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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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| US 06892802 | Kelly 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) | Kevin W. Kelly (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Chad R. Harris (Pearland, Texas); Mircea S. Despa (Corning, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An extremely high efficiency, cross flow, fluid-fluid, micro heat exchanger and novel method of fabrication using electrode-less deposition is disclosed. To concurrently achieve the goals of high mass flow rate, low pressure drop, and high heat transfer rates, the heat exchanger comprises numerous parallel, but relatively short microchannels. Typical channel heights are from a few hundred micrometers to about 2000 micrometers, and typical channel widths are from around 50 micrometers to a few hundred micrometers. The micro heat exchangers offer substantial advantages over conventional, larger heat exchangers in performance, weight, size, and cost. The heat exchangers are especially useful for enhancing gas-side heat exchange. The use of microchannels in a cross-flow micro-heat exchanger decreases the thermal diffusion lengths substantially, allowing substantially greater heat transfer per unit volume or per unit mass than has been achieved with prior heat exchangers. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/003882 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892984 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey H. Wood (Eureka, Missouri); Steven J. Miener (Florissant, Missouri); Terry A. Sewell (Ballwin, Missouri); Anthony Falcone (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for attaching a canopy to a vehicle, such as an aircraft, is provided. The system includes first and second sections. The first section attaches to the second section with a portion of the canopy being secured between the attached first and second sections. The canopy is molded to conform with the secured first and second sections. In one embodiment, the canopy is molded to include one or more fastener receiving holes with or without bushings. In another embodiment, the first or second sections include one or more channels for receiving an inflatable bladder. The first or second sections are configured to be received by the vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367024 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06892986 | Bingaman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Bingaman (Downey, California); Seth D. Potter (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A satellite system and method is disclosed. A plurality of satellites includes one or more satellites in circular orbits and at least one satellite of the plurality of satellites in an elliptcal orbit. Each of the plurality of satellites has substantially the same nodal regression rate. An exemplary constellation uses an inclination of substantially 63.43°. The elliptical orbit can be implemented by a refuelable satellite used to make low perigee passes over a location of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420279 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/158.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893214 | Alford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Ellen Alford (Cincinnati, Ohio); Toby George Darkins (Loveland, Ohio); Mark Eugene Noe (Morrow, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine shroud segment is provided with a radially outer surface including a pair of spaced apart, opposed first and second edge portion surface depressions, for example spaced circumferentially, having a seal surface shaped to receive, in a surface depression formed between assembled adjacent segments in a shroud assembly, or axially assembled adjacent segments and engine members, a radially outer fluid seal member. The depression portions of a shroud segment are joined with the radially outer surface of the shroud segment through an arcuate transition surface. Stresses generated during engine operation in the shroud material are reduced, enabling practical use of a low ductility material, for example a ceramic matrix composite. The edge portion surface depressions are provided with a first shape and the fluid seal member, disposed at the depression, is provided with a surface of a second shape matched in shape with the first shape. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/325779 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/138 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893540 | Stout 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) | Brian Stout (Panama City, Florida); Robert Peebles (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for and method of distillation uses a high temperature thermoelectric device to heat a liquid, such as water to vapor (steam) and cool the vapor to a purified, distilled liquid. Distillation system has no moving parts, thereby increasing reliability while reducing noise and maintenance. Liquid in a container has a heating section on the container extending into it to boil it into a vapor that is fed to a condenser section disposed on the container adjacent to the heating section. A thermoelectric section provided with a Peltier effect device is interposed between the heating section and condenser section. The Peltier effect device has one side in contiguous contact with the condenser to transfer heat from it and another side is in contiguous contact with the heating section to transfer heat to it to boil the liquid into the vapor and feed the vapor through the condenser that condenses it into distilled liquid. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/810714 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Distillation: Processes, separatory 23/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893547 | Gascoyne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Gascoyne (Bellaire, Texas); Jody V. Vykoukal (Houston, Texas); Jon Schwartz (Sugar Land, Texas); Frederick F. Becker (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for metered injection of a fluid packet. A vessel containing a fluid is pressurized to a pressure less than or equal to a hold-off pressure. The fluid is subjected to an extraction force to form the fluid packet and extract the fluid packet from the vessel onto a surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/883109 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893597 | Guillot |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Guillot (Tremonton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This method permits manufacturing EPDM rocket motor insulation in which carbon fibers are dispersed and immobilized in the EPDM polymeric matrix but are not excessively fractured or fragmentized, i.e., broken into smaller fragments, when encountering degrees of shear necessary to homogeneously or otherwise distribute or disperse the carbon fibers in the EPDM polymeric matrix. The method is substantially solvent free and is performed via distributive/reduced shear mixing to distribute the fragile carbon fibers into a rubber matrix without excessive damage. According to one embodiment, at least about 50% of the elastomer composition introduced into the mixing apparatus is liquid EPDM terpolymer having sufficiently low molecular weight and high diene content to permit dispersion of the carbon fibers in the EPDM without substantial fragmentation of the fibers. According to another embodiment, mixing takes place in a kneader capable of rotating a screw having a discontinuous screw thread about the screw axis while superimposing an axially reciprocating stroke to the screw. The kneader imparts low shear distributive mixing of the carbon fibers in the EPDM terpolymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/747192 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893750 | Nagaraj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Robert George Baur (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal barrier coating for an underlying metal substrate of articles that operate at, or are exposed to, high temperatures, as well as being exposed to environmental contaminant compositions. This coating comprises an optional inner layer nearest to the underlying metal substrate comprising a non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material in an amount up to 100%, and an outer layer having an exposed surface and comprising at least about 50% of a non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material and alumina in an amount up to about 50% and sufficient to protect the thermal barrier coating at least partially against environmental contaminants that become deposited on the exposed surface. This coating can be used to provide a thermally protected article having a metal substrate and optionally a bond coat layer adjacent to and overlaying the metal substrate. The thermal barrier coating can be prepared by optionally forming the inner layer of the non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material, and then codepositing the alumina and non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material to form the outer layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/317732 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893850 | Ostuni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuele Ostuni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ravi Kane (Troy, New York); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Rebecca J. Jackman (Boston, Massachusetts); David C. Duffy (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a masking system for selectively applying cells to predetermined regions of a surface. A mask is positioned adjacent to a surface to cover some portions of the surface while allowing other portions of the surface to remain uncovered. Cells then are applied to uncovered portions of the surface and the mask removed. Alternatively, a cell-adhesion promoter is applied to uncovered portions of the surface, and then cells are applied to the surface before or after removal of the mask from the surface. The masking system can be pre-coated, at least on those surfaces which will come into contact with cells, with a cell-adhesion inhibitor to resist absorption of cells and thereby avoid cell damage when the mask is removed (if cells are deposited prior to removal of the mask). A polymeric elastomeric mask that comes into cohesive-conformal contact with a surface to be patterned can be used. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/808745 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893885 | Lemmerhirt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Lemmerhirt (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for locally connecting microstructures and devices formed thereby are provided wherein localized solder-bonding creates bonds between pairs of microstructures found on miniature flexible cables and silicon microsystem platforms. Multi-lead contact to the pads are detected automatically, triggering an embedded heater or heaters to initiate solder melting. This approach enables delicate microstructures to be connected and disconnected from microsystem platforms in the field, and is implemented with a process that is compatible with monolithic integration of circuits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342906 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893896 | Wagner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Multilayer thin-film electronics are manufactured at high speed, even while the various component functions are manufactured separately under conditions tailored to optimize component performance and yield. Each function or group of functions is fabricated on a separate flexible substrate. These flexible substrates are bonded to each other using adhesive films that are anisotropic electrical conductors or optical light guides. The bonding is performed by laminating the flexible substrates to each other in a continuous process, using the anisotropic conductor as the bonding layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/647193 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894084 | Kovar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Kovar (Waltham, Massachusetts); Nese Orbey (Acton, Massachusetts); Stanley Wentworth (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides radiation curable resin compositions that contain no or essentially no volatile organic components (VOCs), and to methods of using these compositions. The radiation curable resin compositions find particular use as coating compositions. In particular, the radiation curable resin compositions of this invention comprise a vinyl dioxolane end-capped oligomer blended with a photoinitiator. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/781682 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894174 | Gharavi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shayda Technologies, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alireza Gharavi (Chicago, Illinois); Haythem Saadeh (Burbank, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, water-soluble polyimides, methods of making water-soluble polyimides, and methods of using water-soluble polyimides, e.g., in optics applications as well as other applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/439140 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894292 | Gil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dario Gil (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rajesh Menon (Boston, Massachusetts); David Carter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A maskless lithography system is disclosed that includes an array of focusing elements, each of which focuses an energy beam from an array of sources into an array of focal spots in order to create a permanent pattern on an adjacent substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/628809 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894307 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Marc A. Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing a fluorescent or phosphorescent emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, wherein an intersystem crossing molecule of optical absorption spectrum matched to the emission spectrum of the emissive molecule enhances emission efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355316 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894325 | Micovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miroslav Micovic (Newbury Park, California); Daniel P. Docter (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing the specific contact resistivity of a metal to semiconductor interface between a metal contact and an InP semiconductor compound. The method includes the step of increasing the amount of the group V element (P) in the semiconductor compound so that the semiconductor compound is non-stoichiometric having an excess concentration of the group V element in an amount of at least 0.1% above stoichiometric levels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453173 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894446 | Monkhorst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hendrik J. Monkhorst (Gainesville, Florida); Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by the nuclear force, thus forming fusion products that emerge in the form of an annular beam. Energy is removed from the fusion product ions as they spiral past electrodes of an inverse cyclotron converter. Advantageously, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement and energy conversion system include advanced (aneutronic) fuels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658887 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894678 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis B. Rosenberg (Pleasanton, California); Jonathan L. Beamer (Menlo Park, California); Adam C. Braun (Sunnyvale, California); Dean C. Chang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mouse interface device and method for providing enhanced cursor control and indexing cursor control with force feedback. A force feedback interface device includes a manipulandum, such as a mouse, that is moveable in a local workspace. The device is coupled to a host computer that displays a cursor in a graphical environment, such as a GUI, on a display screen. A cursor position in the display frame is reported to the host computer derived from a reference position of the mouse in the local frame, and the host displays the cursor; for example, the cursor position may be scaled by a ballistics algorithm based on mouse velocity to allow fine positioning or coarse motion of the cursor. A force is output on the mouse based on interactions in the GUI, the force being determined based on mouse reference data or cursor ballistic data, depending on the type of force, to reduce distortion between visual and force outputs. Assistive forces can alternatively be output to achieve the enhanced cursor control. Indexing features allow control of the cursor when an offset between local and display frames exists, allow the user to reduce the offset, and reduce disconcerting collisions of the mouse with physical workspace limits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/935102 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894828 | Pelouch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coherent Technologies, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne S. Pelouch (McKinney, Texas); Duane D. Smith (Louisville, Colorado); Narasimha S. Prasad (Erie, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to guided wave systems, beam transport and waveguide techniques. The invention may comprise passive or active, hollow and dielectric core self-imaging mode wave guide systems, beam amplifiers (10, 40), laser resonators (70), beam transports, and waveguides. Embodiments may include rectangular cross-section waveguides, and preferably maintaining spatial profile of an input beam, such as a Gaussian beam, through the self-imaging period of the waveguide while unique new capabilities to mitigate non-linear distortions that corrupt spatial, spectral and temporal coherence and polarization. Additional aspects may include, for example, transport, amplification, phase/frequency control or modulation, deflection, conversion, synthetic aperture, distributed aperture, beam forming, beam steering, beam combining, power sampling, power combining and power splitting, among other features. Some embodiments may provide a self-imaging, multimode, waveguide (10) and self-imaging guided wave systems and beam transport. Embodiments of the present invention may further provide a method of self-imaging, multimode beam transport and other self-imaging wave guidance techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/968974 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894897 | Nagurny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas J. Nagurny (Manassas, Virginia); Lance William Greer (Nokesville, Virginia); Stephen Zajkowski (Culpepper, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method decreases the transmission of structure-borne noise by cooling fans to electronic components and structurally integrated enclosures for the electronic components. The system has a machined isolation plate that fits onto a rear plate on the structurally integrated enclosure. The cooling fans are fitted onto the opposite side of the isolation plate. Fitted between the isolation plate and the rear plate, and/or the isolation plate and the cooling fans are soft elastomeric isolators. These isolators dampen and prevent the transmission of structure-borne noise from the cooling fans to the electronic components and the structurally integrated enclosure. This dampening is advantageous on platforms in which stealth is desired, such as on submarines. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/733641 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894950 | Barden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Barden (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); William B. Grailich (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal sensor system is provided in combination with a maneuverable vehicle, particularly in an underwater application. The system includes a transport pipe having an intake and output for the passage of seawater. A thermal sensor is connected to the transport pipe for detecting an actual temperature of seawater within the transport pipe. Sensor electronics are provided in connection with the thermal sensor, the sensor electronics conditioning signals output by the thermal sensor. The selective sampling by the thermal sensor may either be intermittent or continuous according to system needs. Further, a control device is connected to the sensor electronics, acoustic equipment and a depth sensor in connection with the maneuverable vehicle allowing change of the vehicle's course in response to these inputs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/923257 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894991 | Ayyagari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Laboratories Inc. (Waltam, Massachusetts); Genuity, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak V. Ayyagari (Watertown, Massachusetts); Anthony Ephremides (North Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated highly adaptive method is presented to perform scheduling, routing and access control in a network. The network is made up of a plurality of nodes interconnected by links between at least some of the nodes wherein at least one path interconnects all of the plurality of nodes. The nodes are organized into at least one of a cluster and a clique and the network has a network-wide capacity to send data packets in slots delineating time frames on the network between the nodes on the network defined by the links. The plurality of nodes can be configured to process at least one flow comprising at least a portion of a transmitted and received data packet for which the plurality of nodes must manage to get the data packets to a desired node on the network. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/727926 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895102 | Lewins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd J. Lewins (Marina Del Rey, California); Julie R. Schacht (Redondo Beach, California); John E. Albus (Granada Hills, California); Gillian K. Groves (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a system for tracking a target is provided that includes an image sensor mounted to a gimbal for acquiring an image, wherein the image includes a plurality of pixels representing the target and a background. The system further includes a motor for rotating the gimbal and an autotracker electrically coupled to the image sensor and the motor. The autotracker includes a probability map generator for computing a probability that each of the plurality of pixels having a particular intensity is either a portion of the target or a portion of the background, a pixel processor in communicative relation with the probability map generator for calculating a centroid of the target based upon the probabilities computed by the probability map generator, and a controller in communicative relation with the pixel processor for generating commands to the motor based upon the centroid. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/895957 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895314 | Ailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Henry Ailor (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Ronald John Bywater (Foothill Ranch, Virginia); Leon Gurevich (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more small self-contained reentry breakup recorders are disposed within a spacecraft and each includes a sensor suite for collecting and recording collected and recorded sensory data during reentry breakup of the spacecraft, and includes a communications system for broadcasting the collected and recorded sensory data after breakup and before impact with the surface of the earth to a remote communication system for preserving the sensory data of the breakup as well as data relating to critical events occurring prior to breakup. An internal GPS receiver provides sensory positional data of the reentry and breakup positions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460485 |
| 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 71/13 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouri Wolfson (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A database receives location information about a moving object. Using the destination of the object and an electronic map, the database finds a projected path for the moving object. From the projected path, the database computes a trajectory. The trajectory may be used to estimate past and future positions of the moving object. The moving object may send location updates to the database when its actual location differs from its anticipated location by more than an uncertainty threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/074903 |
| 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 71/209 |
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| US 06895370 | Castellane 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) | Raymond M. Castellane (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi); Falih H. Ahmad (Cornelius, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Minute amounts of material, such as a contaminant, are detected, classified and located using a single procedure that eliminates the need for using complex and sometimes redundant instrumentation setups, multiple (and sometimes overlapping) analytic processes, or both. In one embodiment, a series of processing steps enables one to detect, classify, and localize minute amounts of particular elements, e.g., contaminants, in material being tested. Data sets, suitable for characterizing components of samples at least spectrally and spatially, are collected from at least one uncontaminated sample of material (the “baseline” or “control”) and a sample of material under test (MUT) that may contain contaminants. Comparison of these data sets, using the procedures of the present invention, enables ready classification of minute amounts of material in any sample. The present invention may be used for liquids, solids, and gases, with specific application to gels, pastes, hard powders, soft powders, films, inorganics, and pharmaceuticals. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890844 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
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| US 06895371 | Ames et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Ames (Columbia, Maryland); Richard VanEseltine (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Physical structures are represented by modeling as topological views having bounding elements related to connectors as mathematical algorithms to enable computational analysis and multi-discipline integration of such physical structures by computer aided design. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/659844 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/1 |
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| US 06895502 | Fraser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Curriculum Corporation (Kings Mill, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil R. Fraser (Maineville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for a client user remotely connected to a server computer by a client workstation such as a client personal computer to have securely displayed and to securely confirm that a request to access a resource on the server computer was actually requested by the client user, even if the security of the client computer has been compromised. This method and system can use conventional intelligent security tokens such as smart cards and associated smart card readers as a more secure environment to prompt for, and determine, the client user's intent to access the requested resource. A display securely accessible from the reader, smart card or both displays the resource (or resources) apparently being requested by client user. The client user is prompted to indicate whether it was their intention to access a resource by an input device associated with the reader or smart card. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/590329 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06892438 | Hill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman M. Hill (Bothell, Washington); Andreas N. Hadjicostis (West Linn, Oregon); John W. Swanson (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a bio-probe that begins with the step of providing a tapering core of substantially rigid material. The core is then coated with dielectric material and this dielectric material is coated with a first layer of conductive material. The conductive material is then divided into longitudinal traces, extending from the base into proximity to said tip. The conductive material is then coated with a second layer of dielectric material. Finally, portions of the second layer of dielectric material are removed to form apertures to the conductive material, thereby forming electrodes. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429652 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/592.100 |
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| US 06893552 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Xueji Zhang (Sarasota, Florida); Fang Lu (Millbrae, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual sensor for the simultaneous amperometric monitoring of glucose and insulin, wherein the glucose probe is based on the biocatalytic action of glucose oxidase, and the insulin probe is based on the electrocatalytic activity of metal oxide. Further provided is an oxidase enzyme composite electrode with an internal oxygen-rich binder. The present invention also optionally includes metallizing components within the carbon paste to eliminate signals from interfering compounds. The present invention includes embodiments for both in vitro and in vivo uses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/046032 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/777.500 |
