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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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| US 07000400 | Schumacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jurgen C. Schumacher (Phoenix, Arizona); Ian L. Critchley (Phoenix, Arizona); David G. Walhood (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable penetration dilution jet array for a single can and scroll assembly includes a plurality of differentially sized dilution openings around the circumference of the combustor can. The alternating smaller and larger openings provide for circumferential and radial mixing uniformity with the smaller openings giving shallow penetration and the larger openings enabling deep core penetration. The larger openings provide dilution air to the hot gas flow core without the need for an increase in combustor pressure drop. The smaller openings provide a film cooling flow to the downstream scroll, reducing dedicated scroll cooling requirements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803428 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07000409 | Mazzetti |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Marit Jagtoyen Mazzetti (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for recovering potable water from the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. In this process the exhaust gases are cooled causing water to condense out, and the water formed is passed through particulate filters, activated carbon filters and ion exchange resin filters. In this process, the water is treated to reduce the levels of nitrates, sulfates, acidic and other organic components therein (for example, by passing it through a flow through capacitor) before the water is passed through the ion exchange resins. The apparatus for practicing this process is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/849648 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07000460 | Cline 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) | Edward D. Cline (New Bern, North Carolina); Jay A. Collins (New Bern, North Carolina); Joshua L. Guthrie (Harkers Island, North Carolina); Michael McClees (Harelock, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple engine test system that includes an engine test bed system for holding a specific engine type, a mounting frame, and a handling system for transporting the engine test bed system from storage to the mounting frame. The engine test bed system has all the peculiar testing components required for the specific engine type, and the mounting frame communicating with the engine test bed system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801171 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001328 | Barofsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kenton W. Gregory (Portland, Oregon); Providence Health Systems-Oregon (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Barofsky (Portland, Oregon); Kenton W. Gregory (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | It is a general object of the invention to provide a method of effecting repair or replacement or supporting a section of a body tissue using tropoelastin, preferably crosslinked tropoelastin and specifically to provide a tropoelastin biomaterial suitable for use as a stent, for example, a vascular stent, or as conduit replacement, as an artery, vein or a ureter replacement. The tropoelastin biomaterial itself can also be used as a stent or conduit covering or coating or lining. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/797770 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001467 | Piqué 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) | Alberto Piqué (Bowie, Maryland); Raymond Auyeung (Alexandria, Virginia); James Fitzgerald (Laurel, Maryland); Douglas B. Chrisey (Bowie, Maryland); Huey-Daw Wu (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for depositing a material of interest onto a receiving substrate includes a first laser and a second laser, a receiving substrate, and a target substrate. The target substrate comprises a laser transparent support having a back surface and a front surface. The front surface has a coating that comprises the source material, which is a material that can be transformed into the material of interest. The first laser can be positioned in relation to the target substrate so that a laser beam is directed through the back surface of the target substrate and through the laser-transparent support to strike the coating at a defined location with sufficient energy to remove and lift the source material from the surface of the support. The receiving substrate can be positioned in a spaced relation to the target substrate so that the source material is deposited at a defined location on the receiving substrate. The second laser is then positioned to strike the deposited source material to transform the source material into the material of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631215 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001533 | Tucker 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) | Wayne C. Tucker (Exeter, Rhode Island); Maria G. Medeiros (Bristol, Rhode Island); Richard Brown (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-chromate solutions for treating and/or etching metals, particularly, aluminum, aluminum alloys, steel and titanium, and method of applying same wherein the solutions include either a titanate or titanium dioxide as a “drop-in replacement” for a chromium-containing compound in a metal surface etching solution that otherwise would contain chromium. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679684 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/79.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001536 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Peter Djurovic (Long Beach, California); Sergey Lamansky (Camarillo, California); Drew Murphy (Lakewood, California); Raymond Kwong (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Feras Abdel-Razzaq (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Marc A. Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul E. Burrows (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing an emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including cyclometallated platinum, iridium and osmium complexes. The organic light emitting devices optionally contain an exciton blocking layer. Furthermore, improved electroluminescent efficiency in organic light emitting devices is obtained with an emitter layer comprising organometallic complexes of transition metals of formula L2MX, wherein L and X are distinct bidentate ligands. Compounds of this formula can be synthesized more facilely than in previous approaches and synthetic options allow insertion of fluorescent molecules into a phosphorescent complex, ligands to fine tune the color of emission, and ligands to trap carriers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870788 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001648 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaw H. Chen (Penfield, New York); Huang-Ming Philip Chen (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A glassy chiral-nematic liquid crystal composition includes a compound having the structural formula wherein each N represents a nematic group connected to the 1, 3, 5-benzenetricarbonyl central moiety by a carboxylic ester linkage and Ch represents a chiral group connected to the central moiety by a carboxylic ester linkage. An optical device is formed from at least one of the glassy chiral-nematic liquid crystal compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/805150 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001758 | Fry 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) | Ilona J. Fry (Edgewood, Maryland); Joseph J. DeFrank (Bel Air, Maryland); James P. Earley (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A biodegradation process for the organophosphonate product of Sarin (O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate) hydrolysis, i.e., isopropylmethylphosphonate (IMPA). This process provides a feasible biodegradation demilitarization alternative to Sarin incineration. Public opposition of nerve agent incineration is widespread, and alternative methods are sought to help the U.S. Army meet the 2007 demilitarization deadline imposed by the Chemical Weapons Convention. This process uses a two-step approach to IMPA biodegradation. In the first step, a concentrated IMPA solution is used as the sole nutritional carbon and phosphorus source for microbial cultures. The second step involves diluting the culture and adding an inexpensive carbon source to encourage bacterial phosphate assimilation. The biodegradation typically involves a consortium of microorganisms comprising Methylobacterium radiotolerans GB21, Agrobacterium tumefaciens GB2GA, Klebsiella oxytoca GB2CS, GB272, Aureobacterium sp. GB2 and three bacterial isolates belonging to the same species GB23, GB272, and GB292. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436342 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001996 | Samuelson 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) | Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Susan Tripathy, legal representative (Acton, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Lowell, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Wei Liu (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive polymer is formed enzymatically in the presence of a polynucleotide template. The method includes combining at least one redox monomer with a polynucleotide template and a redox enzyme, such as horseradish peroxidase, to form a reaction mixture. The monomer aligns along the template before or during the polymerization. Therefore, the polynucleotide template thereby affects the molecular weight and conformation of the conductive polymer. When the conductive polymer is complexed to a polynucleotide duplex, the conformation of the polynucleotide duplex can be modulated by changing the oxidation state of the conductive polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324736 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002072 | Tonucci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald J. Tonucci (Waldorf, Maryland); Gary Roan (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulated conducting wire (ICW) having an inorganic cladding and a microwire positioned within the cladding. The outer diameter of the microwire is less then the inner diameter of the cladding, and the insulated conducting wire is substantially free of bonding between the microwire and the cladding. A process of making a wire, having the steps of: drawing an inorganic tube through a heating zone such that the inner diameter of the tube is reduced; inserting a microwire into the tube whereby the tube becomes a cladding; and adjusting the draw process parameters such that the inner diameter of the cladding is larger than the outer diameter of the microwire, and the microwire and the cladding are not in contact with each other under thermal conditions that would cause bonding between the microwire and the cladding. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868446 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07002188 — Laser-gated and pumped multi-layer semiconductor power switch with reduced forward losses
| US 07002188 | Weidenheimer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Titan Corporation (San Diego, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas M. Weidenheimer (Brentwood, California); David Giorgi (Solana Beach, California); John Sethian (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser-activated semiconductor switching device includes a semiconductor assembly including a multi-layer semiconductor structure having a first principal surface, and a laser assembly. The laser assembly includes at least one laser device and is directly connected to said first principal surface. The first principal surface includes a window area from which a metallization layer and an emitter layer of the semiconductor assembly are masked, such that laser light emitted from the laser assembly impinges through the window area directly onto a base layer of said semiconductor assembly to initiate current conduction by said switching device. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651081 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002281 | Andle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIODE Inc. (Westbrook, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey C. Andle (Brewer, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic wave device, which utilizes multiple localized reflections of acoustic wave for achieving an infinite impulse response while maintaining high tolerance for dampening effects, is disclosed. The device utilized a plurality of electromechanically significant electrodes disposed on most of the active surface. A plurality of sensors utilizing the disclosed acoustic wave mode device are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620934 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.B00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002336 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James V. Leonard (St. Charles, Missouri); Allan W. Nelson (O'Fallon, Missouri); Patrick F. Dudenhoeffer (Wentzville, Missouri); Todd J. Palmer (Lake St. Louis, Missouri); Richard E. Meyer (Florissant, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for testing the electrical power system of an aircraft uses existing unmodified test equipment not otherwise capable of reliably testing and certifying the aircraft for weapon store launching operations for a particular store type. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/424948 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002501 | Gulati et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kush Gulati (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hae-Seung Lee (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable ADC includes a plurality of reconfigurable blocks for allowing the ADC to provide a plurality of architectures. In one embodiment, the ADC can be configured to operate in a pipeline mode and a sigma-delta mode. This arrangement provides an ADC having a relatively large range of bandwidth and resolution. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/983953 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002526 | Adams 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) | Richard C. Adams (Chula Vista, California); Robert J. O'Neil (San Diego, California); Jovan E. Lebaric (Carmel, California); Todd R. Emo (Okinawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A man-portable wearable antenna system to be worn by a wearer. The wearable antenna system comprises a helmet antenna, a vest antenna worn around the torso, a body antenna worn along the entire body, and a means for routing signals between one of the antennas and a communication device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927223 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/718 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002551 | Azuma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Azuma (Santa Monica, California); Ron Sarfaty (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing an optical see-through Augmented Reality modified-scale display. This aspect includes a sensor suite 100 which includes a compass 102, an inertial measuring unit 104, and a video camera 106 for precise measurement of a user's current orientation and angular rotation rate. A sensor fusion module 108 may be included to produce a unified estimate of the user's angular rotation rate and current orientation to be provided to an orientation and rate estimate module 120. The orientation and rate estimate module 120 operates in a static or dynamic (prediction) mode. A render module 140 receives an orientation; and the render module 140 uses the orientation, a position from a position measuring system 142, and data from a database 144 to render graphic images of an object in their correct orientations and positions in an optical display 150. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256090 |
| ART UNIT | 2675 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002681 | Arrieta 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) | Rodolfo T. Arrieta (Panama City Beach, Florida); Iris C. Paustian (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting a chemical species at a stand-off distance using a spectroscopy system, the method comprising the steps of providing a modulated light source emitting a first beam of light at a first wavelength incident to the chemical species, the first beam of light causing the chemical species to emit a signal, providing a spectral shifter a second beam of light at a second wavelength, the second beam of light causing a photochemical reaction in the chemical species to shift a spectrum of the light emitted from the chemical species, providing a detector positioned to detect the signal emitted from the chemical species, and providing a data processor system in communication with at least one of the detector and the modulated light source, the data processor system processing the signal to determine the identity of the chemical species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602259 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002762 | Mayergoyz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); National Security Agency (Ford Meade, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaak D. Mayergoyz (Rockville, Maryland); Chun Tse (Beltsville, Maryland); Charles S. Krafft (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In recovering data originally written on a carrier of magnetic media after a catastrophic failure, data may be read without prior knowledge of the write channel by which the data was originally written and in the presence of intersymbol interference of the readback signal. This is accomplished by forming an image of the spatial response function of the magnetoresistive transducer used to recover the data and by forming an image of the raw data read from the carrier of magnetic media by the magnetoresistive transducer for which the response function has been characterized. An image of the distribution of virtual magnetic charge on the carrier of magnetic media is obtained through deconvolution of the image of the response function of the magnetoresistive transducer and the raw readback signal. The readback signal corresponding to the data originally written on the carrier of magnetic media is then recovered by spatial differentiation of the image of virtual magnetic charge. Further improvement in image quality of the resulting image is accomplished through a noise reduction technique such as by the application of an arctangent function to the data prior to differentiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/776214 |
