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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 04, 2005
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| US 06951112 | Czachor |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Czachor (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a gas turbine engine includes coupling an outer structure within the gas turbine engine, wherein the outer structure includes a socket extending from a radially inner surface of the outer structure, and coupling an inner structure to the outer structure by inserting a radial pin through the inner structure and into the socket such that the inner structure is aligned axially, circumferentially, and with respect to an engine centerline axis extending through the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775645 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/798 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951147 | Call et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mesosystems Technology, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick T. Call (West Richland, Washington); Vanessa M. Kenning (Kennewick, Washington); Charles J. Call (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to optimizing the configuration of rotary impact collectors and devices in which such rotary impact collectors are employed. Rotary impact collectors are formed out of base plate upon which a plurality of vanes are mounted. One aspect of the present invention is a combined impact collector and fan in which the ratio of vane height to impeller diameter is in the range of about 0.01 to about 0.2. Preferably, the vanes are evenly spaced around the impeller so as to present a balanced load to the motor. Other performance enhancing elements include the use of truncated vanes, configurations optimized for injection molding fabrication, controlling the orientation of the vanes to reduce the formation of vortex forces, and enhancements configured to increase the ability to collected particles rinsed off such impellers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601315 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951179 | Kuklinski |
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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 Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to create and maintain a gas/vapor cavity about a hull surface includes a fence selectively extendable above and below the hull surface. A gas venting means is positioned beneath the hull surface downstream from the fence. The vented gas can be used to create a gas/vapor cavity downstream from said fence and cover the hull surface. A heat source is also positioned downstream from the fence and beneath the hull surface. The heat source is capable of heating the hull surface to create or maintain the gas/vapor cavity on the hull surface. A sensor and controller can also be provided to control the cavity. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911746 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/67.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951317 | Woessner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George T. Woessner (Phoenix, Arizona); Stephen G. Abel (Chandler, Arizona); Mark H. Baker (Scottsdale, Arizona); Dennis M. Alexander (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle, such as a missile, with a pilot valve system controls the vehicle's thrust valves despite a hostile propellant gas environment. The pilot valve system can have one or more pilot valves. Using refractory elements, the pilot valve ball reciprocates between a supply seat and a vent seat which is subject to the filtered inflow of propellant thrust gases. When open, the pilot valve allows the stray thrust gas to communicate to a control chamber which closes a poppet against a valve seat in the nozzle. When an associated solenoid closes the pilot valve by pushing the pilot valve ball against the supply seat, the control chamber is vented to ambient. The poppet may then travel into the cylinder bore and the nozzle is opened to exhaust propellant gases and exert lateral thrust on the vehicle. Certain nozzle thrust geometries provide useful vehicle guidance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/234697 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951319 | Colich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TheBoeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Colich (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A latching system includes a flexible hydraulic latch male portion, and a receiving rail female portion. The receiving rail female portion receives the hydraulic latch male portion therein. The latching system includes a hydraulic system for providing hydraulic fluid into the flexible hydraulic latch. The latching system includes a controlling device for controlling operation and hydraulic fluid insertion by the hydraulic system into the flexible hydraulic latch. The latching system includes an ejection system coupled to the hydraulic system or flexible hydraulic latch for reducing hydraulic fluid pressure within the flexible hydraulic latch during an ejection evolution. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302539 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/118.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951456 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam L. Cohen (Los Angeles, California); Paul D. Ronney (Monrovia, California); Uri Frodis (Los Angeles, California); Lars Sitzki (Niedernhausen, Germany); Eckart H. Meiburg (Santa Barbara, California); Steffen Wussow (Hamburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A generally toroidal counterflow heat exchanger is the main element of a combustor that operates at a micro scale. The combustor includes a central combustion region with openings to a reactant gas channel and an exhaust gas channel. The reactant channel and exhaust channels are coiled around each other in a spiral configuration that reduces heat loss. An electric current microgenerator is similar and also includes a thermoelectric active wall composed of n-type and p-type thermoelectric elements as part of a channel wall of the microcombustor. The thermoelectric active wall includes fins configured to increase the temperature differential across the thermoelectric elements relative to the temperature difference between the thermoelectric elements and the reactant and exhaust gases. A method of monolithically fabricating such microdevices by electrodepositing multiple layers of material is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630513 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951467 | Hansen |
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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) | David N. Hansen (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The conductive rivet designed to connect the first and second conducting surfaces of circuit board through an aperture in the board. The rivet includes a conical member with an associated insulating washer associated on one side of circuit board. A T-shaped rivet and cooperating insulating sleeve are designed to contact the opposite side of the circuit board and provide a thermal conduction path via tail on the T-shaped rivet to the conical member on the opposing side. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890841 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951501 | Tan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Tan (Draper, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for dressing a grinding worm that is to be used in forming a conical face gear that meshingly engages a conical involute pinion. The method employs true conjugate action between a theoretical conical involute pinion and a conical face gear to accurately position a dressing tool relative to a grinding worm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453690 |
| 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 06951540 | Ebbini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emad S. Ebbini (Edina, Minnesota); Pornchai Phukpattaranont (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and/or methods provide for ultrasound imaging through the use of a dynamic non-linear post-beamforming filter (e.g., based on a pth-order Volterra model) capable of separating the linear and non-linear components of image data. A coefficient identification algorithm for deriving coefficients for filter is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435102 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951544 | Trahey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg E. Trahey (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Kathryn R. Nightingale (Durham, North Carolina); Roger W. Nightingale (Durham, North Carolina); Mark Palmeri (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A remote palpation technique in breast imaging involves the use of multiple applications of radiation force in rapid succession throughout a two-dimensional plane in the target tissue medium (10), and combination of the small, two-dimensional displacement maps from each force location into a single, larger remote palpation image (block 43). Apparatus for carrying out the foregoing method is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/240909 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951695 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xueping Xu (Stamford, Connecticut); Robert P. Vaudo (New Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | AlxGayInzN, wherein 