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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 27, 2005
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 06978616 | Schauer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick R. Schauer (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid piston engine-pulsed detonation engine structure is provided for obtaining shaft power from a pulsed detonation engine wherein a piston engine operatively connected to a PDE. A deflagration to detonation transition is used to achieve detonations. The piston engine has a piston that is located in the deflagration region of the deflagration to detonation transition. The hybrid engine has a critical starting frequency, above which the engine will self-actuate and produce excess power. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706192 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06978664 | Uchic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Uchic (Centerville, Ohio); Dennis Dimiduk (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual function indenter for use in a nanoindentation system is disclosed. The indenter of the present invention includes an indentation tip having a machined flat at its distal end forming a compression platen. A sharp imaging probe tip adjacent the machined flat extends parallel to the centerline axis of the indentation tip. The sharp imaging probe tip extends beyond the surface of the machined flat for in situ scanning/imaging of the sample surface. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/713131 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06978717 | Hambric |
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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) | Harry N. Hambric (Pembroke Pines, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile in a cartridge designed to be launched from a grenade launcher. The projectile is adapted to be secured to the housing of the cartridge. The projectile includes a camera contained in the projectile body and connected thereto by a cord, and a transmitter contained in the projectile body and connected to the camera. In addition, the projectile includes elements for pinning the front part of the projectile body to a target, and elements for separating the front part of the projectile body from the back part of the projectile body and expelling the camera from the projectile body when the projectile is pinned to the target so that the camera is freely suspended from the projectile by the cord and can rotate in a wind through 180 degrees to observe its surroundings and transmit images thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922482 |
| 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 12/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06978967 | Scheper 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) | Eric Scheper (Essex Fells, New Jersey); Anthony Vella (East Hanover, New Jersey); Dave Maurizi (Fairfax, Virginia); Andrew Molina (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A fin deployment system for missiles and munitions that deploys and activates straight flat fins for roll control authority. The fin deployment system employs numerous design features, among which are the following: A wrap-around fin concept generates space-savings within a projectile body whereby the fins are arranged in a wrapped configuration around a boomtail structure. The fins may be constructed of a super-elastic material; the system eliminates mechanical means of deploying the wrapped fins, eliminating the need for springs to deploy the fins. The fin deployment achieves substantial space savings for increasing the onboard towing capacity of electronic packaging or lethality in the missiles and munitions systems, while at the same time providing a good roll control authority during flight by enabling a straight fin deployment resulting from the use of super-elastic materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709180 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979088 | Currie |
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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) | Marc Currie (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a multipass retroreflector and to a method for its operation. In a preferred embodiment, the retroreflector comprises three reflecting surfaces arranged at an angle to each other in the form of a prism that is triangular in cross-section and 1 to 2 ports through which an optical beam enters and/or exits. The method includes the step of admitting an optical beam into the retroreflector where the optical beam is reflected from the reflecting surfaces and exits parallel to the path of the incoming optical beam. The method also includes the steps of spacing and adjusting angular disposition and dimensions of the reflecting surfaces in order to change path length of the optical beam passing through the retroreflector. This spacing can be continuously scanned causing a large change in optical path length due to a small change in the position of the moving surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165913 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979382 | Szczesuil 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) | Stephen P. Szczesuil (Framingham, Massachusetts); Matt Correa (Hopedale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for making garments that can cool or heat the wearer of the garment. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of providing a pattern board having a channel configuration formed thereon that defines at least one channel circuit, disposing a first fusible fabric over the channel configuration of the pattern board, disposing a length of tubing over the channel configuration and depressing the tubing into the channels, disposing a second fabric over the tubing and first fusible fabric to form a first laminate assembly, and applying heat and pressure to the laminate assembly to form a laminate garment structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/370299 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979639 | Heath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Hewlett-Packard Development Co., L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (Los Angeles, California); Charles P. Collier (Los Angeles, California); Yi Luo (Los Angeles, California); Erica DeIonno (Los Angeles, California); Patricia A. Beck (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making electronic devices where a molecular monolayer or multilayer is sandwiched between top and bottom electrodes at electrode intersections. The molecular layer has an electrical characteristic such as bistable switching. A layer of electrically conductive material is used to protect the molecular layer during formation of the top electrode pattern. The electrically conductive material remains sandwiched between the top and bottom electrodes at the electrode intersections in the final electronic device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803119 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/622 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979737 | Baek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong-Beom Baek (Cheongju, South Korea); Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel AB2 monomer, 2,3-bis(4-phenyloxyphenyl)-6-quinoxaline carboxylic acid. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695730 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979825 | Choi |
