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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 05, 2005
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| US 06913327 | Thomas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard James Thomas (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and control scheme to operate a motor-driven actuator. This includes determining actuator force on an external device, determining a command force, and monitoring actuator position. A determination is made whether to operate in a force-control mode or a position-control mode. Both the force-control mode and the position-control mode employ a common feedback control method (e.g. PI or PID). The system operates the actuator in the force-control mode, using actuator force as feedback to the control scheme when the controller determines that the force sensor is operating in its linear range. When the force sensor is operating outside or near the limits of its linear range, the control scheme determines a pseudo-force, comprising estimated force based upon measured position. The pseudo-force is input to the common feedback control method to control the actuator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/464074 |
| ART UNIT | 3683 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems 33/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913553 | Chopra |
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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) | Kewal K. Chopra (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable emergency use v-belt is formed with a tapered end having a plurality of teeth and a housing adapted to engage and hold the teeth when inserted into the housing to allow the belt to be adjusted to the desired length when replacing the normal v-belt used in vehicular applications. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/361039 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Endless belt power transmission systems or components 474/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913655 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melvin Robert Jackson (Niskayuna, New York); Bernard Patrick Bewlay (Schenectady, New York); Ji-Cheng Zhao (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A niobium-silicide refractory metal intermetallic composite adapted for use in a turbine component. The niobium-silicide refractory metal intermetallic composite comprises: between about 19 atomic percent and about 24 atomic percent titanium; between about 1 atomic percent and about 5 atomic percent hafnium; between about 16 atomic percent and about 22 atomic percent silicon; between about 7 atomic percent and about 14 atomic percent chromium; from about 1.5 atomic percent to about 3 atomic percent tin; and a balance of niobium. The niobium silicide refractory intermetallic composite contains a tetragonal phase, which comprises a volume fraction from 0.35 to 0.5 of the niobium silicide refractory intermetallic composite, and a hexagonal M3Si5 silicide phase (wherein M is at least one of Nb and Hf) which comprises a volume fraction comprises less than 0.25 of the niobium silicide refractory intermetallic composite. A ratio of the sum of atomic percentages of niobium and tantalum present in said niobium silicide refractory intermetallic composite to the sum of atomic percentages of titanium and of hafnium present in said niobium silicide refractory intermetallic composite has a value from 1.5 to 2.0. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263527 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913697 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Technology Corporation @ UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linnea K. Ista (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a nanostructured device comprising a substrate including nanotroughs therein; and a lipid bilayer suspended on or supported in the substrate. A separation method is also provided comprising the steps of supporting or suspending a lipid bilayer on a substrate; wherein the substrate comprises nanostructures and wherein the lipid bilayer comprises at least one membrane associated biomolecule; and applying a driving force to the lipid bilayer to separate the membrane associated biomolecule from the lipid bilayer and to drive the membrane associated biomolecule into the nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/338654 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913821 | Golecki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilan Golecki (Parisppany, New Jersey); Terence B. Walker (South Bend, Indiana); Laurie A. Booker (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon composite components (1, 11, 22, 30), which may be aircraft brake discs, heat exchanger cores, and so on, are covered by protective coating 32. Component (1, 11, 22, 30) is immersed in liquid bath precursor of fluidized glass (step 55). After immersion step, glass-coated component (1, 11, 22, 30) is removed and annealed. Heat treatment gradually increases temperature to 250-350° C. at the rate of 1-2° C. per minute (step 60). Heat treatment is followed by soak at temperature of 250-350° C. for 1-10 hours (step 65). Temperature is then increased to 550-650° C. (step 70). Temperature is maintained at 550-650° C. for 1-10 hours (step 75). After completion of second prolonged heat treatment, the component is cooled until reaching room temperature (step 80). Upon completion of the annealing step, the fluidized glass coating converts to solid glass coating (32) enveloping and forming a protective barrier against undesirable oxidation of the C—C component (1, 11, 22, 30). For application to thin-gauge composites, the glass precursor components contain 20-60 weight-% water, 25-50 weight-% phosphoric acid, 2-20 weight-% alkali metal hydroxide, 1-10 weight-% manganese phosphate, 1-10 weight-% boron nitride, 0-5 weight-% elemental boron, and 10-28 weight-% boron carbide. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/622257 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913828 | Zabetakis |
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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) | Dan Zabetakis (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for making metallic microcylinders from pre-treated diacetylenic lipid tubules which includes placing the tubules into an electroless plating bath containing a metal plating reagent, depositing by electroless plating on the surfaces of the tubules enough of a metal to make the tubules electrically conducting, separating the tubules from the plating bath, treating the tubules to remove the lipid and form the metal microcylinders, washing and drying the microcylinders to produce the metal microcylinders having aspect radio of about 12, weight average length of about 20μ, weight average outside diameter of about 1.5μ, and weight average wall thickness of about a quarter of one micron. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/081901 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913838 | McCullough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin McCullough (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Doug E. Johnson (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminum matrix composite wire comprising ceramic fibers with a matrix of aluminum. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730182 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913854 | Alberte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of NJ (New Brunswick, New Jersey); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Alberte (Falmouth, Maine); Harold J. Bright (Arlington, Virginia); Clare Reimers (Philomath, Oregon); Leonard M. Tender (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for generating power from voltage gradients at sediment-water interfaces or within stratified euxinic water-columns is provided. Natural voltage gradients typically exist at and about sediment-water interfaces or in isolated water bodies. One electrode (anode) is positioned in the sediment or water just below the redox boundary and the other electrode (cathode) is positioned in the water above the redox boundary over the first electrode. The anode is lower in voltage than the cathode. Current will flow when the electrodes are connected through a load, and near-perpetual generating of worthwhile power may be sustained by the net oxidation of organic matter catalyzed by microorganisms. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/148104 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913865 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes encapsulated inorganic resists which are compatible with conventional resist processing and development. The encapsulated inorganic materials increase the plasma etch selectivity of the resists compared to conventional polymeric resists. In effect, these resist systems can act as photoimagable single layer hard mask. In a preferred embodiment, the encapsulated material includes inorganic core particles that are at least partially coated with a moiety having an acid labile or photo-labile protected acidic group such that, upon deprotection, the encapsulated material exhibits greater base solubility. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/082399 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913877 | Chaplen 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) | Frank W. R. Chaplen (Albany, Oregon); William H. Gerwick (Corvallis, Oregon); Goran Jovanovic (Corvallis, Oregon); Wojtek Kolodziej (Corvallis, Oregon); Jim Liburdy (Philomath, Oregon); Phil McFadden (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian Kevin Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Thomas K. Plant (Philomath, Oregon); Janine E. Trempy (Corvallis, Oregon); Corwin Willard (Monroe, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of detecting bioactive compounds include exposing compounds to one or more classes of chromatophores and measuring or sensing associated changes in one or more of the chromatophores. Representative methods permit identification and quantification of neurotransmitters, toxins, hormones, and chemical warfare agents with or without prior knowledge of the content of a sample. In some examples, chromatophores based on Betta fish are used. Cytosensor apparatus using such chromatophores include means for exposing chromatophores to a sample and optical detection systems for assessing changes in chromatophore optical properties. Compounds can be identified or quantified based on a red-green-blue or hue saturation-value representations of transmitted or reflected light or based on other characterizations of transmitted or reflected light. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/024654 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914256 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhibo Zhang (Raleigh, North Carolina); Veena Misra (Raleigh, North Carolina); Salah M. A. Bedair (Raleigh, North Carolina); Mehmet Ozturk (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming a nano-scale electronic and optoelectronic devices include forming a substrate having a semiconductor layer therein and a substrate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer. An etching template having a first array of non-photolithographically defined nano-channels extending therethrough, is formed on the substrate insulating layer. This etching template may comprise an anodized metal oxide, such as an anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) thin film. The substrate insulating layer is then selectively etched to define a second array of nano-channels therein. This selective etching step preferably uses the etching template as an etching mask to transfer the first array of nano-channels to the underlying substrate insulating layer, which may be thinner than the etching template. An array of semiconductor nano-pillars is then formed in the second array of nano-channels. The semiconductor nano-pillars in the array may have an average diameter in a range between about 8 nm and about 50 nm. The semiconductor nano-pillars are also preferably homoepitaxial or heteroepitaxial with the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760966 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914273 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Cammy Rene Abernathy (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen J. Pearton (Gainesville, Florida); Yoshihiro Irokawa (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A GaN based enhancement mode MOSFET includes a GaN layer and a (Group III)xGa1−xN layer, such as an AlxGa1−xN disposed on the GaN layer. The thickness of the AlxGa1−xN layer is less than 20 nm to provide a negligible sheet carrier concentration in the GaN layer along its interface with AlxGa1−xN. A source and a drain region extend through the AlxGa1−xN layer into the GaN layer, the source and drain region separated by a channel region. A gate dielectric is disposed over the channel region. A gate electrode is disposed on the gate dielectric. The MOSFET formed is a true enhancement MOSFET which is in an off state when the gate is unbiased. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649712 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914343 | Hiller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hi-Z Technology, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan D. Hiller (San Diego, California); John C. Bass (La Jolla, California); Daniel T. Allen (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric generator system for producing electric power from the environmental temperature changes such as occur during a normal summer day on Earth or Mars. In a preferred embodiment a phase-change mass is provided which partially or completely freezes during the relatively cold part of a cycle and partially or completely melts during the relatively hot part of the cycle. A thermoelectric module is positioned between the phase-change mass and the environment. The temperature of the phase-change mass remains relatively constant throughout the cycle. During the hot part of the cycle heat flows from the environment through the thermoelectric module into the phase change mass generating electric power which is stored in an electric power storage device such as a capacitor or battery. During the cold part of the cycle heat flows from the phase change mass back through the module and out to the environment also generating electric power that also is similarly stored. An electric circuit is provided with appropriate diodes to switch the direction of the current between the hot and cold parts of the cycle. A preferred phase change mass is a solution of water and ammonia that has freeze points between about 270 K to about 145 K depending on the water ammonia ratio. Preferably, a finned unit is provided to efficiently transfer heat from a module surface to the environment. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734336 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914412 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanoset, LLC (East Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingwu Wang (Wellsville, New York); Robert Allen Fransman (Cold Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for transferring electrical energy from a first electrical energy storage device to a second, rechargeable electrical storage device. In this process, the voltage in the energy storage devices are sensed and the difference in such voltages is determined. The rate of current flow from the first to the second energy storage device (and vice versa) is then repeatedly adjusted. A controller, which is preferably powered by the first and second storage devices, monitors and adjusts the voltage levels in each of such devices and the current flows between the devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/442420 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914501 | Geller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lamina Ceramics, Inc. (Westampton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Dov Geller (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael James Liberatore (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Attiganal Narayanswamy Sreeram (Edison, New Jersey); Barry Jay Thaler (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Aly Eid Fathy (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embedded, coupled, shaped waveguide resonators having conductive walls sandwiched between two fired green tape stacks, said conductive walls having apertures therein whose size and location determine the degree of coupling. These waveguides are made by forming openings in a first green tape stack, defining walls and apertures therein, mounting a second green tape stack having a conductive layer thereon thereover and firing the assembly. E-plane probes are inserted in openings in the second green tape stack and connected to microstrip transmission lines on an external surface pf this green tape stack. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/430642 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914554 | Riley 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) | Leon H. Riley (Huntsville, Alabama); Brian R. Strickland (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflected energy detecting device includes a transmitter for transmitting an electromagnetic signal and a receiver for receiving a reflected electromagnetic signal. An antenna may be operatively connected with the transmitter and the receiver for radiating the electromagnetic signal and capturing the reflected electromagnetic signal and the antenna may be movable. A main controller may be provided for controlling operation of the transmitter and the receiver and the movement of the antenna and the reflected energy detecting device may further include at least one platform. The at least one platform may support a remote reflector that is dimensioned and configured to redirect the transmitted electromagnetic signal in a desired direction and a platform controller that is configured to communicate with the main controller and to maintain alignment between the remote reflector and the antenna. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690160 |
