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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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| US 07013579 | 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 | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/207633 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Boots, shoes, and leggings 036/2.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013636 | Iya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sridhar K. Iya (Gig Harbor, Washington); George M. Roe (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for cooling at least a portion of an engine are provided. The engine is cooled using a fuel, such as a high heat sink fuel, that is subsequently used for combustion in the engine. The fuel can be used to cool one or more of the gases and/or components in the engine, thereby cooling the engine including an exhaust nozzle. For example, the fuel can be circulated through one or more heat exchanging devices that are disposed inside or outside a passage of the engine, and the fuel can absorb thermal energy from the engine or air that flows in the engine passage. In any case, the cooling of the engine can result in a reduction to the infrared signature of the engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830193 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013673 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (St. Pete Beach, Florida) |
| 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 | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089370 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013739 | Schroeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Schroeder (Stanford, California); Eric S. G. Shaqfeh (Stanford, California); Hazen P. Babcock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven Chu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for confining an object to a region proximate to a fluid flow stagnation point includes one or more inlets for carrying the fluid into the region, one or more outlets for carrying the fluid out of the region, and a controller, in fluidic communication with the inlets and outlets, for adjusting the motion of the fluid to produce a stagnation point in the region, thereby confining the object to the region. Applications include, for example, prolonged observation of the object, manipulation of the object, etc. The device optionally may employ a feedback control mechanism, a sensing apparatus (e.g., for imaging), and a storage medium for storing, and a computer for analyzing and manipulating, data acquired from observing the object. The invention further provides methods of using such a device and system in a number of fields, including biology, chemistry, physics, material science, and medical science. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841011 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013745 | Kolarczyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome C. Kolarczyk (Crystal Lake, Illinois); Joseph J. Wisneiwski (Ringwood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a ground sensor assembly adapted for deployment from air to a selected ground location. The ground sensor assembly comprises an aerially deployable sensor housing which has upper and lower housing ends defining a longitudinally elongated aperture therebetween. A plurality of connected sensor modules are longitudinally inserted into the aperture between the upper and lower housing ends. Furthermore, an aerodynamic module is connected to the sensor modules and is disposed adjacent the upper housing end outside the aperture. This aerodynamic module has a plurality of stabilizers which radially extend outward therefrom and form a generally parallel relationship with the upper housing end. Such stabilizers provide aerodynamic stability during the deployment of the ground sensor assembly from the air to the selected ground location. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/766069 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/866.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013788 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Williams (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Nicholas Bitsakis (Seekonk, Massachusetts); Gary R. Berlam (Concord, Massachusetts); James A. Lilley (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Brenda Brennan MacLeod (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A launch tube assembly including an aft launch tube portion, a forward launch tube portion, and a transfer sleeve having a first end fixed to and adjacent the forward end of said aft launch tube portion and a second end adjustably receiving the forward launch tube portion. A forward end of the aft launch tube portion faces a rearward end of the forward launch tube portion within the transfer sleeve. An adjustable plenum is present having a volume within the transfer sleeve defined by an adjusted distance between the facing ends of aft and forward launch tube portions. An end cap is pinned to a forward end of the forward launch tube portion, a gas generator housed in the aft launch tube portion, and a countermeasure device is housed in the forward launch tube portion. An adjustably selected volume of the plenum is such that a gas generated by the gas generator will enable propulsion of the countermeasure device at a predetermined acceleration from the forward launch tube portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627104 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.810 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013808 | Perruzzi 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) | Joseph J. Perruzzi (Tiverton, Rhode Island); Edward J. Hilliard, Jr. (Middletown, Rhode Island); Megan M. Gibson (Bristol, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a bounding region for a launched weapon. The method processes the course and speed of ocean currents, and the bearing and range to an aim point to determine the resultant speed of the launched weapon. The method then processes the resultant speed to determine a course for the weapon. The method also processes the ownship position at launch, the desired aim point and the resultant speed to determine weapon run time. The method provides a mathematical distribution of the uncertainty in the speed and course of the ocean current and then processes it to generate a scatter region of possible weapon positions. The method then processes the distribution function of the mathematical distribution and the desired aim point to determine a plurality of positions that define a bounding region. Finally, the method quantifies possible positions of the scatter region that are within the bounding region. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863837 |
| 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 12/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07013811 | Sebasto 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) | Anthony Sebasto (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Stewart Gilman (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Leon Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Mohan Palathingal (Oradell, New Jersey); Robert Marchak (Bloomfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An energetic sabot allows part of the sabot to burn away at a controlled rate, adding propellant energy to the gun while at the same time completely support the projectile rod. The energetic sabot is thicker or larger at shot start to support the projectile without breaking. As the energetic sabot travels up the gun tube, the energetic sabot then thins out or otherwise decreases in mass as the force on the energetic sabot decreases. The weight of the projectile consequently decreases as it travels up the gun tube, allowing the gun gases to push a lighter projectile, giving the projectile a higher velocity. Due to its continually decreasing weight in the gun tube, the projectile experiences greater acceleration and exits the gun with a higher muzzle velocity. A secondary effect comes from increased pressure in the gun tube from the gases relinquished in the burning of the sabot, further increasing the velocity of the projectile. This higher velocity in turn leads to greater projectile velocity at target impact, and thus a greater penetration depth. The energetic sabot is “doped” with energetic materials by sprinkling either explosive, propulsive, or pyrotechnic agents between layers of the composite material in the energetic sabot. These agents ignite upon propulsion; their composition is determined from their burn rates. The burn rate may be designed proportional to the decrease in chamber pressure; the less pressure in the tube, the more material that can be relinquished. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604576 |
| 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 12/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014424 | Cunha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut); Matthew T. Dahmer (Auburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine element airfoil has a cooling passageway network with a slot extending from a trailing passageway toward the trailing edge. A number of discrete posts span the slot between pressure and suction sidewall portions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409521 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014742 | Birkbeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron L. Birkbeck (La Jolla, California); Sadik C. Esener (La Jolla, California); Mihrimah Ozkan (La Jolla, California); Erhan Ata (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive alignment technique provides precise control and active positioning in, preferably, two-dimensions of sub-millimeter-sized objects such as, in one application, spherical mircolenses through the application of electrophoretic forces in a microfluidic wells. A lithographically patterned microfluidic well and electrodes can be addressed to position or align a spherical microlens to a corresponding laser light beam. The motion of the microlens is preferably controlled using CMOS compatible voltages (3V–1 μA) that are preferably applied to opposite electrodes in the microfluidic well, creating an electrical field in a well solution. By applying voltages to opposed electrode pairs, movement of spherical microlenses with sizes ranging from, most typically, 0.87 μm to 40 μm in directions parallel to the electrode surface is realized. Under a bias of 3 volts, the microspheres have electrophoretic velocities ranging from 13 to 16 μm/s. Optical alignment of the spherical microlens, as is preferably accomplished by use of feedback from a photo detector, serves to position the microlens for maximum efficiency. Microlenses or other optical elements may thus be aligned to optical fibers, VCSELs, LEDs, photodetectors, etc. