FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 06976527 | Kirshberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Kirshberg (Berkeley, California); Kirk L. Yerkes (Miamisburg, Ohio); Dorian Liepmann (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microcapillary pumped loop (CPL) for chip level temperature control includes two mating substrates which define an evaporator, a condenser, and a reservoir for a liquid. A first substrate includes a vapor line which couples vapor from the evaporator to the condenser, and a liquid line which couples liquid from the condenser back to the evaporator. A wicking structure for the evaporator is formed by etching in the second substrate. The wicking structure couples the evaporator to the reservoir and to the liquid line. The condenser includes a plurality of grooves formed in the second substrate which couples liquid from the condenser to the liquid line. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198626 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06976528 | Tilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isothermal Systems Research, Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Tilton (Clarkston, Washington); Douglas W. Miller (Moscow, Idaho); William C. Gustafson (Moscow, Idaho); William J. Beasley (Moscow, Idaho); Chester L. Turner (Clarkston, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A spray cooling system for extreme environments for providing a desired enclosed environment for electronic devices regardless of external environmental conditions. The spray cooling system for extreme environments includes an enclosure that isolates the electronic components from the external environment, a spray unit within the enclosure for thermally managing one or more electronic devices, a pump unit fluidly connected to the spray unit, a heat exchanger unit fluidly connected to the pump, and a control valve fluidly connected between the heat exchanger unit and the pump. An independent chamber preferably houses a heater unit, a first power supply and a control unit, whereby the heater unit initially heats the coolant within the independent chamber to a minimum operating temperature prior to operation of the electronic components. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/369321 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06976532 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guodong Zhan (Davis, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Lafayette, California); Amiya K. Mukherjee (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic materials are converted to materials with anisotropic thermal properties by forming the ceramics into composites with carbon nanotubes dispersed therein and uniaxially compressing the composites in a direction in which a lower thermal conductivity is desired. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606941 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06976558 | Bains et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Michael Bains (Loveland, Ohio); Robert James Puckett (Washington, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A clean check is performed on a gearbox by flushing an oil-based fluid through the gearbox and then through a filter. The filter is then weighed to determine the weight of contaminants collected in the filter. The contaminant weight is compared to a predetermined level, wherein the gearbox is acceptable if the contaminant weight is below the predetermined level. This method is carried out on a system that includes a source of the oil-based fluid fluidly connected to an inlet of the gearbox and a filter fluidly connected to an outlet of the gearbox. A device such as a pump is provided for causing the oil-based fluid to flow through the gearbox and the filter. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/761573 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Lubrication 184/1.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06976599 | Rivera 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) | Rafael Rivera (Magnolia, New Jersey); Christopher Clemmer (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Containers are respectively loaded onto and delivered from two trolleys of a single crane at pick-up and delivery locations by guided travel along a fixed travel path on a boom between the delivery location at one end of the boom and a central structure of the crane with a platform positioned thereon having a pair of parallel spaced track paths. Lateral movement of the platform alternatively aligns one of the parallel track paths with the fixed travel path to accommodate transfer of the trolleys along such fixed travel path and either one of the track paths on the platform between the pick-up and delivery locations. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758557 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Traversing hoists 212/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977075 | Hasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tayyaba Hasan (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jerome Gross (Waban, Massachusetts); Gerard J. Nau (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods of the invention can be used to treat mycobacterial infections, or any disease or disorder that is caused by (or aggravated by) an intracellular pathogen. Accordingly, the invention features methods for treating a subject who has a disorder that is associated with an intracellular pathogen by administering, to a subject, a molecular conjugate that includes a photosensitizer (a term used herein to refer to a light activatable compound) and a targeting moiety, the targeting moiety being capable of targeting the conjugate to the intracellular pathogen. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/413179 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977171 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donn M. Dennis (Gainesville, Florida); Charles R. Martin (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy E. Morey (Gainesville, Florida); Richard E. Partch (Gainesville, Florida); Dinesh O Shah (Gainesville, Florida); Manoj Varshney (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle with two regions, the first region contains a detoxifying enzyme and a second region that partitions toxic compounds. The particle may be a nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/978344 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977187 | Farrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Farrell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Paul Jaynes (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Malcolm Taylor (Pepperell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a package including manufacturing a substrate to include at least one layer of LCP material, manufacturing a cover made of LCP material to include a lower lip, and sealing the cover to the substrate by heating the interface between the lower lip and the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460942 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977271 | Ip et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margot M. Ip (Orchard Park, New York); Patricia Masso-Welch (Buffalo, New York); Clement Ip (Orchard Park, New York); Danilo Zangani (Sassari, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for inhibiting or preventing angiogenesis in animals and humans comprising the steps of administering to the animal or human an effective amount of one or more isomers of conjugated linoleic acid (“CLA”). The CLA may be administered in the form of a free fatty acid, an ester, or as a salt, in a pill, or as a component of a natural or prepared food product. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232284 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977379 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Latham, New York); Jingzhou Xu (Troy, New York); Tao Yuan (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscope for producing an image of a target using THz radiation. The microscope comprises a source for providing an optical pump pulse and an optical probe pulse; a THz emitter for activation by pump pulse to emit a THz pulse that irradiates the target to form a target-modified THz pulse; a THz detector for modulating the probe pulse with the target-modified THz pulse to create a modulated optical probe pulse characteristic of the target; an optical detection system for modifying and detecting the modulated optical probe pulse and converting the modulated optical probe pulse to electronic information; and a processor for receiving the electronic information and producing an image of the sample using the electronic information. The THz emitter and detector comprise one or more EO crystals. The target is positioned on one of the EO crystals in a near-field of the THz pulse. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/434329 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977561 | Freeman |
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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) | Will Freeman (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An impedance matching feed is disclosed for use in a ridge waveguide which allows a coaxial transmission line, generally having an impedance of fifty ohm, to be matched to a ridge waveguide of arbitrary impedance. The matching feed consist of a transformer which is located inside the ridge of the waveguide, a probe and a quarter wave choke. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801165 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977601 | Fletcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Fletcher (Santa Barbara, California); Martins Skele (Langley, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A low power delta-sigma analog to digital converter 10 for converting current mode signals without an amplifier includes an integration capacitor 26, a comparator 30, and a first switch 24 in parallel with one another and coupled to an integration node 28. A FET 20 and the first switch are disposed in series between a dump capacitor 25 and the integration node. A second switch 27 operates to discharge the dump capacitor, and an output of the comparator controls both switches in opposition. Preferably, no op-amps are included in the circuit, and current is supplied by an imaging component 5. In a first comparator state, the first capacitor charges, the first switch is open and the second switch is closed, and the dump capacitor discharges. In a comparator second state, the first switch is closed and the second switch is open, and the integration capacitor transfers a fixed amount of charge into the dump capacitor through an injection FET operating in saturation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/769111 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977973 | Wiggins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmund C. Wiggins (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for decoding Manchester data is provided that includes receiving input data comprising at least two transition types. Each transition of a specified transition type in the input data is detected. For each pair of consecutive transitions of the specified transition type, a length between the consecutive transitions is determined. Output data is generated based on the length. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/972257 |
