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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 14, 2006
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07010981 | Hull |
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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) | Andrew J. Hull (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to distinguish two blended but different waves in a structure, such as compressional and shear waves, by measuring their corresponding wavenumbers and wave speeds. Other characteristics of the two waves may also be measured such as the propagation coefficients of both waves. All measurements can be calculated at every frequency for which a transfer function measurement is made. The measurements do not depend on the resonance frequencies of the structure and do not require curve fitting to the transfer functions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/912695 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011131 | Chappell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SUMMA Technology, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Chappell (New Market, Alabama); Charles Cross (Fayetteville, Tennessee); Stephen Downs (Los Lunas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile bead breaker (100) may be provided comprising a pair of conjoined housings (102, 104). In a first of such housings (104) may be the control and drive mechanisms of the present invention including a pump, hydraulic ram (118), a vertical guide plate (114) and the apparatus' controls. In the second of such housings (102) may be located a supporting wall (122) and for smaller tires a positioning rod (126) for locating and then maintaining the tire/rim assembly in a stationary vertical position for engagement by the bead breaker mechanism. The bead breaker mechanism, additionally located within the second housing (102), may be a spider assembly (200) comprising a plurality of legs (202) equally spaced about a central hub (206). The central hub (206) of such spider assembly (200) may be mounted to the hydraulic ram (118). When the ram (118) is activated, the spider assembly (200) moves toward and engages the tire/rim assembly about the bead of the tire to break the rim/bead seal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324313 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Wheelwright machines 157/1.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011447 | Moyers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device 10 for aligning a patient for delivering a plurality of radiation beams comprising a patient support surface 12, a coarse alignment subsystem 14 connected to the patient support surface, and a fine alignment subsystem connected to the patient support surface 16. A method of aligning a patient for delivering a plurality of radiation beams from a plurality of device positions comprising compensating for flexion of a radiation beam delivery device within a gantry during movement of the radiation beam delivery device from a first device position to a second device position by using a set of predetermined data describing the flexion behavior of the radiation beam delivery device so that the target tissue within the patient is placed at the beamline center for the radiation beam delivery device at the second device position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887507 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011453 | Harres |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Harres (Belleville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for detecting degradation of a fiber optic connector. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes transmitting a optical pulse in a first direction along the fiber optic cable such that a first portion of the optical pulse is either absorbed or reflected by the degradation. The method also includes determining the degradation's location within at most two connectors of the cable based on the first portion of the optical pulse. If the at most two connectors is two connectors then the method includes transmitting a second optical pulse in a second direction along the cable so that a portion of the second optical pulse is either absorbed or reflected by the degradation. A determination is made of the location of the degradation within one of the two connectors based on the first portion and the second portion of the optical pulses. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008468 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011494 | Kies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David O. Kies (East Hartford, Connecticut); Phillip E. Alexander (Colchester, Connecticut); Joshua D. Brumbaugh (Portland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable vane arm is disclosed having dual retention capability to ensure vanes of a gas turbine engine remain connected to the vane arm even under surge loads or when fastener preload, or the entire fastener, is lost. The variable vane arm further provides a surge slot to facilitate rotation of the vane even when the vane is operating under surge or otherwise excessively high pressure conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771884 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011502 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ronald Scott Bunker (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil includes opposite pressure and suction sides joined together at leading and trailing edges. An outwardly convex nose bridge bridges the pressure and suction sides behind the leading edge, and is integrally joined to a complementary thermally insulating shield spaced therefrom to define a bridge channel. The shield includes the leading edge and wraps laterally aft around the nose bridge along both the pressure and suction sides. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824922 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011723 | Full et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of the LeLand Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Full (Concord, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Ceritto, California); Thomas W. Kenny (San Carlos, California); Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/338104 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011725 | Geller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lamina Ceramics, Inc. (Westampton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Dov Geller (Princeton, New Jersey); Aly Eid Fathy (Langhorne, Pennsylvania); Michael James Liberatore (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Attiganal Narayanswamy Sreeram (Edison, New Jersey); Barry Jay Thaler (Lawrenceville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Embedded, coupled, shaped waveguide resonators having conductive walls sandwiched between two fired green tape stacks, said conductive walls having apertures therein whose size and location determine the degree of coupling. These waveguides are made by forming openings in a first green tape stack, defining walls and apertures therein, mounting a second green tape stack having a conductive layer thereon thereover and firing the assembly. E-plane probes are inserted in openings in the second green tape stack and connected to microstrip transmission lines on an external surface pf this green tape stack. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135764 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011781 | Szczesuil 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) | Stephen Szczesuil (Framingham, Massachusetts); Michael J. Holthe (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Article of footwear includes a sole, an insole overlying the sole, the insole having in a surface thereof a groove having an inlet and outlet in an edge of the insole, the groove winding substantially throughout the length and width of the insole upper surface. A tube is disposed in the groove and extends throughout the length of the groove and has an inlet portion extending from the groove inlet at the edge of the insole and an outlet portion extending from the groove outlet. An upper fixed to the sole has apertures through which extend the tube inlet and outlet portions. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660386 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011908 | Atwater 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) | Terrill B. Atwater (North Plainfield, New Jersey); Alvin J. Salkind (Princeton, New Jersey); Arek Suszko (Lakewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a manganese bismuth mixed metal oxide cathode material through a solid-state reaction between manganese dioxide, and either bismuth or a bismuth compound in a compound having the general formula MnOy(Bi2O3)x, which affords charge transfer catalytic behavior that allows the cathode to be fully reversible at suppressed charge potentials and increased discharge potentials. The MnOy(Bi2O3)x cathode material may be incorporated into an electrochemical cell with either a lithium metal or lithium ion anode and an organic electrolyte. The present invention provides a compound with the general formula MnOy(Bi2O3)x, where subscript x is between 0.05 and 0.25, subscript y is about 2 and the overcharge protection is not needed as the subscript z approaches 0.0. In the preferred embodiment, a cathode material where subscript x is between 0.05 and 0.135 with the formula MnO2(Bi2O3)0.12 provides the much-needed full reversibility, high voltage stability and reduced charge transfer impedance. A manganese bismuth mixed metal oxide cathode for an lithium electrochemical system, a lithium electrochemical system and a rechargeable lithium battery employing the same compound with the general formula MnOy(Bi2O3)x and methods for making manganese bismuth mixed metal oxide cathode material for lithium electrochemical devices having the general formula MnOy(Bi2O3)x are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/684063 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011946 | RayChaudhuri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debabrata RayChaudhuri (Somverville, Massachusetts); Marc Kirschner (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel in vivo assay systems and methods of using these assays systems to identify compounds that affect microbial cell division. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions that have anti-microbial activity and methods of treating microbial infections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/180384 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012245 | Hall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Woodland Hills, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Hall (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor array employs a parameter to induce a time-varying phase angle φ on an optical signal that comprises a phase generated carrier. The phase angle φ is calculated through employment of only four samples, where all the four samples are based on the optical signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615730 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012322 | Ridley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); James A. Neus (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating comb drive devices utilizing one or more sacrificial etch-buffers are disclosed. An illustrative fabrication method may include the steps of etching a pattern onto a wafer substrate defining one or more comb drive elements and sacrificial etch-buffers, liberating and removing one or more sacrificial etch-buffers prior to wafer bonding, bonding the etched wafer substrate to an underlying support substrate, and etching away the wafer substrate. In some embodiments, the sacrificial etch-buffers are removed after bonding the wafer to the support substrate. The sacrificial etch-buffers can be provided at one or more selective regions to provide greater uniformity in etch rate during etching. A comb drive device in accordance with an illustrative embodiment can include a number of interdigitated comb fingers each having a more uniform profile along their length and/or at their ends, producing less harmonic distortion during operation. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746219 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/673 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012489 | Sherrer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Sherrer (Radford, Virginia); John J. Fisher (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are coaxial waveguide microstructures. The microstructures include a substrate and a coaxial waveguide disposed above the substrate. The coaxial waveguide includes: a center conductor; an outer conductor including one or more walls, spaced apart from and disposed around the center conductor; one or more dielectric support members for supporting the center conductor in contact with the center conductor and enclosed within the outer conductor; and a core volume between the center conductor and the outer conductor, wherein the core volume is under vacuum or in a gas state. Also provided are methods of forming coaxial waveguide microstructures by a sequential build process and hermetic packages which include a coaxial waveguide microstructure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/793574 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012982 | Basch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Laboratories Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evert Basch (Stow, Massachusetts); Khaled Shuaib (Winchester, Massachusetts); Tarek Saadawi (Teaneck, New Jersey); Steven Gringeri (Foxboro, Massachusetts); Myung Lee (Paramus, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an improved method of de-jittering MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 data that is transmitted over a network. First, a network system jitter associated with periodic reference data packets is estimated. Then, the estimated system jitter is used to adjust clock-stamped reference values in the data packets before they are provided to the PLL for clock synchronization. The invented de-jittering method improves the PLL's ability to synchronize the MPEG data and provides for a better quality playback. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/597112 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013109 | Siders 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) | Clementina M. Siders (Orlando, Florida); Douglas J. Samuel (Davenport, Florida); Timothy C. Whitten (New Smyrna Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated interactive form of data collection is disclosed that addresses the deficiencies of the standard method of personal interviews and the typical paper-based and computer-based surveys. Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) can provide data in a faster, more accurate and comprehensive manner, while providing the justification of their responses immediately. Using these data, an instructional analyst can continue the Instructional Systems Design process utilizing SME data that are complete and conclusive, without the need for extensive follow-up questioning. The database files generated by the survey software are available to the analyst for analysis and inclusion in the resulting training system analysis document. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/011230 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013210 | McBrien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Goodrich Pump and Engine Control Systems, Inc. (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary M. McBrien (Glastonbury, Connecticut); James Gottwald (Amherst, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring the vibration levels of gas turbine engines. The vibration monitoring system acquires vibration data from an engine, and processes the data with advanced algorithms to determine engine component health, both in a diagnostic and prognostic fashion. The method includes the steps of measuring an operating parameter and a corresponding set of vibration amplitudes for a plurality of rotating component during a period of operation and normalizing the set of measured vibration amplitudes based on established amplitude limits. The set of normalized amplitude data points are stored in parameter-based data blocks, which extend over a predetermined range of the operating parameter. For each data block, a time period remaining to reach the established amplitude limits is estimated based on changes in the normalized amplitude data points stored in the data blocks. An alarm setting is then established based on the estimated time period remaining to reach the established amplitude limits for each data block. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801301 |