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099133 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014743 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jie Tang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Huaizhi Geng (Carrboro, North Carolina); Lu-Chang Qin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jian Zhang (Carrboro, North Carolina); Guang Yang (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for depositing a nanostructure-containing material onto an object or substrate includes one or more of the following: (1) forming a solution or suspension of nanostructure-containing material, (2) selectively adding “chargers” to the solution, (3) immersing electrodes in the solution, the substrate or object upon which the nanostructure material is to be deposited acting as one of the electrodes, (4) applying a direct and/or alternating current electrical field between the two electrodes for a certain period of time thereby causing the nanostructure materials in the solution to migrate toward and attach themselves to the substrate electrode, and (5) subsequent optional processing of the coated substrate. Associated objects and devices are also provided. A method for separating nanostructures based on their properties and/or geometry is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730068 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014790 | Bulluck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Werner Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an acrylate adhesive that cures at room temperature and has excellent dimensional stability. The adhesive may be used in applications such as for fiber optic connectors. The adhesive may be made by curing a two-part system or by use of a primer-based system. The two part system may include an adhesive part A, which may include one or more monofunctional, difunctional, or trifunctional acrylate or methacrylate monomers, a peroxide or hydroperoxide free-radical initiator, an antioxidant, and optionally, additives such as thickeners, thixotropes, and adhesion promoters; and an activator part B, which may contain a N,N-disubstituted aromatic amine, a difunctional methacrylate monomer, an antioxidant, and optionally, additives such as thickeners, thixotropes, and adhesion promoters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706148 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/182.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014796 | Jen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Hong Ma (Seattle, Washington); Sen Liu (Seattle, Washington); Larry R. Dalton (Silverdale, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nonlinear optically active compounds, methods for making nonlinear optically active compounds, compounds useful for making nonlinear optically active compounds, methods for making compounds useful for making nonlinear optically active compounds, macrostructures that include nonlinear optically active components, and devices including the nonlinear optically active compounds and the macrostructures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/347117 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014799 | Yang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Tao Deng (Somerville, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Galen Stucky (Goleta, California); Dongyaun Zhao (Shanghai 200433, China PRC); Bradley Chmelka (Goleta, California); David Pine (Santa Barbara, California); Pingyun Feng (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-cost, efficient method of preparing hierarchically ordered structures by filling a minimold with a microsphere-containing latex suspension, forming an close-packed array of microspheres within the minimold and filling void space in the array with a self-assembling mixture of hydrolyzed inorganic species and amphiphilic block copolymers. A macroporous and mesoporous material can be produced by subsequent thermal removal of the microspheres and copolymers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/145657 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014823 | Chase et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Bryant Chase (Tallahassee, Florida); Seunghun Hong (Seoul, South Korea); Timothy S. Moerland (Tallahassee, Florida); Stephan Von Molnar (Tallahassee, Florida); Peng Xiong (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to actuators having biologically-based components, and methods of making and using the same. The actuator of the invention has a movable member that moves substantially linearly as a result of a biomolecular interaction of biologically-based components within the actuator. These actuators can be utilized in nanoscale mechanical devices to, e.g., pump fluids, open and close valves, and provide translational movement. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/688078 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014885 | Piqué et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto Piqué (Bowie, Maryland); Raymond Auyeung (Alexandria, Virginia); James Fitzgerald (Laurel, Maryland); Douglas B. Chrisey (Bowie, Maryland); Huey-Daw Wu (Fairfax, Virginia); Paul Kydd (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); David L. Richard (Fanwood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for depositing a material of interest onto a receiving substrate includes a first laser and a second laser, a receiving substrate, and a target substrate. The target substrate comprises a laser transparent support having a back surface and a front surface. The front surface has a coating that comprises the source material, which is a material that can be transformed into the material of interest. The first laser can be positioned in relation to the target substrate so that a laser beam is directed through the back surface of the target substrate and through the laser-transparent support to strike the coating at a defined location with sufficient energy to remove and lift the source material from the surface of the support. The receiving substrate can be positioned in a spaced relation to the target substrate so that the source material is deposited at a defined location on the receiving substrate. The second laser is then positioned to strike the deposited source material to transform the source material into the material of interest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/619442 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014889 | Groves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Groves (Charlottesville, Virginia); Derek D. Hass (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia); Goesta Mattausch (Dresden, Germany); Henry Morgner (Dresden, Germany); Siegfried Schiller (Dresden, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Plasma deposition apparatus (1) and method that allows metal or nonmetal vapor (6) to be generated by electron-beam evaporation, guides that vapor using a noble gas stream (containing reactive gases in cases of reactive evaporation), ionizes the dense directed gas and vapor stream at working pressures above about 0.0001 mbar using a hollow cathode plasma arc discharge (11), and conveys the ionized vapor and/or gas stream towards the substrate (4) for impact on the surface at energies varying from thermal levels (as low as about 0.05 eV) up to about 300 eV. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/297347 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015036 | Prachumsri 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) | Jetsumon Prachumsri (Samutprakam, Thailand); Nongnuch Yimamnuaychok (Thonburi, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described the establishment and maintanence of a normal human hepatocyte cell line able to support complete development of malaria parasite development in vitro. Advantages and uses of the cell line are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/962364 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015062 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Weiss (State College, Pennsylvania); Anat Hatzor (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus relating to manufacturing nanostructure patterns and components using molecular science. The method includes overlaying a multilayer organic molecule resist on at least a portion of a parent structure selectively deposited on a substrate, depositing a layer over the parent structure and in contact with at least a portion of the multilayer organic resist, and removing the multilayer organic molecule resist to leave a residual structure. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/873614 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015222 | Koppes 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) | William M. Koppes (Adelphi, Maryland); Michael E. Sitzmann (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An agricultural composition comprising the chemical formula, or salt thereof, of: wherein Rx is —NH2, —OH, halogen, akylamino, SR1, carboxyalkyl, carboxy, or a sulfonamide moiety, wherein R1 is a H or a C1 to C6 alkyl moiety, and Ry and Rz, independently, are electron donating groups and an agriculturally acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781956 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015463 | Cotter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Cotter (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert D. English (Galveston, Texas); Benjamin D. Gardner (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass spectrometer that includes an ionizing source, a sample holder arranged in a beam path of the ionizing source, an ion detector disposed to receive ions extracted from a sample when held by the sample holder and irradiated by the ionizing source. The mass spectrometer also includes an extraction electrode arranged proximate to the sample holder, and a drift tube arranged between the extraction electrode and the ion detector. In the mass spectrometer, the extraction electrode and the drift tube are movable together relative to the sample holder, which is held at a fixed position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/508322 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015646 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California); Artan Qerushi (Irvine, California); Hooshang Tahsiri (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328701 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015823 | Gillen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Systran Federal Corporation (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Joseph Gillen (Miamisburg, Ohio); Todd Scott Grimes (Lebanon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A physical barrier for a circuit board also functions as a tampering sensor or sensors monitored by electrical circuitry that generates a tamper signal for erasing information critical for the operation of the circuit board in the event of sensed tampering. One or more routing matrices configured in at least one programmable device is programmed to interconnect operating as well as optional dummy components on the board so that routing information is erased in the event of sensed tampering. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966593 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/652 |