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, 0≦z≦1, and x+y+z=1, characterized by a root mean square surface roughness of less than 1 nm in a 10×10 μm2 area. The AlxGayInzN may be in the form of a wafer, which is chemically mechanically polished (CMP) using a CMP slurry comprising abrasive particles, such as silica or alumina, and an acid or a base. High quality AlxGayInzN wafers can be fabricated by steps including lapping, mechanical polishing, and reducing internal stress of said wafer by thermal annealing or chemical etching for further enhancement of its surface quality. CMP processing may be usefully employed to highlight crystal defects of an AlxGayInzN wafer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272761 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951846 | Hartell 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) | Mark G. Hartell (Laurel, Maryland); Apurba K. Bhattacharjee (Silver Spring, Maryland); Rickey P. Hicks (Woodbridge, Virginia); John E. VanHamont (Fort Meade, Maryland); Wilbur K. Milhous (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A stable form of artemisinin wherein an artelinic acid or artesunic acid is complexed with cyclodextrin analogs, preferably, β-cyclodextrin. The complexed cyclodextrin artemisinin formulation shields the peroxide portion of the artemisinin backbone from hydrolytic decomposition rendering it stable in solution. Artelinic acid and cyclodextrin are placed into contact with one another to yield a 2:1 molecular species. Artesunic acid and cyclodextrin yield a 1:1 molecular species. The complexed cyclodextrin artemisinin formulation is effective for the treatment of malaria and is stable in solution for long periods of time. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376387 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951987 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peder M. Hansen (San Diego, California); David B. Phillips (La Mesa, California); Jose L. Chavez (Chula Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high voltage bushing includes an electrically conductive coupling having an aperture; first and second dielectric tubes mounted to the coupling so that they are coaxially aligned and have first and second ends, respectively, first and second end plates mounted in a fluid tight manner to the first and second ends of the first and second tubes, respectively; an electrically conductive ground shield mounted in the aperture, and having an inwardly profiled end for moderating an electric field along the bushing, and having second and third apertures; and a center conductor that extends through the second and third apertures of the ground shield, and is mounted to the first and second end plates. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355696 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952095 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Inductive sensors measure the near surface properties of conducting and magnetic material. A sensor may have primary windings with parallel extended winding segments to impose a spatially periodic magnetic field in a test material. Those extended portions may be formed by adjacent portions of individual drive coils. Sensing elements provided every other half wavelength may be connected together in series while the sensing elements in adjacent half wavelengths are spatially offset. Certain sensors include circular segments which create a circularly symmetric magnetic field that is periodic in the radial direction. Such sensors are particularly adapted to surround fasteners to detect cracks and can be mounted beneath a fastener head. In another sensor, sensing windings are offset along the length of parallel winding segments to provide material measurements over different locations when the circuit is scanned over the test material. The distance from the sensing elements to the ends of the primary winding may be kept constant as the offset space in between sensing elements is varied. An image of the material properties can be provided as the sensor is scanned across the material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/666524 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952185 | Ryken Jr. 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) | Marvin Ryken Jr. (Oxnard, California); Rick Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fine tuning a microstrip antenna which has eight tuning tabs for tuning the antenna frequency of the microstrip antenna. The antenna is designed to operate around 430 MHz with a tuning step size of approximately 1.5 MHz. The method utilizes the eight tuning tabs to tune the antenna from a center frequency of 427.2 MHz when all eight tuning tabs are connected to the cooper radiating or antenna element of the antenna incrementally to a center frequency of 439.3768 MHz when the eight tuning tabs are disconnected from the cooper antenna element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868443 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952270 | Shirley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Shirley (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of measuring three-dimensional position information of a point on the surface of an object. The invention also relates to an apparatus for projecting fringes onto a surface of an object including two sources of radiation separated by a distance, each source having a spectral distribution, and being coherent with respect to the other of the sources, a control system moving each of the sources relative to the other of the sources, and a detector positioned to receive radiation scattered from the point on the surface of the object. In another embodiment, the two sources of radiation include, an initial source of a beam of radiation having a spectral width, a beam separator in optical communication with the initial source of a beam of radiation generating a first optical beam and a second optical beam, and an imaging system optically connected to the beam separator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721148 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952436 | Wirnsberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gernot Wirnsberger (Graz, Austria); Brian J. Scott (Goleta, California); Howard C. Huang (Oakland Gardens, New York); Nicholas A. Melosh (Pasadena, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Bradley F. Chmelka (Goleta, California); Galen D. Stucky (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing transparent mesostructured inorganic/block-copolymer composites or inorganic porous solids containing optically responsive species with selective optical, optoelectronic, and sensing properties resulting therefrom. Mesoscopically organized inorganic/block copolymer composites doped with dyes or complexes are prepared for use as optical hosts, chemical/physical/biological sensors, photochromic materials, optical waveguides, tunable solid-state lasers, or optoelectronic devices. The materials can be processed into a variety of different shapes, such as films, fibers, monoliths, for novel optical and sensing applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002968 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952446 | Tsui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Y. Tsui (Dayton, Ohio); Scott M. Rodrigue (Beavercreek, Ohio); Anthony W. White (New Carlisle, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention uses narrow-band monobit receivers after a digital filter bank to separate simultaneous signals in one channel. The invention improves the capability of wideband digital receivers. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008476 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952499 | Vititoe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Vititoe (Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic endmember classification algorithm for hyperspectral data cubes. This algorithm is an improved version of a pattern recognition technology which was developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT algorithm is called the Extended Cross Correlation (XCC) technique, and it was designed to separate patterns from time resolved spectroscopic data. ASPIRE uses XCC as one of its core algorithms, but it features many improvements. These include: the use of Principle Components Analysis (PCA) to preprocess the data, and automatic endmember searching algorithm, and a Bayesian algorithm which is used to unmix the end-members. This invention also represents a new use of the XCC technology, because it had never before been used to identify spatial targets and patterns in hyperspectral data. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/174649 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952530 | Helvajian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); Siegfried W. Janson (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated glass ceramic spacecraft include a plurality of glass ceramic components including molded, tempered, annealed, and patterned glass ceramic components coupled together for forming a support structure or frame or housing through which is communicated optical signals through an optical communications grid and electrical signals through an electrical communications grid, with the optical communications grid and electrical communication grid forming a composite electrooptical communications grid for spacecraft wide intercommunications. The support structure multifunctions as a frame, a housing, a support, a thermal control system, and as part of an electrooptical communications grid while encapsulating a plurality of optical, electronic, electrical, and MEMS devices between which is communicated the electrical and optical signals over the electrooptical communication grid. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/741795 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952563 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metric Systems, INC (Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Brown (San Marcos, California); Robert S. Bell (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a wireless network with point-to-point, multi-point or broadcast communications links, a method is provided for adaptively setting frequency channels for wireless devices within the network by dynamically exchanging time-varying spectral maps and communication parameters to utilize available frequency channels efficiently. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/921517 |