| ART UNIT | 2651 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002910 | Garcia-Luna-Aceves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves (San Mateo, California); Asimakis Tzamaloukas (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of medium-access (MAC) collision-avoidance receiver-initiated channel-hopping (RICH) protocols which do not rely on carrier-sensing, or unique codes to each node within the network. The RICH protocol requires that each network nodes adhere to a common channel-hopping sequence, and that nodes that are not in a state of sending or receiving data will listen on the common channel hop. To send data nodes enter into a receiver-initiated dialogue over the channel-hop at the time at which a data transmission is needed. Nodes which succeed in performing the collision-avoidance handshake remain in the same channel-hop for the remainder of the data transfer, while the remaining nodes continue with the common channel hopping sequence. The described RICH protocols are capable of providing collision-free operation even in the presence of hidden terminals. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/021289 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002949 | Garcia-Luna-Aceves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves (San Mateo, California); Jyoti Raju (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bandwidth efficient routing protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks. This protocol can be used in ad-hoc networks because it considerably reduces control overhead, thus increasing available bandwidth and conserving power at mobile stations. It also gives very good results in terms of the throughput seen by the user. The protocol is a table-driven distance-vector routing protocol that uses the same constraints used in on-demand routing protocols, i.e., paths are used as long as they are valid and updates are only sent when a path becomes invalid. The paths used by neighbors are maintained and this allows the design of a distance-vector protocol with non-optimum routing and event-driven updates, resulting in reduced control overhead. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/883082 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003002 | Vahala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry J. Vahala (Pasadena, California); Sean M. Spillane (Pasadena, California); Tobias J. Kippenberg (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a Raman laser and methods related thereto. In the preferred embodiments, the Raman laser comprises a laser pump signal in a fiber waveguide which is optically coupled to a micro-resonator through a fiber taper. The micro-resonator is constructed from a material that has a high Q when it is formed into a micro-resonator and is phase matched to the waveguide. The lasing frequency can be determined based upon the pump input or the micro-resonator material. In the preferred embodiments, the micro-resonator is constructed from a fused silica material. The present invention provides a compact laser with improved emissions and coupling efficiencies and the ability to use stimulated Raman scattering effects to create lasers having frequencies that are otherwise difficult to obtain. Alternative configurations include multiple micro-resonators on a single fiber waveguide and/or utilizing multiple waveguides attached to one or more micro-resonators. The Raman laser can be made to operate in a continuous-wave as opposed to self-pulsing mode. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967515 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07000920 | Camp et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron J. Camp (Solon, Ohio); John Cichello (Wooster, Ohio); Ronni S. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Anthony Sterns (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory engagement game is based on Montessori educational principles and employs elements of a trivia game and a bingo game. The game includes a game board having a plurality of openings, a movable cover associated with each opening, a plurality of game cards that can be inserted into the game board, and a plurality of calling cards. Each calling card displays a question, and each game card displays answers to each question. When a game card is inserted into the game board, the answers are in register with the openings. The player can move any given cover to mask the answer displayed in the associated opening. During play, the questions are read aloud and players cover the openings that display the correct answers. Play continues until one or more players covers all of the openings on his game board. The game improves the players' memories while permitting the players to socialize in a non-competitive environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686200 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001587 | Hellerstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc K. Hellerstein (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for measuring protein biosynthesis by using 2H2O or radioactive 3H2O and applicable uses thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/279399 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001588 | Hurley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cylene Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence H. Hurley (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Expanded porphyrin comprising substitutions for at least two NH groups by S, Se or Te are non-photoactive and are selective for binding G-quadruplexes characteristic of the c-MYC control region. Accordingly, these expanded porphyrins are useful to modulate the expression of genes controlled by the formation of c-MYC type G-quadruplexes, such as c-MYC itself. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/661241 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001614 | Smyth-Templeton 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) | Nancy Smyth-Templeton (Houston, Texas); George N. Pavlakis (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly efficient cationic liposomes have been developed as an improved delivery system for biologically-active reagents. A novel structure, the sandwich liposome, is formed and comprises one or more biologically active agents internalized between two bilomellar liposomes. This structure protects the incoming agent and accounts for the high efficiency of in vivo delivery and for the broad tissue distribution of the sandwich liposome complexes. These novel liposomes are also highly efficient carriers of nucleic acids. By using extruded DOTAP:cholesterol liposomes to form complexes with DNA encoding specific proteins, expression has been improved dramatically. Highest expression was achieved in the lung, while increased expression was detected in several organs and tissues. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825803 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001718 | Jacobs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bertram L. Jacobs (Tempe, Arizona); Alexander Rich (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of detecting or identifying inhibitors of a Z-DNA binding ligand to Z-DNA, methods of inhibiting the pathogenicity of an infectious agent, antiviral therapies, and compounds that inhibit complex formation between a Z-DNA binding ligand and Z-DNA. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/321785 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07001720 | Polymeropoulous et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihael H. Polymeropoulous (Potomac, Maryland); Christian Lavedan (North Potomac, Maryland); Elisabeth Leroy (Washington, District of Columbia); Robert L. Nussbaum (Chevy Chase, Maryland); William G. Johnson (Short Hills, New Jersey); Roger C. Duvoisin (Sante Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenrative disorder with a lifetime incidence of approximately 2 percent. It was recently reported that a PD susceptibility gene is located on the long arm of human chromosome four. The present invention reports the subsequent identification of a mutation in the alpha synuclein gene, which codes for a presynaptic protein thought to be involved in neuronal plasticity. The finding of a specific molecular alteration which is causative for PD will permit the detailed understanding of the pathophysiology of the disorder, which will lead to potential therapetuic interventions, as well as a means for diagnosing individuals having an increased risk of developing the disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/446628 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 07001722 | Caskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); Pharmacia Biotech AB (Tartu, Estonia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Thomas Caskey (Houston, Texas); John Shumaker (Houston, Texas); Andres Metspalu (Tartu, Estonia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a polynucleotide of interest, comprising providing one or more sets of consecutive oligonucleotide primers differing within each set by one base at the growing end therof; annealing a single strand of the polynucleotide or a fragment of the polynucleotide to the oligonucleotide primers under hybridization conditions; subjecting the primers to single base extension reactions with a polymerase and terminating nucleotides, the terminating nucleotides being mutually distinguishable; and observing the location and identity of each terminating nucleotide to thereby analyze the sequence or a part of the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide of interest, is disclosed. An apparatus comprising a solid support to which is attached at defined locations thereon one or more sets of consecutive oligonucleotide primers differing within each set by one base at the growing end thereof is also described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/711476 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07001727 | Ellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan A. Ellman (Oakland, California); Ingrid Choong (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A library of candidate target binding fragments (CTBF's) each CTBF being a small organic molecule and having a linkable functional group (LFG) or blocked form thereof (BLFG), wherein the LFG or BLFG contains a linking group (LG), the LG being a disulfide group. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670607 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07001738 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon H. Snyder (Baltimore, Maryland); Samie R. Jaffrey (New York, New York); Christopher D. Ferris (Franklin, Tennessee); Hediye Erdjument-Bromage (New York, New York); Paul Tempst (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Many of the effects of nitric oxide are mediated by the direct modification of cysteine residues resulting in an adduct called a nitrosothiol. A method to detect proteins which contain nitrosothiols involves several steps. Nitrosylated cysteines are converted to tagged cysteines. Tagged proteins can then be detected, for example, by immunoblotting and/or can be purified by affinity chromatography. The method is applicable to the detection of S-nitrosylated proteins in cell lysates following in vitro S-nitrosylation, as well as to the detection of endogenous S-nitrosothiols in selected protein substrates. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927140 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001748 | Gokhale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh S. Gokhale (New Delhi, India); Stuart Tsuji (Stanford, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Linking sequences which modulate cross-talk between modules of Type I polyketide synthases have been identified. Thus, arbitrarily chosen modules can be mixed and matched by supplying the appropriate linkers to obtain desired polyketide synthases and new polyketides. The modules are provided suitable linkers so that the polyketide chain is passed from one module to the other in the correct sequence. Synthetic peptides which mimic linkers can be used to inhibit the synthesis of polyketides. Kinetic channeling, both intrapolypeptide and interpolypeptide, of diketide intermediates in a Type I polyketide synthase can occur. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/091244 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001884 | Komiyama et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomoko Komiyama (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Robert S. Fuller (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to eglin c variants which inhibit proteases, and in particular to eglin c mutants at adventitious contact sites. The present invention also relates to eglin c variants which comprise mutations in both adventitious contact sites and at reactive loop sites. The present invention further relates to methods of preparing the eglin c variants, and methods of using the eglin c variants for treatment of diseases including acute bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/173524 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002002 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcus A. Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Günter Harth (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Vaccines based on one or more combinations of majorly abundant extracellular products of pathogens and methods for their use and production are presented. The most prevalent or majorly abundant extracellular products of a target pathogen are selected irrespective of their absolute molecular immunogenicity and used as vaccines to stimulate a protective immune response in mammalian hosts against subsequent infection by the target pathogen. The majorly abundant extracellular products may be characterized and distinguished by their respective N-terminal amino acid, amino acid, or DNA sequences. As the vaccines may comprise different combinations of the extracellular products, subunits thereof, or encoding nucleic acids, a broad range of effective immunotherapeutic compositions are provided by the present invention. In addition to other infectious agents, the vaccines so produced can be used to stimulate an effective immune response against intracellular pathogens and in particular Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/953413 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07002003 | Zuckerman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth S. Zuckerman (Tampa, Florida); Richard Y. Liu (Lutz, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method of modulating the function of transcription factor by administering an effective amount of an oligonucleotide containing optimal nucleotide binding sites for the transcription factor. A therapeutic agent having an effective amount of an oligonucleotide for modulating function of transcription factors and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is also provided. Also provided is a treatment of patients having illnesses in which the activation of transcription factors play a role by administering to a patient an effective amount of an oligonucleotide which competitively binds the related transcription factor. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/744875 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002042 | Gao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang Gao (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to synthetic cationic lipids, liposome formulations and the use of such compounds to introduce functional bioactive agents into cultured cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/224706 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003144 | Yim |
