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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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| US 06925812 | Condevaux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Williams International Co., L.L.C. (Walled Lake, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamey J. Condevaux (Royal Oak, Michigan); Guido J. Defever (Commerce Township, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A radially-extending arm is adapted to rotate within a stream of first fluid flowing thereacross. In one embodiment, the arm comprises a plurality of lands located at different radial distances from the axis of rotation, and a port located on each land is operatively coupled to a source of a second fluid. The second fluid is sprayed from the rotating arm into the stream of first fluid that flows across the lands, and is thereby atomized. In another embodiment, the arm comprises a land stepped into the trailing edge thereof, and a port for injecting the second fluid is located on the land. In another embodiment, the land comprises a groove located between the port and an associated riser surface stepped into the trailing edge. In another embodiment, the arm comprises a port in the trailing edge thereof from which the second fluid is injected, and a groove is located on the trailing edge in a radially increasing direction from the port. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/249967 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06925887 | Coffey 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) | Charles S. Coffey (Clarksville, Maryland); John R. Renzi (Ellicott City, Maryland); John P. Martin (Collage Park, Maryland); William M. Hinckley (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for measuring pressure includes a cylindrical tube having an open end and a closed end; a piston disposed in the cylindrical tube at the open end; an accelerometer attached to a side of the piston that faces the closed end of the tube, the accelerometer for measuring the acceleration of the piston after a blast event; and a pressure sensor located inside the tube for measuring pressure in the tube between the piston and the closed end of the tube. The apparatus also includes a data processor and computer connected by wires to the accelerometer and pressure sensor for receiving signals generated by the accelerometer and pressure sensor. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421432 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06926118 | Stevens 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) | Hans P. Stevens (Silverdale, Washington); Thomas R. Palmer (Deer Park, Washington); Stewart D. Adams (Gardiner, Washington); Gerald A. McNeil (Bremerton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An anchor for positioning in an opening of a surface includes a first generally flat portion having a slot formed therein, the slot having a longitudinal centerline; a second generally flat portion having a slot formed therein, the slot having a longitudinal centerline coincident on a line with the longitudinal centerline of the slot of the first flat portion, the second generally flat portion including at least one opening formed therein that defines an attachment ring; a hinge that connects the first and second flat portions at ends opposite open ends of the slots; a latch rotatably connected to the first flat portion; and a pin for releasably connecting the latch to the second flat portion to thereby secure the anchor in an unfolded position. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631217 |
| ART UNIT | 3634 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold 182/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06926567 | Dai 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) | Charles M. Dai (Potomac, Maryland); Carl W. Baumann (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An elongated fluid dynamic water jet type of propulsion body receives an inflow of fluid through inlet openings for entry into a jet propulsor from which an outlet jet emerges for passage through an internal transition passage to an exit end between two pairs of horizontal flaps hinged to the body at the exit end for angular displacement about parallel spaced horizontal axes from horizontal neutral positions. Four pair of flaps are pivotally mounted within the transition passage for angular displacement about parallel spaced vertical axes from neutral positions. Actuators inside of the propulsion body connected to the flaps are selectively controlled to impart in-phase angular displacement to all of the flaps about their horizontal and vertical axes from the neutral positions for directional steering by angular deflection of the jet exit outflow from the exit end of the body. To reverse propulsion, only the actuators for the horizontal flaps are activated in an out-of-phase mode to effect angular displacement of each pair of the horizontal flaps in opposite directions into engagement with each other thereby blocking jet outflow from the exit end of the body causing a directional reversal of the propulsion jet by outflow from openings formed in the body rearwardly of the exit end. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863846 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Marine propulsion 440/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06926997 | Guidotti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); U.S. Nanocorp (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Guidotti (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hui Ye (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); David E. Reisner (Bristol, Connecticut); Daniel H. Doughty (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin electrodes produced by thermal spray techniques are presented, wherein the thermal spray feedstock comprises an active material and a protective barrier coating. In a particularly advantageous feature, the active material feedstock is a metal sulfide, metal selenide, or metal telluride which ordinarily decomposes at thermal spray temperatures or which transforms to a material unsuitable for use as an electrode at thermal spray temperatures. The electrodes find particular utility in thermal batteries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/432334 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927068 | Simonson 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) | Lloyd G. Simonson (Spring Grove, Illinois); John R. Kelly (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay method and kit for detecting the presence of a predesignated, target IgG antibody in a sample selected from one or more patient bodily fluids. The method comprises the following steps: (a) contacting the sample of one or more patient bodily fluids with a membrane-bound recombinant protective antigen to bind to the target IgG antibody in the sample; (b) previously, simultaneously or subsequently to step (a), binding the protective antigen (PA) with a conjugated label producing a detectable signal; and (c) detecting the signal whereby the presence of the target IgG antibody is determined in the sample by the intensity of the signal. The method can further comprise the step of evaluating immunization status of the patient from whom the sample came by comparing the signal or lack thereof with immunizations previously received by the patient. In a preferred embodiment, the recombinant protective antigen (PA) specifically binds to anthrax protective antigen-specific IgG antibodies. Preferably, the immunoassay of the present invention comprises a lateral-flow assay comprising a membrane, a conjugated label pad, and a recombinant protective antigen (PA) bound to the membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/060605 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927070 | Bayley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Orit Braha (College Station, Texas); LiQun Gu (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an improved method and system for sensing of one or more analytes. A host molecule, which serves as an adapter/carrier, is used to facilitate interaction between the analyte and the sensor element. A detectable signal is produced reflecting the identity and concentration of analyte present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/180792 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927073 | Huggins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nova Research, Inc. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold A. Huggins (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention, a technique fabricating a magnetoresistive memory device, where the magnetoresistive memory device has a magnetic memory element and a plurality of conductors for at least one of reading and writing the magnetic memory element. The plurality of conductors include a first conductor at least partially located at a first side of the magnetic memory element for reading the magnetic memory element, a second conductor at least partially located at a second side of the magnetic memory element for reading the magnetic memory element, a third conductor at least partially located at the second side of the magnetic memory element for writing the magnetic memory element, and a fourth conductor at least partially located at the first side of the magnetic memory element for writing the magnetic memory element. The first conductor is formed before the fourth conductor. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435669 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927301 | Laine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ryo Tamaki (Foster City, California); Jiwon Choi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized silsesquioxanes containing from 6 to 24 silicon atoms and minimally about 67 mol percent RSiO3/2 moieties where R is a phenyl group bearing a chemically reactive functional group are highly suitable for use as nanoparticles in producing highly ordered nanocomposites of many types, containing a high proportion of interphase. The nanocomposites have unusual physicochemical properties due to the use of uniform, highly functionalized nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/069640 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927569 | Worledge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Christopher Worledge (Poughquag, New York); Philip Louis Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey); David William Abraham (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Joerg Dietrich Schmid (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Probes are electrically connected to a surface of a tunnel junction film stack comprising a free layer, a tunnel barrier, and a pinned layer. Resistances are determined for a variety of probe spacings and for a number of magnetizations of one of the layers of the stack. The probe spacings are a distance from a length scale, which is related to the Resistance-Area (RA) product of the tunnel junction film stack. Spacings from as small as possible to about 40 times the length scale are used. Beneficially, the smallest spacing between probes used during a resistance measurement is under 100 microns. A measured in-plane MagnetoResistance (MR) curve is determined from the “high” and “low” resistances that occur at the two magnetizations of this layer. The RA product, resistances per square of the free and pinned layers, and perpendicular MR are determined through curve fitting. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244766 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927790 | Chandler |
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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) | Rand C. Chandler (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital camera system includes a digital image sensor, a memory coupled to the digital image sensor via a data bus, a microcontroller having control signal output ports and a data I/O port, and a bi-directional tri-state buffer coupled to the data I/O port and the data bus for passing data therebetween. At least one of the control signal output ports is coupled to each of the digital image sensor, memory and tri-state buffer. The microcontroller issues control signals over it's control signal output ports to control access to the data bus by establishing only one of a plurality of possible data transfer paths at any given point in time. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/776869 |
