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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 06920646 | Crye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LineWeight LLC (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caleb Clark Crye (Brooklyn, New York); Gregg M. Thompson (Brooklyn, New York); Eric Owen Fehlberg (Queens, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical/biological hazard protection suit has two pants legs which extend to a midsection below waist level. An opening in the midsection defines an outlet from the suit interior. A waste collector has an upper segment which is fixed to the midsection and which adjoins an intermediate segment which is in turn connected to a waste receptacle. A first seal is between the upper segment and the intermediate segment, and a second seal is between the intermediate segment and the waste receptacle. A region of weakened material encircles the intermediate segment between the seals. A wearer discharges waste through the outlet and past the two open seals into the receptacle, whereupon both seals are closed, and the receptacle is detached from the upper segment, leaving both the receptacle and the suit sealed. Prior to use, the waste receptacle may be retained within a pocket on one of the pants legs. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601322 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06920722 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Brown (Columbia, Maryland); Christopher J. Butkiewiez (Horicon, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An elongated truss boom structure is adapted to be flattened and coiled to a stowed configuration. The truss boom includes longerons, battens, and diagonals A fixed ladder shaped structure is formed by a plurality of fixedly coupled battens which interconnect two adjacent longerons. The truss boom is flattened for stowage by arranging all of the longerons coplanar to the plane of the fixed ladder shaped structure. The longerons preferably have a corrugated cross section. For stowage the longeron is heated and compressed into a ribbon shaped cross section, and upon deployment the longeron is heated to restore its corrugated cross section. A mechanical assembly machine includes a drum, a stowed flattened truss boom rolled into a coil around the drum, a device for unrolling the coil, an actuating and locking mechanism, and a control arm which connects the actuating and locking mechanism to the drum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825798 |
| ART UNIT | 3637 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921034 | Koss |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Koss (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle assembly for delivering fuel to a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The assembly includes a fuel nozzle including a body having a fuel inlet, an air inlet, an outlet for discharging fuel to the combustor, and a mounting flange for mounting the nozzle in the engine. A portion of the body corresponding to the fuel inlet and/or the air inlet includes a recess for receiving a supply fitting having an annular sealing surface and a rotatable nut. The recess includes an annular seat sized and shaped for sealingly engaging the sealing surface of the supply tube fitting and female threads positioned adjacent the seat for threadably receiving the rotatable nut of the supply. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/317723 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/533.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921052 | Lawless |
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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) | Daniel F. Lawless (Hazel Green, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The Dragless Flight Control System for Flying Objects utilizes paired fins that are mounted to rotate in opposite directions. When no lift is desired during the object's flight, the fins are completely retractable into their housings recessed into the body of the object. This minimizes the drag. The fins are set to a maximum no-stall angle relative to the body axis of the flying object. To provide lift and other flight controls, such as roll and yaw, the fins are selectively exposed outside the exterior skin of the flying object by being rotated on their axes, the two fins in a pair always being rotated in opposite directions. Varying the amount of exposed area of the counter-rotating fins can generate lift effect that is proportional to the exposed area and similar to that produced by current permanently extended standard rotational fins. |
| FILED | Friday, November 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722629 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921195 | Pipe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Pipe (Coldwater, Michigan); Rajeev J. Ram (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for performing characterization of devices is presented. The characteristic of the device are determined by obtaining a first temperature measurement in a first location of a device, obtaining a second temperature measurement, computing the difference between the temperature measurements and, using the temperatures and/or the temperature difference, a characteristic of the device is determined. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/365101 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921249 | Haynie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Allen Haynie (Euless, Texas); James Lee Braswell (Colleyville, Texas); Ernst C. Schellhase (Fort Worth, Texas); Joseph J. Zierer (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A main rotor shear restraint that includes two spherical ball segments, two corresponding bearing outer races, and a spring system for loading the bearing outer races against the two spherical ball segments. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456142 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/134.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921317 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey H. Wood (Eureka, Missouri); Robert E. Bender (St. Louis, Missouri); Terry A. Sewell (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated lapping system is provided for lapping a work product using a robot. Because the robot can apply continuous consistent pressure that far exceeds the capabilities of a human operator, lapping and polishing evolutions take a fraction of the time taken by a human operator. The system includes a robot having one or more lapping end effectors and a control component that controls the robot to lap the work product. The control component includes a processor, a user interface coupled to the processor, a communication component that receives final work product dimensions, and a positioning component that detects a lapping zone on the work product and sends the detected lapping zone to the control component. The control component controls the robot based on the sent lapping zone and received work product dimensions. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302000 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921475 | Kuhr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Werner Kuhr (Oak Hills, California); David Bocian (Riverside, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kristian A. Roth (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides approaches to improve the signal to noise ratio (S/N) in electrochemical measurements (e.g. amperometry, voltammetry, etc.). In particular, a method is described wherein the faradaic current is temporally dissociated from the charging current associated with reading the charge of a redox-active species (e.g. a self-assembled monolayer (SAM)). This method, designated herein as open circuit potential amperometry (OCPA), quantitatively reads the charge of the redox species bound to (electrically coupled to) an electrode surface, while discriminating against both charging current(s) and amperometric signal(s) that arise, e.g. from diffusion-based species in solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/098996 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/775 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921496 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of Americas as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Anderson (Lanham, Maryland); Hedi Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); J. Matthew Mauro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The ionic conjugates include an inorganic particle electrostatically associated with a macromolecule which can interact specifically with predetermined chemical species or biological targets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/811824 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921586 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji-Cheng Zhao (Latham, New York); Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner (Blue Ash, Ohio); Christine Govern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Melvin Robert Jackson (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating system for an article comprising a substrate formed of a metal alloy that is prone to the formation of a deleterious secondary reaction zone (SRZ) as a result of containing more than three weight percent rhenium and at least one additional refractory metal. The coating system comprises an aluminum-containing overlay coating and a diffusion barrier coating between the overlay coating and the substrate. The diffusion barrier coating consists of, in atomic percent, about 20% to about 90% ruthenium, about 2% to about 60% chromium, optionally up to about 50% aluminum, optionally up to about 20% of a platinum-group metal, and the balance at least one of nickel, cobalt, and iron and incidental impurities. The diffusion barrier coating sufficiently inhibits diffusion of aluminum from the overlay coating into the substrate, such that the substrate remains essentially free of SRZ. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605860 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921615 | Sreenivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Byung J. Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Matthew Colburn (Danbury, Connecticut); Todd Bailey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining and correcting alignment during imprint lithography process is described. During an imprint lithographic process the template may be aligned with the substrate by the use of alignment marks disposed on both the template and substrate. The alignment may be determined and corrected for before the layer is processed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/907512 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921890 | Neculaes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasile B. Neculaes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ronald M. Gilgenbach (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yue-Ying Lau (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Cost-effective, simple, low-noise, crossed-field devices such as a microwave magnetron, a microwave oven utilizing same, and crossed-field amplifier utilize an azimuthally varying, axial magnetic field. The magnetic configuration reduces and eliminates microwave and radio frequency noise. This microwave noise is present near the carrier frequency and as sidebands, far separated from the carrier. The device utilizes azimuthally-varying, axial, magnetic field perturbations. At least one permanent perturbing magnet having an azimuthally-varying magnetic field impressed thereupon causes the axial magnetic field to vary azimuthally in the magnetron and completely eliminates the microwave noise and unwanted frequencies. Preferably, the number of axial magnetic field perturbations is based on the number of cavities of the magnetron. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643405 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921898 | Chen |
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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) | Hsing-Cheng Chen (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal images of an object are produced outdoors so as to be significantly differentiated temporally and/or geometrically and be inclusive of natural background such as would be illuminated by sunlight. A calibration of the thermal imager (e.g., radiometer) against theoretical blackbody radiation is effected using measured incident radiation, resulting in a calculated pixel intensity. A system transfer function calculation of the pixel intensity is effected, resulting in a radiance. A matrix inversion calculation of all of the radiances considered together is effected, resulting in a bi-directional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). Advantageously, the BRDF is determined from the target in a direct but mathematically-enhanced manner, thereby making economic use of natural illumination and obviating the need for modelling, simulating or reconstructing the target. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175532 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921990 | Higgins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Higgins (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic monitoring system is disclosed for detecting the open and closed conditions of containers or cabinets containing confidential or classified information. The electronic monitoring system includes a current sensor that detects the presence of a locking bar secured to the containers. A current sensor located on each cabinet operatively cooperates with the transmitter that transmits a signal to a central location, which provides an indicator of the secured or non-secured condition of the container. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/624171 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922127 | Zou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Zou (Urbana, Illinois); Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jose Schutt-Aine (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A raised on-chip planar inductor. An inductor is fabricated on a substrate. The inductor, except for an anchoring extremity, is lifted from the substrate, preferably by application of a magnetic field to a magnetic layer formed on the inductor. The lifting of the inductor deforms a plastic bending region. After the magnetic field is removed, the inductor remains raised with respect to the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154447 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922238 | Doynov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Plamen G. Doynov (Kansas City, Missouri); Douglas C. Stewart (Mission, Kansas); Keith D. Wilson (Lees Summit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for tuning a pulsed-flame photometric detector including providing a carrier gas within a predetermined gas flow range to the pulsed-flame photometric detector, providing at least one combustible fuel to the pulsed-flame photometric detector, applying voltage to an igniter coil associated with the pulsed-flame photometric detector, verifying that the pulsed-flame photometric detector is pulsing above a lower predetermined frequency and above a higher predetermined frequency, adjusting the gas flow of the at least one combustible fuel to the pulsed-flame photometric detector so that at least one cycle of ignition, propagation and then termination is present, heating a container to a predetermined temperature, allowing the at least one carrier gas to flow within the container, housing a tuning compound, and monitoring a width of a sulfur emission resulting from the combustion of the tuning compound to evaluate the width of sulfur emission signal all through a controller. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/248494 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922385 | Edwards |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imation Corp. (Oakdale, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jathan D. Edwards (Afton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a holographic data storage medium includes a substrate, a holographic recording material, and an optically detectable tracking pattern on the medium. The substrate may have first and second substrate portions. The holographic recording material may be a photopolymer, and the medium may have a sandwiched construction, where the holographic recording material is sandwiched between the first and second substrate portions. The optically detectable tracking pattern may be replicated on at least one of the substrate portions. Alternatively, the optically detectable tracking pattern may be recorded as a holographic grating in the holographic recording material. The tracking pattern may facilitate the ability to pinpoint the location of the holographic bit maps on the holographic medium to within a fraction of a micron. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648533 |
