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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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| US 07007475 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ly D. Nguyen (Phoenix, Arizona); Hakan Aksoy (Tempe, Arizona); Stony Kujala (Tempe, Arizona); Cristopher Frost (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A conical helical design for a turbine combustor scroll utilizes as much cavity of the combustor housing as possible by adding an axial shift and an irregular cross sectional shape in the scroll without adversely effecting aerodynamic performance. The axial shift region of the combustor scroll extends the cross-sectional area centroid of the scroll beyond the scroll's discharge area B-width. The resulting scroll design allows for the use of a high performance engine with a larger combustor while reducing the weight of the system by making the combustor housing as small as possible. Furthermore, the scroll design increases the air velocity for convection cooling by reducing the gap between the scroll and the housing. The turbine scroll of the present invention is useful in engines for which high performance is required, such as certain high performance aircraft. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386771 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007480 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ly D. Nguyen (Phoenix, Arizona); Gregory O. Woodcock (Mesa, Arizona); Stony Kujala (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-axial pivoting liner within the combustion system of a turbine engine allows the system to work with minimum thermal interference, especially during system operation at transient conditions, by allowing the liner to pivot and slide about its centerline and relative to the turbine scroll. The pivoting liner has the ability to control and minimize air leakage from part to part, for example, from the liner to the turbine scroll and liner to the surrounding structures, during various operating conditions. Additionally, the liner provides for easy assembly with no flow path steps. Finally, the pivoting liner tolerates thermal and mechanical stresses and minimizes thermal wear. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/410791 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007483 | Peters |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Peters (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A convergent/divergent nozzle for a gas turbine engine has a throat portion of non-constant radius of curvature varying from an upstream high value to an intermediate low value and then to a downstream high value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/013224 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/771 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007569 | Jermyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Jermyn (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A telescoping lever arm comprises a tube and a rod. The tube has an opening at one end thereof and has an inner circumferential dimension along the inside thereof. The opening is smaller than the inner circumferential dimension of the tube. The rod has an outer circumferential dimension that is smaller than that of the tube's opening. The rod resides partially in the tube and extends therefrom via the tube's opening. At least one annular flange is coupled to the rod at a portion thereof residing in the tube. Each such annular flange is defined by a circumferential dimension that is larger than that of the tube's opening and smaller than the inner circumferential dimension of the tube. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384927 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007585 | Gonzalez |
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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) | Rene′ G. Gonzalez (Southfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-hit transparent armor system is described and claimed herein for improving the resistance of transparent armor to incoming projectiles. Typically, the transparent armor is framed within a window opening of a security structure. An exemplary, contemplated structure is an armored combat vehicle. My system includes a sheet of tempered glass that is also positioned within said window, but is deployed outboard of said transparent armor and is also parallel planar thereto. Positioned below said sheet of tempered glass, and coaxial thereto, is an opaque armor panel that is more efficient and effective against multiple projectiles than either the tempered glass or transparent armor alone. The tempered glass sheet and the opaque armor are typically loaded under compression by a spring assembly. An incoming projectile, launched from a position outboard and also remote from said structure, will first strike the tempered glass before hitting my transparent armor. Thereby, the tempered glass sheet will undergo global failure and is effectively removed from the window opening. In turn, the spring assembly translates the opaque armor into the position formerly occupied by the tempered glass sheet. Subsequently arriving projectiles are then defeated by the opaque armor panel. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701411 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007606 | Maurer 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) | Walter H. Maurer (Ridgecrest, California); Gabriel H. Soto (Ridgecrest, California); David R. Hollingsworth (Fallon, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method utilizing a MEMS safe arm device for electronically arming and firing a MEMS-scale interrupted explosive train to detonate a main charge explosive. The device includes a MEMS slider assembly housing a transfer charge electrically actuated to move between safe and armed positions of the explosive train. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901395 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007607 | Fong 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) | Richard Fong (Rockaway, New Jersey); William Ng (Fort Lee, New Jersey); LaMar Thompson (Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A hinged explosively formed projectile warhead system eliminates exposure of soldiers to harm in wall breaching operations by providing a lethal mechanism that can be deployed at safe distances, simultaneously breaching a man-sized hole and removing one or more rows of rebar in reinforced concrete structures or barriers. The warhead system employs both a missile system and explosively formed projectile warhead technology delivered to the target from a tube launched platform. A set of warhead arms is attached to the aft end of a missile body by means of a set of hinges. The warhead arms are initially folded against the missile body. After launch of the warhead system, the warhead arms fold away from the missile body. The angle at which the warhead arms are folded from the missile body determines the area of a hole breached by the warhead system in a reinforced concrete target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709120 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007626 | Hobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett W. Hobson (Carmel, California); Mathieu Kemp (Durham, North Carolina); Ryan Moody (Raleigh, North Carolina); Charles A. Pell (Durham, North Carolina); Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices for navigating in a fluid medium having a solid boundary include a vehicle body and a fin attached to the vehicle body. The fin is configured to oscillate relative to the body such that interaction between the fin and the fluid medium produces propulsive forces that propel the vehicle body in a desired direction in the fluid medium. The fin is also configured to rotate relative to the body along a transverse axis such that engagement between the fin and the solid boundary propels the vehicle body in a desired direction on the solid boundary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/170562 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007690 | Grove 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) | Corey M. Grove (Red Lion, Pennsylvania); Stephen E. Chase (Jarrettsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved crew mask for protection of a user against chemical and biological hazards is provided. The novel crew mask includes the following features: a facepiece that includes a hybrid face seal with both intern and flat seals, and at least one transparent lens positioned at the level of the eyes of the person; at least one inlet hose for delivery of filtered air operably connected to the facepiece; at least one exhaust one-way exhaust port for venting air from the crew mask; and a compact filter unit with a reduced airflow resistance relative to currently employed filter units. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/653569 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/201.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008183 | Sayegh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samir Dimitri Sayegh (Melrose, Massachusetts); Glen William Royal (Cincinnati, Ohio); Massimo Rufo (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An impingement baffle includes a perforate plate having a pattern of impingement holes. An imperforate deflector is spaced from the plate and is smaller than the plate for deflecting inlet air around the deflector to the holes. The baffle is disposed between a turbine shroud and supporting hanger, and the deflector is disposed between the hanger and the baffle. |
