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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 14, 2005
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| US 06904701 | Htoo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thurein M. Htoo (Davis, California); John H. Crowe (Davis, California); Ann E. Oliver (Davis, California); Fern Tablin (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for holding substances during drying comprising a flask having a structure defining an opening. A pair of contiguous or juxtaposed filters is disposed in the opening. A freeze-drying assembly comprising a freeze-drying apparatus, and the device disposed in the apparatus for holding substances during freeze-drying processing. A method for processing a substance under sterile conditions comprising disposing a substance in a flask, positioning the flask in a drying apparatus, and passing a drying medium through a pair of juxtaposed filters for drying the substance. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/077413 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids 034/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904722 | Brown 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) | Michael A. Brown (Columbia, Maryland); Christopher J. Butkiewicz (Horicon, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An elongated truss boom structure is adapted to be flattened and coiled to a stowed configuration. The truss boom includes longerons, battens, and diagonals. A fixed ladder shaped structure is formed by a plurality of fixedly coupled battens which interconnect two adjacent longerons. The truss boom is flattened for stowage by arranging all of the longerons coplanar to the plane of the fixed ladder shaped structure. The longerons preferably have a corrugated cross section. For stowage the longeron is heated and compressed into a ribbon shaped cross section, and upon deployment the longeron is heated to restore its corrugated cross section. A mechanical assembly machine includes a drum, a stowed flattened truss boom rolled into a coil around the drum, a device for unrolling the coil, an actuating and locking mechanism, and a control arm which connects the actuating and locking mechanism to the drum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/788407 |
| ART UNIT | 3637 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904749 | Joshi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash B. Joshi (Andover, Massachusetts); Alan H. Gelb (Boston, Massachusetts); Bernard L. Upschulte (Nashua, New Hampshire); B. David Green (Methuen, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle includes at least one polyoxymethylene structural support member. The polyoxymethylene structural support member includes a polyoxymethylene component that is a propellant that provides thrust to the vehicle upon pyrolysis or combustion of the polyoxymethylene component of the product of pyrolysis of the polyoxymethylene component. The vehicle can be a satellite or other type of spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/688860 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904838 | Dindl |
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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) | Frank J. Dindl (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A restraining net launching device includes a planar restraining net which is tightly packed into a cylindrical shape having an outside portion. This restraining net, when planar or unfurled, includes a perimeter which is heavier than a remainder of the net. A launcher is provided in which the packed net is loaded, and from which the packed net is launched toward a target when desired. The launcher includes rifling which engages the outside portion of the packed net during launching. A source of propelling gas is used for propelling the tightly packed restraining net out of the launcher during launching. When the launching device is fired, the rifling of the launcher engages the outside portion of the packed restraining net to cause the tightly packed restraining net to rotate about the longitudinal axis and hence to unfurl after exiting the launcher with the heavier perimeter radially outermost. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708878 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904859 | Gieseke |
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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) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A launcher for torpedoes and underwater vehicles includes an inlet recess in fluid communication with a shutterway recess. A primary shutterway is provided both for ejection of the vehicle and for supplying fluid intake to the launcher. A pump circulates fluid from the inlet recess to the shutterway recess, and a launch tube houses a vehicle such as a weapon, within the launcher prior to launch thereof. A slide valve and impulse tank combination are positioned intermediate the pump and the launch tube, such that the slide valve controls a flow of fluid to the launch tube. A guide can is positioned at the shutterway recess for guiding the vehicle from the launch tube to an exterior of the launcher and fluid within the launcher is continually moderated to enable selective launch of the vehicle with a fluid force. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816484 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904860 | Dubois 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) | Neil J. Dubois (Cranston, Rhode Island); Bruce E. Sandman (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A winglet for mounting on a trailing end of a flexible line to be towed by an underwater vehicle includes an internal collar member for connection to an inside surface of the line at the trailing end thereof, an outer collar member for connection to an outside surface of the line outboard of the internal collar, and connection means for fixing the internal and outer collar members to the line trailing end. A plurality of fins are mounted on an outside surface of the outer collar member and extend outwardly from the outer collar member. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825636 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904861 | Warner 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) | James D. Warner (San Diego, California); Thomas A. Knoebel (San Diego, California); Jospeh R. Deuth (Alpine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for docking a boat under substantial power in calm or rough seas includes a modified trailer platform having goalposts that guide the boat onto the platform. An elastic harness is attached to either side of the trailer platform and is positioned to interface the V-shaped bow of the vessel. A latch on the bow snags the harness as the vessel is being docked. The latch has a spring-biased and weighted cam that moves to an open position upon the harness contacting the cam and that then rotates to a closed position once the harness passes the cam. The harness then enters a hook formed by the latch and the closed position of the cam retains the harness in the hook. The expandable and retractable harness dissipates the kinetic energy of the docking vessel and assists in bringing the vessel to a rest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807639 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904912 | Roy 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) | Chad J. Roy (Myersville, Maryland); Justin M. Hartings (Clarksburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to exposing an animal to an inhalant; acquiring near real time measurement of at least respiration during said exposing; and calculating a received dose of the inhalant in response to the near real time measurement of the at least respiration during said exposing. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to automatically controlling an environment of an inhalant chamber; and automatically controlling a concentration of an inhalant in the inhalant chamber. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to displaying near real time measurement data related to an animal in an inhalant chamber. In addition to the foregoing, other method embodiments are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. In one or more various embodiments, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the foregoing-described method embodiments; the circuitry and/or programming can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-described method embodiments depending upon the design choices of the system designer. In one embodiment, a system includes but is not limited to at least one inhalant chamber; and at least one animal respiration sensor integral with the at least one inhalant chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/919741 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/203.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904966 | Philpott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Philpott (Seymour, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Champaign, Florida); John C. Selby (Ursana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible mesoscopic heat exchanger is provided by the invention. The heat exchanger of the invention includes uniform microchannels for fluid flow. Separate header and channel layers include microchannels for fluid flow and heat exchange. A layered structure with channels aligned in multiple orientations in the layers permits the use of a flexible material without channel sagging and provides uniform flows. In a preferred embodiment, layers are heat sealed, e.g., by a preferred lamination fabrication process. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687504 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905093 | Dryer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Dryer (Oro Valley, Arizona); Rudolph Adolph Eisentraut (Tucson, Arizona); Martin Allen Kebschull (Tucson, Arizona); John Christopher Parine (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A deployment mechanism (414) in combination with a missile (10), guided projectile (410) or other ordnance that automatically pivots and rotates a fin (412) from a stowed orientation to a deployed orientation. The deployment mechanism (414) includes a tubular cam (434) having a retention mechanism (455) that retains the fin (412) simply and reliably in the stowed orientation. The tubular cam also guides the fin (412) quickly to the deployed orientation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672533 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905454 | Gutierrez |