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| US 07015835 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Technologies, LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Nick Lawrence (Dallas, Texas); Douglas J. Matzke (Plano, Texas); Irvin R. Jackson, Jr., II (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Encoding bits includes receiving a bit set to encode. An encoding lookup table associates correlithm objects of a space with bit sets. The space refers to an N-dimensional space, a correlithm object refers to a point of the space. The correlithm object corresponding to the received bit set is identified. The received bit set is encoded as the identified correlithm object. The identified correlithm object is imposed to encode the received bit set and subsequently decoded with table lookup using the reverse process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803573 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015854 | Anthony |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new architecture is provided in which a master A/D converter of limited precision controls the adjustment-charge steering of a set of similar slave A/D converter pipelines. This architecture relieves the layout constraints imposed by prior architectures and also reduces power consumption of the device. By spatially interleaving the slave pipelines in an array, the new architecture also improves accuracy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889281 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015857 | Pozgay |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome H. Pozgay (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Calibrating an antenna includes receiving a signal sent from a reference located within a region. The signal has a polarization within an expected polarization range. Polarization value sets are established in accordance with the expected polarization range. Polarization ratios are generated from the plurality of polarization value sets. A minimum polarization ratio variance for the plurality of polarization ratios is established. A polarization value set corresponding to the minimum polarization ratio variance is identified. A calibration correction is determined in accordance with the identified polarization value set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970255 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016048 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongping Chen (Irvine, California); J. Stuart Nelson (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase-resolved functional optical coherence tomography system simultaneously obtains the Stokes vectors, structure, blood flow velocity, standard deviation, and birefringence images in human skin. The multifunctional images were obtained by processing the analytical interference fringe signals derived from the two perpendicular polarization detection channels. The blood flow velocity and standard deviation images were obtained by comparing the phase from the pairs of analytical signals in the neighboring A-lines in the same polarization state. The Stokes vectors were obtained by processing the analytical signals from two polarization diversity detection channels for the same reference polarization state. From the four Stokes vectors, the birefringence image, which is insensitive to the orientations of the optical axis in the sample, was obtained. Multifunctional images of a port wine stain birthmark in human skin are demonstrated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/410723 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016292 | Hayes 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) | David A. Hayes (Huntsville, Alabama); J. Russell Alexander (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical data storage device includes an optically readable disk that has a body extending in a radial direction from a central axis. The body has a side and an elongated portion that extends along the side. The elongated portion includes a first side surface and a second side surface. A plurality of optically readable discontinuities may be located on each of the first side surface and the second side surface of the elongated portion. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400085 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016390 | Rhodes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles K. Rhodes (Chicago, Illinois); Keith Boyer (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The generation of ultrabright, multikilovolt coherent tunable x-radiation resulting from amplification on hollow atom transition arrays is described. Amplification has been demonstrated by physical evidence including (a) the observation of selected spectral components of several Xeq+ hollow atom transition arrays (q=30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37) radiated axially from confined plasma channels, (b) the measurement of line narrowing that is spectrally correlated with the amplified transitions, (c) evidence for spectral hole-burning in the spontaneous emission, a manifestation of saturated amplification, that corresponds spectrally with the amplified lines, and (d) the detection of an intense narrow (δθx˜0.2 mr) directed beam of radiation in the far field of the source. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600141 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016421 | Yap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Yap (Thousand Oaks, California); Joseph F. Jensen (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) that can have a very high sampling rate (over 100 GHz) and which is preferably optically sampled to help achieve its very high sampling rate. The sampling rate can be many times higher than the regeneration speed of the electronic quantizers used in the ADC. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280416 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016456 | Basu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samit Kumar Basu (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Michael Edic (Albany, New York); Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for determining a geometry of a scanning volumetric computed tomographic (CT) system having a rotation axis, a rotational plane, an x-ray source and a detector. The method includes scanning a phantom having a series of spatially separated discrete markers with the scanning volumetric computed tomographic system, wherein the markers are configured on a supporting structure of the phantom so as to permit separate identification of each marker in a collection of projection images. The method further includes locating images of the markers in each projection, using the located marker images to assign marker locations to tracks, and using the assigned tracks, determining a relative alignment between the detector, the source, and the rotation axis of the scanning volumetric computed tomographic system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699087 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016563 | Ruffa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of switching from a single input optical fiber to one or more output fibers comprising the steps of providing an input signal into the input optical fiber, splitting the input signal and the input optical fiber to form a plurality of optical fibers and a plurality of split input signals each of the optical fibers carrying a single one of the plurality of the split input signals, attenuating the plurality of the split input signals, amplifying at least one of the plurality of the split input signals with a laser activated amplifier to produce at least one output signal, and outputting the at least one amplified split input signals through corresponding at least one output fibers. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748921 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016569 | Mule et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Mule (Atlanta, Georgia); James D. Meindl (Marietta, Georgia); Thomas K. Gaylord (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for back-of-die, through-wafer guided-wave optical clock distribution systems (networks) are disclosed. A representative back-of-die, through-wafer guided-wave optical clock distribution system includes an integrated circuit device with a first cladding layer disposed on the back-side of the integrated circuit device, and an core layer disposed on the first cladding layer. The core layer, the first cladding layer, or the second cladding layer can include, but is not limited to, vertical-to-horizontal input diffraction gratings, a horizontal-to-horizontal diffraction gratings, and horizontal-to-vertical output diffraction gratings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630411 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016737 | Petrofsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerrold S. Petrofsky (Redlands, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of promoting the healing of a wound disposed in soft tissue and having a physical extent is disclosed, comprising the steps of providing control circuitry to control the application of electrical current through a plurality of electrodes; applying three or more electrodes (101–103) to the surface of the soft tissue around and in proximity to the wound (12), wherein each of the three or more electrodes is connected to the control circuitry; conducting an electrical current (14) through the three or more electrodes, such that one electrode functions as a current source and one or more of the remaining electrodes functions as a current sink; and switching the function of acting as a current source and as a current sink among the electrodes. A device and suitable control circuitry are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/506911 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016781 | Wolfson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouri Wolfson (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A database receives location information about a moving object. Using the destination of the object and an electronic map, the database finds a projected path for the moving object. From the projected path, the database computes a trajectory. The trajectory may be used to estimate past and future positions of the moving object. The moving object may send location updates to the database when its actual location differs from its anticipated location by more than an uncertainty threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/048039 |
| 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 71/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016825 | Tryon, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Tryon, III (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component using a probabilistic model of a material's microstructural-based response to fatigue. The method predicts the component failure by a computer simulation of multiple incarnations of real material behavior, or virtual prototyping. The virtual prototyping simulates the effects of characteristics that include grain size, grain orientation, micro-applied stress and micro-yield strength that are difficult to simulate with real specimens. The invention provides an apparatus for predicting the response of a component to fatigue using the method. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002316 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07017113 | Bourbakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas G. Bourbakis (Dayton, Ohio); Stanley E. Borek (New York Mills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for reconstructing new documents from a group of old ones by removing the existing redundant information. Redundant information (images, text paragraphs) from retrieved multimedia documents is removed. Each document consists of two main parts stored in different databases. The first part of a document represents text paragraphs, the second part consists of the images and drawings related with the text paragraphs. An information reduction methodology examines first the text paragraphs of each document related with a specific topic, and removes the redundant information, such as same or similar paragraphs, by keeping pointers useful for a future reconstruction of the original documents. The remaining text paragraphs and the set of points are used to compose the first version of a new document. The invention also examines all the images related with the set of original documents and removes the same or similar images while keeping pointers that could assist a future reconstruction of the original documents. The invention merges text-paragraphs and images and creates the first stage new document. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314189 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Dwight W. Miller (Pine Bluff, Arkansas); Jon G. Wilkes (Little Rock, Arkansas); Eric D. Conte (Bowling Green, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A food quality indicator device an indicator compound provided on a substrate. The indicator compound changes color due to the presence of volatile compounds, such as volatile bases, in spoiled food, even when the food is frozen. Alternatively, the indicator compound detects the presence of an unwanted amine-producing biological agent, such as bacteria or fungi. The indicator compound is typically contained within a polymeric matrix disposed on the substrate. Examples of suitable indicator compounds include halogenated azo dyes, sulfonated xanthene dyes, and sulfonated hydroxy-functional triphenylmethane dyes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/005004 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014880 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy D. Wood (Kenmore, New York); Douglas R. Smith (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for coating nanoelectrospray emitters. The method involves providing a nanoelectrospray emitter body and evaporating an electrically conductive material under conditions effective to form a thin layer of the electrically conductive material onto the nanoelectrospray emitter body. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847197 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014994 | Barany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation,Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Joseph P. Day (Pacifica, California); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Donald E. Bergstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for identifying one or more low abundance sequences differing by one or more single-base changes, insertions, or deletions, from a high abundance sequence in a plurality of target nucleotide sequences. The high abundance wild-type sequence is selectively removed using high fidelity polymerase chain reaction analog conversion, facilitated by optimal buffer conditions, to create a restriction endonuclease site in the high abundance wild-type gene, but not in the low abundance mutant gene. This allows for digestion of the high abundance DNA. Subsequently the low abundant mutant DNA is amplified and detected by the ligase detection reaction assay. The present invention also relates to a kit for carrying out this procedure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/528014 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014998 | Rothstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Rothstein (Guilford, Connecticut); Giacomo P. Basadonna (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Screens that directly or indirectly measure or qualitatively observe CTLA-4 expression or function by animals or cell cultures, or that indirectly measure dependence of an agent on CTLA-4 by comparison to animals or cell cultures that lack CTLA-4, identify agents that are useful in immunosuppression and the generation of immunologic tolerance for the prevention and treatment of transplant rejection, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/961503 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07015007 | Pier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially pure capsular exopolysaccharide adhesin of coagulase-negative staphylococcal strains, and a gonoral method to prepare such adhesins, are described. Vaccines composed of such adhesins, and uses of such adhesins to produce polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies against such adhesins, are also disclosed. The adhesins are useful in coating polymoric medical materials to prevent colonization by coagulase-negative staphylococcal strains, and as a probe in selecting desirable polymeric medical materials. Such adhesin antibodies are useful in vivo to prevent infection by nosocomial coagulase-negative staphylococcal strains, in assays for the detection of such bacteria, in assays for the estimation of such adhesins in complex mixtures, and as an affinity chromatography matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856123 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015012 | Housman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Housman (Newton, Massachusetts); Aleksey G. Kazantsev (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery of methods for identifying compounds that mediate (by promoting or inhibiting) protein-protein interaction (e.g., aggregation, dimerization, or other physiologically significant association). Compounds that mediate such interaction, which are also within the scope of the invention, can be used to treat Alzheimer's disease, disorders associated with expanded CAG repeats (such as Huntington's disease), and disorders in which polyglutamine-containing transcription factors or coactivators are undesirably active (e.g., disorders associated with homodimerization of jun or hexamerization of p53. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/470765 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015022 | Laskin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Anna Marie Vetrano (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Diane Heck (Rumson, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalase-dependent enzymatic oxidation process wherein a substrate to be oxidized is contacted with catalase in the absence of hydrogen peroxide is provided. Also provided are methods for using this process in a variety of biomedical, clinical and diagnostic applications as well as industrial processes. A method for stimulating the enzymatic oxidation process by treatment with ultraviolet light and uses for this method are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165841 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/192 |
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| US 07015024 | Moss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael Mackett (Manchester, United Kingdom); Geoffrey L. Smith (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant poxviruses, such as vaccinia, are provided that comprises a segment comprised of (A) a first DNA sequence encoding a polypeptide that is foreign to poxvirus and (B) a poxvirus transcriptional regulatory sequence, wherein (i) said transcriptional regulatory sequence is adjacent to and exerts transcriptional control over said first DNA sequence and (ii) said segment is positioned within a nonessential genomic region of said recombinant poxvirus. Vaccines, carriers, cells, and media comprising recombinant poxviruses, and methods of immunization with recombinant poxviruses, also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/470357 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
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| US 07015035 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maureen Ward (New York, New York); Arthur Bank (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a retroviral packaging cell comprising a suitable mammalian cell having therein (i) a first recombinant nucleic acid comprising MMLV gag and pol genes and a selectable marker, and (ii) a second recombinant nucleic acid comprising RD114 envelope gene and a selectable marker, wherein the MMLV gag and pol genes and the RD114 envelope gene are stably expressed in the cell. This invention further provides related production methods, virions and kits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/702761 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07015037 | Furcht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); MCL/LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo T. Furcht (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Catherine M. Verfaillie (St. Paul, Minnesota); Morayma Reyes (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated stem cells of non-embryonic origin that can be maintained in culture in the undifferentiated state or differentiated to form cells of multiple tissue types. Also provided are methods of isolation and culture, as well as therapeutic uses for the isolated cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/048757 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
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| US 07015044 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xianlin Han (Clayton, Missouri); David M. Holtzman (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease even at early stages by assessing the levels of sulfatides or its metabolites in biological fluids is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/317031 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015190 | Bartsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dusan Bartsch (New York, New York); Eric R. Kandel (Riverdale, New York); Mirella Ghirardi (Turin, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method to enhance long-term memory in a subject whose cAMP-responsive gene expression is repressed due to binding of a cAMP-response-element-binding-protein-2 to a protein or a DNA associated with cAMP-responsive gene expression, or both, which comprises administering to the subject a compound capable of interfering with such binding in an amount effective to interfere with binding of the protein or the DNA so as to thereby derepress cAMP-responsive gene expression in the subject and enhance the subject's long-term memory. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 08/656811 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015204 | Granstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Granstein (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Effective anti-tumor immunity is induced in mice utilizing RNA-pulsed epidermal cells (EC) for in vivo immunization or by injecting RNA intradermally into naïve mice. A vaccine comprising total cell RNA and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for inducing an immune response to reduce or prevent the occurrence of a tumor. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/679776 |
| 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 514/44 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Hochberg (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to analogs of estradiol, which, in their most preferred embodiment, act as locally active estrogens without significant systemic action. A series of 15α-estradiol ester compounds is presented which exhibit excellent biological activity for use in pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of symptomology associated with menopause. The present invention is therefore directed to compounds according to the structure: where X is R is H, a C1 to C5 alkyl group, optionally substituted with at least one halogen group, such as CH2CH2F, or other group (e.g., CH2CHF2, CH2CF3 or CF3 group); and m is from 0–5, preferably from 0–2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796462 |
| 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 514/182 |