| FILED | Friday, December 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746092 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008544 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes and apparatus are disclosed for separating and purifying aqueous solutions such as seawater by causing a substantially impermeable mat of gas hydrate to form on a porous restraint. Once the mat of gas hydrate has formed on the porous restraint, the portion of the mat of gas hydrate adjacent to the restraint is caused to dissociate and flow through the restraint, e.g., by lowering the pressure in a collection region on the opposite side of the restraint. The purified or desalinated water may then be recovered from the collection region. The process may be used for marine desalination as well as for drying wet gas and hydrocarbon solutions. If conditions in the solution are not conductive to forming hydrate, a heated or refrigerated porous restraint may be used to create hydrate-forming conditions near the restraint, thereby causing gas hydrates to form directly on the surface of the restraint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429765 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/708 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008559 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present relates in general to upconversion luminescence (“UCL”) materials and methods of making and using same and more particularly, but not meant to be limiting, to Mn2+ doped semiconductor nanoparticles for use as UCL materials. The present invention also relates in general to upconversion luminescence including two-photon absorption upconversion, and potential applications using UCL materials, including light emitting diodes, upconversion lasers, infrared detectors, chemical sensors, temperature sensors and biological labels, all of which incorporate a UCL material. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166313 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008674 | Nagaraj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Robert George Baur (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal barrier coating for an underlying metal substrate of articles that operate at, or are exposed to, high temperatures, as well as being exposed to environmental contaminant compositions. This coating comprises an optional inner layer nearest to the underlying metal substrate comprising a non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material in an amount up to 100%, and an outer layer having an exposed surface and comprising at least about 50% of a non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material and alumina in an amount up to about 50% and sufficient to protect the thermal barrier coating at least partially against environmental contaminants that become deposited on the exposed surface. This coating can be used to provide a thermally protected article having a metal substrate and optionally a bond coat layer adjacent to and overlaying the metal substrate. The thermal barrier coating can be prepared by optionally forming the inner layer of the non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material, and then codepositing the alumina and non-alumina ceramic thermal barrier coating material to form the outer layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990542 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008675 | Kornfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Techology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, California); Michael D. Kempe (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optically active polymer gel material comprising a high molecular weight alignment polymer adapted to be homogeneously dispersed throughout a liquid crystal to control the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules and/or confer mechanical stability is provided. The electro-optically active polymer gel comprises a homogenous gel in which the polymer strands of the gel are provided in low concentration and are well solvated by the small molecule liquid crystal without producing unacceptable slowing of its electrooptic response. During formation of the gel, a desired orientation is locked into the gel by physical or chemical cross-linking of the polymer chains. The electro-optically active polymer is then utilized to direct the orientation in the liquid crystal gel in the “field off” state of a liquid crystal display. The electro-optically active polymer also provides a memory of the mesostructural arrangement of the liquid crystal and acts to suppress the formation of large scale deviations, such as, for example, fan-type defects in a FLC when subjected to a mechanical shock. A method of making an electro-optically active polymer gel material and an electrooptic device utilizing the electro-optically active polymer gel of the present invention is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993575 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008749 | Gonsalves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Gonsalves (Concord, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new high resolution resists applicable to next generation lithographies, methods of making these novel resists, and methods of using these new resists in lithographic processes to effect state-of-the-art lithographies. New nanocomposite resists comprising nanoparticles in a polymer matrix are provided in this invention. New chemically amplified resists that incorporate inorganic moieties as part of the polymer are presented herein, as are new chemically amplified resists that incorporate photoacid generating groups within the polymeric chain. Novel non-chemically amplified yet photosensitive resists, and new organic-inorganic hybrid resists are also provided herein. This invention and the embodiments described herein constitute fundamentally new architectures for high resolution resists. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/992560 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008774 | Ryan 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) | Jeffrey R. Ryan (Reston, Virginia); Samuel K. Martin (Burtonsville, Maryland); Anthony M. Smithyman (Collaroy, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the diagnosis of visceral, cutaneous and canine leishmaniasis in a subject suspected of being infected with the parasitic protozoa Leishmania is disclosed. Disclosed are antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the detection of antibodies to Leishmania parasite soluble antigens and antigen-capture ELISAs for the detection of Leishmania parasite soluble antigens in host samples. Also disclosed are immunodiagnostic kits for the detection of Leishmania parasite circulating antigens or IgM and IgG antibodies in a sample from subject having visceral, cutaneous or canine leishmaniasis. In these methods and kits, detection may be done photometrically or visually. The methods and kits also allow the visualization of Leishmania amastigotes or promastigotes in a sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/173586 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008806 | Zhao 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) | Peiji Zhao (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dwight Woolard (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of determining causes of intrinsic oscillations in a double-barrier quantum-well intrinsic oscillator comprising developing an emitter quantum-well (EQW) from a double-barrier quantum-well system (DBQWS); coupling the EQW to a main quantum-well (MQW), wherein the MQW is defined by double-barrier heterostructures of a resonant tunneling diode; using energy subband coupling to induce quantum-based fluctuations in the EQW; creating intrinsic oscillations in electron density and electron current in the DBQWS; forming a distinct subband structure based on the intrinsic oscillations; and identifying a THz-frequency signal source based on the quantum-based fluctuations, wherein the intrinsic oscillations comprise maximum subband coherence, partial subband coherence, and minimum subband coherence, wherein the energy subband is a quantum mechanical energy subband, wherein the intrinsic oscillations occur proximate to a bias voltage point in the range of 0.224 V and 0.280 V, and wherein current oscillations are stable proximate to the bias voltage point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927654 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009141 | Wool et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Lasertronics Corp. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell R. Wool (Sunnyvale, California); James W. Thomas (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary refractive laser scanner head uses two sets of lenses and prisms aligned along a common optical axis. Each prism is paired with one of the lenses. The lens-prism pairs are separately mounted rotatable on a common axis coaxial with the optical axis. A motor drives two gear sets. Each gear set is separately coupled to one of the two lens-prism pairs and rotates them at selected, typically different speeds. An input laser beam is directed along the optical axis at one of the lens-prism pairs. The first pair collimates and refracts the input beam into an intermediate deflected beam according to Snell's law and the characteristics of the laser beam and optics. The second pair receives the intermediate beam and further deflects it to form an output beam. By selecting the motor speed, gear ratios, optics spacing, characteristics and prism wedge (deflection) angle, the scanner head effectively can scan an output laser beam over a desired pattern area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272329 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.730 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009209 | Casady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (RTC) (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey B. Casady (Starkville, Mississippi); Michael Mazzola (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon carbide semi-insulating epitaxy layer is used to create power devices and integrated circuits having significant performance advantages over conventional devices. A silicon carbide semi-insulating layer is formed on a substrate, such as a conducting substrate, and one or more semiconducting devices are formed on the silicon carbide semi-insulating layer. The silicon carbide semi-insulating layer, which includes, for example, 4H or 6H silicon carbide, is formed using a compensating material, the compensating material being selected depending on preferred characteristics for the semi-insulating layer. The compensating material includes, for example, boron, vanadium, chromium, or germanium. Use of a silicon carbide semi-insulating layer provides insulating advantages and improved thermal performance for high power and high frequency semiconductor applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/033785 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009338 | D'Andrade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D'Andrade (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to efficient organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) doped with multiple light-emitting dopants, at least one dopant comprising a phosphorescent emitter, in a thin film emissive layer or layers. The present invention is directed to an efficient phosphorescent organic light emitting device utilizing a plurality of emissive dopants in an emissive region, wherein at least one of the dopants is a phosphorescent material. Thus, the present invention provides an organic light emitting device comprising an emissive region, wherein the emissive region comprises a host material, and a plurality of emissive dopants, wherein the emissive region is comprised of a plurality of bands and each emissive dopant is doped into a separate band within the emissive region, and wherein at least one of the emissive dopants emits light by phosphorescence. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144419 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009392 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Totalforsvarets Forskningsinstitut (Stockholm, Sweden); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. C. Robinson (Stockholm, Sweden); Mattias F. Karlsson (Bandhagen, Sweden); Peter Sigray (Skärholmen, Sweden); Adi R. Bulsara (San Diego, California); Luca Gammaitoni (Perugia, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of estimating target signals (dc or low frequency signals) by a dynamical fluxgate sensor and a low-power fluxgate magnetometer operating according to the method. The sensor is pre-biased with a periodic bias signal in the form of a superposition of a square wave and a triangular wave. The change in residence time statistics in the stable state of the sensor is analyzed for estimating the target signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/482999 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009414 | Worledge |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Worledge (Poughquag, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining properties of a sample surface using an atomic force microscope includes applying a first voltage between the sample and a probe, moving the probe towards the surface of the sample, and stopping movement of the probe towards the surface of the sample when current in the probe is initially detected. An oscillating magnetic field is applied to the probe such that the probe obtains stable contact with the surface of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/688630 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009526 | Hughes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Hughes (Pasco, Washington); Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of rapidly identifying RFID tags in an RFID system including a reader and a plurality of RFID tags, the tags having respective IDs formed of a plurality of bit locations, the method comprising determining in the reader which bit locations do not add to the uniqueness of the IDs of the tags; and ignoring data in bit locations that do not add to the uniqueness of the IDs of the tags. An RFID system comprising a plurality of RFID tags, the tags having respective IDs formed of a plurality of bit locations; and an RFID reader configured to communicate with the RFID tags, the reader being configured to determine which bit locations do not add to the uniqueness of the IDs of the tags, and to ignore data in bit locations that do not add to the uniqueness of the IDs of the tags. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263873 |
| ART UNIT | 2635 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/825.490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009564 | Ryken 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) | Marvin L. Ryken (Oxnard, California); Albert F. Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A TM microstrip antenna designed to transmit telemetry data for use by a nine inch diameter projectile. The microstrip antenna is configured to wrap around the projectile's body without interfering with the aerodynamic design of the projectile. The TM microstrip antenna operates at 2.25 GHz with a bandwidth of ±10 MHz. Eight microstrip antenna elements equally spaced around the projectile provide for linear polarization and a quasi-omni directional radiation pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/817412 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009572 | Homer 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) | Robert S. Homer (San Diego, California); Bruce Calder (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved tapered slot antenna. The structure includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a brace, a semi-infinite balun and a radome. The first and second antenna elements are operatively coupled to the brace in a tapered slot antenna configuration. The first and second input feed of the semi-infinite balun are operatively coupled to the first and second antenna elements, respectively, so that the second input feed is situated along substantially an entire length of a feed channel of the second antenna element. The radome is operatively coupled to the first and second antenna elements. A method for fabricating improved tapered slot antennas is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932650 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009759 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming-Hsien Chou (Saratoga, California); Krishnan Parameswaran (Mountain View, California); Martin M. Fejer (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-channel optical frequency mixer for all-optical signal processing and a method for engineering the same. The multi-channel mixer uses a nonlinear optical material exhibiting an effective nonlinearity deff whose spatial distribution is defined by a quasi-phase-matching grating, e.g., a QPM grating. The spatial distribution is defined such that its Fourier transform to the spatial frequency domain defines at least two wavelength channels which are quasi-phase-matched for performing optical frequency mixing. The wavelength channels correspond to dominant Fourier components and the Fourier transform is appropriately adjusted using grating parameters such as grating periods, phase reversal sequences and duty cycles to include an odd or even number of dominant Fourier components. The multi-channel mixer can perform frequency mixing operations such as second harmonic generation (SHG), difference frequency generation (DFG), sum frequency generation (SFG), and parametric amplification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/821701 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010010 | Capasso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico Capasso (Westfield, New Jersey); Alfred Yi Cho (Summit, New Jersey); Claire F. Gmachl (New Providence, New Jersey); Milton L. Peabody (Somerville, New Jersey); Arthur Mike Sergent (New Providence, New Jersey); Deborah Lee Sivco (Warren, New Jersey); Alexander Soibel (Westfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband CLE capable of operation simultaneously at multiple wavelengths comprises: a core region including a multiplicity or cascade of stages, each stage including a radiative transition region. A first group of stages emits radiation at a first wavelength and at a first aggregate intensity per group, and a second group of stages emits radiation at a second wavelength and at a second aggregate intensity per group lower than the first intensity. The invention is characterized in that the second group has more stages than said first group, and the per-stage intensity of the first group is greater than that of the second group. This design reduces the difference between said first and second aggregate intensities. In one embodiment, groups that are located at or near to the ends of the cascade have more stages than groups that are centrally located within the cascade regardless of their wavelength. Our invention significantly reduces variations in modal gain across the desired broadband spectrum and produces sufficiently flat gain without requiring elaborate redesign of the stages. These features enable cw operation of a broadband intersubband laser. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465253 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010052 | Dill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey C. Dill (Athens, Ohio); Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth (Athens, Ohio); Alan Ray Lindsey (Remsen, New York); Yung-Cheng Lo (San Leandro, California); Frank A. Alder (McArthur, Ohio); Xiangyu Song (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of building systematically a multi-dimensional (n, D, L) circular trellis coded modulation (CTCM) encoder with properties of optimal energy efficiency, strong tail biting and maximum minimum distance (dmin) of trellis paths is disclosed. In addition, a communication system for use in a power limited channel application is disclosed comprising a circular trellis coded modulation (CTCM) encoder with permuted state structure for encoding based on a circular trellis path associated with a sequence of digital information bits and a set of simplexes identified for the path from a multi-dimensional signal constellation; a transmitter coupled to said CTCM encoder for transmitting said sequence of channel symbols over said channel; a receiver for receiving a transmission from said transmitter including said sequence of channel symbols and any noise induced therein; and a CTCM decoder coupled to said receiver for decoding the received transmission without knowledge of the starting state of the circular trellis path of the CTCM encoder to recover the sequence of information bits. Apparatus and methods of encoding and decoding are also disclosed utilizing a combination of circular trellis-coded modulation with permuted state structure and simplex signal constellation techniques for use in the digital communication system. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/835727 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010060 | Ledvina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent M. Ledvina (Ithaca, New York); Mark L. Psiaki (Brooktondale, New York); Steven P. Powell (Ithaca, New York); Paul M. Kintner, Jr. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time software receiver that executes on a general purpose processor. The software receiver includes data acquisition and correlator modules that perform, in place of hardware correlation, baseband mixing and PRN code correlation using bit-wise parallelism. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753927 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010069 | Chugg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trellisware Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith M. Chugg (Burbank, California); Gent Paparisto (Carlsbad, California); Prokopios Panagiotou (Lakewood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for co-channel interference identification and mitigation employs adaptive sequence detection in connection with a model composed of a signal of interest and a combination of other signals which constitute interference in a channel of interest, wherein the signal of interest is distinguished from the interference by adaptive tracking of signal parameters of all identifiable signals. In a particular embodiment, the process involves estimating the number and time spans of co-channel interference channels based on maximum likelihood estimation and minimum description length from training information derived from a single time division multiple access packet; and then applying the estimate to mitigation of co-channel interference at a receiver. Per-survivor-processing is one technique for adaptive sequence detection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/006795 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/346 |