| 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 71/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013244 | Cherkassky |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Cherkassky (Voorhees, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated system and a method for estimating quantities from their measured values, incorporating these estimates into decision making processes, and combining these estimates with other available knowledge (e.g. statistical, physical and logical models) are provided. Estimation is performed by utilizing finite compact representations to capture the structure of continuous or large discrete problems, allowing efficient computation of decision rules. The representations are exact, so the resulting solutions are not approximations. Decision making is accomplished by selecting decisions based on the task to be completed, results of the estimation, and any available knowledge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/776561 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013318 | Rosengard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip I. Rosengard (Potomac Falls, Virginia); Marwan M. Krunz (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Encapsulating cells includes receiving cells at a queue associated with decision points. Each decision point corresponds to a number of cells and is associated with a threshold criterion. The following operations are repeated until a threshold criterion is satisfied. A number of cells corresponding to a decision point are accumulated at the queue. Jitter associated with the cells at the queue is predicted, and it is determined whether the predicted jitter satisfies the threshold criterion associated with the decision point. If the predicted jitter satisfies the threshold criterion, the cells are sent to a buffer coupled to the queue. Otherwise, the cells continue to be accumulated at the queue. The cells in the buffer are encapsulated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/158351 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013422 | McCarley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. McCarley (Bedford Hills, New York); Wei-Jing Zhu (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of validating a byte sequence having a plurality of states, the method comprising designating one or more noise states from among the plurality of states; generating a most probable state sequence for the byte sequence; utilizing said state sequence to identify all noise in the byte sequence; and localizing said noise in said noise states. Once localized, the noise may be deleted from the byte sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/882006 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/794 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07011136 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BWXT Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan F. Moore (Knoxville, Tennessee); Donald E. Schechter (Ten Mile, Tennessee); Marvin Stanley Morrow (Marble, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for melting metals uses microwave energy as the primary source of heat. The metal or mixture of metals are placed in a ceramic crucible which couples, at least partially, with the microwaves to be used. The crucible is encased in a ceramic casket for insulation and placed within a microwave chamber. The chamber may be evacuated and refilled to exclude oxygen. After melting, the crucible may be removed for pouring or poured within the chamber by dripping or running into a heated mold within the chamber. Apparent coupling of the microwaves with softened or molten metal produces high temperatures with great energy savings. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/013029 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/250.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011141 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyh-Chin Huang (Latham, New York); Michael Francis X. Gigliotti, Jr. (Scotia, New York); Stephen Francis Rutkowski (Duanesburg, New York); Roger John Petterson (Fultonville, New York); Paul Steven Svec (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mold is provided for enabling casting of single crystal metallic articles including a part-defining cavity, a sorter passage positioned vertically beneath and in fluid communication with the part-defining cavity, and a seed cavity positioned vertically beneath and in fluid communication with the sorter passage. The sorter passage includes a shape suitable for encouraging a single crystal structure in solidifying molten metal. Additionally, a portion of the mold between the sorter passage and the part-defining cavity includes a notch for facilitating breakage of a cast article proximate the notch during thermal stress build-up, so as to prevent mold breakage or the inclusion of part defects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652906 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/516 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011732 | Windisch, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles F. Windisch, Jr. (Richland, Washington); Gregory J. Exarhos (Richland, Washington); Shiv K. Sharma (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Cobalt-nickel oxide films of nominal 100 nm thickness, and resistivity as low as 0.06 Ω·cm have been deposited by spin-casting from both aqueous and organic precursor solutions followed by annealing at 450° C. in air. An increase in film resistivity was found upon substitution of other cations (e.g., Zn2+, Al3+) for Ni in the spinel structure. However, some improvement in the mechanical properties of the films resulted. On the other hand, addition of small amounts of Li decreased the resistivity. A combination of XRD, XPS, UV/Vis and Raman spectroscopy indicated that NiCo2O4 is the primary conducting component and that the conductivity reaches a maximum at this stoichiometry. When x<0.67, NiO forms leading to an increase in resistivity; when x>0.67, the oxide was all spinel but the increased Co content lowered the conductivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854546 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011736 | Miller et al. |
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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) | William E. Miller (Naperville, Illinois); Eddie C. Gay (Park Forest, Illinois); Zygmunt Tomczuk (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A improved device and process for recycling spent nuclear fuels, in particular uranium metal, that facilitates the refinement and recovery of uranium metal from spent metallic nuclear fuels. The electrorefiner device comprises two anodes in predetermined spatial relation to a cathode. The anodese have separate current and voltage controls. A much higher voltage than normal for the electrorefining process is applied to the second anode, thereby facilitating oxidization of uranium (III), U+, to uranium (IV), U+4. The current path from the second anode to the cathode is physically shorter than the similar current path from the second anode to the spent nuclear fuel contained in a first anode shaped as a basket. The resulting U+4 oxidizes and solubilizes rough uranium deposited on the surface of the cathode. A softer uranium metal surface is left on the cathode and is more readily removed by a scraper. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637089 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011760 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Ya-Huei Chin (Richland, Washington); Yufei Gao (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Christopher L. Aardahl (Richland, Washington); Terri L. Stewart (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube structures are disclosed in which nanotubes are disposed over a porous support such as a foam, felt, mesh, or membrane. Techniques of making these structures are also disclosed. In some of these techniques, a support is pretreated with a templated surfactant composition to assist with the formation of a nanotube layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956306 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011771 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yufei Gao (Kennewick, Washington); Jun Liu (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes carbon nanotubes whose hollow cores are 100% filled with conductive filler. The carbon nanotubes are in uniform arrays on a conductive substrate and are well-aligned and can be densely packed. The uniformity of the carbon nanotube arrays is indicated by the uniform length and diameter of the carbon nanotubes, both which vary from nanotube to nanotube on a given array by no more than about 5%. The alignment of the carbon nanotubes is indicated by the perpendicular growth of the nanotubes from the substrates which is achieved in part by the simultaneous growth of the conductive filler within the hollow core of the nanotube and the densely packed growth of the nanotubes. The present invention provides a densely packed carbon nanotube growth where each nanotube is in contact with at least one nearest-neighbor nanotube. The substrate is a conductive substrate coated with a growth catalyst, and the conductive filler can be single crystals of carbide formed by a solid state reaction between the substrate material and the growth catalyst. The present invention further provides a method for making the filled carbon nanotubes on the conductive substrates. The method includes the steps of depositing a growth catalyst onto the conductive substrate as a prepared substrate, creating a vacuum within a vessel which contains the prepared substrate, flowing H2/inert (e.g. Ar) gas within the vessel to increase and maintain the pressure within the vessel, increasing the temperature of the prepared substrate, and changing the H2/Ar gas to ethylene gas such that the ethylene gas flows within the vessel. Additionally, varying the density and separation of the catalyst particles on the conductive substrate can be used to control the diameter of the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/996523 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011809 | Singleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sasol Technology (UK) Limited (Sasolburg, South Africa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan H. Singleton (Baden, Pennsylvania); Rachid Oukaci (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); James G. Goodwin (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A γ-alumina catalyst support having improved attrition resistance produced by a method comprising the steps of treating a particulate γ-alumina material with an acidic aqueous solution comprising water and nitric acid and then, prior to adding any catalytic material thereto, calcining the treated γ-alumina. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851379 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/628 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011898 | Butt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl Paul Butt (Gainesville, Florida); Raymond Ashton Cutler (Bountiful, Utah); Steven Walton Rynders (Riverton, Utah); Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a composite structure includes: (1) providing first and second sintered bodies containing first and second multicomponent metallic oxides having first and second identical crystal structures that are perovskitic or fluoritic; (2) providing a joint material containing at least one metal oxide: (a) containing (i) at least one metal of an identical IUPAC Group as at least one sintered body metal in one of the multicomponent metallic oxides, (ii) a first row D-Block transition metal not contained in the multicomponent metallic oxides, and/or (iii) a lanthanide not contained in the multicomponent metallic oxides; (b) free of metals contained in the multicomponent metallic oxides; (c) free of cations of boron, silicon, germanium, tin, lead, arsenic, antimony, phosphorus and tellurium; and (d) having a melting point below the sintering temperatures of the sintered bodies; and (3) heating to a joining temperature above the melting point and below the sintering temperatures. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393954 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012124 | Angell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Wu Xu (Tempe, Arizona); Xiaoguang Sun (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel conductive polyanionic polymers and methods for their preparion are provided. The polyanionic polymers comprise repeating units of weakly-coordinating anionic groups chemically linked to polymer chains. The polymer chains in turn comprise repeating spacer groups. Spacer groups can be chosen to be of length and structure to impart desired electrochemical and physical properties to the polymers. Preferred embodiments are prepared from precursor polymers comprising the Lewis acid borate tri-coordinated to a selected ligand and repeating spacer groups to form repeating polymer chain units. These precursor polymers are reacted with a chosen Lewis base to form a polyanionic polymer comprising weakly coordinating anionic groups spaced at chosen intervals along the polymer chain. The polyanionic polymers exhibit high conductivity and physical properties which make them suitable as solid polymeric electrolytes in lithium batteries, especially secondary lithium batteries. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/311644 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012275 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uthamalingam Balachandran (Hinsdale, Illinois); Beihai Ma (Naperville, Illinois); Dean Miller (Darien, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered article of manufacture and a method of manufacturing same is disclosed. A substrate has a biaxially textured MgO crystalline layer having the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the plane of the substrate deposited thereon. A layer of one or more of YSZ or Y2O3 and then a layer of CeO2 is deposited on the MgO. A crystalline superconductor layer with the c-axes thereof normal to the plane of the substrate is deposited on the CeO2 layer. Deposition of the MgO layer on the substrate is by the inclined substrate deposition method developed at Argonne National Laboratory. Preferably, the MgO has the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the normal to the substrate in the range of from about 10° to about 40° and YBCO superconductors are used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/780451 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012342 | Stamps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Frederick Stamps (Livermore, California); Robert Ward Crocker (Fremont, California); Daniel Dadwa Yee (Dublin, California); David Wright Dils (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A low voltage control circuit is provided for individually controlling high voltage power provided over bus lines to a multitude of interconnected loads. An example of a load is a drive for capillary channels in a microfluidic system. Control is distributed from a central high voltage circuit, rather than using a number of large expensive central high voltage circuits to enable reducing circuit size and cost. Voltage is distributed to each individual load and controlled using a number of high voltage controller channel switches connected to high voltage bus lines. The channel switches each include complementary pull up and pull down photo isolator relays with photo isolator switching controlled from the central high voltage circuit to provide a desired bus line voltage. Switching of the photo isolator relays is further controlled in each channel switch using feedback from a resistor divider circuit to maintain the bus voltage swing within desired limits. Current sensing is provided using a switched resistive load in each channel switch, with switching of the resistive loads controlled from the central high voltage circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454179 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/29 |