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| US 07015212 | Neamati 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) | Nouri Neamati (Fullerton, California); Yves Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland); Antonio Garofalo (Siena, Italy); Vito Nacci (Siena, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses non-catechol compounds, such as thiazolothiazepines, and analogs and derivatives thereof, which are anti-integrase inhibitors. The compounds, which are useful as treatments for HIV disease, include compounds (I), (II), (III), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof wherein A is thiazole, benzene, naphthalene, pyridine, pyrimidine, pyrazine, or quinoline; R is one or more of H, halogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, NO2, lower ester or carboxylic acid; X—Y is CH2—S, S—CH2, CH2—O, CH2—S(O). S(O)—CH2, CH2—CH2, CH2—CH2—CH2, or CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2; R4 is H or hydroxy; R5 is H, phenyl, or alkylamine; W is S or O; and R6 is H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or amine; and Z is S, O, CH2, CH2CH2, or C═O. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/009210 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/211.40 |
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| US 07015226 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Q. Huang (San Diego, California); Chen Chen (San Diego, California); Yongsheng Chen (San Diego, California); Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Warren Wade (San Diego, California); Martin Rowbottom (San Diego, California); Jaimie K. Rueter (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein n, R1a, R1b, R1c, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5, R6 and X are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885490 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.140 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laszlo Otvos (Audubon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Modifications of the peptide pyrrhocoricin permit the production of a variety of anti-bacterial or anti-fungal peptides having general formula R1-Asp-Lys-Gly-X-Y-Leu-Pro-Arg-Pro-Thr-Pro-Pro-Arg-Pro-Ile-Tyr-X′-Y′-R2 SEQ ID NO: 1 or multimeric compositions containing more than a single peptide of that formula. These peptides may be straight chain or cyclic peptides, and may contain one or more non-cleavable bonds. These peptides are characterized by anti-bacterial or anti-fungal activity and metabolic stability in mammalian serum. These peptides are useful in anti-bacterial or anti-fungal pharmaceutical compositions and for further drug development or identification of other antibiotic or anti-fungal compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/980804 |
| 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 |
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| US 07015310 | Remington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. James Remington (Eugene, Oregon); George T. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides proteins that can be used to determine the redox status of an environment (such as the environment within a cell or subcellular compartment). These proteins are green fluorescent protein (GFP) variants (also referred to as redox sensitive GFP (rosGFP) mutants), which have been engineered to have two cysteine amino acids near the chromophore and within disulfide bonding distance of each other. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules that encode rosGFPs, vectors containing such encoding molecules, and cells transformed therewith. The disclosure further provides methods of using the rosGFPs (and encoding molecules) to analyze the redox status of an environment, such as a cell, or a subcellular compartment within a cell. In certain embodiments, both redox status and pH are analyzed concurrently. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/471857 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07015311 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene M. Johnson (St. Louis, Missouri); Jeffrey D. Milbrandt (St. Louis, Missouri); Paul T. Kotzbauer (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Patricia A. Lampe (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel growth factor, neurturin, is disclosed and the human and mouse amino acid sequences are identified. Human and mouse neurturin genomic DNA sequences have been cloned and sequenced and the respective cDNA sequences identified. The subcloning into vectors and the preparation of cells stably transformed with the vectors are also disclosed. In addition, methods for treating degenerative conditions, tumor cells and obesity; methods for detecting gene alterations and methods for detecting and monitoring patient levels of neurturin are provided. Methods for identifying additional members of the neurturin-GDNF family of growth factors are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/476290 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
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| US 07015312 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong-Fu Wang (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses that the normal melanogenic gene, gp75 gene, encodes a gene product, a 24 amino acid peptide of ORF3, which is processed to an antigenic cancer peptide recognized by T lymphocytes. The cancer peptide of the invention derived from ORF3 is recognized by cancer antigen specific T lymphocytes as a tumor rejection antigen. The products of this gene are promising candidates for immunotherapeutic strategies for the treatment and diagnosis of patients with cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/571313 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.850 |
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| US 07015321 | Nicolaou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyriacos C. Nicolaou (La Jolla, California); Deborah Longbottom (San Diego, California); Scott A. Snyder (Carlsbad, California); Xianhai Huang (Warren, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A practical and high-yielding method for the efficient, one-step synthesis of diverse classes of N,N′-differentiated sulfamides employs a wide range of amino alcohols and simple amines using Burgess-type reagents. This methodology extends the application and availability of sulfamides within the fields of chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, and supramolecular chemistry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/685658 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/489 |
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| US 07015326 | Ananthan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subramaniam Ananthan (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds represented by the formulae: wherein each of Y, X and R individually is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen hydroxy, halo, CF3, NO2, CN, NH2, COR1 and CO2R2 wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, and NH2, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl aryl, and aralkyl, and provided that at least one of Y, X and R in formula I is other than hydrogen; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided along with uses as immunodulaters and/or treating for drug abuse and/or as analegesics for treating pain. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/049504 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/39 |
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| US 07015463 | Cotter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Cotter (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert D. English (Galveston, Texas); Benjamin D. Gardner (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass spectrometer that includes an ionizing source, a sample holder arranged in a beam path of the ionizing source, an ion detector disposed to receive ions extracted from a sample when held by the sample holder and irradiated by the ionizing source. The mass spectrometer also includes an extraction electrode arranged proximate to the sample holder, and a drift tube arranged between the extraction electrode and the ion detector. In the mass spectrometer, the extraction electrode and the drift tube are movable together relative to the sample holder, which is held at a fixed position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/508322 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
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| US 07016048 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongping Chen (Irvine, California); J. Stuart Nelson (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase-resolved functional optical coherence tomography system simultaneously obtains the Stokes vectors, structure, blood flow velocity, standard deviation, and birefringence images in human skin. The multifunctional images were obtained by processing the analytical interference fringe signals derived from the two perpendicular polarization detection channels. The blood flow velocity and standard deviation images were obtained by comparing the phase from the pairs of analytical signals in the neighboring A-lines in the same polarization state. The Stokes vectors were obtained by processing the analytical signals from two polarization diversity detection channels for the same reference polarization state. From the four Stokes vectors, the birefringence image, which is insensitive to the orientations of the optical axis in the sample, was obtained. Multifunctional images of a port wine stain birthmark in human skin are demonstrated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/410723 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
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| US 07016719 | Rudy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoram Rudy (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Charulatha Ramanathan (Richmond Heights, Ohio); Raja Ghanem (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Ping Jia (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for computing epicardial surface electric potentials based on measured body surface electric potentials, where the methods and systems include representing at least one geometric relationship between at least one body surface electric potential measuring system and the epicardial surface as a multidimensional matrix, estimating an inverse of the multidimensional matrix based on a Generalized Minimum Residual (GMRes) method, and, based on the inverse matrix and the measured body surface potentials, determining the epicardial surface electric potentials. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/264572 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/513 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Klett (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy D. Burchell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing a carbon foam heat sink is disclosed which obviates the need for conventional oxidative stabilization. The process employs mesophase or isotropic pitch and a simplified process using a single mold. The foam has a relatively uniform distribution of pore sizes and a highly aligned graphic structure in the struts. The foam material can be made into a composite which is useful in high temperature sandwich panels for both thermal and structural applications. The foam is encased and filled with a phase change material to provide a very efficient heat sink device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/246231 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/173 |