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| US 06893640 | Rikihisa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasuko Rikihisa (Worthington, Ohio); Norio Ohashi (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic tools for for serodiagnosing ehrlichiosis in mammals, particularly in members of the Canidae family and in humans are provided. The diagnostic tools are a group of outer membrane proteins of E. chaffeensis and variants thereof, referred to hereinafter as the “OMP proteins”, a group of outer membrane proteins of E. canis and variants thereof referred to hereinafter as the “P30F proteins”, and antibodies to the OMP proteins and the P30F proteins. The OMP proteins of E. chaffeensis encompass OMP-1, OMP-1A, OMP1-B, OMP-1C, OMP1-D, OMP1-E, OMP1-F, OMP1-H, OMP-1R, OMP-1S, OMP-1T, OMP-1U, OMP-1V, OMP-1W, OMP-1X, OMP-1Y and OMP-1Z. The P30F proteins of E. canis encompass P30, P30a, P30-1, P30-2, P30-3, P30-4, P30-5, P30-6, P30-7, P30-8, P30-9, P30-10, P30-11, and P30-12. Isolated polynucleotides that encode the E. chaffeensis OMP proteins and isolated polynucleotides that encode the E. canis P30F protein are also provided. The present invention also relates to kits containing reagents for diagnosing human ehrlichiosis and canine ehrlichiosis, and to immunogenic compositions containing one or more OMP proteins or P30F proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314639 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893643 | Andino-Pavlovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raul Andino-Pavlovsky (San Francisco, California); Andres McAllister-Moreno (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant yellow fever viruses (YFV), particularly live attenuated recombinant YFV, which comprise exogenous (i.e., non-YFV) nucleotide sequences which encode exogenous (i.e., non-YFV) amino acid sequences. These recombinant YFV viruses comprise an exogenous nucleic acid. Infection of a host cell with a recombinant YFV provides for expression of the exogenous nucleic acid in a host cell and production of an antigenic polypeptide encoded by the exogenous nucleic acid. Such recombinant YFV are useful in eliciting an immune response to the exogenous polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383956 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Plass (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for determining the methylation status of CpG-containing dinucleotides on a genome-wide scale using infrequent cleaving, methylation sensitive restriction endonucleases and two-dimensional gel electrophoretic display of the resulting DNA fragments. Such methods can be used to diagnose cancer, classify tumors and provide prognoses for cancer patients. The present invention also provides isolated polynucleotides and oligonucleotides comprising CpG dinucleotides that are differentially methylated in malignant cells as compared to normal, non-malignant cells. Such polynucleotides and oligonucleotides are useful for diagnosis of cancer. The present invention also provides methods for identifying new DNA clones within a library that contain specific CpG dinucleotides that are differentially methylated in cancer cells as compared to normal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/775398 |
| 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 |
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| US 06893821 | Raz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eyal Raz (Del Mar, California); Augusto Lois (Escondido, California); Kenji Takabayashi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for modulating cell death in a eukaryotic cell, and methods for reducing DNA damage in a eukaryotic cell. The methods generally comprise modulating a biological activity of DNA-PK in a cell. The invention further provides methods of treating a condition related to cell death in an individual. The invention further provides methods of identifying agents which modulate a biological activity of DNA-PK, as well as agents identified by the methods. Methods of modulating an immune response using an identified agent are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/848986 |
| 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 06893828 | Hakonarson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | deCODE genetics ehf. (Reykjavik, Iceland); The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hakon Hakonarson (Reykjavik, Iceland); Michael M. Grunstein (Merion, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for inducing a pro-asthma/pro-inflammatory like state in a resident tissue cell, comprising contacting the cell with IL-1β, TNFα or both. Methods are also disclosed for identifying genes that regulate responses to anti-inflammatory drugs, to methods for drug screening, and to methods for identifying genes that correlate with various pro-asthma/pro-inflammatory disease phenotypes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/947954 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 06893829 | Nadler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry L. Nadler (Charlottesville, Virginia); Rama Natarajan (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting the etiology of disease in patients having a disease state caused by an excess of 12-lipoxygenase or its products. In particular, the invention provides for administration of a human leukocyte 12-lipoxygenase pathway inhibitor to inhibit disease etiology, to inhibit the proliferation of breast cancer and to increase insulin receptor phosphorylation in a patient having Type II diabetics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/739843 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
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| US 06893835 | Duesbery 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) | Nicholas Duesbery (Grand Rapids, Michigan); Craig Webb (Rockford, Michigan); Stephen Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); George Vande Woude (Ada, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro and ex vivo methods of screening for modulators, homologues, and mimetics of lethal factor mitogen activated protein kinase kinase (MAPKK) protease activity, as well as methods of treating cancer by administering LF to transformed cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/093248 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 06893869 | Schlom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potamac, Maryland); Judith Kantor (Rockville, Maryland); James W. Hodge (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a composition of recombinant virus which has incorporated into its genome or portion thereof a gene encoding an antigen to a disease causing agent and a recombinant virus which has incorporated into its genome or portion thereof a gene encoding an immunostimulatory molecule(s) for the purpose of stimulating an immune response against the disease causing agent. Methods of treatment of diseases such as cancer and diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms is provide using the composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341431 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 06894027 | Carney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas); Roger S. Crowther (League City, Texas); David J. Simmons (St. Louis, Missouri); Jinping Yang (Galveston, Texas); William R. Redin (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of stimulating bone growth at a site in a subject in need of osteoinduction. The method comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor to the site. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/050692 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 06894031 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Horwitz (Calabasas, California); Xun Zhang (Malden, Massachusetts); Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of inhibiting neoplastic cellular proliferation and/or transformation of mammalian cells, including cells of human origin, in vitro or in vivo. The inventive method involves the use of a pituitary tumor transforming gene carboxy-terminal peptide (PTTG-C), which has the ability to regulate endogenous pituitary, tumor transforming gene (PTTG) expression and/or function in a dominant negative manner. In some embodiments, the invention is directed to gene-based treatments that deliver PTTG-C-related polynucleotides to mammalian cells, whether in vitro or in vivo, to inhibit the endogenous expression of PTTG. Other embodiments are directed to peptide-based treatments that deliver PTTG-C peptide molecules to the cells, which inhibit endogenous PTTG expression and/or PTTG function. Additional embodiments directed to a method of inhibiting tumor angiogenesis, in vivo, are also disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions useful for inhibiting neoplastic cellular proliferation and/or transformation and tumor angiogenesis, including compositions comprising a PTTG carboxy-terminal peptide or comprising a chimeric or fusion protein that contains a first PTTG carboxy-terminal peptide segment and a second cellular uptake-enhancing and/or importation-competent peptide segment. Also disclosed are compositions comprising a PTTG carboxy-terminal-related polynucleotide, including compositions comprising expression vectors containing the PTTG-C-related polynucleotides. Kits comprising the inventive compositions are also disclosed for the treatment of neoplastic cellular proliferation in vitro or in vivo. Isolated PTTG-C peptides and PTTG-C-related polynucleotides are also disclosed, as are anti-PTTG-C-specific antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/569956 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 06894039 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-jer Chang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Curtis L. Ashendel (West Lafayette, Indiana); Darrick Kim (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel selenophene compounds useful as anti-tumor agents are described. Preferred compounds include compounds of formula I: wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of; H, CHO, CH2OH and CH2NH2; and X and Y are independently selected from the group consisting of Se, S, O, NCH3 and NH. Pharmaceutical compositions and a method for treating patients having tumors utilizing the disclosed selenophene compounds are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658175 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 06894068 | Michejda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland); Marshall Morningstar (San Diego, California); Thomas Roth (Hochheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of HIV infection. In particular, the present invention provides non-nucleoside inhibitors of reverse transcriptase (RT), as well as methods to treat HIV infection using these non-nucleoside inhibitors of RT. In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of substituted benzimidazoles, effective in the inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RT. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/119634 |
