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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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| US 06983586 | Tangirala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkat Eswarlu Tangirala (Niskayuna, New York); Anthony John Dean (Scotia, New York); Ivett Alejandra Leyva (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-stage pulse detonation system includes a pre-combustor and a geometric resonator connected via a converging-diverging nozzle to the pre-combustor to create a high temperature and high pressure conditions in the resonator in order to create optimal conditions for detonation initiation. A mixture of a fuel and a gas is burned in the pre-combustor and is passed through the nozzle into the geometric resonator, where the burned mixture is detonated. The detonation propagates through the resonator exit nozzle thus generating thrust. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730219 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983608 | Allen, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford Edward Allen, Jr. (Newbury, Massachusetts); Alan John Charlton (Boxford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine. The method comprises providing an engine frame including an integrally formed outer band, an inner band, and a plurality of circumferentially-spaced apart struts extending radially therebetween, and providing at least one fairing that is formed as an integral single piece casting and includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall connected at a leading edge and a trailing edge such that at least one cooling chamber is defined therebetween. The method also comprises coupling the at least one fairing around at least one strut such that the strut extends through the fairing at least one cooling chamber and such that during the coupling process the fairing is only transitioned axially around the strut rather being slid radially along the strut. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/743693 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/798 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983698 | Walters 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) | William Walters (Elkton, Maryland); Daniel R. Scheffler (Belcamp, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A shaped charge explosive device which includes an axially symmetric body of explosive material, a liner lining the forward end of the body, and a detonator disposed at the bottom of the body. The liner has an apex disposed along the symmetry axis of the body and the forward end of the body contains a gas filled cavity which overlaps the apex of the liner. When the detonator detonates the explosive material, a detonation wave is produced that collapses the liner into a plurality of liner parts which are projected against an external target. The gas filled cavity shapes the detonation wave so that the detonation wave impacts the liner at the most favorable angle to transfer energy to the liner and maximize the effective penetration of the external target by the projected liner parts. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421899 |
| 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 12/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983699 | Gold 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) | Vladimir Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosive fragmentation munition having a longitudinal axis which includes a cylindrical shell portion having a thickness and an interior; a rounded shell portion having a thickness and an interior, the rounded shell portion being disposed at a front end of the cylindrical shell portion; an explosive disposed in the interiors of the cylindrical shell portion and the rounded shell portion; wherein the thickness of the rounded shell portion equals the thickness of the cylindrical shell portion where the rounded shell portion joins the cylindrical shell portion, and wherein the thickness of the rounded shell portion increases in a forward direction along the longitudinal axis. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/011022 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983700 | Malejko 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) | Gregory Malejko (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Anthony Vella (East Hanover, New Jersey); Eric P. Scheper (Essex Fells, New Jersey); Philip M. Donadio (Long Valley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable drag projectile stabilizer is utilized by a training projectile to match the trajectory of a tactical projectile for up to 3 km while having a range limitation of 8 km. The stabilizer applies supersonic flow phenomena to alter the aerodynamic characteristics of a training projectile while in free flight to fulfill this requirement. The stabilizer uses a cowling supported by struts to provide tail lift and ensure a stable flight path. Supersonic flow is established through ducts formed by the cowling and struts when launched from a weapon. The flow remains supersonic until the projectile reaches the desired range but then quickly becomes subsonic (choked) due to shock waves emanating from interior angles in the ducts. The geometry of the ducts can be designed to create different shock wave patterns within the ducts. The variance of leading edge location, leading edge angle, cowling intake angle, and flight Mach number influences the shock patterns within the ducts and consequently, the range of the projectile. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709401 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983710 | Shen 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) | Young T. Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Robert J. Etter (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Forward underwater movement of a sea craft at a high speed induced by propulsion thereof is decelerated and stopped by projection of drag devices, mounted on a fully submerged underwater sea craft hull, from retracted positions within said sea craft hull or the steering rudders positioned thereon. Each of the drag devices has an elongated drag plate with an end surface cap flush with the outer surface of the hull or the steering rudder in the retracted position of the drag device. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985070 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/145.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983792 | Dickey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Todd Dickey (El Segundo, California); Tung Ting Lam (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An isosceles triangular cross section shaped microchannel-cooling device conducts a working fluid for the removal of heat from a heat source. The triangular shaped microchannel provides an increased thermal transport coefficient for improved heat transport with an improved mass flow rate. The microchannel-cooling device is well suited for removing heat from electronics, semiconductor components, and systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/305624 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983914 | Stribling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray A. Stribling (Redondo Beach, California); Joel A. Schwartz (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Solar array assemblies and systems and methods for deploying solar cell arrays from a spacecraft. A solar cell panel assembly comprises a first flexible solar panel and a rotational member. A first extension assembly is disposed proximate to a first end of the rotational member and a second extension assembly is disposed proximate to a second end of the rotational member. The solar cell panel assembly further comprises a first support member and a second support member. The first end of the first support member is coupled to the first end of the rotational member and the first end of the second support member is coupled to the second end of the rotational member. The second ends of the support members are coupled to the first flexible solar panel. A tether assembly couples the extension assemblies to the support members. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779063 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06983957 | Bettinger |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Bettinger (Grosse Ile, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressed seal expansion joint for fluidically connecting in a sealed relationship adjacent ends of two conduits adapted for carrying fluids of varying temperatures, the expansion joint comprising telescopically arranged outer and inner pipe members adapted to be connected to each of the conduits, the outer pipe member defining an annular packing chamber opening through its inner surface for containing at least two cylindrical guide rings disposed at opposite ends of the chamber, the rings being of a generally rectangular cross section having their long faces longitudinal to the members axis and selected of an elastic and semi-plastic packing composition pressurized by tensioned hoop bands circumscribing the outer pipe member and selected to elastically deform the outer pipe member and communicate a circumferentially compressive force to the guide rings so as to create bearing and frictional loadings and seal between guide ring surfaces and the pipe member surfaces during axial and rotational relative pipe member movement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/065787 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984102 | Bunker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Scott Bunker (Niskayuna, New York); Jeremy Clyde Bailey (Middle Grove, New York); Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A component includes at least one wall having an inner portion and an outer portion. A number of pins extend between the inner and outer portions of the wall. The pins define a mesh cooling arrangement having a number of flow channels. A number of turbulators are disposed on at least one of the inner and outer portions of the wall. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718003 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984103 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Steven Robert Brassfield (Cincinnati, Ohio); Chander Prakash (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade includes an airfoil having pressure and suction sidewalls extending between leading and trailing edges, and from root to tip. A dovetail is joined to the airfoil root at a platform. Three internal cooling circuits extend in span inside the airfoil, and each circuit includes a respective inlet channel commencing in axially adjacent alignment in the dovetail. The inlet channels twist together from the dovetail, through the platform, and into the airfoil behind the leading edge in transverse adjacent alignment across the sidewalls. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718465 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984275 | Walsh 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) | Christine Marie Walsh (Waldorf, Maryland); Christine Dianne Knott (Waldorf, Maryland); Charles Stanley Leveritt (Jarrettsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises an additive to a propelling charge that greatly reduces barrel erosion when used in a gun system compared to the current additives noted above. The invention provides both a high nitrogen to carbon monoxide ratio in the combustion products of the propelling charge in conjunction with a reduced flame temperature which both work to reduce gun-barrel erosion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364333 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/19.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984276 | Zafiroglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invista North America S.arl. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitri P. Zafiroglu (Wilmington, Delaware); Geoffrey David Hietpas (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for preparing nonwoven fabrics having an improved balance of properties in the machine and cross-directions. More specifically, the invention utilizes nonwoven webs that include relatively low levels of multiple-component fibers having latent three-dimensional spiral crimp combined with fibers that do not develop spiral crimp. The latent spiral crimp of the multiple-component fibers is activated, such as by heating, under free shrinkage conditions, after formation of the nonwoven web to achieve re-orientation of the non-spirally-crimpable fibers and an improved balance of properties such as tensile strength and modulus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/320142 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984491 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas Andrew Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota); Viswanadham Garimella (Evanston, Illinois); Zhi Li (Evanston, Illinois); So-Jung Park (Evanston, Illinois); Gang Lu (Mt. Prospect, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008978 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06984504 — Ebola virion proteins expressed from venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus replicons
| US 06984504 | Hart 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) | Mary K. Hart (Frederick, Maryland); Julie A. Wilson (Frederick, Maryland); Peter Pushko (Frederick, Maryland); Jonathan F. Smith (Sabillasville, Maryland); Alan L. Schmaljohn (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Using the Ebola GP, NP, VP24, VP30, VP35 and VP40 virion proteins, a method and composition for use in inducing an immune response which is protective against infection with Ebola virus is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696633 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984746 | Lund et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary K. Lund (Malad, Idaho); Jami M. Hanks (Logan, Utah); Harold E. Johnston (Brigham City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming α-alane. The method includes reacting aluminum trichloride and an alkali metal hydride to form an alane-ether complex solution. An aqueous ether solution is optionally added to the alane-ether complex solution to form a partially hydrolyzed ether/alane-ether complex solution. A solution of a crystallization additive is added to the alane-ether complex solution or to the aqueous ether/alane-ether complex solution to form a crystallization solution. The crystallization additive is selected from the group consisting of squalene, cyclododecatriene, norbornylene, norbornadiene, a phenyl terminated polybutadiene, 2,4-dimethyl anisole, 3,5-dimethyl anisole, 2,6-dimethyl anisole, polydimethyl siloxane, and mixtures thereof. Ether is removed from the crystallization solution to crystallize the α-alane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947078 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984846 | Newns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Newns (Yorktown Heights, New York); David P. DiVincenzo (Tarrytown, New York); Roger H. Koch (Amawalk, New York); Glenn J. Martyna (Pleasantville, New York); Jim Rozen (Peekskill, New York); Chang Chyi Tsuei (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A qubit (quantum bit) circuit includes a superconducting main loop that is electrically-completed by a serially-interconnected superconducting subloop. The subloop includes two Josephson junctions. A first coil provides a first flux that couples with the main loop but not with the subloop. A second coil provides a second flux that couples with the subloop but not with the main loop. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648346 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984899 | Rice |
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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) | Pahl W. Rice (Jewett City, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical axis windmill is provided wherein the amount of wind directed to blades in the power producing part of rotation and the mechanical load of multiple generators is controlled by a feedback control to maintain a relatively constant rotational frequency of the shaft of the windmill. In a preferred embodiment, two wind foils extend radially outwardly from the blades to thereby provide a scoop capable of pulling in more air than would normally be received by the blades. The wind foils then direct the wind flow to the power producing part of rotation of the blades for maximum power output, when necessary. The wind foils can close to control the wind flow to the blades. The generating capacity of a plurality of generators is also controlled in response to shaft rotation to maintain substantially constant shaft rotation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789484 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984923 | Walsh 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) | Kenneth M. Walsh (Middletown, Rhode Island); Kim C. Benjamin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Stephen E. Forsythe (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite transducer array comprises a piezoelectric polymer composite panel, a continuous electrode coupled to a first surface of the composite panel, and a plurality of electrically-isolated electrode segments coupled to a second surface of the composite panel. Each electrode segment is shaped as an angular segment of a circular ring. The electrode segments are arranged to define an array of concentric circular rings of electrode segments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748916 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984925 | Morley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delaware Capital Formation, INC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter E. Morley (Amherst, New Hampshire); Reichl B. Haskell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Daniel S. Stevens (Stratham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method and apparatus for improving the aging, pressure sensitivity, and acceleration sensitivity of crystal resonators. In one embodiment the invention includes a coplanar two-dimensional compliant mounting structure, wherein the symmetry and compliance of the planar mounting structure reduces the effects of residual static stresses and dynamic vibratory stresses on the vibration sensitivity performance of a crystal resonator. The structural elements include compliance loops that provide relief from the effects associated with manufacturing, thermal and vibration stresses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446522 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984977 | Wellstood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Wellstood (Lanham, Maryland); Erin Fleet (Alexandria, Virginia); Sojiphong Chatraphorn (Bankok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning SQUID microscope for acquiring spatially resolved images of physical properties of an object includes a SQUID sensor arranged in perpendicular to the plane of the object under investigation for detecting tangential component of the magnetic field generated by the object. During scanning of the SQUID sensor over the object under investigation, the position signal from a position interpreting unit, as well as relevant output signals from the SQUID sensor are processed by a processing unit which derives from the data, spatially resolved images of the physical properties of the object. The specific orientation of the SQUID sensor with respect to the plane of the object permits an enlarged area of the SQUID chip on which the modulation and feedback line can be fabricated in the same technological process with the SQUID sensor. Additionally, larger contact pads afforded provide for lower contact resistance and ease in forming contact with bias and read-out wires. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/416489 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985051 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Arlington, Virginia); Mohamed A. Abdelmoneum (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical resonator device and a method of making the micromechanical resonator device, as well as other extensional mode devices are provided wherein anchor losses are minimized by anchoring at one or more side nodal points of the resonator device. Lower damping forces are experienced by the resonator device when operated in air. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/737363 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985089 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Reserach Center Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Liu (Mountain View, California); Xue Yang (Urbana, Illinois); Feng Zhao (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for vehicle to vehicle communication among vehicles having wireless communication links. Upon receiving notification of a sudden change in vehicle behavior, a vehicle broadcasts a priority message to surrounding vehicles within a transmission range. If an emergency event has occurred, a repeat cycle is defined for re-broadcasting the message, and a maximum number of initial repetitions for the message is specified. The message is transmitted repeatedly by a leader vehicle, with a pause between each transmission, until the maximum number of repetitions has been reached. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693511 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/903 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985127 | Russell 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) | Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable gray-scale liquid crystal display comprises a polarizer operably coupled to a beam of incident light to pass a beam of polarized light having a polarization axis. A sequence of liquid crystal display pixels serially aligned with the beam of polarized light controls the angle of the polarization axis. An analyzer passes a gray-scale portion of the beam of polarized light from the sequence of liquid crystal display pixels corresponding to the angle of the polarization axis. Each pixel in the sequence may be independently programmed to vary the angle of the polarization axis for calibrating the display to a standard gray-scale and for correcting faulty pixels with VLSI on-chip driver and interface circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/518051 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985142 | Svensson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lars G. Svensson (Gothenburg, Sweden); William C. Athas (Redondo Beach, California); Rajat K. Lal (Culver City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Power-efficient, pulsed driving of capacitive loads to controllable voltage levels, with particular applicability to LCDs. Energy stored in a portion of the capacitive load is recovered during a recovery phase. Time-varying signals are used to drive the load and to recover the stored energy, thus minimizing power losses, using processes named adiabatic charging and adiabatic discharging. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/389841 |
| ART UNIT | 2674 — 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 345/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985224 | Hart |
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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) | Sean J. Hart (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses an Excitation Emission Matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectrometer system that uses an LED array to cause excitation emission matrix fluorescence that is imaged onto a spectrograph for sample identification and analysis. By using the LED array, the spectrograph requires only high spectroscopic resolution of about 1 to 5 nm in the fluorescence emission range and low excitation light resolution of about 14 to 73 nm in the excitation range. While individual LED optical excitation spectra may contain wavelength regions that overlap, as long as the various LEDs have different excitation wavelengths and intensities, spectral overlap does not preclude data analysis. The invention provides an EEM spectroscopy system that is not a high resolution such as a laser or lamp based excitation system, but instead uses a lower resolution, lower power LED system. The invention also provides results that are comparable to existing systems with lower component cost and lower power requirements while also optically stable, small, and easy to use. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387776 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985382 | Fulkerson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Fulkerson (Plymouth, Minnesota); Yong Lu (Rosemount, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique to read a stored state in a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device, such as a giant magneto-resistance (GMR) MRAM device or a tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) device uses a bit line in an MRAM device that is segmented into a first portion and a second portion. An interface circuit compares the resistance of a first portion and a second portion of a first bit line to the resistance of a first portion and a second portion of a second bit line to determine the logical state of a cell in the first bit line. The interface circuit includes a reset circuit that selectively couples the outputs of the interface circuit together. A subsequent decoupling of the outputs allows cross-coupling within the interface circuit to latch the outputs to a logical state corresponding to the stored magnetic state, thereby allowing the stored state of a cell to be read. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973720 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985407 | Benjamin |
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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) | Kim C. Benjamin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer composite transducer array includes at least one pair of composite transducers with an electrical and mechanical isolation layer disposed therebetween. Each composite transducer is defined by a composite panel having a common electrode coupled to a first surface and electrode segments electrically isolated from one another and coupled to a second surface. Each pair of composite transducers is configured such that the electrode segments associated with the pair's composite transducers oppose and are aligned with one another. The isolation layer has dielectric material segments that are sized, shaped and aligned in correspondence with opposing and aligned ones of the electrode segments associated with the pair's transducers. Spaces formed in the isolation layer between the dielectric material segments are filled with a viscoelastic material. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/769708 |
| 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 367/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985620 | Sawhney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Steve Hsu (Cranbury, New Jersey); Supun Samarasekera (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is embodied in a video flashlight method. This method creates virtual images of a scene using a dynamically updated three-dimensional model of the scene and at least one video sequence of images. An estimate of the camera pose is generated by comparing a present image to the three-dimensional model. Next, relevant features of the model are selected based on the estimated pose. The relevant features are then virtually projected onto the estimated pose and matched to features of the image. Matching errors are measured between the relevant features of the virtual projection and the features of the image. The estimated pose is then updated to reduce these matching errors. The model is also refined with updated information from the image. Meanwhile, a viewpoint for a virtual image is selected. The virtual image is then created by projecting the dynamically updated three-dimensional model onto the selected virtual viewpoint. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/800550 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985818 | Samuels |
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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) | Alan C. Samuels (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous monitoring method and system wherein a porous substrate or film is used. The air from the environment is drawn through a region of the porous substrate by a simple air pump and the substances in the air are deposited or chemically adsorbed onto the surface of the substrate. The region of the substrate where the environmental air is drawn through is continuously monitored by an optical or spectrometric method. The substrate is in the form of a tape supplied by a feed reel in a reel-to-reel cartridge and taken up by a take-up reel as found in a film cartridge or a magnetic tape cartridge. The cartridge can be replaceable. A variety of materials may be employed as the substrate with an adequate surface area to effect accumulation of solid, liquid, aerosol, or gas phase compounds. An optical interrogation system is engineered such that the surface of the tape at the point where air from the environment is drawn through the substrate becomes the interaction region between the source output and the sample. As material from the environment accumulates in this region, the interaction of the source with the material is monitored by a suitable detector and supporting circuitry. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359494 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06985929 — Distributed object-oriented geospatial information distribution system and method thereof
| US 06985929 | Wilson 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) | Ruth Wilson (Picayune, Mississippi); Miyi Chung (Terrytown, Louisiana); Maria Cobb (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Kevin Shaw (Gulfport, Mississippi); Roy Ladner (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed object-oriented geospatial database system and method thereof over the Internet using Web-based technology to perform data-driven queries, such as retrieving, viewing and updating, geospatial data of the object oriented geospatial database, such as vector, raster, hypertext and multimedia data, including data types or formats of ESRI shape files, GSF, oceanographic ASCII text data by NAVOCEANO and geospatial data with temporal information and supporting 3D display of the geospatial data. The object-oriented geospatial database system is implemented in a heterogeneous object-oriented development and integration environment through the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/653413 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06983658 | Wenski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward G. Wenski (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-tensile testing system providing a stand-alone test platform for testing and reporting physical or engineering properties of test samples of materials having thicknesses of approximately between 0.002 inch and 0.030 inch, including, for example, LiGA engineered materials. The testing system is able to perform a variety of static, dynamic, and cyclic tests. The testing system includes a rigid frame and adjustable gripping supports to minimize measurement errors due to deflection or bending under load; serrated grips for securing the extremely small test sample; high-speed laser scan micrometers for obtaining accurate results; and test software for controlling the testing procedure and reporting results. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/412508 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984101 | Schiavo, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony L. Schiavo, Jr. (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine vane assembly includes a turbine vane having first and second shrouds with an elongated airfoil extending between. Each end of the airfoil transitions into a shroud at a respective junction. Each of the shrouds has a plurality of cooling passages, and the airfoil has a plurality of cooling passages extending between the first and second shrouds. A substantially flat inner plate and an outer plate are coupled to each of the first and second shrouds so as to form inner and outer plenums. Each inner plenum is defined between at least the junction and the substantially flat inner plate; each outer plenum is defined between at least the substantially flat inner plate and the outer plate. Each inner plenum is in fluid communication with a respective outer plenum through at least one of the cooling passages in the respective shroud. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/619343 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984263 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tihu Wang (Littleton, Colorado); Theodore F. Ciszek (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | In a single crystal pulling apparatus for providing a Czochralski crystal growth process, the improvement of a shallow melt crucible (20) to eliminate the necessity supplying a large quantity of feed stock materials that had to be preloaded in a deep crucible to grow a large ingot, comprising a gas tight container a crucible with a deepened periphery (25) to prevent snapping of a shallow melt and reduce turbulent melt convection; source supply means for adding source material to the semiconductor melt; a double barrier (23) to minimize heat transfer between the deepened periphery (25) and the shallow melt in the growth compartment; offset holes (24) in the double barrier (23) to increase melt travel length between the deepened periphery (25) and the shallow growth compartment; and the interface heater/heat sink (22) to control the interface shape and crystal growth rate. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/494482 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984335 | Shu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deming Shu (Darien, Illinois); Thomas S. Toellner (Chicago, Illinois); E. Ercan Alp (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Redundantly constrained laminar structures as weak-link mechanisms and a novel method for manufacturing the redundantly constrained laminar structures as weak-link mechanisms are provided. The method for producing the redundantly constrained laminar structures as weak-link mechanisms is carried out by lithographic techniques. A designed pattern is repeatedly chemically etched with a mask to produce a plurality of individual identical units. The units are stacked together to form the laminar structure and are secured together with fasteners. A high quality adhesive can be applied to the sides of the laminar structure to provide the mechanism equivalent to a single piece mechanism. The redundantly constrained laminar structures as weak-link mechanisms of the invention include a stack of a plurality of thin material structures. The stack of structures forming a laminar structure include multiple weak-link connections providing controllable movements in a plane of the layer and having a desired stiffness and stability. The plurality of thin material structures include predetermined locating-holes used with locating-pins to precisely stack the thin material structures together and are used with fasteners to secure the stack together. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/619111 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984369 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California); Joerg Rockenberger (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a process for making surfactant capped nanocrystals of metal oxides which are dispersable in organic solvents. The process comprises decomposing a metal cupferron complex of the formula MXCupX, wherein M is a metal, and Cup is a N-substituted N-Nitroso hydroxylamine, in the presence of a coordinating surfactant, the reaction being conducted at a temperature ranging from about 150 to about 400° C., for a period of time sufficient to complete the reaction. Also disclosed are compounds made by the process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/721126 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984467 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Schmidt (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); George R. Folser (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasma sprayed ceria-containing interlayer is provided. The interlayer has particular application in connection with a solid oxide fuel cell used within a power generation system. The fuel cell advantageously comprises an air electrode, a plasma sprayed interlayer disposed on at least a portion of the air electrode, a plasma sprayed electrolyte disposed on at least a portion of the interlayer, and a fuel electrode applied on at least a portion of the electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/253469 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984734 | Sessler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Sessler (Austin, Texas); Daniel Seidel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Frederic R. Bolze (Strasbourg, France); Thomas Koehler (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an oxidative coupling procedure that allows efficient synthesis of novel cyclo[n]pyrrole macrocycles. Therefore, the present invention provides cyclo[n]pyrroles where n is 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, and derivatives, multimers, isomers, and ion and neutral molecule complexes thereof as new compositions of matter. A protonated form of cyclo[n]pyrrole displays a gap of up to 700 nm between strong Soret and Q-like absorption bands in the electronic spectrum, demonstrating no significant ground state absorption in the visible portion of the electronic spectrum. Uses of cyclo[n]pyrroles as separation media, nonlinear optical materials, information storage media and infrared filters are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373949 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984768 | Ginosar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert V. Fox (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Stuart K. Janikowski (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for destroying halocarbons. Halocarbon materials are reacted in a dehalogenation process wherein they are combined with a solvent in the presence of a catalyst. A hydrogen-containing solvent is preferred which functions as both a solvating agent and hydrogen donor. To augment the hydrogen donation capacity of the solvent if needed (or when non-hydrogen-containing solvents are used), a supplemental hydrogen donor composition may be employed. In operation, at least one of the temperature and pressure of the solvent is maintained near, at, or above a critical level. For example, the solvent may be in (1) a supercritical state; (2) a state where one of the temperature or pressure thereof is at or above critical; or (3) a state where at least one of the temperature and pressure thereof is near-critical. This system provides numerous benefits including improved reaction rates, efficiency, and versatility. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/152599 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984821 | Appelhans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony D. Appelhans (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John E. Olson (Rigby, Idaho); James E. Delmore (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass spectrometer includes a magnetic sector configured to separate a plurality of ion beams, and an electrostatic sector configured to receive the plurality of ion beams from the magnetic sector and increase separation between the ion beams, the electrostatic sector being used as a dispersive element following magnetic separation of the plurality of ion beams. Other apparatus and methods are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870856 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984897 | Skeist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation (Hauppauge, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Merrill Skeist (Plainview, New York); Richard H. Baker (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-mechanical energy conversion system coupled between an energy source and an energy load comprising an energy converter device including a permanent magnet induction machine coupled between the energy source and the energy load to convert the energy from the energy source and to transfer the converted energy to the energy load and an energy transfer multiplexer to control the flow of power or energy through the permanent magnetic induction machine. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705330 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985082 | Dutta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Reasearch Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); NexTech Materials, Ltd. (Worthington, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabir K. Dutta (Worthington, Ohio); Scott L. Swartz (Columbus, Ohio); Christopher T. Holt (Columbus, Ohio); Ramachandra Rao Revur (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor and method of use for detection of low levels of carbon monoxide in gas mixtures. The approach is based on the change in an electrical property (for example: resistance) that occurs when carbon monoxide is selectively absorbed by a film of copper chloride (or other metal halides). The electrical property change occurs rapidly with both increasing and decreasing CO contents, varies with the amount of CO from the gas stream, and is insensitive to the presence of hydrogen. To make a sensor using this approach, the metal halide film will deposited onto an alumina substrate with electrodes. The sensor may be maintained at the optimum temperature with a thick film platinum heater deposited onto the opposite face of the substrate. When the sensor is operating at an appropriate (and constant) temperature, the magnitude of the electrical property measured between the interdigital electrodes will provide a measure of the carbon monoxide content of the gas. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/903916 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985226 | Lerner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Lerner (Corvalis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact imaging spectrometer comprising an entrance slit, an anamorphic mirror, a grating, and a detector array. The entrance slit directs light to the anamorphic mirror. The anamorphic mirror receives the light and directs the light to the grating. The grating receives the light from the anamorphic mirror and defracts the light back onto the anamorphic mirror. The anamorphic mirror focuses the light onto a detector array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844086 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985553 | Leung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California); William A. Barletta (Oakland, California); Joe W. Kwan (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion source has an extraction system configured to produce ultra-short ion pulses, i.e. pulses with pulse width of about 1 μs or less, and a neutron source based on the ion source produces correspondingly ultra-short neutron pulses. To form a neutron source, a neutron generating target is positioned to receive an accelerated extracted ion beam from the ion source. To produce the ultra-short ion or neutron pulses, the apertures in the extraction system of the ion source are suitably sized to prevent ion leakage, the electrodes are suitably spaced, and the extraction voltage is controlled. The ion beam current leaving the source is regulated by applying ultra-short voltage pulses of a suitable voltage on the extraction electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/350573 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985791 | Malkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Malkin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Robert Gao (Amherst, Massachusetts); Changsheng Guo (South Windsor, Connecticut); Biju Varghese (Worthington, Ohio); Sumukh Pathare (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A grinding wheel system includes a grinding wheel with at least one embedded sensor. The system also includes an adapter disk containing electronics that process signals produced by each embedded sensor and that transmits sensor information to a data processing platform for further processing of the transmitted information. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/448772 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985867 | Pryor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J Pryor (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nipa Basu (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An economy whose activity is to be predicted comprises a plurality of decision makers. Decision makers include, for example, households, government, industry, and banks. The decision makers are represented by agents, where an agent can represent one or more decision makers. Each agent has decision rules that determine the agent's actions. Each agent can affect the economy by affecting variable conditions characteristic of the economy or the internal state of other agents. Agents can communicate actions through messages. On a multiprocessor computer, the agents can be assigned to processing elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/791724 |
| ART UNIT | 3622 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kullervo H. Hynynen (Medfield, Massachusetts); Elisa Konofagou (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a property of a desired region in an object includes transmitting first and second energy beams from first and second sources into the object such that the beams intersect at the desired region to induce vibration of the desired region, transmitting energy from a third source into the desired region, receiving signals from the desired region due to the energy from the third source, and analyzing at least one of amplitude, phase and frequency of the vibration of the desired region indicated by the received signals to determine the property of the desired region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612555 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984379 | Kohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital of LosAngeles (LosAngeles, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald B. Kohn (Tarzana, California); R. Michael Blaese (Rockville, Maryland); Craig A. Mullen (Sugar Land, Texas); Robert C. Moen (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing a therapeutic effect in a human patient which comprises administering to the patient CD34+ cells obtained from cord blood. The CD34+ cells have been engineered with at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding a therapeutic agent. Such CD34+ cells may be engineered by transducing the cells with a retroviral vector including the nucleic acid sequence encoding the therapeutic agent. This method has been applied in treating newborn infants suffering from ADA deficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/225478 |
| 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 424/93.210 |
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| US 06984384 | Subjeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Subjeck (Williamsville, New York); Robert A. Henderson (Seattle, Washington); Elizabeth A. Repasky (Williamsville, New York); Latif Kazim (Amherst, New York); Xiang-Yang Wang (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a stress protein complex and related molecules encoding or cells presenting such a complex are provided. The stress protein complex comprises an hsp110 or grp170 polypeptide complexed with an immunogenic polypeptide. The immunogenic polypeptide of the stress protein complex can be associated with a cancer or an infectious disease. The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention can be administered to a subject, thereby providing methods for inhibiting M. tuberculosis-infection, for inhibiting tumor growth, for inhibiting the development of a cancer, and for the treatment or prevention of infectious disease. The invention further provides a method for producing T cells directed against a tumor cell or a M. tuberculosis-infected cell, wherein a T cell is contacted with an APC that is modified to present an hsp110 or grp170 polypeptide and an immunogenic polypeptide associated with a tumor or with the M. tuberculosis-infected cell. Included in the invention are T cells produced by this method and a pharmaceutical composition comprising such T cells. The T cells can be contacted with a M. tuberculosis-infected cell in a method for killing a M. tuberculosis-infected cell, or with a tumor cell in a method for killing a tumor cell. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/676340 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 06984484 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soloman H. Snyder (Baltimore, Maryland); Herman Wolosker (Baltimore, Maryland); Kevin Sheth (Baltimore, Maryland); Takahashi Masaaki (Baltimore, Maryland); Jean-Pierre Mothet (Baltimore, Maryland); Roscoe Brady, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher D. Ferris (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | High levels of D-serine occur in mammalian brain, where it appears to be an endogenous ligand of the “glycine site” of NMDA receptors. We have purified from rat brain a soluble enzyme that catalyzes the direct racemization of L-serine to D-serine. Purified serine racemase has a molecular weight of 37 kDa and requires pyridoxal 5′-phosphate for its activity. The enzyme is highly selective toward L-serine, failing to racemize any other amino acid tested. We have also identified polynucleotide sequences that encode mammalian, including human, serine racemase. Compounds that modulate the activity of mammalian serine racemase are useful for treating conditions and diseases that involve overstimulation of NMDA receptors, such as stroke and various neurodegenerative diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/889609 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 06984487 | Tsui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HSC Research Development Corporation (Toronto, Canada); The Board of Regents Acting For and on Behalf of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lap-Chee Tsui (Toronto, Canada); John R. Riordan (Toronto, Canada); Francis S. Collins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Johanna M. Rommens (Willowdale, Canada); Michael C. Iannuzzi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bat-Sheva Kerem (Toronto, Canada); Mitchell L. Drumm (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Manuel Buchwald (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The cystic fibrosis gene and its gene product are described for both the normal and mutant forms. The genetic and protein information is used in developing DNA diagnosis, protein diagnosis, carrier and patient screening, drug and gene therapy, cloning of the gene and manufacture of the protein, and development of cystic fibrosis affected animals. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 1993 |
| APPL NO | 08/123864 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06984491 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas Andrew Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota); Viswanadham Garimella (Evanston, Illinois); Zhi Li (Evanston, Illinois); So-Jung Park (Evanston, Illinois); Gang Lu (Mt. Prospect, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008978 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984495 | Thompson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine C. Thompson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The novel nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of the human Hairless gene and protein, respectively, are disclosed. A Hairless expression construct may be used in transcription assays. Moreover, processes of making and using the aforementioned products in screening assays which affect Hairless-regulated transcription are disclosed. Kits comprising a polynucleotide, polypeptide, specific binding molecule, or combinations thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/024368 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 06984515 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The LeLand Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Gary Ashley (Alameda, California); Camilla Kao (Palo Alto, California); Robert McDaniel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyketide or glycosylated polyketide which has the formula: wherein R* is methyl or ethyl; each of R1-R6 is methyl; X1 is OH or H; and/or X2 is=O, OH or H; X3 is OH or H; X4 is OH or H; a pi bond is present at positions 10-11, 8-9, 4-5 and/or 2-3; and wherein at least one of the following characteristics is present: X1 is H; X2 is OH or H; X3 is H; X4 is H; or a pi bond is present at positions 10-11, 8-9, 4-5 and/or 2-3. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/852416 |
