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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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| US 06990725 | Fontanella et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Fontanella (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Paul Greiff (Wayland, Massachusetts); Donato Cardarelli (Medfield, Massachusetts); Joseph G. Walsh (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the fabrication of planar inductive components whereby the design in cross-section describes a conductor surrounded by magnetic material along the length of the conductor; an electrical insulator is placed between the conductor and the magnetic material. Cases also apply where more than one independent conductor is used. The planar form allows integration of inductive components with integrated circuits. These inductive components can be embedded in other materials. They can also be fabricated directly onto parts. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/265170 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/602.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06990905 | Manole 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) | Leon R. Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Stewart Gilman (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Robert Nodarse (Stillwater, New Jersey); Andrew Perich (Vernon, New Jersey); Floyd Ribe (Succasunna, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-lethal marker projectile that provides site identification capability of a target upon impact includes a rear base made of plastic and a front end extending longitudinally from the rear base. The front end defines a space therein and includes an outer surface having a rear portion attached to the base and a nose portion. The front end also includes a breakable container system located in the space which contains separated chemiluminescent reagents which when mixed produce light. The front end further includes a foam filler which surrounds the breakable container system and which fills the space. The container system breaks on a setback impact that is exerted during firing and initial launch, causing the chemiluminescent reagents to mix and be absorbed into the foam filler, such that upon impact of the projectile with the target, the foam filler marks the target with the mixed chemiluminescent reagents diffused therein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605702 |
| 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 12/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991430 | Stec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Francis Stec (Medford, Massachusetts); Daniel Edward Demers (Ipswich, Massachusetts); Richard Ludwig Schmidt (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade squealer tip has a continuous squealer tip wall extending radially outwardly from and continuously around a tip cap. A recessed tip wall portion of the tip wall is recessed inboard from a pressure side of an airfoil outer wall of an airfoil of the blade forming a tip shelf therebetween. A plurality of film cooling shelf holes are disposed through the tip shelf to an internal cooling circuit of the blade and are spaced away from a junction between the recessed tip wall portion and the tip shelf. The exemplary embodiment of the airfoil includes shelf hole centerlines of the holes passing through pierce points in the shelf. At least a majority of the shelf hole centerlines are angled in outboard directions away from and outboard of the squealer tip wall. A majority of centerlines are angled away from vertical lines passing through the pierce points at first component angles in a range between 2 degrees and 16 degrees. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408293 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991468 | Lynch 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) | William A. Lynch (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Neal A. Sondergaard (Severna Park, Maryland); Wayne Marks, Jr (Suldersville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A brush assembly is formed from a single metallic foil positioned within a base portion. The foil is folded or rolled up into a plurality of closely spaced foil layers soldered to the base portion of the brush assembly. Attachment of the folded foil to the brush base portion involves use of barrier tape and/or adhesive on the folded side of the foil layers and soldering of one layer edge to the base portion which is received within a holder to position the folded foil in brushing contact along the other layer edges with a running surface under a spring bias pressure. The brush may be constructed by metal fiber braids placed on or between metal skins to form a hybrid structure. The brush assembly may be applicable to slip ring current collectors or other electric contact applications, including cleansing brush applications involving other types of brushes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985075 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991713 | Adourian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aram S. Adourian (Watertown, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Ehrlich (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lance B. Koutny (Methuen, Massachusetts); Paul T. Matsudaira (Wayland, Massachusetts); Dieter R. Schmalzing (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique processes a sample of biomolecular analyte. The technique uses an apparatus having a support assembly that receives and supports a test module, a load assembly that loads the sample of biomolecular analyte onto the test module, an electrophoresis assembly that applies a current to the test module such that components within the sample separate by electrophoresis, and a controller that controls operations of the load assembly and the electrophoresis assembly. The load assembly and the electrophoresis assembly are coupled to the support assembly. The controller controls the operation of the load assembly in an automated manner. Preferably, the test module includes a dielectric plate member having an upper planar surface and a lower planar surface that is spaced apart from and coplanar with the upper planar surface. The dielectric plate member has at least one set of channels that includes an injection channel and a separation channel. The injection channel extends from the upper planar surface to the lower planar surface. The separation channel extends within the dielectric plate member in a plane parallel with the upper and lower planar surfaces and intersects the injection channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/768075 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991730 | Fallis |
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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) | Kathleen A. Fallis (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for removing organolead compounds from aqueous and non-aqueous organolead compositions. The methods of the present invention include: providing aqueous or non-aqueous compositions including organolead compounds; ozonating the organolead compositions with ozone, wherein the organolead compounds are oxidized producing insoluble lead oxide polymers; contacting the aqueous or non-aqueous compositions including insoluble lead oxide polymers through activated carbon to remove the insoluble lead oxide polymers; filtering the aqueous or non-aqueous compositions including lead oxide polymers through at least one filtering means to remove the insoluble lead oxide polymers; and recovering the aqueous or non-aqueous compositions substantially free of organolead compounds and/or other unwanted contaminants or impurities. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701413 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991749 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The new fluorocarbon-functionalized and/or heterocycle-modified polythiophenes, in particular, α,ω-diperfluorohexylsexithiophene DFH-6T can be straightforwardly prepared in high yield and purity. Introduction of such modifications to a thiophene core affords enhanced thermal stability and volatility, and increased electron affinity versus the unmodified compositions of the prior art. Evaporated films behave as n-type semiconductors, and can be used to fabricate thin film transistors with FET mobilities ˜0.01 cm2 Vs—some of the highest reported to date for n-type organic semiconductors. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610276 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991772 | Rusek |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J Rusek (West Point, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An activated catalyst for the rapid decomposition of H2O2 is provided wherein a porous high surface area catalyst base, e.g. a zeolite molecular sieve (ZMS) is impregnated or doped with a solution of metal cation salts and an ionic promoter, dried and calcined to form an activated catalyst. Such activated catalyst, in the form of a porous monolith or chunks, extrudate, pieces, pellets, or spheres, can be poured into and confined, in a tight pack, in a cavity of a rocket housing, downstream of a pressurized H2O2 tank. The H2O2 is flowed through the catalyst and undergoes rapid decomposition into steam and O2 and flows out the propellant nozzle of such rocket. Advantages of such activated catalyst are that it can be employed to rapidly decompose H2O2 to propel a) a mono-propellant rocket, b) a bipropellant rocket (having fuel and a combustion chamber) and c) a hybrid rocket (powered by H2O2 and fuel grain) and can also be used for a starter cartridge decomposition catalyst, a gas generator decomposition catalyst and the like. Another benefit of the activated catalyst of the invention is its low weight which is highly suitable in small flightweight rocket systems. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608755 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/580.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991834 | Gibbons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elsicon, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne M. Gibbons (Bear, Delaware); Patricia A. Rose (Wilmington, Delaware); Paul J. Shannon (Exton, Pennsylvania); Hanxing Zheng (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel polyamic acids and polyimide optical alignment layers for inducing alignment of a liquid crystal medium. The novel compositions comprise crosslinking diamines containing a C3–C22 linear or branched hydrocarbon chains containing 1 to 4 carbon—carbon double bonds. The invention further describes liquid crystal displays comprising the novel polyimide optical alignment layers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/271378 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991876 | Narang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhash Narang (Palo Alto, California); Susanna Ventura (Los Altos, California); Sunity Sharma (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery includes an anode comprising a metal, a cathode comprising an active oxygen species, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein oxidation of the metal and reduction of the active oxygen species provides the current of the battery. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/264931 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.950 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992185 | Hamilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Scott Hamilton (Bear River City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided in which 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazatetracyclo[5.5.0.05,903,11]-dodecane (CL-20 or HNIW) is crystallized to its ε-polymorph by an inverse precipitation technique. A dry CL-20 solvent solution containing an amount of CL-20 dissolved in a CL-20 solvent is prepared. The dry solvent solution is added to a crystallizer containing a CL-20 non-solvent to cause precipitation of epsilon polymorph CL-20 crystals by the inverse precipitation technique. The precipitated epsilon polymorph CL-20 crystals are separated from the non-solvent and the solvent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/042522 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992253 | Spellman 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) | Charles D. Spellman (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Walter J. Roderick (Mystic, Connecticut); Donald C. Portofee (Westerly, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly including a span of microwave signals flexible coaxial line, or other form energy transmission media, is provided with generally coextensive, non-metallic longitudinal strength strands to render greater tensile strength to the assembly. Marginal axial end sections of a coaxial cable span are potted in respective polyurethane grip foundation having longitudinal grooves. The grip foundations are inserted into an open-mesh-sleeve type cable-end grip device. The strength strands are seated in the grooves and interlaced in and out of the openings in the open-mesh-sleeves of the grip devices. Co-adjacent marginal end portions of the strength strands are bundled beyond the interlacing, and knotted to the open-mesh-sleeves of the grip devices. In forming the knots the bundled marginal end portions of the strength strands are entwined and bound together and with a pair of the crossing strands of the open-mesh-sleeve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631222 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/74.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992313 | Piestrup |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adelphi Technology Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melvin A. Piestrup (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray or neutron apparatus for the transmission of x-ray or neutron images is described, which includes x-ray- or neutron-three-dimensional (3-D) arrays or mosaics, including a plurality of x-ray or neutron lenses positioned so that they form a two-dimensional (2-D) mosaic of compound refractive lenses to provide a plurality of separate x-ray or neutron paths between an object and an image at an x-ray- or neutron-detector. The apparatus is so constructed that it permits separate parts of an object to be imaged such that a total composite image is formed from these various parts. An imaging apparatus of the detection of carcinoma in breast tissue is formed using such an apparatus. Methods of microscopy and imaging are obtained using this apparatus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/246507 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992326 | MacPherson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DuPont Displays, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Douglas MacPherson (Santa Barbara, California); Matthew Stainer (Goleta, California); Michael Anzlowar (Santa Barbara, California); Paul Anthony Sant (Santa Barbara, California); Sughosh Venkatesh (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device includes a substrate, a structure having openings, and a first electrode overlying the structure and lying within the openings. From a cross-sectional view, the structure, at the openings, has a negative slope. From a plan view, each opening has a perimeter that may or may not substantially correspond to a perimeter of an organic electronic component. The portions of the first electrode overlying the structure and lying within the openings are connected to each other. In a process for forming the electronic device, an organic active layer may be deposited within the opening, wherein the organic active layer has a liquid composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/910496 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992636 | Tebbe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Tebbe (Melbourne, Florida); Thomas Smyth (Palm Bay, Florida); William Johnson Chappell (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate (300) for an RF device includes a plurality of layers (102) of dielectric material cofired in a stack. The plurality of layers (102) is formed from a material having a permittivity. Selected ones of the layers (102) have a pattern of perforations (106) formed in at least one perforated area (104). The perforated areas (104) are generally aligned with one another in the stack to lower one or more of an effective value of a permittivity and a loss tangent in a least one spatially defined region (504) of the substrate (300). |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118445 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992918 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoping Li (Naperville, Illinois); Theodore Zhu (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Anthony S. Arrott (Washington, District of Columbia); Harry Liu (Plymouth, Minnesota); William L. Larson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Yong Lu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | MRAM architectures are disclosed that produce an increased write margin and write selectivity without significantly reducing the packing density of the memory. The major axes of the magneto-resistive bits are offset relative to the axes of the digital lines to produce a magnetic field component from the digital line current that extends along the major axis of the magneto-resistive bits. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/614709 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993230 | Sanghera 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) | Jasbinder Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Leslie B. Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Pablo C. Pureza (Burke, Virginia); Fred Kung (Alexandria, Virginia); Brian Cole (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a hollow core photonic band gap chalcogenide optical glass fiber and to a fabrication method for making the fiber. The fiber, which is 80-1000 microns in outside diameter, is characterized by a solid glass circumferential region and a structured region disposed centrally within the solid region, the structured region includes a hollow core of 1 micron to several hundreds of microns in diameter surrounded by a plurality of parallel hollow capillaries extending parallel to the core, the core being centrally and longitudinally located within the fiber. Ratio of open space to glass in the structured region is 30-99%. The fabrication method includes the steps of providing a mold, placing chalcogenide micro-tubes around the mold, stacking chalcogenide micro-canes around the stacked micro-tubes, fusing the micro-tubes and the micro-canes to form a preform, removing the mold and drawing the preform to obtain the fiber. In an alternative fabrication method, the fiber is made by extruding flowing chalcogenide glass through suitably made plate to form a preform and then drawing the preform to form the fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632210 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993392 | Nicolelis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel A. L. Nicolelis (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Gary C. Lehew (Durham, North Carolina); David J. Krupa (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-density multichannel microwire electrode array is disclosed. The array can comprise a variable number of electrodes. A method of assembling the array is further disclosed. Additionally, a plurality of devices employing the array are disclosed, including an intelligent brain pacemaker and a closed loop brain machine interface. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/097312 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993437 | Chadwick 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) | David B. Chadwick (San Diego, California); Gregory Jon Groves (San Diego, California); Andrew E. Patterson (Lakeside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for tidal seepage meters. The meter includes a power supply, controller, motor, selector valve, seepage chamber and at least two sample containers. The controller is operatively coupled to the power supply and is capable of controlling the power supply in accordance with a sampling schedule. The motor is operatively coupled to the power supply and is capable of receiving power from the power supply in accordance with the sampling schedule. The selector valve includes an input port and at least two outlet ports and is operatively coupled to the motor. The selector valve is capable of selecting an output valve in accordance with the sampling schedule. The seepage chamber is operatively coupled to the selector valve, capable of receiving seepage and inputting seepage to the selector valve via the input port. The sample containers are operatively coupled to the selector valve and receive seepage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790874 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993439 | Grosjean |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Francis Grosjean (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing the condition of a motor driven rotating system using a current waveform produced by the motor. The motor position is initially identified from the current waveform produced by the motor and more particularly, a step of identifying the segment switching of the motor is performed to identify the system position with reference to individual rotations of the motor. The current waveform is then normalized to a preselected number of data points, each rotation being described by the preselected number of data points, such that the current waveform is converted from the time domain to a spatial domain corresponding to positions of the system. Subsequently, a frequency analysis is performed to identify frequencies corresponding to characteristics of the system, including calculating a frequency dependent distribution of the normalized current waveform to determine the energy content of the waveform at particular frequencies. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/661213 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06991713 | Adourian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aram S. Adourian (Watertown, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Ehrlich (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lance B. Koutny (Methuen, Massachusetts); Paul T. Matsudaira (Wayland, Massachusetts); Dieter R. Schmalzing (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique processes a sample of biomolecular analyte. The technique uses an apparatus having a support assembly that receives and supports a test module, a load assembly that loads the sample of biomolecular analyte onto the test module, an electrophoresis assembly that applies a current to the test module such that components within the sample separate by electrophoresis, and a controller that controls operations of the load assembly and the electrophoresis assembly. The load assembly and the electrophoresis assembly are coupled to the support assembly. The controller controls the operation of the load assembly in an automated manner. Preferably, the test module includes a dielectric plate member having an upper planar surface and a lower planar surface that is spaced apart from and coplanar with the upper planar surface. The dielectric plate member has at least one set of channels that includes an injection channel and a separation channel. The injection channel extends from the upper planar surface to the lower planar surface. The separation channel extends within the dielectric plate member in a plane parallel with the upper and lower planar surfaces and intersects the injection channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/768075 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991786 | Filutowicz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcin S. Filutowicz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel antimicrobial agents that can serve as replacements to conventional pharmaceutical antibiotics are disclosed. The antimicrobial agents comprise conjugatively transmissible plasmids that kill targeted pathogenic bacteria, but are not harmful to donor bacteria. Two types of lethal transmissible plasmids are disclosed. One type kills recipient bacteria by unchecked (“runaway”) replication in the recipient cells and is prevented from occurring in donor cells. Another type kills recipient