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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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| US 06968642 | Leung |
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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) | Fee Chan Leung (Hazlet, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A bayonet assembly, for a firearm that has a knuckleguard, includes a rail connected to the firearm where the rail comprises a first position detent and a second position detent. The bayonet assembly may also include a bayonet that, in turn, includes a blade and a slide. The slide may be dimensioned and configured to engage the rail and the slide may include a slide catch that is dimensioned and configured to be engageable with the first position detent and the second position detent. In operation, the bayonet may be slid by a hand that is located within the knuckleguard from a remote position, where the slide catch engages the first position detent, to an extended position, where the slide catch engages the second position detent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925296 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968694 | Buey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Buey (Vernon, Connecticut); John M. Bonnell (Tequesta, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine has a centerbody within a gas flowpath and a downstream tailcone and a pilot at an upstream end of the tailcone. A flameholder is positioned in the flowpath outboard of the centerbody. The pilot has a first surface diverging in a downstream direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388249 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968697 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ly D. Nguyen (Phoenix, Arizona); Cristopher Frost (Scottsdale, Arizona); Ronald P. Maty (Chandler, Arizona); John M. Wait (Phoenix, Arizona); Jason C. Smoke (Phoenix, Arizona); Lori M. Wheeler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Richard D. Kocher (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine compressor design utilizing multiple component integration, thereby reducing the number of required engine components. In conventional compressor designs, a multiple component system makes it difficult to predict the structural behaviors due to thermal and mechanical loading during transient conditions. The compressor design of the present invention has three main parts: a forward bearing housing, a bell-mouth (heat shield) and a coupled impeller shroud/diffuser. Such a design achieves the design objectives of the present invention, including reducing weight, reducing cost, minimizing tolerance build up and improving aerodynamic performance by utilizing multiple component integration for multiple modes of engine operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666611 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968699 | Howell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen John Howell (West Newbury, Massachusetts); John Carl Jacobson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Timothy Patrick McCaffrey (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Barry Francis Barnes (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor includes outer and inner liners joined together by a dome to define a combustion chamber. A row of air swirlers is mounted in the dome and includes corresponding main fuel injectors for producing corresponding fuel and air mixtures. Pilot fuel injectors fewer in number than the main injectors are mounted in the dome between corresponding ones of the swirlers. Staged fuel injection from the pilot and main injectors is used for starting the combustor during operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431924 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968785 | Auman 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) | Lamar M. Auman (Union Grove, Alabama); Douglas J. Love (Huntsville, Alabama); Brad L. Bachelor (Athens, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The locking and stabilizing device for grenades utilizes a solid nylon ring and multiple nylon ribbons that are attached to the ring at regular intervals around its circumference. During storage, the ring surrounds and locks the slider of the grenade in its storage position. But upon deployment, under aerodynamic forces the ring moves away from the slider, releasing the slider. When the slider is thusly released, it slides out and brings the detonator in place to be impacted upon by the pin when the grenade hits the target, thus detonating the grenade. The multiple ribbons extending from the ring unfurl due to the aerodynamic forces and provide stability to the grenade flight. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666824 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968802 | Mulhern |
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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 M. Mulhern (Riverton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An unmanned sea vehicle is provided with a canister storing therein a net assembly in a deflated condition attached to the sea vehicle through the canister by a lanyard in a folded condition. The net assembly is connected to an inflation gas generator through which it is inflated to initiate retrieval of the unmanned sea vehicle. Inflation of the net assembly effects ejection thereof from the canister afloat onto a body of seawater, while connected to the canister on the sea vehicle by the unfolded lanyard. The floating net assembly is thereby positioned for engagement by a grappling hook lowered from a helicopter for example so as to lift it with the sea vehicle suspended therefrom by the lanyard from the sea water surface and transferred to the deck of a retrieval sea vessel. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/738076 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969232 | Zess et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Zess (New Britain, Connecticut); Joel Wagner (Wethersfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow directing device of a gas turbine engine, comprising: an airfoil having a leading edge, trailing edge, suction side and pressure side; a wall abutting the airfoil; and a fillet between the airfoil and wall. The fillet has an enlarged section at the leading edge, along the suction and pressure sides, and towards the trailing edge. The device could be part of a vane segment. In addition to eliminating a horseshoe vortex, the device also reduces heat load on the airfoil by directing the cooler gas from the proximal end of the airfoil to the hotter gas at the medial section of the airfoil. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/065484 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969237 | Hudson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Hudson (Harwinton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vane assembly for a turbine engine comprising a plurality of vanes each comprising a pressure side wherein the pressure side of at least one of the plurality of vanes comprises at least one opening extending through the pressure side into an interior portion of the at least one of the plurality of vanes. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652913 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969434 | Chan 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) | May Lee Chan (Ridgecrest, California); Dung Tri Bui (Ridgecrest, California); Gary Meyers (Ridgecrest, California); Alan Turner (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention disclosed herein relates to an explosive capable of enhanced combustion efficiently capable of sustaining a high pressure over a period of time in a confined environment, such as an air tight room or a cave, where oxygen may be in limited supply. An embodiment of the present invention is a metal composite that combines a binder, a reactive metal and an oxidizer. In another embodiment, a plasticizer and a catalyst may be added. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a solid fuel-air explosive (SFAE) having an annular design is used. In a typical annular design, a cylindrical shell of SFAE surrounds the cylindrically shaped high explosive. The SFAE may be selected from the group consisting of reactive metal and metal composite. In addition, the metal composite is formed from at least one reactive metal, at least one binder and an oxidizer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/326958 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/19.