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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) | Anthony G. Gutierrez (Stewartstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a handheld, hand-powered centrifuge device. The device preferably includes a centrifuge body and a sample-holding member connected to a tether. The device centrifuges the sample by a user physically spinning the member preferably in a vertical arc. The device preferably includes a pull handle which allows a user to shorten the length of the tether to reduce the circumference of the arc, thereby increasing the speed of rotation and centrifugal force on the sample. The device also preferable includes a brake to prevent the member from contacting the handheld centrifuge body. The centrifuge body may have a storage cavity for storing the pull handle when not in use, wherein the member serves to seal the storage cavity when not in use. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608003 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Imperforate bowl: Centrifugal separators 494/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905649 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guodong Zhan (Davis, California); Amiya K. Mukherjee (Davis, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Lafayette, California); Julin Wan (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano-sized powder of barium titanate is compacted and sintered by spark plasma sintering under conditions creating a high heating rate to achieve a densified material that demonstrates superior permittivity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/413438 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905680 | June et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genetics Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl H. June (Rockville, Maryland); Craig B. Thompson (Chicago, Illinois); Gary J. Nabel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gary S. Gray (Brookline, Massachusetts); Paul D. Rennert (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inducing a population of T cells to proliferate by activating the population of T cells and stimulating an accessory molecule on the surface of the T cells with a ligand which binds the accessory molecule are described. T cell proliferation occurs in the absence of exogenous growth factors or accessory cells. T cell activation is accomplished by stimulating the T cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex or the CD2 surface protein. To induce proliferation of an activated population T cells, an accessory molecule on the surface of the T cells, such as CD28, is stimulated with a ligand which binds the accessory molecule. The T cell population expanded by the method of the invention can be genetically transduced and used for immunotherapy or can be used in methods of diagnosis. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 08/592711 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905681 | June et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genetics Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl H. June (Rockville, Maryland); Craig B. Thompson (Chicago, Illinois); Gary J. Nabel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gary S. Gray (Brookline, Massachusetts); Paul D. Rennert (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inducing a population of T cells to proliferate by activating the population of T cells and stimulating an accessory molecule on the surface of the T cells with a ligand which binds the accessory molecule are described. T cell proliferation occurs in the absence of exogenous growth factors or accessory cells. T cell activation is accomplished by stimulating the T cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex or the CD2 surface protein. To induce proliferation of an activated population T cells, an accessory molecule on the surface of the T cells, such as CD28, is stimulated with a ligand which binds the accessory molecule. The T cell population expanded by the method of the invention can be genetically transduced and used for immunotherapy or can be used in methods of diagnosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/349915 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905738 | Ringeisen 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) | Bradley R. Ringeisen (Alexandria, Virginia); Douglas B. Chrisey (Bowie, Maryland); Alberto Pique (Crofton, Maryland); R. Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for depositing a transfer material onto a receiving substrate uses a source of laser energy, a receiving substrate, and a target substrate. The target substrate comprises a laser-transparent support having a laser-facing surface and a support surface. The target substrate also comprises a composite material having a back surface in contact with the support surface and a front surface. The composite material comprises a mixture of the transfer material to be deposited and a matrix material. The matrix material is a material that has the property that, when it is exposed to laser energy, it desorbs from the laser-transparent support. The source of laser energy is positioned in relation to the target substrate so that laser energy is directed through the laser-facing surface of the target substrate and through the laser-transparent support to strike the composite material at a defined target location. The receiving substrate is positioned in a spaced relation to the target substrate. The source of laser energy has sufficient energy to desorb the composite material at the defined target location, causing the composite material to desorb from the defined target location and be lifted from the support surface of the laser-transparent support. The composite material is deposited at a defined receiving location on the receiving substrate. The method is useful for creating a pattern of biomaterial on the receiving substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/068315 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/596 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905762 | Jow 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) | T. Richard Jow (Potomac, Maryland); Shengshui Zhang (Olney, Maryland); Kang Xu (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Michael S. Ding (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous electrolyte to be used in a Li-ion battery includes a lithium salt, a cyclic carbonate, a linear carbonate and an isocyanate-based additive, with the following general formula R1—N═C═O wherein R1 represents linear or branched alkyl groups which have 1 to 7 carbon atoms, or aromatic groups having the following general formula wherein R2 and R3, which may be the same or different and located at any positions of carbons 2, 2′, 3, 3′ and 4 in the benzyl ring, represent hydrogen atoms or halogen atoms, isocyanate groups, either groups, ester groups or alkyl groups, having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and are optionally substituted with halogen atoms. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/060186 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905772 | Shoup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Triton Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Shoup (Bonita Springs, Florida); Norman Rice (Andover, Massachusetts); Dorette Simes (Haverhill, Massachusetts); Jon Nebo (Waltham, Massachusetts); George T. Georges (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are abrasion and impact resistant coating compositions, and substrates coated therewith. These coating compositions provide high abrasion and impact resistance, chemical protection to the substrate, and exhibit enhanced stability to high temperature and high humidity conditions. Coating compositions may also be tailored to provide a balanced combination of abrasion resistance, impact resistance, and weatherability. These coatings may be transparent or not, depending on the intended applications. These coatings may also comprise additives such as UV absorbers, corrosion inhibitors, and electrically conductive materials. Substrates for use herein may be plastic or metal. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319969 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905834 | Simpson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael J. Paulus (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary S. Sayler (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bruce M. Applegate (Knoxville, Tennessee); Steven A. Ripp (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are monolithic bioelectronic devices comprising a bioreporter and an OASIC. These bioluminescent bioreporter integrated circuit are useful in detecting substances such as pollutants, explosives, and heavy-metals residing in inhospitable areas such as groundwater, industrial process vessels, and battlefields. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for detection of particular analytes, including ammonia and estrogen compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/660581 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905880 | Schwertner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey A. Schwertner (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method for predicting the risk of cancer morality, rheumatoid arthritis; systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis, and all-cause mortality is disclosed. The method uses serum bilirubin levels as indicator for such risks, lower serum bilirubin levels generally indicating increased risk and higher levels a decreased risk. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828526 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906098 | Solaja 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) | Bogdan Solaja (Belgrade, Yugoslavia); Dejan M. Opsenica (Veljka, Yugoslavia); Gabriella Pocsfalvi (Napoli, Italy); Wilbur K. Milhous (Germantown, Maryland); Dennis E. Kyle (Fig Tree Pocket, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are mixed steroidal tetraoxanes having the following structural formula 1 wherein n is 0, 1, 2, or 3; R is H; ethanoyl, propanoyl, or benzoyl; R1 is H, methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl; R2 is H, methyl, or ethyl; R3 is H, methyl, or ethyl; R4 is H, methyl, ethyl, tert-butyl, phenyl, p-hydroxyphenyl, p-methoxyphenyl, or p-nitrophenyl, or wherein Y is a C1-C4 straight or branched-chain alkoxy, or wherein W is N, R5 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, or methyl ethanoate 2-yl, and R6 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, or n-propyl, or R5 and R6 are part of a pyrrolidine or piperidine ring; X is a C1-C4 straight or branched-chain alkoxy, a primary amino, a N-alkylamino wherein the alkyl is a straight-chain alkyl groups containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, methyl ethanoate-2-yl, N-phenylamino, p-nitrophenyl, N,N-dimethylamino, N,N-diethylamino, N,N-di(n-propyl)amino, N-pyrrolidino, or N-piperidino as single compounds, and any mixture of all possible stereoisomers at C(4″). n may be 0, 1, 2, or 3, and methods of making and using thereof. As disclosed herein, the mixed steroidal tetraoxanes of the present invention exhibit antimalarial, antibacterial, and antiproliferative activity. Thus, as disclosed herein, the mixed steroidal tetraoxanes of the present invention may be used to treat, prevent, or inhibit malaria, bacterial infections, and diseases and disorders associated with cell proliferation in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359584 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/452 |
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| US 06906506 | Reano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Reano (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John F. Whitaker (Dexter, Michigan); Linda P. B. Katehi (Northville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method to simultaneously measure electric and thermal fields with a single probe. Using an electrooptic semiconductor probe, the Pockels effect is employed to measure electric field magnitude and phase, and the effect of photon absorption due to bandtail states in the semiconductor is used to measure temperature. Techniques to scale relative electric-field measurements to absolute units (volts/meter), stabilize electric-field phase drift, and calibrate electric-field data that is corrupted when the probe is used in regions where temperature gradients exist are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/092157 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906559 | Tümer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tümay O. Tümer (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high sensitivity, three-dimensional gamma ray detection and imaging system is provided. The system uses the Compton double scatter technique with recoil electron tracking. The system preferably includes two detector subassemblies; a silicon microstrip hodoscope and a calorimeter. In this system the incoming photon Compton scatters in the hodoscope. The second scatter layer is the calorimeter where the scattered gamma ray is totally absorbed. The recoil electron in the hodoscope is tracked through several detector planes until it stops. The x and y position signals from the first two planes of the electron track determine the direction of the recoil electron while the energy loss from all planes determines the energy of the recoil electron. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/434075 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906663 | Johnston |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary P. Johnston (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for substantially continuously monitoring an electromagnetic intensity of short pulses of electromagnetic fields (E-fields) having frequencies within a broad frequency range. The system includes at least one antenna capable of sensing one or more pulses of E-fields and converting the pulses into radio frequency (RF) signals having an energy level correlated to the intensities of the E-fields. The system additionally includes at least one equalizer that normalizes the energy levels of RF signals across the broad range of frequencies and at least one modulation device that adjusts the energy levels of the RF signals output by the equalizer. The system further includes at least one RF power sensor for periodically measuring the energy levels of the RF signals output from the modulation device. Further yet, the system includes at least one power meter that determines the peak power level of at least one peak RF signal that has the highest energy level and converts the peak power level of the peak RF signal to power units. Still further yet, the system includes a computer based device that utilizes the power units output by the peak power measurement subsystem to determine the intensity of the E-field correlated with the peak RF signal as sensed by the antenna. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779016 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/173 |
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| US 06906664 | Tseng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gan-Tai Tseng (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Philip Roger Dahl (Encino, California); Shih-Chieh Leung (Cerritos, California); James Chun-Hsiang Liau (Hacienda Heights, California); Jo-Lien Yang (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Michael Shigeru Yonezaki (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining three-axis attitude from line-of-sight (LOS) solutions for two or more GPS satellites uses intersections of null cone patterns and LOS vectors to the GPS satellites. In a preferred embodiment, a unified GPS-based sensor also provides navigation information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/266478 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906800 | Serna, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario A. Serna, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Quantum well stacks are used in combination with linear gratings to determine the degree of polarization of incident light in terms of Stokes parameters. Interference from multiple reflections, diffractions and transmissions of the light propagating from and through the linear gratings modulates the absorption of the ±1-diffracted orders at each quantum well stack. Each quantum well stack is included in separate circuit having a voltage bias and a current meter. The voltage bias across each circuit is individually adjusted, and the photocurrent in each circuit, as measured by the respective current meter, is proportional to the flux of light absorbed by the respective quantum well stack. The four photocurrents are linearly mapped to the four Stokes parameters, which, in turn, represent the polarization of the incident light. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/389334 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907002 | Beshai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nortel Networks Limited (St. Laurent, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Canada); Richard Vickers (Kanata, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | At a master controller of a space switch in a node in a data network, a request is received from a source node that requests a connection to be established through the space switch. This request is compared to other such requests so that a schedule may be established for access to the space switch. The schedule is then sent to the source nodes as well as to a slave controller of the space switch. The source nodes send data bursts which are received at the space switch during a short guard time between successive reconfigurations of the space switch. Data bursts are received at the space switch at a precisely determined instant of time that ensures that the space switch has already reconfigured to provide requested paths for the individual bursts. The scheduling is pipelined and performed in a manner that attempts to reduce mismatch intervals of the occupancy states of input and output ports of the space switch. The method thus allows efficient utilization of the data network resources while ensuring virtually no data loss. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/750071 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907052 | Kozlowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Kozlowski (Redondo Beach, California); John P. Hurrell (Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable optical local oscillator is used for optical heterodyne signal detection using an electrooptic Mach-Zehnder modulator to produce a rapidly tunable optical signal from a tunable RF frequency generator. A combination of the Mach-Zehnder modulator and optical fibers for providing stimulated Brillouin scattering are used to suppress unwanted signals for providing a spectrally pure optical local oscillator waveform. Suppression of unwanted optical signals, up to 50 dB, generated by the Mach-Zehnder modulator is obtained, resulting in high spectral purity of the optical local oscillator waveform with an extended tuning range of the tunable optical oscillator equal to the operating bandwidth of up to 60 GHz of the Mach-Zehnder modulators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368962 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/29.11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907326 | Kucik |