| ART UNIT | 2653 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922395 | Elliott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBNT Solutions LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts); Joseph Weinstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Keith William Manning (Arlington, Massachusetts); William Scott Passman (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system tests the protocols for a network containing a group of network devices. The system includes a simulation controller (110) that transmits network configuration information during the protocol testing and one or more nodes (135-1 to 135-N) that emulate a network device, receive the network configuration information from the simulation controller (110), and perform one or more operations in response thereto. The system also includes an analysis device (140) that monitors and analyzes the nodes (135-1 to 135-N) during the protocol testing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/624796 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922665 | Guccione et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Guccione (Austin, Texas); Scott P. McMillan (Santa Clara, California); Brandon J. Blodget (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for simulating a circuit design for a programmable logic device (PLD) at the device level. The same configuration data that is used to configure a PLD is used to generate objects that represent configurable logic elements of the PLD. During simulation, events are generated based on changes in output signal states of the objects. Each event includes an input signal state and identifies an object to which the input signal is to be applied. Since configurable logic elements are simulated, for example, lookup tables, instead of logic gates, fewer events need to be generated and processed than in a conventional simulator. In another embodiment, the system supports an interface that allows tools to interface with the simulator in the same manner as the tools interface with a PLD. |
| FILED | Monday, January 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/757404 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922696 | Lincoln et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California); Steven M. Dawson (Menlo Park, California); Pierangela Samarati (Brembio, Italy); Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Cologno Monzese, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Despite advances in recent years in the area of mandatory access control in database systems, today's information repositories remain vulnerable to inference and data association attacks that can result in serious information leakage. Without support for coping against these attacks, sensitive information can be put at risk because of release of other (less sensitive) related information. The ability to protect information disclosure against such improper leakage would be of great benefit to governmental, public, and private institutions, which are, today more than ever, required to make portions of their data available for external release. In accordance with the invention, a solution to the problem of classifying information by enforcing explicit data classification as well as inference and association constraints is provided. We formulate the problem of determining a classification that ensures satisfaction of the constraints, while at the same time guaranteeing that information will not be unnecessarily overclassified. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/711152 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06920765 | Menapace et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Menapace (Livermore, California); John E. Peterson (Livermore, California); Bernardino M. Penetrante (San Ramon, California); Philip E. Miller (Livermore, California); Thomas G. Parham (Livermore, California); Michael A. Nichols (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing the density of sites on the surface of fused silica optics that are prone to the initiation of laser-induced damage, resulting in optics which have far fewer catastrophic defects, and are better capable of resisting optical deterioration upon exposure to a high-power laser beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/125851 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06920780 | Hubbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. Hubbell (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James B. Sisson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inserting a tensiometer into a sample, comprises providing a drive probe configured to be engaged by direct push equipment; supporting a porous member from the drive probe; and driving the drive probe into the sample using a cone penetrometer. A tensiometer comprises a drive probe configured to be engaged by direct push equipment or a cone penetrometer; a porous member supported by the drive probe; and a pressure sensor in pressure sensing relation to the porous member. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376153 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921422 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Alan Russell (Ames, Iowa); Joel Harringa (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a ductile binder phase for use with AlMgB14 and other hard materials. The ductile binder phase, a cobalt-manganese alloy, is used in appropriate quantities to tailor good hardness and reasonable fracture toughness for hard materials so they can be used suitably in industrial machining and grinding applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669183 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrasive tool making process, material, or composition 051/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921452 | Veligdan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical display panel which provides improved light intensity at a viewing angle by redirecting light emitting from the viewing screen, and a method of making a light redirective display panel, are disclosed. The panel includes an inlet face at one end for receiving light, and an outlet screen at an opposite end for displaying the light. The inlet face is defined at one end of a transparent body, which body may be formed by a plurality of waveguides, and the outlet screen is defined at an opposite end of the body. The screen includes light redirective elements at the outlet screen for re-directing light emitting from the outlet screen. The method includes stacking a plurality of glass sheets, with a layer of adhesive or epoxy between each sheet, curing the adhesive to form a stack, placing the stack against a saw and cutting the stack at two opposite ends to form a wedge-shaped panel having an inlet face and an outlet face, and forming at the outlet face a plurality of light redirective elements which direct light incident on the outlet face into a controlled light cone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/119267 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921526 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Hoffman (Columbia, Missouri); Wynn A. Volkert (Columbia, Missouri); Ning Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Gary Sieckman (Ashland, Missouri); Chrys-Ann Higginbotham (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound for use as a therapeutic or diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes a group capable of complexing a medically useful metal attached to a moiety which is capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. A method for treating a subject having a neoplastic disease includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a radiopharmaceutical having a metal chelated with a chelating group attached to a moiety capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor expressed on tumor cells with subsequent internalization inside of the cell. A method of forming a therapeutic or diagnostic compound includes reacting a metal synthon with a chelating group covalently linked with a moiety capable of binding a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/122611 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
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| US 06921557 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig P. Jacobson (Lafayette, California); Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Lutgard C. DeJonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are low-cost, mechanically strong, highly electronically conductive porous substrates and associated structures for solid-state electrochemical devices, techniques for forming these structures, and devices incorporating the structures. The invention provides solid state electrochemical device substrates of novel composition and techniques for forming thin electrode/membrane/electrolyte coatings on the novel or more conventional substrates. In particular, in one embodiment the invention provides techniques for firing of device substrate to form densified electrolyte/membrane films 5 to 20 microns thick. In another embodiment, densified electrolyte/membrane films 5 to 20 microns thick may be formed on a pre-sintered substrate by a constrained sintering process. In some cases, the substrate may be a porous metal, alloy, or non-nickel cermet incorporating one or more of the transition metals Cr, Fe, Cu and Ag, or alloys thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323137 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/376.100 |