| ART UNIT | 2642 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/67.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952590 | Legare et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Legare (Rome, New York); F. Robert Falbo (Rome, New York); Paul E. Sargent (Rome, New York); Timothy A. Baker (Utica, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for providing a multi-channel, multi-user wireless intercom, comprising a plurality of multi-channel wireless transceiver radios configured to form a radio unit. Each user in a group of users employs a radio unit to communicate with other users in the group. Users may selectively communicate with another user or broadcast simultaneously to all users in the group. Additionally, subnets between users may be formed where communications take place among a number of selected users comprising less than the entire group of users. Receive and transmit audio combiners are employed such that users can hear communications traffic on one or more channels and transmit on one or more channels, simultaneously. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/139571 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952687 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Andersen (La Canada, California); Bijan Pesaran (Los Angeles, California); Partha Mitra (Summit, New Jersey); Daniella Meeker (Los Angeles, California); Krishna V. Shenoy (Palo Alto, California); Shiyan Cao (Pasadena, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A prosthetic system may use a decoder to predict an intended action, such as a reach, from processed signals generated from measured neural activity. The decoder may included a cognitive state machine, which transitions between cognitive states based on transition rules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193649 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2127 | Byrd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry W. Byrd (Huber Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed heat energized system for detecting corrosion or similar oxidation products located intermediate a layer of metal and an overlying layer of paint or other metal protective material. The system employs a continuing stream of radiant thermal energy pulses impinging on the external surface of the coated metal and responds to the phase angle difference between a waveform representing the energy pulses and a waveform representing the undulating temperature response of the paint surface to the energy pulses. Use of the system for detecting corrosion of a military or other aircraft in order to avoid stripping the aircraft for corrosion inspection and correction is contemplated. Enhanced independence of the corrosion detection from measurement variations and earlier detection of corrosion presence are achieved with respect to other corrosion arrangements. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/122122 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2128 | Devine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roderick Anthony Blunden Devine (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joseph R. Chavez (Los Lunas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of radiation hardening microcircuits including the steps of removing hydrogen from the microcircuit in a vacuum furnace and annealing in deuterium-containing forming gas. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/681894 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/795 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06951540 | Ebbini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emad S. Ebbini (Edina, Minnesota); Pornchai Phukpattaranont (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and/or methods provide for ultrasound imaging through the use of a dynamic non-linear post-beamforming filter (e.g., based on a pth-order Volterra model) capable of separating the linear and non-linear components of image data. A coefficient identification algorithm for deriving coefficients for filter is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435102 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951651 | Diamond |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don J. Diamond (Glendora, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We have screened the HCMV-specific T cell clone, 33F4, with a nonamer PS-SCL based on SEQ ID NO: 1, and described a series of analog peptides that are recognized with greater affinity than the native peptide sequence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643888 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/230.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951717 | Barney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trimeris, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn O'Lin Barney (Cary, North Carolina); Dennis Michael Lambert (Cary, North Carolina); Stephen Robert Petteway (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Parainfluenza virus types 1 to 4 (PIV1 to PIV4) are important human pathogens that cause upper and lower respiratory tract infections, particularly in infants and children. The claimed invention is directed toward novel methods for the inhibition of parainfluenza virus transmission to a cell involving the administration of synthetic peptide fusion inhibitors. These inhibitors are derived from the parainfluenza virus and vary in length between 16 to 39 amino acids. The peptides were identified by screening for the presence of fusion inhibitory motifs (e.g., ALLMOTI5, 107x178x4, and PLZIP) within the parainfluenza virus genome. A number of peptides were identified and their fusion inhibitory activities ascertained. These peptides should provide useful antiviral agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/484741 |
| 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 06951720 | Burgin, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, California); Emerald Biostructures, Incorporated (Bainbridge Island, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex B. Burgin, Jr. (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Lance J. Stewart (Bainbridge Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of nonenzymatic ligation of a nucleic acid. The method consists of contacting a polynucleotide-3′ phosphorothiolate with an acceptor polynucleotide under conditions that allow formation of a phosphodiester bond between the polynucleotide-3′ phosphorothiolate and the acceptor polynucleotide. The invention also provides methods of molecular cloning. In one embodiment, the method consists of contacting an insert comprising a polynucleotide-3′ phosphorothiolate with an acceptor vector under conditions that allow formation of a phosphodiester bond between the insert and the acceptor vector to generate a vector comprising an insert polynucleotide. The invention further provides a compound consisting of a polynucleotide-3′ phosphorothiolate and a kit containing a polynucleotide-3′ phosphorothiolate. Also provided is a method of ligating a nucleic acid using a non-sequence specific topoisomerase. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/882274 |
| 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 06951724 | Gatti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Gatti (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of screening large, complex, polyexonic eukaryotic genes such as the ATM gene for mutations and polymorphisms by an improved version of single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) electrophoresis that allows electrophoresis of two or three amplified segments in a single lane. The present invention also is directed to new mutations and polymorphisms in the ATM gene that are useful in performing more accurate screening of human DNA samples for mutations and in distinguishing mutations from polymorphisms, thereby improving the efficiency of automated screening methods. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175225 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951741 | Mary Lynne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Collins P. Mary Lynne (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Yongjian S. Cheng (Shorewood, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of expressing proteins is disclosed. In a preferable embodiment, the method comprises placing a DNA sequence encoding a protein or peptide and expression vector containing a regulatable promoter expressible in Rhodospirillum rubrum and expressing the protein within a bacterial host, wherein the host has extra capacity for membrane formation and wherein the host is a member of the genus Rhodospirillum. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/692889 |