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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) | Kwong-Kit Choi (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A plurality of quantum-grid infrared photodetector (QGIP) elements are concatenated to form a spectrometer. Each of the QGIP elements is adapted to detect light at a particular range of wavelengths. Additionally, each QGIP element is adapted to produce a photocurrent that is proportional to the amount of light detected at its respective range of wavelengths. This type of configuration permits spectrometry within a spectrum that spans the aggregate ranges of wavelengths of each QGIP element. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/411232 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980018 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Internatiional Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin J. Nowka (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A buffer/driver having large output devices for driving multiple loads is configured with three parallel paths. The first logic path is made of small devices and is configured to provide the logic function of the buffer without the ability to drive large loads. Second and third logic paths have the logic function of the first logic path up to the last inverting stage. The last inverting stage in each path is a single device for driving the logic states of the buffer output. The second and third logic paths have power-gating that allows the input to the pull-up and pull-down devices to float removing gate-leakage voltage stress. When the second and third logic paths are power-gated, the first logic path provides a keeper function to hold the logic state of the buffer output. The buffer may be an inverter, non-inverter, or provide a multiple input logic function. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835501 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980168 | Lebaric |
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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) | Jovan E. Lebaric (Carmel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna comprises an antenna feed line having first and second conductors. It also comprises an antenna driver section having a pair of opposing cones. Each of the cones has an apex region and the cones are arranged so that the apex regions are spaced apart and are adjacent. One of the cones is connected to the first conductor and a second of the cones is connected to the second conductor. The antenna also comprises an antenna beam shaper section. This section has a beam shaper element with a beam shaping surface chosen to provide selected antenna operating characteristics and also has a conforming surface that is in substantial conformity with a crotch defined between the two cones. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721594 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980184 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Green Stewart (Morgan Hill, California); Edward Boling (Fremont, California); Jeffrey J. Jacobsen (Hollister, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated circuits, assemblies with integrated circuits, display devices and electrical circuits. There are various different aspects and embodiments of these apparatuses described herein. According to one aspect, a display device includes a plurality of display drivers which includes a serial shift register, wherein the display drivers are located in the display area of the display device which is viewable. According to another aspect, an integrated circuit, which has a plurality of functionally symmetric interface pads, includes an instruction decoder which decodes instructions received through at least one of the pads. In another aspect, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a position detector which detects a position of the IC relative to a receptor substrate and provides a signal which is determined by the position; this IC may be used in an assembly which includes the receptor substrate. In another aspect, an IC includes a position detector which detects a position of the IC relative to a receptor substrate and also includes a configurable pad which is configurable, depending upon the position as one of at least two of the following: an input pad, an output pad, or a no-operation pad. According to another aspect, a layout of an IC has a plurality of functionally symmetric interface pads wherein two such pads are configurable pads. According to another aspect, an assembly includes a receptor substrate and an IC attached to the substrate, and the IC includes a first logic circuit which provides a first function, a second logic circuit which provides a second function, and a selector which selects between the two functions such that the IC performs only the selected function. Other aspects and methods are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/671659 |
| ART UNIT | 2675 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980483 | McDonald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry R. McDonald (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus determine if an intruder passes into a security zone that is associated with a waterfront asset. An embodiment of the invention provides a harbor fence system that is designed to be deployed in water around ships or other waterfront assets to serve as a line-of-demarcation in order to provide protection. The harbor fence system comprises a series of spars that protrude above the water surface and that communicate with a computer with a telemetry subsystem. Each spar contains electronic sensors, e.g. water immersion sensors and accelerometers, and circuitry to detect an intrusion and to communicate the location of the intrusion to a computer control station. Spars may communicate wirelessly and may also be solar powered. Additionally, the embodiment may also determine whether an underwater intruder is passing under a protective boundary, in which the harbor fence system interfaces to an underwater sonar sensor subsystem. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863986 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980486 | Kneipfer 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) | Ronald R. Kneipfer (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Gerard P. Cousseiroux (Westerly, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for a bearing tracker is disclosed that provides improved estimates of target's bearing, bearing rate and signal-to-noise (SNR). The estimates are computed using normalized beam spectral data from short time interval preceding the initialization process. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/086728 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980572 | Geske |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Charles Geske (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength selectable light source is comprised of a two-dimensional (2-D) array of variable wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), wherein light beams emitted from the VCSELs are coupled into an output optical fiber. The light beams emitted from the VCSELs are collimated via a 2-D array of micro-lenses, the collimated light beams impinge upon a first fixed-position mirror that points each of the collimated light beams toward a second movable mirror located at a common focal point in a common area, and the second movable mirror redirects the collimated light beams into a lens coupled to the output optical fiber. By moving the second movable mirror, different ones of the collimated light beams can be directed into the output optical fiber, so that the second movable mirror performs a wavelength selection function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446980 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980579 | Jewell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Picolight Incorporated (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Jewell (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel approach for providing temperature compensation for semiconductor lasers is disclosed. This approach utilizes reflectivity characteristics in the at least one of the mirrors of the semiconductor laser to provide temperature compensation to the device. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376480 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980614 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Miller (Yorba Linda, California); Christopher W. Reed (Benicia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A beamforming system and method. The inventive beamforming system is adapted for use with an array antenna having a plurality of antenna elements and includes a Fast Fourier Transform (EFT) for transforming a signal received by an antenna into a plurality of frequency subbands. A plurality of adaptive processors are included for performing adaptive array processing on each of the subbands and providing a plurality of adaptively processed subbands in response thereto. A normalizing processor is also included for normalizing the adaptively processed subbands. In the illustrative embodiment, the signal is a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal and a digital multiplier for applying a weight to a respective frequency subband for each of the elements of the array. The weights are chosen to steer a beam in a direction of a desired signal. Normalization involves adjusting the amplitude of one or more of the subbands to remove any bias distortion due to the adaptive processing thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/047100 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980722 | Ruffa |