| 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: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.500 |
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| US 06984517 | Chiorini 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) | John A. Chiorini (Kensington, Maryland); Robert M. Kotin (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an adeno-associated virus 5 (AAV5) virus and vectors and particles derived therefrom. In addition, the present invention provides methods of delivering a nucleic acid to a cell using the AAV5 vectors and particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/717789 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
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| US 06984528 | Reppy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Analytical Biological Services Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary A. Reppy (Wilmington, Delaware); Sarah A. Sporn (Wilmington, Delaware); Charles F. Saller (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays of a polydiacetylene backbone having a substrate incorporated are used in chemical sensing methods to detect the interaction of an analyte with the substrate by monitoring the change in the fluorescence of the array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/811538 |
| 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 436/829 |
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| US 06984619 | Grdina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arch Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Grdina (Naperville, Illinois); Luka Milas (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and pharmaceuticals for inhibiting or preventing metastasis formation in animals, including humans, having primary tumors, through the administration of phosphorothioates including their thiol and disulfide metabolites are disclosed. These compounds stimulate angiostatin levels, inhibit matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), and stimulate manganese superoxidase dismutase (MnSOD). Phosphorothioates, of which amifostine is an example, can be administered as a combination therapy with traditional cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, immunotherapy, hormone therapy and gene-therapy. Inhibition or prevention of metastasis by phosphorothioates is independent of tumor type, including adenocarcinomas and sarcomas. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/523886 |
| 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 514/1 |
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| US 06984622 | Fleiszig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig (Oakland, California); Nancy A. McNamara (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The antibiotic polypeptide β-defensin-2 (hBD-2) is expressed in the eye, and is useful for treating ocular wounds. hBD-2 is increased in the eye upon exposure to lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Administration of LPS to the eye thereby provides a useful method for increasing the amount of this antibiotic peptide in the eye. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/121227 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06984773 | Evans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Evans (La Jolla, California); Bruce Blumberg (Irvine, California); Wen Xie (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel nuclear receptor, termed the steroid and xenobiotic receptor (SXR), a broad-specificity sensing receptor that is a novel branch of the nuclear receptor superfamily, has been discovered. SXR forms a heterodimer with RXR that can bind to and induce transcription from response elements present in steroid-inducible cytochrome P450 genes in response to hundreds of natural and synthetic compounds with biological activity, including therapeutic steroids as well as dietary steroids and lipids. Instead of hundreds of receptors, one for each inducing compound, the invention SXR receptors monitor aggregate levels of inducers to trigger production of metabolizing enzymes in a coordinated metabolic pathway. Agonists and antagonists of SXR are administered to subjects to achieve a variety of therapeutic goals dependent upon modulating metabolism of one or more endogenous steroids or xenobiotics to establish homeostasis. An assay is provided for identifying steroid drugs that are likely to cause drug interaction if administered to a subject in therapeutic amounts. Transgenic animals are also provided which express human SXR, thereby serving as useful models for human response to various agents which potentially impact P450-dependent metabolic processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/458366 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
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| US 06985763 | Boas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Boas (Newmarket, New Hampshire); Maria Angela Franceschini (Winchester, Massachusetts); Sergio Fantini (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring venous oxygen saturation levels has steps of measuring optical absorption oscillation data at the respiratory frequency at a plurality of wavelengths (2). A reduced scattering coefficient and an absorption coefficient are determined for the tissue, with the result that an effective path length can be determined (6). Data processing is performed to calculate amplitudes for the absorption oscillation data that are translated into oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin concentrations for the venous compartment (8). A method of the invention does not required mechanical ventilation devices or venous perturbation. Additional method steps may entail verifying that the measured absorption oscillation data results from the venous compartment. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/466447 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/323 |
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| US 06985829 | Jacquez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bio-Analytics, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey M. Jacquez (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring a degree of association (58) between, and for selectively creating a grouping (40) of, n plurality of spatially referenced physical events (22) of a predetermined physical characteristic. The method includes the steps of assembling n plurality of physical events (26), assembling a universe of possible sample locations (36), determining a reference distribution (54), determining a restricted distribution (56), and determining the degree of association (58) between the n plurality of physical events. Specifically, the physical events each have an indicia of location and a physical characteristic above a threshold. The step (54) of determining a reference distribution is conducted by calculating a test statistic (78) for each of n′ plurality of random allocations (74) of the n plurality of physical events over the selected n plurality of sample locations. Further, the step (58) of determining a restricted distribution includes calculating the test statistic (82) for each of n″ plurality of restricted random allocations (80) of the n plurality of physical events over the n plurality of sample locations (62). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775319 |
| ART UNIT | 2142 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry L. Howell (Orem, Utah); Scott Thomson (Provo, Utah); Jason Alan Briscoe (Provo, Utah); John J. Parise (Lauderhill, Florida); Shae Lorenc (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John B. Larsen (Provo, Utah); Curtis R. Huffmire (Provo, Utah); Nathan Burnside (Provo, Utah); Troy A. Gomm (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An ortho-planar spring has a platform movably coupled to a base and being movable linearly with respect to the base along at least a portion of an axial direction perpendicular to both a base surface and a platform surface. A resilient and flexible connecting structure is connected to and between the base and platform. The connecting structure is bendable to develop (i) an axial force along the axial direction to bias the platform in a stable position with respect to the base, and (ii) non-axial forces which substantially sum to zero to preserve the orientation of the platform with respect to the base. Thus, the spring is very compact and does not have rotation between the deflecting ends. The spring may be associated with a valve opening, and a button for restricting flow through the valve opening, to bias the button at a position with respect to the valve opening. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/258568 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/118 |
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| US 06984526 | Garcia-Rubio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis Humberto Garcia-Rubio (Temple Terrace, Florida); Robert Potter (Tampa, Florida); German Leparc (Tampa, Florida); Sharyn Orton (New Port Richey, Florida); Yvette Mattley (Tampa, Florida); Christina Bacon (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for characterizing the type of a blood sample and a variety of blood components are provided wherein a transmission spectrum of the sample is collected over a predetermined wavelength range. For blood typing, this spectrum is then compared with a set of control spectra collected from control blood samples having known blood types, from which the type of the blood sample can be determined. Further methods and apparatus are provided for determining the viability of and for cross matching a platelet unit. Additional method and apparatus permit analysis of the sample for the presence of a contaminant. Particles can also be counted in the sample, even when present in low concentrations, including white blood cell. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/861781 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