| 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 06951743 | DeAngelis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oklahoma Board of Regents (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma); Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a recombinant Bacillus host cell containing a recombinant vector including a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active hyaluronan synthase (HAS). The recombinant Bacillus host cell is utilized in a method for producing hyaluronic acid (HA). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172527 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951754 | Hoffmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erich Hoffmann (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the development of a dual promoter system (preferably a RNA pol I-pol II system) for the efficient intracellular synthesis of viral RNA. The resultant minimal plasmid-based system may be used to synthesize any RNA virus, preferably viruses with a negative single stranded RNA genome. The viral product of the system is produced when the plasmids of the system are introduced into a suitable host cell. One application of the system is production of attenuated, reassortant influenza viruses for use as antigens in vaccines. The reassortant viruses generated by cotransfection of plasmids may comprise genes encoding the surface glycoproteins hemagglutinin and neuramimidase from an influenza virus currently infecting the population and the internal genes from an attenuated influenza virus. An advantageous property of the present invention is its versatility; the system may be quickly and easily adapted to synthesize an attenuated version of any RNA virus. Attenuated or inactivated RNA viruses produced by the present invention may be administered to a patient in need of vaccination by any of several routes including intranasally or intramuscularly. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/844517 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951761 | Star et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Star (Bethesda, Maryland); Takehiko Miyaji (Rockville, Maryland); Stephen M. Hewitt (Potomac, Maryland); Lance A. Liotta (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to CryoArrays, which permit the analysis of samples (such as protein, nucleic acid, virus, or cell samples) in arrays that are prepared at low temperatures. Because CryoArrays are constructed as a block of substantially columnar samples, the block can be sliced to provide a plurality of identical or substantially identical individual arrays. The individual arrays can be used for parallel analysis of the same array feature set, for instance with different probes or under different conditions. Also provided are methods of making CryoArrays, devices for making CryoArrays, and kits. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/233193 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951845 | Carson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Carson (Del Mar, California); Eyal Raz (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for treating both the early and late phases of allergic asthma by introducing naked polynucleotides which operatively encode for the asthma-initiating antigen into the host. The antigen-encoding polynucleotides are administered to host tissues which contain a high concentration of antigen presenting cells (e.g., skin and mucosa) relative to other host tissues. Expression of the asthma-initiating antigen encoding polynucleotides of the invention inside of antigen presenting cells (without substantial secretion therefrom) induces antigen tolerance while suppressing IgE antibody formation in the early phase of the disease, and also suppresses cytokine-mediated eosinophil accumulation in the late phase of the disease. Devices and compositions for use in the methods of the invention are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/146717 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951858 | Pontillo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Pontillo (San Diego, California); Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Dongpei Wu (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 R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4, R5, 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, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705762 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951915 | Roller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter P. Roller (Rockville, Maryland); Ya-Qiu Long (Bethesda, Maryland); Feng-Di T. Lung (Taichung, Taiwan); C. Richter King (Washington, District of Columbia); Dajun Yang (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of formula: in which L is sulfur, sulfoxide, oxygen or methylene, and a compound of formula: in which (i) aa1 is Adi and aa4 is Glu or (ii) each of aa1 and aa4 is Adi, L is sulfur, sulfoxide, oxygen or methylene, which compounds (and their conjugates) bind to an SH2 domain in a protein comprising an SH2 domain, are non-phosphorylated, are redox-stable in vivo, are characterized by an IC50 in vivo of less than about 4.0 μM with respect to the SH2 domain in Grb2, and, upon binding to the SH2 domain of Grb2, have a turn conformation. A conjugate comprising a compound as described above and a carrier agent, a composition comprising (i) a compound or a conjugate as described above and (ii) a carrier, a method of inhibiting binding of an SH2 domain in a protein comprising an SH2 domain to a target protein in an animal, wherein the SH2 domain is contacted with a target protein-binding inhibiting effective amount of a compound or a conjugate as described above, and a method of synthesizing such conjugates. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/998350 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951917 | Topalian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzane L. Topalian (Brookville, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Paul F. Robbins (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides MHC Class II restricted melanoma antigens recognized by CD4+ T cells. This invention further provides prophylactic and therapeutic applications for the Class II restricted melanoma antigens. In particular, this invention provides tyrosinase Class II restricted melanoma antigens, as well as tyrosinase immunogenic peptides which have been modified to enhance their immunogenicity. These antigens can serve as an immunogens or vaccines to prevent or treat melanoma. In addition a method for isolating Class II restricted melanoma antigens or identifying new Class II restricted melanoma antigens is provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/533895 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951926 | Getzenberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Getzenberg (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Nuclear matrix proteins (NMP) which are characterized by a defined expression in tissue are provided. These NMPs are useful markers in diagnosing and monitoring the stage of malignancy of a cell and treating cell proliferative disorders associated with the NMP. Also provided are substantially purified polypeptides and nucleotide sequences encoding the NMPs of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/866927 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.850 |
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| US 06951927 | Mayo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Mayo (Pasadena, California); Julia Shifman (Pasadena, California); Motomu Shimaoka (Brookline, Massachusetts); Timothy Springer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel proteins with novel integrin and I domain activity and nucleic acids encoding these proteins. The invention further relates to the use of the novel proteins in the treatment of integrin related disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/902481 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/395 |
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| US 06951947 | Hahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klaus M. Hahn (San Diego, California); Alexei Toutchkine (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides peptide synthons having protected functional groups for attachment of desired moieties (e.g. functional molecules or probes). Also provided are peptide conjugates prepared from such synthons, and synthon and conjugate preparation methods including procedures for identifying the optimum probe attachment site. Biosensors are provided having environmentally sensitive dyes that can locate specific biomolecules within living cells and detect chemical and physiological changes in those biomolecules as the living cell is moving, metabolizing and reacting to its environment. Methods are included for detecting GTP activation of a Rho GTPase protein using polypeptide biosensors. When the biosensor binds GTP-activated Rho GTPase protein, the environmentally sensitive dye emits a signal of a different lifetime, intensity or wavelength than when not bound. New fluorophores whose fluorescence responds to environmental changes are also provided that have improved detection and attachment properties, and that can be used in living cells, or in vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/839577 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951961 | Protopopova et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Marina Nikolaevna Protopopova (Silver Spring, Maryland); Richard Edward Lee (Cordova, Tennessee); Richard Allan Slayden (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Clifton E. Barry, III (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for treating disease caused by microorganisms, particularly tuberculosis. In particular, methods and compositions comprising substituted ethylene diamines for the treatment of infectious diseases are provided. In one embodiment, these methods and compositions are used for the treatment of mycobacterial infections, including, but not limited to, tuberculosis. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147587 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952097 | Schreck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver Schreck (Bamberg, Germany); Mike Müller (Möhrendorf, Germany); Martin Harder (Nürnberg, Germany); Hans-Peter Hollenbach (Eggolsheim, Germany); Franz Schmitt (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ines Nimsky (Erlangen, Germany); Anders Dale (Boston, Massachusetts); Andre Van Der Kouwe (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method and computer program product for operating a tomographic imaging apparatus, a standard measurement protocol is generated by displaying a planning representation of a standard object, defining a spatial position of a standard imaging area in the planning representation, and storing, as the standard measurement protocol for the standard object, a reference to the standard object and parameters of the standard imaging area. Such a standard measurement protocol can then be used in the slice position planning for an actual tomographic measurement, by obtaining data representing features of an examination object, corresponding to the standard object, determining a geometrical relation of the features of the examination object to features of the standard object, and generating an object-specific measurement protocol wherein the imaging area is positioned relative to the examination object by modification of the standard measurement protocol. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/691405 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952300 | Levy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel Levy (Chassell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A magneto-optical isolator (20) for an optical circuit. The isolator includes a substrate, and an optical channel (350) disposed next to the substrate. The optical channel and substrate are configured to transmit optical radiation within the optical channel. The isolator further includes a photonic-crystal rotator (24) formed with the substrate and the optical channel. The rotator has at least one defect (52) and magnetic (M) and non-magnetic (N) materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469436 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952650 | Steitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Steitz (Branford, Connecticut); Peter B. Moore (North Haven, Connecticut); Nenad Ban (Zürich, Switzerland); Poul Nissen (Aarhus N, Denmark); Jeffrey Hansen (New Haven, Connecticut); Joseph A. Ippolito (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for producing high resolution crystals of ribosomes and ribosomal subunits as well as crystals produced by such methods. The invention also provides high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits either alone or in combination with protein synthesis inhibitors. The invention provides methods for identifying ribosome-related ligands and methods for designing ligands with specific ribosome-binding properties as well as ligands that may act as protein synthesis inhibitors. Thus, the methods and compositions of the invention may be used to produce ligands that are designed to specifically kill or inhibit the growth of any target organism. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/072634 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952687 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Andersen (La Canada, California); Bijan Pesaran (Los Angeles, California); Partha Mitra (Summit, New Jersey); Daniella Meeker (Los Angeles, California); Krishna V. Shenoy (Palo Alto, California); Shiyan Cao (Pasadena, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A prosthetic system may use a decoder to predict an intended action, such as a reach, from processed signals generated from measured neural activity. The decoder may included a cognitive state machine, which transitions between cognitive states based on transition rules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193649 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Louis Burrus (Cincinnati, Ohio); Narendra Digamber Joshi (Cincinnati, Ohio); Joel Meier Haynes (Niskayuna, New York); Alan S. Feitelberg (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine combustor can downstream of a pre-mixer has a pre-mixer flowpath therein and circumferentially spaced apart swirling vanes disposed across the pre-mixer flowpath. A primary fuel injector is positioned for injecting fuel into the pre-mixer flowpath. A combustion chamber surrounded by an annular combustor liner disposed in supply flow communication with the pre-mixer. An annular trapped dual vortex cavity located at an upstream end of the combustor liner is defined between an annular aft wall, an annular forward wall, and a circular radially outer wall formed therebetween. A cavity opening at a radially inner end of the cavity is spaced apart from the radially outer wall. Air injection first holes are disposed through the forward wall and air injection second holes are disposed through the aft wall. Fuel injection holes are disposed through at least one of the forward and aft walls. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762993 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951110 | Kang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Capstone Turbine Corporation (Chatsworth, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yungmo Kang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An annular heat recuperator is formed with alternating hot and cold cells to separate counter-flowing hot and cold fluid streams. Each cold cell has a fluid inlet formed in the inner diameter of the recuperator near one axial end, and a fluid outlet formed in the outer diameter of the recuperator near the other axial end to evenly distribute fluid mass flow throughout the cell. Cold cells may be joined with the outlet of one cell fluidly connected to the inlet of an adjacent downstream cell to form multi-stage cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/966514 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
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| US 06951243 | Nilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Nilson (Cardiff, California); Stewart Griffiths (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention consists of an evaporative cooling device comprising one or more microchannels whose cross section is axially reduced to control the maximum capillary pressure differential between liquid and vapor phases. In one embodiment, the evaporation channels have a rectangular cross section that is reduced in width along a flow path. In another embodiment, channels of fixed width are patterned with an array of microfabricated post-like features such that the feature size and spacing are gradually reduced along the flow path. Other embodiments incorporate bilayer channels consisting of an upper cover plate having a pattern of slots or holes of axially decreasing size and a lower fluid flow layer having channel widths substantially greater than the characteristic microscale dimensions of the patterned cover plate. The small dimensions of the cover plate holes afford large capillary pressure differentials while the larger dimensions of the lower region reduce viscous flow resistance. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683938 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.210 |
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| US 06951262 | West |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. West (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for suppression of wave energy within a fluid-filled borehole using a low pressure acoustic barrier. In one embodiment, a flexible diaphragm type device is configured as an open bottomed tubular structure for disposition in a borehole to be filled with a gas to create a barrier to wave energy, including tube waves. In another embodiment, an expandable umbrella type device is used to define a chamber in which a gas is disposed. In yet another embodiment, a reverse acting bladder type device is suspended in the borehole. Due to its reverse acting properties, the bladder expands when internal pressure is reduced, and the reverse acting bladder device extends across the borehole to provide a low pressure wave energy barrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099226 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph W. Blakemore (Tehachapi, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind turbine capable of driving multiple electric generators having a ring or shroud structure for reducing blade root bending moments, hub loads, blade fastener loads and pitch bearing loads. The shroud may further incorporate a ring gear for driving an electric generator. In one embodiment, the electric generator may be cantilevered from the nacelle such that the gear on the generator drive shaft is contacted by the ring gear of the shroud. The shroud also provides protection for the gearing and aids in preventing gear lubricant contamination. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/657883 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/4.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951634 | Tranter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy J. Tranter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry A. Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho); Leroy C. Lewis (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Joseph P. Henscheid (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a method of separating isotopes from a mixture containing at least two isotopes in a solution. A first isotope is precipitated and is collected from the solution. A daughter isotope is generated and collected from the first isotope. The invention includes a method of producing an actinium-225/bismuth-213 product from a material containing thorium-229 and thorium-232. A solution is formed containing nitric acid and the material and iodate is added to form a thorium iodate precipitate. A supernatant is separated from the thorium iodate precipitate and a second volume of nitric acid is added to the precipitate. The precipitate is stored and a decay product comprising actinium-225 and bismuth-213 is generated in the second volume of nitric acid which is then separated from the thorium iodate precipitate, filtered, and treated using at least one chromatographic procedure. The invention also includes a system for producing an actinium-225/bismuth-213 product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/247016 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951635 | Gangwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santosh Kumar Gangwal (Cary, North Carolina); Brian Scott Turk (Durham, North Carolina); Raghubir Prasad Gupta (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Zinc oxide-based sorbents, and processes for preparing and using them are provided, wherein the sorbents are preferably used to remove one or more reduced sulfur species from gas streams. The sorbents contain an active zinc component, optionally in combination with one or more promoter components and/or one or more substantially inert components. The active zinc component is a two phase material, consisting essentially of a zinc oxide (ZnO) phase and a zinc aluminate (ZnAl2O4) phase. Each of the two phases is characterized by a relatively small crystallite size of typically less than about 500 Angstroms. Preferably the sorbents are prepared by converting a precursor mixture, containing a precipitated zinc oxide precursor and a precipitated aluminum oxide precursor, to the two-phase, active zinc oxide containing component. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670206 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/244.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951640 | Miura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michiko Miura (Hampton Bays, New York); Daniel N. Slatkin (Southold, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention covers halogenated derivatives of boronated phorphyrins containing multiple carborane cages having the formula which selectively accumulate in neoplastic tissue within the irradiation volume and thus can be used in cancer therapies including, but not limited to, boron neutron-capture therapy and photodynamic therapy. The present invention also covers methods for using these halogenated derivatives of boronated porphyrins in tumor imaging and cancer treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375454 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951724 | Gatti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Gatti (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of screening large, complex, polyexonic eukaryotic genes such as the ATM gene for mutations and polymorphisms by an improved version of single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) electrophoresis that allows electrophoresis of two or three amplified segments in a single lane. The present invention also is directed to new mutations and polymorphisms in the ATM gene that are useful in performing more accurate screening of human DNA samples for mutations and in distinguishing mutations from polymorphisms, thereby improving the efficiency of automated screening methods. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175225 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951902 | McDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Biotechnology Institute (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. McDonald (Utica, Ohio); Amy B. Koren (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymeric composition that generates nitric oxide and a process for rendering the surface of a substrate nonthrombogenic by applying a coating of the polymeric composition to the substrate are disclosed. The composition comprises: (1) a crosslinked chemical combination of (i) a polymer having amino group-containing side chains along a backbone forming the polymer, and (ii) a crosslinking agent containing functional groups capable of reacting with the amino groups; and (2) a plurality of nitric oxide generating functional groups associated with the crosslinked chemical combination. Once exposed to a physiological environment, the coating generates nitric oxide thereby inhibiting platelet aggregation. In one embodiment, the nitric oxide generating functional groups are provided by a nitrated compound (e.g., nitrocellulose) imbedded in the polymeric composition. In another embodiment, the nitric oxide generating functional groups comprise N2O2− groups covalently bonded to amino groups on the polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222370 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952079 | Shiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Marc Schaepkens (Ballston Lake, New York); Larry Gene Turner (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A shaped light extraction luminaire to gather light from an organic light emitting diode (OLED). Specifically, an inverted and truncated pyramid structure having a recessed area configured to receive an OLED is provided. The luminaire is structured to increase the light emission of the OLED by capturing light emissions that would typically be lost by absorption within the OLED. The luminaire includes angled sides having a reflective material disposed thereon. The luminaire increases the light output of the OLED such that it may be implemented in area lighting applications. Further, an array comprising a plurality of recessed areas and a plurality of angled sides for each of the recessed areas may be implemented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323448 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06951120 | McCaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon McCaughan (Madison, Wisconsin); Chad Matthew Staus (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Machining of crystalline lithium niobate is carried out utilizing a laser having a beam with a wavelength near the absorption edge of lithium niobate. The laser beam is provided in pulses of short duration and at a repetition rate selected to ablate the surface of the lithium niobate without damaging the bulk material. Translation of the laser beam and the substrate with respect to each other can be carried out to define a trench of a desired geometry in the lithium niobate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/102621 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951714 | Giovannoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Giovannoni (Corvallis, Oregon); Stephanie Connon (Pocatello, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for isolating microbial species, particularly previously uncultured species, from non-laboratory source environments (such as soil, freshwater, seawater, etc.) are disclosed. These methods can include the use of cultures in arrays, and cells deposited on solid surfaces in arrays for detection, and flow cytometry and/or cell sorting and/or dilution cultures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/053243 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951827 | Utz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur L. Utz (Boxborough, Massachusetts); Ludo B. F. Juurlink (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | By exposing precursor molecules traveling in a molecular beam to a narrow bandwidth laser beam (hu) tuned to a vibrational resonance frequency of the molecules and aimed orthogonal to the molecular beam (FIG. 6A), only those molecules having velocity (va) along trajectory (A) orthogonal to the laser beam are excited, becoming several orders of magnitude more reactive, affording a high degree of control over precise locations of reactions of molecules. Controlling a reaction on a surface of a solid substrate, includes; (a) obtaining a precursor molecule that includes (or can be reacted to form) species to be reacted with the substrate; (b) creating a molecular beam (eg., supersonic) that includes the precursor molecule; (c) vibrationally exciting the molecule with the laser beam tuned to a vibrational resonance frequency of the molecule; and (d) causing the exciting molecule to impinge on the substrate, enabling reactions (deposition, etching . . . ) of the species with the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/221247 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951947 | Hahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klaus M. Hahn (San Diego, California); Alexei Toutchkine (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides peptide synthons having protected functional groups for attachment of desired moieties (e.g. functional molecules or probes). Also provided are peptide conjugates prepared from such synthons, and synthon and conjugate preparation methods including procedures for identifying the optimum probe attachment site. Biosensors are provided having environmentally sensitive dyes that can locate specific biomolecules within living cells and detect chemical and physiological changes in those biomolecules as the living cell is moving, metabolizing and reacting to its environment. Methods are included for detecting GTP activation of a Rho GTPase protein using polypeptide biosensors. When the biosensor binds GTP-activated Rho GTPase protein, the environmentally sensitive dye emits a signal of a different lifetime, intensity or wavelength than when not bound. New fluorophores whose fluorescence responds to environmental changes are also provided that have improved detection and attachment properties, and that can be used in living cells, or in vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/839577 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952300 | Levy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel Levy (Chassell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A magneto-optical isolator (20) for an optical circuit. The isolator includes a substrate, and an optical channel (350) disposed next to the substrate. The optical channel and substrate are configured to transmit optical radiation within the optical channel. The isolator further includes a photonic-crystal rotator (24) formed with the substrate and the optical channel. The rotator has at least one defect (52) and magnetic (M) and non-magnetic (N) materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469436 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952436 | Wirnsberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gernot Wirnsberger (Graz, Austria); Brian J. Scott (Goleta, California); Howard C. Huang (Oakland Gardens, New York); Nicholas A. Melosh (Pasadena, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Bradley F. Chmelka (Goleta, California); Galen D. Stucky (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing transparent mesostructured inorganic/block-copolymer composites or inorganic porous solids containing optically responsive species with selective optical, optoelectronic, and sensing properties resulting therefrom. Mesoscopically organized inorganic/block copolymer composites doped with dyes or complexes are prepared for use as optical hosts, chemical/physical/biological sensors, photochromic materials, optical waveguides, tunable solid-state lasers, or optoelectronic devices. The materials can be processed into a variety of different shapes, such as films, fibers, monoliths, for novel optical and sensing applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002968 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952687 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Andersen (La Canada, California); Bijan Pesaran (Los Angeles, California); Partha Mitra (Summit, New Jersey); Daniella Meeker (Los Angeles, California); Krishna V. Shenoy (Palo Alto, California); Shiyan Cao (Pasadena, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A prosthetic system may use a decoder to predict an intended action, such as a reach, from processed signals generated from measured neural activity. The decoder may included a cognitive state machine, which transitions between cognitive states based on transition rules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193649 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06951137 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas E. Smith (North Ogden, Utah); Peter D. Totman (Ogden, Utah); Randy L. Everton (Brigham City, Utah); Paul A. St. Jean (Layton, Utah); Marvin D. Bunderson (Brigham City, Utah); Mark R. Eggett (Brigham City, Utah); Randy L. Borgstrom (South Weber, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument pin member is provided that is capable of measuring bending moments and optionally of measuring bending and axial strain in real or near real time. The instrumented pin member includes a pin member body disposed about a pin member axis, wherein the pin member body includes a bending portion. A sensing device is positioned at the pin member body within the bending portion for sensing a bending strain in the bending portion exclusive of a net axial strain, and for outputting a sensor measurement signal representative of the bending strain. A sensor measurement signal output device is provided for outputting the sensor measurement signal from the sensing device. A related system includes a plurality of pin members, among other things. Related methods also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/897003 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952488 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alonzo J. Kelly (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Yu Zhong (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-assisted method for localizing a rack, including sensing an image of the rack, detecting line segments in the sensed image, recognizing a candidate arrangement of line segments in the sensed image indicative of a predetermined feature of the rack, generating a matrix of correspondence between the candidate arrangement of line segments and an expected position and orientation of the predetermined feature of the rack, and estimating a position and orientation of the rack based on the matrix of correspondence. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/940095 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE38809 | Yao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Photonics Corporation (Chino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | X. Steve Yao (Diamond Bar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical variable delay devices for providing variable true time delay to multiple optical beams simultaneously. A ladder-structured variable delay device comprises multiple basic building blocks stacked on top of each other resembling a ladder. Each basic building block has two polarization beamsplitters and a polarization rotator array arranged to form a trihedron; Controlling an array element of the polarization rotator array causes a beam passing through the array element either going up to a basic building block above it or reflect back towards a block below it. The beams going higher on the “ladder” experience longer optical path delay. An index-switched optical variable delay device comprises of many birefringent crystal segments connected with one another, with a polarization rotator array sandwiched between any two adjacent crystal segments. An array element in the polarization rotator array controls the polarization state of a beam passing through the element, causing the beam experience different refractive indices or path delays in the following crystal segment. By independently control each element in each polarization rotator array, variable optical path delays of each beam can be achieved. Finally, an index-switched variable delay device and a ladder-structured variable device are cascaded to form a new device which combines the advantages of the two individual devices. This programmable optic device has the properties of high packing density, low loss, easy fabrication, and virtually infinite bandwidth. The device is inherently two dimensional and has a packing density exceeding 25 lines/cm2. The delay resolution of the device is on the order of a femtosecond (one micron in space) and the total delay exceeds 10 nanosecond. In addition, the delay is reversible so that the same delay device can be used for both antenna transmitting and receiving. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/005745 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06951726 | Bilodeau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anita L. Bilodeau (Cleveland, Mississippi); William R. Wolters (Cleveland, Mississippi); Geoffrey C. Waldbieser (Cleveland, Mississippi); David J. Wise (Leland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid and sensitive PCR-based assay is provided to facilitate early detection of Edwardsiella ictaluri in channel catfish. This bacteria is the causative agent in the disease, Enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC). Also provided is a method of selecting breeding stock for use in selective breeding programs to improve disease resistance in channel catfish. Also provided is a method of determining the efficacy of vaccines produced against ESC. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/252357 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06951972 | Lemaux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peggy Lemaux (Moraga, California); David McElroy (North Stonington, Connecticut); Thomas Koprek (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed discovery relates to the functioning of the Ac-Ds transposon system in small grain cereals such as barley, wheat, and oat. Methods and compositions for using this system for introducing recombinant expression cassettes and transposon tagging of genes in small grain cereals are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/384811 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06951162 | Shockey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Shockey (Menlo Park, California); David C. Erlich (Palo Alto, California); Jeffrey W. Simons (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ballistic and/or fire barrier for protecting objects in an interior of a vehicle due to projectile penetration and/or fire includes one or more layers of high strength fabric positioned towards an outer shell of the vehicle. The high strength fabric is substantially fixedly or fixedly positioned with respect to the outer shell of the vehicle. In another embodiment, the ballistic and/or fire barrier protects objects in a structure from damage due to projectile penetration. The ballistic and/or fire barrier includes at least one layer of high strength fabric positioned towards an outer housing of the structure. The high strength fabric is substantially fixedly positioned with respect to the structure towards either the inner or outer surface of the outer housing. In another embodiment of the present invention, a ballistic barrier protects a wearer of the ballistic barrier from damage due to projectile penetration. The ballistic barrier comprises first and second portions positioned generally parallel each other. The first portion includes one or more layers of high strength fabric while the second portion is generally impact-resistant. Preferably, the layer of high strength fabric comprise a plurality of plies. One of the plies can comprise woven fibers. Another of the plies can be a felt. Also preferably, the layer of high strength fabric in the ballistic barrier embodiments comprises a polymer material such as one or more of aramid material, polyethylene material, and polybenzoxazole material. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544357 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952095 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Inductive sensors measure the near surface properties of conducting and magnetic material. A sensor may have primary windings with parallel extended winding segments to impose a spatially periodic magnetic field in a test material. Those extended portions may be formed by adjacent portions of individual drive coils. Sensing elements provided every other half wavelength may be connected together in series while the sensing elements in adjacent half wavelengths are spatially offset. Certain sensors include circular segments which create a circularly symmetric magnetic field that is periodic in the radial direction. Such sensors are particularly adapted to surround fasteners to detect cracks and can be mounted beneath a fastener head. In another sensor, sensing windings are offset along the length of parallel winding segments to provide material measurements over different locations when the circuit is scanned over the test material. The distance from the sensing elements to the ends of the primary winding may be kept constant as the offset space in between sensing elements is varied. An image of the material properties can be provided as the sensor is scanned across the material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/666524 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Shirley (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of measuring three-dimensional position information of a point on the surface of an object. The invention also relates to an apparatus for projecting fringes onto a surface of an object including two sources of radiation separated by a distance, each source having a spectral distribution, and being coherent with respect to the other of the sources, a control system moving each of the sources relative to the other of the sources, and a detector positioned to receive radiation scattered from the point on the surface of the object. In another embodiment, the two sources of radiation include, an initial source of a beam of radiation having a spectral width, a beam separator in optical communication with the initial source of a beam of radiation generating a first optical beam and a second optical beam, and an imaging system optically connected to the beam separator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721148 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 06952148 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Robert Snyder (Palm Bay, Florida); Stephen B. Brown (Palm Bay, Florida); James J. Rawnick (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuously variable true time delay line (100) and method for producing a time delay. The true delay line (100) includes an RF transmission line (110) and at least a first fluidic dielectric (130) contained in a cavity (109) coupled to the RF transmission line along at least a first length thereof. One or more variable displacement fluid processors (120) are provided for changing a distribution of the fluid dielectric (130) in the cavity (109) in response to a time delay control signal (137). The propagation delay of the line is selectively varied by changing the distribution of the fluid dielectric in the cavity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387209 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06952172 | Bhardwaj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashish Bhardwaj (Eatontown, New Jersey); James J. Jaques (Metuchen, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An all-optical linear feedback circuit for use, for example, as a maximal length pseudo random bit sequence generator includes an all-optical logic circuit that is capable of generating 2N−1 bit maximal length pseudo random bit sequences on an optical channel at high data rates e.g. 80 Gbit/s. In the pseudo random bit sequence generator of the present invention, intensity-dependent phase modulation of at least one included semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is implemented. The maximum data rate is limited by the fast gain recovery time of the carriers in the SOA. An optical logic gate of the pseudo random bit sequence generator of the present invention may be constructed using various nonlinear elements that provide ultra-fast intensity-dependent phase modulation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804321 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 06951714 | Giovannoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Giovannoni (Corvallis, Oregon); Stephanie Connon (Pocatello, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for isolating microbial species, particularly previously uncultured species, from non-laboratory source environments (such as soil, freshwater, seawater, etc.) are disclosed. These methods can include the use of cultures in arrays, and cells deposited on solid surfaces in arrays for detection, and flow cytometry and/or cell sorting and/or dilution cultures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/053243 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D510383 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Merrifield, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Potter (Oak Hill, Virginia); Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia); Hernan A. Borja (Merrifield, Virginia) |
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| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 29/191991 |
| ART UNIT | 2913 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Office supplies; artists and teachers materials D19/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06952046 | Farrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Farrell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Paul Jaynes (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Malcolm Taylor (Pepperell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A package including a substrate, a plurality of components on the substrate, and a lid assembly including a plurality of integrated covers for at least select components on the substrate. A method of manufacturing such a lid assembly is also disclosed as is a packaging method. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460852 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/678 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06952733 | Felsman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Felsman (Torrance, California); David C. Bixler (Hermosa Beach, California); Cary H. Nakamura (Hacienda Heights, California); Ronald N. Orr (Redondo Beach, California); John G. Ringenbach (San Pedro, California); Michael F. Allen (Alameda, California); Reno Rubio (Westminster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, computer program and method to multicast messages to workstations in a network (10). The system uses an MDP database table (140) which stores the parameters used to manage transmission and reception of multicast messages in the network (10). An MDP server initialization module (100) executing on a server reads the parameters from the MDP database table (140) and initialize an MDP session. The system also uses an MDP client initialization module (130) to read the necessary parameters in the MDP database table (140) and initialize an MDP session in a client workstation that receives multicast messages. An MDP server operations module (120) is used to receive requests to transmit messages and transmit repair packets to a workstation designated as action workstations when a negative acknowledgment is received. An MDP client operations module (140) receives messages transmitted by the MDP server operations module only transmits a negative acknowledgment to a server upon receipt of an MDP information packet if the workstation is designated as an info only workstation in the MDP information packet. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/608614 |
| ART UNIT | 2145 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/227 |
| 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, October 04, 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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