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| US 07014747 | Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California); Anup K. Singh (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for dielectrophoretic separation of particles in a fluid based using array of insulating structures arranged in a fluid flow channel. By utilizing an array of insulating structures, a spatially inhomogeneous electric field is created without the use of the embedded electrodes conventionally employed for dielectrophoretic separations. Moreover, by using these insulating structures a steady applied electric field has been shown to provide for dielectrophoresis in contrast to the conventional use of an alternating electric field. In a uniform array of posts, dielectrophoretic effects have been produced flows having significant pressure-driven and electrokinetic transport. Above a threshold applied electric field, filaments of concentrated and rarefied particles appear in the flow as a result of dielectrophoresis. Above a higher threshold applied voltage, dielectrophoresis produces zones of highly concentrated and immobilized particles. These patterns are strongly influenced by the angle of the array of insulating structures with respect to the mean applied electric field and the shape of the insulating structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/886165 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
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| US 07014786 | Schaffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universitat Konstanz (, Germany); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Schaffer (Noordwolde, Netherlands); Jurgen Mlynek (Radolfzell, Germany); Ullrich Steiner (Groningen, Netherlands); Thomas Thurn-Albrecht (Freiburg, Germany); Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a patterned film on a substrate, the method including: providing a first flowable medium on the substrate and a second flowable medium on the first flowable medium, the first and second flowable media having different dielectric properties and defining an interface there between; applying an electric field to the interface for a time sufficient to produce a structure in the first flowable medium along the interface: and hardening the structure in the first flowable medium to form the patterned film. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144961 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
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| US 07014817 | Hand 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) | Julie J. Hand (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark P. Roberts (Arco, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The remote zero headspace extractor uses a sampling container inside a stainless steel vessel to perform toxicity characteristics leaching procedure to analyze volatile organic compounds. The system uses an in line filter for ease of replacement. This eliminates cleaning and disassembly of the extractor. All connections are made with quick connect fittings which can be easily replaced. After use, the bag can be removed and disposed of, and a new sampling container is inserted for the next extraction. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/966568 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/101 |
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| US 07014931 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yimin Zhu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) having a methanol fuel supply, oxidant supply, and its membrane electrode assembly (MEA) formed of an anode electrode and a cathode electrode with a membrane therebetween, a methanol oxidation catalyst adjacent the anode electrode and the membrane, an oxidant reduction catalyst adjacent the cathode electrode and the membrane, comprises an oxidant reduction catalyst layer of a platinum-chromium alloy so that oxidation at the cathode of methanol that crosses from the anode through the membrane to the cathode is reduced with a concomitant increase of net electrical potential at the cathode electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/317654 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/19 |
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| US 07015372 | Preuss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Copenhaver (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the identification and cloning of functional plant centromeres in Arabidopsis. This will permit construction of stably inherited plant artificial chromosomes (PLACs) which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. In addition, information on the structure and function of these regions will prove valuable in isolating additional centromeric and centromere related genetic elements and polypeptides from other species. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161849 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
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| US 07015646 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California); Artan Qerushi (Irvine, California); Hooshang Tahsiri (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328701 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.410 |
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| US 07016030 | Naulleau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick P. Naulleau (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for rapidly characterizing reflective surfaces and especially multi-layer EUV reflective surfaces of optical components involve illuminating the entire reflective surface instantaneously and detecting the image far field. The technique provides a mapping of points on the reflective surface to corresponding points on a detector, e.g., CCD. This obviates the need to scan a probe over the entire surface of the optical component. The reflective surface can be flat, convex, or concave. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689171 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.200 |
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| US 07016037 | Chrisp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Chrisp (Danville, California); Scott A. Lerner (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact imaging spectrometer comprises an entrance slit, a catadioptric lens with a mirrored surface, a grating, and a detector array. The entrance slit directs light to the mirrored surface of the catadioptric lens; the mirrored surface reflects the light back through the lens to the grating. The grating receives the light from the catadioptric lens and diffracts the light to the lens away from the mirrored surface. The lens transmits the light and focuses it onto the detector array. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877622 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 07016038 | Chrisp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Chrisp (Danville, California); Scott A. Lerner (Corvallis, Oregon); Paul J. Kuzmenko (Livermore, California); Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact imaging spectrometer with an immersive diffraction grating that compensates optical distortions. The imaging spectrometer comprises an entrance slit for transmitting light, a system for receiving the light and directing the light, an immersion grating, and a detector array. The entrance slit, the system for receiving the light, the immersion grating, and the detector array are positioned wherein the entrance slit transmits light to the system for receiving the light and the system for receiving the light directs the light to the immersion grating and the immersion grating receives the light and directs the light through an optical element to the detector array. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066370 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 07016192 | Beihoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce C. Beihoff (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Lawrence D. Radosevich (Muskego, Wisconsin); Andreas A. Meyer (Richmond Heights, Ohio); Neil Gollhardt (Fox Point, Wisconsin); Daniel G. Kannenberg (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A support may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support, in conjunction with other packaging features may form a shield from both external EMI/RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as improved terminal configurations. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663523 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/689 |
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| US 07016390 | Rhodes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles K. Rhodes (Chicago, Illinois); Keith Boyer (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The generation of ultrabright, multikilovolt coherent tunable x-radiation resulting from amplification on hollow atom transition arrays is described. Amplification has been demonstrated by physical evidence including (a) the observation of selected spectral components of several Xeq+ hollow atom transition arrays (q=30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37) radiated axially from confined plasma channels, (b) the measurement of line narrowing that is spectrally correlated with the amplified transitions, (c) evidence for spectral hole-burning in the spontaneous emission, a manifestation of saturated amplification, that corresponds spectrally with the amplified lines, and (d) the detection of an intense narrow (δθx˜0.2 mr) directed beam of radiation in the far field of the source. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600141 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016717 | Demos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stavros Demos (Livermore, California); Michael C. Staggs (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Near infrared imaging using elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence are explored for medical applications. The approach involves imaging using cross-polarized elastic light scattering and tissue autofluorescence in the Near Infra-Red (NIR) coupled with image processing and inter-image operations to differentiate human tissue components. |