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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) | Daniel P. Kucik (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method autonomously clears obstacles and mines from an approach lane. A ship is distantly located from an approach lane spanning a surf zone and beach portion, and the ship has operator control station software in an onboard computer. At least one system delivery vehicle having a storage bay and propulsion system transits from the ship to the approach lane in response to instructions from the operator control station. A line charge is disposed in each bay and has one end coupled to the system delivery vehicle. A line charge delivery vehicle in the bay is connected to another end of the line charge to pull the line charge from the bay and emplace it in a straight path in the approach lane in response to instructions from the operator control station. Explosives in all line charges are detonated to clear the approach lane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/156370 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907357 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac M. Daniel (Morton Grove, Illinois); Sun Kyoung Kim (Hanam, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A fibrous preform such as a braided or stamped fibrous is inspected for a defect prior to placing the preform in a molding cavity by flowing gas through regions of the preform while it is located outside the molding cavity, measuring gas pressure at the regions, and determining deviations in measured gas parameter among the regions. The deviations of the gas parameter for a particular preform are compared to background data that includes deviations of the gas parameter determined for previously tested performs such that a relatively large deviation for a particular preform is considered to identify that preform as a defective preform as opposed to an acceptable preform. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854741 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907367 | Baggenstoss |
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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) | Paul M. Baggenstoss (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for segmenting a signal into segments having similar spectral characteristics is provided. Initially the method generates a table of previous values from older signal values that contains a scoring value for the best segmentation of previous values and a segment length of the last previously identified segment. The method then receives a new sample of the signal and computes a new spectral characteristic function for the signal based on the received sample. A new scoring function is computed from the spectral characteristic function. Segments of the signal are recursively identified based on the newly computed scoring function and the table of previous values. The spectral characteristic function can be a selected one of an autocorrelation function and a discrete Fourier transform. An example is provided for segmenting a speech signal. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/949409 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907427 | Franz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Franz (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jeffrey S. McCarley (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of indexing a database of documents, by providing a vocabulary of n terms, indexing the database in the form of a non-negative n×m index matrix V, wherein each of its m columns represents an jth document having n entries containing a function of the number of occurrences of a ith term of said vocabulary appearing in said jth document, factoring out non-negative matrix factors T and D such that V≈TD, and wherein T is an n×r term matrix, D is an r×m document matrix, and r<nm/(n+m). The index so generated is useful in two-pass information retrieval systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/862524 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907436 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nong Ye (Phoenix, Arizona); Xiangyang Li (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for classifying data involves receiving a set of training data from a physical process such as a computer network (20). The training data has attribute data and target data. The target data has a class label associated with the attribute data. Dummy clusters are derived from centroid coordinates of the training data associated with the class label (22). Distance measures are determined between the training data and a plurality of clusters which include the dummy clusters (24). Real clusters are created in the plurality of clusters if the training data is closest to a dummy cluster or a cluster having a class label different than the class label associated with the training data (26). A closest match between data to be classified and the plurality of clusters is identified (28) and the data is classified as the class label of the closest match from the plurality of clusters (30). |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/014744 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/203 |
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| US 06907459 | Chi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ed H. Chi (Palo Alto, California); Kim K Chen (Dunwoody, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for predicting the usage of a document collection given proximal cue information in the documents, a starting point and the user's information needs. A document collection topology matrix is created indicating links between document content portions. The link entry documents are analyzed for proximal cue words based on link URL, surrounding text and title. For image links, the connected to document information may also be used. Proximal cue words are added to a matrix relating proximal cue words and links. The proximal scent matrix indicates a similarity between the user's information need and the proximal cue word matrix. A distal scent information matrix is also calculated using distal document information and combined with the proximal scent matrix. Spreading activation is then applied to the resulting matrix using the starting location for a requested number of iterations and resulting in a predicted usage of the document collection. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/820706 |
| ART UNIT | 2142 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Research and Technology Institute, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunping Huang (Urbana, Illinois); Yehia S. Mechref (Bloomington, Indiana); Milos V. Novotny (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of incubating a liquid is provided. The system is well-suited for incubating small volumes of liquid at high temperatures. The liquid may be a reaction mixture comprising a glycoprotein. During the incubation process, oligosaccharides may be removed from the glycoprotein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643501 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heating systems 237/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905210 | Applegate et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Advanced Research and Technology Institute (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond A. Applegate (San Antonio, Texas); Larry N. Thibos (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media relating the display of scattering and/or absorption characteristics of an optical medium. For scattering measurements, a Hartmann-Shack calibration image of a measurement system is acquired to define a first plurality of point spread functions. A Hartmann-Shack test image of the medium is acquired to define a second plurality of point spread functions. A shift is determined between the test image and the calibration image. A point spread of each of the second plurality of point spread functions is measured, each of the second plurality of point spread functions including a component due to optical aberration of the medium and a component due to scatter. The component due to optical aberration is determined using the shift. The component due to optical aberration is deconvolved to determine the component due to scatter. A display of the local scattering characteristics is generated using the component due to scatter. For absorption measurements, a plurality of spot intensity measurements are acquired of a medium, each spot intensity measurement including a component due to reflectivity and a component due to absorption. The component due to reflectivity is determined, and the component due to absorption is determined. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725130 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905685 | Kwon |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Byoung S. Kwon (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are the methods of using the H4-1BB protein, ligands to this protein, and various mAbs either directed against H4-1BB or other molecules that can be used therapeutically. The nature and importance of the H4-1BB molecule provides the ligands and related co-stimulatory molecules the ability to enhance or suppress T-cell activation and proliferation. By treating T-cells that have expressed receptor protein H4-1BB with one of the four anti-H4-1BB monoclonal antibodies disclosed herein activation or inhibition of the immune response is seen. Also disclosed herein is cDNA for the human receptor H4-1BB. The cDNA of the human receptor H4-1BB is about 65% homologous to the mouse cDNA 4-1BB and was isolated by using probes derived from murine cDNA 4-1BB. A fusion protein for detecting cell membrane ligands to human receptor protein H4-1BB was developed. It comprises the extracellular portion of the receptor protein H4-1BB and a detection protein, alkaline phosphatase, bound to the portion of the receptor protein H4-1BB. B-cells that have expressed a ligand to receptor protein H4-1BB can be treated with cells that have expressed receptor protein H4-1BB and B-cell proliferation may be induced. The use of H4-1BB to block H4-1BB ligand binding has practical application in the suppression of the immune system during organ transplantation or against autoimmune diseases including diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. Other applications of this technology include the development of therapeutic methods for the treatment of HIV-1 infected individuals, and the treatment of cancerous tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/877338 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/138.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905822 | Barry, III 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) | Clifton E. Barry, III (Bethesda, Maryland); Andrea E. DeBarber (Rockville, Maryland); Khisimuzi Mdluli (Seattle, Washington); Linda-Gail Bekker (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the discovery that a putative gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with no previously identified function is responsible for the ability of the bacterium to activate thioamide drugs. Since M. tuberculosis has a low rate of synonymous mutations, all mutations in this gene, identified as Rv3854c and now termed “EtaA,” are expected to inhibit the ability of a bacterium with the mutation to activate a thioamide or thiocarbonyl drug. Thus, detecting a bacterium with a mutation in this gene indicates that the bacterium is resistant to treatment with thioamides. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/888320 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905866 | Burgess et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard R. Burgess (Madison, Wisconsin); Terrance M. Arthur (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides cells expressing the sigma binding region of the β′ subunit of RNA polymerase and a method to identify inhibitors of the formation of holoenzyme from core RNA polymerase and sigma. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155419 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905884 | Grissom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Grissom (Salt Lake City, Utah); Frederick G. West (Salt Lake City, Utah); James McGreevy (Salt Lake City, Utah); Joel S. Bentz (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michelle J. Cannon (Price, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to fluorescent cobalamins and uses of these compounds. More particularly, this invention relates to fluorescent cobalamins that comprise a fluorescent, phosphorescent, luminescent or light-producing compound covalently linked to cobalamin. These fluorescent cobalamins can be used to as diagnostic and prognostic markers (a) to distinguish cancer cells and tissues from healthy cells and tissues, including identifying lymph nodes containing cancer cells, and (b) to determine if an individual will respond positively to chemotherapy using cobalamin-therapeutic bioconjugates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866988 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906026 | Noble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy A. Noble (Salt Lake City, Utah); Wayne A. Border (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is methods and compositions for reducing and preventing the excess accumulation of extracellular matrix in a tissue and/or organ or at a wound site using a combination of agents that inhibit TGFβ, or using agents that inhibit TGFβ in combination with agents that degrade excess accumulated extracellular matrix. The compositions and methods of the invention are used to treat conditions such as fibrotic diseases and scarring that result from excess accumulation of extracellular matrix, impairing tissue or organ function or skin appearance in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/869820 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06906180 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myron K. Jacobson (Lexington, Kentucky); Elaine L. Jacobson (Lexington, Kentucky); Jean-Christophe Amé (Obernai, France); Winston Lin (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) enzymes and the amino acid sequences of PARGs from several species are described. PARG is involved in the cellular response to DNA damage and its proper function is associated with the body's response to neoplastic disorder inducing agents and oxidative stress. Expression vectors containing the cDNAs and cells transformed with the vectors are described. Probes and primers that hybridize with the cDNAs are described. Expression of the cDNA in E. coli results in an enzymatically active protein of about 111 kDa and an active fragment of about 59 kDa. Methods for inhibiting PARG expression or overexpressing PARG in a subject for therapeutic benefit are described. Exemplary of PARG inhibitors are anti-sense oligonucleotides. The invention has implications for treatment of neoplastic disorder, heart attack, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases. Methods for detecting a mutant PARG allele are also described. Antibodies immunoreactive with PARGs and fragments thereof are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/973451 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 06906181 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Jyun Lin (Arcadia, California); Seymour Benzer (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are polypeptides and polynucleotides having stress and life span modulating activity. The polypeptides and polynucleotides are useful in identifying and modulating stress-associated disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/978486 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
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| US 06906188 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James David White (Philomath, Oregon); Kurt Frederick Sundermann (Burlingame, California); Rich Garrett Carter (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making epothilones and epothilone analogs is described, as are novel compounds made by the method. Exemplary novel compounds include those according to the formula: With respect the formula, G is selected from the group consisting of R2 substituents independently are selected from the group consisting of H and lower alkyl groups; Z is selected from the group consisting of the halogens and —CN; M is selected from the group consisting of O and NR3; R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, lower alkyl, R4CO, R4OCO, and R4SO2; R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, lower alkyl, and aryl; T is selected from the group consisting of CH2, CO, HCOH and protected derivatives thereof; W is H or OR; and X and Y independently are selected from the group consisting of O, NH, S, CO, and C. Embodiments of the method provide convenient access to analogs of the epothilones, such as those having alternate stereochemistry and those containing an ester, amide, thioester, or alkyne moieties in the macrocycle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354694 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906194 | Imperiali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Instititue of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Melissa D. Shults (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a sensor and methods for determining kinase activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/681427 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Stice (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of producing a cloned non-human mammalian nuclear transfer (NT) embryo and methods for producing a cloned non-human mammal. Embodiments of the methods include introducing donor genetic material into a metaphase I oocyte; introducing donor genetic material into a non-enucleated oocyte; introducing donor genetic material obtained from a donor cell that is at metaphase into an oocyte; introducing donor genetic material into an oocyte, and naturally activating the oocyte or the NT embryo; and introducing donor genetic material obtained from a donor cell that is at late G1 phase into an oocyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/809662 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/24 |
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| US 06906322 | Berggren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Travis Berggren (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Scott Westphall (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Lloyd Michael Smith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides devices, device configurations and methods for improved sensitivity, detection level and efficiency in mass spectrometry particularly as applied to biological molecules, including biological polymers, such as proteins and nucleic acids. In one aspect, the invention relates to charged droplet sources and their use as ion sources and as components in ion sources. In another aspect, the invention relates to charged droplet traps and their use as ion sources and as elements of ion sources. Further, the invention relates to the use of aerodynamic lenses for high efficiency ion transport to a charge particle analyzer, particularly a mass analyzer. Devices of this invention allow mass spectral analysis of a single charged droplet. The ion sources of this invention can be combined with any charge particle detector or mass analyzer, but are a particularly benefit when used in combination with a time of flight mass spectrometer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/113897 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906516 | Bangerter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal K. Bangerter (Stanford, California); Dwight G. Nishimura (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Artifact reduction in steady state free precession magnetic resonance imaging uses weighting of acquired image data to emphasize higher signals and then establishing an image signal based on the combined weighted signals. In one embodiment, a SSFP imaging sequence uses phase cycling and acquired image data is squared with the squared data then combined. The final image signal is based on the square root of the squared data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/635672 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906559 | Tümer |