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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) | Peter J. Yim (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Delineating vessels in an angiogram involves two methods: graph generation and skeletonization. Generating a graph includes obtaining a digital image of an angiogram, recognizing a first growth point within the image, and identifying region boundary points around the growth point. The region boundary points are connected to the first growth point, thereby creating edges of a graph. The boundary point that has the greatest intensity is then selected as a second growth point, and additional region boundary points around the second growth point are identified. The additional region growth points are connected to the second growth point. The region boundary point with the greatest intensity in the image is then selected as a third growth point, and the method repeats until each point in the image is connected to another point in the graph. The skeletonization of the graph begins with recognizing a point in the graph as an endpoint of a vessel. This may be done explicitly through manual or automatic selection of specific points. It may also be done implicitly through a trimming process whereby graph branches of fewer than a certain number of connected points are discarded. The endpoints in the remaining branches are recognized as vessel endpoints. The skeletonization concludes with display of the delineated vessels. This may be done by superimposing the vessels in two or three dimensions over a conventional two-dimensional angiographic image such as a maximum intensity projection (MIP). |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/203662 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003343 | Watts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Watts (New York, New York); Yi Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Martin R. Prince (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Current bolus chase magnetic resonance angiography is limited by the imaging time for each station. Tailoring the density of k-space sampling along the anterior-posterior direction of the coronal station allows a substantial decrease in scan time that leads to greater contrast bolus sharing among stations and consequently a significant improvement in image quality. Fast arterial-venous transit in the carotid arteries requires accurate, reliable timing of the acquisition to the bolus transit to maximize arterial signal and minimize venous artifacts. The rising edge of the bolus is not utilized in conventional elliptical-centric view ordering because the critical k-space center must be acquired with full arterial enhancement. The invention provides a recessed elliptical-centric view ordering scheme is introduced in which the k-space center is acquired a few seconds following scan initiation. The recessed view ordering is shown to be more robust to timing errors in a patient studies. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/109888 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003403 | Dougherty 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); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward R. Dougherty (College Station, Texas); Seungchan Kim (College Station, Texas); Michael L. Bittner (Rockville, Maryland); Yidong Chen (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Relatedness between genes is quantified by constructing nonlinear models predicting gene expression. Effectiveness of the model is evaluated to provide a measurement of the relatedness of genes associated with the model. Various types of models, including full-logic or neural networks can be constructed. A graphical user interface presents results of the analysis to allow evaluation by a user. Each gene's contribution to the measurement of relatedness can be shown on a graph, and graphical representations of models used to predict gene expression can be displayed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/595580 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald H. Micheels (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A water trap system based on a thermoelectric cooling device is employed to remove a major fraction of the water from air samples, prior to analysis of these samples for chemical composition, by a variety of analytical techniques where water vapor interferes with the measurement process. These analytical techniques include infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry and gas chromatography. The thermoelectric system for trapping water present in air samples can substantially improve detection sensitivity in these analytical techniques when it is necessary to measure trace analytes with concentrations in the ppm (parts per million) or ppb (parts per billion) partial pressure range. The thermoelectric trap design is compact and amenable to use in a portable gas monitoring instrumentation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383624 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001106 | Burnham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan K. Burnham (Livermore, California); John F. Cooper (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for installing warning units in a buried pipeline. A small hole is drilled in the ground to the pipeline. A collar is affixed to one of the pipes of the pipeline. A valve with an internal passage is connected to the collar. A hole is drilled in the pipe. A warning unit is installed in the pipe by moving the warning unit through the internal passage, the collar, and the hole in the pipe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854453 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001446 | Roark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eltron Research, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane E. Roark (Boulder, Colorado); Richard MacKay (Lafayette, Colorado); Michael V. Mundschau (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides hydrogen-permeable membranes for separation of hydrogen from hydrogen-containing gases. The membranes are multi-layer having a central hydrogen-permeable layer with one or more catalyst layers, barrier layers, and/or protective layers. The invention also relates to membrane reactors employing the hydrogen-permeable membranes of the invention and to methods for separation of hydrogen from a hydrogen-containing gas using the membranes and reactors. The reactors of this invention can be combined with additional reactor systems for direct use of the separated hydrogen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717218 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001459 | Chambers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Chambers (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a spinel-structured metal oxide on a substrate by molecular beam epitaxy, comprising the step of supplying activated oxygen, a first metal atom flux, and at least one other metal atom flux to the surface of the substrate, wherein the metal atom fluxes are individually controlled at the substrate so as to grow the spinel-structured metal oxide on the substrate and the metal oxide is substantially in a thermodynamically stable state during the growth of the metal oxide. A particular embodiment of the present invention encompasses a method of making a spinel-structured binary ferrite, including Co ferrite, without the need of a post-growth anneal to obtain the desired equilibrium state. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653035 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001535 | Shepodd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a solution to the particular problem of liquid water formation in hydrogen getters exposed to quantities of oxygen. Water formation is usually desired because the recombination reaction removes hydrogen without affecting gettering capacity and the oxygen removal reduces the chances for a hydrogen explosion once free oxygen is essentially removed. The present invention describes a getter incorporating a polyacrylate compound that can absorb up to 500% of its own weight in liquid water without significantly affecting its hydrogen gettering/recombination properties, but that also is insensitive to water vapor. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143308 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/181.600 |
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| US 07001622 | Berndt |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Berndt (Des Moines, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a composition for preventing pruritis or inflammation that includes field pussy-toes plant extract, and methods of using and manufacturing the same. The compositions of this invention have been found to be especially useful in preventing and treating lesions from poison ivy, chicken pox, and cold sores. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611280 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a solid-oxide fuel cell system, the fuel cell tail gas contains significant residual amounts of combustibles which are burned in a combustor with spent cathode air to reduce system emissions and to reclaim chemical energy in the form of heat, the hot exhaust being used to pre-heat air entering the fuel cell system. The tail gas combustibles content can vary widely as can the combustion temperature. When the temperature becomes unacceptably low, a control valve in the spent cathode air return is adjusted to divert a portion of the air around the combustor, thus enriching the fuel/air mixture and causing the combustion temperature to increase. When the temperature becomes unacceptably high, a control valve in the combustor fresh air supply is adjusted to provide more air, thus causing the mixture to become leaner and the combustion temperature to decrease. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178863 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001743 | Cosgrove et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Cosgrove (University Park, Pennsylvania); Yajun Wu (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to beta expansin polypeptides, nucleotide sequences encoding the same and regulatory elements and their use in altering cell wall structure in plants. Nucleic acid constructs comprising a beta expansin sequence operably linked to a promoter, or other regulatory sequence are disclosed as well as vectors, plant cells, plants, and transformed seeds containing such constructs are provided. Methods for the use of such constructs in repressing or inducing expression of a beta expansin sequences in a plant are also provided as well as methods for harvesting transgenic expansin proteins. In addition, methods are provided for inhibiting or improving cell wall structure in plants by repression or induction of expansin sequences in plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/125001 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07001849 | Wright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gomez W. Wright (Nashville, Tennessee); Ralph B. James (Livermore, California); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee); Douglas A. Chinn (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treatment of the surface of a CdZnTe (CZT) crystal that provides a native dielectric coating to reduce surface leakage currents and thereby, improve the resolution of instruments incorporating detectors using CZT crystals. A two step process is disclosed, etching the surface of a CZT crystal with a solution of the conventional bromine/methanol etch treatment, and after attachment of electrical contacts, passivating the CZT crystal surface with a solution of 10 w/o NH4F and 10 w/o H2O2 in water. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/326430 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001860 | Wagh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun S. Wagh (Orland Park, Illinois); Allison L. Antink (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural material of a polystyrene base and the reaction product of the polystyrene base and a solid phosphate ceramic. The ceramic is applied as a slurry which includes one or more of a metal oxide or a metal hydroxide with a source of phosphate to produce a phosphate ceramic and a poly (acrylic acid or acrylate) or combinations or salts thereof and polystyrene or MgO applied to the polystyrene base and allowed to cure so that the dried aqueous slurry chemically bonds to the polystyrene base. A method is also disclosed of applying the slurry to the polystyrene base. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/335462 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002147 | Hansknecht |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southeastern Univ. Research Assn. (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Christopher Hansknecht (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A vacuum system comprising: 1) an ion pump; 2) power supply; 3) a high voltage DC—DC converter drawing power from the power supply and powering the vacuum pump; 4) a feedback network comprising an ammeter circuit including an operational amplifier and a series of relay controlled scaling resistors of different resistance for detecting circuit feedback; 5) an optional power block section intermediate the power supply and the high voltage DC—DC converter; and 6) a microprocessor receiving feedback information from the feedback network, controlling which of the scaling resistors should be in the circuit and manipulating data from the feedback network to provide accurate vacuum measurement to an operator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959463 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002281 | Andle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIODE Inc. (Westbrook, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey C. Andle (Brewer, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic wave device, which utilizes multiple localized reflections of acoustic wave for achieving an infinite impulse response while maintaining high tolerance for dampening effects, is disclosed. The device utilized a plurality of electromechanically significant electrodes disposed on most of the active surface. A plurality of sensors utilizing the disclosed acoustic wave mode device are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620934 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.B00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002445 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Michael A. Briscoe (Lehi, Utah); Scott Steven Dahlgren (Alpine, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Cameron Sneddon (Lombard, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A robust transmission element for transmitting information between downhole tools, such as sections of drill pipe, in the presence of hostile environmental conditions, such as heat, dirt, rocks, mud, fluids, lubricants, and the like. The transmission element maintains reliable connectivity between transmission elements, thereby providing an uninterrupted flow of information between drill string components. A transmission element is mounted within a recess proximate a mating surface of a downhole drilling component, such as a section of drill pipe. To close gaps present between transmission elements, transmission elements may be biased with a “spring force,” urging them closer together. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908249 |
| ART UNIT | 2635 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002691 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clarence E. Thomas (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of recording a spatially low-frequency heterodyne hologram, including spatially heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis, includes: splitting a laser beam into a reference beam and an object beam; interacting the object beam with an object; focusing the reference beam and the object beam at a focal plane of a digital recorder to form a spatially low-frequency heterodyne hologram including spatially heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis; digital recording the spatially low-frequency heterodyne hologram; Fourier transforming axes of the recorded spatially low-frequency heterodyne hologram including spatially heterodyne fringes in Fourier space to sit on top of a heterodyne carrier frequency defined by an angle between the reference beam and the object beam; cutting off signals around an origin; and performing an inverse Fourier transform. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421448 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003405 | Ho |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford K. Ho (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An inverse analysis method for characterizing diffusion of vapor from an underground source of volatile contaminant using data taken by an in-situ sensor. The method uses one-dimensional solutions to the diffusion equation in Cartesian, cylindrical, or spherical coordinates for isotropic and homogenous media. If the effective vapor diffusion coefficient is known, then the distance from the source to the in-situ sensor can be estimated by comparing the shape of the predicted time-dependent vapor concentration response curve to the measured response curve. Alternatively, if the source distance is known, then the effective vapor diffusion coefficient can be estimated using the same inverse analysis method. A triangulation technique can be used with multiple sensors to locate the source in two or three dimensions. The in-situ sensor can contain one or more chemiresistor elements housed in a waterproof enclosure with a gas permeable membrane. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280258 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07001743 | Cosgrove et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Cosgrove (University Park, Pennsylvania); Yajun Wu (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to beta expansin polypeptides, nucleotide sequences encoding the same and regulatory elements and their use in altering cell wall structure in plants. Nucleic acid constructs comprising a beta expansin sequence operably linked to a promoter, or other regulatory sequence are disclosed as well as vectors, plant cells, plants, and transformed seeds containing such constructs are provided. Methods for the use of such constructs in repressing or inducing expression of a beta expansin sequences in a plant are also provided as well as methods for harvesting transgenic expansin proteins. In addition, methods are provided for inhibiting or improving cell wall structure in plants by repression or induction of expansin sequences in plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/125001 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 07001755 | Schisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Ohio University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Schisler (Morton, Illinois); Naseem I. Khan (Peoria, Illinois); Michael J. Boehm (Worthington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Four yeasts (NRRL Y-30213, NRRL Y-30214, NRRL Y-30215, and NRRL Y-30216) and 1 bacterium (NRRL B-30212) have been identified as being superior antagonists capable of suppressing Fusarium head blight (head scab) in cereals, particularly in wheat and barley. Fusarium head blight is primarily caused by the fungus Gibberella zeae (anamorph=Fusarium graminearum). |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391407 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002047 | Frost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Frost (Okemos, Michigan); Karen M. Frost (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioengineered synthesis scheme for the production of quinic acid from a carbon source is provided. Methods of producing quinic acid from a carbon source based on the synthesis scheme as well as conversion of quinic acid to hydroquinone are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435242 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/749 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP16284 | Ramming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Ramming (Fresno, California); Ronald E. Tarailo (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of grapevine denominated ‘Autumn King’ which is characterized by its late season ripening seedless fruit, attractive pale green coloration, its cylindrical to ovoid fruit shape, its firm fruit texture with neutral sweet flavor, and its medium to tight cluster. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953387 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07001648 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaw H. Chen (Penfield, New York); Huang-Ming Philip Chen (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A glassy chiral-nematic liquid crystal composition includes a compound having the structural formula wherein each N represents a nematic group connected to the 1, 3, 5-benzenetricarbonyl central moiety by a carboxylic ester linkage and Ch represents a chiral group connected to the central moiety by a carboxylic ester linkage. An optical device is formed from at least one of the glassy chiral-nematic liquid crystal compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/805150 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001748 | Gokhale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh S. Gokhale (New Delhi, India); Stuart Tsuji (Stanford, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Linking sequences which modulate cross-talk between modules of Type I polyketide synthases have been identified. Thus, arbitrarily chosen modules can be mixed and matched by supplying the appropriate linkers to obtain desired polyketide synthases and new polyketides. The modules are provided suitable linkers so that the polyketide chain is passed from one module to the other in the correct sequence. Synthetic peptides which mimic linkers can be used to inhibit the synthesis of polyketides. Kinetic channeling, both intrapolypeptide and interpolypeptide, of diketide intermediates in a Type I polyketide synthase can occur. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/091244 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002047 | Frost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Frost (Okemos, Michigan); Karen M. Frost (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioengineered synthesis scheme for the production of quinic acid from a carbon source is provided. Methods of producing quinic acid from a carbon source based on the synthesis scheme as well as conversion of quinic acid to hydroquinone are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435242 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/749 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003728 | Berque |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David Berque (Greencastle, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for knowledge transfer in a group setting comprises a plurality of participant work areas and a moderator work area. Each of the plurality of participant work areas has at least one corresponding participant input-device, and each of the participant input-devices is adapted to define participant images that are then included on the corresponding participant work area. The moderator work area comprises at least one moderator input-device. The at least one moderator input-device is adapted to define moderator images that are then included on the moderator work area and to select moderator images that are then simultaneously included on each of plurality of participant work areas. The moderator input-device is further adapted to select participant images from any of the plurality of participant work areas that are then included on the moderator work area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/899431 |
| ART UNIT | 2179 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/753 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07001859 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio Aerospace Institute (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongming Zhu (Westlake, Ohio); Robert A. Miller (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal barrier coating composition is provided. The composition has a base oxide, a primary stabilizer, and at least two additional cationic oxide dopants. Preferably, a pair of group A and group B defect cluster-promoting oxides is used in conjunction with the base and primary stabilizer oxides. The new thermal barrier coating is found to have significantly lower thermal conductivity and better sintering resistance. In preferred embodiments, the base oxide is selected from zirconia and hafnia. The group A and group B cluster-promoting oxide dopants preferably are selected such that the group A dopant has a smaller cationic radius than the primary stabilizer oxide, and so that the primary stabilizer oxide has a small cationic radius than that of the group B dopant. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928496 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002626 | Pain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California); Chris Wrigley (La Crescenta, California); Guang Yang (West Covina, California); Orly Yadid-Pecht (Haifa, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | An image sensor includes pixels formed on a semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a photoactive region in the semiconductor substrate, a sense node, and a power supply node. A first electrode is disposed near a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A bias signal on the first electrode sets a potential in a region of the semiconductor substrate between the photoactive region and the sense node. A second electrode is disposed near the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A bias signal on the second electrode sets a potential in a region of the semiconductor substrate between the photoactive region and the power supply node. The image sensor includes a controller that causes bias signals to be provided to the electrodes so that photocharges generated in the photoactive region are accumulated in the photoactive region during a pixel integration period, the accumulated photocharges are transferred to the sense node during a charge transfer period, and photocharges generated in the photoactive region are transferred to the power supply node during a third period without passing through the sense node. The imager can operate at high shutter speeds with simultaneous integration of pixels in the array. High quality images can be produced free from motion artifacts. High quantum efficiency, good blooming control, low dark current, low noise and low image lag can be obtained. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/999232 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07002762 | Mayergoyz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); National Security Agency (Ford Meade, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaak D. Mayergoyz (Rockville, Maryland); Chun Tse (Beltsville, Maryland); Charles S. Krafft (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In recovering data originally written on a carrier of magnetic media after a catastrophic failure, data may be read without prior knowledge of the write channel by which the data was originally written and in the presence of intersymbol interference of the readback signal. This is accomplished by forming an image of the spatial response function of the magnetoresistive transducer used to recover the data and by forming an image of the raw data read from the carrier of magnetic media by the magnetoresistive transducer for which the response function has been characterized. An image of the distribution of virtual magnetic charge on the carrier of magnetic media is obtained through deconvolution of the image of the response function of the magnetoresistive transducer and the raw readback signal. The readback signal corresponding to the data originally written on the carrier of magnetic media is then recovered by spatial differentiation of the image of virtual magnetic charge. Further improvement in image quality of the resulting image is accomplished through a noise reduction technique such as by the application of an arctangent function to the data prior to differentiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/776214 |
