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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 14, 2006
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| US 06996970 | Lorenz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Lorenz (Dowagiac, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel control system (10) in a turbine engine includes a centrifugal boost pump (20) that receives fuel from a fuel tank and increases the pressure of the fuel. A piston pump (40) boosts the fuel pressure to levels required by the turbine engine and meters an amount of fuel delivered to the turbine engine. A speed controlled electric motor (30) drives the piston pump (40). The electric motor (30) is driven by an electronic speed control wherein by controlling motor speed, fuel flow to the turbine engine is controlled, and fuel flow is directly proportional to the speed of the motor (30). Accordingly, the system (10) seeks precision of fuel control that can be achieved with an accuracy of better than +/−3% over a 30:1 fuel flow range. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723904 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997044 | Maciejewski |
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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) | Wendell C. Maciejewski (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for testing a flexible tube. First and second hollow mandrels are inserted into opposing ends of the tube. Each mandrel has a conically tapered portion at one end thereof and a cylindrical portion extending from the conically tapered portion. The cylindrical portion has a plurality of annular indentations formed thereabout. Each of a plurality of clamps encircle the tube in line with one annular indentation to sealably engage the tube. A fluid delivery system is coupled between the cylindrical portions of the mandrels to deliver a flow of fluid through the tube via the mandrels. A measured strain producing load, continuous or cyclical, is applied by an apparatus which controllably moves the first mandrel relative to the second mandrel such that a cross-sectional shape of the tube between the mandrels is altered. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947790 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/49.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997061 | Miragliotta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Miragliotta (Ellicott City, Maryland); Kenneth R. Grossman (Olney, Maryland); R. Kelly Frazer (Highland, Maryland); Robert J. Bamberger, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact method for evaluating stress in a substrate. An impurity is non-uniformly introduced into at least one region of a crystalline substrate. The crystalline substrate is subjected to physical stress. Fluorescence producing energy is directed at the crystalline substrate. A fluorescence produced by the crystalline substrate is measured. The fluorescence is correlated with the stress on the crystalline substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847044 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997100 | Belanger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand (Windsir Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rene F. Belanger (Holyoke, Massachusetts); Francis Marocchini (Somers, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An impact plate for use in a component having parts that move at high velocity, such as a piston or valve, controls energy transfer during impact of the moving part. The impact plate has a recessed inner portion that acts as an impact surface and an outer support surface to hold the impact plate within a housing of the component. The impact surface has a selected, controlled spring rate so that it can deflect and absorb impact forces when the moving part contacts it. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/897445 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Expansible chamber devices 092/85.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997218 | Garcia 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) | Felipe Garcia (Panama City, Florida); Robert Woodall (Panama City Beach, Florida); Christopher Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida); Greg Reitmeyer (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An inflatable body armor system has one or more body armor sections adapted to be worn by a user. Each body armor section includes (i) a inflatable flexible/sealable plenum, (ii) a ballistic armor fabric encasing the plenum, and (iii) a variety of lines, shaped objects and/or fabric sheets dispersed in the plenum to alter the trajectory of a projectile entering the plenum. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828522 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997603 | Ruffa 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) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island); Thomas R. Stottlemyer (Mystic, Connecticut); Peter E. Seaman (Niantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated fiber-optic tow cable is described having both optical fibers and armor wires located outside the cable core to avoid high strain on the optical fibers when the cables is under stress during deployment. The optical fibers have integral temperature sensors near the outermost portion in order to measure accurately the temperature of the fluid coming in contact with temperature sensors. A beam of light is shown on the optical fibers which is reflected by the optical fibers and reaches the receiver and processed by the processor which may also include a display unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/814487 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997618 | Delano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Delano (Amston, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A bearing housing comprising an annulus having an aft side and a forward side, a barrier extending from the aft side to the forward side to form a first and second zone, a first opening in the first zone extending through the forward side, and a second opening in the second zone extending through the forward side at least a portion of the first opening being at a level lower than a lowermost level of the second opening. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/747836 |
| 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 | Bearings 384/462 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997673 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Morris (Phoenix, Arizona); Steve H. Halfmann (Chandler, Arizona); Craig A. Wilson (Mesa, Arizona); Shawn J. Pollock (Phoenix, Arizona); Carl A. Larson (Sedona, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine shroud assembly includes forward and aft hangers, an axisymmetric plenum assembly, ceramic shroud segments, ceramic spacers, and forward and aft rope seals. The plenum assembly supplies impingement cooling to the shroud and the hangers. The impingement cooling to the forward and aft hangers is controlled independently to improve blade tip clearance. The rope seals are radially inward from the hangers and reduce cooling flow leakage. The turbine shroud assembly can operate in a higher temperature environment using less cooling flow than the prior art. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734922 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997676 | Koshoffer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Koshoffer (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine rear frame includes a row of outlet guide vanes extending between outer and inner bands. Each of the vanes is bifurcated into a forward prow integrally joined to an aft stern by a septum therebetween. The prow and stern collectively define the aerodynamic profile of each vane which is locally interrupted at the septum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797703 |
| 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 06997716 | Skala 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) | James A. Skala (Hartselle, Alabama); Frank J. Blackwell (Decatur, Alabama); Patrick W. Jungwirth (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The Continuous Aimpoint Tracking System is comprised of a position detection device (PDD) and a laser pointing device (LPD) that projects an infrared crosshair onto the PDD. The PDD is coupled to a computer and comprises a multitude of photodiodes and associated circuits, the photodiodes being evenly spaced and arranged to form a frame that can be mounted on the computer so as to surround the computer video display. When a “shot” is fired from the LPD, the crosshair projection is interrupted briefly. The PDD determines the position of the four crosshair intersections and reports them to the computer which, in response, generates the video signals that form the resolved aimpoint on the screen, matching the LPD aimpoint to the video image. Further, the tracking system determines the rotation of the LPD over a range of at least 10 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007914 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997974 | Tran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trung N. Tran (Torrance, California); Tom Iles (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Christopher L. Scott (Los Alamitos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A coalescing assembly for coalescing entrained oil from a high temperature, high velocity gas stream comprises a coalescing element of compacted high temperature polyamide fibers, such as those available under the trademark Nomex®, rigidly held by concentric cylindrical support structures of a dense fibrous material such as stainless steel. The coalescing assembly forms a component of an oil coalescer having a unique hole configuration in its outer shell to prevent coalesced oil from being re-entrained into the gas stream. The oil coalescer is a component of an oil separator for use in aircraft operational environments and features high durability and longevity of 10 years or more. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990092 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997996 | Manning 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) | Thelma G. Manning (Montville, New Jersey); Joseph L. Prezelski (Jermyn, Pennsylvania); Sam Moy (Parsippany, New Jersey); Bernard Strauss (Rockaway, New Jersey); James A. Hartwell (Elton, Maryland); Arpad Juhasz (Joppatowne, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A high energy propellant, comprising an oxetane thermoplastic elastomer energetic binder admixed with a high energy explosive filler. The oxetane thermoplastic elastomer energetic binder preferably comprises from about five percent to about thirty percent by weight and the high energy explosive filler comprises from about seventy percent to about ninety-five percent by weight of the composition. A preferred propellant further includes an explosive plasticizer, preferably in an amount of about four percent to about seven percent of the plasticizer by weight of the propellant. The preferred filler is selected from the group consisting of CL-20, TNAZ, RDX and mixtures thereof. The preferred plasticizer is selected from the group consisting of TNAZ, BTTN, TMETN, TEGDN, BDNPA/F, methyl NENA, ethyl NENA and mixtures thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the propellant is actually a pair of high energy propellants comprising a mixture of first and second high energy propellants with the first propellant having a burning rate at least two times faster than the burning rate of the second propellant. The first propellant includes an oxetane thermoplastic elastomer energetic binder admixed with CL-20 high energy explosive filler. The second propellant including an oxetane thermoplastic elastomer energetic binder admixed with RDX high energy explosive filter. Plasticizers and relative amounts for each of the first and second propellants are the same as for the single propellant. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/665190 |