| 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 342/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914556 | Nyswander |
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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) | Reuben E. Nyswander (China Lake, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed magnetron is caused to emit a series of RF energy pulses which are phase coherent with an injection signal by supplying the magnetron with a pedestal pulse during low-power signal injection. The pedestal being of a magnitude and duration such that the slow-rise-time pedestal portion holds the magnetron in the Hartree region during the signal injection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 1977 |
| APPL NO | 05/803327 |
| 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 342/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914576 | Sahba |
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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) | Shapur Sahba (Ocean, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A group of Double-Sided High-Tc Superconducting (HTS) Magnetic-Dipole Micro-Antennas is provided. The multi-resonant double-sided HTS magnetic dipole micro-antenna are fabricated using thin-film (τYBCO≈3000 Å) YBCO material (with Tc≈92 K). The substrate is a single LaAlO3 crystal (with the loss-tangent of tan δ≈10−5, εr≈24) with the thickness of τLAO≈508 μm. Each antenna is comprised of a combination of co-centric loop and spiral structures, patterned on both sides of the substrate without ground plane. Due to their geometric structures, each antenna demonstrates a multi-resonant characteristic. The comparison between the overall dimensions of the device (22×22 mm2) and variation of the wavelength at resonances indicate a typical ratio of D/λ≈10−2 between the largest loop diameter and the longest wavelength. A multi-resonant double-sided spiral HTS magnetic dipole micro-antenna, a multi-resonant double-sided folded log-periodic HTS magnetic dipole micro-antenna and methods for reducing antenna length with a multi-resonant double-sided HTS magnetic dipole micro-antenna are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689920 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/793 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914805 | Witcraft et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Witcraft (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lonny Berg (Elk River, Minnesota); Alan Hurst (Anoka, Minnesota); William Vavra (Maple Plain, Minnesota); Mark Jenson (Zimmerman, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An MRAM device comprising an array of MRAM elements, with each element having an MRAM bit influenced by a magnetic field from a current flowing through a conductor, also includes a magnetic keeper formed adjacent the conductor to advantageously alter the magnetic field. The magnetic keeper alters the magnetic field by concentrating the field within the keeper thereby reducing the extent in which fringe field exists, thus allowing the MRAM elements to be formed closer to increase the areal density of the MRAM device. Increase in magnetic field flux due to the magnetic keeper allows operation of the MRAM device with lowered power. Soft magnetic materials such as nickel iron, nickel iron cobalt, or cobalt iron may be used to form the magnetic keeper. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/226623 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914854 | Heberley 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) | Jeffrey R. Heberley (E. Stoudsburg, Pennsylvania); Myron M. Hohil (Parsippany, New Jersey); Jay W. Chang (Demarest, New Jersey); Anthony G. Rotolo (Middletown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic array platform comprising multiple spaced microphones and associated processing electronics/algorithms projects distinct beams in a chosen look direction across which moving objects such as vehicles pass. These moving objects are accurately detected, classified and counted at extended ranges. The acoustic microphone array employs optimized beamforming to create specially focused listening directions that function as a “motion detector” and “trip line counter”. Algorithms detect and confirm the appropriate presence of objects moving through the beams and perform other algorithmic tests to verify that the object is a valid object to be counted. The proposed approach is realized with modest sized acoustic arrays and a reasonable number of microphones by employing an adaptive beamforming algorithm that achieves enhanced directivity in a principal look direction and which significantly reduces the effects of interferers outside the precise steering direction of the “trip line”. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604188 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914910 | Van Renesse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Van Renesse (Ithaca, New York); Mark Rayden (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Layering of protocols offers several well-known advantages, such as, for example, reduction of a network design complexity, but, on the other hand, layering introduces overhead which increases delays in communication and typically leads to performance inefficiencies. The present invention provides a number of techniques allowing to model protocol layering and detect where performance inefficiencies occur in the stack of protocol layers. Furthermore, after common execution paths are identified in the protocol stacks, these paths are optimized by using optimization techniques, such as optimizing the computation, compressing protocol headers, and delaying processing. All of the optimizations are automated in a compiler with the help of minor annotations by the protocol designer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/687439 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914928 | Trussell, Jr. |
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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) | C. Ward Trussell, Jr. (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A diode pumped solid state laser using a laser diode bar or a stack of bars with cylindrical lenses is used to end pump a rectangular cross section solid state laser slab. The combination of lenses and polished slab surfaces provides overlap of the pump light with the laser mode combined with sufficient length of material to absorb all of the pump light to produce a compact, efficient laser source. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/879928 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914931 | Douglas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randal K. Douglas (Redondo Beach, California); Anthony S. Abbott (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A GPS receiver receives GPS spread spectrum communication signals subject to carrier demodulation and code phase autocorrelation using tightly coupled Kalman filter residual estimation based on Ricatti matrix computation for generating code phase errors and carrier phase errors for improved code phase tracking and carrier phase tracking in feedback loops for use in navigation systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/964115 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915016 | Varshney et al. |
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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) | Pramod Varshney (Fayetteville, New York); Liane Ramac-Thomas (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An image, whether compressed or uncompressed, can be transmitted via a fading communication channel to provide at the receiver an image of good perceptual quality despite the impaired channel. Diversity improves wireless transmission by using highly uncorrelated signal paths to combat channel noise. The apparatus and method of the present invention operates in the wavelet domain by using the properties of the original image or its wavelet transform. For an uncompressed image, one computes the two-dimensional wavelet transform of the source image and scalar quantizes the resulting wavelet coefficients. These coefficients are transmitted as a wireless bit stream with diversity to obtain multiple copies of the decomposed image data. At the receiver, the coefficients of the individual decomposed images are combined to form a composite wavelet transform. The final received image is reconstructed from the composite transform. A compressed image is first error protected and then transmitted by wireless using diversity. Multiple bit streams representing the image are decoded with appropriate channel decoding algorithms followed by image decompression up to the point where the wavelet representations of the multiple images are obtained. Before computing the inverse wavelet transform, the individual wavelet representations are combined using rules based on wavelet transform characteristics. After diversity combining, a composite wavelet representation is obtained, and the received image is reconstructed by performing the inverse wavelet transform on this composite representation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/142141 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915225 | Jorgensen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry D. Jorgensen (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a methodology, apparatus and system for resampling digital data utilizing a Fourier series based interpolation engine 104. A quick means to up-sample or down-sample data is provided without requiring computationally intensive processing. This is accomplished by utilizing low order coefficients of terms of a complete Fourier series expansion for a continuous signal. The summation of the expansion is limited to input samples immediately adjacent in time to the desired output. Generally speaking, the output is normally required to be a constant sampling rate, therefore, the input and output rates are related by an integer ratio. This ratio can be greater or smaller than one, providing up-sampling or down-sampling as appropriate. By employing the present invention, a DSP engine can be constructed that is adjustable to any ratio of sampling rates in a computationally efficient manner with low RMS error while preserving convolution through the resampling process. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438426 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915426 | Carman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Networks Associates Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Carman (Glenwood, Maryland); Michael D. Heyman (Columbia, Maryland); Alan T. Sherman (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for generating a plurality of authentication tags using a plurality of authentication mechanisms is disclosed. The plurality of authentication tags can reflect different authentication strength-performance levels. It is a feature of the present invention that a receiver is afforded increased flexibility in adaptively choosing strength-performance levels. It is a further feature of the present invention that multiple authentication tags can be used in multicast environments, where different receivers may have different processor capabilities or security policies. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/621058 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915502 | Schott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Schott (Gambrills, Maryland); Robert Parker (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An API (Application Programming Interface) for an adaptive computing system (ACS) may be used to create a system for performing an application on different types of ACS platforms. The API may be used to generate a system object including a host and a number of nodes and channels. A system data structure is created which describes the nodes, which may be FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)-based ACS accelerator boards. The API may enable source-code porting and scaling from small research platforms to larger field-deployable platforms. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/038063 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2120 | Cudlitz |
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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) | Stephen Cudlitz (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This Interactive/Inoperable ID Card is a personal Bio related Positive Identification Credential System (PICS), which due to its nature could only be activated by the individual to whom it was originally issued. The PICS prior to use, would be activated by more than one of the individual's Bio characteristics, (i.e., Breath, perspiration, fingerprint, IR Imaging, DNA, etc.), which would be pre-stored in the PICS Memory for matching identification. The PICS would then be activated for a given length of time so that its Transponder could receive and respond to queries by an RF Reader with specific information stored in the card/memory. The information obtained by the RF Reader would be matched with the computer record which could respond instantly with a positive, personalized clearance, (or rejection), of the carrier. The PICS is positively personal, non-transferable and is subject to being disabled by the RF Reader if the Computer is programed to eliminate that particular card. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/267149 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 06913679 | Mathies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Mathies (Moraga, California); Brian Paegel (Berkeley, California); Peter C. Simpson (Oakland, California); Lester Hutt (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample component separation apparatus and methods are described. An exemplary sample component separation apparatus includes a separation channel having a turn portion configured to reduce band-broadening caused by passage of a sample through the turn portion. To reduce band broadening caused by passage of a sample through a turn portion, the turn portion may be constructed and arranged to have a sample transport characteristic that is different from the corresponding sample transport characteristic of a substantially straight portion of the separation channel. For example, the turn portion may be configured with an effective channel width that is smaller than the effective channel widths of the substantially straight portion of the separation channel. The actual channel width of the turn portion may be smaller than the channel widths of the substantially straight portion; the effective channel width of the turn portion may be reduced by placing one or more sample transport barriers or constrictions in the turn portion of the channel. Alternatively, the sample velocity through the turn portion may be controlled so as to reduce band broadening. For example, sample transport barriers may be disposed in the turn portion so that sample components of a given band travel through the turn portion at substantially the same effective rate, whereby the band orientation remains substantially aligned along radial directions characteristic of the turn portion. Other a sample transport characteristics, such as electrical resistance or fluid flow resistance, of the turn portion may be adapted to reduce band broadening caused by passage of the sample through the turn portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/249274 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913755 | Schlievert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick M. Schlievert (Edina, Minnesota); Manuela Roggiani (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jennifer Stoehr Stoehr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Douglas Ohlendorf (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to mutant SPE-A toxins or fragments thereof, vaccine and pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using the vaccine and pharmaceutical compositions. The preferred SPE-A toxin has at least one amino acid change and is substantially non-lethal compared with the wild type SPE-A toxin. The mutant SPE-A toxins can form vaccine compositions useful to protect animals against the biological activities of wild type SPE-A toxin. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 09/308830 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/243.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913878 | Nakamura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Nakamura (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James A. Swenberg (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting increased levels of DNA single strand breaks in a eukaryotic cell sample, comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a eukaryotic cell sample to a water-soluble tetrazolium salt under conditions in which said tetrazolium salt is converted to a formazan dye in said cell sample in the presence of NADH or NADPH; and then (b) detecting the presence of the formazan dye in said cell sample, with decreased levels of the formazan dye indicating increased levels of DNA single strand breaks in the eukaryotic cell sample. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/337012 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913926 | Prezant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toni Rita Prezant (West Hills, California); Anthony P. Heaney (Los Angeles, California); Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of inhibiting neoplastic cellular proliferation and/or transformation of mammalian breast or ovarian cells, including cells of human origin, in vitro or in vivo. The inventive method involves the use of a pituitary tumor transforming gene (PTTG)2 peptide, which has the ability to regulate endogenous PTTG1 expression and/or function in a dominant negative manner. In some embodiments, the invention is directed to gene-based treatments that deliver PTTG2-encoding polynucleotides to mammalian cells, whether in vitro or in vivo, to inhibit the endogenous expression of PTTG1. Other embodiments are directed to peptide-based treatments that deliver PTTG2 peptide molecules to the cells, which inhibit endogenous PTTG1 expression and/or PTTG1 function. Kits useful in practicing the inventive method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/854326 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914048 | Gellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Naoki Umezawa (Nagoya, Japan); Michael A. Gelman (Madison, Wisconsin); Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Terra Potocky (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are β-peptides and β-peptide conjugates that are capable of diffusing or otherwise being transported across the cell membranes of living cells. The β-peptides contain at least six β-amino acid residues, at leastsix of which are preferably β3-homoarginine residues. It has been found that when pharmacologically-active agents are conjugated to these types of β-peptides, the resulting conjugates (also disclosed herein) are also capable of diffusing or otherwise being transported across the cell membranes of living cells, including mammalian cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/246441 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914050 | Carney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas); Roger S. Crowther (League City, Texas); David J. Simmons (St. Louis, Missouri); Jinping Yang (Galveston, Texas); William R. Redin (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of stimulating bone growth at a site in a subject in need of osteoinduction. The method comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor to the site. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/909122 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914061 | Secrist, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Secrist, III (Birmingham, Alabama); Kamal N. Tiwari (Birmingham, Alabama); John A. Montgomery (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds represented by the formula 1: A is selected from the group consisting of wherein each R individually is H or acyl, Y is X, N3, NH2, monoalkylamino, or dialkylamino; Z is O or S; and X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halo, hydroxy, alkoxy, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl, haloalkenyl, alkynyl, amino, monoalkylamino, dialkylamino, thioaryl, thioalkyl, allylamino, cyano and nitro; tautomers thereof; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided along with methods for their fabrication. Various of these compounds can be used as anticancer agents, or antiviral agents or to inhibit DNA replication. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/237192 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914136 | Owens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Setagon, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary K. Owens (Earlysville, Virginia); Ichiro Manabe (Taito, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to promoters, enhancers and other regulatory elements of smooth muscle cells (“SMC”). The invention more particularly relates to methods for the targeted knockout, or over-expression, of genes of interest within smooth muscle cells or within a subtype of smooth muscle cells. The invention further relates to methods of conferring polynucleotide expression in vivo specifically in smooth muscle cells or in subtypes of smooth muscle cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057726 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914243 | Sheehan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Sheehan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ross C. Willoughby (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Improvements have been made for collecting, focusing, and directing of ions and/or charged particles generated at atmospheric or near atmospheric pressure sources, such as but not limited to, electrospray; atmospheric pressure discharge ionization, chemical ionization, photoionization, and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization; and inductively coupled plasma ionization. A multiple-aperture laminated structure is place at the interface of two pressure regions. Electric fields geometries and strengths across the laminated structure and diameters of the apertures; all of which act to optimize the transfer of the ions from the higher pressure region into the lower pressure region while reducing the gas-load on the lower pressure region. Embodiments of this invention are methods and devices for improving sensitivity of mass spectrometry when coupled to atmospheric, near atmospheric, or higher pressure ionization sources by reducing the gas-load on the vacuum system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863130 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915151 | Baumgardner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Baumgardner (Milmont Park, Pennsylvania); David Lipson (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Rahim Rizi (Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania); David Roberts (Rosemont, Pennsylvania); Mitchell Schnall (Broomall, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises imaging and quantitative measurement of lung ventilation, particularly in a human lung. Methods for quantitative imaging of lung ventilation, and the further provided systems and algorithmic tools therefore, comprise three primary components: the combined MRI ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) imaging techniques using hyperpolarized helium-3 (3He) gas (H3He); the three-dimensional quantitative imaging of absolute lung perfusion (Q) and collection of local magnetic resonance image data therefrom to produce an absolute lung perfusion image data; and the algorithmic co-registration of the two image data sets, (HP-3He MRI image of V/Q and MR imaging of quantitative perfusion (Q) in the lung). From the data acquired in the combined data sets and their spatial co-registration, absolute ventilation (V) is computed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071434 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915282 | Conway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Conway (Stanford, California); Peter Eastman (Belmont, California); Howard Snortland (Menlo Park, California); Barrett Eynon (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method and system for performing data mining autonomously with regard to a set of data, and formulating hypotheses in response thereto. An autonomous software element (a) collects sets of data, along with collateral data, into a unified extensible database; (b) formulates possibly interesting hypotheses with regard to those data; (c) evaluates hypotheses, thus relating each hypothesis against a probability it could have occurred by chance; (d) rates each hypothesis in response to multiple factors; (e) reports those hypotheses to users, selecting those users who are most likely to be interested and who are most interested in being informed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/776244 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Peter Athol Willis (Los Angeles, California); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-phase method for producing high yields of single-wall carbon nanotubes with high purity and homogeneity is disclosed. The method involves using preformed metal catalyst clusters to initiate and grow single-wall carbon nanotubes. In one embodiment, multi-metallic catalyst precursors are used to facilitate the metal catalyst cluster formation. The catalyst clusters are grown to the desired size before mixing with a carbon-containing feedstock at a temperature and pressure sufficient to initiate and form single-wall carbon nanotubes. The method also involves using small fullerenes and preformed sections of single-wall carbon nanotubes, either derivatized or underivatized, as seed molecules for expediting the growth and increasing the yield of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The multi-metallic catalyst precursors and the seed molecules may be introduced into the reactor by means of a supercritical fluid. In addition the seed molecules may be introduced into the reactor via an aerosol or smoke. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/059570 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913825 | Ostafin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Agnes E. Ostafin (Granger, Indiana); Robert Nooney (Norwich, United Kingdom); Edward Maginn (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles, nanocomposites, and methods for making the nanoparticles and nanocomposites are disclosed. Illustrated methods include preparing a nanocomposite particle by binding a silicate compound to the surface of a core particle in an aqueous suspension, adding a silicate source and an organic surfactant template, and stirring the aqueous suspension to obtain silicate growth. The resultant nanoparticles and nanocomposites have desired mesoporous silicate structure |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/251934 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914052 | McLaughlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry W. McLaughlin (Dover, Massachusetts); Andrew W. Fraley (WestNewton, Massachusetts); DongLi Chen (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tao Lan (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to dideoxynucleoside analog compounds containing a dideoxy ribofuranosyl moiety that exhibit selective anti-viral activity coupled with substantially low toxicity toward the host cells. In particular, the compounds according to the present invention show potent inhibition of the replication of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), while remaining substantially inert toward host cell DNA. Compounds according to the present invention exhibit primary utility as agents for inhibiting the growth or replication of retroviruses, particularly HIV. The compounds of the invention comprise a (2,3′-dideoxy-β-ribofuranosyl) ring coupled to a heterocyclic nucleobase that lacks an “O2 carbonyl”, that enables them to selectively react with and inhibit viral reverse transcriptase, while remaining substantially unreactive toward human DNA polymerases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/097672 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914220 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Cheng Tian (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stella W. Pang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Edward T. Zellers (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical heating apparatus and fluid preconcentrator device utilizing same wherein heating elements of the apparatus are sized and spaced to substantially uniformly heat a heating chamber within a heater of the apparatus. Tall, thermally-isolated heating elements are fabricated in Si using high aspect ratio etching technology. These tall heating elements have large surface area to provide large adsorbent capacity needed for high efficiency preconcentrators in a micro gas chromatography system (μGC). The tall heating elements are surrounded by air gaps to provide good thermal isolation, which is important for a low power preconcentrator in the μGC system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396929 |
| 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 219/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914265 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Heine (Dallas, Texas); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jeffrey N. Miller (Los Altos Hills, California); Ronald L. Moon (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprising a population of quantum dots embedded in a host matrix and a primary light source which causes the dots to emit secondary light of a selected color, and a method of making such a device. The size distribution of the quantum dots is chosen to allow light of a particular color to be emitted therefrom. The light emitted from the device may be of either a pure (monochromatic) color, or a mixed (polychromatic) color, and may consist solely of light emitted from the dots themselves, or of a mixture of light emitted from the dots and light emitted from the primary source. The dots desirably are composed of an undoped semiconductor such as CdSe, and may optionally be overcoated to increase photoluminescence. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329909 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914279 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yicheng Lu (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Zheng Zhang (Bellemead, New Jersey); Nuri William Emanetoglu (Woodbury, New Jersey); Masayori Inouye (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Oleg Mirochnitchenko (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the multifunctional biological and biochemical sensor technology based on ZnO nanostructures. The ZnO nanotips serve as strong DNA or protein molecule binding sites to enhance the immobilization. Patterned ZnO nanotips are used to provide conductivity-based biosensors. Patterned ZnO nanotips are also used as the gate for field-effect transistor (FET) type sensors. Patterned ZnO nanotips are integrated with SAW or BAW based biosensors. These ZnO nanotip based devices operate in multimodal operation combining electrical, acoustic and optical sensing mechanisms. The multifunctional biosensors can be arrayed and combined into one biochip, which will enhance the sensitivity and accuracy of biological and biochemical detection due to strong immobilization and multimodal operation capability. Such biological and biochemical sensor technology are useful in detection of RNA-DNA, DNA-DNA, protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-small molecules interaction. It can be further applied for drug discovery, and for environmental monitoring and protection. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456050 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914785 | Slocum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander H. Slocum (Bow, New Hampshire); Jeffrey Lang (Sudbury, Massachusetts); James R. White (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hong Ma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xueen Yang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit component has an elastically deformable first structure, a second structure, and a support structure coupling the first and second structures, wherein the support structure acts a fulcrum about which the first structure can be variably deformed in response to a variable force, to provide either a variable capacitor or a variable tank circuit having a variable capacitor and an inductor. In one particular embodiment, the circuit component includes a zipper actuator for elastically deforming the first structure. A method of making a circuit component includes forming an elastically deformable first structure, forming a second structure, and forming a support structure coupling the first and second structures, to provide either a variable capacitor or a variable tank circuit having a variable capacitor and an inductor. In one particular embodiment, the method includes forming a zipper actuator for elastically deforming the first structure. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683569 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914917 | Pilgrim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Pilgrim (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An external cavity laser (and method of generating laser light) comprising: a laser light source; means for collimating light output by the laser light source; a diffraction grating receiving collimated light; a cavity feedback mirror reflecting light received from the diffraction grating back to the diffraction grating; and means for reliably tuning the external cavity laser to discrete wavelengths. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339587 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 06912914 | Pfeifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent Bryant Pfeifer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Thomas Jeffery Rudnick (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor array is configured based upon capacitive sensor techniques to measure stresses at various positions in a sheet simultaneously and allow a stress map to be obtained in near real-time. The device consists of single capacitive elements applied in a one or two dimensional array to measure the distribution of stresses across a mat surface in real-time as a function of position for manufacturing and test applications. In-plane and normal stresses in rolling bodies such as tires may thus be monitored. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611523 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913093 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall (Provo, Utah); David Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Scott Dahlgren (Provo, Utah); Cameron Sneddon (Provo, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A robust transmission element for transmitting information between downhole tools, such as sections of drill pipe, in the presence of hostile environmental conditions, such as heat, dirt, rocks, mud, fluids, lubricants, and the like. The transmission element maintains reliable connectivity between transmission elements, thereby providing an uninterrupted flow of information between drill string components. A transmission element is mounted within a recess proximate a mating surface of a downhole drilling component, such as a section of drill pipe. To close gaps present between transmission elements, transmission elements may be biased with a “spring force,” urging them closer together. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430734 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913679 | Mathies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Mathies (Moraga, California); Brian Paegel (Berkeley, California); Peter C. Simpson (Oakland, California); Lester Hutt (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample component separation apparatus and methods are described. An exemplary sample component separation apparatus includes a separation channel having a turn portion configured to reduce band-broadening caused by passage of a sample through the turn portion. To reduce band broadening caused by passage of a sample through a turn portion, the turn portion may be constructed and arranged to have a sample transport characteristic that is different from the corresponding sample transport characteristic of a substantially straight portion of the separation channel. For example, the turn portion may be configured with an effective channel width that is smaller than the effective channel widths of the substantially straight portion of the separation channel. The actual channel width of the turn portion may be smaller than the channel widths of the substantially straight portion; the effective channel width of the turn portion may be reduced by placing one or more sample transport barriers or constrictions in the turn portion of the channel. Alternatively, the sample velocity through the turn portion may be controlled so as to reduce band broadening. For example, sample transport barriers may be disposed in the turn portion so that sample components of a given band travel through the turn portion at substantially the same effective rate, whereby the band orientation remains substantially aligned along radial directions characteristic of the turn portion. Other a sample transport characteristics, such as electrical resistance or fluid flow resistance, of the turn portion may be adapted to reduce band broadening caused by passage of the sample through the turn portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/249274 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913998 | Jankowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan F. Jankowski (Livermore, California); Jeffrey P. Hayes (Tracy, California); Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Metallic films are grown with a “spongelike” morphology in the as-deposited condition using planar magnetron sputtering. The morphology of the deposit is characterized by metallic continuity in three dimensions with continuous and open porosity on the submicron scale. The stabilization of the spongelike morphology is found over a limited range of the sputter deposition parameters, that is, of working gas pressure and substrate temperature. This spongelike morphology is an extension of the features as generally represented in the classic zone models of growth for physical vapor deposits. Nickel coatings were deposited with working gas pressures up 4 Pa and for substrate temperatures up to 1000 K. The morphology of the deposits is examined in plan and in cross section views with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The parametric range of gas pressure and substrate temperature (relative to absolute melt point) under which the spongelike metal deposits are produced appear universal for other metals including gold, silver, and aluminum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612177 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/666 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914552 | McEwan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. McEwan (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A varying magnetic field excites slight vibrations in an object and a radar sensor detects the vibrations at a harmonic of the excitation frequency. The synergy of the magnetic excitation and radar detection provides increased detection range compared to conventional magnetic metal detectors. The radar rejects background clutter by responding only to reflecting objects that are vibrating at a harmonic excitation field, thereby significantly improving detection reliability. As an exemplary arrangement, an ultra-wideband micropower impulse radar (MIR) is capable of being employed to provide superior materials penetration while providing range information. The magneto-radar may be applied to pre-screening magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patients, landmine detection and finding hidden treasures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606388 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914926 | Comaskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Comaskey (Walnut Creek, California); Earl R. Ault (Livermore, California); Thomas C. Kuklo (Oakdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high average power, low optical distortion laser gain media is based on a flowing liquid media. A diode laser pumping device with tailored irradiance excites the laser active atom, ion or molecule within the liquid media. A laser active component of the liquid media exhibits energy storage times longer than or comparable to the thermal optical response time of the liquid. A circulation system that provides a closed loop for mixing and circulating the lasing liquid into and out of the optical cavity includes a pump, a diffuser, and a heat exchanger. A liquid flow gain cell includes flow straighteners and flow channel compression. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/452667 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06913789 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Peter Athol Willis (Los Angeles, California); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-phase method for producing high yields of single-wall carbon nanotubes with high purity and homogeneity is disclosed. The method involves using preformed metal catalyst clusters to initiate and grow single-wall carbon nanotubes. In one embodiment, multi-metallic catalyst precursors are used to facilitate the metal catalyst cluster formation. The catalyst clusters are grown to the desired size before mixing with a carbon-containing feedstock at a temperature and pressure sufficient to initiate and form single-wall carbon nanotubes. The method also involves using small fullerenes and preformed sections of single-wall carbon nanotubes, either derivatized or underivatized, as seed molecules for expediting the growth and increasing the yield of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The multi-metallic catalyst precursors and the seed molecules may be introduced into the reactor by means of a supercritical fluid. In addition the seed molecules may be introduced into the reactor via an aerosol or smoke. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/059570 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914917 | Pilgrim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Pilgrim (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An external cavity laser (and method of generating laser light) comprising: a laser light source; means for collimating light output by the laser light source; a diffraction grating receiving collimated light; a cavity feedback mirror reflecting light received from the diffraction grating back to the diffraction grating; and means for reliably tuning the external cavity laser to discrete wavelengths. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339587 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915215 | M'Closkey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M'Closkey (Los Angeles, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Eugene Grayver (Los Angeles, California); Ken J. Hayworth (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention generally encompass a digital, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) has been designed to perform excitation of a selected mode within a vibratory rate gyroscope, damping, or “force-rebalance,” of other modes within the sensor, and signal demodulation of the in-phase and quadrature components of the signal containing the angular rate information. The ASIC filters dedicated to each channel may be individually programmed to accommodate different rate sensor designs/technology or variations within the same class of sensors. The ASIC architecture employs a low-power design, making the ASIC, particularly suitable for use in power-sensitive applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/603557 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06912891 | Coupland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John N. Coupland (State College, Pennsylvania); Raffaella Saggin (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using ultrasonic reflectance to characterize physical properties of fluids, particularly food solutions. In general, the method comprises the steps of: (a) generating longitudinal ultrasonic waves, (b) coupling the transducer to the fluid being investigated, (c) detecting the reflected longitudinal waves, and (d) determining the physical property of interest by correlating certain characteristics of the reflected ultrasonic waves with the physical property being measured. A particular aspect of the invention is a self-calibrating ultrasonic device useful as a solids concentration sensor and/or a dissolution/precipitation sensor. Self calibration is accomplished via a twin delay line. The invention is particularly useful as an on-line sensor in the processing of food solutions such as milk, ketchup, syrup, chocolate and other confectionary. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177694 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/64.