| 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 514/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894147 | Adelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health Sciences University (Portland, Oregon); Icagen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Adelman (Portland, Oregon); James Maylie (Portland, Oregon); Chris T. Bond (Portland, Oregon); Christopher P. Silvia (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to small and intermediate conductance, calcium-activated potassium channel proteins. More specifically, the invention relates to compositions and methods for making and detecting calcium-activated potassium channel proteins and the nucleic acids encoding calcium-activated potassium channel proteins. The invention also provides methods and compositions for assaying compounds which increase or decrease potassium ion flux though a calcium-activated potassium channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/115695 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 06894205 | Blakely et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Blakely (Brentwood, Tennessee); Richard Nass (Nashville, Tennessee); David Miller (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are in vivo screening methods to detect and identify substances that affect neuronal viability, and/or prevent neurodegeneration, and/or confer neuroprotective effects. The screening methods utilize recombinant C. elegans expressing a detectable marker in neuronal sub-groups and the use of neurotoxins specific to specific neuronal cells. Also provided are methods for identifying modulators of neurotransmitter transporters such as the dopamine transporter. Therefore, the invention provides methods for identifying substances that can be used in the prevention and therapy of neurodegenerative diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/888233 |
| 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 8/3 |
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| US 06895396 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Schwartz (Pelham, New York); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Benjamin B. Braunheim (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method to analyze and predict the binding energy for enzyme-transition state inhibitor interactions is presented. Computational neural networks are employed to discovery quantum mechanical features of transition states and putative inhibitors necessary for binding. The method is able to generate its own relationship between the quantum mechanical structure of the inhibitor and the strength of binding. Feed-forward neural networks with back propagation of error can be trained to recognize the quantum mechanical electrostatic potential at the entire van der Waals surface, rather than a collapsed representation, of a group of training inhibitors and to predict the strength of interactions between the enzyme and a group of novel inhibitors. The experimental results show that the neural networks can predict with quantitative accuracy the binding strength of new inhibitors. The method is in fact able to predict the large binding free energy of the transition state, when trained with less tightly bound inhibitors. The present method is also applicable to prediction of the binding free energy of a ligand to a receptor. The application of this approach to the study of transition state inhibitors and ligands would permit evaluation of chemical libraries of potential inhibitory, agonistic, or antagonistic agents. The method is amenable to incorporation in a computer-readable medium accessible by general-purpose computers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752259 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Simpson (Livermore, California); Ronald S. Lee (Livermore, California); Thomas M. Tillotson (Tracy, California); Lawrence W. Hrubesh (Pleasanton, California); Rosalind W. Swansiger (Livermore, California); Glenn A. Fox (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sol-gel chemistry is used for the preparation of energetic materials (explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics) with improved homogeneity, and/or which can be cast to near-net shape, and/or made into precision molding powders. The sol-gel method is a synthetic chemical process where reactive monomers are mixed into a solution, polymerization occurs leading to a highly cross-linked three dimensional solid network resulting in a gel. The energetic materials can be incorporated during the formation of the solution or during the gel stage of the process. The composition, pore, and primary particle sizes, gel time, surface areas, and density may be tailored and controlled by the solution chemistry. The gel is then dried using supercritical extraction to produce a highly porous low density aerogel or by controlled slow evaporation to produce a xerogel. Applying stress during the extraction phase can result in high density materials. Thus, the sol-gel method can be used for precision detonator explosive manufacturing as well as producing precision explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics, along with high power composite energetic materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697477 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893578 | Clews et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peggy J. Clews (Tijeras, New Mexico); Seethambal S. Mani (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An etching composition and method is disclosed for removing an oxide sacrificial material during manufacture of semiconductor devices including micromechanical, microelectromechanical or microfluidic devices. The etching composition and method are based on the combination of hydrofluoric acid (HF) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4). These acids can be used in the ratio of 1:3 to 3:1 HF:H2SO4 to remove all or part of the oxide sacrificial material while providing a high etch selectivity for non-oxide materials including polysilicon, silicon nitride and metals comprising aluminum. Both the HF and H2SO4 can be provided as “semiconductor grade” acids in concentrations of generally 40-50% by weight HF, and at least 90% by weight H2SO4. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/010850 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893732 | Fritzemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie G. Fritzemeier (Mendon, Massachusetts); Wei Zhang (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Walter C. Palm (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Martin W. Rupich (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to superconductor articles, and compositions and methods for making superconductor articles. The methods can include using a precursor solution having a relatively small concentration of total free acid. The articles can include more than one layer of superconductor material in which at least one layer of superconductor material can be formed by a solution process, such as a solution process involving the use of metalorganic precursors. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/616810 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/548 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893814 | Swanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Basil I. Swanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xuedong Song (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Clifford Unkefer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Louis A. Silks, III (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jurgen G. Schmidt (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for the detection of tetrameric multivalent neuraminidase within a sample is disclosed, where a positive detection indicates the presence of a target virus within the sample. Also disclosed is a trifunctional composition of matter including a trifunctional linker moiety with groups bonded thereto including (a) an alkyl chain adapted for attachment to a substrate, (b) a fluorescent moiety capable of generating a fluorescent signal, and (c) a recognition moiety having a spacer group of a defined length thereon, the recognition moiety capable of binding with tetrameric multivalent neuraminidase. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651141 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893863 | Benett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Benett (Livermore, California); James B. Richards (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sleeve-type silicon polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chamber or thermocycler having improved thermal performance. The silicon sleeve reaction chamber is improved in thermal performance by etched features therein that reduce thermal mass and increase the surface area of the sleeve for cooling. This improved thermal performance of the thermocycler enables an increase in speed and efficiency of the reaction chamber. The improvement is accomplished by providing grooves in the faces of the sleeve and a series of grooves on the interior surfaces that connect with grooves on the faces of the sleeve. The grooves can be anisotropically etched in the silicon sleeve simultaneously with formation of the chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/260120 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894006 | Maroni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); American Superconductor Corp. (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor A. Maroni (Naperville, Illinois); Nazarali N. Merchant (Chicago, Illinois); Ronald D. Parrella (Holden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing the concentration of non-superconducting phases during the heat treatment of Pb doped Ag/Bi-2223 composites having Bi-2223 and Bi-2212 superconducting phases is disclosed. A Pb doped Ag/Bi-2223 composite having Bi-2223 and Bi-2212 superconducting phases is heated in an atmosphere having an oxygen partial pressure not less than about 0.04 atmospheres and the temperature is maintained at the lower of a non-superconducting phase take-off temperature and the Bi-2223 superconducting phase grain growth take-off temperature. The oxygen partial pressure is varied and the temperature is varied between about 815° C. and about 835° C. to produce not less than 80 percent conversion to Pb doped Bi-2223 superconducting phase and not greater than about 20 volume percent non-superconducting phases. The oxygen partial pressure is preferably varied between about 0.04 and about 0.21 atmospheres. A product by the method is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/031525 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894278 | Merrill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank E. Merrill (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Christopher Morris (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system capable of performing radiography using a beam of electrons. Diffuser means receive a beam of electrons and diffuse the electrons before they enter first matching quadrupoles where the diffused electrons are focused prior to the diffused electrons entering an object. First imaging quadrupoles receive the focused diffused electrons after the focused diffused electrons have been scattered by the object for focusing the scattered electrons. Collimator means receive the scattered electrons and remove scattered electrons that have scattered to large angles. Second imaging quadrupoles receive the collimated scattered electrons and refocus the collimated scattered electrons and map the focused collimated scattered electrons to transverse locations on an image plane representative of the electrons' positions in the object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630110 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895125 | Puetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Puetter (San Diego, California); Amos Yahil (Stony Brook, New York); Robert Piña (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The method identifies a Pixon element, which is a fundamental and indivisible unit of information, and a Pixon basis, which is the set of possible functions from which the Pixon elements are selected. The actual Pixon elements selected from this basis during the reconstruction process represents the smallest number of such units required to fit the data and representing the minimum number of parameters necessary to specify the image. The Pixon kernels can have arbitrary properties (e.g., shape, size, and/or position) as needed to best fit the data. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308450 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895151 | Biscardi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cyrus Biscardi (Bellport, New York); Calvin Brewster (North Patchogue, New York); Leonard DeSanto (Patchogue, New York); James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrathin optical panel, and a method of producing an ultrathin optical panel, are disclosed, including stacking a plurality of glass sheets, which sheets may be coated with a transparent cladding substance or may be uncoated, fastening together the plurality of stacked coated glass sheets using an epoxy or ultraviolet adhesive, applying uniform pressure to the stack, curing the stack, sawing the stack to form an inlet face on a side of the stack and an outlet face on an opposed side of the stack, bonding a coupler to the inlet face of the stack, and fastening the stack, having the coupler bonded thereto, within a rectangular housing having an open front which is aligned with the outlet face, the rectangular housing having therein a light generator which is optically aligned with the coupler. The light generator is preferably placed parallel to and proximate with the inlet face, thereby allowing for a reduction in the depth of the housing. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/360396 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06892989 | Whitmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Whitmore (Lake Hughes, California); Edwin J. Saltzman (North Edwards, California); Timothy R. Moes (Lancaster, California); Kenneth W. Iliff (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing drag upon a blunt-based vehicle by adaptively increasing forebody roughness to increase drag at the roughened area of the forebody, which results in a decrease in drag at the base of this vehicle, and in total vehicle drag. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449906 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894768 | Caldwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ophir Corporation (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loren M. Caldwell (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Martin J. O'Brien (Pine, Colorado); Carl S. Weimer (Littleton, Colorado); Loren D. Nelson (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for sensing air outside a moving aircraft are presented. In one embodiment, a system includes a laser for generating laser energy. The system also includes one or more transceivers for projecting the laser energy as laser radiation to the air. Subsequently, each transceiver receives laser energy as it is backscattered from the air. A computer processes signals from the transceivers to distinguish molecular scattered laser radiation from aerosol scattered laser radiation and determines one or more air parameters based on the scattered laser radiation. Such air parameters may include air speed, air pressure, air temperature and aircraft orientation angle, such as yaw, angle of attack and sideslip. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632735 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895115 | Tilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Tilton (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer readable storage, and apparatus for implementing a recursive hierarchical segmentation algorithm on a parallel computing platform. The method includes setting a bottom level of recursion that defines where a recursive division of an image into sections stops dividing, and setting an intermediate level of recursion where the recursive division changes from a parallel implementation into a serial implementation. The segmentation algorithm is implemented according to the set levels. The method can also include setting a convergence check level of recursion with which the first level of recursion communicates with when performing a convergence check. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/839147 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895125 | Puetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Puetter (San Diego, California); Amos Yahil (Stony Brook, New York); Robert Piña (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The method identifies a Pixon element, which is a fundamental and indivisible unit of information, and a Pixon basis, which is the set of possible functions from which the Pixon elements are selected. The actual Pixon elements selected from this basis during the reconstruction process represents the smallest number of such units required to fit the data and representing the minimum number of parameters necessary to specify the image. The Pixon kernels can have arbitrary properties (e.g., shape, size, and/or position) as needed to best fit the data. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308450 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895132 | Moslehi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IFOS, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behzad Moslehi (Mountain View, California); Richard James Black (Palo Alto, California); Herbert John Shaw (Stanford, California); Keiichiro Toyama (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic sensor comprises two independent fibers having Bragg gratings which are coupled to commutating broadband optical sources through splitters and wavelength discriminators. The ratio of detected optical energy in each of two detectors examining the wave intensity returned to a wavelength discriminator coupled with the characteristic of the wavelength discriminator determines the wavelength returned by the grating. In another embodiment, tunable filters are utilized to detect minimum returned wave energy to extract a sensor wavelength Reference to the original grating wavelength indicates the application of either temperature or strain to the grating. In another embodiment, a plurality of Bragg grating sensor elements is coupled to sources and controllers wherein a dimensional change in a fiber having a Bragg grating is detected using a measurement system comprising broad-band sources, optical power splitters, a high-sensitivity wavelength discriminator, optical detectors, and a controller. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422145 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895464 | Chow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Chow (Glendale, Arizona); Thomas K. Gender (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a flash memory management system and method with increased performance. The flash memory management system provides the ability to efficiently manage and allocate flash memory use in a way that improves reliability and longevity, while maintaining good performance levels. The flash memory management system includes a free block mechanism, a disk maintenance mechanism, and a bad block detection mechanism. The free block mechanism provides efficient sorting of free blocks to facilitate selecting low use blocks for writing. The disk maintenance mechanism provides for the ability to efficiently clean flash memory blocks during processor idle times. The bad block detection mechanism provides the ability to better detect when a block of flash memory is likely to go bad. The flash status mechanism stores information in fast access memory that describes the content and status of the data in the flash disk. The new bank detection mechanism provides the ability to automatically detect when new banks of flash memory are added to the system. Together, these mechanisms provide a flash memory management system that can improve the operational efficiency of systems that utilize flash memory. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161373 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06892498 | Roman |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Roman (Myrtle Point, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Each panel of an interlocking construction system comprises: first and second sheathing members; at least one framing member secured between the sheathing members; a male and/or female panel side edge. The male panel side edge includes splines, each extending from between the sheathing members distally beyond the side edges, substantially perpendicular thereto. The female panel side edge includes a opposing pairs of parallel grooves, one on each sheathing member and extending proximally from the second side edge substantially perpendicular thereto. The female panel edge may engage a male panel edge of another similarly adapted panel with the splines of the other panel received within the grooves of the female panel edge. The male panel edge is adapted for engaging a female panel edge of another similarly adapted panel with the splines of the male panel edge inserted into grooves of the other panel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/310085 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/79.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893492 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie A. White (Kenner, Louisiana); Christopher D. Delhom (Gretna, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a process of forming a nanocomposite of cellulose with a clay material that is used as the nanofiller material. The nanocomposites show significant improvements in thermal properties when compared to unbleached cotton and cotton processed under conditions for nanocomposite preparation. The degradation temperature of these nanocomposites is significantly increased over that of unbleached cotton. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/657300 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/164.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893527 | Doane et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Doane (Morton, Illinois); John W. Lawton, Jr. (Chillicothe, Illinois); Randal Shogren (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making articles are provided in which a self-supporting structure formed of natural polymer has a self-adherent, moisture resistant thermoplastic film comprising gelatinized starch and a hydroxy-functional polyester on the structure surface. The self-supporting structure preferably is a starch and polyvinyl alcohol blend in an expanded form. The articles typically do not delaminate even when soaked in water, and are biodegradable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/442213 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/244.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893567 | Vanotti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matias B. Vanotti (Florence, South Carolina); Ariel A. Szogi (Florence, South Carolina); Patrick G. Hunt (Florence, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Wastewater treatment systems and processes for: removal of solids, pathogens, nitrogen, and phosphorus from municipal and agricultural wastewater include nitrification of wastewater and increasing the pH of the nitrified wastewater by adding a metallic-containing salt and hydroxide to precipitate phosphorus to form a useable effluent having a specified nitrogen:phosphorus ratio that is useful as a fertilizer or spray for remediation of contaminated soils. The presence of infectious microorganism such as enteropathogenic bacteria and picarnoviruses will be reduced in the useable effluent. The precipitated phosphorus is recovered and used to form useable phosphorus products. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/903620 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/605 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894135 | Kiely et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Kiely (Missoula, Montana); Kylie Kramer (Missoula, Montana); Jinsong Zhang (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High molecular weight random polyhydroxypolyamides (PHPAs) are produced by creating prepolymers which are further polymerized. Random prepolymers are formed from a stoichiometrically molar balance (1:1) starting material. The starting material is a 1:1 stoichiometrically balanced esterified aldaric acid:alkylene or alkylene derived diammonium salt. Alternatively, the starting material is an esterified stoichiometrically balanced diacid:diamine salt and a N′-ammoniumalkyl (or alkyl derived)-D-aldaramic acid terminal carboxylate zwitterionic salt mixture. The starting materials are polymerized in a basic alcohol using a second amine. The polymerized material, or the random prepolymers, are isolated and then further polymerized in a solvent, typically a mixed solvent of an alcohol and non-alcohol, to obtain the high molecular weight PHPAs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734418 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06893705 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin L. Thomas (Natick, Massachusetts); Claudio DeRosa (Naples, Italy); Cheolmin Park (Seoul, South Korea); Michael Fasolka (Washington, District of Columbia); Bernard Lotz (Strasbourg, France); Anne M. Mayes (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jongsesung Yoon (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for orientation of block copolymer microdomains via rapid solidification. Rapid solidification from a solvent may include directional solidification and/or epitaxy to form patterns of microdomains in a film of block copolymer. Microdomains may include various structures formed by components of a block copolymer, such as vertical lamellae, in-plane cylinders, and vertical cylinders, and may depend on film thickness. Orientation of structures in microdomains may be controlled to be approximately uniform, and spatial arrangement of microdomains may be controlled. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/156700 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893850 | Ostuni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuele Ostuni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ravi Kane (Troy, New York); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Rebecca J. Jackman (Boston, Massachusetts); David C. Duffy (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a masking system for selectively applying cells to predetermined regions of a surface. A mask is positioned adjacent to a surface to cover some portions of the surface while allowing other portions of the surface to remain uncovered. Cells then are applied to uncovered portions of the surface and the mask removed. Alternatively, a cell-adhesion promoter is applied to uncovered portions of the surface, and then cells are applied to the surface before or after removal of the mask from the surface. The masking system can be pre-coated, at least on those surfaces which will come into contact with cells, with a cell-adhesion inhibitor to resist absorption of cells and thereby avoid cell damage when the mask is removed (if cells are deposited prior to removal of the mask). A polymeric elastomeric mask that comes into cohesive-conformal contact with a surface to be patterned can be used. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/808745 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893885 | Lemmerhirt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Lemmerhirt (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for locally connecting microstructures and devices formed thereby are provided wherein localized solder-bonding creates bonds between pairs of microstructures found on miniature flexible cables and silicon microsystem platforms. Multi-lead contact to the pads are detected automatically, triggering an embedded heater or heaters to initiate solder melting. This approach enables delicate microstructures to be connected and disconnected from microsystem platforms in the field, and is implemented with a process that is compatible with monolithic integration of circuits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342906 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894642 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Gainesville, Florida); Petre Stoica (Uppsala, Sweden); Zhisong Wang (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for enhanced Capon beamforming includes the steps of providing a sensor array including a plurality of sensor elements where an array steering vector corresponding to a signal of interest (SOI) is unknown. A covariance matrix fitting relation is bounded for the unknown array steering vector by constraining the array steering vector using a constant norm and a spherical uncertainty set. The matrix fitting relation is then solved to provide an estimate of said array steering vector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676777 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895329 | Wolfson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouri Wolfson (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A database receives location information about a moving object. Using the destination of the object and an electronic map, the database finds a projected path for the moving object. From the projected path, the database computes a trajectory. The trajectory may be used to estimate past and future positions of the moving object. The moving object may send location updates to the database when its actual location differs from its anticipated location by more than an uncertainty threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/074903 |