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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) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A tow cable in which the temperature of the cable is measurable by the use of multiplexing capability intrinsic to optical fibers in which the optical fibers are positioned at the center of the tow cable and wound as part of two layers of surrounding strength wires. The optical fibers of the two layers intersect a vector extending radially from the optical fiber at the center to an outer surface of the tow cable. Light signals emitted from a multiplexer to positions along the optical fibers, in which the positions intersect the vector, return light signals from the positions to provide measurements that in conjunction with a data processor further provide temperature measurement of the outer boundary of the tow cable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789569 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06980926 — Detection of randomness in sparse data set of three dimensional time series distributions
| US 06980926 | O'Brien, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-stage method is provided for automatically characterizing the spatial arrangement among data points of a three-dimensional time series distribution in a data processing system wherein the classification of this time series distribution is required. The invention utilizes two-stage method Cartesian grids to determine (1) the number of cubes in the grids containing at least one input data point of the time series distribution; (2) the expected number of cubes which would contain at least one data point in a statistically determined random distribution in these grids; and (3) an upper and lower probability of false alarm above and below this expected value utilizing a second discrete probability relationship in order to analyze the randomness characteristic of the input time series distribution. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679686 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06978657 | Baumann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Baumann (Albuqueruqe, New Mexico); Charles A. Brusseau (Tijeras, New Mexico); David W. Hannum (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kevin L. Linker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable system for the detection of chemical particles such as explosive residue utilizes a metal fiber substrate that may either be swiped over a subject or placed in a holder in a collection module which can shoot a jet of gas at the subject to dislodge residue, and then draw the air containing the residue into the substrate. The holder is then placed in a detection module, which resistively heats the substrate to evolve the particles, and provides a gas flow to move the particles to a miniature detector in the module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/306939 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/28.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06978726 | Kobayashi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hisashi Kobayashi (Putnam Valley, New York); Lawrence E. Bool, III (Aurora, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustion of coal in which oxygen is injected into the coal as it emerges from burner produces ash having reduced amounts of carbon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436163 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Furnaces 110/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06978760 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Lee Stewart (Normal, Illinois); Ye Tian (Bloomington, Illinois); Lifeng Wang (Normal, Illinois); Scott F. Shafer (Morton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector includes a homogenous charge nozzle outlet set and a conventional nozzle outlet set that are controlled respectively by first and second three way needle control valves. Each fuel injector includes first and second concentric needle valve members. One of the needle valve members moves to an open position for a homogenous charge injection event, while the other needle valve member moves to an open position for a conventional injection event. The fuel injector has the ability to operate in a homogenous charge mode with a homogenous charge spray pattern, a conventional mode with a conventional spray pattern or a mixed mode. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601451 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979049 | Ortega et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason M. Ortega (Pacifica, California); Kambiz Sabari (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerodynamic base drag reduction apparatus and method for bluff bodies, such as tractor-trailer trucks, utilizing a pair of lift surfaces extending to lift surface tips and located alongside the bluff body such as on opposing left and right side surfaces. In a flowstream substantially parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the bluff body, the pair of lift surfaces generate a pair of counter-rotating trailing vortices which confluence together in the wake of the bluff body in a direction orthogonal to the flowstream. The confluence draws or otherwise turns the flowstream, such as the flowstream passing over a top surface of the bluff body, in and around behind a trailing end of the bluff body to raise the pressure on a base surface at the trailing end and thereby reduce the aerodynamic base drag. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100201 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979150 | Varvel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Darrell Varvel (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a novel approach to containing and removing toxic waste from a subsurface environment. More specifically the present invention relates to a system for containing and removing volatile toxic chemicals from a subsurface environment using differences in surface and subsurface pressures. The present embodiment generally comprises a deep well, a horizontal tube, at least one injection well, at least one extraction well and a means for containing the waste within the waste zone (in-situ barrier). During operation the deep well air at the bottom of well (which is at a high pressure relative to the land surface as well as relative to the air in the contaminated soil) flows upward through the deep well (or deep well tube). This stream of deep well air is directed into the horizontal tube, down through the injection tube(s) (injection well(s)) and into the contaminate plume where it enhances volatization and/or removal of the contaminants. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670259 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/128.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979435 | Shahriari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Y. Shahriari (Evanston, Illinois); Antoine Barnabé (Toulouse, France); Thomas O. Mason (Evanston, Illinois); Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A facile, low temperature and low pressure method for the preparation of a wide range of phase pure ABO2 compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/116727 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/593.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Gutowska (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a thereapeutic agent carrier having a thermally reversible gel or geling copolymer that is a linear random copolymer of an [meth-]acrylamide derivative and a hydrophilic comonomer, wherein the linear random copolymer is in the form of a plurality of linear chains having a plurality of molecular weights greater than or equal to a minimum geling molecular weight cutoff and a therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/209541 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/484 |