| 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 149/19.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998115 | Langer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Somerville, Massachusetts); David Putnam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mansoor M. Amiji (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(β-amino esters) prepared from the conjugate addition of bis(secondary amines) or primary amines to a bis(acrylate ester) are described. Methods of preparing these polymers from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These tertiary amine-containing polymers are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the poly(amine) nature of these polymers, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Nanoparticles containing polymer/polynucleotide complexes have been prepared. The inventive polymers may also be used to encapsulate other agents to be delivered. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/969431 |
| 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 424/78.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998156 | Bubb 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) | Daniel Bubb (Beltsville, Maryland); James Horwitz (Fairfax, Virginia); John Callahan (Springfield, Virginia); Richard Haglund, Jr. (Brentwood, Tennessee); Michael Papantonakis (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to transfer of a solid target material onto a substrate by vaporizing the material by irradiating it with intense light of a resonant vibrational mode of the material and depositing the vaporized material on a substrate in a solid form. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/059978 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/596 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998214 | Fourkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Christopher E. Olson (Boylston, Massachusetts); Michael J. R. Previte (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A three dimensional optical data storage and retrieval system that includes a three dimensional optical data storage medium and an apparatus for providing access to data stored on the medium. The data storage medium includes an optical data storage material which either a low molecular weight or polymeric glassy solid that are capable of undergoing multi-photon excitation that are energetically different in the write and read cycles. The optical data storage materials provide substantially higher storage capacities relative to conventional materials, and show high robustness in that written and stored data can undergo multiple read cycles without erasure or overwriting. An apparatus for data recording and accessing stored data on the medium includes a controllable variable energy photo-emitting excitation source and an emission photo-detector. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194106 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/269 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998322 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mrinal Kanti Das (Durham, North Carolina); Lori A. Lipkin (Raleigh, North Carolina); John W. Palmour (Raleigh, North Carolina); Scott Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Helmut Hagleitner (Zebulon, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Capacitors and interconnection structures for silicon carbide are provided having an oxide layer, a layer of dielectric material and a second oxide layer on the layer of dielectric material. The thickness of the oxide layers may be from about 0.5 to about 33 percent of the thickness of the oxide layers and the layer of dielectric material. Capacitors and interconnection structures for silicon carbide having silicon oxynitride layer as a dielectric structure are also provided. Such a dielectric structure may be between metal layers to provide a metal-insulator-metal capacitor or may be used as a inter-metal dielectric of an interconnect structure so as to provide devices and structures having improved mean time to failure. Methods of fabricating such capacitors and structures are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/382826 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998485 | Dave 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) | Paritosh R. Dave (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Raja G. Duddu (Parsipanny, New Jersey); Reddy Damavarapu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Nathaniel Gelber (Randolph, New Jersey); Kathy Yang (Flanders, New Jersey); C. Rao Surapaneni (Long Valley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The compound 3a,8a-bis-azidomethyl-3a,4,8a,9-tetrahydro-3H,8H-bis-[1,2,3]triazolo[1,5-a;1″,5″-d]pyrazine, whose structure is depicted below, is disclosed: |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604775 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/346 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998599 | Lagakos 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) | Nicholas Lagakos (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joseph Bucaro (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A microbend accelerometer comprising a housing having a housing base and a housing top, where housing base has corrugations that protrude from the surface of the housing and an internal mass assembly located between the housing top and the side of the housing base. The internal mass assembly features corrugations that are similar to the housing base corrugations. The microbend accelerometer also features a sensing fiber featuring light propagating therethrough, said sensing fiber disposed between said internal mass and said housing base, said sensing fiber being coupled on each end to at least one lead fiber. Upon an acceleration event along a predetermined axis, inertia causes the internal mass assembly to apply a force on the sensing fiber causing the sensing fiber to distort. This resulting distortion of the sensing fiber causes the intensity of the light propagating through the sensing fiber to modulate in proportion to the magnitude of said acceleration event. The light modulated in the sensing fiber propagates into the lead fiber couple thereto where the modulation is sensed by sensing means coupled to the lead fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446258 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998835 | Brock 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 W. Brock (San Diego, California); Narayan R. Joshi (Beaumont, Texas); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Markham E. Lasher (San Diego, California); Shannon D. Kasa (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic sensor system. The system includes an electromagnetic excitable structure that generates an acoustic signal when irradiated with electromagnetic energy; an acoustic energy transducer sensor for generating a first output signal that represents the acoustic signal in response to the acoustic energy transducer detecting the acoustic signal; and a processor for determining whether the electromagnetic excitable structure is being irradiated by the electromagnetic energy in response to the processor receiving the first output signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302321 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998946 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Richard Chan (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A high life cycle MEMS device is provided by the invention. The inventors have recognized that the deflection beam or deflection beams of an MEMS shunt switch are a failure point in need of improvement. In an aspect of the invention, at least a portion of the signals in the grounded state of an MEMS shunt switch are bypassed to ground on a path that avoids the deflection beam(s) supporting the movable pad. In a preferred embodiment, ground posts are disposed to contact the movable pad in an actuated position and establish a signal path from a signal line to ground. The inventors have also recognized that a shape of deflection beams near their anchor point contributes to failures. In another preferred aspect of the invention, an anchoring portion of the deflection beam or deflection beams is generally coplanar with the remaining portion of the deflection beam(s). An additional post beneath the anchoring portion of the deflection beam(s) permits deflection beam(s) lacking any turns that form a weak structural point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245790 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999040 | Robertson, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralston S. Robertson, Jr. (Northridge, California); William H. Henderson (Redondo Beach, California); Robert T. Lewis (Vista, California); Ruey-Shi Chu (Cerritos, California); David W. Baker (Tucson, Arizona); Brian M. Pierce (Moreno Valley, California); David R. Ulmer (Tucson, Arizona); Romulo J. Broas (Carson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transverse device array phase shifter includes an overmoded waveguide structure having a top conductive broad wall surface, a bottom conductive broad wall surface and opposed first and second conductive side wall surfaces. At least one transverse device array circuit is positioned in the waveguide circuit. Each circuit comprises a generally planar dielectric substrate having a microwave circuit defined thereon, and a plurality of spaced discrete phase shifter elements. The substrate is disposed within the waveguide structure generally transverse to the side wall surfaces. A bias circuit applies a voltage to reverse bias the phase shifter elements. The transverse device array phase shifter circuit causes a change in phase of microwave or millimeter-wave energy propagating through the waveguide structure. An electronically scanned antenna array employing continuous transverse stubs as radiating elements, with an upper conductive plate structure comprising a set of continuous transverse stubs, and a lower conductive plate structure disposed in a spaced relationship relative to the upper plate structure. At least one transverse device array phase shifter circuit is disposed between selected adjacent pairs of stubs. An electronically tunable antenna array employing continuous transverse stubs as radiating elements and transverse diode array phase shifters, which includes a short circuit termination disposed between the upper conductive plate and the lower conductive plate. At least one transverse device array phase shifter circuit is positioned between the short circuit termination and an adjacent stub to provide tuning. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/464086 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999043 | Rivera |
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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 F. Rivera (Westerly, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An amphibious antenna for providing Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS) communication when grounded to a conductive fluid. The amphibious antenna has a support member for supporting a helix. The helix includes a first helical arm that is not insulated and grounded, when in use, through a conductive fluid into which the antenna is placed, and a second helical arm that is insulated from the conductive fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963002 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/895 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999156 | Chou et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Allan S. P. Chang (Princeton, New Jersey); Hua Tan (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Jim Jiam Wong (Orefield, Pennsylvania); Wei Wu (Mountain View, California); Rich Zhaoning Yu (Levittown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, a tunable subwavelength resonant grating filter comprises a liquid crystal cell having a pair of major surface walls. One wall of the cell is a coated subwavelength grating of a SRGF. The coating comprises a polymer layer to fill the grating trenches and a surfactant layer to facilitate uniform alignment of the liquid crystal material. The refractive index of the LCD material in the cell can then be electrically or thermally adjusted to tune the resonant wavelength. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674608 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999176 | Kransteuber 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) | Amy Sue Kransteuber (Huntsville, Alabama); Don A. Gregory (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A Real-Time Optical Correlating System produces holograms that contain both amplitude and phase information and have none of the time constraints of the traditional holographic methods. It has been demonstrated to operate at television field rates (60 Hz) employing currently available devices of moderate resolution. Using the System, the holographic matched filter of an input scene is calculated optically as an analog sum, captured by a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera and transmitted directly or through a computer to and displayed on a commercially available liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The correlation plane may be viewed immediately on a suitable screen because there is no film to process or computer calculations to be performed. Concurrently with the creation of the holographic matched filter of the input scene, a Fourier transform of a test scene is produced and both are imaged on another charge-coupled device camera for any correlation between the input and test scenes. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/687166 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999231 | Bryant |
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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) | Kyle R. Bryant (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-spectral objective lens comprising a primary lens for receiving light reflected from an object, the light including wavelengths in the SWIR and LWIR spectral bands, and optical elements spaced from the receiving means for simultaneously imaging the SWIR light in one focal plane and the LWIR light in another focal plane, thereby allowing real-time image and sensor fusion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794525 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999624 | Nelson |
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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) | Susan Nelson (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Classification of targets in a digital image is accomplished by evaluating windowed portions of the image. A weighted sum is formed for each overlapping windowed portion of an image using a feature set corresponding thereto, each window's feature set and weighted sum is normalized, and a context matrix is defined for each window. A normalized score is defined for each window. A threshold criteria is compared to a maximum score that is based on the context matrix and the normalized score associated with each window. Each window having its maximum score satisfy the threshold criteria is classified as a possible target window and assigned to a group based on location of the possible target window in the image and its maximum score. A group score is assigned to each group. Each group having its corresponding group score satisfying a group threshold criteria is classified as a target. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/196387 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999625 | Nelson |
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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) | Susan Nelson (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Detection and classification of targets in a digital image is accomplished by evaluating windowed portions of the image. A feature set is generated for each of a plurality of overlapping windowed portions, a weighted sum is formed for each portion based upon its feature set, and a context matrix is defined for each window. A score is formed from each context matrix and is normalized for each window. A threshold criteria is compared to a maximum score for each window. Each window having its maximum score satisfy the threshold criteria is classified as a possible target window and is assigned to a group based on location of the possible target window and its maximum score. A group score is formed for each group and compared to a group threshold criteria. Each group having its corresponding group score satisfying the group threshold criteria is classified as a target. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/196388 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999669 | Summers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Summers (Dunwoody, Georgia); Wounjhang Park (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic crystal includes a phosphor matrix and a plurality of defect regions. The phosphor matrix defines a plurality of substantially spherical voids arranged in a triangular lattice arrangement. The phosphor matrix has a first index of refraction. The plurality of defect regions is distributed in a subset of the spherical voids. Each defect region has a second index of refraction that is different from the first index of refraction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643746 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999671 | Painter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xponent Photonics Inc (Monrovia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oskar J. Painter (Pasadena, California); David W. Vernooy (Sierra Madre, California); Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a multi-layer laterally-confined dispersion-engineered optical waveguide which may include one multi-layer reflector stack for guiding an optical mode along a surface thereof, or may include two multi-layer reflector stacks with a core therebetween for guiding an optical mode along the core. Dispersive properties of such multi-layer waveguides enable modal-index-matching between low-index optical fibers and/or waveguides and high-index integrated optical components and efficient transfer of optical signal power therebetween. Integrated optical devices incorporating such multi-layer waveguides may therefore exhibit low (<3 dB) insertion losses. Incorporation of an active layer (electro-optic, electro-absorptive, non-linear-optical) into such waveguides enables active control of optical loss and/or modal index with relatively low-voltage/low-intensity control signals. Integrated optical devices incorporating such waveguides may therefore exhibit relatively low drive signal requirements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991341 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999857 | Kasper 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) | Rolf G. Kasper (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Anthony B. Bruno (East Lyme, Connecticut); James D. Hagerty (Tiverton, Rhode Island); Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless power transmission and communication network that provides efficient interrogation and powering of sensors for use on undersea vehicles. The present invention employs a wave-guide that allows the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a dielectric material that covers the exterior of an undersea vehicle's hull. Embedded within the dielectric material is an N dimensional array of Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems sensing devices coupled with radio frequency (RF) decoders and transceivers, and strips of conductive metal tape. Electromagnetic