| ART UNIT | 2615 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/211.990 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927850 | Snail 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) | Keith A. Snail (Silver Spring, Maryland); Kevin F. Carr (Sunapee, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an integrating sphere for measuring the diffuse reflectivity of material samples in the infrared. The sphere is disposed in an airtight vacuum chamber under an atmosphere that does not absorb in the infrared. The sphere has two positions at which a sample may be mounted, one on a rod at the sphere's center, another on the sphere's wall, each mounting position corresponding to two different modes of testing samples. The rod acts as a mounting pedestal for a center mounted sample, and is rotatably mounted about its elongate vertical axis so that the sample can rotate with the rod in a horizontal plane. The rod penetrates the sphere and the chamber, and terminates in a knob or handle by which the rod can be rotated to position the sample at a preselected angle. Adjacent to the position for wall mounting, there is a sample heater. This configuration allows one to measure diffuse reflectance of a sample as a function of incidence angle and temperature. In the center-mount configuration, the handle enables one to anglularly reposition a center mounted sample without the need to vent and replenish the chamber's atmosphere after each test. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 1987 |
| APPL NO | 09/430132 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927922 | George et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas George (Pittsford, New York); Wanli Chi (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for imaging with a circularly symmetric multifocal aspheric lens is provided for obtaining an extended depth of field. The system includes a camera for capturing an image of at least one object through a circularly symmetric multifocal aspheric lens to provide a blurred image, and a computer system for processing the captured blurred image to provide a recovered image of the object having an extended depth of field. The recovered image may be outputted to a display or other peripheral device. Processing of the blurred image utilizes one of inverse filtering, convolution matrix (e.g., edge sharpening matrix), or maximum entropy. The computer system performing image processing may be in the camera or represent a computer system external to the camera which receives the blurred image. The extended depth of field is characterized by the object being in focus over a range of distances in the recovered image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324255 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/708 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928091 | Maleki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OEwaves, Inc. (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Kouros Sariri (Encino, California); Vladimir S. Iltchenko (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An opto-electronic oscillator including a modulator for outputting modulated light and a tunable filter for receiving modulated light output from the modulator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/254608 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928130 | Kronenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Kronenberg (Skillman, New Jersey); George J. Brucker (West Long Branch, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron spectrometer for aircraft is provided by a series of substrates covered by a solid-state detector stacked on an absorbing layer. As many as 12 substrates that convert neutrons to protons are covered by a layer of absorbing material, acting as a proton absorber, with the detector placed within the layer to count protons passing through the absorbing layer. By using 12 detectors the range of neutron energies are covered. The preferred dodecahedron embodiment of the neutron spectrometer is a solid, polyethylene dodecahedron assembly with 12 surface facets covered by a solid-state detector stacked on an absorbing layer composed of tantalum. Each absorbing layer is constructed with a different thickness according to the minimum and maximum energies of neutrons in the spectrum. In this arrangement, each of the 12 surface pentagon-shaped facets provides a polyethylene substrate to convert neutrons to protons, covered by a layer of absorbing material, acting as a proton absorber, with the detector stacked on the absorbing layer to count protons passing through the absorbing layer. The dodecahedron assembly is housed concentrically within a titanium spherical shell that serves as an outer shield. The dodecahedron embodiment is sufficiently lightweight to be suitable for airborne and satellite applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/234873 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928223 | Walpole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N. Walpole (Concord, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Donnelly (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Stephen R. Chinn (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser and optical amplifier waveguide device with a plurality of layers that supports a single lowest-order optical mode with gain while higher order modes radiate and have a net loss. The supported lowest-order mode which has gain, has a mode cross section which is large compared to the operating optical wavelength in both the transverse and lateral directions. The contours of constant optical intensity of such lowest-order can be nearly circular, having an approximately elliptical shape with a small aspect ratio. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/903099 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928432 | Fagan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Fagan (Los Altos, California); Daniel Berrios (San Francisco, California); Evan Chou (San Francisco, California); Anupam Datta (Stanford, California); Sujith Surendran (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and useful updating tool is provided for indexing electronic text in a highly integrated electronic text indexing and search system. The integrated system encompasses a concept model, a query model, an enhanced markup tool, a user interface, and a search engine. A domain expert utilizes the integrated system to efficiently and effectively indexing electronic text for precise and fast retrieval by a search engine. The updating tool aids the indexing process as a consequence of changes in the query model, to an indexed document, or both. The updating tool comprises a document change tool and a query model change tool as well as an enhanced markup tool and an enhanced query model tool. The updating tool guides the domain expert by suggesting which indices need to be updated and flags index entries that need to be removed. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/352775 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928551 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry A. Lee (Vestal, New York); Robert L. Kilmer, Jr. (Endicott, New York); David R. Menigoz (Apalachin, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is provided for selectively denying access to encoded data. Encryption is used to protect secured data on any of a number of media devices in a system and in which unsecured data is not encrypted. The classified data is encrypted and then transmitted for storage on the medium. The encryption key is stored only in volatile memory on the target device connected to the medium during a mission. The encryption key is known only in a location physically distant from the target device during a mission. Resources are provided for mission personnel to immediately delete the encryption key from volatile memory upon perceiving a threat, as well as causing automatic deletion of the encryption key upon a power loss to the target device in order to make the encrypted data unavailable to any personnel (whether authorized or not) at the location of the target device. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/697304 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06926890 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Le-Ming Shih (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A means for following the growth of experimental neoplasms involves administering recombinant tumor cells containing an expression construct encoding a secretable marker to an experimental animal and measuring secreted marker in the urine of animals bearing tumors formed by such recombinant tumor cells. Urinary marker levels are quantitatively related to tumor loads. Urinary marker can be detected before tumors are grossly visible or clinically apparent. Marker levels decrease following surgical excision or chemotherapeutic treatment, with an estimated half-life of 11 hours. This approach is applicable to the study of many experimental tumor systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/114030 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06926911 | Boucher, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Boucher, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Chronic obstructive airway diseases are treated by administering an osmotically active compound such as a salt, sugar, sugar alcohol, or organic osmolyte to the afflicted airway surface. The compound may be administered as a liquid or dry powder aerosol formulation. Diseases that can be treated by the method include cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis, and ciliary dyskinesia. The formulations of the invention can also be used in conjunction with other active agents such as bronchodilators, sodium channel blockers, antibiotics, enzymes, or purinoceptor agonists on airway surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/465429 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927023 | Panganiban et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonito T. Panganiban (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael A. Callahan (Hamilton, Montana); Mark A. Handley (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A preparation of U binding protein (Ubp) and a gene sequence encoding Ubp and an anti-Ubp antibody are disclosed. An assay to identify modulators of Ubp/Vpu interaction and Gag/Ubp interaction is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/090378 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927030 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California); The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi Huang (San Diego, California); Robert B. Chadwick (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of inhibiting growth of a microsatellite instability (MSI)-positive tumor. The method is practiced by introducing into an MSI-positive tumor a nucleic acid molecule encoding a RIZ1 polypeptide and expressing the RIZ1 polypeptide in the tumor in an effective amount to inhibit growth of the tumor. Also provided is a method of determining the MSI status of a tumor. The method is practiced by determining in the tumor the number of adenosine (A) nucleotides in a poly(A) tract of a RIZ nucleic acid molecule in the tumor. An abnormal number of adenosine nucleotides in a RIZ poly(A) tract indicates that the tumor is MSI-positive. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/024450 |
| 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 06927034 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York); Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey); Galina Kovalevskaya (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of predicting pregnancy outcome in a subject by determining the amount of an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of hCG in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated molecular isoforms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated hCG in a sample. The present invention additionally provides an antibody which specifically binds to an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of human chorionic gonadotropin. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting trophoblast or non-trophoblast malignancy in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/311428 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927042 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686944 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927057 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences (Hayward, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Gary Ashley (Alameda, California); Camilla M. Kao (Palo Alto, California); Robert McDaniel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Combinatorial libraries of polyketides can be obtained by suitable manipulation of a host modular polyketide synthase gene cluster such as that which encodes the PKS for erythromycin. The combinatorial library is useful as a source of pharmaceutically active compounds. In addition, novel polyketides and antibiotics are prepared using this method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/859854 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927059 | Cheung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ambrose Cheung (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleic acid sequence which regulates the autolytic activity of bacteria is provided. Methods for identifying and using agents which interact with the gene to inhibit bacterial growth and infectivity also are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/290143 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927060 | Bickenbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie R. Bickenbach (Iowa City, Iowa); Martine Dunnwald (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to prepare epidermal stem cells, and isolated epidermal stem cells, is provided. Also provided are methods of using epidermal stem cells, e.g., for cell based therapies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/820198 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927212 | Khan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saeed R. Khan (Owings Mills, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Hallur Gurulingappa (Baltimore, Maryland); Phillip Buckhaults (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Aminophosphinic acid derivatives were synthesized as potential inhibitors of renal dipeptidase, an enzyme overexpressed in benign and malignant colon tumors. Several compounds showed potent enzyme-inhibitory activity. These compounds can be used therapeutically and diagnostically for treatment and detection of tumors. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627991 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927223 | Meadows et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary G. Meadows (Pullman, Washington); Tanja Obradovic (Dresher, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for the treatment of cancer comprising administering a serotonin agent. Also provided is a method for the treatment of cachexia comprising administering a serotonin agent. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/866458 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927238 | Serhan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel inhibitors of polyisoprenyl phosphate signaling regulates phopholipase D activity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/042043 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927283 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey A. Haas (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are apo-, holo-, and acylated-acyl carrier proteins modified to have a non-radioactive label covalently bonded to a modified tyrosine residue within the acyl carrier protein. Also disclosed are methods of using the labeled acyl carrier proteins to investigate reaction involving or mediated by acyl carrier proteins. Also disclosed are kits containing the non-radioactively-labeled acyl carrier proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/001453 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927286 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben Shen (Davis, California); Liangcheng Du (Davis, California); Cesar Sanchez (Asturias, Spain); Mei Chen (Davis, California); Daniel J. Edwards (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides detailed sequence analysis and characterization of the gene cluster responsible for the synthesis of bleomycin in Streptomyces verticillus. The bleomycin gene cluster provides the first hybrid polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetase pathway and elucidation of the various modules and enzymatic domains characterizing the pathway provides convenient synthetic routes for bleomycins, bleomycin analogs, and various other polyketides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/477962 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927294 | Petasis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Xin Yao (Guilderland, New York); Jeffrey C. Raber (Whittier, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, including benzodiazepines and azasugars, and synthetic methods for preparing such compounds. Nitrogen-containing heterocycles are prepared by reacting amino-carbonyl compounds that contain an amine moiety connected via a linker to a carbonyl moiety with an organoboron derivative. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386389 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927318 | Ramesh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Narayanaswamy Ramesh (Wayland, Massachusetts); Miguel A. de la Fuente (Boston, Massachusetts); Ines M. Anton (Turin, Italy); Raif S. Geha (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a novel gene and its product, WIP, which associates with WASP. The subject invention relates to the isolated WIP gene or cDNA and transgenic mammals that have the WIP gene disrupted in their genome. Also the subject of this invention are methods of treating conditions or diseases in which WIP and/or WASP DNA or protein is deficient and/or defective, for example, mutated or altered, such that an individual is adversely affected. Also described are methods of altering or regulating WIP and its functions in a mammal or in a cell of a mammal, for example in a lymphocyte. A further subject of this invention is an assay to identify drugs which alter the activity of WIP or expression of WIP DNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/078547 |
| 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 8/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927320 | Benfey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip N. Benfey (New York, New York); Yrjo Helariutta (Helsinki, Finland); Hidehiro Fukaki (Nara, Japan); Keiji Nakajima (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The structure and function of a regulatory gene, SHORT-ROOT (SHR), is described. The SHR gene is expressed specifically in root progenitor tissues of embryos, and in roots and stems of seedlings and plants. SHR expression controls cell division of certain cell types in roots and affects the organization of root and stem tissues, and affects gravitropism of aerial structures. The invention relates to the SHR gene, SHR-like genes, SHR gene products, (including but not limited to transcriptional products such as mRNAs, antisense, and ribozyme molecules, and translational products such the SHR protein, polypeptides, peptides and fusion proteins related thereto), antibodies to SHR gene products, SHR promoters and regulatory regions and the use of the foregoing to improve agronomically valuable plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/578827 |