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969467 | Max et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (Washington, District of Columbia); Jens Korsgaard (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In hydrate-based desalination or other water purification conducted using naturally buoyant or trapped-gas-assisted buoyancy hydrate in a hydrate fractionation column, a portion of fresh or purified product water is extracted from an upper, hydrate dissociation region of the fractionation column and reintroduced into a lower portion of the fractionation column at a point above but generally near a product water/saline water interface. The difference in density between the reintroduced product water and the fluid in the hydrate fractionation column above the point of reintroduction (water, hydrate, and gas) drives a natural circulation system which enhances the rate at which hydrate rises into the hydrate dissociation region. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656339 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/712 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969559 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic field structures composed of stacked magnetic laminae that are magnetically oriented perpendicular to their planes and configured to cause a volume charge density and cancel the field effects of unwanted surface negative charges. This arrangement causes a uniform volume magnetic charge density, which results in a magnetic field normal to the laminae of the magnitude. The stacked magnetic laminae magnetic field structures cancel the field effects of the deleterious unwanted surface charges because these surface charges are so situated that their contributions to the internal magnetic field mutually cancel each other, and thus they are no longer detrimental to the magnetic field created by the volume charge density. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644566 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/636 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969605 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Anderson (Woodbine, Maryland); C. Brent Bargeron (Columbia, Maryland); Richard C. Benson (Highland, Maryland); Micah A. Carlson (Baltimore, Maryland); Allan B. Fraser (Woodbine, Maryland); John D. Groopman (Owings Mills, Maryland); Harvey W. Ko (Ellicott City, Maryland); David R. Kohler (Ellicott City, Maryland); Terry E. Phillips (Ellicott City, Maryland); Paul T. Strickland (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand held, self-contained, automatic, low power and rapid sensor platform for detecting and quantifying a plurality of analytes. A sample solution potentially containing an unknown amount of an analyte is passed through an affinity column which contains antibodies to which the analyte binds thereby extracting the analyte. The affinity column is then rinsed to remove any other chemicals that may fluoresce. The rinsed affinity column is then eluted with a known volume of elution fluid causing the analyte to release from the antibody and dissolve in the fluid (eluant). The eluant is then placed in the quartz cuvette of a fluorometer. The analyte suspended in the eluant fluoresces at a waveband which is different than that of the light source that excites it. The amount of fluorescence is measured and the level of analyte determined. The rinsing and elution fluids, and/or the affinity column can be placed in a module for easy insertion and removal from the sensor when depleted or when the sensor is to be used against a different analyte. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/906243 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969690 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapil Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Soojin Oh (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jian Zhang (Carrboro, North Carolina); Yuan Cheng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Hideo Shimoda (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for patterned deposition of nanostructure-containing materials by self-assembly and related articles. According to an exemplary embodiment self-assembly method for depositing nanostructure-containing materials includes forming a nanostructure-containing material. The nanostructure-containing material is chemically functionalized and dispersed in a liquid medium to form a suspension. At least a portion of a substrate having a surface that can attract the functionalized nanostructure-containing material is brought into contact with the suspension. The substrate is separated from the suspension. The nanostructure-containing material adheres to the portion of the substrate when separated from the suspension. According to another exemplary embodiment, hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions are formed on the surface of the substrate before bringing the substrate into contact with the suspension. The functionalized nanostructure-containing material is hydrophilic and adheres to the hydrophilic region of the substrate when separated from the suspension. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803639 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/787 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969761 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas A. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976378 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969769 | Worley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanson Halosource, Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelby D. Worley (Auburn, Alabama); Yongjun Chen (Auburn, Alabama); Jia-Wang Wang (Auburn, Alabama); Rong Wu (Auburn, Alabama); Yanjun Li (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocyclic and acyclic silane monomers and siloxane polymers, and their halogenated derivatives, are provided for the purpose of functionalizing surfaces or materials so as to render them biocidal upon exposure to oxidative halogen solutions. The biocidal function can be imparted either before or after bonding or adhesion to the surface or material. The biocidal surfaces and materials can then be used to inactivate pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and yeasts, as well as virus particles, which can cause infectious diseases, and those microorganisms which cause noxious odors and unpleasant coloring such as mildew. Examples of surfaces and materials which can be rendered biocidal in this invention include, but are not limited to, cellulose, chitin, chitosan, synthetic fibers, glass, ceramics, plastics, rubber, cement grout, latex caulk, porcelain, acrylic films, vinyl, polyurethanes, silicon tubing, marble, metals, metal oxides, and silica. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400165 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969856 | Hillenbrand 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) | Eric Hillenbrand (Evansville, Indiana); Mark Dombrowski (Escondido, California); Jim Lorenz (Escondido, California); Ming-De Li (San Diego, California); Eric Ford (LaCanada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A two band imaging system having two focal plane array detectors, a beam splitter, and an enclosure. The beam splitter disposed within the system at an angle to the optical axis such that light entering the system is split and is simultaneously directed to each of the two focal plane array detectors. The two focal plane array detectors and beam splitter are disposed within the enclosure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601893 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970002 | Dove 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) | John W. Dove (Bloomfield, Indiana); Craig M. Armes (Odon, Indiana); Bernard E. Halter (Washington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tube measurement and calibration system including a network analyzer for measuring tube radio frequency phase, a calibration adapter for calibrating tube radio frequency power and phase, an amplifier for amplifying input radio frequency power into the tube, and a rigid coaxial cable for radio frequency power communication between the tube and the network analyzer and between the calibration adapter and the network analyzer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845610 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970139 | Chew 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) | Richard F. Chew (Ridgecrest, California); Will Freeman (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A short ridge waveguide load is described which absorbs and cancels non-radiated electromagnetic energy in continuous slot or discrete slotted antennas. The load achieves a small physical size by using a resonant structure which includes an absorbing ferrite front section positioned within the interior of the waveguide antenna below the slot and a back section of ferrite material also positioned in the interior of the waveguide antenna. This allows for energy to be radiated from the slot while absorbing and canceling the non-radiated energy using a relatively small size load. In a rectangular ridge waveguide configuration, the front section consists of a pair of posts having a trapezoidal, rectangular or triangular shape. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875803 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970245 | Fritz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard S. Fritz (Eagan, Minnesota); Aravind Padmanabhan (Plymouth, Minnesota); Peter Reutiman (Crystal, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical alignment detection system for detecting the alignment of a first object relative to a second object is provided. One or more light sources and one or more light detectors, either or both of which are secured relative to the second object, are used to detect the position of one or more light scattering elements on the first object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/225325 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970247 | Yankielun |
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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) | Norbert E. Yankielun (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Using an array of optical sensors affixed to measure interactions on a surface of an object, in combination with a specially configured personal computer, dynamic mapping of interaction is provided. One application maps washover of an object towed in a large body of water. Data are collected on optical characteristics of the interaction such as reflectivity at a boundary. For example, in one embodiment the reflectivity at an optical fiber/seawater boundary is compared to that of an optical fiber/air boundary and dynamic measurements made using an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR). These data are then processed using specialized software to yield representation of the dynamics (spatial and temporal) of selected washover events on a surface of interest. The system specifically provides a real-time representation of washover, including two and three-dimensional visualization of washover, as well as recording selected data for future use. Methods of employment of the system are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318129 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970276 | Kurz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan R. Kurz (Brooklyn, New York); Martin M. Fejer (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for nonlinear frequency mixing of light waves relying on a nonlinear material having a nonlinear coefficient d and a waveguide fabricated in the nonlinear material. The waveguide is equipped with a quasi-phase-matching (QPM) grating extending along the length of the waveguide and endowed with an asymmetry of the nonlinear coefficient d along the width of the waveguide. The transverse asymmetry is chosen to establish a mode overlap for nonlinear frequency mixing between different transverse width modes of light. The transverse asymmetry can be odd or else neither odd nor even so as to establish mode overlap for frequency mixing between even transverse width modes and odd transverse width modes. The QPM grating can have single or multiple grating stripes that can be staggered, interleaved, angled and otherwise altered to achieve the transverse asymmetry establishing a mode overlap for frequency mixing between even transverse width modes and odd transverse width modes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/444934 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970433 | Ramaswami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tellabs Operations, Inc. (Naperville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajiv Ramaswami (Ossining, New York); Galen Sasaki (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A star communication network including a hub node (102) and links (102E) couple to the hub node for carrying data along routes in W channels. The hub node has switches connecting each channel of a first one of the links to various channels of a second one of the links through the hub node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/362635 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970578 | Strand |
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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 P. Strand (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater image area is illuminated with light generating elastic scattering from manmade objects and naturally-occurring features, and fluorescence from naturally-occurring features. Local standard deviation (LSD) images are formed using the elastic scattered and fluorescent light. Elements of each LSD image are compared to threshold criteria to generate: i) first binary images having first image state portions indicating manmade objects and naturally-occurring features, and ii) second image state portions indicating background. The first binary images are logically combined generating a composite image mask. Statistical threshold criteria for each fluorescence-based image is generated using only portions identified by portions of the composite image mask indicating of background. Elements of each fluorescence-based image are compared to statistical threshold criteria to generate second binary images. At least two second binary images are logically combined to generate a binary manmade object image mask delineates between manmade objects and everything else. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/196392 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970586 | Baertsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Dudley Baertsch (Scotia, New York); Walter Vincent Dixon (Delanson, New York); Daniel Arthur Staver (Scotia, New York); Nick Andrew Van Stralen (Ballston Lake, New York); Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector framing node controls generation of radiation and radioscopic image detection Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and receives the image data by way of an image detection interface into a memory unit. The image data is output from the memory unit to host memory of the host computer through a computer communication interface and under the control of a control unit. The detector framing node selects a flat panel detector from a plurality of different flat panel detectors and the image data is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to host memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/774530 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970635 | Anderson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Anderson (Pasadena, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of setting an apparent optical length of an optical fiber for a given optical wavelength includes heating the trimmed optical fiber to selectively vary a refractive index thereof in response to comparison of a determined arrival phase angle with a reference value representing a desired arrival phase angle to change the determined arrival phase angle so that a difference between the desired and determined arrival phase angles does not exceed an acceptable tolerance of a phase error. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/173927 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970699 | Hagerty 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) | James D. Hagerty (Tiverton, Rhode Island); Anthony B. Bruno (East Lyme, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided to supply power to and to communicate with an array of remote devices. The remote devices can be acoustic sensors or types of remote devices. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a microwave source/signal demodulator that supplies wireless power and provides data interrogation signals to the sensors. The microwave transmission line is of a stripline construction. The source/demodulator radiates power to the sensor transceivers and receives data from the sensors. The source/demodulator can transmit sequential interrogation signals to activate address-selectable sensors. The source/demodulator may also decode received signals returning from the sensors. The stripline may be attached to a vessel's hull beneath a hull treatment layer and the sensors mounted on the surface of the hull treatment. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652084 |
