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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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| US 06899297 | Sand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richrad J. Sand (Torrance, California); Michael L. Wells (Hawthorne, California); Melvin A. Olson (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Eric B. Sutton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The need in the art is addressed by the improved missile fire control system of the present invention. In the illustrative embodiment, the inventive system is adapted for use with TOW missile systems and includes a telescope cluster assembly (10) for generating target position signals (18,20). A digital error detector (22′) receives and processes target position signals (18,20) from the telescope cluster assembly (10). The processed signals (24,26) are then fed to a stabilization control amplifier (50), where a microcontroller (56) steps through a set of instructions eliminate angular noise from the target position signals (24,26). The stabilization control amplifier (50) subsequently provides feedback to the telescope cluster assembly (10) for adjusting the line-of-sight in the telescope cluster assembly (10). Software instructions for the microcontroller (56) and constant reference data are stored in the microcontroller memory (not shown). An erasable programmable logic device (58) is used to output discreet signals for controlling mirror positioning. The inventive set of instructions includes sampling azimuth and elevation error signals (70); calculating the average of said azimuth and elevation error signals (72); performing a comparison of the average to a specified boresight limit (74); performing calculations on the averages in response to information received from the output of the comparison for determining motor runtimes (76,78,80,82,84); and repeating the above steps as necessary for obtaining azimuth and elevation signals within a specified limit. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/577992 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899539 | Stallman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exponent, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Stallman (Peoria, Arizona); Jack Tyrrell (Phoenix, Arizona); Theodore Hromadka, III (Glendale, Arizona); Andrew Dobson (Glendale, Arizona); Neil Emiro (Phoenix, Arizona); Dana Edwards (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Wearable systems for providing situational awareness in battle or combat type conditions. More specially, modular, wearable, weapon integrated computer systems for gathering and transmitting data, wherein the systems include components tailorable for specific conditions or missions. Further provided are hardware and software for controlling such wearable systems and for communicating with remote system wearers. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/505678 |
| ART UNIT | 3713 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899849 | Meinhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Larry A. Coldren (Santa Barbara, California); Timothy J. Stultz (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated optical chip device for molecular diagnostics comprising a tunable laser cavity sensor chip using heterodyned detection at the juncture of a sensor laser and a reference laser, and including a microfluid chip to which the sensor chip is flip-chip bonded to form a sample chamber that includes exposed evanescent field material of the tunable laser cavity to which fluid to be diagnosed is directed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/916541 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899915 | Yelick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela C. Yelick (Concord, Massachusetts); John D. Bartlett (Acton, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Vacanti (Winchester, Massachusetts); Bjorn R. Olsen (Milton, Massachusetts); Phillip Stashenko (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Tooth tissues include the pulp mesenchyme that forms the dentin and an epithelium that is responsible for enamel formation. Cells from these tissues were obtained from porcine third molars and were seeded onto a biodegradable scaffold composed of a polyglycolic acid—polylactic acid copolymer. Cell polymer constructs were then surgically implanted into the omentum of athymic nude rats so that the constructs would have a blood supply and these tissues were allowed to develop inside the rats. Infrequently, columnar epithelial cells were observed as a single layer on the outside of the dentin-like matrix similar to the actual arrangement of ameloblasts over dentin during early tooth development. Developing tooth tissues derived from such cell polymer constructs could eventually be surgically implanted into the gum of an edentulous recipient where the construct would receive a blood supply and develop to maturity, providing the recipient with a biological tooth replacement. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/997734 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899945 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Buckyrock is a three-dimensional, solid block material comprising an entangled network of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), wherein the block comprises greater than 75 wt % SWNT. SWNT buckyrock is mechanically strong, tough and impact resistant. The single-wall carbon nanotubes in buckyrock form are present in a random network of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, SWNT “ropes” and combinations thereof. The random network of the SWNT or SWNT ropes can be held in place by non-covalent “cross-links” between the nanotubes at nanotube contact points. In one embodiment, SWNT buckyrock is made by forming a SWNT-water slurry, slowly removing water from the slurry which results in a SWNT-water paste, and allowing the paste to dry very slowly, such that the SWNT network of the SWNT-water paste is preserved during solvent evaporation. Buckyrock can be used in applications, such as ballistic protection systems, involving light-weight material with mechanical strength, toughness and impact resistance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391988 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/314.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899970 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren K. Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia); Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Coal based carbon foams that are produced by the controlled beating of coal particulate in a mold and under a non-oxidizing atmosphere and subsequently graphitized have been found to provide excellent electrode materials for electrochemical cell applications. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/888977 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900018 | Sykes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn F. Sykes (Dallas, Texas); Stephen Albert Johnston (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to linear expression elements (LEEs) and circular expression elements (CEEs), which are useful in a variety of molecular biology protocols. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of LEEs and CEEs to screen for gene function, biological effects of gene function, antigens, and promoter function. The invention also provides methods of producing proteins, antibodies, antigens, and vaccines. Also, the invention relates to methods of making LEEs and CEEs, and LEEs and CEEs produced by such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/077392 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900025 | Alving 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) | Carl R. Alving (Bethesda, Maryland); Gary R. Matyas (Olney, Maryland); Nabila M. Wassef (Potomac, Maryland); Mangala Rao (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method for detecting squalene in sera. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/859389 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900264 | Kumar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Fred E. Arnold (Centerville, Ohio); Thuy D. Dang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising rigid-rod polymers and carbon nanotubes. The compositions comprise dispersed carbon nanotubes aligned with rigid-rod polymers. The alignment of the nanotubes and polymers can be liquid crystalline. The rigid-rod polymers of this invention include, but are not limited to, polymers and copolymers comprising benzobisazole, pyridobisimidazole and benzamidazobenzo-phenanthroline repeat units. Dispersion of carbon nanotubes is achieved by in-situ polymerization in the presence of the carbon nanotubes, which may be either single-wall or multi-wall or a combination of both. The polymer compositions comprising carbon nanotubes may be spun into fibers or formed into films. The strength of the resulting fibers of the present invention is significantly greater than that of fibers without carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/228483 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900477 | Shah |