bacteria by expressing a gene that produces a product detrimental or lethal to recipient bacterial cells, that gene being prevented from expression in donor cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/651290 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991805 | Hui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sek Wen Hui (Williamsville, New York); Arindam Sen (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a liposomal composition for targeted delivery of drugs. The composition comprises poloxamer molecules and liposomes encapsulating one or more delivery agents. At above the critical micellar temperature of the poloxamer, a fraction of the poloxamer molecules form micelles and another fraction becomes incorporated into the liposome surface, thereby inhibiting their adhesion to cells. At a temperature below the critical micellar temperature, the poloxamer molecules dissociate into monomers allowing the liposomes to adhere to adjacent cells and effecting retention of the liposomes in the surrounding tissue. A method is provided for delivery of agents to target site comprising administering the composition to an individual and cooling the target site to cause retention of the liposomes at or near the target site. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/236345 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
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| US 06991852 | Carr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Marc A. Hillmyer (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Huqun Liu (Lake Forest, California); Hao Luo (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lianjia Ma (St. Paul, Minnesota); Brian C. Trammell (Cranston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A silica-based material that includes a silica-based substrate and a polymerized organic material disposed thereon. The polymerized organic material is made from reactive organic moieties bonded to the silica-based substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/385904 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
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| US 06991897 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton A. Smith (Tampa, Florida); Michael Colvin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert W. Storms (Durham, North Carolina); Susan M. Ludeman (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to stem cells, and in particular, to a method of isolating stem cells and to reagents suitable for use in such a method. The invention further relates to stem cell populations isolatable in accordance with the present method. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632377 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 06991909 | Florman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey Florman (Northborough, Massachusetts); Melissa Jungnickel (Worcester, Massachusetts); Keith Sutton (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel protein, enkurin, that is preferentially expressed in sperm has been discovered. Enkurin binds to TRPCs including TRPC2-S, a protein encoded by TRPC2 that is not predicted to be a calcium channel subunit. The invention includes methods of identifying compounds that affect enkurin expression or activity, and are useful, e.g., for contraception and treatment of infertility. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375693 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 06991921 | Weigel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Paul DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active Streptococcus equisimilis hyaluronate synthase (seHAS), and to the use of this nucleic acid segment in the preparation of recombinant cells which produce hyaluronate synthase and its hyaluronic acid product. Hyaluronate is also known as hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/011768 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/84 |
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| US 06991936 | Fishman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Fishman (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Tao P. Zhong (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel gene, gridlock, and its encoded protein. gridlock plays a role in vascular development and modeling, and a mutation in gridlock has been associated with an aortic arch disease, coarctation. Thus, gridlock nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides can be used in methods of diagnosing, treating, and preventing gridlock-related diseases and conditions, such as aortic arch diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364012 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yigong Shi (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides and peptidomimetics capable of modulating apoptosis through their interaction with cellular IAPs (inhibitor of apoptosis proteins) are disclosed. The peptides and mimetics are based on the N-terminal tetrapeptide of IAP-binding proteins, such as Smac/DIABLO, Hid, Grim and Reaper, which interact with a specific surface groove of IAP. Also disclosed are methods of using these peptides and peptidomimetics for therapeutic purposes and for rational drug design. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/965967 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992088 | LaVoie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmond J. LaVoie (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Sudhir K. Singh (Bangalore, India); Leroy F. Liu (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein: R1-R5, “a” and X have any of the meanings defined in the specification and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I, processes for preparing compounds of formula I, intermediates useful for preparing compounds of formula I, and therapeutic methods for treating cancer using compounds of formula I. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/638943 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/284 |
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| US 06992089 | LaVoie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmond J. LaVoie (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Alexander L. Ruchelman (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Leroy F. Liu (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein R1-R9, W, and X have any of the meanings defined in the specification and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I, processes for preparing compounds of formula I, intermediates useful for preparing compounds of formula I, and therapeutic methods for treating cancer and infections using compounds of formula I. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/638974 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992093 | Torday et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Torday (Redondo Beach, California); Virender K. Rehan (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inhibiting lipofibroblast to myofibroblast transdifferentiation in a mammal are disclosed comprising administering a PPAR gamma ligand when said mammal is exposed to a hyperoxic condition. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/352768 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992234 | Roopenian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derry Roopenian (Salisbury Cove, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a transgenic knockout mouse whose genome comprises a homozygous disruption in its endogenous FcRn gene. The homozygous FcRn disruption prevents the expression of a functional FcRn protein, resulting in a transgenic knockout mouse in which exogenously administered IgG1 exhibits a substantially shorter half-life, as compared to the half-life of exogenously administered IgG1 in a wild-type mouse. The transgenic knockout mouse with a homozygous FcRn disruption is also unable to absorb maternal IgG in the prenatal or neonatal stage of development. Also disclosed is a transgenic knockout mouse comprising a homozygous FcRn disruption and a human FcRn transgenic. The transgenic addition of human FcRn results in a substantial increase in the half-life of exogenously administered human IgG1. Methods of using the transgenic knockout mouse, and cells derived from them, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/993322 |
