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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 22, 2005
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 06966263 | Greene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Greene (Fort Washington, Maryland); Samuel J. De Vane (Nanjemoy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a device that uses a flexible material, preferably in a mostly square shape. An explosive charge, usually in the form of a sheet of explosives, is cut to fit on the top side of the flexible material. A cutting plate, having orthogonal grooves on the top, is placed under the flexible material. An initiating means is connected to the explosive charge so that upon initiation, the grooves focus the explosive charge so that the cutting plate forms a plurality of petals that press into a soft metal container to create a fragment-free opening in the soft metal target material. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807578 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06966526 | Lawless |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel F. Lawless (Hazel Green, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The Dragless Flight Control System for Flying Objects utilizes paired fins that are mounted to rotate in opposite directions. When no lift is desired during the object's flight, the fins are completely retracted into their housings that are recessed into the body of the object. This minimizes the drag. The fins are set to a maximum no-stall angle relative to the body axis of the flying object. To provide lift and other flight controls, such as roll and yaw, the fins are selectively exposed outside the exterior skin of the flying object by being rotated on their axes, the two fins in a pair always being rotated in opposite directions. Varying the amount of exposed area of the counter-rotating fins can generate lift effect that is proportional to the exposed area and similar to that produced by the current, permanently-extended standard rotational fins. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040302 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06966954 | Rhoads et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Comany (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Alan Rhoads (Cincinnati, Ohio); Michael Gilbert Johnson (Fairfield, Ohio); Jonothan Allen Scheetz (Waynesville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A roller bearing that provides ball and roller bearing elements comprised of M50 steel and M50NiL steel having surface hardnesses above 60 HRC, and in the range of 65-72 HRC. The hardness in the surface region is achieved by nitriding the surface to achieve a high hardness and extended life. This improvement is brought about by controlling the microstructure of the alloy by minimizing the formation of retained austenite. The material is tempered as required. The surface is then nitrided, but the nitriding operation is carefully controlled to avoid the formation of intergranular nitrides. Because of the method used to prevent the formation of intergranular nitrides, some carbon may be present to prevent the surface of the steel from becoming depleted of carbon. The hardening element in this nitro-carburizing operation is nitrogen, which forms iron nitride as Fe3N or Fe4N intragranularly. The purpose of the carbon in the operation is to maintain the concentration of carbon in the surface of the bearing so that the properties are not altered by decarburizing the surface. Standard gaseous and plasma nitriding techniques also may be used for the nitriding operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/279488 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967233 | Keller |
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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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear polymer comprising carborane, siloxane, and acetylene units, which may be cross-linked to a cured polymer and/or pyrolyzed to a ceramic. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456216 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967244 | Heinemann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Fox Heinemann (La Jolla, California); James Warner Patrick (Houston, Texas); James Richard Boulter (San Diego, California); Evan Samuel Deneris (La Jolla, California); Keiji Wada (Rockville, Maryland); Marc Charles Ballivet (Geneva, Switzerland); Daniel Jay Goldman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John Gerard Connolly (Del Mar, California); Robert Michael Duvoisin (Del Mar, California); Eden Deer Heinemann (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a family of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors comprised of neuronal agonist and non-agonist binding subunits, and DNA sequences encoding such subunits. These novel neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits include the agonist binding subunits alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5, plus non-agonist binding subunits beta2, beta3 and beta4. Representative cDNA clones that contain the DNA sequences of the invention have been deposited with the American Type Culture Collection for patent purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/580462 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967338 | Sickenberger 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) | David W. Sickenberger (Bel Air, Maryland); Richard D. Sickenberger (Daytona Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides particle detectors and detection methods. A particle detector includes a spherical/ellipsoid shell comprising spherical and ellipsoid mirrors that define a focal point within an interior of the shell, a pair of opposing tubes passing through the spherical/ellipsoid shell and directed at the focal point for directing particles to the focal point, and a light source directed at the focal point for directing light at the particles to generate fluorescence from the particles at or near the focal point. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/720877 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/461.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967358 | Nemati et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farid Nemati (Stanford, California); James D. Plummer (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thyristor device can be used to implement a variety of semiconductor memory circuits, including high-density memory-cell arrays and single cell circuits. In one example embodiment, the thyristor device includes doped regions of opposite polarity, and a first word line that is used to provide read and write access to the memory cell. A second word line is located adjacent to and separated by an insulative material from one of the doped regions of the thyristor device for write operations to the memory cell, for example, by enhancing the switching of the thyristor device from a high conductance state to a low conductance state and/or from the low conductance state to the high conductance. This type of memory circuit can be implemented to significantly reduce standby power consumption and access time. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777453 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967522 | Chandrakasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anantha Chandrakasan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Masayuki Miyazaki (Tokyo, Japan); James Kao (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for improving the power efficiency of an electronic device includes a threshold voltage selector and a supply voltage selector. The threshold voltage selector selects a value of a threshold voltage for operation of the device in response to a present operating condition of the device. The supply voltage selector selects a value of a supply voltage to be applied to the device in response to the present operating condition of the device. The value of the threshold voltage and the value of the supply voltage control a power consumption of the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/115307 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967561 | Bower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QorTek, Inc. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Bower (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Gareth Knowles (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A current control device is described wherein a pressure conduction composite is compressed and decompressed to alter its conductivity and thereby current conduction through the device. The pressure conduction composite is composed of a nonconductive matrix, a conductive filler, and an additive. The invention consists of electrodes, a nonconducting isolator, and pressure plates contacting the composite. Electrically activated actuators apply a force onto pressures plates. Each actuator is a piezoelectric, piezoceramic, electrostrictive, magnetostrictive, or piezo-controlled pneumatic element, capable of extending and/or contracting thereby altering pressure and consequently resistivity within the composite. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915145 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967614 | Wardell 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) | Ronald G. Wardell (Ellicott City, Maryland); John I. Nickel (College Park, Maryland); Dennis W. Ward (Glenelg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile launch detection system utilizes a continuous wave radio frequency signal (CW/RF) to confirm muzzle exit. The projectile launch detection system can be used in smoothbore, fin-stabilized, non-air breathing projectiles. The gun tube appears as a waveguide to the projectile launch detection system during projectile launch. The projectile launch detection system transmits a CW/RF signal down the gun tube during launch of the projectile. A portion of the CW/RF signal is reflected back by an impedance mismatch at the boundary between the muzzle of the gun tube and free space. Upon exit by the projectile from the gun tube, an exit signature is detected that is defined by the impedance of the gun tube and by a ratio of the diameter of the gun tube to the frequency of the CW/RF signal. The projectile launch detection system processes the exit signature to detect a muzzle launch of the projectile from a specific gun tube. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709448 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967615 | Lin 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 M. Lin (Beavercreek, Ohio); James B. Y. Tsui (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic warfare apparatus for determining the location of for example a ground based source of electromagnetic radiation from a platform such as an aircraft. Location is determined using angle of arrival based vector determinations provided by signal differences detected in the ground based signals arriving at platform antennas. Elimination of angle of arrival errors arising from imprecise knowledge of platform electronic warfare antenna characteristics is a focal point of the invention and is accomplished through precision use of global position system information received via the same electronic warfare antennas. Accurate determination of electronic warfare antenna characteristics prior to consideration of the large distance multiplication factors imposed by aircraft to distant signal source geometry enables accurate distant signal source location using the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816352 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967617 | McMillan 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) | Robert W. McMillan (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Ernest J. Holder (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A correlating polarimeter is provided for correlating a received waveform of a wideband electromagnetic signal with a predetermined waveform. The correlating polarimeter may include a first antenna for receiving an electromagnetic signal and a modulator interconnected with the first antenna for modulating the electromagnetic signal whereby a modulated electromagnetic signal results which contains a different polarization state for each frequency of the electromagnetic signal with the amplitude of each frequency component of the modulated electromagnetic signal being a function of the particular polarization state of each frequency component of the electromagnetic signal. The correlating polarimeter may also include a linear polarizer that may be configured to pass a first predetermined polarization of the modulated electromagnetic signal through a first output thereof, a first receiver for receiving and demodulating the electromagnetic signal from the linear polarizer and outputting a received waveform and a correlator operatively interconnected with the first receiver and being configured to compare the received waveform to a predetermined waveform and output a correlation indicator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653781 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967620 | 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 L. Ryken, Jr. (Oxnard, California); Albert Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A TM microstrip antenna which having a pair of mode suppression slots for transmitting telemetry data to an external source, which is adapted for use in a small area on a weapons system such as a missile. The mode suppression slots reduce noise from the TM microstrip antenna at the GPS L-1 band providing increased isolation between the TM microstrip antenna and a GPS receiving antenna mounted in proximity to the TM microstrip antenna. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761915 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967621 | Cadotte, Jr. 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) | Roland Cadotte, Jr. (Freehold, New Jersey); William D. Wilber (Southbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A low profile antenna includes an antenna and a ground plane structure operatively associated with the antenna. The ground plane structure has a generally planar surface, at least one protrusion extending from the planar surface and a dielectric substrate supported by the planar surface. The dielectric substrate includes a relative permeability (μ) of greater than or equal to about one and a relative permittivity (ε) of greater than or equal to about one. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808035 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967624 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-Chien Hsu (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Mirwais Zeweri (Mount Laurel, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A wideband antenna element includes first and second spaced-apart, mutually parallel conductive plates. Each plate defines a through aperture and a tapered slot extending from the aperture to an edge of the plate. The apertures and the slots of the two plates are registered. A feed structure including a strip conductor extends in the region between the plates, and crosses the slot at a location remote from both the edges of the plates and the apertures. A stub terminates the strip conductor. Through vias or conductors extend from one plate to the other near the edges of the slots, and near the feed. One embodiment includes dielectric sheets lying between the conductive plates. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830797 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967626 | Apostolos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Apostolos (Merrimac, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A collapsible discone antenna is provided with an ultra wide band width by providing a collapsible conical skeleton cone, with the rods of the skeleton being provided with meander lines so as to effectively reduce the overall dimensions of the antenna by a factor of 2, with the antenna rods being electrically interconnected at their distal ends so as to eliminate performance degradation due to varying ground conductivities. A specialized feed configuration is used in one embodiment to feed multiple antennas stacked above a low band disc through the utilization of one or more coaxial lines which are wrapped around a ferrite toroid so that they may be passed up through the low-band disc without detuning the low band discone antenna. The use of the toroid inductor between the low-band cone and the low-band disc further reduces the low frequency cutoff of the antenna by markedly decreasing the VSWR at frequencies as low as 20 megahertz. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658186 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967717 | Boss 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) | Pamela A. Boss (San Diego, California); Stephen H. Lieberman (La Mesa, California); Leonard J. Martini (San Diego, California); Gregory W. Anderson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system employs a thermo-electrically cooled surface enhanced Raman (SERS) structure that is positioned in a sample chamber. Gas or vapor that may contain an analyte of interest is introduced into the sample chamber so that the analyte may come into contact with the SERS structure. The SERS structure may be cooled to facilitate condensation of selected analytes onto the SERS structure. When in contact with each other, the analyte and SERS structure may be optically stimulated by an optical excitation signal to produce a unique spectral response that may be detected by a spectroanalysis system. The spectral response then may be correlated to a specific analyte, i.e., identified. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/133705 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967853 | DeFazio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony N. DeFazio (Brandon, Florida); Charles F. Hayek (Seminole, Florida); Clifford T. Molaskey (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A duty cycle and period of clock stimulus signals of power conversion device are independently altered to handle in-rush current. In one embodiment, transient power supply turn on current observations coupled with changing of the duty cycle and period of clock stimulus (frequency) are used to select a duty cycle and frequency for the power conversion device. A programmable logic device is programmed with firmware in one embodiment to independently alter the duty cycle of the power conversion device. Optimization of the duty cycle and frequency occurs empirically at a higher level of assembly, allowing adjustments that account for both parasitic and process induced variations and system configuration adjustments. In further embodiments, in-rush current is measured during operation of the power conversion device, and the duty cycle and frequency are adjusted in real time in response to such measured current. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/729550 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967899 | O'Brien, 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) | Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island); Chung T. Nguyen (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for automatically characterizing data sets containing data points described by d-dimensional vectors obtained by measurements, such as with sonar arrays, as either random or non-random. The data points are located by the d-dimensional vectors in a d-dimensional Euclidean space which may comprise any number d of dimensions and may comprise more than three dimensions. Large or small sets of data may be analyzed. A virtual volume is determined which contains data points from the maximum and minimums of the d-dimensional vectors. The virtual volume is then partitioned. The probability of each partition containing at least one data point for a random distribution is compared to a measurement of the number of partitions actually containing at least one data point whereby the data set is characterized as either random or non-random. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863836 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968021 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. White (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Joseph C. Whited (Marion, Iowa); Thomas L. Tapp (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Rodney L. Mickelson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A bandwidth efficient advanced modulation waveform modem using concatenated iterative turbo coding and continuous phase modulation is disclosed. A demodulator in the modem has a turbo decoder and a decision feedback carrier and time tracking algorithm to track a carrier and adjust timing. The decision feedback carrier and time tracking algorithm may use an APP decoder as a decision device to provide symbol decisions at a high error rate and low latency for a coded input data stream. A symbol phase estimator produces a symbol phase error estimate from the symbol decisions. An erasure decision function decides which symbol decisions are correct and which symbol decisions are erasures. A carrier tracking function receives the symbol phase error estimates when the symbol decisions are correct and receives erasure inputs when the symbol decisions are erasures to maintain carrier tracking. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/961666 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968061 | Houlberg 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) | Christian L. Houlberg (Ventura, California); Gary S. Borgen (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method using a Non-Volatile Memory circuit which operates as an interface between a key loader and an encryption device in a missile's telemetry system. The method includes a step for storing a crypto key and an associated check word and a backup crypto key and check word in the EEPROM of a microcontroller, and a step for indicating the status of a load of the crypto key in the microcontroller as well as a step for indicating the status of an erase of the crypto key from the microcontroller. The method also includes a step for turning off the missile's transmitter when a key load occurs to prevents transmission of the crypto key and its corresponding check word. The method further includes a step for erasing the crypto key and its associated check word from an EEPROM within the microcontroller upon a missile launch. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853922 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968114 | Janney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Janney (Hendersonville, North Carolina); Russell G. May (Blacksburg, Virginia); Stephen D. Nunn (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical waveguide includes a sapphire body having thereon a cladding containing spinel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417534 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968271 | Wolfson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouri Wolfson (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A database receives location information about a moving object. Using the destination of the object and an electronic map, the database finds a projected path for the moving object. From the projected path, the database computes a trajectory. The trajectory may be used to estimate past and future positions of the moving object. The moving object may send location updates to the database when its actual location differs from its anticipated location by more than an uncertainty threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038741 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968447 | Apisdorf 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) | Joel Zvi Apisdorf (Reston, Virginia); Sam Brandon Sandbote (Reston, Virginia); Michael Daniel Poole (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method forward data between processing elements. A first processing element includes an address register that stores a first memory address. A forwarding storage element is coupled to the first processing element. A second processing element, coupled to the forwarding storage element, transmits a second memory address to the forwarding storage element. The forwarding storage transmits the second memory address to the first processing element, and the first processing element compares the second memory address with the first memory address. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/833578 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald F. Renzi (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microvalve for extracting small volume samples into analytical devices, e.g., high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) column, includes: a first body having a first interior surface and two or more outlet ports at the first interior surface that are in fluid communication with two or more first channels; a second body having a second interior surface and two or more inlet ports at the second interior surface that are in fluid communication with two or more second channels wherein the outlet ports of the first body are coaxial with the corresponding inlet ports of the second body such that there are at least two sets of coaxial port outlets and port inlets; a plate member, which has a substantially planar first mating surface and a substantially planar second mating surface, that is slidably positioned between the first interior surface and the second interior surface wherein the plate member has at least one aperture that traverses the height of the plate member, and wherein the aperture can be positioned to be coaxial with any of the at least two sets of coaxial port outlets and port inlets; and means for securing the first surface of the first body against the first mating surface and for securing the second surface of the second body against the second mating surface. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/350626 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/625.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967011 | Saboungi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marie-Louise Saboungi (Chicago, Illinois); Benoit Glorieux (Perpignan, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of synthesizing high-temperature melting materials. More specifically the invention relates to a containerless method of synthesizing very high temperature melting materials such as borides, carbides and transition-metal, lanthanide and actinide oxides, using an Aerodynamic Levitator and a laser. The object of the invention is to provide a method for synthesizing extremely high-temperature melting materials that are otherwise difficult to produce, without the use of containers, allowing the manipulation of the phase (amorphous/crystalline/metastable) and permitting changes of the environment such as different gaseous compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307478 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967063 | Krumpelt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Krumpelt (Naperville, Illinois); John P. Kopasz (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Shabbir Ahmed (Naperville, Illinois); Richard Li-chih Kao (Northbrook, Illinois); Sarabjit Singh Randhava (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reforming a sulfur-containing carbonaceous fuel in which the sulfur-containing carbonaceous fuel is mixed with H2O and an oxidant, forming a fuel/H2O/oxidant mixture. The fuel H2O/oxidant mixture is brought into contact with a catalyst composition comprising a dehydrogenation portion, an oxidation portion and a hydrodesulfurization portion, resulting in formation of a hydrogen-containing gas stream. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/860851 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967064 | Haltiner, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Churchville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a solid-oxide fuel cell assembly, a co-flow heat exchanger is provided in the flow paths of the reformate gas and the cathode air ahead of the fuel cell stack, the reformate gas being on one side of the exchanger and the cathode air being on the other. The reformate gas is at a substantially higher temperature than is desired in the stack, and the cathode gas is substantially cooler than desired. In the co-flow heat exchanger, the temperatures of the reformate and cathode streams converge to nearly the same temperature at the outlet of the exchanger. Preferably, the heat exchanger is formed within an integrated component manifold (ICM) for a solid-oxide fuel cell assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178860 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967168 | Stearns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The EUV Limited Liability Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Stearns (Los Altos, California); Donald W. Sweeney (Livermore, California); Paul B. Mirkarimi (Sunol, California); Henry N. Chapman (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for the repair of an amplitude defect in a multilayer coating. A significant number of layers underneath the amplitude defect are undamaged. The repair technique restores the local reflectivity of the coating by physically removing the defect and leaving a wide, shallow crater that exposes the underlying intact layers. The particle, pit or scratch is first removed the remaining damaged region is etched away without disturbing the intact underlying layers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/896722 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/706 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967304 | Gevelber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cyber Materials LLC (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Alan Gevelber (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald Edward Wroblewski (Wellesley, Massachusetts); James Russell Fincke (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William David Swank (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Delon C. Haggard (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Randy Lee Bewley (Blackfoot, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved automatic feedback control scheme enhances plasma spraying of powdered material through reduction of process variability and providing better ability to engineer coating structure. The present inventors discovered that controlling centroid position of the spatial distribution along with other output parameters, such as particle temperature, particle velocity, and molten mass flux rate, vastly increases control over the sprayed coating structure, including vertical and horizontal cracks, voids, and porosity. It also allows improved control over graded layers or compositionally varying layers of material, reduces variations, including variation in coating thickness, and allows increasing deposition rate. Various measurement and system control schemes are provided. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423237 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967325 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Alexandre A. Shvartsburg (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus enabling increased sensitivity in ion mobility spectrometry/mass spectrometry instruments which substantially reduces or eliminates the loss of ions in ion mobility spectrometer drift tubes utilizing a device for transmitting ions from an ion source which allows the transmission of ions without significant delay to an hourglass electrodynamic ion funnel at the entrance to the drift tube and/or an internal ion funnel at the exit of the drift tube. An hourglass electrodynamic funnel is formed of at least an entry element, a center element, and an exit element, wherein the aperture of the center element is smaller than the aperture of the entry element and the aperture of the exit elements. Ions generated in a relatively high pressure region by an ion source at the exterior of the hourglass electrodynamic funnel are transmitted to a relatively low pressure region at the entrance of the hourglass funnel through a conductance limiting orifice. Alternating and direct electrical potentials are applied to the elements of the hourglass electrodynamic funnel thereby drawing ions into and through the hourglass electrodynamic funnel thereby introducing relatively large quantities of ions into the drift tube while maintaining the gas pressure and composition at the interior of the drift tube as distinct from those at the entrance of the electrodynamic funnel and allowing a positive gas pressure to be maintained within the drift tube, if desired. An internal ion funnel is provided within the drift tube and is positioned at the exit of said drift tube. The advantage of the internal ion funnel is that ions that are dispersed away from the exit aperture within the drift tube, such as those that are typically lost in conventional drift tubes to any subsequent analysis or measurement, are instead directed through the exit of the drift tube, vastly increasing the amount of ions exiting the drift tube. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933661 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967336 | Sundelin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southeastern Universities Research Assn. (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Sundelin (Yorktown, Virginia); Tong Wang (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for enabling accurate retaining of a precise position, such as for reacquisition of a microscopic spot or feature having a size of 0.1 mm or less, on broad-area surfaces after non-in situ processing. The apparatus includes a sample and sample holder. The sample holder includes a base and three support posts. Two of the support posts interact with a cylindrical hole and a U-groove in the sample to establish location of one point on the sample and a line through the sample. Simultaneous contact of the third support post with the surface of the sample defines a plane through the sample. All points of the sample are therefore uniquely defined by the sample and sample holder. The position registration system of the current invention provides accuracy, as measured in x, y repeatability, of at least 140 μm. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826220 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/442.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967757 | Allen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Allen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael B. Sinclair (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey L. Dohner (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) device for redirecting incident light is disclosed. The MEM device utilizes a pair of electrostatic actuators formed one above the other from different stacked and interconnected layers of polysilicon to move or tilt an overlying light-reflective plate (i.e. a mirror) to provide a reflected component of the incident light which can be shifted in phase or propagation angle. The MEM device, which utilizes leveraged bending to provide a relatively-large vertical displacement up to several microns for the light-reflective plate, has applications for forming an electrically-programmable diffraction grating (i.e. a polychromator) or a micromirror array. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722237 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968114 | Janney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Janney (Hendersonville, North Carolina); Russell G. May (Blacksburg, Virginia); Stephen D. Nunn (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical waveguide includes a sapphire body having thereon a cladding containing spinel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417534 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 06967018 | Zolotukhin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (Alachua, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei Zolotukhin (Gainesville, Florida); Michael D. Tennant (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Adiponectin cDNA was cloned into AAV serotypes 1, 2, and 5-based expression vectors. Virions containing these vectors were administered to the livers of rat subjects via portal vein injection. A single injection of 6×1011 virions of the vector caused a sustained and statistically significant reduction in body weight of the treated animals compared to the control animals. This occurred in the absence of side effects. Compared to control animals, the subject rats also exhibited reduced adipose tissue mass, reduced appetite, improved insulin sensitivity, and improved glucose tolerance. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341972 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967021 | Panjwani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noorjahan Panjwani (Medford, Massachusetts); Zhiyi Cao (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the therapeutic treatment of epithelial wounds in mammals comprising administering to a mammal afflicted with an epithelial wound a therapeutically effective amount of a galectin-3 protein and/or a galectin-7 protein are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a pharmaceutically suitable carrier or diluent and as an active agent a galectin-3 protein and/or a galectin-7 protein are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/133234 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967077 | Glimcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie H. Glimcher (West Newton, Massachusetts); I-Cheng Ho (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulating production of a T helper type 2 (Th2)-associated cytokine, in particular interleukin-4, by modulating the activity of a transcription factor, in particular the proto-oncoprotein c-Maf, that regulates expression of the Th2-associated cytokine gene are disclosed. Methods for modulating development of T helper type 1 (Th1) or T helper type 2 (Th2) subsets in a subject using agents that modulate transcription factor activity are also disclosed. The methods of the invention can further involve use of agents that modulate the activity of additional transcription factors that contribute to the regulation of Th1- or Th2-associated cytokines, such as a Nuclear Factor of Activated T cells (NF-AT) protein and/or an AP-1 family protein. Compositions for modulating Th2-associated cytokine production, recombinant expression vectors and host cells, as well as screening assays to identify agents that modulate c-Maf activity, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/248756 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967096 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Cheng (Pasadena, California); Vij Ramakrishnan (Pasadena, California); Sunney I. Chan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermostable peptidase enzyme derived from archaeon from the genus Pyrococcus is disclosed. The enzyme is produced from native or recombinant host cells and can be utilized in the biotechnology industry as a useful enzyme in sequencing reactions. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/969125 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967152 | Jordan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroConnex Corp. (Snoqualmie, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip L. Jordan (Sultan, Washington); John P. Yarno (Snohomish, Washington); Jeffery A. Strole (Ellensburg, Washington); Mikhail P. Bak (Seattle, Washington); Joseph R. Ketterl (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a multi-level electronic device that begins with machining into a sheet of dielectric material from a surface to create a set of first indentations at a first level. Conductive material is then deposited into the first indentations to create a set of first conductive features. The first indentations are then substantially filled with dielectric material. The process is continued by machining again into the sheet of dielectric material from a surface and thereby creating a set of second indentations at a second level. Further conductive material is deposited into the second indentations to create a set of second conductive features. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686315 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967219 | Gross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven S. Gross (New York, New York); Michael S. Goligorsky (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Premature vascular senescence is reversed or prevented in tissue or cells by contacting the tissue or cells with a hydroxyguanidine. This finds application in treatment of patients with a disorder associated with elevated levels of advanced glycation end products in blood or tissue, e.g., patients with end stage renal disease or poorly controlled diabetes, and in contacting vascular tissue or cells ex vivo to prevent occurrence of premature senescence. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268106 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/565 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967244 | Heinemann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Fox Heinemann (La Jolla, California); James Warner Patrick (Houston, Texas); James Richard Boulter (San Diego, California); Evan Samuel Deneris (La Jolla, California); Keiji Wada (Rockville, Maryland); Marc Charles Ballivet (Geneva, Switzerland); Daniel Jay Goldman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John Gerard Connolly (Del Mar, California); Robert Michael Duvoisin (Del Mar, California); Eden Deer Heinemann (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a family of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors comprised of neuronal agonist and non-agonist binding subunits, and DNA sequences encoding such subunits. These novel neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits include the agonist binding subunits alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5, plus non-agonist binding subunits beta2, beta3 and beta4. Representative cDNA clones that contain the DNA sequences of the invention have been deposited with the American Type Culture Collection for patent purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/580462 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06966820 | Lyons, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Lyons, III (Shaprsburg, Maryland); John J. Zaniewski (Berlin, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technical advancement in the field of precision aluminum optics permits high quality optical polishing of aluminum monolith, which, in the field of optics, offers numerous benefits because of its machinability, lightweight, and low cost. This invention combines diamond turning and conventional polishing along with india ink, a newly adopted material, for the polishing to accomplish a significant improvement in surface precision of aluminum monolith for optical purposes. This invention guarantees the precise optical polishing of typical bare aluminum monolith to surface roughness of less than about 30 angstroms rms and preferably about 5 angstroms rms while maintaining a surface figure accuracy in terms of surface figure error of not more than one-fifteenth of wave peak-to-valley. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/012247 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06966865 | Drago et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Drago (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Joseph W. Lenski Jr. (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Mark J. Robuck (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A high ratio, double helical epicyclic gear transmission that is primarily intended for use in rotary wing aircraft employs double helical planet gears to obtain a reduction in size of the transmission, to improve the safety of the transmission, and to reduce the noise created by operation of the transmission. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706497 |
| ART UNIT | 3681 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Planetary gear transmission systems or components 475/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967051 | Augustynowicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaw D. Augustynowicz (Titusvile, Florida); James E. Fesmire (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal insulation systems and with methods of their production. The thermal insulation systems incorporate at least one reflection layer and at least one spacer layer in an alternating pattern. Each spacer layer includes a fill layer and a carrier layer. The fill layer may be separate from the carrier layer, or it may be a part of the carrier layer, i.e., mechanically injected into the carrier layer or chemically formed in the carrier layer. Fill layers contain a powder having a high surface area and low bulk density. Movement of powder within a fill layer is restricted by electrostatic effects with the reflection layer combined with the presence of a carrier layer, or by containing the powder in the carrier layer. The powder in the spacer layer may be compressed from its bulk density. The thermal insulation systems may further contain an outer casing. Thermal insulation systems may further include strips and seams to form a matrix of sections. Such sections serve to limit loss of powder from a fill layer to a single section and reduce heat losses along the reflection layer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/939286 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967345 | Gunapala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarath D. Gunapala (Valencia, California); Kwong Kit Choi (Brookeville, Maryland); Sumith V. Bandara (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) that provides two-color image sensing. Two different quantum wells are configured to absorb two different wavelengths. The QWIPs are arrayed in a focal plane array (FPA). The two-color QWIPs are selected for readout by selective electrical contact with the two different QWIPs or by the use of two different wavelength sensitive gratings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/305121 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967462 | Landis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey A. Landis (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing wireless, charging power and/or primary power to electronic/electrical devices is described whereby microwave energy is employed. Microwave energy is focused by a power transmitter comprising one or more adaptively-phased microwave array emitters onto a device to be charged. Rectennas within the device to be charged receive and rectify the microwave energy and use it for battery charging and/or for primary power. A locator signal generated by the device to be charged is analyzed by the system to determine the location of the device to be charged relative to the microwave array emitters, permitting the microwave energy to be directly specifically towards the device to be charged. Backscatter detectors respond to backscatter energy reflected off of any obstacle between the device to be charged and the microwave array emitters. Power to any obstructed microwave array emitter is reduced until the obstruction is removed. Optionally, data can be modulated onto microwave energy beams produced by the array emitters and demodulated by the device, thereby providing means of data communication from the power transmitter to the device. Similarly, data can be modulated onto the locator signal and demodulated in the power transmitter, thereby providing means of data communication from the device to the power transmitter. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/455139 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968338 | Gawdiak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri O. Gawdiak (Sunnyvale, California); Tracy T. La (Sunnyvale, California); Shu-Chun Y. Lin (Fremont, California); David A. Maluf (Mountain View, California); Khai Peter B. Tran (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for querying a collection of Unstructured or semi-structured documents to identify presence of, and provide context and/or content for, keywords and/or keyphrases. The documents are analyzed and assigned a node structure, including an ordered sequence of mutually exclusive node segments or strings. Each node has an associated set of at least four, five or six attributes with node information and can represent a format marker or text, with the last node in any node segment usually being a text node. A keyword (or keyphrase) is specified, and the last node in each node segment is searched for a match with the keyword. When a match is found at a query node, or at a node determined with reference to a query node, the system displays the context and/or the content of the query node. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232975 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06967256 | Cummins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Cummins (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James M. Blackwell (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to methods of preparing enedialkylidyne complexes, enediynes, and alkyne metathesis catalysts, as well as methods of catalyzing alkyne metathesis reactions. The present invention also relates to methods of activating enedialkylidyne complexes for metathesis. The present invention also relates to enedialkylidyne complexes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666565 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06967304 | Gevelber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cyber Materials LLC (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Alan Gevelber (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald Edward Wroblewski (Wellesley, Massachusetts); James Russell Fincke (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William David Swank (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Delon C. Haggard (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Randy Lee Bewley (Blackfoot, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved automatic feedback control scheme enhances plasma spraying of powdered material through reduction of process variability and providing better ability to engineer coating structure. The present inventors discovered that controlling centroid position of the spatial distribution along with other output parameters, such as particle temperature, particle velocity, and molten mass flux rate, vastly increases control over the sprayed coating structure, including vertical and horizontal cracks, voids, and porosity. It also allows improved control over graded layers or compositionally varying layers of material, reduces variations, including variation in coating thickness, and allows increasing deposition rate. Various measurement and system control schemes are provided. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423237 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968271 | Wolfson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouri Wolfson (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A database receives location information about a moving object. Using the destination of the object and an electronic map, the database finds a projected path for the moving object. From the projected path, the database computes a trajectory. The trajectory may be used to estimate past and future positions of the moving object. The moving object may send location updates to the database when its actual location differs from its anticipated location by more than an uncertainty threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038741 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06966142 | Hogsette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome A. Hogsette (Gainesville, Florida); David Arthur Carlson (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A safe, indoor trapping device for trapping and killing flying insects can be used in areas containing food, containing animals, for food preparation, etc. The device includes at least one removable trap body, a toxicant panel, and an insect collector. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/145787 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06968248 | Mata et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gustavo Mata (Austin, Texas); Steven C. Nettles (Johnson City, Texas); Larry D. Barto (Austin, Texas); Yiwei Li (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for scheduling in an automated manufacturing environment, comprising are disclosed. The method includes detecting an occurrence of a predetermined event in a process flow; notifying a software scheduling agent of the occurrence; and reactively scheduling an action from the software scheduling agent responsive to the detection of the predetermined event. The apparatus is automated manufacturing environment including a process flow and a computing system. The computing system further includes a plurality of software scheduling agents residing thereon, the software scheduling agents being capable of reactively scheduling appointments for activities in the process flow responsive to a plurality of predetermined events. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151098 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06967022 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Ordway Livingston (New York, New York); Friedhelm Helling (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a vaccine for stimulating or enhancing in a subject to which the vaccine is administered, production of an antibody which recognizes a ganglioside, comprising an amount of ganglioside or oligosaccharide portion thereof conjugated to an immunogenic protein effective to stimulate or enhance antibody production in the subject, an effective amount of adjuvant and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/475784 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/194.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, November 22, 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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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
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