| ART UNIT | 2638 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06978459 | Dennis 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) | Jack Bonnell Dennis (Belmont, Massachusetts); Joel Zvi Apisdorf (Reston, Virginia); Sam Brandon Sandbote (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method process data elements on multiple processing elements. A first processing element processes a task. A second processing element, coupled to the first processing element, is associated with a task. The first processing element sends a critical-section end signal to the second processing element while processing the task at the first processing element. The second processing element resumes the task in response to receiving the critical-section end signal. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/833581 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 06976953 | Pelc |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique for maintaining the alignment of electric and magnetic fields in an x-ray tube so the tube can be operated in the presence of a static external magnetic field without being negatively affected thereby. Deflection of the electron beam of the x-ray tube by the high magnetic field is reduced or eliminated by modifying or canceling, at a location near the electron beam, the magnetic field components transverse to the beam. In a preferred embodiment, a set of electromagnet coils are positioned on or near the tube and oriented in a way that when current is applied internal magnetic fields are produced in a direction opposite to the transverse magnetic fields, thereby causing cancellation. In one implementation, one or more sensors are used to detect the transverse magnetic fields. The sensor is positioned near the electron beam, either inside or outside the x-ray tube. The sensor produces a signal dependent on a static magnetic field component transverse to the desired direction of the electron beam. This signal is used to control the amount of current applied to the coils. A controller and a feedback circuit may be included to adjust in real time the amount of current being applied. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259225 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06976998 | Rizzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph F. Rizzo (Boston, Massachusetts); John L. Wyatt, Jr. (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Luke Theogarajan (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ocular device that can more safely and effectively perform all functions needed of a retinal prosthesis with electronic components that are placed outside the wall of an eye, are powered wirelessly provided by an external power source, and which provide a patient with a view determined by natural motion of the eye and triggered by natural incident light converging at the retina. In one aspect, the invention is an externally powered, light-activated, sub-retinal prosthesis in which natural light entering the eye conveys visual details to the sub-retinal prosthesis, while wireless radiofrequency transmission provides the power needed to stimulate the retina, which would be insufficient if it were obtained from the intensity of incoming light alone. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346701 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/6.630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977159 | Longley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Jack Longley (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject contact dermatitis which comprises administering to the subject an amount of a compound capable of inhibiting the stem cell factor signaling pathway effective to prevent or treat contact dermatitis so as to thereby prevent or treat contact dermatitis in the subject. This invention also provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject hyperpigmentation, asthma, cutaneous inflammation, anaphylaxis and bronchospasm, mastocytosis, tumors which express activated kit, and conception. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/980572 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977171 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donn M. Dennis (Gainesville, Florida); Charles R. Martin (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy E. Morey (Gainesville, Florida); Richard E. Partch (Gainesville, Florida); Dinesh O Shah (Gainesville, Florida); Manoj Varshney (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle with two regions, the first region contains a detoxifying enzyme and a second region that partitions toxic compounds. The particle may be a nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/978344 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977176 | Galen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (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 independent levels by: (1) removing sole dependence on balanced lethal maintenance functions; and (2) incorporating at least one plasmid partition function to prevent 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 | 10/750976 |
| 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 435/480 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977241 | Burke, Jr. 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) | Terrence R. Burke, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Chang-Qing Wei (Ottawa, Canada); Johannes H. Voigt (Union, New Jersey); Yang Gao (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds for SH2 domain binding inhibition. For example, disclosed is a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is a lipophile; R2, in combination with the phenyl ring, forms a phenylphosphate mimic group or a protected phenylphosphate mimic group; R3 is hydrogen, azido, amino, carboxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, aminocarbonylalkyl, or alkylcarbonylamino, wherein the alkyl portion of R3 may be optionally substituted with a substituent selected from the group consisting of halo, hydroxy, carboxyl, amino, aminoalkyl, alkyl, alkoxy, and keto; R6 is a linker; AA is an amino acid; and n is 1 to 6; or a salt thereof. Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition, a method for inhibiting an SH2 domain from binding with a phosphoprotein and a method of treating breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/362231 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977245 | Klinman 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) | Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland); Ken Ishii (Osaka, Japan); James J. Mond (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mayda Gursel (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | D type CpG oligodeoxynucleotides are provided herein that include a sequence represented by the following formula: 5′X1X2X3Pu1 Py2 CpG Pu3 Py4 X4X5X6(W)M(G)N-3′ wherein the central CpG motif is unmethylated, Pu is a purine nucleotide, Py is a pyrimidine nucleotide, X and W are any nucleotide, M is any integer from 0 to 10, and N is any integer from 4 to 10. Methods of using these oligodeoxynucleotides to induce an immune response are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/068160 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977248 | Shukla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Shukla (Skokie, Massachusetts); Robert D. Rosenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Patricia G. Spear (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are polysaccharide preparations enriched in 3-OST-3 modified heparan sulfate. Also disclosed are methods of treating herpes simplex viral type-1 infection using the pharmaceutical preparations of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/069280 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977271 | Ip et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margot M. Ip (Orchard Park, New York); Patricia Masso-Welch (Buffalo, New York); Clement Ip (Orchard Park, New York); Danilo Zangani (Sassari, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for inhibiting or preventing angiogenesis in animals and humans comprising the steps of administering to the animal or human an effective amount of one or more isomers of conjugated linoleic acid (“CLA”). The CLA may be administered in the form of a free fatty acid, an ester, or as a salt, in a pill, or as a component of a natural or prepared food product. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232284 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977295 | Belotserkovskii et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Belotserkovskii (Mountain View, California); Gurucharan Reddy (Fremont, California); David A. Zarling (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for inhibiting, cloning, modifying or labelling an endogenous DNA sequence using compositions comprising recombinases in combination with exogenous polynucleotides containing “anchoring” or “locking” sequences. The anchoring sequences serve to stabilize structures formed by the exogenous polynucleotides and the endogenous DNA. The stabilized structure thus can either serve to regulate gene transcription or replication, or can allow the endogenous sequences to be labelled or pulled out, i.e. cloned, or modified. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/557423 |
| 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 |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 06976301 | Sohal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manohar S. Sohal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James E. O'Brien (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for and method of manufacturing a finned tube for a heat exchanger is disclosed herein. A continuous fin strip is provided with at one pair of vortex generators. A tube is rotated and linearly displaced while the continuous fin strip with vortex generators is spirally wrapped around the tube. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901268 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/727 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06976386 | Grover et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blair K. Grover (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Joel M. Hubbell (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James B. Sisson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William L. Casper (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for collecting data regarding a matric potential of a media includes providing a tensiometer having a stainless steel tensiometer casing, the stainless steel tensiometer casing comprising a tip portion which includes a wetted porous stainless steel membrane through which a matric potential of a media is sensed; driving the tensiometer into the media using an insertion tube comprising a plurality of probe casing which are selectively coupled to form the insertion tube as the tensiometer is progressively driven deeper into the media, wherein the wetted porous stainless steel membrane is in contact with the media; and sensing the matric potential the media exerts on the wetted porous stainless steel membrane by a pressure sensor in fluid hydraulic connection with the porous stainless steel membrane. A tensiometer includes a stainless steel casing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/873975 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977122 | Colombo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Colombo (Altamont, New York); Michael Krumpelt (Naperville, Illinois); Deborah J. Myers (Lisle, Illinois); John P. Kopasz (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion conducting membrane comprising dendrimeric polymers covalently linked into a network structure. The dendrimeric polymers have acid functional terminal groups and may be covalently linked via linking compounds, cross-coupling reactions, or copolymerization reactions. The ion conducting membranes may be produced by various methods and used in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/105203 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977454 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine (40) has a stator (43), a permanent magnet rotor (38) with permanent magnets (39) and a magnetic coupling uncluttered rotor (46) for inducing a slip energy current in secondary coils (47). A dc flux can be produced in the uncluttered rotor when the secondary coils are fed with dc currents. The magnetic coupling uncluttered rotor (46) has magnetic brushes (A, B, C, D) which couple flux in through the rotor (46) to the secondary coils (47c, 47d) without inducing a current in the rotor (46) and without coupling a stator rotational energy component to the secondary coils (47c, 47d). The machine can be operated as a motor or a generator in multi-phase or single-phase embodiments and is applicable to the hybrid electric vehicle. A method of providing a slip energy controller is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706577 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977727 | Lerner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Lerner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact imaging spectrometer comprising an entrance slit for directing light, lens means for receiving the light, refracting the light, and focusing the light; an immersed diffraction grating that receives the light from the lens means and defracts the light, the immersed diffraction grating directing the detracted light back to the lens means; and a detector that receives the light from the lens means. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/680847 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977777 | Wick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David V. Wick (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An active optical zoom system changes the magnification (or effective focal length) of an optical imaging system by utilizing two or more active optics in a conventional optical system. The system can create relatively large changes in system magnification with very small changes in the focal lengths of individual active elements by leveraging the optical power of the conventional optical elements (e.g., passive lenses and mirrors) surrounding the active optics. The active optics serve primarily as variable focal-length lenses or mirrors, although adding other aberrations enables increased utility. The active optics can either be LC SLMs, used in a transmissive optical zoom system, or DMs, used in a reflective optical zoom system. By appropriately designing the optical system, the variable focal-length lenses or mirrors can provide the flexibility necessary to change the overall system focal length (i.e., effective focal length), and therefore magnification, that is normally accomplished with mechanical motion in conventional zoom lenses. The active optics can provide additional flexibility by allowing magnification to occur anywhere within the FOV of the system, not just on-axis as in a conventional system. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/871199 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/677 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 06976621 | Avant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bruce A. Brandt (Gainesville, Virginia); Jay David Fadely (Palmetto, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for identifying a mailpiece in an identification code sorting system using an identification code. In one embodiment, an identification code is marked on a mailpiece. In this embodiment, the identification code is linked to an identification file containing identification information uniquely corresponding to the mailpiece. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/651323 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06977353 | Avant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Spring, Maryland); Margaret Boldt, legal representative (Monrovia, Maryland); Bruce A. Brandt (Gainesville, Virginia); Jay David Fadely (Palmetto, Florida); Michael Ray Little (Fairfax, Virginia); Simon Franklin Reidel (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention identify and sort a mailpiece with destination information by sorting the mailpiece using a code on the front of the mailpiece, if there is a code on the front of the mailpiece. If the mailpiece does not have the code on the front of the mailpiece, and if there is a code on the back of the mailpiece, the mailpiece is identified using a code on the back of the mailpiece. If the mailpiece does not have the code on the front or on the back of the mailpiece, then the mailpiece is sorted in an identification code system. In the identification code system, an identification code is applied to the back of the mailpiece and a postal code is applied to the front of the mailpiece in accordance with the destination information. An identification file corresponding to the identification code is then created. The identification file may be accessed by a plurality of nodes in the identification code system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/652709 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06977115 | Wilson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Magna International of America, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip S. Wilson (Commerce Township, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A reinforced molded article having reinforced protrusions extending from the surface of the article is suitable for molding into automobile trim. The article comprises at least one thermoplastic; about 2% to about 15% by volume reinforcing particles having one or more layers of 0.7 nm–1.2 nm thick platelets, wherein more than about 50% of the reinforcing particles are less than about 20 layers thick; whereby the reinforcing particles reinforce a protrusion from the surface of the molded article, the protrusion having a thickness of less than 1/10 inch. A method of producing reinforced articles comprising this reinforced protrusion is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/868945 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06977272 | Wilkemeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Wilkemeyer (Allston, Massachusetts); Michael E. Charness (Waban, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of antagonizing inhibition effects of alcohol on cell adhesion is disclosed comprising contacting a cell-adhesion molecule expressing cell with an effective amount of a compound, wherein the compound comprises an alcohol selected from the group consisting of 3-pentanol, 2-pentanol, cyclopentanol, 4-methyl-1-pentanol, 2-methyl-2-pentanol, and 2,6-diisopropylphenol. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270551 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/724 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 06976393 | Kimball et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Kimball (Pass Christian, Mississippi); Janice M. Fulford (Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for measuring fluid velocity includes a generally Y-shaped yoke including a base and first and second forks, the first and second forks including through holes at ends thereof; a bucket wheel supported between the first and second forks of the yoke; a first shaft that passes through the through hole in the first fork and supports one side of the bucket wheel; a second shaft that passes through the through hole in the second fork and supports the other side of the bucket wheel, the second shaft rotating with the bucket wheel and including a magnet mounted therein; the second fork of the yoke including an opening for receiving a reed switch assembly, the opening communicating with the through hole in the second fork, the magnet on the second shaft being aligned with the opening whereby when the second shaft rotates the magnet passes by the opening; and a reed switch assembly mounted in the opening in the second fork of the yoke. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794647 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06978074 | Shu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emily Yixie Shu (Niskayuna, New York); Louis Jacob Petrucco (Albany, New York); Wolfgang Daum (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detecting flashback occurrences in a premixed combustor system having at least one fuel nozzle includes at least one photodetector and at least one fiber optic element coupled between the at least one photodetector and a test region of the combustor system wherein a respective flame of the fuel nozzle is not present under normal operating conditions. A signal processor monitors a signal of the photodetector. The fiber optic element can include at least one optical fiber positioned within a protective tube. The fiber optic element can include two fiber optic elements coupled to the test region. The optical fiber and the protective tube can have lengths sufficient to situate the photodetector outside of an engine compartment. A plurality of fuel nozzles and a plurality of fiber optic elements can be used with the fiber optic elements being coupled to respective fuel nozzles and either to the photodetector or, wherein a plurality of photodetectors are used, to respective ones of the plurality of photodetectors. The signal processor can include a digital signal processor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446758 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06977685 | Acosta-Serafini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pablo M. Acosta-Serafini (Arlington, Massachusetts); Ichiro Masaki (Boxborough, Massachusetts); Charles G. Sodini (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The imager system of the invention, provided in a semiconductor substrate, includes a plurality of photosensitive, charge integrating pixels that are arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array for capturing illumination of a scene to be imaged. Each pixel includes a photogenerated charge accumulation region of the semiconductor substrate and a sense node at which an electrical signal, indicative of pixel charge accumulation, can be measured without discharging the accumulation region. Pixel access control circuitry is connected to pixel array rows and columns to deliver pixel access signals generated by the access control circuitry for independently accessing a selected pixel in the array. An input interface circuit is connected to accept a dynamic range specification input for the array pixels. Integration control circuitry is connected to access a selected pixel of the array to read the sense node electrical signal of the selected pixel, and configured to generate pixel-specific integration control signals delivered to the selected pixel, independent of other pixels, based on dynamic range specification input provided by the input interface circuit. An output interface circuit is connected to the pixel array to produce output image data based on sense node electrical signals from the pixel array. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/512954 |
| ART UNIT | 2615 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06977212 | Ammlung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Lee Ammlung (Sykesville, Maryland); David Jerome Mountain (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using a fully cured BCB layer and removing the same using wet etching. The first step is selecting a substrate. The second step of the method is producing an oxide layer or other coating on the substrate. The third step is applying a BCB layer on the oxide layer. The fourth step is fully curing the BCB layer. The fifth step is processing the device. The sixth step is stressing the substrate, preferably causing the substrate to warp. The seventh step is wet etching the BCB layer. The eighth step is removing the BCB layer. The ninth step is removing the oxide layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/470621 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/612 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06977150 | Forster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Anthony C. Forster (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony C. Forster (Lexington, Massachusetts); Stephen C. Blacklow (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a simplified, highly-purified, processive translation system that does not require the addition of translation factors EF-P, W, W2 or rescue. A new translation process offers new, potentially improved, routes to all peptides, proteins and peptidomimetics currently synthesized by alternative routes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057783 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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