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| US 06921603 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Klint A Rose (Boston, Massachusetts); Mariam Maghribi (Livermore, California); William Benett (Livermore, California); Peter Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Julie Hamilton (Tracy, California); Robert T. Graff (Modesto, California); Alan Jankowski (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a process for fabricating microfluidic systems with embedded components in which micron-scale features are molded into the polymeric material polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Micromachining is used to create a mold master and the liquid precursors for PDMS are poured over the mold and allowed to cure. The PDMS is then removed form the mold and bonded to another material such as PDMS, glass, or silicon after a simple surface preparation step to form sealed microchannels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/131846 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/39 |
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| US 06921605 | Gorer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gorer (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst suitable for use in a fuel cell, especially as an anode catalyst, that contains platinum, ruthenium, and nickel, wherein the nickel is at a concentration that is less than about 10 atomic percent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/785886 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921630 | Dentinger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dentinger (Sunol, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate material for LIGA applications w hose general composition is Ti/Cu/Ti/SiO2. The SiO2 is preferably applied to the Ti/Cu/Ti wafer as a sputtered coating, typically about 100 nm thick. This substrate composition provides improved adhesion for epoxy-based photoresist materials, and particularly the photoresist material SU-8. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285060 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/322 |
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| US 06921733 | Mahajan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Devinder Mahajan (South Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a homogenous catalyst for the production of methanol from purified synthesis gas at low temperature and low pressure which includes a transition metal capable of forming transition metal complexes with coordinating ligands and an alkoxide, the catalyst dissolved in a methanol solvent system, provided the transition metal complex is not transition metal carbonyl. The coordinating ligands can be selected from the group consisting of N-donor ligands, P-donor ligands, O-donor ligands, C-donor ligands, halogens and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/046603 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/103 |
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| US 06921741 | Arendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen R. Foltyn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James R. Groves (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite substrate structure including a substrate, a layer of a crystalline metal oxide or crystalline metal oxynitride material upon the substrate, a layer of an oriented cubic oxide material having a rock-salt-like structure upon the crystalline metal oxide or crystalline metal oxynitride material layer is provided together with additional layers such as one or more layers of a buffer material upon the oriented cubic oxide material layer. Jc′s of 2.3×106 A/cm2 have been demonstrated with projected Ic′s of 320 Amperes across a sample 1 cm wide for a superconducting article including a flexible polycrystalline metallic substrate, an inert oxide material layer upon the surface of the flexible polycrystalline metallic substrate, a layer of a crystalline metal oxide or crystalline metal oxynitride material upon the layer of the inert oxide material, a layer of an oriented cubic oxide material having a rock-salt-like structure upon the crystalline metal oxide or crystalline metal oxynitride material layer, a layer of a buffer material upon the oriented cubic oxide material layer, and, a top-layer of a high temperature superconducting material upon the layer of a buffer material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359808 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921849 | Amasino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M Amasino (Madison, Wisconsin); Fritz M Schomburg (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott D Michaels (Madison, Wisconsin); Colleen M. Bizzell (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses the function, the cDNA sequences, and the expressed amino acid sequences of two genes the expression of which reduced bioactive GA levels and the height of a plant. This information enables creation of dwarf transgenic plants or transgenic plants with a specific dwarf organ. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155435 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
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| US 06921858 | Bingham |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus providing at least one thermoelectric device for pressurizing a liquefied gas container and methods employing same are disclosed. A thermoelectric device including a heating surface and a cooling surface is used for pressurizing a container by vaporizing liquefied gas within the container by transferring heat energy from a portion of the liquefied gas in contact with the cooling surface to another portion of the liquefied gas in contact with the heating surface of the thermoelectric device to convert some of the liquefied gas to a vapor state. Liquefied gas vapor and/or liquid phase may be supplied by disclosed apparatus and methods. The apparatus may also be used as a vapor pump or a liquid pump, or fluid pump. Methods of operation are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/290809 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/203 |
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| US 06921866 | Golner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Waukesha Electric Systems, Inc. (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Golner (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Shirish P. Mehta (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for connecting high voltage leads to a super-conducting transformer is provided that includes a first super-conducting coil set, a second super-conducting coil set, and a third super-conducting coil set. The first, second and third super-conducting coil sets are connected via an insulated interconnect system that includes insulated conductors and insulated connectors that are utilized to connect the first, second, and third super-conducting coil sets to the high voltage leads. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175885 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/125.100 |
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| US 06921894 | Swierkowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve P. Swierkowski (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An accelerometer includes a wafer, a proof mass integrated into the wafer, at least one spring member connected to the proof mass, and an optical fiber. A Fabry-Perot cavity is formed by a partially reflective surface on the proof mass and a partially reflective surface on the end of the optical fiber. The two partially reflective surfaces are used to detect movement of the proof mass through the optical fiber, using an optical detection system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/238660 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.210 |
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| US 06922019 | Leung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California); Jani Reijonen (Oakland, California); Rainer W. Thomae (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact microwave ion source has a permanent magnet dipole field, a microwave launcher, and an extractor parallel to the source axis. The dipole field is in the form of a ring. The microwaves are launched from the middle of the dipole ring using a coaxial waveguide. Electrons are heated using ECR in the magnetic field. The ions are extracted from the side of the source from the middle of the dipole perpendicular to the source axis. The plasma density can be increased by boosting the microwave ion source by the addition of an RF antenna. Higher charge states can be achieved by increasing the microwave frequency. A xenon source with a magnetic pinch can be used to produce intense EUV radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/150534 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.210 |