| FILED | Friday, July 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190231 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016742 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BaHelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald B. Jarrell (Kennewick, Washington); Richard J. Meador (Richland, Washington); Daniel R. Sisk (Richland, Washington); Darrel D. Hatley (Kennewick, Washington); Daryl R. Brown (Richland, Washington); Gary R. Keibel (Richland, Washington); Krishnan Gowri (Richland, Washington); Jorge F. Reyes-Spindola (Richland, Washington); Kevin J. Adams (San Bruno, California); Kenneth R. Yates (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Elizabeth J. Eschbach (Fort Collins, Colorado); Rex C. Stratton (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for minimizing the life cycle cost of processes such as heating a building. The method utilizes sensors to monitor various pieces of equipment used in the process, for example, boilers, turbines, and the like. The method then performs the steps of identifying a set optimal operating conditions for the process, identifying and measuring parameters necessary to characterize the actual operating condition of the process, validating data generated by measuring those parameters, characterizing the actual condition of the process, identifying an optimal condition corresponding to the actual condition, comparing said optimal condition with the actual condition and identifying variances between the two, and drawing from a set of pre-defined algorithms created using best engineering practices, an explanation of at least one likely source and at least one recommended remedial action for selected variances, and providing said explanation as an output to at least one user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/306943 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016793 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihong Ye (Clifton Park, New York); Vinod John (Montpelier, Vermont); Changyong Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Luis Jose Garces (Schenectady, New York); Rui Zhou (Clifton Park, New York); Lei Li (Shanghai, China PRC); Reigh Allen Walling (Clifton Park, New York); William James Premerlani (Scotia, New York); Peter Claudius Sanza (Niskayuna, New York); Yan Liu (Schenectady, New York); Mark Edward Dame (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for anti-islanding protection of a distributed generation with respect to a feeder connected to an electrical grid is disclosed. The apparatus includes a sensor adapted to generate a voltage signal representative of an output voltage and/or a current signal representative of an output current at the distributed generation, and a controller responsive to the signals from the sensor. The controller is productive of a control signal directed to the distributed generation to drive an operating characteristic of the distributed generation out of a nominal range in response to the electrical grid being disconnected from the feeder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677559 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07013739 | Schroeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Schroeder (Stanford, California); Eric S. G. Shaqfeh (Stanford, California); Hazen P. Babcock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven Chu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for confining an object to a region proximate to a fluid flow stagnation point includes one or more inlets for carrying the fluid into the region, one or more outlets for carrying the fluid out of the region, and a controller, in fluidic communication with the inlets and outlets, for adjusting the motion of the fluid to produce a stagnation point in the region, thereby confining the object to the region. Applications include, for example, prolonged observation of the object, manipulation of the object, etc. The device optionally may employ a feedback control mechanism, a sensing apparatus (e.g., for imaging), and a storage medium for storing, and a computer for analyzing and manipulating, data acquired from observing the object. The invention further provides methods of using such a device and system in a number of fields, including biology, chemistry, physics, material science, and medical science. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841011 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014786 | Schaffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universitat Konstanz (, Germany); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Schaffer (Noordwolde, Netherlands); Jurgen Mlynek (Radolfzell, Germany); Ullrich Steiner (Groningen, Netherlands); Thomas Thurn-Albrecht (Freiburg, Germany); Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a patterned film on a substrate, the method including: providing a first flowable medium on the substrate and a second flowable medium on the first flowable medium, the first and second flowable media having different dielectric properties and defining an interface there between; applying an electric field to the interface for a time sufficient to produce a structure in the first flowable medium along the interface: and hardening the structure in the first flowable medium to form the patterned film. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144961 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014799 | Yang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Tao Deng (Somerville, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Galen Stucky (Goleta, California); Dongyaun Zhao (Shanghai 200433, China PRC); Bradley Chmelka (Goleta, California); David Pine (Santa Barbara, California); Pingyun Feng (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-cost, efficient method of preparing hierarchically ordered structures by filling a minimold with a microsphere-containing latex suspension, forming an close-packed array of microspheres within the minimold and filling void space in the array with a self-assembling mixture of hydrolyzed inorganic species and amphiphilic block copolymers. A macroporous and mesoporous material can be produced by subsequent thermal removal of the microspheres and copolymers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/145657 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014880 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy D. Wood (Kenmore, New York); Douglas R. Smith (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for coating nanoelectrospray emitters. The method involves providing a nanoelectrospray emitter body and evaporating an electrically conductive material under conditions effective to form a thin layer of the electrically conductive material onto the nanoelectrospray emitter body. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847197 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015062 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Weiss (State College, Pennsylvania); Anat Hatzor (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus relating to manufacturing nanostructure patterns and components using molecular science. The method includes overlaying a multilayer organic molecule resist on at least a portion of a parent structure selectively deposited on a substrate, depositing a layer over the parent structure and in contact with at least a portion of the multilayer organic resist, and removing the multilayer organic molecule resist to leave a residual structure. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/873614 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015497 | Berger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Berger (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for forming quantum tunneling devices comprising the steps of: (1) providing a quantum well, the quantum well comprising a composite material, the composite material comprising at least a first and a second material; and (2) processing the quantum well so as to form at least one segregated quantum tunneling structure encased within a shell comprised of a material arising from processing the composite material, wherein each segregated quantum structure is substantially comprised of the first material. The present invention also comprises additional methods of formation, quantum tunneling devices, said electronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649046 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015779 | Markiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Denis Markiewicz (Tallahassee, Florida); Iain R. Dixon (Tallahassee, Florida); Charles A. Swenson (Tallahassee, Florida); W. Scott Marshall (Tallahassee, Florida); Robert P. Walsh (Tallahassee, Florida); Thomas Painter (Tallahassee, Florida); Steven van Sciver (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A wide bore, high field superconducting magnet. The superconducting magnet has a plurality of superconducting coils impregnated with epoxy and nested within each other. An innermost one of the nested coils has a bore therethrough that defines a bore width of the magnet. The bore width is greater than approximately 100 millimeters. The nested coils are electrically connected in series and cooled to an operating temperature less than approximately 4 degrees K. The magnet also has external reinforcements on the coils that are applied prior to impregnating the coils with epoxy. An active protection circuit protects the coils in response to a quench in the magnet. The protection circuit includes heater elements positioned in thermal contact with the coils prior to impregnating the coils with epoxy. The magnet further has lead supports for supporting the lead wires with epoxy that extend from the coils. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777858 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07016781 | Wolfson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouri Wolfson (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A database receives location information about a moving object. Using the destination of the object and an electronic map, the database finds a projected path for the moving object. From the projected path, the database computes a trajectory. The trajectory may be used to estimate past and future positions of the moving object. The moving object may send location updates to the database when its actual location differs from its anticipated location by more than an uncertainty threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/048039 |
| 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 71/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07017146 | Dellarocas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chrysanthos Nicholas Dellarocas (Boston, Massachusetts); Thomas W. Malone (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for automatically generating computer code for a software system from a representation of the software system. An architectural description language is used to represent activities and dependencies between activities as separate entities. Dependencies are managed by coordination processes associated with the dependency. Activities and dependencies are connected through ports which encode interfaces between activities and coordination processes. At least one associated computer program is identified for each activity and dependency for implementing the activity or managing the dependency, wherein the representation is defined by activities, dependencies and ports through which activities are connected to dependencies. The associated computer programs are combined to provide the computer code for the software system. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002480 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07013739 | Schroeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Schroeder (Stanford, California); Eric S. G. Shaqfeh (Stanford, California); Hazen P. Babcock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven Chu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for confining an object to a region proximate to a fluid flow stagnation point includes one or more inlets for carrying the fluid into the region, one or more outlets for carrying the fluid out of the region, and a controller, in fluidic communication with the inlets and outlets, for adjusting the motion of the fluid to produce a stagnation point in the region, thereby confining the object to the region. Applications include, for example, prolonged observation of the object, manipulation of the object, etc. The device optionally may employ a feedback control mechanism, a sensing apparatus (e.g., for imaging), and a storage medium for storing, and a computer for analyzing and manipulating, data acquired from observing the object. The invention further provides methods of using such a device and system in a number of fields, including biology, chemistry, physics, material science, and medical science. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841011 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015304 | Chuang |
