrier for excluding denser cell materials from less dense cell materials after centrifuging of the cells so that selected materials can be withdrawn from the less dense cell materials without inclusion of the denser cell materials or clogging of sampling equipment with denser cell materials. Cells from which selected material is to be withdrawn are centrifuged, either as cells or cells in media. Once the denser cell materials are isolated in a layer by centrifugal force, an invention screen or seive is submerged in the less dense cell material to a level above the layer of denser cell materials to isolate the denser cell materials from the less dense cell materials, preventing mixing of the denser cell materials back into the less dense cell materials when the cells or the cells in media are no longer being centrifuged and to prevent clogging of sampling equipment with denser cell materials. In a particularly useful application of the invention method and apparatus, plasmid DNA can be withdrawn from less dense cell materials without contamination or interference with denser cell materials. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/782324 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890951 | Dewey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Dewey (Manorville, New York); Jonathan D. Brodie (Cos Cob, Connecticut); Charles R. Ashby, Jr. (Miller Place, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of a composition that increases central nervous system GABA levels in a mammal, for the treatment of addiction to drugs of abuse and modification of behavior associated with addiction to drugs of abuse in said mammal. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/933157 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891031 | Frazer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly A. Frazer (San Mateo, California); Edward M. Rubin (Berkeley, California); Gabriela G. Loots (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides CNS sequences that regulate the cytokine gene expression, expression cassettes and vectors comprising or lacking the CNS sequences, host cells and non-human transgenic animals comprising the CNS sequences or lacking the CNS sequences. The present invention also provides methods for identifying compounds that modulate the functions of CNS sequences as well as methods for diagnosing defects in the CNS sequences of patients. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/789529 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891301 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine (40, 40′) has a stator (43) and a rotor (46) and a primary air gap (48) has secondary coils (47c, 47d) separated from the rotor (46) by a secondary air gap (49) so as to induce a slip current in the secondary coils (47c, 47d). The rotor (46, 76) has magnetic brushes (A, B, C, D) or wires (80) which couple flux in through the rotor (46) to the secondary coils (47c, 47d) without inducing a current in the rotor (46) and without coupling a stator rotational energy component to the secondary coils (47c, 47d). The machine can be operated as a motor or a generator in multi-phase or single-phase embodiments. A method of providing a slip energy controller is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706331 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891308 | Shoykhet |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris A. Shoykhet (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An extended stator core in a motor/generator can be utilized to mitigate losses in end regions of the core and a frame of the motor/generator. To mitigate the losses, the stator core can be extended to a length substantially equivalent to or greater than a length of a magnetically active portion in the rotor. Alternatively, a conventional length stator core can be utilized with a shortened magnetically active portion to mitigate losses in the motor/generator. To mitigate the losses in the core caused by stator winding, the core can be extended to a length substantially equivalent or greater than a length of stator winding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368122 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891330 | Duggal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Nishayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil Raj Duggal (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Marc Schaepkens (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanically flexible and environmentally stable organic electroluminescent (“EL”) device with directional light emission comprises an organic EL member disposed on a flexible substrate, a surface of which is coated with a multilayer barrier coating which includes at least one sublayer of a substantially transparent organic polymer and at least one sublayer of a substantially transparent inorganic material. The device includes a reflective metal layer disposed on the organic EL member opposite to the substrate. The reflective metal layer provides an increased external quantum efficiency of the device. The reflective metal layer and the multilayer barrier coating form a seal around the organic EL member to reduce the degradation of the device due to environmental elements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/113137 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891913 | Andreyko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Andreyko (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a door actuator and alignment apparatus for opening and closing the 15,000-pound horizontally sliding door of a storage overpack. The door actuator includes a ball screw mounted horizontally on a rigid frame including a pair of door panel support rails. An electrically powered ball nut moves along the ball screw. The ball nut rotating device is attached to a carriage. The carriage attachment to the sliding door is horizontally pivoting. Additional alignment features include precision cam followers attached to the rails and rail guides attached to the carriage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341472 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892163 | Herzog et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Herzog (Downers Grove, Illinois); Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method providing surveillance of an asset such as a process and/or apparatus by providing training and surveillance procedures that numerically fit a probability density function to an observed residual error signal distribution that is correlative to normal asset operation and then utilizes the fitted probability density function in a dynamic statistical hypothesis test for providing improved asset surveillance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/095835 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Austin Roorda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning laser ophthalmoscope incorporates adaptive optics to compensate for wavefront aberrations in the eye. Light from a light source is scanned onto the retina. Light reflected from the retina is detected for imaging and is also used for wavefront sensing. The sensed wavefront aberrations are used to control an adaptive optic device, such as a deformable mirror, disposed in the path of the light from the source in order to compensate for the aberrations. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231491 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890496 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waheguru Pal Singh (College Station, Texas); Paul Sylvester (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective extraction of one or more metal anions from an aqueous solution, by contacting the aqueous solution with an organic solution including a diquaternary amine, wherein the diquaternary amine has two diquaternary nitrogens spaced at a distance of less than about 10 Å, selectively binding the metal anions to the diquaternary amine, and then separating the organic solution from the aqueous solution, wherein the diquaternary amines having the selectively bound metal anions are concentrated in the organic solution. Alternatively, the diquaternary amines may be adsorbed or chemically bonded to a solid, and the metal anion-containing aqueous solution passed over the solid having the diquaternary amines. Palladium may be selectively extracted by contacting the acidic solution with an iodide and an organic solvent, allowing the palladium to bind to the iodide, and then separating the organic solution from the aqueous solution, concentrating the bound palladium ions in the organic solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071872 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890654 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Benjamin W. Messsmore (Evanston, Illinois); Michael Scott Arnold (Evanston, Illinois); Eugene RT. Zubarev (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to encapsulated nanotubes, methods of encapsulating carbon nanotubes, and uses for encapsulated nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are encapsulated by self assembly of Uses of the present invention include making arrays as a basis for synthesis of carbon fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/418474 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890670 | Leddy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johna Leddy (Iowa City, Iowa); Pengcheng Zou (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for making magnetically modified electrodes and electrodes made according to the method. Such electrodes are useful as electrodes in batteries, such as Ni-MH batteries, Ni—Cd batteries, Ni—Zn batteries and Ni—Fe batteries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662873 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/692 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890752 | Chappell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky); The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Chappell (Lexington, Kentucky); Kathleen R. Manna (Georgetown, Indiana); Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Courtney M. Starks (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel synthases and the corresponding nucleic acids encoding such synthases are disclosed herein. Such synthases possess an active site pocket that includes key amino acid residues that are modified to generate desired terpenoid reaction intermediates and products. Synthase modifications are designed based on, e.g., the three-dimensional coordinates of tobacco 5-epi-aristolochene synthase. with or without a substrate bound in the active site. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/893820 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06890777 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Heine (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Jeffrey N. Miller (Los Altos Hills, California); Ronald L. Moon (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprising a population of quantum dots embedded in a host matrix and a primary light source which causes the dots to emit secondary light of a selected color, and a method of making such a device. The size distribution of the quantum dots is chosen to allow light of a particular color to be emitted therefrom. The light emitted from the device may be of either a pure (monochromatic) color, or a mixed (polychromatic) color, and may consist solely of light emitted from the dots themselves, or of a mixture of light emitted from the dots and light emitted from the primary source. The dots desirably are composed of an undoped semiconductor such as CdSe, and may optionally be overcoated to increase photoluminescence. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329596 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891382 | Post et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Instiute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Rehmatulla Post (Somerville, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Three-dimensional characterization wherein an object interacts capacitively with a resistive medium and the object's orientation, mass distribution and/or distance from the medium is characterized by electrodes distributed linearly around the medium's perimeter. Thus, three-dimensional characteristics are projected into two dimensions and sensed along a single dimension. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/684817 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891389 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duncan M. Walker (College Station, Texas); Hoki Kim (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting quiescent current in an integrated circuit is provided that includes detecting a magnetic field generated by the quiescent current and in response generating a magnetic field signal that is indicative of the detected magnetic field. The magnetic field signal is then amplified and converted into a differential voltage signal. The differential voltage signal is then converted into a digital format. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/997786 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892089 | Prince et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry L. Prince (Lutherville, Maryland); Nael F. Osman (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of measuring motion of an object such as a heart by magnetic resonance imaging. A pulse sequence is applied to spatially modulate a region of interest of the object and at least one first spectral peak is acquired from the Fourier domain of the spatially modulated object. The inverse Fourier transform information of the acquired first spectral-peaks is computed and a computed first harmonic phase image is determined from each spectral peak. The process is repeated to create a second harmonic phase image from each second spectral peak and the strain is determined from the first and second harmonic phase images. In a preferred embodiment, the method is employed to determine strain within the myocardium and to determine change in position of a point at two different times which may result in an increased distance or reduced distance. The method may be employed to determine the path of motion of a point through a sequence of tag images depicting movement of the heart. The method may be employed to determine circumferential strain and radial strain. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/959311 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06890401 | Bernetich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl R. Bernetich (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A hollow core composite assembly 10 is provided, including a hollow core base 12 having at least one open core surface 14, a bondable solid film 22 applied to the open core surface 14, at least one dry face ply 30 laid up dry and placed on top of the solid film 22, and a liquid resin 32 applied to the at least one dry face ply 30 and then cured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/021153 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/307.