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| US 06979511 | Visco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Craig P. Jacobson (El Cerrito, California); Lutgard C. DeJonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are low-cost, mechanically strong, highly electronically conductive porous substrates and associated structures for solid-state electrochemical devices, techniques for forming these structures, and devices incorporating the structures. The invention provides solid state electrochemical device substrates of novel composition and techniques for forming thin electrode/membrane/electrolyte coatings on the novel or more conventional substrates. In particular, in one embodiment the invention provides techniques for co-firing of device substrate (often an electrode) with an electrolyte or membrane layer to form densified electrolyte/membrane films 5 to 20 microns thick. In another embodiment, densified electrolyte/membrane films 5 to 20 microns thick may be formed on a pre-sintered substrate by a constrained sintering process. In some cases, the substrate may be a porous metal, alloy, or non-nickel cermet incorporating one or more of the transition metals Cr, Fe, Cu and Ag, or alloys thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273812 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
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| US 06979816 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Mikhail B. Belov (Burlingame, California); Aleksey V. Tolmachev (Richland, Washington); Harold R. Udseth (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for introducing ions generated in a region of relatively high pressure into a region of relatively low pressure by providing at least two electrospray ion sources, providing at least two capillary inlets configured to direct ions generated by the electrospray sources into and through each of the capillary inlets, providing at least two sets of primary elements having apertures, each set of elements having a receiving end and an emitting end, the primary sets of elements configured to receive a ions from the capillary inlets at the receiving ends, and providing a secondary set of elements having apertures having a receiving end and an emitting end, the secondary set of elements configured to receive said ions from the emitting end of the primary sets of elements and emit said ions from said emitting end of the secondary set of elements. The method may further include the step of providing at least one jet disturber positioned within at least one of the sets of primary elements, providing a voltage, such as a dc voltage, in the jet disturber, thereby adjusting the transmission of ions through at least one of the sets of primary elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400356 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
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| US 06980184 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Green Stewart (Morgan Hill, California); Edward Boling (Fremont, California); Jeffrey J. Jacobsen (Hollister, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated circuits, assemblies with integrated circuits, display devices and electrical circuits. There are various different aspects and embodiments of these apparatuses described herein. According to one aspect, a display device includes a plurality of display drivers which includes a serial shift register, wherein the display drivers are located in the display area of the display device which is viewable. According to another aspect, an integrated circuit, which has a plurality of functionally symmetric interface pads, includes an instruction decoder which decodes instructions received through at least one of the pads. In another aspect, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a position detector which detects a position of the IC relative to a receptor substrate and provides a signal which is determined by the position; this IC may be used in an assembly which includes the receptor substrate. In another aspect, an IC includes a position detector which detects a position of the IC relative to a receptor substrate and also includes a configurable pad which is configurable, depending upon the position as one of at least two of the following: an input pad, an output pad, or a no-operation pad. According to another aspect, a layout of an IC has a plurality of functionally symmetric interface pads wherein two such pads are configurable pads. According to another aspect, an assembly includes a receptor substrate and an IC attached to the substrate, and the IC includes a first logic circuit which provides a first function, a second logic circuit which provides a second function, and a selector which selects between the two functions such that the IC performs only the selected function. Other aspects and methods are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/671659 |
| ART UNIT | 2675 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/87 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Lerner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging spectrometer apparatus comprising an entrance slit for directing light, a light means for receiving the light and directing the light, a grating that receives the light from the light means and defracts the light back onto the light means which focuses the light, and a detector that receives the focused light. In one embodiment the light means is a rotationally symmetric ZNSE aspheric lens. In another embodiment the light means comprises two ZNSE aspheric lenses that are coaxial. In another embodiment the light means comprises an aspheric mirror and a ZNSE aspheric lens. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/680788 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 06980354 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arlee V. Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darrell J. Armstrong (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical parametric oscillator apparatus utilizing self-seeding with an external nanosecond-duration pump source to generate a seed pulse resulting in increased conversion efficiency. An optical parametric oscillator with a ring configuration are combined with a pump that injection seeds the optical parametric oscillator with a nanosecond duration, mJ pulse in the reverse direction as the main pulse. A retroreflecting means outside the cavity injects the seed pulse back into the cavity in the direction of the main pulse to seed the main pulse, resulting in higher conversion efficiency. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441597 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/330 |
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| US 06980580 | Aune et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Arthur Aune (Enebakk, Norway); Jon Christian Brinch (Oslo, Norway); Kai Johansen (Kristiansand, Norway) |
| ABSTRACT | The electrode arrangement uses vertically oriented electrodes with side wall contacts for an electrothermic smelting furnace for aluminum production. The side wall contacts are radially moveable into the furnace to compensate for wear on the contacts. The side wall contacts can be hollow to allow a slag forming charge to be fed to the furnace. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/646507 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Industrial electric heating furnaces 373/61 |