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| US 07010089 | Eikenberg |
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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) | Steven L. Eikenberg (Ft. Knox, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus including but not limited to a charge-coupled device(CCD)-array sensor positioning mechanism, the positioning mechanism structured to position a CCD-array sensor to capture a first target area; and the CCD-array sensor positioning mechanism further structured to position the CCD-array sensor to capture a second target area proximate to the first target area, the first and second target areas spatially related such that a first radiographic image recorded at the first target area may be combined with a second radiographic image recorded at the second target area to form a composite radiographic image substantially analogous to a single radiographic image of an aggregate target area covered by the first and second target areas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409722 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010262 | Tyson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott M. Tyson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for circumventing jamming of receivers for a global positioning system (GPS) include determining that a receiver is being jammed by a jamming signal not originating from the GPS. A first signal is transmitted from a portable unit including the receiver to a component of a second positioning system that is different from the GPS. A second signal is received from the second positioning system. The second signal includes data that indicates a position for the portable unit determined in the second positioning system based at least in part on the first signal. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/216005 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010339 | Mullen 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) | Linda J. Mullen (Chesapeake Beach, Maryland); Vincent M. Contarino (Lusby, Maryland); Peter R. Herczfeld (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid lidar-radar system for detecting the presence of objects, such as cancerous tumors, within tissues by detecting reflected signals from the tissue and discriminating the information related to the cancerous tumor from the undesirable backscattering of light created by the tissue itself. The hybrid lidar-radar system utilizes continuous wave light that is preferably modulated at frequencies up to 60 GHz. The present invention filters the return signals from the tissue at a subcarrier modulation frequency so as to reject erroneous information contained in scattered lights, while at the same time retaining the coherent, unscattered and modulated light information so as to provide for an accuracy detection of tumors within tissues. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/207642 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010401 | Richburg 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) | Chris Richburg (Panama City, Florida); Donald D. Hobden (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system provides guidance to a vehicle on an approach to a position. A guidance transmitter stationed at the position includes light sources arranged in an array and a controller coupled to the light sources. The array defines a primary field-of-view (FOV) from which all light sources are visible. The light sources are divided into a plurality of sections with each section having a portion of the light sources associated therewith. Operation of each section of light sources is governed by the controller in accordance with unique cyclical on/off sequences. A primary waveform of light energy is defined by a composite of the cyclical on/off sequences visible from within the primary FOV. A plurality of secondary waveforms of light energy are defined by the cyclical on/off sequences visible from positions outside of the primary FOV. A guidance receiver mounted on a vehicle traveling towards the position of the guidance transmitter includes (i) sensor(s) for sensing light energy generated by those light sources visible thereto, (ii) a database for storing calibration waveforms indicative of corresponding guidance correction signals, and (iii) a processor for determining which one of the calibration waveforms matches or is closest to the sensed one of the primary waveform and secondary waveforms. The guidance correction signal associated with the matching calibration waveform can be used to control navigation of the vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609902 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010463 | Glen 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) | Andrew G. Glen (West Point, New York); Bobbie L. Foote (Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining whether an improved item has a better mean lifetime than an existing item having a fully specified lifetime distribution function. A finite number n of examples of the new item are placed on life test, and the failure times of the n examples of the new item are recorded as they occur. At each occurrence of failure, the newly noted failure time is entered into a list of previously noted failure times and the most up-to-date statistical P-value is calculated for the life test so far. When the statistical P-value is sufficiently small there is statistical inference that the new item is better than the current one, and the test is ended. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771202 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010647 | Karamchetty 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) | Somayajulu D. Karamchetty (Columbia, Maryland); Alan E. Barrick (Mount Airy, Maryland); James Gantt (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system and method for securely storing data are provided. A Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tag is applied to a removable data storage device that is able to be inserted and removed from the computer system. An identification code is assigned to respective removable data storage devices in which the identification code and other information associated with the removable data storage devices are stored at the computer system upon insertion and retrieval of the removable data storage devices to and from the computer system. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318666 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Jerry H. Ross (Waveland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for digital preemphasizer high fidelity reconstruction of an original pulse code modulation (PCM) serial stream binary data signal which has suffered degradation of fidelity, and consequent increase in bit-error-rate, during transmission on a single channel from a transmitter to a receiver. Prior to transmission, amplitude encoded digital pre-emphasis of each bit of the original binary data signal to be transmitted mitigates or remedies the signal degrading frequency dependent losses concomitant with the signal transfer network characteristics of the fixed transmission line. Subsequently, the amplitude encoded signal is transmitted to the receiver connected to the other end of the fixed transmission line. Compared to a conventional transmitter, transmision line, and receiver system, the end result of amplitude encoded pre-emphasis is superior reconstructed fidelity and quality of the PCM waveform, i.e. lower bit-error-rate, at the output of the receiver for the same length of transmission line. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/839600 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2148 | Mastro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Mastro (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Joseph H. Morris (Queenstown, Maryland); John K. Overby (Nottingham, Pennsylvania); Joseph W. White (Turnersville, New Jersey); Henry K. Whitesel (Nottingham, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Netting constructed from strong elongated tubular elements encloses optic fiber signal lines. Such netting is anchored at spaced locations underwater adjacent to a dock to establish a protection zone for sea vessels within the zone from terrorist threats to be delivered underwater by penetration or attempted penetration of the netting which may also block damaging impact inflicted on sea vessels within the zone by missiles. If a missile however penetrates the netting for impacting the sea vessel, the location of such netting penetration is then indicated through the signal lines so as to enable rapid threat response. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/382930 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Dattwyler (Setauket, New York); Maria J. C. Gomes-Solecki (New York, New York); Benjamin J. Luft (East Setauket, New York); John J. Dunn (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel chimeric nucleic acids, encoding chimeric Borrelia proteins comprising OspC or an antigenic fragment thereof and OspA or an antigenic fragment thereof, are disclosed. Chimeric proteins encoded by the nucleic acid sequences are also disclosed. The chimeric proteins are useful as vaccine immunogens against Lyme borreliosis, as well as for immunodiagnostic reagents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/369100 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008765 | Bussemakers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Stichting Katholieke Universiteit more particularly The University Medical Centre (Nijmegen, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marion J. G. Bussemakers (Nijmegen, Netherlands); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to a prostate-specific antigen, PCA3. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules coding for the PCA3 protein; purified PCA3 proteins and polypeptides; recombinant nucleic acid molecules; cells containing the recombinant nucleic acid molecules; antibodies having binding affinity specifically to PCA3 proteins and polypeptides; hybridomas containing the antibodies; nucleic acid probes for the detection of nucleic acids encoding PCA3 proteins; a method of detecting nucleic acids encoding PCA3 proteins or polypeptides in a sample; kits containing nucleic acid probes or antibodies; bioassays using the nucleic acid sequence, protein or antibodies of this invention to diagnose, assess, or prognose a mammal afflicted with prostate cancer; therapeutic uses; and methods of preventing prostate cancer in an animal. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/402713 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008767 | Handelsman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jo Handelsman (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert M. Goodman (Madison, Wisconsin); Michelle R. Rondon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and composition for accessing, in a generally unbaised manner, a diverse genetic pool for genes involved in biosynthetic pathways. The invention also provides compounds which can be identified by cloning biosynthetic pathways. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/877406 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008768 | Fornace, Jr. 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) | Albert J. Fornace, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Sally A. Amundson (New York, New York); Jeffrey M. Trent (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for detecting exposure of organisms to biologically significant or hazardous amounts of ionizing radiation. The method uses nucleic acid microarray hybridization to evaluate biological effects, such as patterns of expression of genes after radiation exposure. Numerous genes are provided which have been found to be responsive to radiation exposure in a variety of cell lines. These genes are incorporated into probe sets, which are exposed to a labeled nucleic acid composition from a test cell, such as cDNA reverse transcribed from mRNA in the test cell, which specifically hybridizes to members of the probe set when the cell has been exposed to a biologically significant amount of ionizing radiation. Whether the nucleic acid composition hybridizes to the nucleic acid molecules representing genes that are differentially expressed is determined. The invention also includes methods for determining a dose response relationship between radiation exposure and differential expression of one or more genes, for example to determine a probable radiation dose in cells that have actually or potentially been exposed to the ionizing radiation. The invention also includes probe sets and microarrays used in this method. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/913171 |
| 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 07008780 | Pomerantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel L. Pomerantz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Phillip A. Sharp (Newton, Massachusetts); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric proteins containing composite DNA-binding regions are disclosed together with DNA constructs encoding them, compositions containing them and applications in which they are useful. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/852370 |
| 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 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008782 | Sheffield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Val Sheffield (Iowa City, Iowa); Darryl Nishimura (Coralville, Iowa); Edwin Stone (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of a gene, now designated negevin (ngvn), that is involved in the genetic disease Bardet Biedl Syndrome (BBS), which is characterized by such diverse symptoms as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, mental retardation, renal cancer and other abnormalities, retinopathy and hypogonadism. The human NGVN protein disclosed herein is 731 amino acids in length and is coded for by a gene spanning 17 exons. Homologs have been identified in mouse, rat, zebrafish. Methods of use for the gene, for example in diagnosis and therapy of BBS and in drug screening, also are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/025187 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008798 | Waggoner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan S. Waggoner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to luminescent dyes and methods for covalently attaching the dyes to a component or mixture of components so that the components may be detected and/or quantified by luminescence detection methods. The dyes are cyanine and cyanine-type dyes that contain or are derivatized to contain a reactive group. The reactive group is covalently reactive with amine, hydroxy and/or sulfhydryl groups on the component so that the dye can be covalently bound to the component. In addition, the dyes are preferably soluble in aqueous or other medium in which the component is contained. The components to be labeled can be either biological materials, such as antibodies, antigens, peptides, nucleotides, hormones, drugs, or non-biological materials, such as polymers, glass, or other surfaces. Any luminescent or light absorbing detecting step can be employed in the method of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/103116 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008937 | Bommer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Frontier Scientific, Inc. (Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry C. Bommer (Franklin, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a class of porphyrins and metal chelated porphyrins for use as inhibitors of heme iron uptake. The porphyrin/metal chelated porphyrin molecules of the invention are tetra-positively charged porphyrins based on meso-tetra(4-pyridyl)porphines. Several such agents are shown herein to cause inhibition of iron uptake in vivo and in vitro. The invention further provides therapeutic compositions including the porphyrins and/or metalloporphyrins of the invention. In addition, methods of inhibition of heme iron uptake in vivo are taught, as well as methods of treatment of diseases characterized by iron-overload. These methods include the administration of a porphyrin or metalloporphyrin in a therapeutic composition of the invention to prevent uptake of heme iron, thus preventing replenishment of a patient's iron stores. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/859810 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009038 | Depre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J. (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christophe Depre (New York, New York); Stephen F. Vatner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel nucleic acid and protein sequences for methods and compositions for treating, screening, and diagnosing cardiovascular disease and methods for using these genes and gene products for prevention of cardiac cell death and prevention of cardiac tissue damage resulting from ischemic events in cardiac tissue, as well as other tissue that is subject to damage resulting from an ischemic event. The genes, gene products and agents of the invention are also useful for treating other related clinical or coronary events such as angina, myocardial infarct (MI), and stroke, for monitoring the effectiveness of their treatment, and for drug development. The genes, gene products and agents of the present invention are also provided as pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarct and related conditions. Kits are also provided for the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of cardiac diseases and related conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429223 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009043 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth W. Wood (Foster City, California); Roman Sakowicz (Foster City, California); Lawrence S. B. Goldstein (San Diego, California); Don W. Cleveland (Delmar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of Xenopus CENP-E (XCENP-E), antibodies to XCENP-E, methods of screening for CENP-E modulators using biologically active CENP-E, and kits for screening for CENP-E modulators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724584 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009044 | Nam 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) | Jae-Hwan Nam (GuyngGi-Do, South Korea); Jens Bukh (Bethesda, Maryland); Suzanne U. Emerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to molecular approaches to the production of nucleic acid sequences which comprise the genomes of chimeric hepatitis C virus-bovine viral diarrhea viruses (HCV/BVDV). The invention also relates to the use of these chimeric nucleic acid sequences to produce chimeric virions in cells and the use of these chimeric virions in HCV antibody neutralization assays, and for the development of vaccines and therapeutics for HCV. |
| FILED | Sunday, February 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/009011 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009050 | Marquez 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) | Victor E. Marquez (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Pamela L. Russ (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments described herein concern 5-substituted pyrimidine derivatives of conformationally locked nucleoside analogues and to the use of these derivatives as anti-viral and anti-cancer agents. The compounds are of the formula: wherein B is uracil-1-yl or cytosin-1-yl having a 5-substituent selected from halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, and alkynyl, with the proviso that where B is uracil-1-yl, the 5-substituent is not methyl. The compounds are useful in the treatment of Herpes simplex virus (HSV). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346762 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Ochs (Albany, Oregon); William K. O'Connor (Lebanon, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of recovering energy from a cool compressed gas, compressed liquid, vapor, or supercritical fluid is disclosed which includes incrementally expanding the compressed gas, compressed liquid, vapor, or supercritical fluid through a plurality of expansion engines and heating the gas, vapor, compressed liquid, or supercritical fluid entering at least one of the expansion engines with a low quality heat source. Expansion engines such as turbines and multiple expansions with heating are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/309287 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007491 | Grimm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Thomas Grimm (Dunlap, Illinois); Ryan Patrick McEnaney (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal management system for a vehicle includes an engine operable to generate energy. An energy storage unit may be associated with the engine and adapted to receive and store the energy generated by the engine. A temperature control unit may be associated with the energy storage unit and adapted to control a temperature in the vehicle. The temperature control unit may be adapted to selectively draw stored energy from the energy storage unit to control the temperature when the engine is not operating. A controller may be adapted to monitor an operating condition of the thermal management system and to control the transfer of the energy from the engine to the energy storage unit based on the monitored operating condition. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740442 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07007669 | Willi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Willi (Dunlap, Illinois); Brett M. Bailey (Peoria, Illinois); Scott B. Fiveland (East Norwich, New York); Weidong Gong (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The method comprises the steps of introducing a primary fuel into a main combustion chamber of the engine, introducing a pilot fuel into the main combustion chamber of the engine, determining an operating load of the engine, determining a desired spark plug ignition timing based on the engine operating load, and igniting the primary fuel and pilot fuel with a spark plug at the desired spark plug ignition timing. The method is characterized in that the octane number of the pilot fuel is lower than the octane number of the primary fuel. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/003537 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008004 | Ortega et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason M. Ortega (Pacifica, California); Kambiz Sabari (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for reducing the aerodynamic base drag of a bluff body having a leading end, a trailing end, a top surface, opposing left and right side surfaces, and a base surface at the trailing end substantially normal to a longitudinal centerline of the bluff body, with the base surface joined (1) to the left side surface at a left trailing edge, (2) to the right side surface at a right trailing edge, and (3) to the top surface at a top trailing edge. The apparatus includes left and right vertical boattail plates which are orthogonally attached to the base surface of the bluff body and inwardly offset from the left and right trailing edges, respectively. This produces left and right vertical channels which generate, in a flowstream substantially parallel to the longitudinal centerline, respective left and right vertically-aligned vortical structures, with the left and right vertical boattail plates each having a plate width defined by a rear edge of the plate spaced from the base surface. Each plate also has a peak plate width at a location between top and bottom ends of the plate corresponding to a peak vortex of the respective vertically-aligned vortical structures. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668820 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008005 | Graham |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freight Wing Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean C. Graham (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for reducing vehicle aerodynamic resistance for vehicles having a generally rectangular flat front face comprising a plurality of load bearing struts of a predetermined size attached to the flat front face adjacent the sides and top thereof, a pair of pliable opposing flat sheets having an outside edge portion attached to the flat front face adjacent the sides thereof and an upper edge with a predetermined curve; the opposing flat sheets being bent and attached to the struts to form effective curved airfoil shapes, and a top pliable flat sheet disposed adjacent the top of the flat front face and having predetermined curved side edges, which, when the top sheet is bent and attached to the struts to form an effective curved airfoil shape, mate with the curved upper edges of the opposing sheets to complete the aerodynamic device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934055 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008564 | Harrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Frederick F. Stewart (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid molecular composite polymer-based electrolyte is made for batteries, wherein silicate compositing produces a electrolytic polymer with a semi-rigid silicate condensate framework, and then mechanical-stabilization by radiation of the outer surface of the composited material is done to form a durable and non-tacky texture on the electrolyte. The preferred ultraviolet radiation produces this desirable outer surface by creating a thin, shallow skin of crosslinked polymer on the composite material. Preferably, a short-duration of low-medium range ultraviolet radiation is used to crosslink the polymers only a short distance into the polymer, so that the properties of the bulk of the polymer and the bulk of the molecular composite material remain unchanged, but the tough and stable skin formed on the outer surface lends durability and processability to the entire composite material product. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194376 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008737 | Morales et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo M. Morales (Livermore, California); Marcela Gonzales (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a method for fabricating an embossing tool or an x-ray mask tool, providing microstructures that smoothly vary in height from point-to-point in etched substrates, i.e., structure which can vary in all three dimensions. The process uses a lithographic technique to transfer an image pattern in the surface of a silicon wafer by exposing and developing the resist and then etching the silicon substrate. Importantly, the photoresist is variably exposed so that when developed some of the resist layer remains. The remaining undeveloped resist acts as an etchant barrier to the reactive plasma used to etch the silicon substrate and therefore provides the ability etch structures of variable depths. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804771 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008970 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Paul A. Lessing (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical reactor for direct conversion of hydrocarbons includes a dielectric barrier discharge plasma cell and a solid oxide electrochemical cell in fluid communication therewith. The discharge plasma cell comprises a pair of electrodes separated by a dielectric material and passageway therebetween. The electrochemical cell comprises a mixed-conducting solid oxide electrolyte membrane tube positioned between a porous cathode and a porous anode, and a gas inlet tube for feeding oxygen containing gas to the porous cathode. An inlet is provided for feeding hydrocarbons to the passageway of the discharge plasma cell, and an outlet is provided for discharging reaction products from the reactor. A packed bed catalyst may optionally be used in the reactor to increase efficiency of conversion. The reactor can be modified to allow use of a light source for directing ultraviolet light into the discharge plasma cell and the electrochemical cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/176730 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009181 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Miller (Richland, Washington); Leon Eric Smith (Richland, Washington); James R. Skorpik (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compact, OSL-based devices for long-term, unattended radiation detection and spectroscopy are provided. In addition, a method for extracting spectroscopic information from these devices is taught. The devices can comprise OSL pixels and at least one radiation filter surrounding at least a portion of the OSL pixels. The filter can modulate an incident radiation flux. The devices can further comprise a light source and a detector, both proximally located to the OSL pixels, as well as a power source and a wireless communication device, each operably connected to the light source and the detector. Power consumption of the device ranges from ultra-low to zero. The OSL pixels can retain data regarding incident radiation events as trapped charges. The data can be extracted wirelessly or manually. The method for extracting spectroscopic data comprises optically stimulating the exposed OSL pixels, detecting a readout luminescence, and reconstructing an incident-energy spectrum from the luminescence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931412 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/358.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010363 | Donnelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew K. Donnelly (Kennewick, Washington); David P. Chassin (Pasco, Washington); Jeffery E. Dagle (Richland, Washington); Michael Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington); David W. Winiarski (Kennewick, Washington); Robert G. Pratt (Kennewick, Washington); Anne Marie Boberly-Bartis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical appliance energy consumption control methods and electrical energy consumption systems are described. In one aspect, an electrical appliance energy consumption control method includes providing an electrical appliance coupled with a power distribution system, receiving electrical energy within the appliance from the power distribution system, consuming the received electrical energy using a plurality of loads of the appliance, monitoring electrical energy of the power distribution system, and adjusting an amount of consumption of the received electrical energy via one of the loads of the appliance from an initial level of consumption to an other level of consumption different than the initial level of consumption responsive to the monitoring. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462307 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010433 | Morrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas B. Morrow (San Antonio, Texas); Thomas E. Owen (Helotes, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of indirectly measuring the diluent (nitrogen and carbon dioxide) concentrations in a natural gas mixture. The molecular weight of the gas is modeled as a function of the speed of sound in the gas, the diluent concentrations in the gas, and constant values, resulting in a model equation. A set of reference gas mixtures with known molecular weights and diluent concentrations is used to calculate the constant values. For the gas in question, if the speed of sound in the gas is measured at three states, the three resulting expressions of molecular weight can be solved for the nitrogen and carbon dioxide concentrations in the gas mixture. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809097 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07007370 | Gracias et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Gracias (Portland, Oregon); Joe Tien (Baltimore, Maryland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for self assembly of macro-scale objects, optionally defining electrical circuitry, are described, as well as articles formed by self assembly. Components can be joined, during self-assembly by minimization of free energy, capillary attraction, or a combination. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/909420 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008193 | Najafi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hanseup S. Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Luis P. Bernal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Aaron A. Astle (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter D. Washabaugh (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS-fabricated microvacuum pump assembly is provided. The pump assembly is designed to operate in air and can be easily integrated into MEMS-fabricated microfluidic systems. The pump assembly includes a series of pumping cavities with electrostatically-actuated membranes interconnected by electrostatically-actuated microvalves. A large deflection electrostatic actuator has a curved fixed drive electrode and a flat movable polymer electrode. The curved electrodes are fabricated by buckling the electrode out-of-plane using compressive stress, and the large deflection parallel-plane electrostatic actuators are formed by using the curved electrode. The curved electrode allows the movable electrode to travel over larger distances than is possible using a flat electrode, with lower voltage. The movable electrode is a flat parylene membrane that is placed on top of the curved electrode using a wafer-level transfer and parylene bonding process. Using this approach, large out-of-plane deflection of the parylene membrane is achieved using a voltage smaller than is achievable using flat parallel-plate electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436937 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008559 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present relates in general to upconversion luminescence (“UCL”) materials and methods of making and using same and more particularly, but not meant to be limiting, to Mn2+ doped semiconductor nanoparticles for use as UCL materials. The present invention also relates in general to upconversion luminescence including two-photon absorption upconversion, and potential applications using UCL materials, including light emitting diodes, upconversion lasers, infrared detectors, chemical sensors, temperature sensors and biological labels, all of which incorporate a UCL material. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166313 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008601 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Rosenberg (Missoula, Montana); Robert J. Fischer (Hamilton, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A silica-polyamine based extraction material removes selected transition metal ions from solution in the presence of iron ions. The silica-polyamine base is a reaction product of a polyamine and a covalently anchored trifunctional hydrocarbylsilyl that yields non-crosslinked amino groups to which pyridine function group is attached. The extraction material is particularly useful in selectively removing copper from low concentration, low pH leach solutions separating copper from ferric iron or chloride ions. The product is a durable, high capacity extraction material that selectively captures copper at high flow rates and releases that copper into highly concentrated solutions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405391 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008634 | Cima et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda G. Cima (Lexington, Massachusetts); Edward W. Merrill (Belmont, Massachusetts); Philip R. Kuhl (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are compositions with tethered growth effector molecules, and methods of using these compositions for growing cells and tissues. Growth effector molecules, including growth factors and extracellular matrix molecules, are flexibly tethered to a solid substrate. The compositions can be used either in vitro or in vivo to grow cells and tissues. By tethering the growth factors, they will not diffuse away from the desired location. By making the attachment flexible, the growth effector molecules can more naturally bind to cell surface receptors. A significant feature of these compositions and methods is that they enhance the biological response to the growth factors. The method also offers other advantages over the traditional methods, in which growth factors are delivered in soluble form: (1) the growth factor is localized to a desired target cell population; (2) significantly less growth factor is needed to exert a biologic response. This method can be used as a means of enhancing the therapeutic use of growth factors in vivo and of creating surfaces which will enhance in vitro growth of difficult-to-grow cells such as liver cells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/398555 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008749 | Gonsalves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Gonsalves (Concord, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new high resolution resists applicable to next generation lithographies, methods of making these novel resists, and methods of using these new resists in lithographic processes to effect state-of-the-art lithographies. New nanocomposite resists comprising nanoparticles in a polymer matrix are provided in this invention. New chemically amplified resists that incorporate inorganic moieties as part of the polymer are presented herein, as are new chemically amplified resists that incorporate photoacid generating groups within the polymeric chain. Novel non-chemically amplified yet photosensitive resists, and new organic-inorganic hybrid resists are also provided herein. This invention and the embodiments described herein constitute fundamentally new architectures for high resolution resists. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/992560 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008780 | Pomerantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel L. Pomerantz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Phillip A. Sharp (Newton, Massachusetts); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric proteins containing composite DNA-binding regions are disclosed together with DNA constructs encoding them, compositions containing them and applications in which they are useful. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/852370 |
| 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 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008971 | Taft, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hoku Scientific, Inc. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Milton Taft, III (Honolulu, Hawaii); Matthew Robert Kurano (Honolulu, Hawaii); Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin films of inexpensive composite polymer electrolyte membranes containing inorganic cation exchange materials including various clay based fillers are fabricated by solution casting. The membranes exhibit higher ion exchange capacity, proton conductivity and/or lower gas crossover. In general, the composite membranes exhibit excellent physicochemical properties and superior fuel cell performance in hydrogen oxygen fuel cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644227 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07007897 | Wingett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul T. Wingett (Mesa, Arizona); Louie T. Gaines (Phoenix, Arizona); Paul S. Evans (Mesa, Arizona); James I. Kern (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight control actuation system comprises a controller, electromechanical actuator and a pneumatic actuator. During normal operation, only the electromechanical actuator is needed to operate a flight control surface. When the electromechanical actuator load level exceeds 40 amps positive, the controller activates the pneumatic actuator to offset electromechanical actuator loads to assist the manipulation of flight control surfaces. The assistance from the pneumatic load assist actuator enables the use of an electromechanical actuator that is smaller in size and mass, requires less power, needs less cooling processes, achieves high output forces and adapts to electrical current variations. The flight control actuation system is adapted for aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, and other flight vehicles, especially flight vehicles that are large in size and travel at high velocities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874729 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008563 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Ken A. Smith (Katy, Texas); Michael O'Connell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new compositions of matter and articles of manufacture comprising SWNTs as nanometer scale conducting rods dispersed in an electrically-insulating matrix. These compositions of matter have novel and useful electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties including applications in antennas, electromagnetic and electro-optic devices, and high-toughness materials. Other compositions of matter and articles of manufacture are disclosed, including polymer-coated and polymer wrapped single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs), small ropes of polymer-coated and polymer-wrapped SWNTs and materials comprising same. This composition provides one embodiment of the SWNT conducting-rod composite mentioned above, and also enables creation of high-concentration suspensions of SWNTs and compatibilization of SWNTs with polymeric matrices in composite materials. This solubilization and compatibilization, in turn, enables chemical manipulation of SWNT and production of composite fibers, films, and solids comprising SWNTs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/935994 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008605 | Benavides |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanette M. Benavides (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-catalytic process for the production of carbon nanotubes includes supplying an electric current to a carbon anode and a carbon cathode which have been securely positioned in the open atmosphere with a gap between them. The electric current creates an electric arc between the carbon anode and the carbon cathode, which causes carbon to be vaporized from the carbon anode and