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891148 | Rivera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronatics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge E. Rivera (Titusville, Florida); Robert C. Youngquist (Cocoa, Florida); Robert B. Cox (New Smyrna Beach, Florida); William D. Haskell (Mims, Florida); Charles G. Stevenson (Mims, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A scaling device projects a known optical pattern into the field of view of a camera, which can be employed as a reference scale in a resulting photograph of a remote object, for example. The device comprises an optical beam projector that projects two or more spaced, parallel optical beams onto a surface of a remotely located object to be photographed. The resulting beam spots or lines on the object are spaced from one another by a known, predetermined distance. As a result, the size of other objects or features in the photograph can be determined through comparison of their size to the known distance between the beam spots. Preferably, the device is a small, battery-powered device that can be attached to a camera and employs one or more laser light sources and associated optics to generate the parallel light beams. In a first embodiment of the invention, a single laser light source is employed, but multiple parallel beams are generated thereby through use of beam splitting optics. In another embodiment, multiple individual laser light sources are employed that are mounted in the device parallel to one another to generate the multiple parallel beams. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/082413 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892163 | Herzog et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Herzog (Downers Grove, Illinois); Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method providing surveillance of an asset such as a process and/or apparatus by providing training and surveillance procedures that numerically fit a probability density function to an observed residual error signal distribution that is correlative to normal asset operation and then utilizes the fitted probability density function in a dynamic statistical hypothesis test for providing improved asset surveillance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/095835 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892373 | Whitaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Technology Corporation at UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sterling R. Whitaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lowell H. Miles (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the invention, an ASIC cell library for use in creation of custom integrated circuits is disclosed. The ASIC cell library includes some first cells and some second cells. Each of the second cells includes two or more kernel cells. The ASIC cell library is at least 5% comprised of second cells. In various embodiments, the ASIC cell library could be 10% or more, 20% or more, 30% or more, 40% or more, 50% or more, 60% or more, 70% or more, 80% or more, 90% or more, or 95% or more comprised of second cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172745 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06889468 | Bedingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); James E. Aysta (Stillwater, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample processing systems and methods of using those systems for processing sample materials located in devices that are separate from the system are disclosed. The sample processing systems include a rotating base plate on which the sample processing devices are located during operation of the systems. The systems also include connection apparatus that allow for rapid and easy removal and/or replacement of base plates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/034993 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06890703 — Preparation of crosslinked particles from polymers having activatible crosslinking groups
| US 06890703 | Hawker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Jon Hawker (Los Gatos, California); Robert Dennis Miller (San Jose, California); James Lupton Hedrick (Pleasonton, California); Victor Yee-Way Lee (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Crosslinked particles are provided that are useful in the manufacture of dielectric materials for use in electronic devices such as integrated circuits. The crosslinked particles are prepared by activating crosslinkable groups on synthetic polymer molecules, where the crosslinkable groups are inert until activated and, when activated, undergo an irreversible intramolecular crosslinking reaction to form crosslinked particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/092641 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06889998 | Sterns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creative Action LLC (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronni S. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Harvey L. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Anthony A. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Charles A. Nelson (Akron, Ohio); James J. Kilcoyne (Akron, Ohio); Wayne D. Porter, Jr. (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A foldable utility cart (10) includes a pair of spaced, parallel frame members (22). A collar (50) is disposed about each of the frame members (22) and is slidable therealong. A pair of front legs (40) and a pair of rear legs (46) are pivotally connected to the collars (50). The front and rear legs (40, 46) each support a wheel (44, 48). The collars (50) can be moved from a raised position where the legs (40, 46) and wheels (44, 48) are folded adjacent each other, to a lowered position where the legs (40, 46) and wheels (44, 48) are extended to support the cart (10) for movement on the ground. The cart (10) includes a moveable basket carrier assembly (18). The basket carrier assembly (18) includes toothed racks (110) that are connected to channel members (24) for movement therealong. A ratchet clutch (136) is used to permit up or down movement of the racks (110) and to maintain the racks (110) at any desired vertical position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/296663 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892163 | Herzog et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Herzog (Downers Grove, Illinois); Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method providing surveillance of an asset such as a process and/or apparatus by providing training and surveillance procedures that numerically fit a probability density function to an observed residual error signal distribution that is correlative to normal asset operation and then utilizes the fitted probability density function in a dynamic statistical hypothesis test for providing improved asset surveillance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/095835 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06890960 | Henderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg Henderson (Saint Gabriel, Louisiana); Roger A. Laine (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Donald O. Heumann (Metairie, Louisiana); Feng Chen (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Betty C. R. Zhu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Extracts of vetiver oil were found to significantly repel termites. In one extract, nootkatone was isolated and found to be a significant repellent and toxicant of termites. Nootkatone significantly decreased food consumption, decreased tunneling behavior, and increased mortality in termites. Nootkatone is an effective repellent and toxicant of termites either by itself or as an addition to other materials or substrates, including mulches made from vetiver grass roots or other wood products. Nootkatone can also be used to protect construction wood from attack by Formosan subterranean termites. Nootkatone as a repellent is non-toxic to humans and other mammals and is environmentally safe. In addition, α-cedrene was found to be a weak termite repellent; and both zizanol and bicyclovetivenol were found to be repellents and toxicants of termites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/856760 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06891919 | Kresse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InVision Technologies, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Kresse (Walnut Creek, California); Andrew J. Banchieri (Newark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray-based nonintrusive inspection apparatus has a collimator shield. An adjusting actuator is actuable to move the collimator shield between a pre-scanning position and a CT scanning position, in the pre-scanning position, the collimator shield exposing a smaller portion of a respective crystal to the x-rays than in the CT scanning position. A controller is connected to a gantry motor and the adjusting actuator. The controller controls the motor and the adjusting actuator such that the collimator shield is in the pre-scanning position when a gantry is stationary and in the CT scanning position when the gantry is rotating. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280498 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06890949 | Shayman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Shayman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Norman S. Radin (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel amino ceramide-like compounds (1) are provided which inhibit glucosyl ceramide (GlcCer) formation by inhibiting the enzyme GlcCer synthase, thereby lowering the level of glycosphingolipids. The compounds of the present invention have improved GlcCer synthase inhibition activity and are therefore highly useful in therapeutic methods for treating various conditions and diseases associated with altered glycosphingolipid levels. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/030963 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 06890444 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Water to be desalinated or otherwise purified is enriched by having hydrate-forming substance dissolved into it, without causing hydrate to form. Hydrate kernels are brought into contact with the enriched water to be treated, and the hydrate kernels grow outwardly into the water to be treated by incorporating dissolved molecules of the hydrate-forming substance and water from the water to be treated. Thus, substantially solid, generally spherical hydrate masses, which are preferred for hydrate-based desalination or purification, can be formed. Hydrate-forming substances can be dissolved into the water to be treated under conditions not conducive to formation of hydrate, such that hydrate does not form, using vigorous means. Hydrate-forming substance is also preferably dissolved into the water to be treated under conditions suitable for hydrate to form, but without causing hydrate to form, e.g., by being infused into the water to be treated using infusion membranes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402940 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 06891447 | Song |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Song (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic coupling connector for three-dimensional electronic circuits is described. The coupling connector includes two coupling layers each having multiple electromagnetic coupling elements. Each coupling element can communicate through an electromagnetic path to a mating coupling element in a separate coupling connector. A routing layer is disposed between the two coupling layers and conducts an electrical signal between a coupling in one layer and at least one coupling element in the other layer. The coupling connector can also include a device layer having devices such as analog processors, memory modules and switching processor modules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/459667 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/24.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06890931 | Bear et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Bear (Bristol, Rhode Island); Kimberly M. Huber (Dallas, Texas); Stephen T. Warren (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and uses of mGluR5 antagonists for the treatment and prevention of neurological disorders, such as Fragile X, autism, mental retardation, schizophrenia and Down's Syndrome, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/114433 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06891346 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Simmons (Barkhamstead, Connecticut); John E. Games (Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A commutation and velocity control system of a brushless DC motor receives a velocity command signal and provides command signals to drive the brushless DC motor. The system includes a summer that receives the velocity command signal and a velocity feedback signal and provides a velocity error signal indicative of the difference. A velocity loop compensator receives said velocity error signal and provides a compensated velocity error signal. A magnitude sensing circuit senses the magnitude of said compensated velocity error signal and provides a velocity magnitude signal indicative thereof. A polarity sensing circuit senses the polarity of the said compensated velocity error signal and provides a velocity polarity signal indicative thereof. The system also includes an integrated circuit having: (i) a velocity calculation circuit that receives a first sampled digitized signal indicative of resolver position at a first time and a second sampled digitized signal indicative of resolver position at a second time, and determines velocity based upon the difference between said first and second sampled digitized signals and provides a sensed digitized velocity signal indicative thereof; (ii) a commutation logic circuit that receives said first sampled digitized signal, said velocity magnitude signal and said velocity polarity signal, and provides said command signal; and (iii) a counter that receives a signal indicative of said sensed digitized velocity signal and provides a pulse width modulated output signal indicative thereof. A filter receives said pulse width modulated output signal and generates said velocity feedback signal. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/039235 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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