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| US 06922240 | Lerner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Lerner (Livermore, California); Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California); Jay V. Bixler (Oakland, California); Paul J. Kuzmenko (Livermore, California); Isabella T. Lewis (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact imaging spectrometer comprising an entrance slit for directing light, a first means for receiving the light and focusing the light, an immersed diffraction grating that receives the light from the first means and defracts the light, a second means for receiving the light from the immersed diffraction grating and focusing the light, and an image plane that receives the light from the second means |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/646666 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 06922645 | Haaland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Haaland (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David K. Melgaard (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of multivariate spectral analysis, termed augmented classical least squares (ACLS), provides an improved CLS calibration model when unmodeled sources of spectral variation are contained in a calibration sample set. The ACLS methods use information derived from component or spectral residuals during the CLS calibration to provide an improved calibration-augmented CLS model. The ACLS methods are based on CLS so that they retain the qualitative benefits of CLS, yet they have the flexibility of PLS and other hybrid techniques in that they can define a prediction model even with unmodeled sources of spectral variation that are not explicitly included in the calibration model. The unmodeled sources of spectral variation may be unknown constituents, constituents with unknown concentrations, nonlinear responses, non-uniform and correlated errors, or other sources of spectral variation that are present in the calibration sample spectra. Also, since the various ACLS methods are based on CLS, they can incorporate the new prediction-augmented CLS (PACLS) method of updating the prediction model for new sources of spectral variation contained in the prediction sample set without having to return to the calibration process. The ACLS methods can also be applied to alternating least squares models. The ACLS methods can be applied to all types of multivariate data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963195 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/76 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kendall A. Smith (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Low doses of IL-2 are administered to potentiate an immune response after antiviral treatment. IL-2 is also administered in conjunction with immunotherapy to enhance the immune response to infection. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/708635 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
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| US 06921531 | Briesewitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Briesewitz (Mountain View, California); Gerald R. Crabtree (Woodside, California); Thomas Wandless (Menlo Park, California); Gregory Thomas Ray (Stanford, California); Kurt William Vogel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bifunctional molecules and methods for their use in the production of binary or tripartite complexes in a host are provided. The bifunctional molecule is a conjugate of a drug moiety and a presenter protein ligand. The molecular weight of the bifunctional molecule is less than about 5000 daltons. In the methods, an effective amount of the bifunctional molecule is administered to the host. In certain embodiments the bifunctional molecule binds to the presenter protein and a drug target to produce a tripartite complex, while in other embodiments the bifunctional molecule binds to either the presenter protein or the drug target, but not both, to produce a binary complex The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/025936 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
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| US 06921634 | Lemon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley M. Lemon (Galveston, Texas); MinKyung Yi (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a replication competent hepatitis C virus that includes a heterologous polynucleotide. The invention also includes methods for modifying a hepatitis C virus polynucleotide, selecting a replication competent hepatitis C virus polynucleotide, detecting a replication competent hepatitis C virus polynucleotide, and identifying a compound that inhibits replication of a hepatitis C virus polynucleotide. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259275 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/3 |
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| US 06921637 | Audeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuheir L. Audeh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Dolores A. Fici (Revere, Massachusetts); William McCormick (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid composition comprising a colloidal suspension of a biomolecule-binding matrix material (preferably nitrocellulose) dispersed in a liquid, with particles of the matrix material being of a defined particle size, and replicate copies of a biomolecule, e.g., protein or nucleic acid probes, which are distributed, preferably uniformly, throughout the colloidal suspension and are bound to the matrix material particles, is disclosed. The liquid composition of the invention can be used directly for sample analysis or preparation of biomolecules, or aliquots of the composition can be spotted onto a support to form a microporous matrix system or microarray for analysis or preparation of biomolecules. Compositions and microarrays according to the invention are useful in any type of analytical or preparative procedure relating to biomolecules. They are particularly useful, e.g., in methods for detecting a biomolecule analyte in a liquid sample, methods for determining the presence of a particular nucleic acid sequence within a liquid sample and methods for determining the presence of a drug candidate molecule in a liquid sample. The invention further comprises kits for practicing the various methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/848777 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06921641 | Van Houten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bennet Van Houten (Durham, North Carolina); Milan Skorvaga (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides thermostabile UvrA polypeptides, thermostable UvrB polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode the UvrA and UvrB polypeptides. The invention also includes compositions and kits containing the UvrA and UvrB polypeptides of the present invention. Also provided by the present invention are methods of detecting DNA damage using the UvrA and UvrB polypeptides. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/216556 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06921653 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Walker (Princeton, New Jersey); Sha Ha (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to crystals of the Escherichia coli MurG, a membrane-associated UDP-glycosyltransferase involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. The present invention also relates to three-dimensional atomic coordinates of the MurG protein, three-dimensional structures of the protein, and images thereof. The present invention relates to methods of crystallizing MurG proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/829275 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 06921663 | Mizuguchi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Health Sciences (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroyuki Mizuguchi (Tokyo, Japan); Takao Hayakawa (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for constructing a fiber-mutant adenovirus vector in which a foreign peptide is introduced by a simple system into the fiber HI loop-coding gene of adenovirus; and provides a fiber-mutant adenovirus vector which is constructed by this method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/845160 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 06921761 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen Chen (San Diego, California); Dongpei Wu (San Diego, California); Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Martin Rowbottom (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed which have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein A, R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4, R5, R6, and n are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/832092 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/247 |
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| US 06921773 | Schwinn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debra A. Schwinn (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of α1aAR-selective and/or α1a/α1d-selective antagonists in a method of preventing restenosis after myocardial infarction and re-perfusion. The invention further relates to a method of identifying agents suitable for us in such a method. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/731062 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/442 |