| 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 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992284 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ionwerks, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Albert Schultz (Houston, Texas); Valeri Raznikov (Moscow, Russian Federation); Thomas F. Egan (Houston, Texas); Michael V. Ugarov (Houston, Texas); Agnes Tempez (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved ion focusing for an ion mobility drift cell allows for improved throughput for subsequent detection such as mass detection. Improved focusing is realized by the use of alternating regions of high and low electric fields in the ion mobility drift cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969643 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993173 | Zuzan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry Zuzan (Pleasant Hill, California); Valen E. Johnson (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for estimating the location of a probe cell in an image of a high-density microarray DNA chip interrogate a plurality of different closely spaced estimated locations to identify the most likely estimated location of the probe cell in the image. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/262488 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993380 | Modarres |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | MoHammad Modarres (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of analyzing a subject for excessive daytime sleepiness, and more particularly to a quick (short duration), quantitative method of sleep disorder analysis. The present invention additionally relates to a method, which can be used to quantitatively measure the treatment endpoints for the subject, i.e., appropriate levels of stimulants. Additionally, the present invention relates to a device for sleep disorder analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454156 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); James McPherson (Sandy, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for integrating transmission cable into the body of selected downhole tools, such as drilling jars, having variable or changing lengths. A wired downhole-drilling tool is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a housing and a mandrel insertable into the housing. A coiled cable is enclosed within the housing and has a first end connected to the housing and a second end connected to the mandrel. The coiled cable is configured to stretch and shorten in accordance with axial movement between the housing and the mandrel. A clamp is used to fix the coiled cable with respect to the housing, the mandrel, or both, to accommodate a change of tension in the coiled cable. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653604 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991887 | Grate et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Grate (West Richland, Washington); David A. Nelson (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition containing a polymer, a crosslinker and a photo-activatable catalyst is placed on a substrate. The composition is exposed to a predetermined pattern of light, leaving an unexposed region. The light causes the polymer to become crosslinked by hydrosilylation. A solvent is used to remove the unexposed composition from the substrate, leaving the exposed pattern to become a sorbent polymer film that will absorb a predetermined chemical species when exposed to such chemical species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/703755 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991900 | Shizuya |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroaki Shizuya (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for the rapid identification of essential or conditionally essential DNA segments in any species of haploid cell (one copy chromosome per cell) that is capable of being transformed by artificial means and is capable of undergoing DNA recombination. This system offers an enhanced means of identifying essential function genes in diploid pathogens, such as gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/896509 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991963 | Krulevitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Julie K. Hamilton (Tracy, California); Klint A. Rose (Mt. View, California); James Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Mark S. Strauch (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A peel and stick electronic system comprises a silicone body, and at least one electronic unit operatively connected to the silicone body. The electronic system is produce by providing a silicone layer on a substrate, providing a metal layer on the silicone layer, and providing at least one electronic unit connected to the metal layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835226 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992554 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Scott Dahlgren (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Cameron Sneddon (Provo, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A robust data transmission element for transmitting information between downhole components, such as sections of drill pipe, in the presence of hostile environmental conditions, such as heat, dirt, rocks, mud, fluids, lubricants, and the like. The data transmission element components include a generally U-shaped annular housing, a generally U-shaped magnetically conductive, electrically insulating element such as ferrite, and an insulated conductor. Features on the magnetically conducting, electrically insulating element and the annular housing create a pocket when assembled. The data transmission element is filled with a polymer to retain the components within the annular housing by filling the pocket with the polymer. The polymer can bond with the annular housing and the insulated conductor but preferably not the magnetically conductive, electrically insulating element. A data transmission element is mounted within a recess proximate a mating surface of a downhole drilling component, such as a section of drill pipe. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/707234 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993061 | Roach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Roach (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Brian D. Raivo (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Nicholas R. Soelberg (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of operation are provided for a cold-crucible-induction melter for vitrifying waste wherein a single induction power supply may be used to effect a selected thermal distribution by independently energizing at least two inductors. Also, a bottom drain assembly may be heated by an inductor and may include an electrically resistive heater. The bottom drain assembly may be cooled to solidify molten material passing therethrough to prevent discharge of molten material therefrom. Configurations are provided wherein the induction flux skin depth substantially corresponds with the central longitudinal axis of the crucible. Further, the drain tube may be positioned within the induction flux skin depth in relation to material within the crucible or may be substantially aligned with a direction of flow of molten material within the crucible. An improved head design including four shells forming thermal radiation shields and at least two gas-cooled plenums is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703879 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Industrial electric heating furnaces 373/146 |