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913757 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Nelson (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises the identification, characterization and sequencing of a gene within the V. anguillarum genome, the mugA gene, a live, attenuated strain of V. anguillarum which comprises a mutated mugA gene, methods of making the strain, vaccines comprising the strain and methods of making such vaccines and administering the vaccines to animals. The invention further comprises vaccines comprised of proteins encoded by the mugA gene, to methods of making such vaccines and administering the vaccines to animals, to vectors comprised of the attenuated strain of V.anguillarum and additional immunizing materials, methods of making the vectors and methods of administering the vectors to animals. Also disclosed are probes, passive vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for the detection and prevention of vibriosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/780347 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/261.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06913789 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Peter Athol Willis (Los Angeles, California); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-phase method for producing high yields of single-wall carbon nanotubes with high purity and homogeneity is disclosed. The method involves using preformed metal catalyst clusters to initiate and grow single-wall carbon nanotubes. In one embodiment, multi-metallic catalyst precursors are used to facilitate the metal catalyst cluster formation. The catalyst clusters are grown to the desired size before mixing with a carbon-containing feedstock at a temperature and pressure sufficient to initiate and form single-wall carbon nanotubes. The method also involves using small fullerenes and preformed sections of single-wall carbon nanotubes, either derivatized or underivatized, as seed molecules for expediting the growth and increasing the yield of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The multi-metallic catalyst precursors and the seed molecules may be introduced into the reactor by means of a supercritical fluid. In addition the seed molecules may be introduced into the reactor via an aerosol or smoke. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/059570 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06913849 | Mallouk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Mallouk (State College, Pennsylvania); Eugene S. Smotkin (Chicago, Illinois); Benny C. Chan (State College, Pennsylvania); Guoying Chen (State College, Pennsylvania); Renxuan Liu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel process and apparatus to combinatorially screen a large number of discrete compositions for electrocatalytic activity have been developed. The apparatus contains a cell body adjacent to a fluid permeable catalyst array support supporting multiple solids. A catalyst mask having holes that are in alignment with the multiple locations for supporting solids is placed over the catalyst array support, masking the solids. A cell cover is positioned adjacent to the catalyst array support, with the cell cover having a passage for monitoring the solids through the mask. A detector may be in alignment with the passage of the cell cover. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/899767 |
| 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: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06913588 | Weitzel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nephros Therapeutics, Inc. (Lincoln, Rhode Island); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Frederick Weitzel (Ypsilanti, Michigan); H. David Humes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Emil Presley Paganini (Chesterland, Ohio); Deborah Ann Buffington (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Angela J. Funke (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit for extracorporeal treatment of a body fluid, the circuit including in serial fluidic communication an inlet for receiving the body fluid from a patient, a first pump, a first treatment device for processing the body fluid, a second pump, an outlet for returning processed body fluid to the patient; and a shunt. The shunt is upstream from the first pump and downstream from the second pump. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402912 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/6.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06915282 | Conway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Conway (Stanford, California); Peter Eastman (Belmont, California); Howard Snortland (Menlo Park, California); Barrett Eynon (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method and system for performing data mining autonomously with regard to a set of data, and formulating hypotheses in response thereto. An autonomous software element (a) collects sets of data, along with collateral data, into a unified extensible database; (b) formulates possibly interesting hypotheses with regard to those data; (c) evaluates hypotheses, thus relating each hypothesis against a probability it could have occurred by chance; (d) rates each hypothesis in response to multiple factors; (e) reports those hypotheses to users, selecting those users who are most likely to be interested and who are most interested in being informed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/776244 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 06913865 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes encapsulated inorganic resists which are compatible with conventional resist processing and development. The encapsulated inorganic materials increase the plasma etch selectivity of the resists compared to conventional polymeric resists. In effect, these resist systems can act as photoimagable single layer hard mask. In a preferred embodiment, the encapsulated material includes inorganic core particles that are at least partially coated with a moiety having an acid labile or photo-labile protected acidic group such that, upon deprotection, the encapsulated material exhibits greater base solubility. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/082399 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 06913877 | Chaplen 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) | Frank W. R. Chaplen (Albany, Oregon); William H. Gerwick (Corvallis, Oregon); Goran Jovanovic (Corvallis, Oregon); Wojtek Kolodziej (Corvallis, Oregon); Jim Liburdy (Philomath, Oregon); Phil McFadden (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian Kevin Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Thomas K. Plant (Philomath, Oregon); Janine E. Trempy (Corvallis, Oregon); Corwin Willard (Monroe, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of detecting bioactive compounds include exposing compounds to one or more classes of chromatophores and measuring or sensing associated changes in one or more of the chromatophores. Representative methods permit identification and quantification of neurotransmitters, toxins, hormones, and chemical warfare agents with or without prior knowledge of the content of a sample. In some examples, chromatophores based on Betta fish are used. Cytosensor apparatus using such chromatophores include means for exposing chromatophores to a sample and optical detection systems for assessing changes in chromatophore optical properties. Compounds can be identified or quantified based on a red-green-blue or hue saturation-value representations of transmitted or reflected light or based on other characterizations of transmitted or reflected light. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/024654 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06913059 | Nixdorf |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industrial Ceramic Solutions (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Nixdorf (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A filter medium formed from a web of ceramic fibers, pleated and integrated into a coherent unit employing a ceramic sol. A method is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436918 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06914231 | Stone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical shuffle/interconnect system having an imaging system defining an input image plane and an output image plane. An optical perfect shuffle is combined with the imaging system for rearranging spatial components of an object located proximate the input image plane into a rearranged image within the output image plane. The optical perfect shuffle having at least one surface used for rearranging of said spatial components incident on the at least one surface of the optical perfect shuffle. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/027220 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2005/fedinvent-patents-20050705.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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