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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) | Pankaj B. Shah (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure and method for a silicon carbide (SiC) gate turn-off (GTO) thyristor device operable to provide an increased turn-off gain comprises a cathode region, a drift region having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the drift region overlies the cathode region, a gate region overlying the drift region, an anode region overlying the gate, and at least one ohmic contact positioned on each of the gate region, anode region, and cathode region, wherein the upper portion of the drift region, the gate region, and the anode region have a free carrier lifetime and mobility lower than a comparable SiC GTO thyristor for providing the device with an increased turn-off gain, wherein the free carrier lifetime is approximately 10 nanoseconds. The reduced free carrier lifetime and mobility are affected by altering the growth conditions, such as temperature under which epitaxy occurs. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/310905 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900479 | DeHon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | André DeHon (Pasadena, California); Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California); John E. Savage (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling electric conduction on nanoscale wires is disclosed. The nanoscale wires are provided with controllable regions axially and/or radially distributed. Controlling those regions by means of microscale wires or additional nanoscale wires allows or prevents electric conduction on the controlled nanoscale wires. The controllable regions are of two different types. For example, a first type of controllable region can exhibit a different doping from a second type of controllable region. The method allows one or more of a set of nanoscale wires, packed at sublithographic pitch, to be independently selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627405 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900633 | Sauer 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) | Karen L. Sauer (Alexandria, Virginia); Bryan H. Suits (Houghton, Michigan); Joel B. Miller (Cheverly, Maryland); Allen N. Garroway (Davidsonville, Maryland); Young K. Lee (San Diego, California); Shouqin Huo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention involves an apparatus to measure the nuclear quadrupole (NQR) response of a specimen using three frequencies. Three-frequency NQR involves excitation of at least two transitions that causes an observed signal at a third transition frequency. Thus, the transition excited and detected is not irradiated at all. This reduces undesirable interfering signals due to the excitation, for example as a result of acoustic ringing and/or tank circuit ring-down, since the excitation is not applied at the frequency that is detected. This invention will be particularly useful to detect substances selected from the group consisting of explosives and narcotics using nitrogen NQR. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/183351 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900666 | Kursun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volkan Kursun (Rochester, New York); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A domino logic circuit is configured to reduce power consumption. In a first embodiment, a sleep switch grounds the dynamic node during sleep mode. In a second embodiment, a low-swing circuit at the output reduces the output and keeper transistor gate voltage swings. A third embodiment combines those two techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/411375 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900708 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. White (Marietta, Georgia); Madhavan Swaminathan (Marietta, Georgia); Venkatesh Sundaram (Norcross, Georgia); Sidharth Dalmia (Alpharetta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an organic device that can be integrated in a multilayer board made of organic material. The passive devices can be integrally fabricated on a circuit board in either surface mount device (SMD) or ball grid array (BGA) form. Alternatively, the passive device can be constructed in a stand alone SMD or BGA/chip scale package (CSP) form to make it mountable on a multilayer board, ceramic carrier or silicon platform in the form of an integrated passive device. The passive device includes side shielding on two sides in the SMD form and four sides in the BGA/CSP form. The side shielding can be external or in-built. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402313 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900891 | Kopelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raoul Kopelman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Heather Clark (Middletown, Connecticut); Susan Barker (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical fiber sensors and fiberless optical sensors for measuring analytes, and in particular nitric oxide, are described utilizing metals, and more particularly, metal colloids. Proteins (or fragments thereof) with selective binding are immobilized on metal particles. The proteins may be dye-labeled for increased sensitivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630928 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901064 | Cain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Bibb Cain (Indialantic, Florida); Thomas Jay Billhartz (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication network includes a plurality of mobile nodes each including a transceiver, a phased array antenna connected to the transceiver, and a controller connected to the transceiver. The controller schedules a respective semi-permanent time slot for each time frame to establish a communication link with each neighboring mobile node and leaves at least one available time slot in each time frame. The controller also schedules the at least one available time slot to also serve the communication link with a neighboring mobile node based upon link communications demand. The phased array antenna is aimed by the controller towards each neighboring mobile node during communication therewith. The controller also detects interference in time slots for communication with neighboring mobile nodes and coordinates the scheduling of time slots based upon detected interference. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280948 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901112 | McCorkle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. McCorkle (Vienna, Virginia); Martin Rofheart (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra wide bandwidth, high speed, spread spectrum communications system uses short wavelets of electromagnetic energy to transmit information through objects such as walls or earth. The communication system uses baseband codes formed from time shifted and inverted wavelets to encode data on a RF signal. Typical wavelet pulse durations are on the order of 100 to 1000 picoseconds with a bandwidth of approximately 8 GHz to 1 GHz, respectively. The combination of short duration wavelets and encoding techniques are used to spread the signal energy over an ultra wide frequency band such that the energy is not concentrated in any particular narrow band (e.g. VHF: 30-300 MHz or UHF: 300-1000 MHz) and is not detected by conventional narrow band receivers so it does not interfere with those communication systems. The use of pulse codes composed of time shifted and inverted wavelets gives the system according to the present invention has a spatial resolution on the order of 1 foot which is sufficient to minimize the negative effects of multipath interference and permit time domain rake processing. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259736 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901159 | Baertsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Dudley Baertsch (Scotia, New York); Walter Vincent Dixon (Delanson, New York); Daniel Arthur Staver (Scotia, New York); Nick Andrew Van Stralen (Ballston Lake, New York); Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired by the detector framing node and communicated to a host memory of a host computer independently of a host computer operating system. Image data is received from a flat panel detector and is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to the host memory. The detector framing node includes an image detection interface to receive the image data and a control unit to select a predetermined portion of the image data for storage into a detector memory unit before communication to the host memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/774552 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901176 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (Riverdale, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balakumar Balachandran (Rockville, Maryland); Miao Yu (Beltsville, Maryland); Moustafa Al-Bassyiouni (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic sensor system for acoustic measurements over a 6 kHz bandwidth, the design of which allows for multiplexity of the input side of the system, and where the optical part of the system is based on low coherence fiber-optic interferometry techniques which has a sensor Fabry-Perot interferometer and a read-out interferometer as well, that allows a high dynamic range and low sensitivity to the wavelength fluctuation of the light source, as well as the optical intensity fluctuations. A phase modulation and demodulation scheme takes advantage of the Integrated Optical Circuit phase modulator and multi-step phase-stepping algorithm for providing for high frequency and real time phase signal demodulation. The system includes fiber tip based Fabry-Perot sensors which have a diaphragm, which is used as the transducer. Pressure microphone, velocity sensor, as well as accelerometer, are built based on the fiber tip based Fabry-Perot sensors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270277 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901389 | Madison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Information Decision Technologies, LLC (Bedford, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Wade Madison (Mission Viejo, California); Todd Joseph Furlong (Goffstown, New Hampshire); John Franklin Walker (Goffstown, New Hampshire); John Franklin Ebersole, Jr. (Bedford, New Hampshire); John Franklin Ebersole (Bedford, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method for augmenting images to highlight regions where objects of interest are likely to appear. The method uses fuzzy set theory to classify locations that may contain objects of interest, uses fog volumes to represent the fuzzy sets in three dimensions, and renders these fog volumes from the vantage point of the image to provide a colored overlay with which to augment the image. Where fog volumes of different colors overlap in an image, the invention renders the overlapping area using cross-hatching, so that the multiple colors appear side by side rather than blending to make a third color. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/123315 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901421 | Nielsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra A. Nielsen (Anaheim, California); Richard O. Nielsen (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for processing digital data from an array of receiver elements. The system includes an input assembly interface and a processing element. The input assembly interface is capable of providing the digital data from the array of receiver elements. The processing element, in turn, is capable of providing an impulse response, and representing the digital data and impulse response vectorized receiver matrices and vectorized response matrices, respectively. The processing element can then signal condition the digital data, without corner turning, based upon the vectorized receiver matrices and the vectorized response matrices. Once the signal conditioning output has been computed, the digital data may be further processed by a beamformer and matched filter. |
| FILED | Monday, March 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/105847 |
| ART UNIT | 2124 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06899137 | Unger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Markus M. Enzelberger (Pasadena, California); Mark L. Adams (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/826583 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/833 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899497 | Cardona et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Edgardo Cardona (Atchison, Kansas); Joseph Takacs, Jr. (Lawrence, Kansas); Thomas C. Adams (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Stephen I. Reger (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an apparatus for securing a mobility aid to the interior of a motor vehicle, such as a bus. The invention includes one or more retractors typically positioned forward of the mobility aid, and one or more retractors typically positioned behind the mobility aid. Some or all of the retractors are provided with a powered tension apparatus for providing opposed tension to the front and rear of the mobility aid, securing it from movement in the vehicle. The tensioning system is capable of being remotely controlled, enabling the securement and release of the mobility aid to be performed easily by either the mobility aid occupant or an operator in the motor vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/293660 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899880 | Stephens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Stephens (Orinda, California); Aya Kubo (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features the use of PorB polypeptide as a therapeutic agent. In specific embodiment the invention features a chlamydial vaccine based on a PorB polypeptide, as well as methods for induction of a protective immune response against infection by Chlamydia and Chlamydiophila. The invention further features methods for identifying agents that affect PorB function such as in transport of α-ketoglutarate and which are effective as anti-chlamydial chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155947 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 06899882 | Ferrara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Napoleone Ferrara (Belvedere, California); Denis Gospodarowicz (San Francisco, California); Jean Plouet (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel growth factor specific for vascular endothelial cells has been identified in conditioned medium of bovine pituitary derived folliculo stellate cells. This factor, named folliculo stellate derived growth facto (FSdGF) or vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), was purified to homogeneity by a combination of heparin sepharose affinity chromatography, Bio Gel P-60 exclusion chromatography, Mono S ion exchange chromatography and hydrophobic chromatography on a C4 reverse phase HPLC column. The factor is also found in the murine AtT-20 cell line. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/473276 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
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| US 06900017 | Sharma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Sharma (Oak Park, Illinois); Ronald Hoffman (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel human hiwi protein and genes that encode such proteins. The invention is directed toward the isolation and characterization of human hiwi proteins. The invention specifically provides isolated complementary DNA copies of mRNA corresponding a human hiwi gene. Also provided are recombinant expression constructs capable of expressing the human hiwi gene of the invention in cultures of transformed prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, as well as such cultures of transformed cells that synthesize the human hiwi proteins encoded therein. The invention also provides methods for isolating human hematopoietic stem cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/043774 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900024 | Germain 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) | Ronald N. Germain (Potomac, Maryland); Luigi Racioppi (Naples, Italy); Franca Ronchese-Le Gros (Wellington, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns TCR ligands with immunomodulatory properties, as well as methods of identifying such ligands and of using such ligands to modulate T cell effector responses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193473 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900026 | Wallace et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Wallace (Atlanta, Georgia); Simon Melov (Atlanta, Georgia); James D. Crapo (Cherry Hills Village, Colorado); Brian J. Day (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application describes methods for the testing of compounds of potential usefulness as therapeutic antioxidants and/or as therapeutic free radical scavengers. The animal model for testing such compounds is the Sod2CJE homozygous Manganese Superoxide Dismutase-deficient mouse. When pups of these mice are treated with certain antioxidants, they survive past about 7 days of age, and later develop characteristic histological changes and characteristic neurobehavioral disorders. Those treated mice can be further treated with test compounds which may or may not cross the blood brain barrier, and the life span and physical and neurobehavioral characteristics of those mice provide information about the potential utility of the test compound as a therapeutic antioxidant. Phenotypes of the treated mice allow conclusions regarding targeted areas of the brain and thus, applications to particular disorders such as Parkinsonism. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/039869 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900032 | Melmed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, California); Lin Pei (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides are expressed by the pituitary-tumor-transforming-gene (PTTG), formerly known as pituitary-tumor-specific-gene (PTSG), and nucleic acids encode them. Examples are the human and rat PTTG proteins. The nucleic acids may be applied to the production of a recombinant protein, and to the detection of the presence of PTTG genes in different species. The nucleic acids may be operatively linked to a vector, optionally provided with control and expression sequences and/or being carried by a host cell. The nucleic acids may also be delivered to a mammal to compensate for the absence, or a defective expression, of endogenous protein. The nucleic acids, proteins, and antibodies are also employed in disgnostic assays, as well as, for example, in the production of anti-PTTG antibodies (protein), therapeutic compositions and other applications of the proteins and antibodies. Various kits utilize nucleic acids, polypeptides, and/or antibodies. A transgenic non-human mammal expresses PTTG. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/949272 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900193 | Kim 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) | Hyun K. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard P. Blye (Highland, Maryland); Pemmaraju N. Rao (San Antonio, Texas); James W. Cessac (San Antonio, Texas); Carmie K. Acosta (San Antonio, Texas); Anne Marie Simmons (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, inter alia, to compounds having the general formula: in which: R1 is a member selected from the group consisting of —OCH3, —SCH3, —N(CH3)2, —NHCH3, —NC4H8, —NC5H10, —NC4H8O, —CHO, —CH(OH)CH3, —C(O)CH3, —O(CH2)2N(CH3)2, and —O(CH2)2NC5H10; R2 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, acyl, hydroxy, alkoxy (e.g., methoxy, ethoxy, vinyloxy, ethynyloxy, cyclopropyloxy, etc.), acyloxy (e.g., acetoxy, glycinate, etc.), alkylcarbonate, cypionyloxy, S-alkyl, —SCN, S-acyl and —OC(O)R6, wherein R6 is a functional group including, but not limited to, alkyl (e.g., methyl, ethyl, etc.), alkoxy ester (e.g., —CH2OCH3) and alkoxy (—OCH3); R3 is a member selected from the group consisting of alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy and acyloxy; R4 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl; and X is a member selected from the group consisting of ═O and ═N—OR5, wherein R5 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl. In addition to providing the compounds of Formula I, the present invention provides methods wherein the compounds of Formula I are advantageously used, inter alia, to antagonize endogenous progesterone; to induce menses; to treat endometriosis; to treat dysmenorrhea; to treat endocrine hormone-dependent tumors; to treat meningiomas; to treat uterine leiomyomas; to treat uterine fibroids; to inhibit uterine endometrial proliferation; to induce cervical ripening; to induce labor; and for contraception. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/526855 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900195 | Hamann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Mississippi (University, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark T. Hamann (University, Mississippi); Khalid El-Sayed (University, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating an infectious disease or condition in a subject in need of such treatment is disclosed. The method comprises administering to a subject an effective amount of a manzamine, manzamine derivative or analog or an optical isomer or racemate or tautomer thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/362400 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900203 | Lenox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polium Technologies, Inc. (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamilton J. Lenox (Chicago, Illinois); Elena Terentieva (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Mikhail Y. Gololobov (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | (R)-6F-phenylephrine, essentially free of (S)-6F-phenylephrine, and an anesthetic formulation comprising (R)-6F-epinephrin or (R)-6F-phenylephrine and having improved stability compared to formulations containing their non-fluorinated analog, are disclosed. Further disclosed is a method of providing vasoconstriction in a mammal by administering the anesthetic formulation. The anesthetic composition can include an anesthetic, an (R)-chiral compound having the structure: wherein R1, R2, and R4 are independently selected from —H or —F, at least one of R1, R2, and R4 is —F, and R3 is selected from —OH, —H or —F, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, said vasoconstrictor being essentially free of the (S)-chiral form. Also, a method of chiral addition of cyanide to a ring-fluorinated phenaldehyde, employing an almond hydroxynitrile lyase enzyme, provided in the form of a reversibly soluble polymer conjugate ((R)-Finezyme™-H series biocatalysts) is disclosed. Several such biocatalysts are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190856 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/229 |
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| US 06900238 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Huey Wong (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Deborah H. Slee (Cardiff, California); Karen Laslo (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Combinatorial libraries of HIV and FIV protease inhibitors are characterized by α-keto amide or hydroxyethylamine core structures flanked by on one side by substituted pyrrolidines, piperidines, or azasugars and on the other side by phenylalanine, tyrosine, or substituted tyrosines. The libraries are synthesized via a one step coupling reaction. Highly efficacious drug candidates are identified by screening the libraries for binding and inhibitory activity against both HIV and FIV protease. Drug candidates displaying clinically useful activity against both HIV and FIV protease are identified as being potentially resistive against a loss of inhibitory activity due to development of resistant strains of HIV. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 09/077712 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/423 |
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| US 06900282 | Alferiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Alferiev (Clementon, New Jersey); Ilia Fishbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for preparing the polyurethane derivative, the process including: providing a polyurethane having a urethane amino moiety, providing a multifunctional linker reagent of a formula: LG-RL-(FG)n, wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3, FG is a functional group, which is a halogen, a carboxyl group, a sulfonate ester, or an epoxy group, LG is a leaving group, which is a halogen, a carboxyl group, a sulfonate ester, or an epoxy group, and RL is an (n+1)-valent organic radical having at least one carbon atom; providing a protected thiol-containing reagent of a formula R—C(O)SH, or a salt thereof, wherein R is a C1 to C6 alkyl group; reacting the multifunctional linker reagent with the urethane amino moiety to form a polyurethane substituted with at least one substituent group of a formula: —RL-(FG)n; reacting the polyurethane with a protected thiol-containing reagent to form the polyurethane derivative. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672892 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900289 | Yanagihara |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angel Anne Yanagihara (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are Physalia fluorescent proteins (PFPs) and, more particularly, to PFPs of a Physalia species, and methods of detecting and isolating PFPs. Also provided are methods and compositions for using PFPs, including recombinant PFPs, as reporter molecules in in vitro and in vivo biological assays, including screening assays and cellular assays. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/226877 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 06900291 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CytoChem, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric H. Holmes (Bothell, Washington); Thomas G. Greene (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and materials for the detection and quantitation 8-OH-Ade in biological specimens. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a group of highly specific monoclonal antibodies reactive with the modified nucleoside structure 8-OH-Ade, and to various immunoassays for 8-OH-Ade utilizing these monoclonal antibodies. The monoclonal antibodies of the present invention may be used in assays for diagnosing or monitoring the progression of certain types of cancer, in addition to a variety of other diseases associated with mutagenesis resulting from oxidative damage of DNA. Assays utilizing the monoclonal antibodies of the present invention may also be used to analyze or monitor toxicant exposure, such as from environmental sources. The monoclonal antibodies of the present invention were prepared with the immunogen 8-OH-adenosine coupled to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), not to 8-OH-Ade directly. It is believed that the monoclonal antibodies bind with the base portion of the structure (8-OH-Ade) and not the carbohydrate (ribose) or protein linkage region of the conjugate, because, as demonstrated, conjugates bound to nucleosides other than 8-OH-adenosine were unreactive with these antibodies. Therefore, the antibodies of the present invention can be used to detect and quantitate (by the use of a standard curve) the presence of 8-OH-Ade in biological specimens of DNA. Procedures for such an assay include immobilizing the DNA, denaturing it to disrupt the base-pairing scheme exposing the free base structures, and quantitating the amount of 8-OH-Ade present per amount of DAN in a quantitative immunoassay. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375697 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
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| US 06900304 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Alice Y. Ting (La Jolla, California); Jin Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chimeric phosphorylation indicator is provided. A chimeric phosphorylation indicator can contain a donor molecule, a phosphorylatable domain, a phosphoaminoacid binding domain (PAABD), and an acceptor molecule. A chimeric phosphorylation indicator also can contain a phosphorylatable polypeptide and a fluorescent protein, wherein the phosphorylatable polypeptide is contained within the sequence of the fluorescent protein, or wherein the fluorescent protein is contained within the sequence of the phosphorylatable polypeptide. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding such chimeric phosphorylation indicators, as well as kits containing the indicators or the polynucleotides. In addition, a method of using the chimeric phosphorylation indicators to detect a kinase or phosphatase in a sample is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/865291 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
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| US 06900315 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (Athens, Connecticut); University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen S. Anderson (Guilford, Connecticut); Adrian Staffin Ray (New Haven, Connecticut); Chung K. Chu (Athens, Georgia); Yang Zhenjun (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds, compositions and methods for inhibiting the growth, elaboration and/or replication of HIV in human patients and to the prevention and treatment of human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other diseases caused by retroviral infection. More particularly, in preferred aspects, the present invention provides a method for the use of novel prodrug forms of 9-(2,3-Dideoxy-β-D-glycero-pent-2-enofuranosyl) guanine (d4G) for the prevention and treatment of both wild type and drug-resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the causative pathogen of AIDS. Compounds according to the present invention are based upon the chemical formula: where X is OCH3, N3, NHCH3, N(CH3)2 or an aminocyclopropyl group; R1 is H or a C1 to C20 acyl or ether group, a phosphate, diphosphate, triphosphate or phosphodiester group; and R2 is H or a C1 to C20 acyl or alkyl group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/068635 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/277 |