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| US 06980619 | Ougouag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abderrafi M. Ougouag (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Richard R. Schultz (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William K. Terry (Shelley, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatically scramming nuclear reactor system. One embodiment comprises a core having a coolant inlet end and a coolant outlet end. A cooling system operatively associated with the core provides coolant to the coolant inlet end and removes heated coolant from the coolant outlet end, thus maintaining a pressure differential therebetween during a normal operating condition of the nuclear reactor system. A guide tube is positioned within the core with a first end of the guide tube in fluid communication with the coolant inlet end of the core, and a second end of the guide tube in fluid communication with the coolant outlet end of the core. A control element is positioned within the guide tube and is movable therein between upper and lower positions, and automatically falls under the action of gravity to the lower position when the pressure differential drops below a safe pressure differential. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801220 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/230 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susanna P. Gordon (Oakland, California); John A. Evans (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for preventing low train voltages and managing interference, thereby improving the efficiency, reliability, and passenger comfort associated with commuter trains. An algorithm implementing neural network technology is used to predict low voltages before they occur. Once voltages are predicted, then multiple trains can be controlled to prevent low voltage events. Further, algorithms for managing inference are presented in the present invention. Different types of interference problems are addressed in the present invention such as “Interference During Acceleration”, “Interference Near Station Stops”, and “Interference During Delay Recovery.” Managing such interference avoids unnecessary brake/acceleration cycles during acceleration, immediately before station stops, and after substantial delays. Algorithms are demonstrated to avoid oscillatory brake/acceleration cycles due to interference and to smooth the trajectories of closely following trains. This is achieved by maintaining sufficient following distances to avoid unnecessary braking/accelerating. These methods generate smooth train trajectories, making for a more comfortable ride, and improve train motor reliability by avoiding unnecessary mode-changes between propulsion and braking. These algorithms can also have a favorable impact on traction power system requirements and energy consumption. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742714 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/20 |
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| US 06981151 | Groeneveld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bennett J. Groeneveld (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Wayne E. Austad (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Stuart C. Walsh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Catherine A. Herring (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital data storage systems, computers, and data verification methods are provided. According to a first aspect of the invention, a computer includes an interface adapted to couple with a dynamic database; and processing circuitry configured to provide a first hash from digital data stored within a portion of the dynamic database at an initial moment in time, to provide a second hash from digital data stored within the portion of the dynamic database at a subsequent moment in time, and to compare the first hash and the second hash. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544777 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inovise Medical, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan V. Andresen (McMinnville, Oregon); Richard C. Myers (McMinnville, Oregon); Robert A. Warner (Tigard, Oregon); Ron H. S. Selvester (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for differentiating acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from other ECG abnormalities. The method is performed by modeling selected ECG confounders that tend to obscure AMI evidence in the ECG waveform, and by purging a subject's ECG waveform of the effect(s) of these confounders through linking selected confounder models with an appropriate, computer-implementable purge algorithm. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725174 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/500 |
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| US 06979436 | Sharma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palatin Technologies, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shubh D. Sharma (Cranbury, New Jersey); Wei Yang (Edison, New Jersey); Hui-Zhi Cai (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Metallopeptides and metallopeptide combinatorial libraries specific for opioids receptors are provided, for use in biological, pharmaceutical and related applications. The metallopeptides and combinatorial libraries are made of peptides, peptidomimetics and peptide-like constructs, in which the peptide, peptidomimetic or construct is conformationally fixed in a biologically active configuration specific for one or more opioid receptors on complexation of a metal ion-binding portion thereof with a metal ion. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/150979 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Lessey (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting receptivity of mammalian endometrium to embryo implantation comprising obtaining a sample of the endometrium, contacting the endometrium with a monoclonal antibody for β3 and detecting β3 in the endometrium. The invention also provides for methods of diagnosing infertility in a mammal and methods of detecting the window of embryo implantation in endometrium. Methods of in vitro fertilization, methods of preventing embryo implantation and a method of monitoring endometrial maturation are also within the scope of the present invention. The present invention is also directed to contraceptives. Diagnostic kits useful in the practice of the methods of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463130 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 06979534 | Siegel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Siegel (Hatboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of agglutinating or capturing cells comprising providing a mixture comprising a population of cells and a population of bacteriophage expressing a first antibody on the surface of the bacteriophage, the first antibody being specific for an antigen-bearing moiety expressed by at least a portion of the cells in the cell population, wherein the first antibody binds to the portion of the cells causing the bacteriophage to also bind to the portion of the cells, adding to the mixture a second antibody specific for the bacteriophage, wherein binding of the second antibody to bacteriophage bound to the portion of the cells causes the portion of the cells to agglutinate or be captured. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/407182 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 06979539 | Cox, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Richmond, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Norbert Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado); Casey Christopher Case (San Mateo, California); Stephen P. Eisenberg (Boulder, Colorado); Eric Edward Jarvis (Boulder, Colorado); Sharon Kaye Spratt (Vacaville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for modulating expression of endogenous cellular genes using recombinant zinc finger proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/897844 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06979542 | Cheung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivian G. Cheung (Narberth, Pennsylvania); Richard S. Spielman (Narberth, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods are provided for identifying heterozygous carriers of autosomal recessive disorders such as Ataxia telangiectasia. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231515 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06979555 | Weigel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Janet Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Bin Zhou (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified nucleic acid segment encoding a functionally active HARE or an active peptide fragment thereof, and methods for producing functionally active HARE or an active peptide fragment thereof therefrom, wherein the functionally active HARE or an active peptide fragment thereof is able to specifically bind HA, chondroitin and chondroitin sulfate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/842930 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 06979566 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon H. Friedman (San Francisco, California); Raymond F. Schinazi (Decatur, Georgia); Fred Wudl (Santa Barbara, California); Craig L. Hill (Atlanta, Georgia); Diane L. DeCamp (Atlanta, Georgia); Rintje P. Sijbesma (Eindhoven, Netherlands); George L. Kenyon (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A water soluble derivative of buckministerfullerene (C50) having antiviral and virucidal properties is used to inhibit human retroviral replication and infections. The derivatized fullerene is symmetrically substituted with polar organic moieties containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally further containing oxygen or nitrogen. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355365 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/219 |