| ART UNIT | 2681 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970745 | Scribner |
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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) | Dean Scribner (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein. Because the biphasic pulses flow in parallel to each unit cell from a global external connection, the adjacent retinal neurons are all stimulated simultaneously, analogous to image photons stimulating photoreceptors in a normal retina. A permanent retinal implant device uses a NGC array hybridized to a silicon chip, the image is simultaneously generated within each cell through a photon-to-electron conversion using a silicon photodiode. The photons propagate directly through into the backside of the device. Electrical power and any control signals are transmitted through an inductively driven coil or antenna on the chip. The device collects the charge in storage capacitors via the photon-to-electron conversion process, stimulates the neural tissue with biphasic pulses in proportion to the stored charges, and resets the storage capacitors to repeat the process. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/061413 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970900 | Johnson |
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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) | John L. Johnson (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system utilizing phosphors to perform mathematical operations without the direct or necessary use of an electronic component or electrical power source is disclosed. The luminenscent and quenching properties of phosphors are combined with at least one first-order relaxation subsystem such that when the optical system achieves equilibrium, it will have performed certain mathematical operations. The precise mathematical operation to be performed is determined by controlling the materials utilized, light inputs, and certain variables within the optical system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/051732 |
| ART UNIT | 2124 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06969513 | Galen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Galen (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to a Plasmid Maintenance System for the stabilization of expression plasmids encoding foreign antigens, and methods for making and using the Plasmid Maintenance System. The invention optimizes the maintenance of expression plasmids at two dependent levels by: (1) removing sole dependence on balanced lethal maintenance functions; and (2) incorporating at least one plasmid partition function to present random segregation of expression plasmids, thereby enhancing their inheritance and stability. The Plasmid Maintenance System may be employed within a plasmid which has been recombinantly engineered to express a variety of expression products. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/750965 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969523 | Mattern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integra LifeSciences Corporation (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph-Heiko Mattern (San Diego, California); Michael D. Pierschbacher (San Diego, California); Fred Cahn (La Jolla, California); Juerg Friederich Tschopp (San Diego, California); Timothy Irvin Malaney (Chula Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of cross-linked collagen and a glycosaminoglycan are provided which retain characteristics rendering them useful as tissue engineering matrices or scaffolds following terminal sterilization. Also provided are methods for producing these compositions and terminally sterilized matrices or scaffolds from these compositions as well as methods of using these matrices or scaffolds as tissue engineering devices. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002653 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969609 | Schlom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Serivces (Washingtown, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); James Hodge (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Dennis Panicali (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a recombinant vector encoding and expressing at least three or more costimulatory molecules. The recombinant vector may additionally contain a gene encoding one or more target antigens or immunological epitope thereof. The synergistic effect of them costimulatory molecules on the enhanced activation of T cells is demonstrated. The degree of T-cell activation using recombinant vectors containing genes encoding three costimulatory molecules was far greater than the sum of recombinant vector constructs containing one costimulatory molecule and greater that the use of two costimulatory molecules. Results employing the triple costimulatory vectors were most dramatic under conditions of either low levels of first signal or low stimulator to T-cell ratios. This phenomenon was observed with both isolated CD4+and CD8+T cells. The recombinant vectors of the present invention are useful as immunogenes and vaccines against cancer and pathogenic micro-organisms, and in providing host cells, including dendritic cells and splenocytes with enhanced and antigen-presenting functions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/856988 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969610 | Maines |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahin D. Maines (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of modifying cell structure which includes: increasing the intracellular concentration of biliverdin reductase, or a fragment or variant thereof, in a mammalian cell under conditions effective to modify the structure of the mammalian cell. Also disclosed are methods of performing in vivo tissue remodeling in a mammal and repairing a damaged organ or organ system. Both of these methods include delivering biliverdin reductase, or fragments or variants thereof, to one or more cells present at a site of tissue remodeling in a mammal, wherein said delivering increases the intracellular concentration of biliverdin reductase, or fragments or variants thereof, under conditions effective to modify the structure of the one or more cells at the site of tissue remodeling, thereby remodeling the tissue containing the one or more cells. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/045545 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969614 | Liotta 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) | Lance A. Liotta (Bethesda, Maryland); Nicole Simone (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Michael Emmert-Buck (Silver Spring, Maryland); Emmanuel F. Petricoin III (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes devices and methods for performing protein analysis on laser capture microdissected cells, which permits proteomic analysis on cells of different populations. Particular disclosed examples are analysis of normal versus malignant cells, or a comparison of differential protein expression in cells that are progressing from normal to malignant. The protein content of the microdissected cells may be analyzed using techniques such as immunoassays, 1D and 2D gel electrophoresis characterization, Western blotting, liquid chromatography quadrapole ion trap electrospray (LCQ-MS), Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization/Time of Flight (MALDI/TOF), and Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption Ionization Spectroscopy (SELDI). In addition to permitting direct comparison of qualitative and quantitative protein content of tumor cells and normal cells from the same tissue sample, the methods also allow for investigation of protein characteristics of tumor cells, such as binding ability and amino acid sequence, and differential expression of proteins in particular cell populations in response to drug treatment. The present methods also provide, through the use