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| US 06900331 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Taylor (South Bend, Indiana); Yue Chen (Mishawaka, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the following new compounds: (R)-C14-methyl-epothilone B, (S)-C14-methyl-epothilone B, (S)-C14-methyl-epothilone D, and (R)-C14-methyl-epothilone D and methods for synthesizing these compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375100 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/204 |
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| US 06900370 | Nicolaides et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Morphotek, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas C. Nicolaides (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Luigi Grasso (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Phillip M. Sass (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Ken Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Blockade of mismatch repair in a plant can lead to hypermutation and a new genotype and/or phenotype. One approach used to generate hypermutable plants is through the expression of dominant negative alleles of mismatch repair genes in transgenic plants or derived cells. By introducing these genes into cells and transgenic plants, new cell lines and plant varieties with novel and useful properties can be prepared more efficiently than by relying on the natural rate of mutation. Moreover, methods to inhibit the expression and activity of endogenous plant MMR genes and their encoded products are also useful to generate hypermutable plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/749601 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
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| US 06900891 | Kopelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raoul Kopelman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Heather Clark (Middletown, Connecticut); Susan Barker (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical fiber sensors and fiberless optical sensors for measuring analytes, and in particular nitric oxide, are described utilizing metals, and more particularly, metal colloids. Proteins (or fragments thereof) with selective binding are immobilized on metal particles. The proteins may be dye-labeled for increased sensitivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630928 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Ochs (Albany, Oregon); William K. O'Connor (Lebanon, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of remediating and recovering energy from combustion products from a fossil fuel power plant having at least one fossil fuel combustion chamber, at least one compressor, at least one turbine, at least one heat exchanger and a source of oxygen. Combustion products including non-condensable gases such as oxygen and nitrogen and condensable vapors such as water vapor and acid gases such as SOX and NOX and CO2 and pollutants are produced and energy is recovered during the remediation which recycles combustion products and adds oxygen to support combustion. The temperature and/or pressure of the combustion products are changed by cooling through heat exchange with thermodynamic working fluids in the power generation cycle and/or compressing and/or heating and/or expanding the combustion products to a temperature/pressure combination below the dew point of at least some of the condensable vapors to condense liquid having some acid gases dissolved and/or entrained and/or directly condense acid gas vapors from the combustion products and to entrain and/or dissolve some of the pollutants while recovering sensible and/or latent heat from the combustion products through heat exchange between the combustion products and thermodynamic working fluids and/or cooling fluids used in the power generating cycle. Then the CO2, SO2, and H2O poor and oxygen enriched remediation stream is sent to an exhaust and/or an air separation unit and/or a turbine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/309251 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899146 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael L. Clark (Menan, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gary L. Palmer (Shelley, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A fueling facility and method for dispensing liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG) or both on-demand. The fueling facility may include a source of LNG, such as cryogenic storage vessel. A low volume high pressure pump is coupled to the source of LNG to produce a stream of pressurized LNG. The stream of pressurized LNG may be selectively directed through an LNG flow path or to a CNG flow path which includes a vaporizer configured to produce CNG from the pressurized LNG. A portion of the CNG may be drawn from the CNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of LNG flowing therethrough. Similarly, a portion of the LNG may be drawn from the LNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of CNG flowing therethrough. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435166 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/11 |
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| US 06899433 | Veligdan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A video image is displayed from an optical panel by splitting the image into a plurality of image components, and then projecting the image components through corresponding portions of the panel to collectively form the image. Depth of the display is correspondingly reduced. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/464984 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/37 |
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| US 06899744 | Mundschau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eltron Research, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Mundschau (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite hydrogen transport membranes, which are used for extraction of hydrogen from gas mixtures are provided. Methods are described for supporting metals and metal alloys which have high hydrogen permeability, but which are either too thin to be self supporting, too weak to resist differential pressures across the membrane, or which become embrittled by hydrogen. Support materials are chosen to be lattice matched to the metals and metal alloys. Preferred metals with high permeability for hydrogen include vanadium, niobium, tantalum, zirconium, palladium, and alloys thereof. Hydrogen-permeable membranes include those in which the pores of a porous support matrix are blocked by hydrogen-permeable metals and metal alloys, those in which the pores of a porous metal matrix are blocked with materials which make the membrane impervious to gases other than hydrogen, and cermets fabricated by sintering powders of metals with powders of lattice-matched ceramic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/382354 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/56 |
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| US 06899827 | Lauf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Lauf (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Kimberly K. Anderson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Frederick C. Montgomery (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Sintered, translucent ceramic microbeads, preferably alumina, titania, zirconia, yttria, zirconium phosphate, or yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) are doped with one or more optically active species. The beads may be added to substances such as explosives in order to create a distinctive optical signature that identifies a manufacturer, lot number, etc. in the event of the need for forensic analysis. Because the beads have a generally spherical surface, the radius of curvature provides an additional distinguishing characteristic by which a particular sample may be identified. The beads could also be formulated into paints if needed to create distinctive optical signatures for camouflage, decoys, or other countermeasures and could also be applied as a dust to track the movement of personnel, vehicles, etc. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/439608 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4R0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899928 | Groves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Groves (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert H. Hammond (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a process and apparatus for epitaxial deposition of a material, e.g., a layer of MgO, onto a substrate such as a flexible metal substrate, using dual ion beams for the ion beam assisted deposition whereby thick layers can be deposited without degradation of the desired properties by the material. The ability to deposit thicker layers without loss of properties provides a significantly broader deposition window for the process. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/208086 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900012 | Preuss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Kay Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Paul Copenhaver (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the identification and cloning of functional plant centromeres in Arabidopsis. This will permit construction of stably inherited plant artificial chromosomes (PLACs) which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. In addition, information on the structure and function of these regions will prove valuable in isolating additional centromeric and centromere related genetic elements and polypeptides from other species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/553231 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900305 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnway Gao (Richland, Washington); Rodney S. Skeen (Pendleton, Oregon); Brian S. Hooker (Kennewick, Washington); Daniel B. Anderson (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the promoter clone discovery of a glucoamylase gene of a starch utilizing yeast strain Schwanniomyces castellii. The isolated glucoamylase promoter is an inducible promoter, which can regulate strong gene expression in starch culture medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/921944 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900714 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xianrui Huang (Clifton Park, New York); Evangelos Trifon Laskaris (Schenectady, New York); Kiruba Haran Sivasubramaniam (Clifton Park, New York); James William Bray (Niskayuna, New York); David Thomas Ryan (Niskayuna, New York); James Michael Fogarty (Schenectady, New York); Albert Eugene Steinbach (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for protecting a superconductor. The system may comprise a current sensor operable to detect a current flowing through the superconductor. The system may comprise a coolant temperature sensor operable to detect the temperature of a cryogenic coolant used to cool the superconductor to a superconductive state. The control circuit is operable to estimate the superconductor temperature based on the current flow and the coolant temperature. The system may also be operable to compare the estimated superconductor temperature to at least one threshold temperature and to initiate a corrective action when the superconductor temperature exceeds the at least one threshold temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/882024 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900952 | Eisenbies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Eisenbies (Livermore, California); Steven Haney (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a two-piece apparatus for holding and aligning the MEMS deformable mirror. The two-piece apparatus comprises a holding plate for fixedly holding an adaptive optics element in an overall optical system and a base spatially fixed with respect to the optical system and adapted for mounting and containing the holding plate. The invention further relates to a means for configuring the holding plate through adjustments to each of a number of off-set pads touching each of three orthogonal plane surfaces on the base, wherein through the adjustments the orientation of the holding plate, and the adaptive optics element attached thereto, can be aligned with respect to the optical system with six degrees of freedom when aligning the plane surface of the optical element. The mounting system thus described also enables an operator to repeatedly remove and restore the adaptive element in the optical system without the need to realign the system once that element has been aligned. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677820 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/819 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900998 | Erickson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Erickson (Boulder, Colorado); Osama A. Al-Naseem (Safat, Kuwait); Lee Jay Fingersh (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for efficiently capturing electrical energy from a variable-speed generator are disclosed. The system includes a matrix converter using full-bridge, multilevel switch cells, in which semiconductor devices are clamped to a known constant DC voltage of a capacitor. The multilevel matrix converter is capable of generating multilevel voltage wave waveform of arbitrary magnitude and frequencies. The matrix converter can be controlled by using space vector modulation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/452570 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901308 | Hamada et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Hamada (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Harry F. Martz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jay K. Eleswarpu (West Chester, Ohio); Michael J. Preissler (Maineville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method is implemented for determining the variability of a manufacturing system having a plurality of subsystems. Each subsystem of the plurality of subsystems is characterized by signal factors, noise factors, control factors, and an output response, all having mean and variance values. Response models are then fitted to each subsystem to determine unknown coefficients for use in the response models that characterize the relationship between the signal factors, noise factors, control factors, and the corresponding output response having mean and variance values that are related to the signal factors, noise factors, and control factors. The response models for each subsystem are coupled to model the output of the manufacturing system as a whole. The coefficients of the fitted response models are randomly varied to propagate variances through the plurality of subsystems and values of signal factors and control factors are found to optimize the output of the manufacturing system to meet a specified criterion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/191202 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06899009 | Christiansen 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) | Eric L. Christiansen (Houston, Texas); Jeanne L. Crews (Santa Fe, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Flexible multi-shock shield system and method are disclosed for defending against hypervelocity particles. The flexible multi-shock shield system and method may include a number of flexible bumpers or shield layers spaced apart by one or more resilient support layers, all of which may be encapsulated in a protective cover. Fasteners associated with the protective cover allow the flexible multi-shock shield to be secured to the surface of a structure to be protected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/892355 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899275 | Schramm |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry F. Schramm (Winchester, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic identification system and method are provided which employ a machine readable multiple layer label. The label has a plurality of machine readable marking layers stacked one upon another. Each of the marking layers encodes an identification symbol detectable using one or more sensing technologies. The various marking layers may comprise the same marking material or each marking layer may comprise a different medium having characteristics detectable by a different sensing technology. These sensing technologies include x-ray, radar, capacitance, thermal, magnetic and ultrasonic. A complete symbol may be encoded within each marking layer or a symbol may be segmented into fragments which are then divided within a single marking layer or encoded across multiple marking layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/837744 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899777 | Vaidyanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Tucson, Arizona); Joseph Walish (Tucson, Arizona); Mark Fox (Tucson, Arizona); John W. Gillespie, Jr. (Hockessin, Delaware); Shridhar Yarlagadda (Newark, Delaware); Michael R. Effinger (Fayetteville, Tennessee); Anthony C. Mulligan (Tucson, Arizona); Mark J. Rigali (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for continuous composite coextrusion comprising: (a) forming first a material-laden composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer and at least about 40 volume % of a ceramic or metallic particulate in a manner such that the composition has a substantially cylindrical geometry and thus can be used as a substantially cylindrical feed rod; (b) forming a hole down the symmetrical axis of the feed rod; (c) inserting the start of a continuous spool of ceramic fiber, metal fiber or carbon fiber through the hole in the feed rod; (d) extruding the feed rod and spool simultaneously to form a continuous filament consisting of a green matrix material completely surrounding a dense fiber reinforcement and said filament having an average diameter that is less than the average diameter of the feed rod; and (e) depositing the continuous filament into a desired architecture which preferably is determined from specific loading conditions of the desired object and CAD design of the object to provide a green fiber reinforced composite object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/038957 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06899945 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Buckyrock is a three-dimensional, solid block material comprising an entangled network of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), wherein the block comprises greater than 75 wt % SWNT. SWNT buckyrock is mechanically strong, tough and impact resistant. The single-wall carbon nanotubes in buckyrock form are present in a random network of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, SWNT “ropes” and combinations thereof. The random network of the SWNT or SWNT ropes can be held in place by non-covalent “cross-links” between the nanotubes at nanotube contact points. In one embodiment, SWNT buckyrock is made by forming a SWNT-water slurry, slowly removing water from the slurry which results in a SWNT-water paste, and allowing the paste to dry very slowly, such that the SWNT network of the SWNT-water paste is preserved during solvent evaporation. Buckyrock can be used in applications, such as ballistic protection systems, involving light-weight material with mechanical strength, toughness and impact resistance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391988 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/314.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901189 | Savchenkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoliy Savchenkov (La Crescenta, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (La Canada, California); Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Whispering gallery mode optical resonators which have spatially-graded refractive indices. In one implementation, the refractive index spatially increases with a distance from an exterior surface of such a resonator towards an interior of the resonator to produce substantially equal spectral separations for different whispering gallery modes. An optical coupler may be used with such a resonator to provide proper optical coupling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438668 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901353 | Huang |