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| US 06979572 | Lu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhe Lu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds and methods of identifying and designing compounds which inhibit activity of inward-rectifier K+ channels. In particular, compounds having a tertiapin-like α helix, such as a stable tertiapin derivative wherein the methionine residue in position 13 of tertiapin is replaced by glutamine, are described. Methods of using these compounds to control insulin secretion, and cardiac rhythm and electrical conduction, to modulate neurotransmissions of neurons, and to induce diuresis in mammals are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/743054 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
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| US 06979673 | Clevenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles V. Clevenger (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Michael A. Rycyzyn (Paoli, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions containing cyclophilin B, mutants of cyclophilin B or inhibitors of cyclophilin B and methods of using these compositions to modulate somatolactogenic function are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/635959 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 06979702 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter X. Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anne E. Huber (Novi, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An ionomer composite composition having improved and unique physical properties, includes a glass material containing at least one of divalent cations and multivalent cations; and at least one copolymer. The copolymer comprises: at least one hydrophilic monomer containing acid functional groups adapted to react with the at least one of divalent cations and multivalent cations to form ionic crosslinks among polymer chains, the hydrophilic monomer present in an amount sufficient to impart a desired degree of aqueous solubility to the copolymer, and at least one hydrophobic monomer present in an amount sufficient to impart a desired degree of structural stability to the composite composition when exposed to an aqueous environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/936692 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/116 |
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| US 06979724 | Lerman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Isaac Lerman (Rockville, Maryland); Farida Latif (Birmingham, United Kingdom); Ming-Hui Wei (Germantown, Maryland); Fuh-Mei Duh (Ellicot City, Maryland); John Dorrance Minna (Dallas, Texas); Yoshitaka Sekido (Aichi, Japan); Boning Gao (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to calcium channel compositions and methods of making and using same. In particular, the invention relates to calcium channel alpha2delta (α2δ) subunits and nucleic acid sequences encoding them. These compositions are useful in methods for identifying compounds that modulate the activity of calcium channels and for identifying compounds as therapeutic for disease. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/116949 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 06979732 | Nuccio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Nuccio (Melrose, Florida); Andrew D. Hanson (Gainesville, Florida); Susan A. Henry (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for increasing the nutritional value of plants and plant parts. In illustrative embodiments PEAMT and ΔPEAMT polynucleotide and polypeptide compositions are disclosed as well as their use in modulating the levels of lipid compounds, and particularly, regulating the level of phosphatidylcholine, and its precursors in plants and seeds derived therefrom. Also disclosed are methods for modulating the level of glycine betaine and choline-O-sulfate in cells, and increasing the tolerance of transformed plants to osmotic and cryogenic stress. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/525885 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
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| US 06979750 | Scanlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Scanlan (San Francisco, California); Matthew E. Hart (San Francisco, California); David K. Grandy (Portland, Oregon); James R. Bunzow (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Thyronamine derivatives and analogs, methods of using such compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are disclosed. Methods of preparing such compounds are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/418399 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980004 | Barbic |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mladen Barbic (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic-resonance imaging system including a magnetic-resonance sensor including at least one magneto-resistive element; and a sample disposed adjacent to the magnetic-resonance sensor and configurable to generate a magnetic-resonance signal, wherein the magneto-resistive element is configured to generate a magnetic field in response to a current driven through the magneto-resistive element, the magnetic field being configured to polarize spins of the sample, and detect a magnetic-resonance signal from precession of the spins. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976559 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980845 | Alsop |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Alsop (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method for multi-slice CBF imaging using continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) with an amplitude modulated control which is both highly effective at controlling for off resonance effects, and efficient at doubly inverting inflow spins, thus retaining the signal advantages of CASL versus pulsed ASL techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/673049 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06979433 | Saito et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kozo Saito (Lexington, Kentucky); Forman A. Williams (La Jolla, California); Alvin S. Gordon (La Jolla, California); Liming Yuan (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for synthesizing carbon nanotubes from unseeded methane-air diffusion flames. A novel stainless steel and Ni—Cr wire probe is also provided for collecting carbon nanotubes from those diffusion flames. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147780 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979435 | Shahriari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Y. Shahriari (Evanston, Illinois); Antoine Barnabé (Toulouse, France); Thomas O. Mason (Evanston, Illinois); Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A facile, low temperature and low pressure method for the preparation of a wide range of phase pure ABO2 compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/116727 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/593.