of protein fingerprinting, a rapid and reliable way to identify the source tissue of a tumor metastasis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/913667 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969615 | Knezevic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 20/20 GeneSystems, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Knezevic (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Michael R. Emmert-Buck (Silver Spring, Maryland); Galina Baibakova (Bethesda, Maryland); Dan-Paul Hartmann (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen M. Hewitt (Potomac, Maryland); Capre Denise Mitchell (Winston Salem, North Carolina); Kevin Gardner (Montgomery Village, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to devices, arrays, kits and methods for detecting biomolecules in a tissue section (such as a fresh or archival sample, tissue microarray, or cells harvested by an LCM procedure) or other substantially two-dimensional sample (such as an electrophoretic gel or cDNA microarray) by creating “carbon copies” of the biomolecules eluted from the sample and visualizing the biomolecules on the copies using one or more detector molecules (e.g., antibodies or DNA probes) having specific affinity for the biomolecules of interest. Specific methods are provided for identifying the pattern of biomolecules (e.g., proteins and nucleic acids) in the samples. Other specific methods are provided for the identification and analysis of proteins and other biological molecules produced by cells and/or tissue, especially human cells and/or tissue. The disclosure also provides a plurality of differentially prepared and/or processed membranes that can be used in described methods, and which permit the identification and analysis of biomolecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/432423 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969704 | Pinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Pinsky (Cresskill, New Jersey); David M. Stern (Great Neck, New York); Shi-Fang Yan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for reducing damage to an ischemic tissue which comprises contacting cells of the tissue with an inhibitor of Early Growth Response Factor-1 Protein (Egr-1). In addition, the invention provides a method for reducing vascular injury during reperfusion of an ischemic tissue in a subject which comprises contacting the tissue with a compound which inhibits expression of Early Growth Response Factor-1 (Egr-1) protein in the tissue so as to reduce vascular injury in the tissue during reperfusion. wherein the inhibitor is a nucleic acid consisting essentially of the polynucleotide sequence 5′-CTTGGCCGCTGCCAT-3′ (SEQ ID NO:1). In one embodiment of the invention, the subject has suffered a stroke, or a myocardial infarction. In another embodiment of the invention, the subject is undergoing or has undergone angioplasty, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, or organ transplantation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/648389 |
| 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 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969760 | Ihle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Ihle (Memphis, Tennessee); Bruce A. Witthuhn (Memphis, Tennessee); Frederick W. Quelle (Memphis, Tennessee); Ollie Silvennoinen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to the Jak family of kinases. This includes the DNA and amino acid sequences for Jak 3 kinases. Additionally, the invention concerns expression vectors comprising DNA sequences encoding a Jak 3 kinase and host cell containing such expression vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/397967 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969761 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas A. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976378 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969991 | Bammer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California); Michael Markl (Palo Alto, California); Burak Acar (Palo Alto, California); Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California); Michael E. Moseley (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A general mathematical framework is formulated to characterize the contribution of gradient non-uniformities to diffusion tensor imaging in MRI. Based on a model expansion, the actual gradient field is approximated and employed, after elimination of geometric distortions, for predicting and correcting the errors in diffusion encoding. Prior to corrections, experiments clearly reveal marked deviations of the calculated diffusivity for fields of view generally used in diffusion experiments. These deviations are most significant with greater distance from the magnet's isocenter. For a FOV of 25 cm the resultant errors in absolute diffusivity can range from approximately −10 to +20 percent. Within the same field of view, the diffusion-encoding direction and the orientation of the calculated eigenvectors can be significantly altered if the perturbations by the gradient non-uniformities are not considered. With the proposed correction scheme most of the errors introduced by gradient non-uniformities can be removed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/317516 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969992 | Vaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Thomas Vaughan (Stillwater, Minnesota); Gregor Adriany (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); John Strupp (Coon Rapids, Minnesota); Peter Andersen (Independence, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An excitation and detection circuit having individually controllable elements for use with a multi-element radio frequency coil. Characteristics of the driving signal, including, for example, the phase, amplitude, frequency and timing, from each element of the circuit is separately controllable using small signals. Negative feedback for the driving signal associated with each coil element is derived from a receiver coupled to that coil element. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957870 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970570 | Goldstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hearing Emulations, LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julius L. Goldstein (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing aid device providing instantaneous gain compression for sound signals and adaptive control of nonlinear waveform distortion, the device comprising: (a) at least one bandpass nonlinearity (BPNL) amplifier comprising a first bandpass filter, a second bandpass filter, and a memoryless nonlinear (MNL) compressive audio amplifier configured to receive a sound signal from the first bandpass filter and provide an MNL compressive audio amplifier output to the second bandpass filter, wherein the MNL compressive audio amplifier is configured to produce the MNL compressive audio amplifier output by providing memoryless gain compression directly on a sound signal that is (1) received from the first bandpass filter and (2) exhibits instantaneous amplitudes greater than a compression threshold, the BPNL amplifier thereby producing a desired gain compression on the received sound signal at an output of the second bandpass filter, and (b) a controller in communication with the BPNL amplifier, the controller being configured to adjust the compression threshold of the MNL compressive audio amplifier. Adjustment of the compression threshold in each BPNL amplifier may be achieved at least partially in response to a user input and/or to sound signal changes. By adaptively controlling the compression threshold, performance of the device can by optimized to match its environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/935510 |