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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) | Norden E. Huang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention presents Normalized Amplitude Hilbert Transform (NAHT) and Normalized Hilbert Transform(NHT), both of which are new methods for computing Instantaneous Frequency. This method is designed specifically to circumvent the limitation set by the Bedorsian and Nuttal Theorems, and to provide a sharp local measure of error when the quadrature and the Hilbert Transform do not agree. Motivation for this method is that straightforward application of the Hilbert Transform followed by taking the derivative of the phase-angle as the Instantaneous Frequency (IF) leads to a common mistake made up to this date. In order to make the Hilbert Transform method work, the data has to obey certain restrictions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615365 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06899945 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Buckyrock is a three-dimensional, solid block material comprising an entangled network of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), wherein the block comprises greater than 75 wt % SWNT. SWNT buckyrock is mechanically strong, tough and impact resistant. The single-wall carbon nanotubes in buckyrock form are present in a random network of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, SWNT “ropes” and combinations thereof. The random network of the SWNT or SWNT ropes can be held in place by non-covalent “cross-links” between the nanotubes at nanotube contact points. In one embodiment, SWNT buckyrock is made by forming a SWNT-water slurry, slowly removing water from the slurry which results in a SWNT-water paste, and allowing the paste to dry very slowly, such that the SWNT network of the SWNT-water paste is preserved during solvent evaporation. Buckyrock can be used in applications, such as ballistic protection systems, involving light-weight material with mechanical strength, toughness and impact resistance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391988 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/314.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900479 | DeHon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | André DeHon (Pasadena, California); Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California); John E. Savage (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling electric conduction on nanoscale wires is disclosed. The nanoscale wires are provided with controllable regions axially and/or radially distributed. Controlling those regions by means of microscale wires or additional nanoscale wires allows or prevents electric conduction on the controlled nanoscale wires. The controllable regions are of two different types. For example, a first type of controllable region can exhibit a different doping from a second type of controllable region. The method allows one or more of a set of nanoscale wires, packed at sublithographic pitch, to be independently selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627405 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900575 | Olkhovets et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoli Olkhovets (Murray Hill, New Jersey); Dustin W. Carr (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Jeeak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator device utilizes two small mechanical resonators that are electrostatically coupled. A first resonator receives an input signal near its resonant frequency, and the input signal and a second signal are summed and provided to a second resonator. The resonant frequency of the second resonator is approximately equal to the second signal frequency. A width of response of the amplifier is tuned by varying the pump voltage. Resonant frequencies of corresponding individual oscillators are tuned by adjusting bias voltages. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/034594 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901176 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (Riverdale, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balakumar Balachandran (Rockville, Maryland); Miao Yu (Beltsville, Maryland); Moustafa Al-Bassyiouni (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic sensor system for acoustic measurements over a 6 kHz bandwidth, the design of which allows for multiplexity of the input side of the system, and where the optical part of the system is based on low coherence fiber-optic interferometry techniques which has a sensor Fabry-Perot interferometer and a read-out interferometer as well, that allows a high dynamic range and low sensitivity to the wavelength fluctuation of the light source, as well as the optical intensity fluctuations. A phase modulation and demodulation scheme takes advantage of the Integrated Optical Circuit phase modulator and multi-step phase-stepping algorithm for providing for high frequency and real time phase signal demodulation. The system includes fiber tip based Fabry-Perot sensors which have a diaphragm, which is used as the transducer. Pressure microphone, velocity sensor, as well as accelerometer, are built based on the fiber tip based Fabry-Perot sensors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270277 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06899910 | Johnston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Johnston (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania); Vijay Singh (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for recovering corn germ and corn coarse fiber from corn in a dry grind process, involving soaking corn kernels in water to produce soaked corn kernels, grinding the soaked corn kernels to produce a ground corn slurry, and incubating the ground corn slurry with at least one enzyme (amylase(s), protease(s), cell wall degrading enzyme(s), or mixtures thereof, and optionally other enzyme(s)) to increase the specific gravity of the slurry to about 10-about 16 Baume so that the corn germ and corn coarse fiber floats to the top of the slurry, recovering the corn germ and the corn coarse fiber, and optionally producing ethanol from the slurry no longer containing the corn germ and corn coarse fiber. The process does not involve the addition of starch, a salt, a sugar syrup, or mixtures thereof to the slurry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863682 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/482 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900012 | Preuss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Kay Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Paul Copenhaver (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the identification and cloning of functional plant centromeres in Arabidopsis. This will permit construction of stably inherited plant artificial chromosomes (PLACs) which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. In addition, information on the structure and function of these regions will prove valuable in isolating additional centromeric and centromere related genetic elements and polypeptides from other species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/553231 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06899945 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Buckyrock is a three-dimensional, solid block material comprising an entangled network of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), wherein the block comprises greater than 75 wt % SWNT. SWNT buckyrock is mechanically strong, tough and impact resistant. The single-wall carbon nanotubes in buckyrock form are present in a random network of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, SWNT “ropes” and combinations thereof. The random network of the SWNT or SWNT ropes can be held in place by non-covalent “cross-links” between the nanotubes at nanotube contact points. In one embodiment, SWNT buckyrock is made by forming a SWNT-water slurry, slowly removing water from the slurry which results in a SWNT-water paste, and allowing the paste to dry very slowly, such that the SWNT network of the SWNT-water paste is preserved during solvent evaporation. Buckyrock can be used in applications, such as ballistic protection systems, involving light-weight material with mechanical strength, toughness and impact resistance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391988 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/314.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06901096 | Kwon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Finisar Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hoki Kwon (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs), and VCSELs that use such DBRs, comprised of AlP layers on InP substrates. When grown on an InP substrate, if the critical layer thickness (tcrt) of AlP is greater than λ/4nAlP, where nAlP is the index of refraction of InP and λ is the wavelength, then the DBR can be grown using alternating layers of InP and AlP, wherein the thickness of the AlP is less than the critical thickness. If the critical layer thickness (tcrt) of AlP is greater than λ/4nAlP, then the DBR mirror is grown using alternating layers of InP and of an AlP/InP superlattice, wherein the AlP/InP superlattice is comprised of InP and of AlP wherein the thickness of the AlP is less than the critical thickness. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323923 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 06901353 | Huang |