waves such as microwaves propagate through the dielectric material both powering the sensor network and addressing and interrogating individual sensing devices. The sensing devices take readings and then format and transmit the data results back across the wave-guide where they are received and processed by a digital processor within the hull of the undersea vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652085 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07000026 | Beshai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nortel Networks Limited (, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Canada); Ernst A. Munter (Kanata, Canada); Richard Vickers (Kanata, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for transferring data segments of a data stream across multi-channel links in a high-capacity network, so that the segments are equitably smeared across the channels of each multi-channel link, are described. The high-capacity network comprises a multiplicity of distributed high-capacity edge nodes interconnected by multi-channel links to a plurality of core nodes. Each edge node comprises a source node and a sink node which may share memory and control. A path from a source node of a first edge node to a sink node of a second edge node traverses two links, a first link from the source node to a selected core node and a second link from the selected core node to the destination sink node. Tandem switching through an intermediate edge node is not required, even for data streams of very low bit rate. Two types of core nodes are described. A core node of a first type is constructed as a high-capacity single-plane switch. A core node of a second type is constructed as a very-high capacity multiple-plane switch. Accordingly, traffic-load balancing across each multi-channel link in the network is realized by a data smearing process that is tailored to the core node type. A first-order data smearing method that balances the traffic loads among the channels of a first multi-channel link in a two-link path is used in conjunction with said first-type core nodes. A second-order data smearing method that balances the traffic load of each data stream across the channels of both links in a two-link path is used in conjunction with said second-type core nodes. Both first-order and second-order smearing methods are exercised at each source node, and the core nodes, regardless of their type, perform rudimentary tasks and are deliberately kept devoid of quality-control capability. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/742229 |
| ART UNIT | 2143 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07000213 | Banerjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prithviraj Banerjee (Glenview, Illinois); Alok Choudhary (Chicago, Illinois); Malay Haldar (Evanston, Illinois); Anshuman Nayak (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital circuit is synthesized from algorithm described in the MATLAB programming language. A MATLAB program is compiled into RTL-VHDL, which is synthesizable using system-specific tools to develop ASIC or FPGA configuration. Intermediate transformations and optimizations are performed to obtain highly optimized description in RTL-VHDL or RTL Verilog of given MATLAB program. Optimizations include levelization, scalarization, pipelining, type-shape analysis, memory optimizations, precision analysis and scheduling. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/770541 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06997012 | Zollinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Zollinger (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael G. McKellar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of liquefying a gas is disclosed and which includes the steps of pressurizing a liquid; mixing a reactant composition with the pressurized liquid to generate a high pressure gas; supplying the high pressure gas to an expansion engine which produces a gas having a reduced pressure and temperature, and which further generates a power and/or work output; coupling the expansion engine in fluid flowing relation relative to a refrigeration assembly, and wherein the gas having the reduced temperature is provided to the refrigeration assembly; and energizing and/or actuating the refrigeration assembly, at least in part, by supplying the power and/or work output generated by the expansion engine to the refrigeration assembly, the refrigeration assembly further reducing the temperature of the gas to liquefy same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752653 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997062 | Richardson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Karen A. Moore (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert A. Carrington (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting, locating and quantifying a physical phenomena such as strain or a deformation in a structure. A plurality of laterally adjacent conductors may each include a plurality of segments. Each segment is constructed to exhibit a unit value representative of a defined energy transmission characteristic. A plurality of identity groups are defined with each identity group comprising a plurality of segments including at least one segment from each of the plurality of conductors. The segments contained within an identity group are configured and arranged such that each of their associated unit values may be represented by a concatenated digit string which is a unique number relative to the other identity groups. Additionally, the unit values of the segments within an identity group maintain unique ratios with respect to the other unit values in the identity group. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991767 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06997971 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer S. Young (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gregory S. Long (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Brent F. Espinoza (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-linked, supported polybenzimidazole membrane for gas separation is prepared by reacting polybenzimidazole (PBI) with the sulfone-containing crosslinking agent 3,4-dichloro-tetrahydro-thiophene-1,1-dioxide. The cross-linked reaction product exhibits enhanced gas permeability to hydrogen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and methane as compared to the unmodified analog, without significant loss of selectivity, at temperatures from about 20 degrees Celsius to about 400 degrees Celsius. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901401 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998009 | Janney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Janney (Hendersonville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a filter includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a porous surface; applying to the porous surface a coating of dry powder comprising particles to form a filter preform; and heating the filter preform to bind the substrate and the particles together to form a filter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/458126 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998102 | Coronado |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Coronado (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making transparent porous glass monoliths from gels. The glass is produced much faster and in much larger sizes than present technology for making porous glass. The process reduces the cost of making large porous glass monoliths because: 1) the process does not require solvent exchange nor additives to the gel to increase the drying rates, 2) only moderate temperatures and pressures are used so relatively inexpensive equipment is needed, an 3) net-shape glass monoliths are possible using this process. The process depends on the use of temperature to control the partial pressure of the gel solvent in a closed vessel, resulting in controlled shrinking during drying. |
| FILED | Monday, September 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/253142 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998103 | Phillips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Phillips (Santa Fe, New Mexico); William L. Perry (Jemez Springs, New Mexico); Chun-Ku Chen (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for producing carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes were prepared using a low power, atmospheric pressure, microwave-generated plasma torch system. After generating carbon monoxide microwave plasma, a flow of carbon monoxide was directed first through a bed of metal particles/glass beads and then along the outer surface of a ceramic tube located in the plasma. As a flow of argon was introduced into the plasma through the ceramic tube, ropes of entangled carbon nanotubes, attached to the surface of the tube, were produced. Of these, longer ropes formed on the surface portion of the tube located in the center of the plasma. Transmission electron micrographs of individual nanotubes revealed that many were single-walled. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/295129 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998456 | Mallapragada et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surya K. Mallapragada (Ames, Iowa); Brian C. Anderson (Lake Bluff, Iowa); Paul D. Bloom (Decatur, Illinois); Valerie V. Sheares Ashby (Ankeny, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel multi-functional methacrylic copolymers that exhibit cationic pH-sensitive behavior as well as good water solubility under acidic conditions. The copolymers are constructed from tertiary amine methacrylates and poly(ethylene glycol) containing methacrylates. The copolymers are useful as gene vectors, pharmaceutical carriers, and in protein separation applications. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367415 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/328.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998598 | Horn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Labroatories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent A. Horn (Livermore, California); Ronald F. Renzi (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular optical detector system. The detector system is designed to detect the presence of molecules or molecular species by inducing fluorescence with exciting radiation and detecting the emitted fluorescence. Because the system is capable of accurately detecting and measuring picomolar concentrations it is ideally suited for use with microchemical analysis systems generally and capillary chromatographic systems in particular. By employing a modular design, the detector system provides both the ability to replace various elements of the detector system without requiring extensive realignment or recalibration of the components as well as minimal user interaction with the system. In addition, the modular concept provides for the use and addition of a wide variety of components, including optical elements (lenses and filters), light sources, and detection means, to fit particular needs. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633794 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998913 | DeGeronimo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gianluigi DeGeronimo (Nesconset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A charge amplifier includes an amplifier, feedback circuit, and cancellation circuit. The feedback circuit includes a capacitor, inverter, and current mirror. The capacitor is coupled across the signal amplifier, the inverter is coupled to the output of the signal amplifier, and the current mirror is coupled to the input of the signal amplifier. The cancellation circuit is coupled to the output of the signal amplifier. A method of charge amplification includes providing a signal amplifier; coupling a first capacitor across the signal amplifier; coupling an inverter to the output of the signal amplifier; coupling a current mirror to the input of the signal amplifier; and coupling a cancellation circuit to the output of the signal amplifier. A front-end system for use with radiation sensors includes a charge amplifier and a current amplifier, shaping amplifier, baseline stabilizer, discriminator, peak detector, timing detector, and logic circuit coupled to the charge amplifier. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866441 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999174 | Amonette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Amonette (Richland, Washington); S. Thomas Autrey (West Richland, Washington); Nancy S. Foster-Mills (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for simultaneous or sequential, rapid analysis of multiple samples by photoacoustic spectroscopy are disclosed. Particularly, a photoacoustic spectroscopy sample array vessel including a vessel body having multiple sample cells connected thereto is disclosed. At least one acoustic detector is acoustically positioned near the sample cells. Methods for analyzing the multiple samples in the sample array vessels using photoacoustic spectroscopy are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002602 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999178 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee); Philip R. Bingham (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ken W. Tobin (Harriman, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for spatial-heterodyne interferometry for reflection and transmission (SHIRT) measurements. A method includes digitally recording a first spatially-heterodyned hologram using a first reference beam and a first object beam; digitally recording a second spatially-heterodyned hologram using a second reference beam and a second object beam; Fourier analyzing the digitally recorded first spatially-heterodyned hologram to define a first analyzed image; Fourier analyzing the digitally recorded second spatially-heterodyned hologram to define a second analyzed image; digitally filtering the first analyzed image to define a first result; and digitally filtering the second analyzed image to define a second result; performing a first inverse Fourier transform on the first result, and performing a second inverse Fourier transform on the second result. The first object beam is transmitted through an object that is at least partially translucent, and the second object beam is reflected from the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649474 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999641 | Williams et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Gene Williams (The Woodlands, Texas); David Barton Smith (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jeffrey David Muhs (Lenoir City, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the direct measurement of large strains in ropes in situ using a plastic optical fiber, for example, perfluorocarbon or polymethyl methacrylate and Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer or other light time-of-flight measurement instrumentation. Protective sheaths and guides are incorporated to protect the plastic optical fiber. In one embodiment, a small rope is braided around the plastic optical fiber to impose lateral compressive forces to restrain the plastic optical fiber from slipping and thus experience the same strain as the rope. Methods are described for making reflective interfaces along the length of the plastic optical fiber and to provide the capability to measure strain within discrete segments of the rope. Interpretation of the data allows one to calculate the accumulated strain at any point in time and to determine if the rope has experienced local damage. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430058 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999880 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki Ha Lee (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of seismic trace data is collected in an input data set that is first Fourier transformed in its entirety into the frequency domain. A normalized wavefield is obtained for each trace of the input data set in the frequency domain. Normalization is done with respect to the frequency response of a reference trace selected from the set of seismic trace data. The normalized wavefield is source independent, complex, and dimensionless. The normalized wavefield is shown to be uniquely defined as the normalized impulse response, provided that a certain condition is met for the source. This property allows construction of the inversion algorithm disclosed herein, without any source or source coupling information. The algorithm minimizes the error between data normalized wavefield and the model normalized wavefield. The methodology is applicable to any 3-D seismic problem, and damping may be easily included in the process. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799131 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999899 | Gross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARCH Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth C. Gross (LaJolla, California); Stephan W. Wegerich (Glendale Heights, Illinois); Cynthia Criss-Puszkiewicz (Reno, Nevada); Alan D. Wilks (Mount Prospect, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for monitoring at least one of a system, a process and a data source. A method and system have been developed for carrying out surveillance, testing and modification of an ongoing process or other source of data, such as a spectroscopic examination. A signal from the system under surveillance is collected and compared with a reference signal, a frequency domain transformation carried out for the system signal and reference signal, a frequency domain difference function established. The process is then repeated until a full range of data is accumulated over the time domain and a Sequential Probability Ratio Test (“SPRT”) methodology applied to determine a three-dimensional surface plot characteristic of the operating state of the system under surveillance. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771168 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999924 | Burnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg C. Burnett (Livermore, California); John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California); Lawrence C. Ng (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a system and method for characterizing human (or animate) speech voiced excitation functions and acoustic signals, for removing unwanted acoustic noise which often occurs when a speaker uses a microphone in common environments, and for synthesizing personalized or modified human (or other animate) speech upon command from a controller. A low power EM sensor is used to detect the motions of windpipe tissues in the glottal region of the human speech system before, during, and after voiced speech is produced by a user. From these tissue motion measurements, a voiced excitation function can be derived. Further, the excitation function provides speech production information to enhance noise removal from human speech and it enables accurate transfer functions of speech to be obtained. Previously stored excitation and transfer functions can be used for synthesizing personalized or modified human speech. Configurations of EM sensor and acoustic microphone systems are described to enhance noise cancellation and to enable multiple articulator measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194832 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 06997882 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barron Associates, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Eugene Parker (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brendan M. Fabeny (Charlottesville, Virginia); Edward C. Larson (Severn, Maryland); Jeffrey F. Monaco (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises novel methods and devices for monitoring a subject by acquiring reliable and accurate 6-DOF data regarding the subject, and by using those data to obtain information about the subject's movements in three-dimensional space. Information regarding the subject's movements is, optionally, combined with information regarding the subject's physiological status so that comprehensive knowledge regarding the subject may be acquired by those monitoring the subject. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328214 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998106 | Zalutsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Zalutsky (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies to cell surface ligands such as EGFRvIII can be used to therapeutically or diagnostically deliver a radiolabel to tumor cells with high selectivity. The utility of radioconjugated internalizing antibodies is limited, however, by release of the label and its reuptake into normal cells. The invention provides new technology for radioconjugation of internalizing antibodies which reduces the release of label and improves retention of radioconjugated antibodies in lysosomes, where radiation is more effectively and selectively delivered to the nucleus of tumor cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/203676 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998108 | Ware |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl E. Ware (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel ligand (p30) for herpes virus entry mediator, HVEM, is provided. p30 is useful for modulating immune responses and in inhibiting infection by herpes virus. Methods for treating subjects with lymphoid cell disorders or those having or suspected of having a herpes virus infection, utilizing p30 of the invention, are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/524325 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998115 | Langer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Somerville, Massachusetts); David Putnam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mansoor M. Amiji (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(β-amino esters) prepared from the conjugate addition of bis(secondary amines) or primary amines to a bis(acrylate ester) are described. Methods of preparing these polymers from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These tertiary amine-containing polymers are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the poly(amine) nature of these polymers, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Nanoparticles containing polymer/polynucleotide complexes have been prepared. The inventive polymers may also be used to encapsulate other agents to be delivered. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/969431 |
