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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 28, 2006
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| US 07004015 | Chang-Chien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patty P. L. Chang-Chien (Hermosa Beach, California); Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for locally sealing a vacuum microcavity, methods and systems for monitoring and controlling pressure in the microcavity and method and system for trimming resonant frequency of a microstructure in the microcavity are provided. The microcavity has an initial base pressure therein after the microcavity is locally sealed at an access passageway. The monitoring and control methods include measuring pressure in the microcavity and providing a signal when the pressure exceeds a maximum desired level. The control method also includes reducing the pressure in the microcavity to a pressure at or below the maximum desired level in response to the signal to compensate for vacuum degradation within the vacuum microcavity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/274593 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07004039 | Ford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Ford (Panama City, Florida); Jeffery Pray (Panama City Beach, Florida); Chris Richburg (Panama City, Florida); Charles Bernstein (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile sensor comprises a sensing bladder in pneumatic communication with a first diaphragm side of a pneumatic diaphragm via a first fluid; the pneumatic diaphragm being actuatable by a displacement of the first fluid within the sensing bladder; the pneumatic diaphragm further comprising a second diaphragm side in fluid isolation from the first diaphragm side; the second diaphragm side being pneumatically biased against the first diaphragm side, and the second diaphragm side and the first diaphragm side of the pneumatic diaphragm each being in pneumatic communication with an external environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779586 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.581 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07004424 | Pacchia |
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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) | Joseph Pacchia (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism to alter the flight path of a projectile after launch. A plurality of fins are disposed around the projectile and are held in place by one or more caging wires, depending on fin design. In one embodiment, auxiliary fins are connected to adjacent main fins which are held in a stowed position. When released, the fins deploy and present a continuous surface to the airstream for maximum braking action. In another embodiment, each fin is divided into fin segments which are individually deployable to alter the spin or course of the projectile by deflection. Additionally, all of the fins may be deployed to provide a braking action. All of the fins are tied together to distribute and reduce encountered loads when deployed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708977 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07004697 | Alaweih |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Alaweih (Dearborn Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A load handling mechanism for use with loaded tankers has two transverse attachment members associated with longitudinal beams supporting the tank structure. Cables and associated spreader bars are attached to the transverse attachment members to provide a single lift point loading means for the tanker allowing loaded tankers to be easily loaded and unloaded in to transport means such as ships. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/113650 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07004994 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are silver-containing powders and a method and apparatus for manufacturing the silver-containing particles of high quality, of a small size and narrow size distribution. An aerosol is generated from liquid feed and sent to a furnace, where liquid in droplets in the aerosol is vaporized to permit formation of the desired particles, which are then collected in a particle collector. The aerosol generation involves preparation of a high quality aerosol, with a narrow droplet size distribution, with close control over droplet size and with a high droplet loading suitable for commercial applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774791 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005085 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphor powders and a method for making phosphor powders. The powders are oxygen-containing, such as metal oxides, silicates, borates or titanates and have a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution and are substantially spherical. The method of the invention advantageously permits the continuous production of such powders. The invention also relates to improved devices, such as display devices, incorporating the phosphor powders. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/424994 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4R0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005186 | McLean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. McLean (Xenia, Ohio); Michael E. DeRosa (Painted Post, New York); Donna M. Brandelik (New Carlisle, Ohio); Angela L. Campbell (Dayton, Ohio); Mark C. Brant (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A new damage resistant and tolerant optical element is disclosed. Prior art solid or liquid host matrices are replaced by a soft crosslinked polymer or similar host material. The viscoelastic properties of the matrix host material are controlled during formation so that there are regions of different softness, of stiffness, within the matrix, to form a stiffness gradient. Preferably, the matrix will be softest at a preselected focal plane where maximum electromagnetic radiation or energy output may be expected. The host matrix is doped with an appropriate dopant having a concentration distribution, preferably such that the concentration of dopant is highest in the region where the host matrix material is most soft. Two important disclosed example embodiments are an optical limiter and a solid state dye laser. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662750 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005191 | Perepezko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Joon S. Park (Seoul, South Korea); Ridwan Sakidja (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides oxidation resistant coatings for transition metal substrates and transition metal alloy substrates and method for producing the same. The coatings may be multilayered, multiphase coatings or gradient multiphase coatings. In some embodiments the transition metal alloys may be boron-containing molybdenum silicate-based binary and ternary alloys. The coatings are integrated into the substrates to provide durable coatings that stand up under extreme temperature conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/428336 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005267 | Hartman 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) | Laurie J. Hartman (Germantown, Maryland); David A. Norwood, Jr. (Thurmont, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are isolated nucleic acid molecules that may be used as an internal positive controls in probe-based nucleic acid assays such as TaqMan® based assays. Also disclosed are probes comprising the isolated nucleic acid molecule of the present invention. The probes may comprise a reporter molecule and a quencher molecule. Also disclosed are assays which comprise using the probe of the present invention. The probes may be used to distinguish false negative results from true negative results in assays for a target nucleic acid molecule. The probe may be used in conjunction with probe-based nucleic acid assays for the detection of an organism such as one belonging to Bacillus, Mycobacterium, Francisella, Brucella, Clostridium, Yersinia, Variola, Orthopox, or Burkholderia. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376323 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005550 | Tan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); Jong-Beom Baek (Cheongju, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized nanoscale carbon fibers and tubes of the formula: wherein Ar is selected from the group consisting of: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of H, H3C—(CH2)n— and wherein n has a value of 0–10. Also provided is a process for functionalizing nanoscale carbon fibers or tubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963468 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005713 | Mayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald C. Mayer (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Jon V. Osborn (Thousand Oaks, California); Ronald C. Lacoe (Newbury Park, California); Everett E. King (Granada Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An annular segment MOSFET structure has reduced drain electric fields for a given applied voltage and dimensional sizing for improved reliability from damage by reducing high energy hot carriers laterally traversing the channel by reducing the intensity of electric fields in the MOSFET structure by creating diverging electric field lines with decreased electric field strength at the drain, while enabling compact integrated layouts of multiple MOSFETs within a square area of surface silicon. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725685 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005893 | Athas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Athas (San Jose, California); Nestor Tzartzanis (Belmont, California); Weihua Mao (San Jose, California); Lena Peterson (Gothenburg, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | High performance clock-powered logic runs at below supply levels and reduces the need for faster digital logic circuitry. In a preferred embodiment, a clocked buffer (101) is used to drive the signal line. The receiving end of the line is connected to a jam latch (123), preferably followed by an n-latch (125), followed by the digital logic (109), and followed by a second n-latch (127). The first n-latch is eliminated in an alternative embodiment, preferably one that uses complementary data signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/031672 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005946 | Duwel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy E. Duwel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David J. Carter (Maynard, Massachusetts); Mark J. Mescher (West Newton, Massachusetts); Mathew Varghese (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bernard M. Antkowiak (Sutton, Massachusetts); Marc S. Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A longitudinal mode resonator that includes a substrate and a bar that is suspended relative to the substrate. The bar is suspended such that it is free to expand and contract longitudinally in response to the application of an electric field across its thickness. The expansion and contraction of the bar achieves resonance in response to the field having a frequency substantially equal to the fundamental frequency of the bar. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631695 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005981 | Wade |
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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) | Robert Wade (Branchville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for the generic extraction and compression of surveillance information that facilitates high performance data fusion in distributed sensor systems. According to the method, multiple sensors (120[1] . . . 120[N]), distributed over a wide surveillance area (100), sense surveillance data of interest (310), optionally filter that sensed data (340), extract non-essential data (360) from the filtered data, compress in a manner specific to the extracted data (370) the extracted data for transmission and subsequently transmit (380) the compressed data to a “master” processing system (220) for integration/fusion with other transmitted compressed data streams originating from other sensors. Reductions in required data transmitted is on the order of 100:1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709724 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006031 | Abatzoglou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theagenis J. Abatzoglou (Huntington Beach, California); Leo H. Hui (Alhambra, California); Kwang M. Cho (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | SAR images are improved by a method for acquiring a synthetic aperture image from a sequence of periodic pulse returns where the sequence of periodic pulse returns is interspersed with interrupts, i.e. missing pulses. The interrupts mark the start and end of one or more segments, where the segments contain the periodic pulse returns form the SAR image. The method comprises the steps of: converting said pulse returns into a digital stream; performing an azimuth deskew on said digital stream to obtain a deskewed digital stream; forming a forward-backward data matrix from the deskewed digital stream for one or more segments; forming an average segment covariance from the forward-backward data matrix; computing a model order for the average segment covariance; computing one or more linear prediction coefficients using data contained in the forward backward data matrix, and model order; using the linear prediction coefficients to compute missing pulse returns belonging within the interrupts. The computation for extrapolating the missing pulse returns is introduced after the Stolt interpolator in RMA processing. In computing the model order, eigenvalues are found and compared to a threshold. Roots of a linear prediction polynomial are computed, then stabilized to obtain stabilized roots. Linear prediction coefficients are reconstituted using the stabilized roots. Sub-bands are used to decrease computing time for the missing pulse returns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968780 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006039 | Miyamoto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Y. Miyamoto (Honolulu, Hawaii); Wayne A. Shiroma (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Grant S. Shiroma (Hilo, Hawaii); Blaine T. Murakami (Mililani, Hawaii); Aaron Ohta (Honolulu, Hawaii); Michael Tamamoto (Mililani, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S/N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911928 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006043 | Nalbandian |
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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) | Vahakn Nalbandian (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically small wideband circularly polarized single layer compact microstrip antenna that permits a substantial reduction in antenna size is provided, by stacking a semicircular radiating arch on a dielectric substrate and a conductive ground plane that permits both a considerably reduced antenna length and significantly high efficiency antenna performance. The radiating arch is composed from a group of arc-shaped segments that are each separated by a gap, with one segment having an opening allowing a connector center probe to protrude upwards. In the preferred embodiment, the arc-shaped segments are arranged into a semicircle on the top surface of the dielectric substrate. Other embodiments include an array antenna and a method for decreasing a wideband circularly polarized compact microstrip antenna with a given length, AL. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759335 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006132 | Pereira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francisco Pereira (Pasadena, California); Darius Modarress (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Mory Gharib (San Marino, California); Dana Dabiri (Altadena, California); David Jeon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Determining instantaneously the three-dimensional coordinates of large sets of points in space using two or more CCD cameras (or any other type of camera), each with its own lens and pinhole. The CCD's are all arranged so that the pixel arrays are within the same plane. The CCD's are also arranged in a predefined pattern. The combination of the multiple images acquired from the CCD's onto one single image forms a pattern, which is dictated by the predefined arrangement of the CCD's. The size and centroid on the combined image are a direct measure of the depth location Z and in-plane position (X,Y), respectively. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/935215 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006267 | Franson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Franson (Ellicott City, Maryland); Michelle M. Donegan (Columbia, Maryland); Michael J. Fitch (Catonsville, Maryland); Bryan C. Jacobs (Sykesville, Maryland); Todd B. Pittman (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for high fidelity quantum teleportation include receiving an input photon representing a qubit. Ancilla photons are generated in a particular ancilla quantum state chosen to reduce a rate of error below a threshold error rate. The ancilla and the input photon are combined to populate output channels. A number of photons representing logical value 1 are measured in a subset of the output channels. A particular output channel is determined based on the measured number of photons. A teleported photon is obtained at the particular output channel with an error rate below the threshold error rate. These techniques allow the ancilla quantum state to be chosen to minimize the error despite the presence of losses and noise. Quantum logic operations are performed by teleporting two input qubits with the quantum state of the ancilla chosen to produce the desired logical result and reduce the error. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651317 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006437 | Ogier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Ogier (Half Moon Bay, California); Ambatipudi R. Sastry (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Scheduling mechanisms for attaining a per-hop behavior for a plurality of classes of packet traffic in a multi-hop network are described. The per-hop behavior allocates to each class a nominal departure rate and a minimum percentage of available bandwidth. The scheduling mechanisms define a first condition that affects packet forwarding in accordance with the nominal departure rates allocated to the classes and a second condition that affects packet forwarding in accordance with the minimum percentages of the available bandwidth allocated to the classes. Packet forwarding rates for each of the classes are compared with the first and second conditions to select one of the classes for forwarding packets of that class over the network. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/900631 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006453 | Ahmed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walid Ahmed (Eatontown, New Jersey); Hong Jiang (Westfield, New Jersey); Muralidharan Sampath Kodialam (Marlboro, New Jersey); Pantelis Monogioudis (Edison, New Jersey); Kiran M Rege (Marlboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In an ad-hoc mobile network, a geometry-based routing protocol (GRP) is used to route traffic from a source node to a destination node. In the GRP, each node maintains a location list, which comprises location information for a number of nodes of the ad-hoc mobile network. Periodically, each node transmits to its direct neighbors (i.e., those nodes with which it has a point-to-point link) (a) its location, and (b) its location list. Each node that receives a location list from an adjacent node merges the received location list into its own location list such that location information for existing nodes, and/or newly identified nodes, is current. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/525090 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006635 | Parks 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) | Allen D. Parks (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Gregory A. Balchin (Alexandria, Virginia); Scott E. Spence (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synchronizing a master clock to a slave clock located in master and slave devices communicating with one another via a laser signal beam and a communications channel, each of the devices including a homodyne detector for determining a respective correlation pattern with respect to a phase tuned local oscillator includes steps for recording master and slave correlation patterns while the signal beam cycles between first and second operating modes, transmitting the master correlation pattern and associated first and second times at which the signal beam shifted between the first and second operating modes and between the second and first operating modes over the communications channel, comparing a portion of the master correlation pattern between the first and second times to the slave correlation pattern to thereby determine the time offset between the master and slave correlation patterns, and applying the time offset to the slave clock. A corresponding clock synchronization system is also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/943433 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006656 | Fridrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of SUNY (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Johnson City, New York); Rui Du (Johnson City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Current methods of embedding hidden data in an image inevitably distort the original image by noise. This distortion cannot generally be removed completely because of quantization, bit-replacement, or truncation at the grayscales 0 and 255. The distortion, though often small, may make the original image unacceptable for medical applications, or for military and law enforcement applications where an image must be inspected under unusual viewing conditions (e.g., after filtering or extreme zoom). The present invention provides high-capacity embedding of data that is lossless (or distortion-free) because, after embedded information is extracted from a cover image, we revert to an exact copy of the original image before the embedding took place. This new technique is a powerful tool for a variety of tasks, including lossless robust watermarking, lossless authentication with fragile watermarks, and steganalysis. The technique is applicable to raw, uncompressed formats (e.g., BMP, PCX, PGM, RAS, etc.), lossy image formats (JPEG, JPEG2000, wavelet), and palette formats (GIF, PNG). |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/977443 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006923 | Rubin |
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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) | Stuart H. Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed biohazard surveillance system including a plurality of robust miniaturized remote monitoring stations for the detection, localized analysis and reporting of a broad range of biohazards. The remote monitoring station may be adapted to identify many different biological particles and is not limited to particular predetermined biohazard profiles. It is centrally and dynamically reconfigurable and can be adapted to operate unattended in a remote location. The distributed system may be used to locate and report unsuspected sources of biohazards and to monitor the localized effects in real-time cooperation with a centralized data processing facility. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/849451 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
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| US 07006947 | Tryon, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Tryon, III (Brentwood, Tennessee); Animesh Dey (Brentwood, Tennessee); A. Lorenz Nasser (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention regards a system reliability or failure predicting apparatus and method that incorporates known information about system component failure into a system model and uses the model with or without other acquired system data to predict the probability of system failure. An embodiment of the method includes using probabilistic methods to create a system failure model from the failure models of individual system components, predicting the failure of the system based on the component models and system data, ranking the sensitivity of the system to the system variables, and communicating a failure prediction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/043712 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07004184 | Handique et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Reagents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kalyan Handique (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The movement and mixing of microdroplets through microchannels is described employing microscale devices, comprising microdroplet transport channels, reaction regions, electrophoresis modules, and radiation detectors. Microdroplets are metered into defined volumes and are subsequently incorporated into a variety of biological assays. Electronic components are fabricated on the same substrate material, allowing sensors and controlling circuitry to be incorporated in the same device. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/911055 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005050 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sundaresh N. Brahmasandra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Victor M. Ugaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel, small-scale, electrophoretic separation system based on photodefined polymers and electrode-defined sample injection. Diffusion and displacement coefficients may be modified by varying the gel concentration, the intensity of the incident UV radiation and the temperature at which the gel is run. The device is an major advance over current technology since it provides for a significant reduction in size of the micro-electrophoresis apparatus and a significant cost savings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/277348 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005119 | Elmalch |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Elmalch (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel imaging agents for clinical diagnosis of injuries and diseases, in the form of a radionuclide in spatial proximity to a substantially pure stereoisomer of a fatty acid analog. The invention also provides methods for using the novel imaging agents, and kits containing one or more of the novel imaging agents of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429416 |