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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) | Norden E. Huang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention presents Normalized Amplitude Hilbert Transform (NAHT) and Normalized Hilbert Transform(NHT), both of which are new methods for computing Instantaneous Frequency. This method is designed specifically to circumvent the limitation set by the Bedorsian and Nuttal Theorems, and to provide a sharp local measure of error when the quadrature and the Hilbert Transform do not agree. Motivation for this method is that straightforward application of the Hilbert Transform followed by taking the derivative of the phase-angle as the Instantaneous Frequency (IF) leads to a common mistake made up to this date. In order to make the Hilbert Transform method work, the data has to obey certain restrictions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615365 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06899263 | Tappan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illinois Department of Transportation (Springfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Sean Tappan (Pawnee, Illinois); Clinton Gene Barnhart (Mulberry Grove, Illinois); Jerry Lee Iams (Springfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A repair station for a soil auger includes a frame on which the mount the auger at a working height and a motor and gear reduction system to rotate the auger. A slide bar is mounted parallel to the auger and carries a welding guide for supporting a welding gun. The welding guide includes portions engaging the blade, or flight, of the auger to move the welding guide axially of the auger as it rotates. The welding guide also includes a welding gun support shoe with a variable height to position the welding gun so as to lay a bead of metal on the edge of the auger blade. Repeated applications of the welding bead are performed to build up the blade from a worn state to a rebuilt state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/315447 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/49.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 06899945 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Buckyrock is a three-dimensional, solid block material comprising an entangled network of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), wherein the block comprises greater than 75 wt % SWNT. SWNT buckyrock is mechanically strong, tough and impact resistant. The single-wall carbon nanotubes in buckyrock form are present in a random network of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, SWNT “ropes” and combinations thereof. The random network of the SWNT or SWNT ropes can be held in place by non-covalent “cross-links” between the nanotubes at nanotube contact points. In one embodiment, SWNT buckyrock is made by forming a SWNT-water slurry, slowly removing water from the slurry which results in a SWNT-water paste, and allowing the paste to dry very slowly, such that the SWNT network of the SWNT-water paste is preserved during solvent evaporation. Buckyrock can be used in applications, such as ballistic protection systems, involving light-weight material with mechanical strength, toughness and impact resistance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391988 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/314.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06899777 | Vaidyanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Tucson, Arizona); Joseph Walish (Tucson, Arizona); Mark Fox (Tucson, Arizona); John W. Gillespie, Jr. (Hockessin, Delaware); Shridhar Yarlagadda (Newark, Delaware); Michael R. Effinger (Fayetteville, Tennessee); Anthony C. Mulligan (Tucson, Arizona); Mark J. Rigali (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for continuous composite coextrusion comprising: (a) forming first a material-laden composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer and at least about 40 volume % of a ceramic or metallic particulate in a manner such that the composition has a substantially cylindrical geometry and thus can be used as a substantially cylindrical feed rod; (b) forming a hole down the symmetrical axis of the feed rod; (c) inserting the start of a continuous spool of ceramic fiber, metal fiber or carbon fiber through the hole in the feed rod; (d) extruding the feed rod and spool simultaneously to form a continuous filament consisting of a green matrix material completely surrounding a dense fiber reinforcement and said filament having an average diameter that is less than the average diameter of the feed rod; and (e) depositing the continuous filament into a desired architecture which preferably is determined from specific loading conditions of the desired object and CAD design of the object to provide a green fiber reinforced composite object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/038957 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06899540 | Neiderman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Transportation (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C. Neiderman (Mullica Hill, New Jersey); James L. Fobes (Absecon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A means for training and testing baggage screening machine operators. The invention is a computer system which causes the baggage screening monitor to show computer-generated (i.e. simulated) contraband items in a piece of baggage. This can be done in one of two ways: the image of the contraband item can be superimposed on the image of an actual piece of baggage being screened so that it appears to be within the piece of baggage, or the image of an entire piece of baggage containing a contraband item can be displayed. The invention allows the operator's proficiency in spotting contraband items to be evaluated and it can be used for training a new operator as well as for providing continued proficiency training and evaluation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/126385 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900586 | Moradi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benham Moradi (Boise, Idaho); Zhong-Yi Xia (Boise, Idaho); Tianhong Zhang (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode structure for a display device comprising a gate electrode proximate to an emitter and a focusing electrode separated from the gate electrode by an insulating layer containing a ridge are provided. When the focusing electrode is an aperture-type electrode, the ridge protrudes closer to the emitter than the sidewall of the gate electrode or the sidewall of the focusing electrode. When the focusing electrode is a concentric-type electrode, the ridge protrudes above the upper surface of the gate electrode or the upper surface of the focusing electrode. A method for making the aperture-type and concentric-type electrode structures is described. A display device containing such electrode structures is also described. By forming an insulating ridge between the gate and focusing electrodes, shorting between the two electrodes is reduced and yield enhancement increased. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/634075 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900592 | Kunhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erich Kunhardt (Hoboken, New Jersey); Kurt Becker (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for stabilizing glow plasma discharges by suppressing the transition from glow-to-arc includes a perforated dielectric plate having an upper surface and a lower surface and a plurality of holes extending therethrough. The perforated dielectric plate is positioned over the cathode. Each of the holes acts as a separate active current limiting micro-channel that prevents the overall current density from increasing above the threshold for the glow-to-arc transition. This allows for a stable glow discharge to be maintained for a wide range of operating pressures (up to atmospheric pressures) and in a wide range of electric fields include DC and RF fields of varying strength. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288313 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/619 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06900734 | Duan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Universtiy of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yixiang Duan (White Rock, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A handheld/portable detector for chemical vapor monitoring includes a housing and a discharge chamber that is established therein. The plasma discharge has a relatively small volume, e.g., in the micro-liter range. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed within the discharge chamber and a discharge gap is established therebetween. A sample gas tube is in fluid communication with the discharge chamber and provides a sample gas to the discharge chamber. Also, a plasma gas tube is in fluid communication with the discharge chamber and provides a plasma gas thereto. Accordingly, the plasma gas can be used to maintain microplasma discharge between the electrodes and the sample gas can be introduced into the microplasma discharge. A spectrometer optically connected to the handheld/portable detector is used to measure the radiation emitted by the sample gas when subjected to the microplasma discharge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386916 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 31, 2005.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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