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| US 06993406 | Cesarano, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Cesarano, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John N. Stuecker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jennifer G. Dellinger (Champaigne, Illinois); Russell D. Jamison (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a three-dimensional, biocompatible, porous scaffold structure using a solid freeform fabrication technique (referred to herein as robocasting) that can be used as a medical implant into a living organism, such as a human or other mammal. Imaging technology and analysis is first used to determine the three-dimensional design required for the medical implant, such as a bone implant or graft, fashioned as a three-dimensional, biocompatible scaffold structure. The robocasting technique is used to either directly produce the three-dimensional, porous scaffold structure or to produce an over-sized three-dimensional, porous scaffold lattice which can be machined to produce the designed three-dimensional, porous scaffold structure for implantation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/831735 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/119 |
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| US 06993463 | Ewsuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin G. Ewsuk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jose G. Arguello, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of designing a primary geometry, such as for a forming die, to be used in a powder pressing application by using a combination of axisymmetric geometric shapes, transition radii, and transition spaces to simulate the geometry where the shapes can be selected from a predetermined list or menu of axisymmetric shapes and then developing a finite element mesh to represent the geometry. This mesh, along with material properties of the component to be designed and powder, is input to a standard deformation finite element code to evaluate the deformation characteristics of the component being designed. The user can develop the geometry interactively with a computer interface in minutes and execute a complete analysis of the deformation characteristics of the simulated component geometry. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/765768 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993764 | Petrini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabrizio Petrini (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Wu-chun Feng (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method schedules processor jobs on a network of parallel machine processors or distributed system processors. Control information communications generated by each process performed by each processor during a defined time interval is accumulated in buffers, where adjacent time intervals are separated by strobe intervals for a global exchange of control information. A global exchange of the control information communications at the end of each defined time interval is performed during an intervening strobe interval so that each processor is informed by all of the other processors of the number of incoming jobs to be received by each processor in a subsequent time interval. The buffered coscheduling method of this invention also enhances the fault tolerance of a network of parallel machine processors or distributed system processors |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/895570 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Bullock (Silver Spring, Maryland); Sufi Rizwan Ahmed (Silver Spring, Maryland); Peter Kofinas (North Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of room temperature synthesis of magnetic metal oxide nanoclusters within a diblock copolymer matrix includes the step of synthesizing, by ring opening metathesis polymerization technique, a diblock copolymer having a repeat unit ratio m/n, introducing, at room temperature, one or several metal containing precursors into the one block of the diblock copolymer, and processing the metal containing diblock copolymer by wet chemical technique to form nanoclusters of the metal(s) oxide within the diblock copolymer matrix. Specific reaction for synthesis of CoFe3O4 and Co3O4 nanoclusters within diblock copolymers, such as [NOR]m/[NORCOOH]n and [NOR]m/[CO(bTAN)]n, respectively is used in the method of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, November 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/250433 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991749 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The new fluorocarbon-functionalized and/or heterocycle-modified polythiophenes, in particular, α,ω-diperfluorohexylsexithiophene DFH-6T can be straightforwardly prepared in high yield and purity. Introduction of such modifications to a thiophene core affords enhanced thermal stability and volatility, and increased electron affinity versus the unmodified compositions of the prior art. Evaporated films behave as n-type semiconductors, and can be used to fabricate thin film transistors with FET mobilities ˜0.01 cm2 Vs—some of the highest reported to date for n-type organic semiconductors. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610276 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991855 | Weihs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland); Omar Knio (Timonium, Maryland); Michael Reiss (Baltimore, Maryland); David van Heerden (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive foils and their uses are provided as localized heat sources useful, for example, in ignition, joining and propulsion. An improved reactive foil is preferably a freestanding multilayered foil structure made up of alternating layers selected from materials that will react with one another in an exothermic and self-propagating reaction. Upon reacting, this foil supplies highly localized heat energy that may be applied, for example, to joining layers, or directly to bulk materials that are to be joined. This foil heat-source allows rapid bonding to occur at room temperature in virtually any environment (e.g., air, vacuum, water, etc.). If a joining material is used, the foil reaction will supply enough heat to melt the joining materials, which upon cooling will form a strong bond, joining two or more bulk materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761439 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991856 | Weihs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland); Michael Reiss (Baltimore, Maryland); Omar Knio (Timonium, Maryland); Albert Joseph Swiston, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland); David van Heerden (Baltimore, Maryland); Todd Hufnagel (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive foils and their uses are provided as localized heat sources useful, for example, in ignition, joining and propulsion. An improved reactive foil is preferably a freestanding multilayered foil structure made up of alternating layers selected from materials that will react with one another in an exothermic and self-propagating reaction. Upon reacting, this foil supplies highly localized heat energy that may be applied, for example, to joining layers, or directly to bulk materials that are to be joined. This foil heat-source allows rapid bonding to occur at room temperature in virtually any environment (e.g., air, vacuum, water, etc.). If a joining material is used, the foil reaction will supply enough heat to melt or soften the joining material, which upon cooling will form a strong bond, joining two or more bulk materials. If no joining material is used, the foil reaction supplies heat directly to at least two bulk materials, melting or softening a portion of each bulk, which upon cooling, form a strong bond. Additionally, the foil may be designed with openings that allow extrusion of the joining (or bulk) material through the foil to enhance bonding. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/247998 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992298 | Nayfeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Munir H. Nayfeh (Urbana, Illinois); Osama M. Nayfeh (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A UV detector has a UV detection thin film of coated spherical silicon nanoparticles formed upon a substrate. The detector includes structures to bias the thin film. In preferred embodiments, a thin conductor that is at least semi-transparent to UV radiation is formed over the thin film. In preferred embodiments, the UV detector is formed as a silicon based integration, upon a device quality silicon wafer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374683 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992542 | Tsai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuen-Yu Tsai (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fast design of an equalizer to compensate for some undesired frequency response of an existing system. It can incorporate frequency response data directly. It allows for the performance tradeoff between a plurality of input-output channels. One embodiment of the invention comprises: defining a system block diagram including a equalizer, an existing system, and one or more weighting filters for the performance tradeoff between a plurality of input-output channels; defining a set of performance tradeoff equalities, each on one of a selected set of discrete frequencies; providing the frequency response data for the equalities; solving independently the magnitude of the equalizer frequency response of each of the discrete frequencies; generating the phases of the equalizer such that the magnitudes and the phases correspond to the frequency response of a stable system; implementing the equalizer with parameters derived from the magnitudes and the phases. Each of the performance tradeoff equalities is defined such that the frequency response of the equalizer to be solved is first constrained to be real or nonnegative, at each of the selected frequencies. In another embodiment, the performance tradeoff equalities are substituted with a set of performance tradeoff optimization problems. Each of the performance tradeoff optimization problems is defined such that the frequency response of the equalizer to be optimized is first constrained to be real or nonnegative, at each of the selected frequencies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709441 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/28.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993173 | Zuzan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry Zuzan (Pleasant Hill, California); Valen E. Johnson (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for estimating the location of a probe cell in an image of a high-density microarray DNA chip interrogate a plurality of different closely spaced estimated locations to identify the most likely estimated location of the probe cell in the image. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/262488 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06991793 | Shoemaker 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) | Craig A. Shoemaker (Notasulga, Alabama); Phillip H. Klesius (Auburn, Alabama); Joyce J. Evans (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Safe and effective live vaccines against Flavobacterium columnare of fish were created through the induction of rifampicin resistance in a native Flavobacterium columnare isolate; these including rifampicin-resistant mutants NRRL B-30303 and B-30304. Single immersion exposure of fish stimulated acquired immunity against virulent F. columnare infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870781 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06991930 | Janisiewicz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wojciech Janisiewicz (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Strains of Metschnikowia species, in particular Metschnikowia pulcherrima, have been isolated from apple and shown to have antagonistic activity against Penicillium expansum, the causative agent of blue mold on apples. A unique feature of the strains is demonstrated activity at cold storage temperatures. The present invention is thus drawn to novel Metschnikowia isolates which are effective biological control agents against blue mold and to biocontrol compositions which include at least one of the isolates. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/140817 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP16229 | Ramming 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) | David W. Ramming (Fresno, California); Ronald E. Tarailo (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of grapevine denominated ‘Scarlet Royal’ which is characterized by its mid-season ripening seedless fruit, attractive dark red coloration, its oval fruit shape, its firm fruit texture with neutral sweet flavor, and its medium dense cluster. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953124 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06991754 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen Atanassov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paolina Atanassova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Klaus Kunze (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Napolitano (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Dericotte (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rimple Bhatia (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Energy devices such as batteries and methods for fabricating the energy devices. The devices are small, thin and lightweight, yet provide sufficient power for many handheld electronics. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/212992 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06992115 — Preparation of crosslinked particles from polymers having activatible crosslinking groups
| US 06992115 | Hawker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Jon Hawker (Los Gatos, California); Robert Dennis Miller (San Jose, California); James Lupton Hedrick (Pleasanton, California); Victor Yee-Way Lee (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Crosslinked particles are provided that are useful in the manufacture of dielectric materials for use in electronic devices such as integrated circuits. The crosslinked particles are prepared by activating crosslinkable groups on synthetic polymer molecules, where the crosslinkable groups are inert until activated and, when activated, undergo an irreversible intramolecular crosslinking reaction to form crosslinked particles. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775713 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06990863 | Challoner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Kirill V. Shcheglov (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a resonator gyroscope including an isolated resonator. One or more flexures support the isolated resonator and a baseplate is affixed to the resonator by the flexures. Drive and sense elements are affixed to the baseplate and used to excite the resonator and sense movement of the gyroscope. In addition, at least one secondary element (e.g., another electrode) is affixed to the baseplate and used for trimming isolation of the resonator. The resonator operates such that it transfers substantially no net momentum to the baseplate when the resonator is excited. Typically, the isolated resonator comprises a proof mass and a counterbalancing plate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423459 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06992202 | Banger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio Aerospace Institute (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kulbinder K. Banger (Lakewood, Ohio); Aloysius F. Hepp (Bay Village, Ohio); Jerry D. Harris (Nampa, Idaho); Michael Hyun-Chul Jin (Akron, Ohio); Stephanie L. Castro (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A single source precursor for depositing ternary I-III-VI2 chalcopyrite materials useful as semiconductors. The single source precursor has the I-III-VI2 stoichiometry “built into” a single precursor molecular structure which degrades on heating or pyrolysis to yield the desired I-III-VI2 ternary chalcopyrite. The single source precursors effectively degrade to yield the ternary chalcopyrite at low temperature, e.g. below 500° C., and are useful to deposit thin film ternary chalcopyrite layers via a spray CVD technique. The ternary single source precursors according to the invention can be used to provide nanocrystallite structures useful as quantum dots. A method of making the ternary single source precursors is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/698118 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 06993440 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Anderson (Melbourne, Florida); Edward R. Beadle (Melbourne, Florida); Paul D. Anderson (Melbourne, Florida); John F. Dishman (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A receiver exploits unique higher order statistics of temporally dependent waveforms to classify, characterize, identify (fingerprint) and intercept a waveform within the field of view of the receiver. The method uses 4th-order non zero lag auto cumulants of the received waveform and 4th-order non zero lag auto cumulants of known waveforms to classify and characterize the signal. The receiver includes a multi-element array and does not need a priori knowledge of the transmitted signal source obtain a fingerprint. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739021 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06993460 | Beadle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward R. Beadle (Melbourne, Florida); John F. Dishman (Palm Bay, Florida); Richard H. Anderson (Melbourne, Florida); Paul D. Anderson (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a system and method are disclosed that exploit the unique higher order statistics of temporally dependent waveforms to detect and enumerate signals in a multi-signal and noise environment. The embodiments use spatial 4th-order cumulants or spatial 2nd-order moments in a Blind Source Separation operation and generalized eigenvalue decomposition to determine unique matrix pencil eigenvalues for a set of unknown signals. Sequential detection in the complex plane of the eigenvalues in associated tracks for successive blocks of sensor data serve as the basis of the detection decision. The embodiments may include a multi-element array and do not require a priori knowledge of the signal environment to detect and enumerate the signals. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739022 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 06991371 | Georgeson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Georgeson (Federal Way, Washington); James M. Nelson (Sumner, Washington); Richard H. Bossi (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A computed tomography (CT) image quality phantom for use in calibrating explosive detection systems (EDS) at airports. A foam core block containing up to five right cylinder rod members is positioned in a housing member which is adapted to be passed through an airport luggage scanning machine. The rod members are of different lengths in order to create different data slices for analysis. The housing has a lead-in member at least at one end in order to allow passage through an EDS more easily and provide accurate CT calibrating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/685196 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06992484 | Frank |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence R. Frank (Coronado, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new transform is disclosed, applying methods of group theory, with which the composition of a voxel of three channels comprising isotropic, single fiber and multiple fiber components can be determined, as well as the magnitude and orientation of the diffusion field. Asymmetries produced by experimental artifacts fall into channels distinct from the fiber channels, allowing their separation and a subsequent reduction in noise from the reconstructed fibers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/680869 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 06990846 | Sioutas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Constantinos Sioutas (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An impactor inlet for a system for monitoring an aerosol including a plurality of particles is provided. Each of the particles has a size. The inlet includes a housing defining a chamber to receive and direct a flow of the aerosol. A high flow rate nozzle receives the aerosol at a flow rate of greater than 20 liters per minute (lpm) and accelerates and directs the aerosol flow toward a impaction plate. The aerosol flow separates into a minor flow including particles having a size greater than about 10 um, and a major flow including the remaining particles. The minor flow impacts on the impaction plate, and the major flow is emitted from an outlet. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268114 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/28.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06993136 | Solinas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Anthony Solinas (Westminster, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of exchanging a cryptographic key between two users that includes the steps of selecting a value p from p=(2dk−2ck−1)/r, p=(2dk−2(d−1)k+2(d−2)k− . . . −2k+1)/r, p=(2dk−2ck−1)/r, p=(2dk−2ck+1)/r, and p=(24k−23k+22k+1)/r; selecting an elliptic curve E and an order q; selecting a base point G on the elliptic curve E, where G is of order q; generating a private key w; generating a public key W=wG; distributing p, E, q, G, and Win an authentic manner; agreeing on p, E, q, G, W1, and W2, where W1 is the public key of a first user, and where W2 is the public key of a second users; each users generating a private integer; each users multiplying G by that user's private integer using a form of p agreed upon; each user transmitting the result of the last step to the other user; each users combining that user's private integer and public key with the other user's result of the tenth step and public key using the form of p agreed upon to form a common secret point between the users; and each user deriving the cryptographic key from the common secret point. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/928704 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06993439 | Grosjean |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Francis Grosjean (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing the condition of a motor driven rotating system using a current waveform produced by the motor. The motor position is initially identified from the current waveform produced by the motor and more particularly, a step of identifying the segment switching of the motor is performed to identify the system position with reference to individual rotations of the motor. The current waveform is then normalized to a preselected number of data points, each rotation being described by the preselected number of data points, such that the current waveform is converted from the time domain to a spatial domain corresponding to positions of the system. Subsequently, a frequency analysis is performed to identify frequencies corresponding to characteristics of the system, including calculating a frequency dependent distribution of the normalized current waveform to determine the energy content of the waveform at particular frequencies. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/661213 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06992775 | Soliz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kestrel Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Soliz (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Leonard John Otten, III (Placitas, New Mexico); Paul Wiley Truitt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An ophthalmic instrument (for obtaining high resolution, wide field of area hyperspectral retinal images for various sized eyes) includes a fundus retinal imager, (which includes optics for illuminating and imaging the retina of the eye); apparatus for generating a real time image of the area being imaged and the location of the hyperspectral region of interest; a high efficiency spatially modulated common path Fourier transform hyperspectral imager, a high resolution detector optically coupled to the hyperspectral and fundus imager optics; and a computer (which is connected to the real time scene imager, the illumination source, and the high resolution camera) including an algorithm for recovery and calibration of the hyperspectral images. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651491 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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