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| US 07012386 | Berg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve W. Berg (Villa Park, Illinois); George A. Goeppner (Orland Park, Illinois); Arthur E. Grelick (Barrington, Illinois); John Hoyt (Woodridge, Illinois); Yoon W. Kang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Wayne Michalek (Plainfield, Illinois); Terry L. Smith (Plainfield, Illinois); William Yoder (Romeoville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF window and a method of manufacture of the RF window are provided. The RF window of the invention has very low reflected RF power. The RF window includes a center sleeve assembly including a ceramic disc mounted within a copper sleeve. The ceramic disc has opposed surfaces, a ceramic surface coating is applied to each of the opposed surfaces. The ceramic surface coatings are selected for a particular application of the RF window. A pair of end assemblies is removably assembled with the center sleeve assembly. An end assembly mating face is arranged for adjustable slip fit engagement within the copper sleeve of the center sleeve assembly to define a respective cavity on opposed sides of the ceramic disc with the mating face positioned at an adjusted position. An intermediary ring is fixedly secured to the end assembly with the mating face at the adjusted position. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/971653 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012419 | Deibele |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig E. Deibele (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit card stripline Fast Faraday cup quantitatively measures the picosecond time structure of a charged particle beam. The stripline configuration maintains signal integrity, and stitching of the stripline increases the bandwidth. A calibration procedure ensures the measurement of the absolute charge and time structure of the charged particle beam. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810088 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012852 | West et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. West (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Roger L. Sumstine (St. George, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and system for detecting seismic waves. A sensing apparatus is deployed within a bore hole and may include a source magnet for inducing a magnetic field within a casing of the borehole. An electrical coil is disposed within the magnetic field to sense a change in the magnetic field due to a displacement of the casing. The electrical coil is configured to remain substantially stationary relative to the well bore and its casing along a specified axis such that displacement of the casing induces a change within the magnetic field which may then be sensed by the electrical coil. Additional electrical coils may be similarly utilized to detect changes in the same or other associated magnetic fields along other specified axes. The additional sensor coils may be oriented substantially orthogonally relative to one another so as to detect seismic waves along multiple orthogonal axes in three dimensional space. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423758 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013054 | Levene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Levene (Ithaca, New York); Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Stephen W. Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for analysis of an analyte. The method involves providing a zero-mode waveguide which includes a cladding surrounding a core where the cladding is configured to preclude propagation of electromagnetic energy of a frequency less than a cutoff frequency longitudinally through the core of the zero-mode waveguide. The analyte is positioned in the core of the zero-mode waveguide and is then subjected, in the core of the zero-mode waveguide, to activating electromagnetic radiation of a frequency less than the cut-off frequency under conditions effective to permit analysis of the analyte in an effective observation volume which is more compact than if the analysis were carried out in the absence of the zero-mode waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151807 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
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| US 07013068 | Klingsporn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Edward Klingsporn (Lee's Summit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for combining light signals carried on a plurality of input fibers onto a single receiving fiber with a high degree of efficiency. The apparatus broadly comprises the receiving fiber and a plurality of input fiber-lens assemblies, with each fiber lens assembly including an input fiber; a collimating lens interposed between the input fiber and the receiving fiber and adapted to collimate the light signal; and a focusing lens interposed between the collimating lens and the receiving fiber and adapted to focus the collimated light signal onto the face of the receiving fiber. The components of each fiber-lens assembly are oriented along an optic axis that is inclined relative to the receiving fiber, with the inclination angle depending at least in part on the input fiber's numerical aperture and the focal lengths and diameters of the collimating and focusing lenses. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777561 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013173 | Da Silva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luiz B. Da Silva (Danville, California); Charles L. Chase (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for characterizing tissue includes the steps of generating an emission signal, generating a reference signal, directing the emission signal to and from the tissue, directing the reference signal in a predetermined manner relative to the emission signal, and using the reference signal to compensate the emission signal. In one embodiment compensation is provided for fluctuations in light delivery to the tip of the probe due to cable motion. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/997872 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013245 | Kotter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale K. Kotter (Shelley, Idaho); Frederick D. Fluck (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for classifying a ferromagnetic object within a sensing area may include a magnetic field sensor that produces magnetic field data. A signal processing system operatively associated with the magnetic field sensor includes a neural network. The neural network compares the magnetic field data with magnetic field data produced by known ferromagnetic objects to make a probabilistic determination as to the classification of the ferromagnetic object within the sensing area. A user interface operatively associated with the signal processing system produces a user-discernable output indicative of the probabilistic determination of the classification of the ferromagnetic object within a sensing area. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/778790 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013395 | Swiler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandra Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Painton Swiler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cynthia A. Phillips (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system analysis tool and method that will allow for qualitative and quantitative assessment of security attributes and vulnerabilities in systems including computer networks. The invention is based on generation of attack graphs wherein each node represents a possible attack state and each edge represents a change in state caused by a single action taken by an attacker or unwitting assistant. Edges are weighted using metrics such as attacker effort, likelihood of attack success, or time to succeed. Generation of an attack graph is accomplished by matching information about attack requirements (specified in “attack templates”) to information about computer system configuration (contained in a configuration file that can be updated to reflect system changes occurring during the course of an attack) and assumed attacker capabilities (reflected in “attacker profiles”). High risk attack paths, which correspond to those considered suited to application of attack countermeasures given limited resources for applying countermeasures, are identified by finding “epsilon optimal paths.” |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/805640 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valerie Clerin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Rebecca Gusic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Keith Gooch (Media, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an ex vivo vascular remodeling methods and system by which an excised, small diameter blood vessel can be harvested and expanded to provide viable vascular grafts, as demonstrated at the physical and molecular levels, and as optimized in vivo. The tissue-engineered vessels generated by the present invention closely resemble native vessels in terms of structure, histologically, including endothelial coverage and intricate structural components such as the internal elastic lamina, viability (as measured with the MTT assay and TUNEL analysis), and function (vasoactivity, mechanical and biomechanical properties). Thus, the resulting vascular grafts behave in a manner similar to native arteries in terms of mechanical integrity, and provide clinically relevant patency rates when implanted in vivo. Moreover, the ex vivo methods and system permit the precise control of the mechanical environment involving the excised vessel, while at the same time permitting careful monitoring of the resulting growth/remodeling, thereby opening new avenues of research regarding the mechanical stimuli responsible for specific aspects of remodeling in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165461 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011816 | Griffiths et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Griffiths (Morristown, New Jersey); William J. McBride (Boonton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and compositions are described for labeling a targeting agent with Ga-68, in which eluate from an acid-eluted Ge-68/Ga-68 generator is combined with a macrocycle-containing targetable agent. The labeling method and compositions disclosed ensure that a simple elution of gallium-68, taken directly from a generator, can be used without further manipulation to quantitatively label a macrocycle-containing targetable agent. The Ga-68 labeled targeting agent so produced is useful with specific targeting agents, and is most especially useful in a pretargeting method for positron emission tomographic detection. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318401 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011827 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Virginia M.-Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating individuals suspected of suffering from diseases, conditions or disorders of the Central Nervous System including nerve damage are provided wherein stable, homogeneous post-mitotic human neurons are into the individual's brain or at or near a site of nerve damage. Pharmaceutical compositions of stable, homogeneous post-mitotic human neurons and a pharmaceutically acceptable medium are also disclosed. Methods of generating non-human animal models of human CNS diseases, conditions or disorders by implanting stable, homogeneous post-mitotic human neurons into the brain of a non-human animal are disclosed. Non-human animals eith stable, homogeneous post-mitotic human neurons implanted in their brain are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/862204 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07011940 | Sompuram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical Discovery Partners LLC (Sharon, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seshi R. Sompuram (Brighton, Massachusetts); Halasya Ramanathan (Worcester, Massachusetts); Steven A. Bogen (Sharon, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes quality control devices for assays that measure analytes in cells and tissue samples, and methods of use thereof. In particular, the quality control device comprises a matrix affixed with synthetic controls in different concentrations, or different synthetic controls. The quality control device can be adhered to a microscope slide via an adhesive or chemically attached to a microscope slide and processed simultaneously with a tissue sample. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/549855 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07011947 | Golub et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd R. Golub (Newton, Massachusetts); Scott A. Armstrong (Wayland, Massachusetts); Stanley J. Korsmeyer (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the diagnosis of mixed lineage leukemia (MLL), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) according to the gene expression profile of a sample from an individual, as well as to methods of therapy and screening that utilize the genes identified herein as targets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198064 |
| 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 |
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| US 07011953 | Abdelouahed et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mustapha Abdelouahed (Worcester, Massachusetts); John W. Lawler (Swampscott, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting the presence of antibodies to PF4/heparin/TSP-1 complexes in a biological sample and for diagnosing Type 2 heparin-induced thrombocytopenia are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/084832 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 07011975 | Adang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Ke Luo (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods for identifying novel pesticide agents are disclosed herein. Specifically exemplified is a full length aminopeptidase N isolated from Manduca sexta, insect cells expressing APN, and methods of screening pesticide agents using the same. Also disclosed are methods of identifying novel APN inhibitors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426417 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/348 |