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| ABSTRACT | A high sensitivity, three-dimensional gamma ray detection and imaging system is provided. The system uses the Compton double scatter technique with recoil electron tracking. The system preferably includes two detector subassemblies; a silicon microstrip hodoscope and a calorimeter. In this system the incoming photon Compton scatters in the hodoscope. The second scatter layer is the calorimeter where the scattered gamma ray is totally absorbed. The recoil electron in the hodoscope is tracked through several detector planes until it stops. The x and y position signals from the first two planes of the electron track determine the direction of the recoil electron while the energy loss from all planes determines the energy of the recoil electron. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/434075 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907130 | Rubinstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Rubinstein (Solon, Iowa); Blake Wilson (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A apparatus and method for inner ear implants is provided that generates signal processing stochastic independence activity across the excited neural population. A high rate pulse train can produce random spike patterns in auditory nerve fibers (hereafter “pseudospontaneous activity”) that are statistically similar to those produced by spontaneous activity in the normal auditory nerve. We call this activity “pseudospontaneous”. Varying rates of pseudospontaneous activity can be created by varying the intensity of a fixed amplitude, high rate pulse train stimulus, e.g., 5000 pps. The high rate pulse train can desynchronize the nerve fiber population and can be combined with a data signal in an inner ear implant. The pseudospontaneous activity can enhance neural representation of temporal detail and dynamic range with an inner ear implant such as a cochlear implant. The pseudospontaneous activity can further eliminate a major difference between acoustic-and electrical-derived hearing percepts. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/023279 |
| ART UNIT | 2643 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06904747 | Nirmalan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirm Velumylm Nirmalan (Niskayuna, New York); Michael John Bowman (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchanger for a turbine is provided wherein the heat exchanger comprises a heat transfer cell comprising a sheet of material having two opposed ends and two opposed sides. In addition, a plurality of concavities are disposed on a surface portion of the sheet of material so as to cause hydrodynamic interactions and affect a heat transfer rate of the turbine between a fluid and the concavities when the fluid is disposed over the concavities. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231701 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06904957 | Degtiarenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southeastern Univ. Research Assn. (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel V. Degtiarenko (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel particle beam target comprising: a rotating target disc mounted on a retainer and thermally coupled to a first array of spaced-apart parallel plate fins that extend radially inwardly from the retainer and mesh without physical contact with a second array of spaced-apart parallel plate fins that extend radially outwardly from and are thermally coupled to a cooling mechanism capable of removing heat from said second array of spaced-apart fins and located within the first array of spaced-apart parallel fins. Radiant thermal exchange between the two arrays of parallel plate fins provides removal of heat from the rotating disc. A method of cooling the rotating target is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231583 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905031 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred S. Miller (Bethel Island, California); Brian D. Andresen (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample collection substrate of aerogel and/or xerogel materials bound to a support structure is used as a solid phase microextraction (SPME) device. The xerogels and aerogels may be organic or inorganic and doped with metals or other compounds to target specific chemical analytes. The support structure is typically formed of a glass fiber or a metal wire (stainless steel or kovar). The devices are made by applying gel solution to the support structures and drying the solution to form aerogel or xerogel. Aerogel particles may be attached to the wet layer before drying to increase sample collection surface area. These devices are robust, stable in fields of high radiation, and highly effective at collecting gas and liquid samples while maintaining superior mechanical and thermal stability during routine use. Aerogel SPME devices are advantageous for use in GC/MS analyses due to their lack of interfering background and tolerance of GC thermal cycling. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/394159 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905586 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Lee (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for performing nucleic acid (DNA and/or RNA) sequencing on a single molecule. The genetic sequence information is obtained by probing through a DNA or RNA molecule base by base at nanometer scale as though looking through a strip of movie film. This DNA sequencing nanotechnology has the theoretical capability of performing DNA sequencing at a maximal rate of about 1,000,000 bases per second. This enhanced performance is made possible by a series of innovations including: novel applications of a fine-tuned nanometer gap for passage of a single DNA or RNA molecule; thin layer microfluidics for sample loading and delivery; and programmable electric fields for precise control of DNA or RNA movement. Detection methods include nanoelectrode-gated tunneling current measurements, dielectric molecular characterization, and atomic force microscopy/electrostatic force microscopy (AFM/EFM) probing for nanoscale reading of the nucleic acid sequences. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/055881 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905834 | Simpson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael J. Paulus (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary S. Sayler (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bruce M. Applegate (Knoxville, Tennessee); Steven A. Ripp (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are monolithic bioelectronic devices comprising a bioreporter and an OASIC. These bioluminescent bioreporter integrated circuit are useful in detecting substances such as pollutants, explosives, and heavy-metals residing in inhospitable areas such as groundwater, industrial process vessels, and battlefields. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for detection of particular analytes, including ammonia and estrogen compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/660581 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905885 | Colston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy W. Colston (Livermore, California); Matthew Everett (Livermore, California); Fred P. Milanovich (Lafayette, California); Steve B. Brown (Livermore, California); Kodumudi Vendateswaran (Livermore, California); Jonathan N. Simon (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable pathogen detection system that accomplishes on-site multiplex detection of targets in biological samples. The system includes: microbead specific reagents, incubation/mixing chambers, a disposable microbead capture substrate, and an optical measurement and decoding arrangement. The basis of this system is a highly flexible Liquid Array that utilizes optically encoded microbeads as the templates for biological assays. Target biological samples are optically labeled and captured on the microbeads, which are in turn captured on an ordered array or disordered array disposable capture substrate and then optically read. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/880515 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906000 | Ganguli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc. (Lawrenceville, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Partha S. Ganguli (Princeton, New Jersey); Alfred G. Comolli (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Stable carbonous catalyst particles composed of an inorganic catalytic metal/metal oxide powder and a carbonaceous binder material are formed having a basic inner substantially uniform-porous carbon coating of the catalytic powder, and may include an outer porous carbon coating layer. Suitable inorganic catalytic powders include zinc-chromite (ZnO/Cr2 03) and suitable carbonaceous liquid binders having molecular weight of 200-700 include partially polymerized furfuryl alcohol, which are mixed together, shaped and carbonized and partially oxidized at elevated temperature. Such stable carbonous catalyst particles such as 0.020-0.100 inch (0.51-2.54 mm) diameter extrudates, have total carbon content of 2-25 wt. % and improved crush strength of 1.0-5 1b/mn, 50-300 m2/g surface area, and can be advantageously utilized in fixed bed or ebullated/fluidized bed reactor operations. This invention also includes method steps for making the stable carbonous catalyst particles having improved particle strength and catalytic activity, and processes for utilizing the active stable carbonous carbon-coated catalysts such as for syn-gas reactions in ebullated/fluidized bed reactors for producing alcohol products and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis liquid products. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/014955 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906099 | Dewey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Dewey (Manorville, New York); Jonathan D. Brodie (Cos Cob, Connecticut); Charles R. Ashby, Jr. (Miller Place, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of a composition that increases central nervous system GABA levels in a mammal, for the treatment of addiction to drugs of abuse and modification of behavior associated with addiction to drugs of abuse in said mammal. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/776117 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906280 | Rosocha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Rosocha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A fast pulsed nonthermal plasma reactor includes a discharge cell and a charging assembly electrically connected thereto. The charging assembly provides plural high voltage pulses to the discharge cell. Each pulse has a rise time between one and ten nanoseconds and a duration of three to twenty nanoseconds. The pulses create nonthermal plasma discharge within the discharge cell. Accordingly, the nonthermal plasma discharge can be used to remove pollutants from gases or break the gases into smaller molecules so that they can be more efficiently combusted. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395047 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906338 | Tajima |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toshiki Tajima (Alamo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of accelerating ions in an accelerator to optimize the energy produced by a light source. Several parameters may be controlled in constructing a target used in the accelerator system to adjust performance of the accelerator system. These parameters include the material, thickness, geometry and surface of the target. |
| FILED | Monday, January 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/757150 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906446 | Post |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor/generator has its stationary portion, i.e., the stator, positioned concentrically within its rotatable element, i.e., the rotor, along the axis of rotation of the rotor. The rotor includes a Halbach array of magnets. The voltage and power outputs are regulated by varying the radial gap in between the stator windings and the rotating Halbach array. The gap is varied by extensible and retractable supports attached to the stator windings that can move the windings in a radial direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/946309 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906528 | Post |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contacting linear position location system employs a special transmission line to encode and transmit magnetic signals to a receiver on the object whose position is to be measured. The invention is useful as a non-contact linear locator of moving objects, e.g., to determine the location of a magnetic-levitation train for the operation of the linear-synchronous motor drive system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676906 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906781 | Berger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt W. Berger (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector to measure EUV intensity employs a linear array of photodiodes. The detector is particularly suited for photolithography systems that includes: (i) a ringfield camera; (ii) a source of radiation; (iii) a condenser for processing radiation from the source of radiation to produce a ringfield illumination field for illuminating a mask; (iv) a reticle that is positioned at the ringfield camera's object plane and from which a reticle image in the form of an intensity profile is reflected into the entrance pupil of the ringfield camera, wherein the reticle moves in a direction that is transverse to the length of the ringfield illumination field that illuminates the reticle; (v) detector for measuring the entire intensity along the length of the ringfield illumination field that is projected onto the reticle; and (vi) a wafer onto which the reticle imaged is projected from the ringfield camera. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/264062 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907097 | Leung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cylindrical neutron generator is formed with a coaxial RF-driven plasma ion source and target. A deuterium (or deuterium and tritium) plasma is produced by RF excitation in a cylindrical plasma ion generator using an RF antenna. A cylindrical neutron generating target is coaxial with the ion generator, separated by plasma and extraction electrodes which contain many slots. The plasma generator emanates ions radially over 360° and the cylindrical target is thus irradiated by ions over its entire circumference. The plasma generator and target may be as long as desired. The plasma generator may be in the center and the neutron target on the outside, or the plasma generator may be on the outside and the target on the inside. In a nested configuration, several concentric targets and plasma generating regions are nested to increase the neutron flux. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/100962 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907363 | Wyant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Wyant (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven P. Nowlen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Spencer M. Luker (Cedar Crest, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for automatic measurement of insulation resistances of a multi-conductor cable. In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus comprises a power supply source, an input measuring means, an output measuring means, a plurality of input relay controlled contacts, a plurality of output relay controlled contacts, a relay controller and a computer. In another embodiment of the invention the apparatus comprises a power supply source, an input measuring means, an output measuring means, an input switching unit, an output switching unit and a control unit/data logger. Embodiments of the apparatus of the invention may also incorporate cable fire testing means. The apparatus and methods of the present invention use either voltage or current for input and output measured variables. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/271371 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06904757 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krista Anne Mitchell (Springboro, Ohio); David Edward Bulman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Mark Eugene Noe (Morrow, Ohio); Harold Ray Hansel (Mason, Ohio); Thomas Allen Wells (West Chester, Ohio); Christopher Charles Glynn (Hamilton, Ohio); John David Bibler (Tucson, Arizona); Toby George Darkins, Jr. (Loveland, Ohio); Joseph John Charneski (Maineville, Ohio); Craig Patrick Burns (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A mounting assembly for a forward end of a liner in a combustor of a gas turbine engine including a dome and a cowl, wherein a longitudinal centerline axis extends through the gas turbine engine. The mounting assembly includes a pin member extending through each one of a plurality of circumferentially spaced openings formed in the forward end of the liner, an aft portion of the cowl, and a portion of the dome, with each pin member including a head portion at one end thereof. A nut is adjustably connected to an end of each pin member opposite the head portion. A bushing is located on each pin member at a position intermediate the head portion and the nut, wherein the openings in the liner forward end are sized to fit around the bushings. In this way, the cowl aft portion and the dome portion are fixedly connected together between the bushing and the nut so that the bushings are able to slide radially through the openings in the liner forward end as the cowl and the dome experience thermal growth greater than the liner. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324871 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905092 | Somers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Airfoils, Incorporated (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan M. Somers (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil having a fore airfoil element, an aft airfoil element, and a slot region in between them. These elements induce laminar flow over substantially all of the fore airfoil element and also provide for laminar flow in at least a portion of the slot region. The method of the invention is one for inducing natural laminar flow over an airfoil. In the method, a fore airfoil element, having a leading and trailing edge, and an aft airfoil element define a slot region. Natural laminar flow is induced over substantially all of the fore airfoil element, by inducing the pressures on both surfaces of the fore airfoil element to decrease to a location proximate the trailing edge of the fore airfoil element using pressures created by the aft airfoil element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/299660 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905097 | Blackwell-Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith C. Blackwell-Thompson (Merritt Island, Florida); John A. Graves (Titusville, Florida); Anita E. Gale (Nassau Bay, Texas); Dilip K. Darooka (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Cory Bird (Mojave, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular payload carrier for use in a launch vehicle includes at least one module configured to fit in a payload bay of the vehicle and attachable to at least one other module configured to fit in the bay. The module includes an outer wall contoured generally to fit a bottom surface contour of the bay. The carrier can be used for the manifesting of both deployable and non-deployable payloads. Processing of payloads with the carrier can be performed, in large part, separately from launch vehicle processing. Thus launch costs and turnaround times can be reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397499 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06905945 | Barmatz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin B. Barmatz (La Cresenta, California); John D. Mai (Pasadena, California); Henry W. Jackson (La Verne, California); Nasser K. Budraa (Riverside, California); William T. Pike (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Bonding of MEMs materials is carried out using microwave. High microwave absorbing films are placed within a microwave cavity, and excited to cause selective heating in the skin of the material. This causes heating in one place more than another. Thereby minimizing the effects of the bonding microwave energy. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/198656 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06905908 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Zhang (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Daniel Gamota (Palatine, Illinois); Min-Xian Zhang (Inverness, Illinois); Paul Brazis (South Elgin, Illinois); Krishna Kalyanasundaram (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic field effect transistors (OFETs) can be created rapidly and at low cost on organic films by using a multilayer film (202) that has an electrically conducting layer (204, 206) on each side of a dielectric core. The electrically conducting layer is patterned to form gate electrodes (214), and a polymer film (223) is attached onto the gate electrode side of the multilayer dielectric film, using heat and pressure (225) or an adhesive layer (228). A source electrode and a drain electrode (236) are then fashioned on the remaining side of the multilayer dielectric film, and an organic semiconductor (247) is deposited over the source and drain electrodes, so as to fill the gap between the source and drain electrodes and touch a portion of the dielectric film to create an organic field effect transistor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329595 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906176 | Ley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dyax Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Charles Ley (Newton, Massachusetts); Christopher Jon Luneau (Salem, Massachusetts); Robert Charles Ladner (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel enterokinase cleavage sequences are provided. Also disclosed are methods for the rapid isolation of a protein of interest present in a fusion protein construct including a novel enterokinase cleavage sequence of the present invention and a ligand recognition sequence for capturing the fusion construct on a solid substrate. Preferred embodiments of the present invention show rates of cleavage up to thirty times that of the known enterokinase cleavage substrate (Asp)4-Lys-Ile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/884767 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06907305 | Mata et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gustavo Mata (Austin, Texas); Steven C. Nettles (Johnson City, Texas); Larry D. Barto (Austin, Texas); Yiwei Li (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for scheduling in an automated manufacturing environment, comprising are disclosed. The method includes detecting an occurrence of a predetermined event in a process flow; notifying a software scheduling agent of the occurrence; and reactively scheduling an action from the software scheduling agent responsive to the detection of the predetermined event. The apparatus is automated manufacturing environment including a process flow and a computing system. The computing system further includes a plurality of software scheduling agents residing thereon, the software scheduling agents being capable of reactively scheduling appointments for activities in the process flow responsive to a plurality of predetermined events. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/135145 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06906108 | Henderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg Henderson (Saint Gabriel, Louisiana); Donald O. Heumann (Metairie, Louisiana); Roger A. Laine (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Lara Maistrello (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Betty C. R. Zhu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Feng Chen (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Extracts of vetiver oil were found to be significant repellents and toxicants of ants, ticks, and cockroaches. Nootkatone was shown to significantly decrease ant invasion and increase mortality in fire ants. Nootkatone is an effective repellent and toxicant of ants either by itself or as an addition to other substrates, including mulches made from vetiver grass roots, diatomaceous earth, alumina, silica, clays; building materials made from either aluminum or wood; and other suitable solid substances. Nootkatone was also a repellent and toxicant to ticks; and a repellent to cockroaches. Nootkatone is non-toxic to humans and other mammals and is environmentally safe. In addition, it is believed that other extracts of vetiver oil, specifically α-cedrene, zizanol and bicyclovetivenol, will be effective against ants, ticks, and cockroaches. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/932555 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06906244 | Fischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Fischer (El Cerrito, California); Tetsu Kinoshita (Shizuoka, Japan); Ramin Yadegari (Tucson, Arizona); Mary Gehring (Berkeley, California); Jack Okamuro (Oak Park, California); Van-Dinh Dang (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating plant development by modulating the expression or activity of plant polycomb genes including FIE and MEA. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/176884 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06905097 | Blackwell-Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith C. Blackwell-Thompson (Merritt Island, Florida); John A. Graves (Titusville, Florida); Anita E. Gale (Nassau Bay, Texas); Dilip K. Darooka (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Cory Bird (Mojave, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular payload carrier for use in a launch vehicle includes at least one module configured to fit in a payload bay of the vehicle and attachable to at least one other module configured to fit in the bay. The module includes an outer wall contoured generally to fit a bottom surface contour of the bay. The carrier can be used for the manifesting of both deployable and non-deployable payloads. Processing of payloads with the carrier can be performed, in large part, separately from launch vehicle processing. Thus launch costs and turnaround times can be reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397499 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06906181 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Jyun Lin (Arcadia, California); Seymour Benzer (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are polypeptides and polynucleotides having stress and life span modulating activity. The polypeptides and polynucleotides are useful in identifying and modulating stress-associated disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/978486 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 06906188 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James David White (Philomath, Oregon); Kurt Frederick Sundermann (Burlingame, California); Rich Garrett Carter (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making epothilones and epothilone analogs is described, as are novel compounds made by the method. Exemplary novel compounds include those according to the formula: With respect the formula, G is selected from the group consisting of R2 substituents independently are selected from the group consisting of H and lower alkyl groups; Z is selected from the group consisting of the halogens and —CN; M is selected from the group consisting of O and NR3; R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, lower alkyl, R4CO, R4OCO, and R4SO2; R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, lower alkyl, and aryl; T is selected from the group consisting of CH2, CO, HCOH and protected derivatives thereof; W is H or OR; and X and Y independently are selected from the group consisting of O, NH, S, CO, and C. Embodiments of the method provide convenient access to analogs of the epothilones, such as those having alternate stereochemistry and those containing an ester, amide, thioester, or alkyne moieties in the macrocycle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354694 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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