| 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 424/78.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998117 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack A. Roth (Houston, Texas); Tapas Mukhopadhyay (Houston, Texas); Michael A. Tainsky (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and compositions for the selective manipulation of gene expression through the preparation of retroviral expression vectors for expressing antisense sequences, such as K-ras oncogene antisense sequences, or sequences encoding a desired product, such as wild type p53 sequences. Preferred retroviral vectors of the present invention incorporate the β-actin promoter in a reverse orientation with respect to retroviral transcription. Preferred antisense RNA constructs of the present invention employ the use of antisense intron DNA corresponding to distinct intron regions of the gene whose expression is targeted for down-regulation. In an exemplary embodiment, a human lung cancer cell line (NCI-H460a) with a homozygous spontaneous K-ras mutation was transfected with a recombinant plasmid that synthesizes a genomic segment of K-ras in antisense orientation. Translation of the mutated K-ras mRNA was specifically inhibited, whereas expression of H-ras and N-ras was unchanged. A three-fold growth inhibition occurred in H460a cells when expression of the mutated ras p21 protein was down-regulated by antisense RNA and cells remained viable. The growth of H460a tumors in nu/nu mice was substantially reduced by expressed K-ras antisense RNA. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/460049 |
| 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 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998118 | Kaspar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Kaspar (San Diego, California); Fred H. Gage (La Jolla, California); Daniel A. Peterson (Gurnee, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for transducing neurons with heterologous genes using retrograde viral transport. The methods disclosed employ substantially non-toxic vectors, such as adeno-associated virus vectors, that are capable of retrograde axonal transport to introduce and express genes in the neurons. This method has applications in the mapping of neural pathways, in stimulating or inhibiting the growth of neurons, and in the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032047 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998237 | Ferrone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soldano Ferrone (Buffalo, New York); Xinhui Wang (Williamsville, New York); Jeff Chi-Feng Hsu (Tonawanda, New York); Chun-Yen Tsao (Grand Island, New York); Wei Luo (Getzville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptide mimics for GD3 ganglioside. The peptide mimics were identified by panning phage display peptide libraries with an anti-GD3 monoclonal antibody. The peptide mimics inhibit the binding of an anti-GD3 antibody to GD3 positive cells and also elicit antibodies which can bind to GD3 positive cells. The identified peptide mimics can be used as immunogens for cancer therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/618336 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998240 | Hoffmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Michael Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Allen R. Comer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening for selective inhibitors or activators Smad protein function is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention comprises the steps of (a) obtaining a phosphorylated Smad protein or protein complex, (b) allowing the phosphorylated Smad protein or complex to interact with a target protein or peptide in the presence of a test compound, and (c) analyzing the binding of the phosphorylated Smad complex or protein and the target protein or peptide, wherein a perturbation of binding indicates that the test compound is an inhibitor or activator of Smad-target protein interaction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166917 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998252 | Moss 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) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael Mackett (Manchester, United Kingdom); Geoffrey L. Smith (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant poxviruses, such as vaccinia, are provided that comprises a segment comprised of (A) a first DNA sequence encoding a polypeptide that is foreign to poxvirus and (B) a poxvirus transcriptional regulatory sequence, wherein (i) said transcriptional regulatory sequence is adjacent to and exerts transcriptional control over said first DNA sequence and (ii) said segment is positioned within a nonessential genomic region of said recombinant poxvirus. Vaccines, carriers, cells, and media comprising recombinant poxviruses, and methods of immunization with recombinant poxviruses also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/470360 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 |
| US 06998413 | Skibo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Skibo (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Yungamycin A has been demonstrated to have unexpected in vivo anticancer activity. New compounds Yungamycin B and C are also disclosed, and have been demonstrated to be specific for DT-diaphorase, as well as to have in vivo anticancer activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/889530 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998470 | Gallagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bion, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corp. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex T. Gallagher (Beverly, Massachusetts); Garner T. Haupert, Jr. (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of isolating and/or purifying hypothalamic inhibitory factor (HIF) from a sample (e.g., tissue fluid) containing HIF. The present invention provides for isolation of large amounts of HIF using diafiltration, solid phase extraction and immunoaffinity techniques. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method of purifying hypothalamic inhibitory factor from a sample containing hypothalamic inhibitory factor comprising subjecting the sample to diafiltration, solid phase extraction and immunoaffintiy chromatography. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to subjecting the sample to diafiltration to produce a diafiltrate of HIF; subjecting the diafiltrate to a first solid phase extraction (SPE) to produce a first fraction of HIF; subjecting the first fraction to immunoaffinity chromatography, wherein an antibody which binds to HIF is coupled to an immunoaffinity column, to produce a second fraction of HIF; subjecting the second fraction of HIF to reverse phase HPLC chromatography to produce a third fraction of HIF; and recovering purified HIF from the third fraction. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/506246 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998476 | Strom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry B. Strom (Brookline, Massachusetts); Wlodzimierz Maslinski (Warsaw, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosure herein are mutant IL-15 polypeptides and methods for using these polypeptides to modulate the immune response in a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/164830 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998500 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Columbus, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Yali He (Florence, South Carolina); Donghua Yin (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a class of androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA). The agents define a new subclass of compounds, which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM). Several of the SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. Other SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected antiandrogenic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The SARM compounds, either alone or as a composition, are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of acute and/or chronic muscular wasting conditions; e) preventing and/or treating dry eye conditions; f) oral androgen replacement therapy; and/or g) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270732 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999852 | Green |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Green (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers (72R and 72L) for control of right and left manipulators (24R and 24L) through use of a servomechanism that includes computer (42). Cameras (46R and 46L) view workspace (30) from different angles for production of stereoscopic signal outputs at lines (48R and 48L). In response to the camera outputs a 3-dimensional top-to-bottom inverted image (30I ) is produced which, is reflected by mirror (66) toward the eyes of operator (18). A virtual image (30V) is produced adjacent control arms (76R and 76L) which is viewed by operator (18) looking in the direction of the control arms. By locating the workspace image (30V) adjacent the control arms (76R and 76L) the operator is provided with a sense that end effectors (40R and 40L) carried by manipulator arms (34R and 34L) and control arms (76R and 76L) are substantially integral. This sense of connection between the control arms (76R and 76L) and end effectors (40R and 40L) provide the operator with the sensation of directly controlling the end effectors by hand. By locating visual display (246) adjacent control arms (244R and 244L) image (240I) of the workspace is directly viewable by the operator. (FIGS. 12 and 13.) Use of the teleoperator system for surgical procedures also is disclosed. (FIGS. 7–9 and FIG. 13.) |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974593 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE38981 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald C. Foster (Seattle, Washington); Earl W. Davie (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Genomic and cDNA sequences coding for a protein having substantially the same biological activity as human protein C are disclosed. Recombinant plasmids and bacteriophage transfer vectors incorporating these sequences are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217105 |