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| US 07012063 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhigang He (Boston, Massachusetts); Qiwei Zhai (Boston, Massachusetts); Jing Wang (Boston, Massachusetts); Ryan Watts (Stanford, California); Eric Hoopfer (Stanford, California); Liqun Luo (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reduced degeneration of an axon predetermined to be subject to degenerative neuropathy in a term patient is effected by contacting the axon in situ with an effective amount of a ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) inhibitor sufficient to reduce degeneration of the axon; and detecting a resultant reduction in the degeneration of the axon in situ. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/461778 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07012069 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARCH Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching Song (Chicago, Illinois); Shutsung Liao (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of formula (I): Each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R4′, R5, R6, R7, R11, R12, R15, R16, and R17, independently, is hydrogen, halo, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxy, amino, carboxyl, oxo, sulfonic acid, or alkyl that is optionally inserted with —NH—, —N(alkyl)—, —O—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —O—SO2—, —SO2—O—, —SO3—O—, —CO—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR′—, or —NR′—CO—; or R3 and R4 together, R4 and R5 together, R5 and R6 together, or R6 and R7 together are eliminated so that a C═C bond is formed between the carbons to which they are attached; each of R8, R9, R10, R13, and R14, independently, is hydrogen, halo, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, or amino; n is 0, 1, or 2; A is alkylene, alkenylene, or alkynylene; and each of X, Y, and Z, independently, is alkyl, haloalkyl, —OR′, —SR′, —NR′R″, —N(OR′)R″, or —N(SR′)R″; or X and Y together are ═O, ═S, or ═NR′; wherein each of R′ and R″, independently, is hydrogen, alkyl, or haloalkyl. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/137695 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012082 | January |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig T. January (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of shortening prolonged QT intervals in a patient with a trafficking defective HERG mutation is disclosed. In one embodiment, this method comprises the step of treating the patient with an effective amount of fexofenadine whereby the patient's prolonged QT interval is shortened. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351758 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012132 | Lollar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Lollar (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Specific amino acid loci of human factor VIII interact with inhibitory antibodies of hemophilia patients who have developed such antibodies after being treated with factor VIII. Modified factor VIII is disclosed in which the amino acid sequence is changed by a substitution at one or more of the specific loci. The modified factor VIII is not inhibited by inhibitory antibodies against the A2 or C2 domain epitopes. The modified factor VIII is useful for hemophiliacs, either to avoid or prevent the action of inhibitory antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187319 |
| 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 530/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012148 | Curphey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Curphey (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for using these compositions to produce high yields of thionated compounds are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344014 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013054 | Levene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Levene (Ithaca, New York); Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Stephen W. Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for analysis of an analyte. The method involves providing a zero-mode waveguide which includes a cladding surrounding a core where the cladding is configured to preclude propagation of electromagnetic energy of a frequency less than a cutoff frequency longitudinally through the core of the zero-mode waveguide. The analyte is positioned in the core of the zero-mode waveguide and is then subjected, in the core of the zero-mode waveguide, to activating electromagnetic radiation of a frequency less than the cut-off frequency under conditions effective to permit analysis of the analyte in an effective observation volume which is more compact than if the analysis were carried out in the absence of the zero-mode waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151807 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013219 | Case et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sangamo Biosciences, Inc. (Richmond, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Casey C. Case (San Mateo, California); George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado); Stephen P. Eisenberg (Boulder, Colorado); Qiang Liu (Foster City, California); Edward J. Rebar (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for modulating expression of endogenous cellular genes using engineered zinc finger proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245415 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07011723 | Full et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of the LeLand Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Full (Concord, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Ceritto, California); Thomas W. Kenny (San Carlos, California); Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/338104 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011957 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kim Lewis (Newton, Massachusetts); Slava S. Epstein (Dedham, Massachusetts); Tammi Kaeberlein (Nahant, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The method of the invention is directed to the novel use of a diffusion chamber within which previously “uncultivatible” microorganisms can be isolated. Rather than attempting to replicate the natural environment of an unknown microorganism, the method of the invention provides for exposing dividing microorganisms to all the components of the original environment while simultaneously containing the resulting colonies so that they can be isolated. The method of the invention can take advantage of the recognition that the preponderance of difficult-to-grow microorganisms do not form colonies visible to the naked eye. Therefore, these organisms must be isolated under a compound microscope as “microcolonies.” In addition, methods according to the invention permit the isolation of novel microorganisms capable of growing in artificial media only in co-culture in the presence of a companion microorganism. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143551 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012124 | Angell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Wu Xu (Tempe, Arizona); Xiaoguang Sun (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel conductive polyanionic polymers and methods for their preparion are provided. The polyanionic polymers comprise repeating units of weakly-coordinating anionic groups chemically linked to polymer chains. The polymer chains in turn comprise repeating spacer groups. Spacer groups can be chosen to be of length and structure to impart desired electrochemical and physical properties to the polymers. Preferred embodiments are prepared from precursor polymers comprising the Lewis acid borate tri-coordinated to a selected ligand and repeating spacer groups to form repeating polymer chain units. These precursor polymers are reacted with a chosen Lewis base to form a polyanionic polymer comprising weakly coordinating anionic groups spaced at chosen intervals along the polymer chain. The polyanionic polymers exhibit high conductivity and physical properties which make them suitable as solid polymeric electrolytes in lithium batteries, especially secondary lithium batteries. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/311644 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012148 | Curphey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Curphey (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for using these compositions to produce high yields of thionated compounds are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344014 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013054 | Levene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Levene (Ithaca, New York); Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Stephen W. Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for analysis of an analyte. The method involves providing a zero-mode waveguide which includes a cladding surrounding a core where the cladding is configured to preclude propagation of electromagnetic energy of a frequency less than a cutoff frequency longitudinally through the core of the zero-mode waveguide. The analyte is positioned in the core of the zero-mode waveguide and is then subjected, in the core of the zero-mode waveguide, to activating electromagnetic radiation of a frequency less than the cut-off frequency under conditions effective to permit analysis of the analyte in an effective observation volume which is more compact than if the analysis were carried out in the absence of the zero-mode waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151807 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07011824 | Moore, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Moore, Jr. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating animal manure solids comprises contacting the solids with a treatment composition comprising AlCl3.nH2O or Al(NO3)3.mH2O, or the residue of AlCl3.nH2O or Al(NO3)3.mH2O, to form a treated waste product, wherein n is from 0 to 10, and m is from 0 to 12. The treatment amount can be effective to reduce phosphorus solubility in the manure; reduce phosphorus runoff and/or phosphorus leaching from fields fertilized with manure; inhibit ammonia volatilization from the manure; flocculate solids in the manure; reduce pathogens in the manure; increase the nitrogen content in the manure; and/or reduce acid rain and PM-10s associated with the manure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/729579 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/76.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07011975 | Adang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Ke Luo (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods for identifying novel pesticide agents are disclosed herein. Specifically exemplified is a full length aminopeptidase N isolated from Manduca sexta, insect cells expressing APN, and methods of screening pesticide agents using the same. Also disclosed are methods of identifying novel APN inhibitors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426417 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07011530 | Sitaraman et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh K. Sitaraman (Atlanta, Georgia); Lunyu Ma (Atlanta, Georgia); Qi Zhu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-axis compliance spring includes at least an anchor portion attached to a surface of a substrate and a free portion detached from the substrate. The free portion includes at least one first section having at least one curvature originating from an internal stress in the free portion and a second section having at least one second curvature defined in a plane of the substrate prior to being detached from the free portion of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/443957 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07012491 — Storing mechanical potential in a MEMS device using a mechanically multi-stable mechanism
| US 07012491 | Geisberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Geisberger (Plano, Texas); Matthew D. Ellis (Allen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for storing potential energy in a microcomponent is disclosed comprising a multi-stable element having two or more equilibrium states and a stopper to restrict the multi-stable element from entering at least one of the two or more equilibrium states. The pre-charged microcomponent may then preferably be transported to another location and use the stored potential energy to perform some action. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/238319 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07012248 | Paschalidis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P. Paschalidis (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A CMOS time-of-flight “TOF” system-on-a-chip “SoC” for precise time interval measurement with low power consumption and high counting rate has been developed. The analog and digital TOF chip may include two Constant Fraction Discriminators “CFDs” and a Time-to-Digital Converter “TDC”. The CFDs can interface to start and stop anodes through two preamplifiers and perform signal processing for time walk compensation (110). The TDC digitizes the time difference with reference to an off-chip precise external clock (114). One TOF output is an 11-bit digital word and a valid event trigger output indicating a valid event on the 11-bit output bus (116). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/511069 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07012730 | Handschy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Displaytech, Inc. (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Handschy (Boulder, Colorado); Michael R. Meadows (Nederland, Colorado); Holden Chase (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for producing modulated light is disclosed. The system comprises a spatial light modulator including a light modulating medium switchable between different states so as to act on light in ways which form overall patterns of modulated light. The system also includes an arrangement for switching the modulating medium between the different states in a controlled way and an illumination arrangement for producing a source of light. The system further includes an optics arrangement for directing light from the source of light into the spatial light modulator and for directing light from the spatial light modulator through a predetermined source imaging area. The optics arrangement cooperates with the illumination arrangement and the spatial light modulator so as to produce a real image of the source of light within the source imaging area such that an individual is able to view a virtual image of the overall patterns of modulated light from the source imaging area. A variety of novel optics arrangements are disclosed including specific combinations of different light sources, diffusing plates, polarizers, beam splitters, analyzers, lenses, mirrors, and holographic optical elements which allow the overall optical arrangement to be miniaturized to the same degree and in coordination with the spatial light modulator. The different light sources include using a plurality of light sources, such as LEDs, to form an array of light sources, each of the light sources providing light to a corresponding portion of the spatial light modulator. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/067516 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07011959 | Santi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Santi (San Francisco, California); Larry Peck (San Carlos, California); Linda Dayem (Belmont, California); James Kealey (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant E. coli host cells that comprise recombinant DNA expression vectors that drive expression of methylmalonyl CoA mutase from Propionibacterium shermanii or Streptomyces cinnamonensis as well as Propionibacterium shermanii epimerase can produce S-methylmalonyl CoA, a required substrate for the production of polyketides by most modular polyketide synthases and is not present in wild-type E. coli host cells. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/699136 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07012097 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Disease Control Research Commission (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth D. Rose (Tempe, Arkansas); Steven R. Ottersberg (Tempe, Arkansas); Karl J. Okolotowicz (Tempe, Arkansas); Dale E. Robinson (San Diego, California); Rosemarie Hartman (Tempe, Arkansas); Scott Lefler (Tempe, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Prenylating enzymes are involved in modifying oncoproteins, such as RAS, so that growth of neoplastic cells becomes uncontrolled. Inactivation of such enzymes can prevent uncontrolled growth. α-Dicarbonyl compounds can be used to covalently modify and thereby inactivate prenylating enzymes such as protein farnesyltransferase and protein geranylgeranyltransferase. The compounds can be designed to enhance affinity and/or specificity for a particular protein substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437050 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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