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| US 06921817 | Banerjee |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ranjit Banerjee (Teaneck, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid isolation method permits the isolation of DNAs, RNAs and transcription factors simultaneously from a wide range of lymphoid and non-lymphoid cells, either from patients or in culture, without the loss of biological activity. A significant advantage of this method is that it entails minimal handling of samples from the patients with various disease states and pathogenic conditions such as AIDS, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases, which require substantial precautions during isolation of DNAs and proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/635027 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.400 |
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| US 06921840 | Kung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; wherein X is hydrogen, Cl, Br, I, NO2, NR3R4 or —L—Ch; Y is hydrogen, —CH2OR5, —CH2NCH3R1, NO2, NR3R4 or —L—Ch; Y′ is hydrogen, —CH2OH5, —CH2NCH3R1, NO2, NR3R4 OR —L—Ch; provided that at least one of the Y or Y′ is —CH2NCH3R1; Z is S, O, NR6 CR7R8, C(O) or —C(═CR7R8)-; A is hydrogen, Cl, I, Br or —L—Ch; R1 is hydrogen, C1-C5 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl C1-5 alkylcarbonyl, (C3-C8 cycloalkyl) carbonyl, pnenyl, benzyl, naphthyl, naphthylmethyl or L—Ch; R2 is hydrogen or methyl; and R3-R8 are as defined herein. Radiolabeled compounds of the invention are useful as selective serotonin transporter (SERT) imaging agents for single photon emission tomography (SPECT). As such the compounds are useful for studying the underlying pharmacology and interaction of specific serotinin reuptake site inhibitors (SSRI), commonly used antidepressants, at the SERT sites in the human brain. Certain compounds of the invention, including IDAM (5-iodo-2[[2-2-[(dimethylamino)methyl]phenyl]thio]benzylalcohol) display affinity to SERT sites and show more high selectively for SERT over NET and DAT. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/959581 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921846 | Tedder |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Tedder (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates a method for the production of monoclonal antibodies. The method utilizes an immunized animal having antibody-producing cells with disrupted peripheral tolerance. The invention also provides a method for the use of such monoclonal antibodies, and polyclonal antibodies derived from an immunized animal having antibody-producing cells with disrupted peripheral tolerance, for in vitro and in vivo clinical diagnostics and therapeutics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/555349 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922054 | Hargreaves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California); Shreyas Vasanawala (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic resonance imaging of a body uses steady state free precession with material separation for the selective imaging of two species, such as blood or fat. The refocusing property of SSFP is used with signal phase detection to suppress either water or lipid. Phase and/or frequency of the RF excitation pulse and repetition time are selected so that resonant frequencies of water, fw, and lipid, fl, are on opposite sides of the signal null frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643286 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06920762 | Wells et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Allen Wells (West Chester, Ohio); David Edward Bulman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Mark Eugene Noe (Morrow, Ohio); Harold Ray Hansel (Mason, Ohio); Christopher Charles Glynn (Hamilton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for mounting an igniter in a gas turbine engine combustor between an outer casing and an outer liner, wherein a longitudinal centerline axis extends through the gas turbine engine. The igniter mounting assembly includes a first spring member encircling a portion of said igniter and being positioned between a surface adjacent the outer casing and an outer surface of the outer liner, a first ring member connected to a first end of the first spring member adjacent the outer surface of the outer liner, and a second ring member connected to a second end of the first spring member adjacent the surface adjacent the outer casing. Accordingly, the igniter is able to maintain substantial alignment with respect to an opening in the outer liner while moving radially and/or axially with respect to the outer liner as the outer casing experiences thermal growth greater than the outer liner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341850 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/799 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06920790 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Qixin Huang (Hacienda Heights, California); Robert J. Perez (Westminster, California); Leo M. DeLangis (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for determining stiffness of a plate-like structure including a monolithic or composite laminate plate entails disposing a device for generating an acoustical pulse against a surface of the plate and disposing a detecting device against the same surface spaced a known distance from the pulse-generating device, and using the pulse-generating device to emit a pulse so as to create an extensional wave in the plate. The detecting device is used to determine a time of flight of the wave over the known distance, and the wave velocity is calculated. A Young's modulus of the plate is determined by a processor based on the wave velocity. Methods and apparatus for evaluating both isotropic plates and anisotropic laminates are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422437 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922242 | Sachse |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen W. Sachse (Tabb, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical path switch divides sample path radiation into a time series of alternating first polarized components and second polarized components. The first polarized components are transmitted along a first optical path and the second polarized components along a second optical path. A first gasless optical filter train filters the first polarized components to isolate at least a first wavelength band thereby generating first filtered radiation. A second gasless optical filter train filters the second polarized components to isolate at least a second wavelength band thereby generating second filtered radiation. A beam combiner combines the first and second filtered radiation to form a combined beam of radiation. A detector is disposed to monitor magnitude of at least a portion of the combined beam alternately at the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band as an indication of the concentration of the substance in the sample path. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465386 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922249 | Ames et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence L. Ames (San Jose, California); Raymond Mark Bell (Redwood City, California); Kalyan Dutta (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to reducing cyclic error in the beam launcher of an interferometer. In one embodiment, an interferometry apparatus comprises a reference beam directed along a reference path, and a measurement beam spatially separated from the reference beam and being directed along a measurement path contacting a measurement object. The reference beam and the measurement beam have a single frequency. At least a portion of the reference beam and at least a portion of the measurement beam overlapping along a common path. One or more masks are disposed in the common path or in the reference path and the measurement path to spatially isolate the reference beam and the measurement beam from one another. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/293209 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922430 | Biswas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijit Biswas (Arcadia, California); Babak Sanji (Pasadena, California); Malcolm W. Wright (Pasadena, California); Norman Alan Page (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical beacon is comprised of a telescope having a primary focal plane or Coudé focal plane, a plurality of fiber coupled laser sources for generating a plurality of beams, a collimator for collimating the plurality of beams, and optics for combining and focusing the plurality of collimated beams onto the primary or Coudé focal plane of the telescope. The telescope propagates the optical beacon, which is arranged into a ring of incoherent plurality of collimated beams. The apparatus further comprises fiber splitters coupled to each laser source to provide at least eight beams from at least four laser sources. The optics comprises a prism assembly, a combiner lens, a focusing lens and a field lens for focusing the plurality of collimated beams onto the primary focal plane or Coudé focal plane of the telescope. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/299121 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922497 | Savchenkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoliy Savchenkov (La Crescenta, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (La Canada, California); Timothy A. Handley (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical resonators formed of radiation-sensitive materials to allow for permanent tuning of their resonance frequencies in a controlled manner. Two WGM resonators may be cascaded to form a composite filter to produce a second order filter function where at least one WGM resonator is formed a radiation-sensitive material to allow for proper control in the overlap of the two filter functions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441946 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06920973 | Koren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoram Koren (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rodney L. Hill (Milar, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated reconfigurable multi-stage manufacturing system and associated methods. The system may include a plurality of manufacturing cells, each cell associated with at least one stage of a manufacturing process. The plurality of cells may include a first cell comprising at least one flexible manufacturing station, a second cell comprising at least one reconfigurable manufacturing station, and a third cell comprising at least one reconfigurable inspection machine. The system may also include a plurality of loop conveyors and a plurality of cell gantries. Each loop conveyor may connect at least two neighboring cells and each cell gantry may transport parts from the cell associated with the cell gantry to at least one loop conveyor. In one embodiment, each cell may be hexagonal, and the manufacturing system may have a honeycomb structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/464934 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/339.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921253 | Shuler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shuler (Ithaca, New York); Aaron Sin (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A micropump has two chambers separated by an actuator for causing fluid to flow in the chambers. Each chamber is equipped with a ball that acts as a valve for allowing flow in a desired direction. The balls are heavier than the fluid being pumped, and reside at an interface between the chambers and passages feeding fluid into the chambers and provide a tight seal between the chambers and passages feeding the chambers when fluid pressure forces the fluid back toward the feeding passages. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/325624 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921496 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of Americas as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Anderson (Lanham, Maryland); Hedi Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); J. Matthew Mauro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The ionic conjugates include an inorganic particle electrostatically associated with a macromolecule which can interact specifically with predetermined chemical species or biological targets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/811824 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921643 | Gill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey P. Gill (Davis, California); Garth R. Brown (Davis, California); David B. Neale (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is the most important commercial tree species in the USA harvested for pulp and solid wood products. Increasing the efficiency of chemical pulping may be achieved through the manipulation of genes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway. A null allele of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) has been discovered in the loblolly pine clone 7-56 which displays altered lignin composition. During identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the cad gene, a two-base pair adenosine insertion located in exon five and unique to clone 7-56 was discovered. The sequence mutation causes a frame-shift predicted to result in premature termination of the protein. For routine detection of the mutation, a diagnostic assay was developed utilising Template-directed Dye-terminator Incorporation and Fluorescence Polarization detection (FP-TDI). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359451 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921735 | Hoveyda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir H. Hoveyda (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jason Kingsbury (Brookline, Massachusetts); Steven Garber (Brighton, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence Gray (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); John T. Fourkas (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly active, recoverable and recyclable transition metal-based metathesis catalysts and their organometallic complexes including dendrimeric complexes are disclosed, including a Ru complex bearing a 1,3-dimesityl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene and styrenyl ether ligand. The heterocyclic ligand significantly enhances the catalytic activity, and the styrenyl ether allows for the easy recovery of the Ru complex. Derivatized catalysts capable of being immobilized on substrate surfaces are also disclosed. The present catalysts can be used to catalyze ring-closing metathesis (RCM), ring-opening (ROM) and cross metatheses (CM) reactions, and promote the efficient formation of various trisubstituted olefins at ambient temperature in high yield. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/925555 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922696 | Lincoln et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California); Steven M. Dawson (Menlo Park, California); Pierangela Samarati (Brembio, Italy); Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Cologno Monzese, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Despite advances in recent years in the area of mandatory access control in database systems, today's information repositories remain vulnerable to inference and data association attacks that can result in serious information leakage. Without support for coping against these attacks, sensitive information can be put at risk because of release of other (less sensitive) related information. The ability to protect information disclosure against such improper leakage would be of great benefit to governmental, public, and private institutions, which are, today more than ever, required to make portions of their data available for external release. In accordance with the invention, a solution to the problem of classifying information by enforcing explicit data classification as well as inference and association constraints is provided. We formulate the problem of determining a classification that ensures satisfaction of the constraints, while at the same time guaranteeing that information will not be unnecessarily overclassified. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/711152 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06921643 | Gill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey P. Gill (Davis, California); Garth R. Brown (Davis, California); David B. Neale (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is the most important commercial tree species in the USA harvested for pulp and solid wood products. Increasing the efficiency of chemical pulping may be achieved through the manipulation of genes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway. A null allele of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) has been discovered in the loblolly pine clone 7-56 which displays altered lignin composition. During identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the cad gene, a two-base pair adenosine insertion located in exon five and unique to clone 7-56 was discovered. The sequence mutation causes a frame-shift predicted to result in premature termination of the protein. For routine detection of the mutation, a diagnostic assay was developed utilising Template-directed Dye-terminator Incorporation and Fluorescence Polarization detection (FP-TDI). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359451 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921848 | Chory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanne Chory (Del Mar, California); Zhiyong Wang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a BZR1 gene and an altered gene, bzr1-D, involved in the brassinosteroid response pathway. The expression of BZR1 genes in transgenic plants causes such plants to become significantly larger and more robust than their wild-type counterparts, thus increasing plant yields. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/995938 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP15891 | Ramming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Ramming (Fresno, California); Ronald E. Tarailo (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of grapevine denominated ‘Sweet Scarlet’ which is characterized by its midseason ripening seedless fruit, attractive raspberry red coloration, its ovoid fruit shape, its firm fruit texture with a light muscat flavor, and its medium to tight cluster. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371512 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06921419 | Weir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Weir (Evanston, Illinois); Edward C. Grahn (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An externally-powered prosthesis mechanism usable with persons with amputations at or proximal to the level of the metacarpophalangeal joint, as well as persons with high-level amputations. The prosthesis mechanism includes a grasping mechanism including a mechanically operable finger member and a mechanically operable thumb member kinematically linked to the finger member such that the grasping mechanism is disposed in respective opened and closed configurations when the finger member is respectively moved away from and toward the thumb member. The prosthesis mechanism further includes a drive system extending tangentially with respect to the grasping mechanism and including a motor operatively connected to drive at least one planetary gear stage, which is operatively connected to drive the grasping mechanism to the opened configuration when the motor is driven in a first direction and further drive the grasping mechanism to the closed configuration when the motor is driven in a second opposite direction. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717481 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06921526 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Hoffman (Columbia, Missouri); Wynn A. Volkert (Columbia, Missouri); Ning Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Gary Sieckman (Ashland, Missouri); Chrys-Ann Higginbotham (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound for use as a therapeutic or diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes a group capable of complexing a medically useful metal attached to a moiety which is capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. A method for treating a subject having a neoplastic disease includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a radiopharmaceutical having a metal chelated with a chelating group attached to a moiety capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor expressed on tumor cells with subsequent internalization inside of the cell. A method of forming a therapeutic or diagnostic compound includes reacting a metal synthon with a chelating group covalently linked with a moiety capable of binding a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/122611 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06921585 | Sexton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imation Corp. (Oakdale, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Sexton (Oakdale, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Perpendicular magnetic media are described for use in magnetic recording and data storage. For example, a magnetic medium may include a substrate, an amorphous underlayer formed over the substrate, a seed layer formed over the amorphous underlayer, and a multi-layered magnetic stack formed over the seed layer. In this manner, high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy can be achieved and storage densities can be increased. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/146269 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/669 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06922774 | Meushaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert V. Meushaw (Columbia, Maryland); Mark S. Schneider (Sykesville, Maryland); Donald N. Simard (Severn, Maryland); Grant M. Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for and method of secure computing that includes a computer system having a processor; an operating-system software program loaded onto the processor; a type-II virtual machine monitor software program loaded onto the operating-system software program; a user-definable number of non-sensitive virtual-machines; a user-definable number of sensitive virtual-machines, where each sensitive virtual-machine has a user-definable sensitivity level; a user-definable number of encryption virtual-machines, where each encryption virtual-machine is connected to one of said user-definable number of sensitive virtual-machines, and where each encryption virtual-machine includes at least one encryption algorithm capable of encrypting information from the corresponding sensitive virtual-machine according to the corresponding sensitivity level; and a router virtual-machine connected to each non-sensitive virtual-machine and each encryption virtual-machine. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/854818 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06921650 | Julien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Julien (Oakland, California); Leonard Katz (Hayward, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Li Tang (Foster City, California); Rainer Ziermann (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant nucleic acids that encode all or a portion of the epothilone polyketide synthase (PKS) are used to express recombinant PKS genes in host cells for the production of epothilones, epothilone derivatives, and polyketides that are useful as cancer chemotherapeutics, fungicides, and immunosuppressants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724876 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06921814 | Ozelius et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie J. Ozelius (Bronx, New York); Xandra O. Breakefield (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of detecting mutations and polymorphisms in the torsin gene, torsin-related genes, methods of detecting neuronal diseases mediated by these mutations and polymorphisms and nucleic acids used in these methods. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/772105 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922429 | Bunn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Bunn (Simi Valley, California); Stephen C. Hurlock (Simi Valley, California); Alan Z. Ullman (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for removing BHP contaminants (alkali hydroxide and H2O2) from a recycled aqueous alkali chloride solution stream before the stream is fed to a chloralkali cell so that the contaminants do not impair the operation of a chloralkali cell. Unwanted alkali hydroxide within the recycled alkali chloride brine solution is reacted with chlorine gas and converted into an alkali chloride, which is useful in the operation of the chloralkali cell, and oxygen gas, which is outgassed from the system. Any H2O2 remaining in the recycled stream after elimination of the alkali hydroxide is reacted with chlorine to form HCl and oxygen gas. The HCl raises the pH of the brine solution, after which the pH may be adjusted by the addition of supplemental alkali hydroxide. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/812045 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06922583 | Perelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lev T. Perelman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vadim Backman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael S. Feld (Newton, Massachusetts); George Zonios (Ioannina, Greece); Irving Itzkan (Boston, Massachusetts); Ramasamy Manoharan (Cambrigde, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for measuring one or more physical characteristics of material such as tissue using optical radiation. The system can use light that is scattered by a tissue layer to determine, for example, the size of nuclei in the tissue layer to aid in the characterization of the tissue. These methods can include the use of fiber optic devices to deliver and collect light from a tissue region of interest to diagnose, for example, whether the tissue is normal or precancerous. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/545992 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 26, 2005.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
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.
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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2005/fedinvent-patents-20050726.html
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