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| US 06984734 | Sessler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Sessler (Austin, Texas); Daniel Seidel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Frederic R. Bolze (Strasbourg, France); Thomas Koehler (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an oxidative coupling procedure that allows efficient synthesis of novel cyclo[n]pyrrole macrocycles. Therefore, the present invention provides cyclo[n]pyrroles where n is 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, and derivatives, multimers, isomers, and ion and neutral molecule complexes thereof as new compositions of matter. A protonated form of cyclo[n]pyrrole displays a gap of up to 700 nm between strong Soret and Q-like absorption bands in the electronic spectrum, demonstrating no significant ground state absorption in the visible portion of the electronic spectrum. Uses of cyclo[n]pyrroles as separation media, nonlinear optical materials, information storage media and infrared filters are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373949 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/460 |
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| US 06984971 | Beasley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Beasley (Norman, Oklahoma); Leon G. Byerley (Tucson, Arizona); Jody A. Swenson (Hyde Park, Utah); Ivan G. Bogoev (Hyde Park, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric-field meter provided with a housing, an electrode assembly, a shield assembly, a movement assembly, a position detection assembly and a charge measurement circuit. The electric-field meter can be characterized as a field mill, an induction voltmeter, an electrostatic fluxmeter or an agrimeter. The electrode assembly is selectively exposed to the electric field. The shield assembly alternately covers and exposes the electrode assembly to the electric field. The movement assembly has a source of motive force and a linkage operably connected to one of the shield assembly and the electrode assembly for alternately covering and exposing the electrode assembly to the electric field. The charge measurement circuit receives charge on the electrode assembly. The charge measurement circuit provides a charge detection signal indicative of the charge induced on the electrode assembly as the electrode assembly is selectively exposed to the electric field. A flexible conductor is bonded to the linkage of the movement assembly for maintaining electrical contact between the movement assembly and at least one of a ground reference potential and the charge measurement circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/094942 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/72 |
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| US 06985051 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Arlington, Virginia); Mohamed A. Abdelmoneum (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical resonator device and a method of making the micromechanical resonator device, as well as other extensional mode devices are provided wherein anchor losses are minimized by anchoring at one or more side nodal points of the resonator device. Lower damping forces are experienced by the resonator device when operated in air. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/737363 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
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| US 06985547 | Uht |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustus K. Uht (Cumberland, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention performs a digital computation with a lower than worst-case-required clock period (i.e., a faster clock), and at the same time performs the same computation with a larger, worst-case-assumed, clock period (i.e., a slower clock) on a second system with identical hardware. The outputs from the computations are compared to determine if an error has occurred. If there is a difference in the two answers, the faster computation must be in error (i.e., a miscalculation has occurred), and the system uses the answer from the slower system. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes two copies of the slower system that each run half as fast as the main system. However, the two copies produce results in the aggregate at the same rate as the main system, which is running at a much faster rate than possible without the invention. Hence the present invention improves performance (e.g., speed), albeit with more hardware. Advantageously, the present invention dynamically adapts to achieve the best performance possible under the actual operating conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723592 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/354 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Cuerden (Tucson, Arizona); J. Roger P. Angel (Tucson, Arizona); James H. Burge (Tucson, Arizona); Scott T. DeRigne (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An impact micro-positioning actuator. In one aspect of the invention, a threaded shaft is threadably received in a nut and the nut is impacted by an impacting device, causing the nut first to rotate relative to the shaft by slipping as a result of shaft inertia and subsequently to stick to the shaft as a result of the frictional force therebetween. The nut is returned to its initial position by a return force provided by a return mechanism after impact. The micro-positioning actuator is further improved by controlling at least one and preferably all of the following: the friction, the impact provided by the impacting device, the return force provided by the return mechanism, and the inertia of the shaft. In another aspect of the invention, a threaded shaft is threadably received in a nut and the shaft is impacted by an impacting device, causing the shaft to rotate relative to the nut. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/202431 |
| 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 | Machine element or mechanism 074/89.230 |
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| US 06984304 | Andrews et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lynntech International, Ltd. (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig C. Andrews (College Station, Texas); Oliver J. Murphy (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an ozone generation and delivery system that lends itself to small scale applications and requires very low maintenance. The system includes an anode reservoir and a cathode phase separator each having a hydrophobic membrane to allow phase separation of produced gases from water. The system may be configured to operate passively with no moving parts or in a self-pressurizing manner with the inclusion of a pressure controlling device or valve in the gas outlet of the anode reservoir. The hydrogen gas, ozone gas and water containing ozone may be delivered under pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392231 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/626 |
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| US 06985083 | Yost 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) | William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia); K. Elliott Cramer (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for marking electrical wiring with condition indicators. One or more markers are added to one or both of the insulative material and a surface of an electrical conductor such that it bonds thereto. Each marker is capable of emanating into a surrounding atmospheric environment as a gaseous effluent in response to a specific condition experienced by the electrical conductor. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/419424 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985606 | Wilkinson |
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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) | Murray Justin Wilkinson (Seabrook, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for identifying a sediment accumulation from an image of a part of the earth's surface. The method includes identifying a topographic discontinuity from the image. A river which crosses the discontinuity is identified from the image. From the image, paleocourses of the river are identified which diverge from a point where the river crosses the discontinuity. The paleocourses are disposed on a topographically low side of the discontinuity. A smooth surface which emanates from the point is identified. The smooth surface is also disposed on the topographically low side of the point. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/212579 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06984381 | Guidry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert Guidry (Nellysford, Virginia); Celia O'Brien (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel vaccine for immunizing animals against Staphylococcus aureus-induced mastitis is disclosed. The vaccine is comprised of whole killed cells of S. aureus in a dosage effective to immunize an animal against the organism, in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, July 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/189251 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984388 | Bader et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Bader (Auburn, Alabama); Craig A. Shoemaker (Notasulga, Alabama); Phillip H. Klesius (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A safe and effective live vaccine against Flavobacterium columnare of fish was created through the induction of an adhesion deficient isolate of Flavobacterium columnare using a β-lactam antibiotic (ampicillin). Single immersion exposure of fish stimulated acquired immunity against virulent F. columnare infection. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774248 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06984607 | Kuperman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technologies Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Kuperman (Midland, Michigan); Robert G. Bowman (Midland, Michigan); Howard W. Clark (Midland, Michigan); George E. Hartwell (Midland, Michigan); Garmt R. Meima (Terneuzen, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of preparing a catalyst comprising gold on a titanium-containing support. The method involves impregnating a support with a gold compound, a reducing agent, and optionally a promoter metal, wherein the reducing agent and/or the support contains titanium, and optionally heating the impregnated support. The catalyst is useful in the hydro-oxidation of olefins, such as propylene, with oxygen in the presence of hydrogen to olefin oxides, such as propylene oxide. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/800963 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985220 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chien-Huei Chen (San Jose, California); Vivek Bhagat (Santa Clara, California); Qiang Song (San Jose, California); James A. Quigley (Mountain View, California); Ashok V. Kulkarni (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of tuning an inspection system. An inspection piece is sensed and analyzed to identify anomalies. Level information is analyzed with an initial set of thresholds, and an initial portion of the anomalies are flagging as defects. The inspection system parameters are changed, and the level information is analyzed with a modified set of thresholds. The anomalies are flagged as defects based on the immediately preceding analysis of the level information. The steps of changing the thresholds and reflagging the defects are repeated as desired, and the modified set of thresholds are stored for use in an inspection system recipe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644319 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06984977 | Wellstood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Wellstood (Lanham, Maryland); Erin Fleet (Alexandria, Virginia); Sojiphong Chatraphorn (Bankok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning SQUID microscope for acquiring spatially resolved images of physical properties of an object includes a SQUID sensor arranged in perpendicular to the plane of the object under investigation for detecting tangential component of the magnetic field generated by the object. During scanning of the SQUID sensor over the object under investigation, the position signal from a position interpreting unit, as well as relevant output signals from the SQUID sensor are processed by a processing unit which derives from the data, spatially resolved images of the physical properties of the object. The specific orientation of the SQUID sensor with respect to the plane of the object permits an enlarged area of the SQUID chip on which the modulation and feedback line can be fabricated in the same technological process with the SQUID sensor. Additionally, larger contact pads afforded provide for lower contact resistance and ease in forming contact with bias and read-out wires. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/416489 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06985483 | Mehrotra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pronita Mehrotra (Raleigh, North Carolina); Paul D. Franzon (Holly Springs, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for fast packet forwarding include traversing a trie data structure stored in on-chip memory based on bits in an input address. The bits in the input address result in a predetermined location in the data structure. The number of bits that have a first value and that are located before the determined location is calculated. The calculated number of bits corresponds to an offset in a second memory device of an address to which the packet having the input address is to be forwarded. The address can be extracted using a single access to an off-chip memory device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/981858 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06983667 | Cuerden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Cuerden (Tucson, Arizona); J. Roger P. Angel (Tucson, Arizona); James H. Burge (Tucson, Arizona); Scott T. DeRigne (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An impact micro-positioning actuator. In one aspect of the invention, a threaded shaft is threadably received in a nut and the nut is impacted by an impacting device, causing the nut first to rotate relative to the shaft by slipping as a result of shaft inertia and subsequently to stick to the shaft as a result of the frictional force therebetween. The nut is returned to its initial position by a return force provided by a return mechanism after impact. The micro-positioning actuator is further improved by controlling at least one and preferably all of the following: the friction, the impact provided by the impacting device, the return force provided by the return mechanism, and the inertia of the shaft. In another aspect of the invention, a threaded shaft is threadably received in a nut and the shaft is impacted by an impacting device, causing the shaft to rotate relative to the nut. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/202431 |
| 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 | Machine element or mechanism 074/89.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06983957 | Bettinger |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Bettinger (Grosse Ile, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressed seal expansion joint for fluidically connecting in a sealed relationship adjacent ends of two conduits adapted for carrying fluids of varying temperatures, the expansion joint comprising telescopically arranged outer and inner pipe members adapted to be connected to each of the conduits, the outer pipe member defining an annular packing chamber opening through its inner surface for containing at least two cylindrical guide rings disposed at opposite ends of the chamber, the rings being of a generally rectangular cross section having their long faces longitudinal to the members axis and selected of an elastic and semi-plastic packing composition pressurized by tensioned hoop bands circumscribing the outer pipe member and selected to elastically deform the outer pipe member and communicate a circumferentially compressive force to the guide rings so as to create bearing and frictional loadings and seal between guide ring surfaces and the pipe member surfaces during axial and rotational relative pipe member movement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/065787 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06984210 | Chambers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey Mast (Loveland, Colorado); Stephen G. Azevedo (Livermore, California); Frank Wuebbeling (Billerbeck, Germany); Frank Natterer (Muenster, Germany); Neb Duric (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peter J. Littrup (Bloomfield, Michigan); Earle Holsapple (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for investigating tissue in which acoustic data are derived from scattering a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves from a plurality of transmission elements through the tissue to a plurality of receiving elements. The acoustic data, which include a mix of reflected and transmitted acoustic waves, are received and digitized, and a representation of a portion of the tissue is generated from the digitized acoustic data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323467 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984298 | Polikarpus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaius K. Polikarpus (Grand Blanc, Michigan); Walter T. Symons (Grand Blanc, Michigan); Kerry Gross (New Lothrop, Michigan); William J. LaBarge (Bay City, Michigan); Suresh Baskaran (Kennewick, Washington); Craig Fredrick Habeger (Chillicothe, Illinois); John David Vienna (West Richland, Washington); Jarrod Vincent Crum (Pasco, Washington); John Gerard Darab (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Timothy R. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a ceramic part, gas sensor, and method for making the gas sensor. The ceramic part comprises: an insulating layer affixed to a substrate wherein the insulating layer comprising Al2O3 particles; and a glass comprising about 45 to about 69 mole percent SiO2, 0 to about 9 mole percent B2O3, 0 to about 26 mole percent Al2O3, 0 and 25 mole percent SrO, and about 10 to about 26 mole percent RE2O3, where RE2O3 is selected from the group consisting of Y2O3, three valent rare earth oxides, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing. In one embodiment of a ceramic part, a gas sensor comprises: an electrolyte layer having disposed on opposite sides thereof a first electrode and a second electrode; and an insulating layer that is in intimate contact with the second electrode, wherein the insulating layer comprises alumina and frit. The method of making the gas sensor comprises: disposing a first electrode and a second electrode on opposite sides of an electrolyte layer; forming an insulating layer comprising alumina and frit; disposing the insulating layer adjacent to the second electrode to form a green sensor; and heating the green sensor to a temperature sufficient to sinter the electrolyte layer and the insulating layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/042867 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984358 | Spencer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Spencer (Longwood, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing diffusion bonds between components formed of tungsten heavy alloy (WHA) uses aid material to accelerate diffusion across the joint surfaces. The aid material consists of an alloy of palladium (Pd) with one or more of the secondary elements of nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), or cobalt (Co). The secondary elements are selected to correspond to the secondary elements present in the components. The diffusion bonding is carried out by placing diffusion aid material between the joint surfaces of adjacent components, applying a pressure across the joint surfaces, and processing the assembly through a thermal profile. Structures of WHA with complex shapes, interior volumes and/or large sizes can be formed. The joint properties are equal to or superior to those of the parent material of the components. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/242451 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys or metallic compositions 420/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06984503 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Wang (Hyattsville, Maryland); Dante S. Zarlenga (Ellicott City, Maryland); Max J. Paape (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Studies in mice and humans indicate that membrane CD14 (mCD14) on the cell surface of monocytes, macrophages, and PMN mediates the activation of these cells by LPS. The soluble CD14 (sCD14) present in the circulation also binds to LPS and blocks LPS binding to mCD14. To determine the role of a recombinant bovine soluble CD14 polypeptide in cellular activation by LPS, a recombinant bovine soluble CD14 polypeptide, rbosCD14, was cloned and expressed in a baculovirus expression system. Results indicated that rbosCD14 inhibited the LPS-induced increase in CD18 expression and TNFα mRNA in vitro and reduced mortality in mice injected with LPS. Further, rbosCD14 sensitized mammary epithelial cells to low concentrations of LPS resulting in recruitment of white blood cells and prevention of LPS-induced infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/184005 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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