| ART UNIT | 2644 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970791 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verachem, LLC (Germantown, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Jason Potter (North Potomac, Maryland); Hillary Sue Rodman Gilson (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael Kenneth Gilson (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of carrying out a molecular modeling calculation and displaying the results thereof through a task-oriented user interface. The overall computational task is divided into subtasks, each of which is outfitted with a tailored graphical user interface. In a preferred implementation, the subtask user interfaces are accessed via tab icons whose layout reflects the normal order of carrying out the subtasks, and downstream subtask user-interfaces are not activated until the information they require is available from upstream subtasks. The invention also provides software that allows the user to view the setup and results of a calculation, but does not provide computational capabilities. The invention is applicable to a wide range of computational tasks. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/443903 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06968611 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Scott Dahlgren (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Cameron Sneddon (Provo, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial cable electrical connector more specifically an internal coaxial cable connector placed within a coaxial cable and its constituent components. A coaxial cable connector is in electrical communcation with an inductive transformer and a coaxial cable. The connector is in electrical communication with the outer housing of the inductive transfonner. A generally coaxial center conductor, a portion of which could be the coil in the inductive transformer, passes through the connector, is electrically insulated from the connector, and is in electrical communication with the conductive care of the coaxial cable. A plurality of bulbous pliant tabs on the coaxial cable connector mechanically engage the inside diameter of the coaxial cable thus grounding the transformer to the coaxial cable. The coaxial cable and inductive transformer are disposed within downhole tools to transmit electrical signals between downhole tools within a drill string. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605911 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/745 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06968693 | Colibaba-Evulet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei Colibaba-Evulet (Clifton Park, New York); Michael John Bowman (Niskayuna, New York); Simon Ralph Sanderson (Clifton Park, New York); Anthony John Dean (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A low emission turbine includes a reverse flow can-type combustor that generally includes a primary and secondary fuel delivery system that can be independently controlled to produce low CO, UHC, and NOx emissions at design set point and at conditions other than design set point. The reverse flow can-type combustor generally includes an annularly arranged array of swirler and mixer assemblies within the combustor, wherein each swirler and mixer in the array includes a primary and secondary fuel delivery system that can be independently controlled. Also disclosed herein is a can-type combustor that includes fluid passageways that perpendicularly impinge the outer surface of a heat shield. Processes for operating the can-type combustors are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/667041 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969576 | Dentinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dentinger (Sunol, California); Kelby L. Simison (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoresist composition that employs onium salt carboxylates as thermally stable dissolution inhibitors. The photoresist composition can be either an onium carboxylate salt with a phenolic photoresist, such as novolac, or an onium cation protected carboxylate-containing resin such as an acrylic/acrylic acid copolymer. The onium carboxylate can be an onium cholate, wherein the onium cholate is an iodonium cholate. Particularly preferred iodonium cholates are alkyloxyphenylphenyl iodonium cholates and most particularly preferred is octyloxyphenyphenyl iodonium cholate. The photoresist composition will not create nitrogen or other gaseous byproducts upon exposure to radiation, does not require water for photoactivation, has acceptable UV radiation transmission characteristics, and is thermally stable at temperatures required for solvent removal. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/000429 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969752 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yulin Deng (Marietta, Georgia); Zegui Yan (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an adhesive or coating composition that is dispersible or dissolvable in water, making it useful in as a coating or adhesive in paper intended for recycling. The composition of the present invention is cationically charged thereby binding with the fibers of the paper slurry and thus, resulting in reduced deposition of adhesives on equipment during the recycling process. The presence of the composition of the present invention results in stronger interfiber bonding in products produced from the recycled fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/621695 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/292.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969851 | Sheen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuh-Haw Sheen (Naperville, Illinois); Apostolos C. Raptis (Downers Grove, Illinois); Hual-Te Chien (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor and detection methods are provided for detecting nitric oxides (NOx) in an exhaust gas based upon ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) technique. An ionization chamber having an interior electrically conductive shell receives exhaust gas. A spark electrode having a needle tip extends into the ionization chamber. A shutter grid is coupled between the ionization chamber and an ion drift tube. A substantially continuous spark discharge is established between the electrically conductive shell and the needle tip of the spark electrode for ionization of the exhaust gas. Negative NO2 ions are kept inside the chamber by biasing the electrically conductive shell and the shutter grid at a negative voltage. Then a positive pulse is applied to the shutter grid to cause the shutter to open for negative NO2 ions to exit into the ion drift tube. The IMS sensor is small-sized, low-cost, robust, and reliable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920539 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969857 | Owen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas); Gas Research Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Owen (Helotes, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas sensor, whose chamber uses filters and choppers in either a semicircular geometry or annular geometry, and incorporates separate infrared radiation filters and optical choppers. This configuration facilitates the use of a single infrared radiation source and a single detector for infrared measurements at two wavelengths, such that measurement errors may be compensated. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753614 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969874 | Gee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Gee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Katherine H. A. Bogart (Corrales, New Mexico); Arthur J. Fischer (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flip-chip light emitting diode with enhanced efficiency. The device structure employs a microcavity structure in a flip-chip configuration. The microcavity enhances the light emission in vertical modes, which are readily extracted from the device. Most of the rest of the light is emitted into waveguided lateral modes. Flip-chip configuration is advantageous for light emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on dielectric substrates (e.g., gallium nitride LEDs grown on sapphire substrates) in general due to better thermal dissipation and lower series resistance. Flip-chip configuration is advantageous for microcavity LEDs in particular because (a) one of the reflectors is a high-reflectivity metal ohmic contact that is already part of the flip-chip configuration, and (b) current conduction is only required through a single distributed Bragg reflector. Some of the waveguided lateral modes can also be extracted with angled sidewalls used for the interdigitated contacts in the flip-chip configuration. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/459965 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969967 | Su |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gui-Jia Su (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit for controlling an ac machine comprises a full bridge network of commutation switches which are connected to supply current for a corresponding voltage phase to the stator windings, a plurality of diodes, each in parallel connection to a respective one of the commutation switches, a plurality of dc source connections providing a multi-level dc bus for the full bridge network of commutation switches to produce sinusoidal voltages or PWM signals, and a controller connected for control of said dc source connections and said full bridge network of commutation switches to output substantially sinusoidal voltages to the stator windings. With the invention, the number of semiconductor switches is reduced to m+3 for a multi-level dc bus having m levels. A method of machine control is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734940 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06969634 | Bao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Millburn, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making an IC on a surface of a planar substrate includes forming a continuous first layer on the surface of the substrate and pressing a surface of a stamp into the first layer to produce a pattern of non-intersecting smooth regions on the surface. A rough region of the surface of the first layer laterally borders and laterally surrounds each smooth region of the surface of the first layer. The pattern of smooth and rough regions on the surface of the first layer copies a pattern of smooth and rough areas on the surface of the stamp. The method also includes forming a continuous second layer on the patterned first layer. The first layer is one of a dielectric layer and an organic semiconductor layer, and the second layer is the other of a dielectric layer and an organic semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669780 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969821 | Mika et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Mika (Clifton Park, New York); Apostolos P. Karafillis (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for qualifying airfoil blades includes securing an airfoil blade into a fixture, taking digital measurements of the airfoil blade, comparing the digital measurements of the airfoil blade with measurements of a target model, calculating deviations between the digital measurements of the airfoil blade and the measurements of the target model, determining a required treatment for the airfoil blade to conform with the measurements of the target model, directing a reworking system to provide the required treatment to the airfoil blade, and repeating the previous steps until it is determined that no further treatment is required. An airfoil qualification system for performing the method for qualifying airfoil blades includes a measurement station, a data processing system in communication with the measurement station and for determining a point deviation from a surface standard point for each of at least a portion of the plurality of surface points and for determining a required treatment of the airfoil, and a reworking station for directing treatments to the airfoil in response to input from the data processing system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610731 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970494 | Bendett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teem Photonics, S.A. (Meylan Cedex, France); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Bendett (Plymouth, Minnesota); Norman A. Sanford (Boulder, Colorado); David L. Veasey (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for integrating lasers and optics on glass substrates. An optical (e.g., laser) component formed from a glass substrate doped with a optically active lanthanides species with a plurality of waveguides defined by channels within the substrate. The laser component optionally includes a monolithic array of individual waveguides in which the waveguides form laser resonator cavities with differing resonance characteristics. Another aspect is directed toward pumping the laser wherein a superstrate waveguide cavity, or cladding, Ls positioned adjacent the substrate waveguide for supplying the latter with pump light. A closed crucible processing of optical waveguides on a glass substrate is also described. Waveguides are created by exposing a surface of the substrate to an ion-exchange solvent (e.g., a molten salt). A tightly sealed multi-part crucible is provided in order that gas does not leak in or out of the crucible during cooling or heating of the system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/490748 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970579 | Thornton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Thornton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting features in video from business meetings and video teleconferencing systems can use color, motion, morphological (shape) filtering and a set of heuristic rules to determine possible features in the scene. One embodiment includes obtaining a first video frame of images and a second video frame of images, performing a luminance conversion on the first video frame of images and the second video frame of images, performing a motion filter operation on the converted first and second frames of images, performing a chrominance normalization on the second video frame of images, performing a color filter operation on the normalized second video frame of images, and processing the first and second frames of video images after the motion filter and color filter operations. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/122800 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06969539 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jill Becker (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Hausmann (Los Gatos, California); Seigi Suh (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal silicates or phosphates are deposited on a heated substrate by the reaction of vapors of alkoxysilanols or alkylphosphates along with reactive metal amides, alkyls or alkoxides. For example, vapors of tris-(ter-butoxy)silanol react with vapors of tetrakis(ethylmethylamido)hafnium to deposit hafnium silicate on surfaces heated to 300° C. The product film has a very uniform stoichiometry throughout the reactor. Similarly, vapors of diisopropylphosphate react with vapors of lithium bis(ethyldimethylsilyl)amide to deposit lithium phosphate films on substrates heated to 250° C. supplying the vapors in alternating pulse produces these same compositions with a very uniform distribution of thickness and excellent step coverage. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381628 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969783 | Hannah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida); Thomas W. Greene (Zionsville, Indiana); Brian Burger (Oldsmar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to novel mutant polynucleolide molecules that encode enzymes that have increased heat stability. These polynucleotides, when expressed in plants, result in increased yield in plants grown under conditions of heat stress. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide molecules of the subject invention encode maize endosperm ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) activity. Plants and plant tissue bred to contain, or transformed with, the mutant polynucleotides, and expressing the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides, are also contemplated by the present invention. The subject invention also concerns methods for isolating polynucleotides and polypeptides contemplated within the scope of the invention. Methods for increasing yield in plants grown under conditions or heat stress are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099031 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06970276 | Kurz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan R. Kurz (Brooklyn, New York); Martin M. Fejer (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for nonlinear frequency mixing of light waves relying on a nonlinear material having a nonlinear coefficient d and a waveguide fabricated in the nonlinear material. The waveguide is equipped with a quasi-phase-matching (QPM) grating extending along the length of the waveguide and endowed with an asymmetry of the nonlinear coefficient d along the width of the waveguide. The transverse asymmetry is chosen to establish a mode overlap for nonlinear frequency mixing between different transverse width modes of light. The transverse asymmetry can be odd or else neither odd