a carbonaceous residue to be deposited on the carbon cathode. Inert gas is pumped into the gap to flush out oxygen, thereby preventing interference with the vaporization of carbon from the anode and preventing oxidation of the carbonaceous residue being deposited on the cathode. The anode and cathode are cooled while electric current is being supplied thereto. When the supply of electric current is terminated, the carbonaceous residue is removed from the cathode and is purified to yield carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/292952 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008964 | Clausen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian A. Clausen (Chuluota, Florida); Jacqueline W. Quinn (Titusville, Florida); Cheri L. Geiger (Geneva, Florida); Debra Reinhart (Maitland, Florida); Laura B. Filipek (Deltona, Florida); Christina Coon (Oviedo, Florida); Robert Devor (Clermont, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A zero-valent metal emulsion containing zero-valent metal particles is used to remediate contaminated natural resources, such as groundwater and soil. In a preferred embodiment, the zero-valent metal emulsion removes heavy metals, such as lead (Pb), from contaminated natural resources. In another preferred embodiment, the zero-valent metal emulsion is a bimetallic emulsion containing zero-valent metal particles doped with a catalytic metal to remediate halogenated aromatic compounds, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), from natural resources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449907 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07009708 | Ames |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence L. Ames (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical component especially suited for common path heterodyne interferometry comprises a symmetric dual-periscope configuration. Each periscope is substantially identical to the other with regard to certain design aspects. The resulting design is an optical component that is highly stable with variations in temperature and angular deviations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/787662 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010060 | Ledvina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent M. Ledvina (Ithaca, New York); Mark L. Psiaki (Brooktondale, New York); Steven P. Powell (Ithaca, New York); Paul M. Kintner, Jr. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time software receiver that executes on a general purpose processor. The software receiver includes data acquisition and correlator modules that perform, in place of hardware correlation, baseband mixing and PRN code correlation using bit-wise parallelism. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753927 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07010167 | Ordowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Lawrence Ordowski (Ellicott City, Maryland); Gerard G. L. Meyer (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Feature attributes are extracted from an observation space to create feature vectors for each class to be identified. A linear transformation matrix is used to reduce the dimension of the feature vectors. A numerical optimization algorithm maximizes a geometric criterion function in order to calculate the linear transformation matrix, where it exploits the geometry of the class contours of constant density. Next, a classifier based on the feature vectors in a lower dimension is generated and a class is determined for the data represented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/136054 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07010187 | Fitz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Fitz (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a photonic logic circuit for multimode optical signals. The device includes a laser cavity having at least four conduits, the combination forming a substantially X-shaped construction. An output is attached to each conduit for transmission of the optical signals from the cavity. At least one input is connected to the laser cavity. The input is connected to an upper or lower edge of the laser cavity. These are the edges that do not include conduits. A bias contact is connected to the cavity and the two lower conduits. The bias contact is used to pump the photonic device. Preset contacts are attached to each of the upper two conduits and their respective outputs. The preset contacts are used to control the logic function of the photonic logic device. Altering current pump settings between the respective contacts controls the direction of lasing between outputs of the photonic device and the logic function performed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151172 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07007626 | Hobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett W. Hobson (Carmel, California); Mathieu Kemp (Durham, North Carolina); Ryan Moody (Raleigh, North Carolina); Charles A. Pell (Durham, North Carolina); Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices for navigating in a fluid medium having a solid boundary include a vehicle body and a fin attached to the vehicle body. The fin is configured to oscillate relative to the body such that interaction between the fin and the fluid medium produces propulsive forces that propel the vehicle body in a desired direction in the fluid medium. The fin is also configured to rotate relative to the body along a transverse axis such that engagement between the fin and the solid boundary propels the vehicle body in a desired direction on the solid boundary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/170562 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07008539 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kraig Johnson (Lehi, Utah); Lawrence D. Reaveley (Salt Lake City, Utah); Youngik Choi (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for reducing the content of ammonia in water provides a submerged surface having a growth of nitrifying bacteria thereon. An aeration system creates air bubbles that travel along the surface as they rise to create aerobic conditions on the surface, and to circulate the water along the surface to allow the nitrifying bacteria to remove ammonia from the water. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846828 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07008539 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kraig Johnson (Lehi, Utah); Lawrence D. Reaveley (Salt Lake City, Utah); Youngik Choi (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for reducing the content of ammonia in water provides a submerged surface having a growth of nitrifying bacteria thereon. An aeration system creates air bubbles that travel along the surface as they rise to create aerobic conditions on the surface, and to circulate the water along the surface to allow the nitrifying bacteria to remove ammonia from the water. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846828 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07008544 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes and apparatus are disclosed for separating and purifying aqueous solutions such as seawater by causing a substantially impermeable mat of gas hydrate to form on a porous restraint. Once the mat of gas hydrate has formed on the porous restraint, the portion of the mat of gas hydrate adjacent to the restraint is caused to dissociate and flow through the restraint, e.g., by lowering the pressure in a collection region on the opposite side of the restraint. The purified or desalinated water may then be recovered from the collection region. The process may be used for marine desalination as well as for drying wet gas and hydrocarbon solutions. If conditions in the solution are not conductive to forming hydrate, a heated or refrigerated porous restraint may be used to create hydrate-forming conditions near the restraint, thereby causing gas hydrates to form directly on the surface of the restraint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429765 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/708 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07009038 | Depre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J. (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christophe Depre (New York, New York); Stephen F. Vatner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel nucleic acid and protein sequences for methods and compositions for treating, screening, and diagnosing cardiovascular disease and methods for using these genes and gene products for prevention of cardiac cell death and prevention of cardiac tissue damage resulting from ischemic events in cardiac tissue, as well as other tissue that is subject to damage resulting from an ischemic event. The genes, gene products and agents of the invention are also useful for treating other related clinical or coronary events such as angina, myocardial infarct (MI), and stroke, for monitoring the effectiveness of their treatment, and for drug development. The genes, gene products and agents of the present invention are also provided as pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarct and related conditions. Kits are also provided for the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of cardiac diseases and related conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429223 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07010398 | Wilkins, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Ryan Wilkins, Jr. (Greenville, Delaware); Kenneth Scott Harris (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight guidance system providing perspective flight guidance symbology using positioning and terrain information provides increased pilot situational awareness of the pilot's aircraft. The guidance system uses a positioning system and a detailed mapping system to provide a perspective display for use in an aircraft. A precision pathway flight guidance (PFG) symbology set is thereby displayed on a pilot display. The PFG symbology set includes broken line symbols representing an open tunnel and providing flow field data, a half-bracket symbol to indicate that the aircraft is no longer in the open tunnel represented by the broken line symbols and a quickened flight path vector (QFPV) symbol to provide the pilot with predictive flight path information. A flight director system and tunnel generator component provide for updating the displayed PDFG symbology set based upon current aircraft conditions (e.g., aircraft position) and stored flight path information. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376869 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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