| 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 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005129 | Apicella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Apicella (Solon, Iowa); Melvin G. Sunshine (Iowa City, Iowa); Na-Gyong Lee (Incheon, South Korea); Bradford W. Gibson (Berkeley, California); Rasappa Arumugham (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for identifying, isolating, and producing htrB mutants of gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The method comprises mutating the htrB gene of a gram-negative bacterial pathogen so that there is a lack of a functional htrB protein, resulting in a mutant that lacks one or more secondary acyl chains contained in the wild type gram-negative bacterial pathogen, and displays substantially reduced toxicity as compared to the wild type strain. Also, the present invention provides methods for using a vaccine formulation containing the htrB mutant, the endotoxin isolated therefrom, or the endotoxin isolated therefrom which is then conjugated to a carrier protein, to immunize an individual against infections caused by gram-negative bacterial pathogens by administering a prophylactically effective amount of the vaccine formulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 09/077572 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/197.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005130 | Meng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Gholamreza Haqshenas (Tehran, Iran); Fang-Fang Huang (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel isolated avian hepatitis E virus having a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 or its complementary strand. The invention further concerns immunogenic compositions comprising this new virus or recombinant products such as the nucleic acid and vaccines that protect an avian or mammalian species from viral infection or hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome caused by the hepatitis E virus. Also included in the scope of the invention is a method for propagating, inactivating or attenuating a hepatitis E virus comprising inoculating an embryonated chicken egg with a live, pathogenic hepatitis E virus and recovering the virus or serially passing the pathogenic virus through additional embryonated chicken eggs until the virus is rendered inactivated or attenuated. Further, this invention concerns diagnostic reagents for detecting an avian hepatitis E viral infection or diagnosing hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome in an avian or mammalian species comprising an antibody raised or produced against the immunogenic compositions and antigens such as ORF2 proteins expressed in a baculovirus vector, E. coli, etc. The invention additionally encompasses methods for detecting avian HEV nucleic acid sequences using nucleic acid hybridization probes or oligonucleotide primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/029840 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/225.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005131 | Steinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph M. Steinman (Westport, Connecticut); Christian Muenz (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of a subunit vaccine to prevent or treat infection of Epstein Barr Virus. In particular, EBNA-1 was identified as a vaccine antigen. In a specific embodiment, a purified protein corresponding to EBNA-1 elicited a strong CD4+ T cell response. The responsive CD4+ T cell are primarily TH1 in function. EBNA-1 is an attractive candidate for a protective vaccine against EBV, and for immunotherapy of EBV infection and neoplasms, particularly with dendritic cells charged with EBNA-1. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/049316 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/229.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005256 | Tully et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Nutley, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Tully (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Joshua I. Dubnau (Huntington Station, New York); Michael Davis (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Jan Mous (Giebenach, Switzerland); Ulrich Certa (Allschwil, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of identifying genes involved in memory formation. This is accomplished by performing a gene chip identification of those genes expressed during transcription-dependent memory formation but not during transcription-independent memory formation. A statistical analysis of the gene chip identification output yields a set of genes that are involved in transcription-dependent memory formation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/523066 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005258 | Beach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Beach (Huntington Bay, New York); Konstantin Galaktionov (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Two previously undescribed human cdc25 genes, designated cdc25 A and cdc25 B, which have been shown to have an endogenous tyrosine phosphatase activity that can be specifically activated by B-type cyclin, in the complete absence of cdc2 are described. As a result of this work, new approaches to regulating the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells and, particularly, to regulating the activity of tyrosine specific phosphatases which play a key role in the cell cycle are available. Applicant's invention relates to methods of regulating the cell cycle and, specifically, to regulating activation of cdc2-kinase, through alteration of the activity and/or levels of tyrosine phosphatases or through alteration of the interaction of components of MPF. More specifically, the invention relates to inhibiting transcription or translation of mammalian CDC25A genes using oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/699580 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005269 | Shastri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nilabh Shastri (Richmond, California); Thomas Serwold (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An immune response is modulated by selectively inhibiting ERAAP (an acronym for ER aminopeptidase associated with antigen processing) and confirming a resultant immune response modulation. More particularly, the method comprises contacting a patient determined to be in need of immune response modulation with a physiologically acceptable dosage composition comprising an effective amount of an inhibitor of ERAAP activity; confirming a resultant inhibition of said ERAAP activity and confirming a resultant immune response modulation in the patient. A variety of selective inhibitors are shown to be effective, including amino thiols, such as leucine thiol, ERAAP-specific antibody complementarity-determining region, and an ERAAP-specific siRNA. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/164012 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005270 | Liu 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) | Hsi Liu (Tucker, Georgia); Bret M. Steiner (Chamblee, Georgia); Berta Rodes (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the specific and highly sensitive detection of Treponema pallidum infection comprising the use of specific antigenic proteins and peptides unique to Treponema pallidum are provided. In particular, detection assays based recognition of acidic repeat protein are provided. The methods of the present invention are useful for detection of primary syphilis at early stages of infection. In addition, the methods and compositions disclosed herein are directed to the differential detection of specific Treponema infections enabling the identification of causative agents for specific Treponema disease states: syphilis (Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum), yaws (Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue CDC-1 or CDC-2 strain), and bejel (Treponema pallidum subspecies endemicum). |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017168 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005274 | Terkeltaub et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MIGENIX Corp. (San Diego, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Terkeltaub (San Diego, California); Anne N. Murphy (Encinitas, California); James A. Dykens (Encinitas, California); Soumitra S. Ghosh (San Diego, California); Robert E. Davis (San Diego, California); Andrew E. Granston, Jr. (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to improved diagnostic methods for early detection of a risk for developing an arthritic disorder in humans, and screening assays for therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of arthritic disorders, by comparing the levels of one or more indicators of altered mitochondrial function. Indicators of altered mitochondrial function include enzymes such as mitochondrial enzymes and ATP biosynthesis factors. Other indicators of altered mitochondrial function include mitochondrial mass, mitochondrial number and mitochondrial DNA content, cellular responses to elevated intracellular calcium and to apoptogens, and free radical production. Methods of treating, and of stratifying, human patients as such methods relate to disclosed indicators of altered mitchondrial function are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/661848 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005283 | Croteau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney B. Croteau (Pullman, Washington); Anne Schoendorf (Bossey, France); Stefan Jennewein (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Oxygenase enzymes and the use of such enzymes to produce paclitaxel (Taxol™), related taxoids, as well as intermediates in the Taxol biosynthetic pathway are disclosed. Also disclosed are nucleic acid sequences encoding the oxygenase enzymes. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884115 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005411 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey S. Goodman (Berkeley, California); Thomas Kidd (Berkeley, California); Guy Tear (London, United Kingdom); Claire Russell (London, United Kingdom); Kevin J. Mitchell (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The amount of active Robo expressed on a cell is modified by modulating the effective amount of a Comm polypeptide in contact with the cell, whereby the amount of expressed active Robo is modulated inversely with the modulation of the effective amount of the Comm polypeptide in contact with the cell. In a particular embodiment, the Comm polypeptide is provided to the cell by exogenously in a pharmaceutically acceptable composition. In another aspect, the invention provides methods of screening for agents which modulate Robo-Comm interactions. These methods generally involve forming a mixture of a Robo-expressing cell, a Comm polypeptide and a candidate agent, and determining the effect of the agent on the amount of Robo expressed by the cell. |