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979489 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yicheng Lu (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Sriram Muthukumar (Highland Park, New Jersey); Nuri William Emanetoglu (Woodbury, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In the present invention, there are provided self-assembled ZnO nanotips grown on relatively low temperatures on various substrates by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The ZnO nanotips are made at relatively low temperatures, giving ZnO a unique advantage over other wide bandgap semiconductors such as GaN and SiC. The nanotips have controlled uniform size, distribution and orientation. These ZnO nanotips are of single crystal quality, show n-type conductivity and have good optical properties. Selective growth of ZnO nanotips also has been realized on patterned (100) silicon on r-sapphire (SOS), and amorphous SiO2 on r-sapphire substrates. Self-assembled ZnO nanotips can also be selectively grown on patterned layers or islands made of a semiconductor, an insulator or a metal deposited on R-plane (01{overscore (1)}2) Al2O3 substrates as long as the ZnO grows in a columnar stucture along the c-axis [0001] of ZnO on these materials. Such self-assembled ZnO nanotips and nanotip arrays are promising for applications in field emission displays and electron emission sources, photonic bandgap devices, near-field microscopy, UV optoelectronics, and bio-chemical sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243269 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979566 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon H. Friedman (San Francisco, California); Raymond F. Schinazi (Decatur, Georgia); Fred Wudl (Santa Barbara, California); Craig L. Hill (Atlanta, Georgia); Diane L. DeCamp (Atlanta, Georgia); Rintje P. Sijbesma (Eindhoven, Netherlands); George L. Kenyon (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A water soluble derivative of buckministerfullerene (C50) having antiviral and virucidal properties is used to inhibit human retroviral replication and infections. The derivatized fullerene is symmetrically substituted with polar organic moieties containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally further containing oxygen or nitrogen. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355365 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979572 | Lu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhe Lu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds and methods of identifying and designing compounds which inhibit activity of inward-rectifier K+ channels. In particular, compounds having a tertiapin-like α helix, such as a stable tertiapin derivative wherein the methionine residue in position 13 of tertiapin is replaced by glutamine, are described. Methods of using these compounds to control insulin secretion, and cardiac rhythm and electrical conduction, to modulate neurotransmissions of neurons, and to induce diuresis in mammals are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/743054 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06978611 | Landis |
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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) | Geoffrey A. Landis (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat engine, preferably combined with an electric generator, and advantageously implemented using micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) technologies as an array of one or more individual heat engine/generators. The heat engine is based on a closed chamber containing a motive medium, preferably a gas; means for alternately enabling and disabling transfer of thermal energy from a heat source to the motive medium; and at least one movable side of the chamber that moves in response to thermally-induced expansion and contraction of the motive medium, thereby converting thermal energy to oscillating movement. The electrical generator is combined with the heat engine to utilize movement of the movable side to convert mechanical work to electrical energy, preferably using electrostatic interaction in a generator capacitor. Preferably at least one heat transfer side of the chamber is placed alternately into and out of contact with the heat source by a motion capacitor, thereby alternately enabling and disabling conductive transfer of heat to the motive medium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453251 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979721 | Meador 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) | Mary Ann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); Aryeh A. Frimer (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to polyimides having improved thermal-oxidative stability, to the process of preparing said polyimides, and the use of polyimide prepolymers in the preparation of prepregs and composites. The polyimides are particularly useful in the preparation of fiber-reinforced, high-temperature composites for use in various engine parts including inlets, fan ducts, exit flaps and other parts of high speed aircraft. The polyimides are derived from the polymerization of effective amounts of at least one tetracarboxylic dianhydride, at least one polyamine and a novel dicarboxylic endcap having the formula: |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693852 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979947 | Yaniv et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zvi Yaniv (Austin, Texas); Richard Lee Fink (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A field emission device includes a substrate in which a well has been formed. Carbon fibers with a high aspect ratio are deposited within the well, wherein the well is sufficiently deep so that axes of a large number of the carbon fibers are substantially coaxial with a long axis of the well. A conductive anode is positioned relative to the substrate so that an electric potential applied between the conductive anode and the substrate causes an emission of electrons from the carbon fibers towards the conductive anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/191748 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980230 | Yadid-Pecht 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) | Orly Yadid-Pecht (Haifa, Israel); Brad Minch (Pasadena, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California); Eric Fossum (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system for identifying the location of the center of mass (“COM”) in an image. In one aspect, an imaging system includes a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in a matrix. A center of mass circuit coupled to the photosensitive elements includes a resistive network and a normalization circuit including at least one bipolar transistor. The center of mass circuit identifies a center of mass location in the matrix and includes: a row circuit, where the row circuit identifies a center of mass row value in each row of the matrix and identifies a row intensity for each row; a horizontal circuit, where the horizontal circuit identifies a center of mass horizontal value; and a vertical circuit, where the vertical circuit identifies a center of mass vertical value. The horizontal and vertical center of mass values indicate the coordinates of the center of mass location for the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/289509 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06978572 | Bernklau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisa J. Bernklau (Bellvue, Colorado); Erich A. Fromm (Greeley, Colorado); Louis B. Bjostad (Bellvue, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for attracting insects involving the generation and/or release of particular amounts of carbon dioxide, in combination with an insecticide that does not repel such insects. Particular formulations as well as devices which incorporate such formulations for trapping, attracting and destruction of particular insects, including boring insects, such as termites and corn root worm insects, is set forth. Particular methods of administration of formulations and devices to enhance insect control and to prevent crop damage are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/831094 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/132.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06979732 | Nuccio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Nuccio (Melrose, Florida); Andrew D. Hanson (Gainesville, Florida); Susan A. Henry (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for increasing the nutritional value of plants and plant parts. In illustrative embodiments PEAMT and ΔPEAMT polynucleotide and polypeptide compositions are disclosed as well as their use in modulating the levels of lipid compounds, and particularly, regulating the level of phosphatidylcholine, and its precursors in plants and seeds derived therefrom. Also disclosed are methods for modulating the level of glycine betaine and choline-O-sulfate in cells, and increasing the tolerance of transformed plants to osmotic and cryogenic stress. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/525885 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06979396 | Gillespie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph D. Gillespie (Gurnee, Illinois); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois); Richard R. Rosin (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Lynn H. Rice (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Margaret A. Stine (Mount Prospect, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A reforming and isomerization process has been developed. A reforming feedstream is charged to a reforming zone containing a reforming catalyst and operating at reforming conditions to generate a reforming zone effluent. Hydrogen and an isomerization feedstream is charged into an isomerization zone to contact an isomerization catalyst at isomerization conditions to increase the branching of the hydrocarbons. The isomerization catalyst is a solid acid catalyst comprising a support comprising a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of at least an element of Group IVB, a first component being at least one lanthanide series element, mixtures thereof, or yttrium, and a second component being a platinum group metal or mixtures thereof. The reforming zone effluent is combined with the isomerization zone effluent to form a combined effluent stream and separated into a product stream enriched in C5 and heavier hydrocarbons and an overhead stream enriched in C4 and lighter boiling compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872642 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980374 | Schlesinger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tuviah Ehud Schlesinger (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for focusing electromagnetic radiation comprises a planar solid immersion mirror including edges for reflecting an electromagnetic wave toward a focal point adjacent to a truncated end of the planar solid immersion mirror, and an interface for diverting a portion of the electromagnetic wave from a central portion of the planar solid immersion mirror to the edges for subsequent reflection toward the focal point. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988144 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06980093 | Oursler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Oursler (Severna Park, Maryland); Wendy W. Chiu (Columbia, Maryland); Gary C. Worrell (Columbia, Maryland); John H. Fewer, Jr. (Elkridge, Maryland); Ronald K. Char (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A primary set of sensors is situated along a highway approaching a weighing/inspection station, and a secondary set of sensors is situated along a ramp that is traversed by vehicles exiting the highway into a weighing/inspection station. The secondary sensors use vehicle identification based upon transponders and/or alternate means (such as license plate readers) that are suitable for lower speeds and for vehicles not equipped with transponders. The sensors are coupled to a processing system that accesses a database storing data correlated to vehicles using the highway. Upon the sensing of certain parameters by the primary sensors, the vehicles are directed to exit the highway to the weigh station entry ramp. The secondary set of sensors along the ramp provide an ability to identify transponder and non-transponder equipped vehicles and more accurate sensing capability due, among other things, to the slower speed of the vehicle while passing sensors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430869 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/425.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06979566 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon H. Friedman (San Francisco, California); Raymond F. Schinazi (Decatur, Georgia); Fred Wudl (Santa Barbara, California); Craig L. Hill (Atlanta, Georgia); Diane L. DeCamp (Atlanta, Georgia); Rintje P. Sijbesma (Eindhoven, Netherlands); George L. Kenyon (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A water soluble derivative of buckministerfullerene (C50) having antiviral and virucidal properties is used to inhibit human retroviral replication and infections. The derivatized fullerene is symmetrically substituted with polar organic moieties containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally further containing oxygen or nitrogen. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355365 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06979947 | Yaniv et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zvi Yaniv (Austin, Texas); Richard Lee Fink (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A field emission device includes a substrate in which a well has been formed. Carbon fibers with a high aspect ratio are deposited within the well, wherein the well is sufficiently deep so that axes of a large number of the carbon fibers are substantially coaxial with a long axis of the well. A conductive anode is positioned relative to the substrate so that an electric potential applied between the conductive anode and the substrate causes an emission of electrons from the carbon fibers towards the conductive anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/191748 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 06978929 | Buie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Buie (Baltimore, Maryland); William Tartal (Baltimore, Maryland); Janet L. Webster (Spotsylvania, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for delivering an item to a customer including the processing of a plurality of items and notifying a customer (304) of an item that has been processed and is ready for delivery. When the customer requests the item, the system and method receives item information and customer information and based on this information identifies the customer (408) and the item (412). Then, the system and method validates that the customer is authorized to obtain the item (414), and delivers and confirms delivery of the item to the customer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/311742 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06979308 | MacDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. MacDonald (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Stephen P. Wolfe (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A scaled-up multi-coaxial fiber bioreactor, and variations of this bioreactor. The device is characterized by a hollow housing and an array of from about 20 to about 400 modules of hollow fibers, where each module includes at least three coaxial semipermeable hollow fibers. The innermost fiber provides a boundary for an innermost compartment which is connected to inlet and outlet ports. Arranged coaxially around the central hollow fiber are several other hollow fibers with their respective compartments, each compartment defined by a respective annular space between adjacent fibers and each including inlet and outlet ports. An outermost compartment for permitting integral aeration is the space between the outer side of the outermost fibers and the inner side of the housing, and has inlet and outlet ports. The hollow housing has inlet and outlet manifolds and flow distributors for each of the compartments. In a preferred embodiment the bioreactor is used as an extracorporeal liver. Liver cells, are introduced into one or more annular compartments and media and aeration are provided in others. Plasma from an ailing patient is introduced into another compartment for biotransformation of blood-borne toxins and biosynthesis of proteins, lipids, and other metabolic products. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/586981 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/6.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06980893 | Chiang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Y. Chiang (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention introduces innovative filtering techniques to recover the instability phase margin loss due to time delay induced from a throughput shortage problem of a spacecraft central processor (SCP). This invention relates to digital control systems and, more particularly, to a phase recovery filtering technique to alleviate spacecraft central computer processor or (SCP) throughput shortages. This filtering technique recovers the unstable phase margin loss due to the time delay caused by the SCP throughput problem. The filtering techniques may be accomplished without schedule slip or extra cost to the project. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719628 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2005/fedinvent-patents-20051227.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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