| ART UNIT | 2651 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003114 | Mauro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Qualcomm Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony P. Mauro (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for achieving crypto-syncronization in a packet data communication system employing cryptographic communications. In a transmitter, a state vector is incremented at a predetermined rate and is provided to an encryption module. The encryption module uses the state vector to sequentially encrypt the data frames. During periods of frame dropping prior to encryption, the state vector is disabled, thereby allowing for sequential encryption of the data frames. In a receiver, during a frame dropping condition, the state vector is advanced in proportion to the number of frames dropped. During an underflow condition at the receiver, the state vector is disabled for the duration of the underflow condition, and enabled once the underflow condition has passed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/489194 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07002890 | Miyagawa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LSI Logic Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naoyasu Miyagawa (Osaka, Japan); Masud Mansuripur (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of recording data on a recording medium includes mapping the data to a set of write symbols wherein each write symbol represents more than one bit of the data. The set of write symbols is defined by defining a set of variable write parameters; generating a plurality of candidate write symbols that specify different values for the variable write parameters; generating a plurality of readout waveforms produced by the plurality of candidate write symbols; analyzing the readout waveforms to determine desired set of readout waveforms; and selecting selected ones of the plurality of candidate write symbols that correspond to the desired readout waveforms to be included in the set of write symbols. The data is written to the medium using the write symbols. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/823852 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/59.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07000920 | Camp et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron J. Camp (Solon, Ohio); John Cichello (Wooster, Ohio); Ronni S. Sterns (Akron, Ohio); Anthony Sterns (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory engagement game is based on Montessori educational principles and employs elements of a trivia game and a bingo game. The game includes a game board having a plurality of openings, a movable cover associated with each opening, a plurality of game cards that can be inserted into the game board, and a plurality of calling cards. Each calling card displays a question, and each game card displays answers to each question. When a game card is inserted into the game board, the answers are in register with the openings. The player can move any given cover to mask the answer displayed in the associated opening. During play, the questions are read aloud and players cover the openings that display the correct answers. Play continues until one or more players covers all of the openings on his game board. The game improves the players' memories while permitting the players to socialize in a non-competitive environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686200 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07000452 | Bonne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Bonne (Hopkins, Minnesota); Robert Higashi (Shorewood, Minnesota); Cleopatra Cabuz (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro fluid analyzer having a concentrator and separator. A strip continuous through a channel in the concentrator may provide a hot zone that may move with the flow of fluid through the channel of the concentrator to provide a concentration of heat in the flow. A pump may provide a flow to the fluid through the analyzer. Detectors may be positioned at places where the fluid may flow. A processor or controller may be connected to the strip, separator, pump and detectors. The concentrator, separator, detectors and processor may be integrated on one chip. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672894 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001600 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong Fu Wang (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The infusion of TIL586 along with interleukin-2 (IL-2) into the autologous patient with metastatic melanoma resulted in the objective regression of tumor. A gene encoding a tumor antigen recognized by TIL586 was previously isolated and shown to encode gp75 or TRP-1. The present invention relates to the identification of a second tumor antigen recognized by a HLA-A31 restricted CTL clone derived from the TIL586 cell line. This antigen derived from the TRP-2 protein tumor antigen and peptides thereof are capable of sensitizing target cells for lysis by a CTL clone at 1 nM peptide concentration. Modified peptides were also recognized by the CTL clone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/651210 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07001601 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Ordway Livingston (New York, New York); Friedhelm Helling (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a vaccine for stimulating or enhancing in a subject to which the vaccine is administered, production of an antibody which recognizes a ganglioside, comprising an amount of ganglioside or oligosaccharide portion thereof conjugated to an immunogenic protein effective to stimulate or enhance antibody production in the subject, an effective amount of adjuvant and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/477147 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/194.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002673 | Crisman |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Everett E. Crisman (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The structure of the device consists of a light transparent or light absorbing hollow tube having inside diameter slightly larger than the outside diameter of an optical fiber that is threaded through the tube. The space between the fiber and the tube is filled with a low vapor pressure fluid selected for refractive index that will promote light leaking out of the fiber through the tube. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928873 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07002679 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Brady (Durham, North Carolina); Nikos P. Pitsianis (Durham, North Carolina); Zhaochun Xu (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Selected combinations from three or more light excitation wavelengths are serially impinged on a sample based on an encoding pattern. A plurality of spectra is detected from the sample responsive to respective ones of the selected combinations of light excitation wavelengths. A shifted Raman excitation spectral component and a non-shifted spectral component characteristic of the sample are identified based on the plurality of spectra. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843123 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07003155 | Walton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Walton (Severn, Maryland); Cash J. Costello (Columbia, Maryland); Elissa M. Weidaw (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of automatically creating a NIMA certified line drawing from a National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) image file. A grayscale (electro-optical) image and its associated metadata from a NITF file is input into the computer based system. Pre-screening operations are performed on the metadata prior to image processing to ensure that National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) requirements and criteria are met. Image processing algorithms then perform filtering, encoding, edge detection, and custom edge pattern classification procedures to create a declassified line drawing. The line drawing can then be saved in any number of standard commercial file formats. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/255823 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2006/fedinvent-patents-20060221.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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