| FILED | Friday, November 13, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/191651 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005419 | Wang 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) | Xin Wei Wang (Rockville, Maryland); Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland); Albert J. Fornace, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Jill D. Coursen (Boston, Massachusetts); Qimin Zhan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel methods for assaying for modulators of GADD45 polypeptide activity. The invention also provides means to sensitize a proliferating cell to a DNA base-damaging agent by administration of novel inhibitors of GADD45 polypeptide activity. The invention further provides polypeptides which interfere with the ability of Cdc2/cyclin B1 complexes to cause a pause at the G2/M stage of the cell cycle in response to GADD45, and nucleic acids which encode such polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600158 |
| 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 07005511 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (LaJolla, California); Robert E. Campbell (San Diego, California); Geoffrey S. Baird (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to variant fluorescent proteins, and more specifically to monomeric and dimeric forms of Anthozoan fluorescent proteins. In one aspect, the present invention provides variants of fluorescent proteins, where the variants have a reduced propensity to tetramerize, and form dimeric or monomeric structures. The invention also relates to methods of making and using such fluorescent protein monomers and dimers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209208 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005512 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Olson (Dallas, Texas); Jeffrey A. Spencer (Grand Prairie, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses new muscle ring finger (MURF) proteins designate MURF-1, MURF-2 and MURF-3. The genes encoding these MURFs also are provided. MURFs interact with microtubules and thus play a role in cytoskeletal function, mitosis and cell growth. Thus, the uses of MURFs in diagnosis, treatment and drug screening, in particular relation to cardiomyopathies, are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775627 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005521 | Trost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry M. Trost (Los Altos, California); Iwao Hachiya (Mie, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Complexes of a selected class of chiral ligands with molybdenum, tungsten or chromium, preferably molybdenum, are effective as catalysts in highly enantioselective and regioselective alkylation of allylic substrates. Such compositions provide a versatile and low-cost alternative to existing catalysts. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/498701 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07004198 | Okandan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul C. Galambos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gilbert L. Benavides (Los Ranchos, New Mexico); Dale L. Hetherington (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for simultaneously aligning and interconnecting microfluidic ports is presented. Such interconnections are required to utilize microfluidic devices fabricated in Micro-Electromechanical-Systems (MEMS) technologies, that have multiple fluidic access ports (e.g. 100 micron diameter) within a small footprint, (e.g. 3 mm×6 mm). Fanout of the small ports of a microfluidic device to a larger diameter (e.g. 500 microns) facilitates packaging and interconnection of the microfluidic device to printed wiring boards, electronics packages, fluidic manifolds etc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894636 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/827 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07004669 | Vaughn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Vaughn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Everett S. Hafenrichter (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Agapito C. Chapa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven M. Harris (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marcus J. Martinez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy S. Baty (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for clamping two tubular members together in an end-to-end relationship uses a split ring with a V-shaped outer rim that can engage a clamping surface on each member. The split ring has a relaxed closed state where the ends of the ring are adjacent and the outside diameter of the split ring is less than the minimum inside diameter of the members at their ends. The members are clamped when the split ring is spread into an elastically stretched position where the ring rim is pressed tightly against the interior surfaces of the members. Mechanisms are provided for removing the spreader so the split ring will return to the relaxed state, releasing the clamped members. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/700839 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005179 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Julie K. Hamilton (Tracy, California); Armando R. Tovar (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of metalization in an integrated polymer microsystem. A flexible polymer substrate is provided and conductive ink is applied to the substrate. In one embodiment the flexible polymer substrate is silicone. In another embodiment the flexible polymer substrate comprises poly(dimethylsiloxane). |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371912 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/209 |
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| US 07005200 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyu Wang (Hockessin, Delaware); David Joseph Mitchell (Niskayuna, New York); Yuk-Chiu Lau (Ballston Lake, New York); Arnold Thomas Henry (Gloversville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing an article for use in a high-temperature environment, and an article for use in such an environment, are presented. The method comprises providing a substrate; selecting a desired vertical crack density for a protective coating to be deposited on the substrate; providing a powder, wherein the powder has a size range selected to provide a coating having the desired vertical crack density; and applying a thermal-sprayed coating to the substrate, the coating having the desired vertical crack density, wherein the powder is used as a raw material for the coating. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040796 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/697 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005289 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl5, and the corresponding BGL5 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL5, recombinant BGL5 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/026140 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005301 | Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California); Gregory J. Fiechtner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-dispersion methodology for designing microfabricated conduction channels for on-chip electrokinetic-based systems is presented. The technique relies on trigonometric relations that apply for ideal electrokinetic flows, allowing faceted channels to be designed on chips using common drafting software and a hand calculator. Flows are rotated and stretched along the abrupt interface between adjacent regions with differing permeability. Regions bounded by interfaces form flow “prisms” that can be combined with other designed prisms to obtain a wide range of turning angles and expansion ratios while minimizing dispersion. Designs are demonstrated using two-dimensional numerical solutions of the Laplace equation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456772 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005525 | Dioumaev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir K. Dioumaev (Coram, New York); R. Morris Bullock (Wading River, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Organometallic complexes are provided, which include a catalyst containing a transition metal, a ligand and a component having the formula GArF. ArF is an aromatic ring system selected from phenyl, naphthalenyl, anthracenyl, fluorenyl, or indenyl. The aromatic ring system has at least a substituent selected from fluorine, hydrogen, hydrocarbyl or fluorinated hydrocarbyl, G is substituted or unsubstituted (CH2)n or (CF2)n, wherein n is from 1 to 30, wherein further one or more CH2 or CF2 groups are optionally