| 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 71/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06892421 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rory A. Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); William Ammer (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Mark McCartney (Saxonburg, Pennsylvania); Corey Blauch (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock absorption mechanism for a wheelchair includes a caster fork including a first oblique surface and a second horizontally disposed surface, relative to a horizontal plane of travel of the wheelchair. A portion of the second surface includes a curved profile. A joint is mountable adjacent a first section thereof to a frame of the wheelchair and adjacent a second section thereof to the caster fork. The joint includes a first oblique surface and a second surface for guiding reciprocation of the curved profile portion of the caster fork. A shock absorber is disposed in an oblique orientation between the first oblique surface of the caster fork and the first oblique surface of the joint. The caster fork is pivotable adjacent the second section of the joint. The shock absorber is compressable in a direction generally parallel to the oblique orientation thereof during pivoting of the caster fork. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/316087 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous hardware 016/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06893812 | Woltering 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) | Eugene A. Woltering (Kenner, Louisiana); Seza A. Gulec (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An in vitro tissue angiogenesis and vasculogenesis system is disclosed that allows the outgrowth of microvessels from a three-dimensional tissue fragment implanted in a matrix. The matrix may, for example, be a fibrin- or collagen-based matrix fed by a growth medium, for example, a mixture of tissue culture medium, serum, or a layer of growth medium containing a defined mixture of growth factors. This system, which may be used with human or other mammalian or animal tissues, may be used in assaying tumor angiogenic potential, or in promoting angiogenesis in other tissues, e.g., promoting angiogenesis prior to transplantation of a tissue. The angiogenic potential of a tissue can be determined by measuring the growth of microvessels into the matrix. The three-dimensional structure of the tumor or other tissue is maintained in the matrix, including blood vessels. In another aspect, the method allows for the proliferation of a tissue specimen, thus increasing the mass of cells available for subsequent transplant; and the method also provides for the proliferation of blood vessels from the tissue mass, thus enhancing the chance of successful engraftment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/866296 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06894174 | Gharavi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shayda Technologies, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alireza Gharavi (Chicago, Illinois); Haythem Saadeh (Burbank, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, water-soluble polyimides, methods of making water-soluble polyimides, and methods of using water-soluble polyimides, e.g., in optics applications as well as other applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/439140 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06895502 | Fraser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Curriculum Corporation (Kings Mill, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil R. Fraser (Maineville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for a client user remotely connected to a server computer by a client workstation such as a client personal computer to have securely displayed and to securely confirm that a request to access a resource on the server computer was actually requested by the client user, even if the security of the client computer has been compromised. This method and system can use conventional intelligent security tokens such as smart cards and associated smart card readers as a more secure environment to prompt for, and determine, the client user's intent to access the requested resource. A display securely accessible from the reader, smart card or both displays the resource (or resources) apparently being requested by client user. The client user is prompted to indicate whether it was their intention to access a resource by an input device associated with the reader or smart card. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/590329 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 06892934 | Avant |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A decontamination bag is positioned in the interior space of a public mailbox. The decontamination bag receives mail that is deposited in the mailbox. A postal worker, upon retrieving mail from the mailbox, closes the decontamination bag. The decontamination bag is equipped with an exit valve and an intake valve. Air from the interior of the bag may be sampled for contaminants that may be carried by letters or mailpieces through an exit valve. A decontaminating agent may be introduced to the interior of the decontamination bag through the intake valve. The contents of the decontamination bag are thereby purified within the bag. After decontamination, the contents of the decontamination bag may be purged and fresh air may be reintroduced into the bag. The decontamination bag may then be opened in order to retrieve its contents. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/291887 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Deposit and collection receptacles 232/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06894243 | Avant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bruce A. Brandt (Gainesville, Virginia); Jay David Fadely (Palmetto, Florida); Michael Ray Little (Fairfax, Virginia); Simon Franklin Reidel (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for reading an identification code from a mailpiece. In one embodiment, there are a reader unit and a reader head assembly connected by an optical cable, which provide for the identification of a mailpiece in an identification code sorting system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/652708 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06895050 | Lee |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jungwoo Lee (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for temporally allocating bits between frames in a coding system such that temporal fluctuations are smoothed out. Namely, a picture quality is monitored on a frame by frame basis. An average distortion measure is derived from previous picture frames and that average is compared to the distortion measure of a current frame, where the result is used to effect bit budget allocation for each frame in an input image sequence. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/838459 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06895132 | Moslehi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IFOS, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behzad Moslehi (Mountain View, California); Richard James Black (Palo Alto, California); Herbert John Shaw (Stanford, California); Keiichiro Toyama (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic sensor comprises two independent fibers having Bragg gratings which are coupled to commutating broadband optical sources through splitters and wavelength discriminators. The ratio of detected optical energy in each of two detectors examining the wave intensity returned to a wavelength discriminator coupled with the characteristic of the wavelength discriminator determines the wavelength returned by the grating. In another embodiment, tunable filters are utilized to detect minimum returned wave energy to extract a sensor wavelength Reference to the original grating wavelength indicates the application of either temperature or strain to the grating. In another embodiment, a plurality of Bragg grating sensor elements is coupled to sources and controllers wherein a dimensional change in a fiber having a Bragg grating is detected using a measurement system comprising broad-band sources, optical power splitters, a high-sensitivity wavelength discriminator, optical detectors, and a controller. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422145 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06895077 | Karellas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Karellas (Auburn, Massachusetts); Srinivasan Vedantham (Worcester, Massachusetts); Sankararaman Suryanarayanan (Worchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for x-ray fluoroscopic imaging of bodily tissue in which a scintillation screen and a charge coupled device (CCD) is used to accurately image selected tissue. An x-ray source generates x-rays which pass through a region of a subject's body, forming an x-ray image which reaches the scintillation screen. The scintillation screen re-radiates a spatial intensity pattern corresponding to the image, the pattern being detected by the CCD sensor. In a preferred embodiment the imager uses four 8×8-cm three-side buttable CCDs coupled to a CsI:T1 scintillator by straight (non-tapering) fiberoptics and tiled to achieve a field of view (FOV) of 16×16-cm at the image plane. Larger FOVs can be achieved by tiling more CCDs in a similar manner. The imaging system can be operated in a plurality of pixel pitch modes such as 78, 156 or 234-μm pixel pitch modes. The CCD sensor may also provide multi-resolution imaging. The image is digitized by the sensor and processed by a controller before being stored as an electronic image. Other preferred embodiments may include each image being directed on flat panel imagers made from but not limited to, amorphous silicon and/or amorphous selenium to generate individual electronic representations of the separate images used for diagnostic or therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/990880 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 17, 2005.
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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