nor even so as to establish mode overlap for frequency mixing between even transverse width modes and odd transverse width modes. The QPM grating can have single or multiple grating stripes that can be staggered, interleaved, angled and otherwise altered to achieve the transverse asymmetry establishing a mode overlap for frequency mixing between even transverse width modes and odd transverse width modes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/444934 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06968907 | Raper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Auburn University (, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy L. Raper (Auburn, Alabama); Petru-Aurelian Simionescu (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Cover crops may be rolled and crimped using an apparatus which may be rolled across a field at a relatively high speed without excessive vibration. The apparatus includes a substantially cylindrical drum which has a plurality of rows of outwardly extending blades projecting therefrom. The blades may be wave-shaped, curved, substantially straight and discontinuous, blades paired with a plurality of spaced apart outwardly extending rings, or combinations thereof. In use as the apparatus is rolled across a field having a crop thereon, the blades contact and crimp the stalks of the crop, effectively killing the plant. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/747459 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth working 172/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969784 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Lee C. Chiang (Hancock, Michigan); Chung-Jui Tsai (Hancock, Michigan); Wen-Jing Hu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to the genetically down regulating a lignin pathway p-coumarate Co-enzyme A ligase (CCL) in trees. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/184385 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06968692 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jushan Chin (Indianapolis, Indiana); Nader K. Rizk (Indianapolis, Indiana); Mohan K. Razdan (Indianapolis, Indiana); Andre W. Marshall (University Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel-air premixing module is designed to reduce emissions from a gas turbine engine. In one form, the premixing module includes a central pilot premixer module with a main premixer module positioned thereround. Each of the portions of the fuel-air premixing module include an axial inflow swirler with a plurality of fixed swirler vanes. Fuel is injected into the main premixer module between the swirler vanes of the axial inflow swirler and at an acute angle relative to the centerline of the premixing module. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423135 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969486 | Cooper 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) | Charles David Cooper (Maitland, Florida); Christian Anthony Clausen (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for treating pollutants in a gas may include a source of hydrogen peroxide, and a treatment injector for creating and injecting dissociated hydrogen peroxide into the flow of gas. The treatment injector may further include an injector housing having an inlet, an outlet, and a hollow interior extending therebetween. The inlet may be connected in fluid communication with the source of hydrogen peroxide so that hydrogen peroxide flows through the hollow interior and toward the outlet. At least one ultraviolet (UV) lamp may be positioned within the hollow interior of the injector housing. The at least one UV lamp may dissociate the hydrogen peroxide flowing through the tube. The dissociated hydrogen peroxide may be injected into the flow of gas from the outlet for treating pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056842 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 06969467 | Max et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (Washington, District of Columbia); Jens Korsgaard (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In hydrate-based desalination or other water purification conducted using naturally buoyant or trapped-gas-assisted buoyancy hydrate in a hydrate fractionation column, a portion of fresh or purified product water is extracted from an upper, hydrate dissociation region of the fractionation column and reintroduced into a lower portion of the fractionation column at a point above but generally near a product water/saline water interface. The difference in density between the reintroduced product water and the fluid in the hydrate fractionation column above the point of reintroduction (water, hydrate, and gas) drives a natural circulation system which enhances the rate at which hydrate rises into the hydrate dissociation region. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656339 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/712 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06970570 | Goldstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hearing Emulations, LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julius L. Goldstein (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing aid device providing instantaneous gain compression for sound signals and adaptive control of nonlinear waveform distortion, the device comprising: (a) at least one bandpass nonlinearity (BPNL) amplifier comprising a first bandpass filter, a second bandpass filter, and a memoryless nonlinear (MNL) compressive audio amplifier configured to receive a sound signal from the first bandpass filter and provide an MNL compressive audio amplifier output to the second bandpass filter, wherein the MNL compressive audio amplifier is configured to produce the MNL compressive audio amplifier output by providing memoryless gain compression directly on a sound signal that is (1) received from the first bandpass filter and (2) exhibits instantaneous amplitudes greater than a compression threshold, the BPNL amplifier thereby producing a desired gain compression on the received sound signal at an output of the second bandpass filter, and (b) a controller in communication with the BPNL amplifier, the controller being configured to adjust the compression threshold of the MNL compressive audio amplifier. Adjustment of the compression threshold in each BPNL amplifier may be achieved at least partially in response to a user input and/or to sound signal changes. By adaptively controlling the compression threshold, performance of the device can by optimized to match its environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/935510 |
| ART UNIT | 2644 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06969103 | Pape et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Pape (Decatur, Alabama); Wayne L. Reed (Huntsville, Alabama); Richard W. Seeman (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile battle center featuring a command table, a foldable tent for covering the command table, and a transport vehicle for transporting the tent and the command table. The command table includes an aft section, a forward section, electronic equipment stations securely mounted to the aft section, the forward section, or both sections and a bus housing electronic cables running to the electronic equipment stations. An intermediate section is hinged to the forward section and the aft section, the aft section foldable up and over the forward section for transport of the table, the intermediate section providing clearance for the electronic equipment stations when the table is folded. Foldable legs support the table in the deployed position. The transport vehicle includes an equipment rack electrically coupled to the electronic equipment stations of the command table via the bus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/267771 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06969602 | Danforth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry D. Danforth (Severn, Maryland); M. Aggie Fernando (Waterloo, Canada); John R. Barta (Guelph, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An immunovariant strain of Eimeria maxima was isolated. Vaccines incorporating the immunovariant strain are effective in eliciting immunological protection against coccidial infection. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/838382 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/258.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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