replaced by NR, PR, SiR2, BR, O or S, or R is hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl, GArF being covalently bonded to either said transition metal or said ligand of said catalyst, thereby rendering said cationic organometallic complex liquid. The catalyst of the organometallic complex can be [CpM(CO)2(NHC)Lk]+A−, wherein M is an atom of molybdenum or tungsten, Cp is substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl radical represented by the formula [C5Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5], wherein Q1 to Q5 are independently selected from the group consisting of H radical, GArF C1-20 hydrocarbyl radical, substituted hydrocarbyl radical, substituted hydrocarbyl radical substituted by GArF, halogen radical, halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl radical, —OR, —C(O)R′, —CO2R′, —SiR′3 and —NR′R″, wherein R′ and R″ are independently selected from the group consisting of H radical, C1-20 hydrocarbyl radical, halogen radical, and halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl radical, wherein said Q1 to Q5 radicals are optionally linked to each other to form a stable bridging group, NHC is any N-heterocyclic carbene ligand, L is either any neutral electron donor ligand, wherein k is a number from 0 to 1 or L is an anionic ligand wherein k is 2, and A− is an anion. Processes using the organometallic complexes as catalysts in catalytic reactions, such as for example, the hydrosilylation of aldehydes, ketones and esters are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731378 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005645 | Von Drasek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Liquide America L.P. (Houston, Texas); Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Von Drasek (Oak Forest, Illinois); David Sonnenfroh (North Andover, Massachusetts); Mark G. Allen (Boston, Massachusetts); Joy Stafford-Evans (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for simultaneous detection of N gas species through laser radiation attenuation techniques is disclosed. Each of the N species has a spectral absorption band. N laser sources operate at a wavelength λN in a spectral absorption band separated by the cutoff wavelength for single-mode transmission. Each laser source corresponds to a gas species and transmits radiation through an optical fiber constructed and arranged to provide single-mode transmission with minimal power loss. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294061 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006217 | Lerner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Lerner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging spectrometer comprising an entrance slit for directing light, a lens that receives said light and reflects said light, a grating that defracts said light back onto said lens which focuses said light, and a detector array that receives said focused light. In one embodiment the grating has rulings immersed into a germanium surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658141 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007035 | Kamath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrika Kamath (Dublin, California); Erick Cantu-Paz (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A data mining decision tree system that uncovers patterns, associations, anomalies, and other statistically significant structures in data by reading and displaying data files, extracting relevant features for each of the objects, and using a method of recognizing patterns among the objects based upon object features through a decision tree that reads the data, sorts the data if necessary, determines the best manner to split the data into subsets according to some criterion, and splits the data. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/877570 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE38988 | Dinwoodie |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Dinwoodie (Piedmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic roofing assembly comprises a roofing membrane (102), a plurality of photovoltaic modules (104, 106, 108) disposed as a layer on top of the roofing membrane (102), and a plurality of pre-formed spacers, pedestals or supports (112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122) which are respectively disposed below the plurality of photovoltaic modules (104, 106, 108) and integral therewith, or fixed thereto. Spacers (112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122) are disposed on top of roofing membrane (102). Membrane (102) is supported on conventional roof framing, and attached thereto by conventional methods. In an alternative embodiment, the roofing assembly may have insulation block (322) below the spacers (314, 314′, 315, 315′). The geometry of the pre-formed spacers (112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 314, 314′, 315, 315′) is such that wind tunnel testing has shown its maximum effectiveness in reducing net forces of wind uplift on the overall assembly. Such construction results in a simple, lightweight, self-ballasting, readily assembled roofing assembly which resists the forces of wind uplift using no roofing penetrations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414347 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07004215 | Knokey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Coe Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Portland, Oregon); Wyoming Sawmills, Inc. (Sheriden, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene R. Knokey (Anacordes, Washington); Ernest W. Schmidt (Sheridan, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232103 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Woodworking 144/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07004620 | Simunovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josip Simunovic (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth R. Swartzel (Raleigh, North Carolina); Eric Adles (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating a temperature measurement for a batch or a continuous stream of material. The method includes providing a particle having a signal that changes at a pre-determined temperature; inserting the particle into the batch or continuous stream; and detecting a signal change from the particle to thereby generate a temperature measurement for the batch or continuous stream. A suitable system for use in carrying out the method is also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855118 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005049 | Broadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Broadley Technologies Corporation (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Broadley (Mission Viejo, California); Steven R. Ragsdale (Mission Viejo, California); Herbert P. Silverman (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flowing junction reference electrode comprises a microfluidic liquid junction member situated between a pressurized reference electrolyte solution and a sample solution. This liquid junction member has an array of nanochannels spanning the member and physically connecting the electrolyte and the sample. While the electrolyte flows through the nanochannels and into the sample, the sample does not substantially enter the nanochannels via diffusion, migration, convection or other mechanisms. The number of nanochannels in the array can be between 10 and 108. Preferably, the nanochannels are substantially straight and parallel to one another. The nanochannels can have widths of between 1 and 500 nanometers, and the width of any one nanochannel is substantially equal to the width of any other nanochannel. The member can be manufactured out a polymer such as polycarbonate and polyimide, and may also be made of silicon, glass, or ceramic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621004 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005521 | Trost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry M. Trost (Los Altos, California); Iwao Hachiya (Mie, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Complexes of a selected class of chiral ligands with molybdenum, tungsten or chromium, preferably molybdenum, are effective as catalysts in highly enantioselective and regioselective alkylation of allylic substrates. Such compositions provide a versatile and low-cost alternative to existing catalysts. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/498701 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006039 | Miyamoto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Y. Miyamoto (Honolulu, Hawaii); Wayne A. Shiroma (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Grant S. Shiroma (Hilo, Hawaii); Blaine T. Murakami (Mililani, Hawaii); Aaron Ohta (Honolulu, Hawaii); Michael Tamamoto (Mililani, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S/N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911928 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006088 | Guskov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Guskov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrei Khodakovsky (Pasadena, California); Peter Schröder (Pasadena, California); Wim Sweldens (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a hybrid mesh representation of an object surface is provided, along with the hybrid mesh representation and data structures corresponding to various polygons in the hybrid mesh representation. The hybrid mesh representation comprises a base mesh and one or more higher level meshes. At least one of the higher level meshes representing a patch is an irregular mesh. The method of forming the hybrid mesh representation comprises the steps of forming a base mesh, and then forming one or more higher level meshes from the base mesh through one or more regular refinement operations in combination with at least one irregular operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/066100 |