| 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 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 06926313 | Renzi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald F. Renzi (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high pressure connector capable of operating at pressures of 40,000 psi or higher is provided. This connector can be employed to position a first fluid-bearing conduit that has a proximal end and a distal end to a second fluid-bearing conduit thereby providing fluid communication between the first and second fluid-bearing conduits. The connector includes (a) an internal fitting assembly having a body cavity with (i) a lower segment that defines a lower segment aperture and (ii) an interiorly threaded upper segment, (b) a first member having a first member aperture that traverses its length wherein the first member aperture is configured to accommodate the first fluid-bearing conduit and wherein the first member is positioned in the lower segment of the internal fitting assembly, and (c) a second member having a second member aperture that traverses its length wherein the second member is positioned in the upper segment of the fitting assembly and wherein a lower surface of the second member is in contact with an upper surface of the first member to assert a compressive force onto the first member and wherein the first member aperture and the second member aperture are coaxial. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405204 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06926345 | Ortega et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason M. Ortega (Pacifica, California); Kambiz Salari (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerodynamic base drag reduction apparatus and method for bluff bodies, such as tractor-trailer trucks, utilizing a pair of lift surfaces extending to lift surface tips and located alongside the bluff body such as on opposing left and right side surfaces. In a flowstream substantially parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the bluff body, the pair of lift surfaces generate a pair of counter-rotating trailing vortices which confluence together in the wake of the bluff body in a direction orthogonal to the flowstream. The confluence draws or otherwise turns the flowstream, such as the flowstream passing over a top surface of the bluff body, in and around behind a trailing end of the bluff body to raise the pressure on a base surface at the trailing end and thereby reduce the aerodynamic base drag. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668812 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06926864 | Peeters et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Peeters (Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Wiggins (Columbia, Maryland); Madhushree Ghosh (San Diego, California); Lawrence A. Bottomley (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Salvatore Seminara (Chicago, Illinois); Zhiyu Hu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy Seeley (Bethesda, Maryland); Sebastian Kossek (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidics device includes a plurality of interaction cells and fluid control means including i) means for providing to the interaction cells a preparation fluid, and ii) means for providing to the interaction cells a sample fluid, wherein each interaction cell receives a different sample fluid. A plurality of microcantilevers may be disposed in each of the interaction cells, wherein each of the plurality of microcantilevers configured to deflect in response to an interaction involving a component of the sample fluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/054760 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927042 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686944 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927069 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shimon Weiss (Pinole, California); Marcel Bruchez, Jr. (Newark, California); Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal compound is described capable of linking to an affinity molecule. The compound comprises (1) a semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation and/or absorbing energy, and/or scattering or diffracting electromagnetic radiation—when excited by an electromagnetic radiation source or a particle beam; and (2) at least one linking agent, having a first portion linked to the semiconductor nanocrystal and a second portion capable of linking to an affinity molecule. The compound is linked to an affinity molecule to form a semiconductor nanocrystal probe capable of bonding with a detectable substance. Subsequent exposure to excitation energy will excite the semiconductor nanocrystal in the probe causing the emission of electromagnetic radiation. Further described are processes for respectively: making the luminescent semiconductor nanocrystal compound; making the semiconductor nanocrystal probe; and using the probe to determine the presence of a detectable substance in a material. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155759 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927070 | Bayley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Orit Braha (College Station, Texas); LiQun Gu (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an improved method and system for sensing of one or more analytes. A host molecule, which serves as an adapter/carrier, is used to facilitate interaction between the analyte and the sensor element. A detectable signal is produced reflecting the identity and concentration of analyte present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/180792 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927397 | Bross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universities Research Association, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. Bross (Downers Grove, Illinois); Kerry L. Mellott (Malta, Illinois); Anna Pla-Dalmau (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for detecting neutrons. One or more neutron-sensitive scintillators can be configured from a plurality of nano-sized particles, dopants and an extruded plastic material, such as polystyrene. The nano-sized particles can be compounded into the extruded plastic material with at least one dopant that permits the plastic material to scintillate. One or more plastic light collectors can be associated with a neutron-sensitive scintillator, such that the plastic light collector includes a central hole thereof. A wavelength-shifting fiber can then be located within the hole. The wavelength shifting (WLS) fiber absorbs scintillation light having a wavelength thereof and re-emits the light at a longer wavelength. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308339 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927887 | Naulleau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick P. Naulleau (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The effective coherence of a synchrotron beam line can be tailored to projection lithography requirements by employing a moving holographic diffuser and a stationary low-cost spherical mirror. The invention is particularly suited for use in an illuminator device for an optical image processing system requiring partially coherent illumination. The illuminator includes: (1) a synchrotron source of coherent or partially coherent radiation which has an intrinsic coherence that is higher than the desired coherence, (2) a holographic diffuser having a surface that receives incident radiation from said source, (3) means for translating the surface of the holographic diffuser in two dimensions along a plane that is parallel to the surface of the holographic diffuser wherein the rate of the motion is fast relative to integration time of said image processing system; and (4) a condenser optic that re-images the surface of the holographic diffuser to the entrance plane of said image processing system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/981500 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928202 | Pickrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virgina Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Pickrell (Blacksburg, Virginia); Yuhong Duan (Dekalb, Illinois); Anbo Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A package for an optical fiber sensor having a metal jacket surrounding the sensor, and heat-shrink tubing surrounding the metal jacket. The metal jacket is made of a low melting point metal (e.g. lead, tin). The sensor can be disposed in a rigid tube (e.g. stainless steel or glass) that is surrounded by the metal jacket. The metal jacket provides a hermetic, or nearly hermetic seal for the sensor. The package is made by melting the metal jacket and heating the heat shrink tubing at the same time. As the heat-shrink tubing shrinks, it presses the low melting point metal against the sensor, and squeezes out the excess metal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689552 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06927188 | Gillespie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph D. Gillespie (Gurnee, Illinois); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one lanthanide element or yttrium component, which is preferably ytterbium, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718050 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928577 | Moser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eternal Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise E. Moser (Santa Barbara, California); Peter M. Melliar-Smith (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms for achieving consistent message ordering within a fault-tolerant distributed computer system based on semi-active or passive replication are described. The mechanisms communicate message ordering information from the primary replica to its backup replicas in such a way as to minimize the end-to-end request/response time, to minimize the number of additional messages that are multicast, and to ensure that, in the event of a fault, a backup replica has, or can obtain, the messages and the message ordering information that it needs to reproduce the actions of the primary replica. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631022 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06926953 | Nealey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Juan J. DePablo (Madison, Wisconsin); Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin); Harun H. Solak (Brugg, Switzerland); XiaoMin Yang (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard D. Peters (Austin, Texas); Qiang Wang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Copolymer structures are formed by exposing a substrate with an imaging layer thereon to two or more beams of selected wavelengths to form interference patterns at the imaging layer to change the wettability of the imaging layer in accordance with the interference patterns. A layer of a selected block copolymer is deposited onto the exposed imaging layer and annealed to separate the components of the copolymer in accordance with the pattern of wettability and to replicate the pattern of the imaging layer in the copolymer layer. Stripes or isolated regions of the separated components may be formed with periodic dimensions in the range of 100 nm or less. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/800923 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927823 | Reznikov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuriy Reznikov (Kyiv, Ukraine); John West (Munroe Falls, Ohio); Oleg Yaroshchuk (Kyiv, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for forming an alignment layer for a liquid crystal cell that is made from a liquid crystal film that has been irradiated with light. The method includes the steps of disposing a liquid crystal film on a substrate and then irradiating the liquid crystal film with light. Also, a liquid crystal display that includes an alignment layer that is a liquid crystal film that has been irradiated with light. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/656742 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06926889 | Husseneder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia Husseneder (Honolulu, Hawaii); J. Kenneth Grace (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Darcy E. Oishi (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to recombinant bacteria genetically engineered from insect hosts to express toxic gene products in a pest insect. The present invention also relates to a method of controlling an insect population using such a recombinant bacteria as a delivery agent throughout an insect colony. The invention also relates to a method of delivering and expressing a gene in an insect. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/062821 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06927301 | Laine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ryo Tamaki (Foster City, California); Jiwon Choi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized silsesquioxanes containing from 6 to 24 silicon atoms and minimally about 67 mol percent RSiO3/2 moieties where R is a phenyl group bearing a chemically reactive functional group are highly suitable for use as nanoparticles in producing highly ordered nanocomposites of many types, containing a high proportion of interphase. The nanocomposites have unusual physicochemical properties due to the use of uniform, highly functionalized nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/069640 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 06928223 | Walpole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N. Walpole (Concord, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Donnelly (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Stephen R. Chinn (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser and optical amplifier waveguide device with a plurality of layers that supports a single lowest-order optical mode with gain while higher order modes radiate and have a net loss. The supported lowest-order mode which has gain, has a mode cross section which is large compared to the operating optical wavelength in both the transverse and lateral directions. The contours of constant optical intensity of such lowest-order can be nearly circular, having an approximately elliptical shape with a small aspect ratio. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/903099 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06928294 | Maggenti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QUALCOMM, Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Maggenti (San Diego, California); Douglas M. Crockett (San Diego, California); Eric Rosen (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus to form a group of communication devices over a distributed network is claimed. A first node establishes a first channel with a first communication device. At least one second node establishes at least one second channel with at least one second communication device. A controller electrically connected to the first node and the at least one second node comprises a database module. The database module comprises identification information of each of the communication devices of the group. The controller is dynamically configurable such that any single communication device of the group is capable of sending packet data through its respective channel to the other communication devices of the group. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071730 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06926672 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Moore (Livermore, California); Karl A. Fisher (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electret-based acoustic transducer array is provided and may be used in a system for examining tissue. The acoustic transducer array is formed with a substrate that has a multiple distinct cells formed therein. Within each of the distinct cells is positioned an acoustic transducing element formed of an electret material. A conductive membrane is formed over the distinct cells and may be flexible. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323718 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927203 | Kinch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Kinch (Laytonsville, Maryland); Nicole D. Zantek (Silver Springs, Maryland); Patrick W. Hein (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of metastatic disease. The compounds of this invention have specificity for EphA2, an epithelial cell tyrosine kinase that is overexpressed in metastatic tumor cells. The compounds used in accordance with this invention may be provided in a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of metastatic disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/640935 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927322 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); University of North Carolina-Greensboro (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Neal Stewart (Greensboro, North Carolina); Roxanne M. Broadway (Grass Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a DNA construct containing a DNA for a serine proteinase inhibitor isolated from Brassica oleracea, which has antibiosis activity. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants and transgenic plant seeds containing that nucleic acid molecule. Resistance to herbivorous insects can be conferred to a plant by either transformation of the plant with the nucleic acid molecule which encodes a serine proteinase inhibitor isolated from Brassica oleracea or by application of that inhibitor to plants or plant seeds. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/822080 |
| 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 8/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06927577 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl V. Nelson (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving pulse inductive metal detector sensitivity by minimizing adverse ground responses and transmitter coil transients is disclosed. The method provides a calibration mode for a typical pulsed EMI metal detector. The purpose of the calibration mode is to determine and record a nulling signal representative of the transmitter coil coupling to the receiver coil and a ground response that has no metal. The nulling signal is then used during normal operation of the metal detector by combining it with the instant receiver coil signal in a difference amplifier. The difference amplifier effectively subtracts the nulling signal from the instant signal yielding a response signal that has removed the ground response that may be present in the instant signal. The metal detector can be periodically re-calibrated. It may also be re-calibrated upon discovery of a metal target to provide the most up to date nulling signal for the ground around the metal target. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942145 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06928270 | Tighe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher P. Tighe (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for providing wireless electronic content to members of the public. A mobile backbone of an electronic content delivery system is based on mobile vehicles, as of the Postal Service. Alternatively a stationary network to deliver electronic content is established in Postal Service facilities. A device, such as a Family Message Board, receives delivery of the wireless electronic content, whether from a mobile vehicle or fixed postal station. The wireless electronic content may be processed for a variety of uses including email, internet access, graphic messages, and postal secure notifications. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165812 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/90.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
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, August 09, 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
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