| 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 |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06997039 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Apparao M. Rao (Anderson, South Carolina); Saurabh Chopra (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are resonant gas sensors and methods for forming and using the disclosed sensors. The sensors include a resonator including a layer comprising adsorptive nanostructures, for example carbon nanotubes, activated carbon fibers, or adsorptive nanowires. The dielectric of the resonator is in electrical communication with the layer comprising adsorptive nanostructures such that the effective resonant frequency of the resonator depends on both the dielectric constant of the dielectric as well as the dielectric constant of the adsorptive layer. In some embodiments, the nanostructures can be degassed. The sensors can detect the presence of polar gases, non-polar gases, organic vapors, and mixtures of materials with both high sensitivity and high selectivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/785421 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.60 |
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| US 06997050 | Fleming |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex J. Fleming (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system includes an enclosure mounted externally on an aerial vehicle and a sensor chamber mounted internally within the aerial vehicle. The enclosure receives and converges air particles to cause inertial separation that transfers a first portion of the air particles to a first air transfer path and that causes a second portion of the air particles to bypass the first air transfer path. The first air transfer path transfers the first portion of the air particles from the enclosure to the sensor chamber. The sensor chamber includes at least one sensor that produces sensor data for the first portion of the air particles. A second air transfer path transfers the first portion of the air particles from the sampling chamber to the enclosure. The enclosure transfers the first portion of the air particles and the second portion of the air particles to the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/936969 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998074 | Radulescu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroFab Technologies, Inc. (Plano, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Delia Radulescu (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming polymer microspheres includes dispensing polymeric material from an orifice of a drop-on-demand ink jet printhead while the orifice is immersed in a solvent extraction media. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643913 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998115 | Langer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Somerville, Massachusetts); David Putnam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mansoor M. Amiji (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(β-amino esters) prepared from the conjugate addition of bis(secondary amines) or primary amines to a bis(acrylate ester) are described. Methods of preparing these polymers from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These tertiary amine-containing polymers are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the poly(amine) nature of these polymers, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Nanoparticles containing polymer/polynucleotide complexes have been prepared. The inventive polymers may also be used to encapsulate other agents to be delivered. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/969431 |
| 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 424/78.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998413 | Skibo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Skibo (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Yungamycin A has been demonstrated to have unexpected in vivo anticancer activity. New compounds Yungamycin B and C are also disclosed, and have been demonstrated to be specific for DT-diaphorase, as well as to have in vivo anticancer activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/889530 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998517 | Liljegren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Liljegren (La Jolla, California); Martin F. Yanofsky (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions that modulate fruit dehiscence in plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/548971 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998619 | Karplus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts); Science Wares, Inc. (East Fairmouth, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Karplus (East Falmouth, Massachusetts); Richard Farrell (East Killingly, Connecticut); Kanai Shah (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a solid state detector that has internal gain and incorporates a special readout technique to determine the input position at which a detected signal originated without introducing any dead space to the active area of the device. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the detector is a silicon avalanche photodiode that provides a two dimensional position sensitive readout for each event that is detected. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877545 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06997637 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Schneider (Houston, Texas); P. James Locke (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Roadway barrier system and method are disclosed for decelerating a moving vehicle in a controlled manner and for retaining the decelerated vehicle. A net or mesh of the roadway barrier system receives and captures the moving vehicle. The net or mesh is secured to anchors by energy absorbing straps. The energy absorbing straps deploy under a tensional load to decelerate the moving vehicle, the straps providing a controlled resistance to the tensional load over a predefined displacement or stroke to bring the moving vehicle to rest. Additional features include a sacrificial panel or sheet in front of the net that holds up the net or mesh while deflecting vehicles that collide only tangentially with the roadway barrier system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/005820 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998600 | Wang |
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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) | Yu Wang (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature, ultra-high resolution, and color scanning microscope using microchannel and solid-state technology that does not require focus adjustment. One embodiment includes a source of collimated radiant energy for illuminating a sample, a plurality of narrow angle filters comprising a microchannel structure to permit the passage of only unscattered radiant energy through the microchannels with some portion of the radiant energy entering the microchannels from the sample, a solid-state sensor array attached to the microchannel structure, the microchannels being aligned with an element of the solid-state sensor array, that portion of the radiant energy entering the microchannels parallel to the microchannel walls travels to the sensor element generating an electrical signal from which an image is reconstructed by an external device, and a moving element for movement of the microchannel structure relative to the sample. Discloses a method for scanning samples whereby the sensor array elements trace parallel paths that are arbitrarily close to the parallel paths traced by other elements of the sensor array. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612442 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999221 | Sarkisov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alabama A and M University (Normal, Alabama); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey S. Sarkisov (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael J. Curley (Huntsville, Alabama); Grigory Adamovsky (Solon, Ohio); Sergey S. Sarkisov, Jr. (Huntsville, Alabama); Aisha B. Fields (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A bimorphic polymeric photomechanical actuator, in one embodiment using polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) as a photosensitive body, transmitting light over fiber optic cables, and controlling the shape and pulse duration of the light pulse to control movement of the actuator. Multiple light beams are utilized to generate different ranges of motion for the actuator from a single photomechanical body and alternative designs use multiple light beams and multiple photomechanical bodies to provide controlled movement. Actuator movement using one or more ranges of motion is utilized to control motion to position an actuating element in three dimensional space. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714702 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999658 | Taghavi-Larigani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shervin Taghavi-Larigani (Pasadena, California); Jakob J. Vanzyl (Pasadena, California); Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses a semi-ring Fabry-Perot (SRFP) optical resonator structure comprising a medium including an edge forming a reflective facet and a waveguide within the medium, the waveguide having opposing ends formed by the reflective facet. The performance of the SRFP resonator can be further enhanced by including a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the waveguide on one side of the gain medium. The optical resonator can be employed in a variety of optical devices. Laser structures using at least one SRFP resonator are disclosed where the resonators are disposed on opposite sides of a gain medium. Other laser structures employing one or more resonators on one side of a gain region are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610292 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06997974 | Tran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trung N. Tran (Torrance, California); Tom Iles (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Christopher L. Scott (Los Alamitos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A coalescing assembly for coalescing entrained oil from a high temperature, high velocity gas stream comprises a coalescing element of compacted high temperature polyamide fibers, such as those available under the trademark Nomex®, rigidly held by concentric cylindrical support structures of a dense fibrous material such as stainless steel. The coalescing assembly forms a component of an oil coalescer having a unique hole configuration in its outer shell to prevent coalesced oil from being re-entrained into the gas stream. The oil coalescer is a component of an oil separator for use in aircraft operational environments and features high durability and longevity of 10 years or more. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990092 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998515 | Qiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dewen Qiu (Seattle, Washington); Zhong-Min Wei (Kirkland, Washington); Steven V. Beer (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of enhancing growth in plants. Transgenic plants or transgenic plant seeds transformed with a DNA molecule encoding a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein are grown and, optionally, the transgenic plants or plants resulting from the transgenic plant seeds further have the hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein applied to them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/597840 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06998425 | Chisholm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (Clifton Park, New York); James Norman Cawse (Pittsfield, Massachusetts); Chris Anthony Molaison (Albany, New York); Michael Jorlath Brennan, Jr. (Locust Grove, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to curable acrylate coating compositions and coated articles resulting therefrom. The curable acrylate coating composition comprises at least two polyfunctional acrylate derivatives, at least one photoinitiator and at least one nanoscale filler. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/747713 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06999279 | Lundstrom |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imation Corp. (Oakdale, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garry R. Lundstrom (Forest Lake, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to patterned magnetic media for use in magnetic recording and data storage, and various conditioning techniques that can be used to magnetically condition the patterns. For example, a medium can be formed to exhibit a pattern of surface variations defined by patterned areas and non-patterned areas. Techniques are described for magnetically conditioning the patterned areas. The techniques may be useful for perpendicular patterned media, i.e., media having patterns formed on the media surface and having a magnetic anisotropy that is perpendicular to the plane of the medium. In particular, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy has been found to be an important factor that allows effective conditioning of patterned features having relatively small widths. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283401 |
| ART UNIT | 2651 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 06996982 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A spool valve includes a first valve port coupled to a fluid source at a first pressure range, a second valve port coupled to a fluid source at a second, lower, pressure range, and first and second output ports coupled to a hydraulic device. The valve includes a valve spool configured to selectively channel fluid from the first and second valve ports to the first and second output ports, respectively, while in a first position, from the second valve port to both the output ports while in a second position, and from the second and first valve ports to the first and second output ports respectively, while in a third position, and a check valve to permit one-way fluid passage from the second output port to the first valve port. The valve may include an anti-reverse check valve configured to prevent fluid from flowing into the valve via the first output port. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731985 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06998727 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed toward methods for operating a parallel hybrid vehicle in a manner that responds to the operator's demand for power output, while maximizing engine efficiency and minimizing disruptions in vehicle drivability. According to principles of the present invention, when the driver of a hybrid vehicle makes a demand for power output immediately after a braking event, the power provided to meet the initial demand is from either an ICE or a secondary power source. Which power source is used, and when it is engaged and disengaged, depends on various vehicle operating conditions. Also, the ICE is selectively turned off and on in response to various operating conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386029 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/40.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 06997882 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barron Associates, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Eugene Parker (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brendan M. Fabeny (Charlottesville, Virginia); Edward C. Larson (Severn, Maryland); Jeffrey F. Monaco (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises novel methods and devices for monitoring a subject by acquiring reliable and accurate 6-DOF data regarding the subject, and by using those data to obtain information about the subject's movements in three-dimensional space. Information regarding the subject's movements is, optionally, combined with information regarding the subject's physiological status so that comprehensive knowledge regarding the subject may be acquired by those monitoring the subject. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328214 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06997050 | Fleming |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex J. Fleming (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system includes an enclosure mounted externally on an aerial vehicle and a sensor chamber mounted internally within the aerial vehicle. The enclosure receives and converges air particles to cause inertial separation that transfers a first portion of the air particles to a first air transfer path and that causes a second portion of the air particles to bypass the first air transfer path. The first air transfer path transfers the first portion of the air particles from the enclosure to the sensor chamber. The sensor chamber includes at least one sensor that produces sensor data for the first portion of the air particles. A second air transfer path transfers the first portion of the air particles from the sampling chamber to the enclosure. The enclosure transfers the first portion of the air particles and the second portion of the air particles to the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/936969 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06998470 | Gallagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bion, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corp. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex T. Gallagher (Beverly, Massachusetts); Garner T. Haupert, Jr. (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of isolating and/or purifying hypothalamic inhibitory factor (HIF) from a sample (e.g., tissue fluid) containing HIF. The present invention provides for isolation of large amounts of HIF using diafiltration, solid phase extraction and immunoaffinity techniques. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method of purifying hypothalamic inhibitory factor from a sample containing hypothalamic inhibitory factor comprising subjecting the sample to diafiltration, solid phase extraction and immunoaffintiy chromatography. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to subjecting the sample to diafiltration to produce a diafiltrate of HIF; subjecting the diafiltrate to a first solid phase extraction (SPE) to produce a first fraction of HIF; subjecting the first fraction to immunoaffinity chromatography, wherein an antibody which binds to HIF is coupled to an immunoaffinity column, to produce a second fraction of HIF; subjecting the second fraction of HIF to reverse phase HPLC chromatography to produce a third fraction of HIF; and recovering purified HIF from the third fraction. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/506246 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06998646 | Liu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Finisar Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yue Liu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An opto-electronic integrated circuit device includes top emitter/detector devices on a substrate. The top emitter/detector devices have top and bottom sides. The top emitter/detector devices are capable of emitting and detecting light beam from the top side, and have top contact pads on the top side. An optically transparent superstrate is attached to the top side. Micro-optic devices such as lenses can be attached to the superstrate. Top contact pads are connected to bottom contact pads. The bottom contact pads are attached to matching pads of an integrated circuit chip to produce an opto-electronic integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284863 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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