| ART UNIT | 2671 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006676 | Zeylikovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical Optical Imaging, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iosif Semen Zeylikovich (Charlotte, North Carolina); Michael Victor Klibanov (Charlotte, North Carolina); Andrey Anatolyevich Kharisov (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting an abnormality in a host medium, such as a tumor within a patient's breast. The host medium is initially illuminated at a plurality of different positions with light of at least two different wavelengths. Following the propagation of the signals through the host medium, the amplitude and phase of the signals are detected and, based upon the detected signals, a shadow image can be created in which the abnormality is depicted as a suspicious region. Once a suspicious region has been identified, at least that portion of the host medium that contains the suspicious region is again illuminated with frequency-swept modulated signals of at least two different wavelengths generated by the light source and modulated by a modulator, such as a network analyzer. Based upon the detected signals that have propagated through at least that portion of the host medium that includes the suspicious region, a P-criteria can be determined that is dependent upon the coefficient of absorptivity of the host medium and embedded abnormalities. Likewise, an Svar-criteria can be determined based upon concentrations of oxygenated hemoglobin and deoxygenated hemoglobin. Based upon at least these criteria which reflect physiological parameters of the host medium and embedded abnormalities as well as the possible comparison of the shadow images to an x-ray image of the host medium, the abnormality can be characterized. In addition, an apparatus is provided that facilitates the compression of a patient's breast in order to improve the resulting images. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/531262 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07005648 | Baumgartner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Edward Baumgartner (Niskayuna, New York); David Francis Fobare (Niskayuna, New York); Michael Clement DeJule (Clifton Park, New York); Ching-Yeu Wei (Niskayuna, New York); William Andrew Hennessy (Rexford, New York); Robert John Wojnarowski (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an X-ray detector assembly and a fabrication method, where the X-ray detector assembly comprises a scintillator material disposed on a detector matrix array disposed on a detector substrate; an encapsulating coating disposed on the scintillator material; a moisture resistant cover disposed over the detector substrate and the encapsulating coating, and an adhesive material disposed between the detector substrate and the moisture resistant cover so as to form a moisture vapor barrier. The adhesive material is disposed so that it is not in contact with the encapsulating coating. The fabrication method of the X-ray detector assembly includes the steps of disposing the encapsulating coating on the scintillator material and a portion of the detector substrate and removing the encapsulating coating from the portion of the detector substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719117 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07005672 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Dasarao K. Murti (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film transistor including: an insulating layer; a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer including coalesced structurally ordered polymer aggregates of a self-organizable polymer, wherein the self-organizable polymer is of a type capable of gelling; a source electrode; and a drain electrode, wherein the insulating layer, the gate electrode, the semiconductor layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode are in any sequence as long as the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer both contact the insulating layer, and the source electrode and the drain electrode both contact the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/720597 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07005265 | Fan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Wenhong Fan (Mountain View, California); Alan M. Cassell (San Jose, California); Jie Han (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, methods, and kits for amplifying the signal from hybridization reactions between nucleic acid probes and their cognate targets are presented. The devices provide partially-duplexed, immobilized probe complexes, spatially separate from and separately addressable from immobilized docking strands. Cognate target acts catalytically to transfer probe from the site of probe complex immobilization to the site of immobilized docking strand, generating a detectable signal. The methods and kits of the present invention may be used to identify the presence of cognate target in a fluid sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178683 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006203 | Book et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Book (Huntsville, Alabama); Thomas C. Bryan (Huntsville, Alabama); Richard T. Howard (Huntsville, Alabama); Fred Davis Roe, Jr. (Huntsville, Alabama); Joseph L. Bell (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A video guidance sensor system for use, e.g., in automated docking of a chase vehicle with a target vehicle. The system includes an integrated rangefinder sub-system that uses time of flight measurements to measure range. The rangefinder sub-system includes a pair of matched photodetectors for respectively detecting an output laser beam and return laser beam, a buffer memory for storing the photodetector outputs, and a digitizer connected to the buffer memory and including dual amplifiers and analog-to-digital converters. A digital signal processor processes the digitized output to produce a range measurement. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/646000 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07005049 | Broadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Broadley Technologies Corporation (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Broadley (Mission Viejo, California); Steven R. Ragsdale (Mission Viejo, California); Herbert P. Silverman (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flowing junction reference electrode comprises a microfluidic liquid junction member situated between a pressurized reference electrolyte solution and a sample solution. This liquid junction member has an array of nanochannels spanning the member and physically connecting the electrolyte and the sample. While the electrolyte flows through the nanochannels and into the sample, the sample does not substantially enter the nanochannels via diffusion, migration, convection or other mechanisms. The number of nanochannels in the array can be between 10 and 108. Preferably, the nanochannels are substantially straight and parallel to one another. The nanochannels can have widths of between 1 and 500 nanometers, and the width of any one nanochannel is substantially equal to the width of any other nanochannel. The member can be manufactured out a polymer such as polycarbonate and polyimide, and may also be made of silicon, glass, or ceramic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621004 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006676 | Zeylikovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical Optical Imaging, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iosif Semen Zeylikovich (Charlotte, North Carolina); Michael Victor Klibanov (Charlotte, North Carolina); Andrey Anatolyevich Kharisov (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting an abnormality in a host medium, such as a tumor within a patient's breast. The host medium is initially illuminated at a plurality of different positions with light of at least two different wavelengths. Following the propagation of the signals through the host medium, the amplitude and phase of the signals are detected and, based upon the detected signals, a shadow image can be created in which the abnormality is depicted as a suspicious region. Once a suspicious region has been identified, at least that portion of the host medium that contains the suspicious region is again illuminated with frequency-swept modulated signals of at least two different wavelengths generated by the light source and modulated by a modulator, such as a network analyzer. Based upon the detected signals that have propagated through at least that portion of the host medium that includes the suspicious region, a P-criteria can be determined that is dependent upon the coefficient of absorptivity of the host medium and embedded abnormalities. Likewise, an Svar-criteria can be determined based upon concentrations of oxygenated hemoglobin and deoxygenated hemoglobin. Based upon at least these criteria which reflect physiological parameters of the host medium and embedded abnormalities as well as the possible comparison of the shadow images to an x-ray image of the host medium, the abnormality can be characterized. In addition, an apparatus is provided that facilitates the compression of a patient's breast in order to improve the resulting images. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/531262 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07005296 | Handler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred M. Handler (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a transformation system for making transgenic organisms that includes a vector containing a modified piggyBac transposon into which is inserted an enhanced green fluorescent protein gene linked to a polyubiquitin promoter sequence and a nuclear localizing sequence; and a helper transposase vector that includes an hsp7O promoter sequence upstream of the putative piggyBac promoter that increases the transformation frequency of this system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/101840 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07005274 | Terkeltaub et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MIGENIX Corp. (San Diego, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Terkeltaub (San Diego, California); Anne N. Murphy (Encinitas, California); James A. Dykens (Encinitas, California); Soumitra S. Ghosh (San Diego, California); Robert E. Davis (San Diego, California); Andrew E. Granston, Jr. (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to improved diagnostic methods for early detection of a risk for developing an arthritic disorder in humans, and screening assays for therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of arthritic disorders, by comparing the levels of one or more indicators of altered mitochondrial function. Indicators of altered mitochondrial function include enzymes such as mitochondrial enzymes and ATP biosynthesis factors. Other indicators of altered mitochondrial function include mitochondrial mass, mitochondrial number and mitochondrial DNA content, cellular responses to elevated intracellular calcium and to apoptogens, and free radical production. Methods of treating, and of stratifying, human patients as such methods relate to disclosed indicators of altered mitchondrial function are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/661848 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07006031 | Abatzoglou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theagenis J. Abatzoglou (Huntington Beach, California); Leo H. Hui (Alhambra, California); Kwang M. Cho (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | SAR images are improved by a method for acquiring a synthetic aperture image from a sequence of periodic pulse returns where the sequence of periodic pulse returns is interspersed with interrupts, i.e. missing pulses. The interrupts mark the start and end of one or more segments, where the segments contain the periodic pulse returns form the SAR image. The method comprises the steps of: converting said pulse returns into a digital stream; performing an azimuth deskew on said digital stream to obtain a deskewed digital stream; forming a forward-backward data matrix from the deskewed digital stream for one or more segments; forming an average segment covariance from the forward-backward data matrix; computing a model order for the average segment covariance; computing one or more linear prediction coefficients using data contained in the forward backward data matrix, and model order; using the linear prediction coefficients to compute missing pulse returns belonging within the interrupts. The computation for extrapolating the missing pulse returns is introduced after the Stolt interpolator in RMA processing. In computing the model order, eigenvalues are found and compared to a threshold. Roots of a linear prediction polynomial are computed, then stabilized to obtain stabilized roots. Linear prediction coefficients are reconstituted using the stabilized roots. Sub-bands are used to decrease computing time for the missing pulse returns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968780 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07005652 | Vanderlinde |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Edward Vanderlinde (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a sample-stage for a scanning electron microscope. The sample stage has a U-shaped base, horizontally oriented with the closed end forming the right side. A bottom member abuts the bottom of the U-shaped base, forming an interior cavity with the U-shaped base. An angled support member abuts the top of the U-shaped base farthest from the right side for holding a sample at a user-defined angle. A first reflector abuts a portion of the interior right side of the U-shaped base, and a second reflector abuts a portion of the top surface of the bottom member. A beam stop abuts a portion of the right side of the U-shaped base. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962872 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/440.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07005849 | Tse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chun Tse (Beltsville, Maryland); Charles S. Krafft (Owings Mills, Maryland); Isaak D. Mayergoyz (Rockville, Maryland); Dragos I. Mircea (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (10) and method for high-speed massive magnetic imaging on a spin-stand (12) is provided. The system (10) includes a spin-stand system (12) for driving a rotational spindle (20) to which a magnetic hard disk (30) is mounted. A magnetic read head (40) reads data from disk (30) and is in electrical communication with a universal head preamplification board (50). The universal head preamplification board (50) outputs readable voltage signals which are transmitted to an oscilloscope (60) for displaying a read-back voltage display (70). The signals are processed by a processing means (90) to generate scanned image data (100) on a display means. The display signals (70) are utilized to calibrate the magnetically read data to account for the eccentricity of the hard disks with respect to the center of rotation of the spin-stand spindle. Whole tracks of hard disk data can be imaged through the process of “track-centering” and “track-following”. An alignment algorithm is used to align the magnetically read data to compensate for the instability of the triggering signal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697300 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006568 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junfeng Gu (Austin, Texas); Yimin Jiang (Rockville, Maryland); John S. Baras (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A video encoding/decoding system based on 3D wavelet decomposition and the human perceptual model is implemented. JND is applied in quantizer design to improve the subjective quality of compressed video. The 3D wavelet decomposition helps to remove spatial and temporal redundancy and provides scalability of video quality. In order to conceal the errors that may, occur under bad wireless channel conditions, a slicing method and a joint source channel coding scenario, that combines RCPC with CRC and utilizes the distortion information to allocate convolutional coding rates are proposed. A new subjective quality index based on JND is presented and used to evaluate the overall system performance at different signal to noise rations (SNR) and at different compression ratios. Due to the wide use of arithmetic coding (AC) in data compression, it is considered as a readily available unit in the video codec system for broadcasting. A new scheme for conditional access (CA) sub-system is designed based on the compression graphic property of arithmetic coding. Its performance is analyzed along with its application in a multi-resolution video compression system. This scheme simplifies the conditional access sub-system and provides satisfactory system reliability. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/979930 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07006718 | Lieberman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Lieberman (Torrance, California); Claudio O. Egalon (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Distributed fiber optic chemical and physical sensors provide a relatively highly uniform response over the length of the fiber by, for example, varying such properties as the core/cladding index of refraction ratio to compensate for the non-linearity in sensitivity due to the loss of higher order modes in multi-mode fibers. The variation of the ratio changes the absorption coefficient of the fiber and can be used to compensate for any non-linearity in response. Other techniques for compensation also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717080 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
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.
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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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)
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