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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) | Chun-Hua Chuang (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the composition and a solvent-free process for preparing novel imide oligomers and polymers specifically formulated with effective amounts of a dianhydride such as 2,3,3′,4-biphenyltetra carboxylic dianydride (a-BPDA), at least one aromatic diamine and an endcapped of 4-phenylethynylphthalic anhydride (PEPA) or nadic anhydride to produce imide oligomers that possess a low-melt viscosity of 1–60 poise at 260–280° C. When the imide oligomer melt is cured at about 371° C. in a press or autoclave under 100–500 psi, the melt resulted in a thermoset polyimide having a glass transition temperature (Tg) equal to and above 310° C. A novel feature of this process is that the monomers; namely the dianhydrides, diamines and the endcaps, are melt processable to form imide oligomers at temperatures ranging between 232–280° C. (450–535° F.) without any solvent. These low-melt imide oligomers can be easily processed by resin transfer molding (RTM), vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) or the resin infusion process with fiber preforms e.g. carbon, glass or quartz preforms to produce polyimide matrix composites with 288–343° C. (550–650° F.) high temperature performance capability. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/897279 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015624 | Su 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) | Ji Su (Highland Park, New Jersey); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroactive device comprises at least two layers of material, wherein at least one layer is an electroactive material and wherein at least one layer is of non-uniform thickness. The device can be produced in various sizes, ranging from large structural actuators to microscale or nanoscale devices. The applied voltage to the device in combination with the non-uniform thickness of at least one of the layers (electroactive and/or non-electroactive) controls the contour of the actuated device. The effective electric field is a mathematical function of the local layer thickness. Therefore, the local strain and the local bending/torsion curvature are also a mathematical function of the local thickness. Hence the thinnest portion of the actuator offers the largest bending and/or torsion response. Tailoring of the layer thicknesses can enable complex motions to be achieved. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/696526 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07014790 | Bulluck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Werner Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an acrylate adhesive that cures at room temperature and has excellent dimensional stability. The adhesive may be used in applications such as for fiber optic connectors. The adhesive may be made by curing a two-part system or by use of a primer-based system. The two part system may include an adhesive part A, which may include one or more monofunctional, difunctional, or trifunctional acrylate or methacrylate monomers, a peroxide or hydroperoxide free-radical initiator, an antioxidant, and optionally, additives such as thickeners, thixotropes, and adhesion promoters; and an activator part B, which may contain a N,N-disubstituted aromatic amine, a difunctional methacrylate monomer, an antioxidant, and optionally, additives such as thickeners, thixotropes, and adhesion promoters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706148 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/182.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014857 | Gustafson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EndoBiologics, Incorporated (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Gustafson (Missoula, Montana); Dan C. DeBorde (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an immunogenic conjugate comprising biologically deacylated gram-negative bacterial moieties linked to D. discoideum proteinase 1, as well as novel subunits thereof, and methods of making and using the conjugates in vaccines to treat sepsis and other infectious complications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/271253 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/197.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015835 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Technologies, LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Nick Lawrence (Dallas, Texas); Douglas J. Matzke (Plano, Texas); Irvin R. Jackson, Jr., II (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Encoding bits includes receiving a bit set to encode. An encoding lookup table associates correlithm objects of a space with bit sets. The space refers to an N-dimensional space, a correlithm object refers to a point of the space. The correlithm object corresponding to the received bit set is identified. The received bit set is encoded as the identified correlithm object. The identified correlithm object is imposed to encode the received bit set and subsequently decoded with table lookup using the reverse process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803573 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07015249 | Vanden Heuvel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Vanden Heuvel (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Martha A. Belury (Redmond, Washington); Louise W. Peck (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating diabetes in an animal and food compositions useful for treating diabetes are described. In one aspect of the invention, the method includes treating the animal with a therapeutically effective amount of CLA including 9,11-octadecadienoic acid and 10,12-octadecadienoic acid, isomers thereof, esters thereof, salts thereof or mixtures thereof. In another aspect of the invention, a food composition comprising a food product having a therapeutically effective amount of a purified CLA isomer, including cis,cis-9,11-octadecadienoic acid, trans,cis-10,12-octadecadienoic acid or a mixture of purified cis,trans-9,11-octadecadienoic acid and trans,cis-9,11-octadecadienoic acid is described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/555987 |
| 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 514/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015372 | Preuss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Copenhaver (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the identification and cloning of functional plant centromeres in Arabidopsis. This will permit construction of stably inherited plant artificial chromosomes (PLACs) which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. In addition, information on the structure and function of these regions will prove valuable in isolating additional centromeric and centromere related genetic elements and polypeptides from other species. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161849 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07015175 | Vassilakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Moines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Vassilakis (Naperville, Illinois); Richard R. Rosin (Glencoe, Illinois); Steven A. Bradley (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Ralph D. Gillespie (Gurnee, Illinois); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois); Feng Xu (Buffalo Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one lanthanide element or yttrium component, which is preferably ytterbium, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum and a refractory-oxide binder having at least one platinum-group metal component dispersed thereon. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872581 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015510 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York); Holly Ann Comanzo (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a white light illumination system including a radiation source, a first luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength of about 570 to about 620 nm, and a second luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength of about 480 to about 500 nm, which is different from the first luminescent material. The LED may be a UV LED and the luminescent materials may be a blend of two phosphors. The first phosphor may be an orange emitting Eu2+, Mn2+ doped strontium pyrophosphate, (Sr0.8Eu0.1Mn0.1)2P2O7. The second phosphor may be a blue-green emitting Eu2+ doped SAE, (Sr0.90-0.99 Eu0.01-0.1)4Al14O25. A human observer perceives the combination of the orange and the blue-green phosphor emissions as white light. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/295943 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07013673 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (St. Pete Beach, Florida) |
| 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 | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089370 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07014429 | Gray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan); Andrew J. Moskalik (Detroit, Michigan); Matthew J. Brusstar (South Lyon, Michigan); David K. Gill (Bellevue, Michigan); Keven Berent Fuqua (Clarkston, Michigan); Craig Douglas Moffat (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable displacement hydraulic/pump motor has a yoke with a pair of shafts aligned to define a yoke pivot axis and connected to a valve plate therebetween having intake and discharge apertures. A rotatable cylinder barrel has piston cylinders open at one end to receive a piston head and opening through fluid ports at another end, flush against the valve plate surface. A drive block is mounted on an input/output shaft for rotation about a central axis of rotation inclined at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder barrel which may be changed by a drive engaging the yoke at a point near its pivot axis. Loads on bushings supporting the yoke shafts are reduced by providing radially extending fluid ports in the shafts and in communication with the intake and discharge apertures of the valve plate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/379992 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/269 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07015854 | Anthony |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new architecture is provided in which a master A/D converter of limited precision controls the adjustment-charge steering of a set of similar slave A/D converter pipelines. This architecture relieves the layout constraints imposed by prior architectures and also reduces power consumption of the device. By spatially interleaving the slave pipelines in an array, the new architecture also improves accuracy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889281 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07015310 | Remington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. James Remington (Eugene, Oregon); George T. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides proteins that can be used to determine the redox status of an environment (such as the environment within a cell or subcellular compartment). These proteins are green fluorescent protein (GFP) variants (also referred to as redox sensitive GFP (rosGFP) mutants), which have been engineered to have two cysteine amino acids near the chromophore and within disulfide bonding distance of each other. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules that encode rosGFPs, vectors containing such encoding molecules, and cells transformed therewith. The disclosure further provides methods of using the rosGFPs (and encoding molecules) to analyze the redox status of an environment, such as a cell, or a subcellular compartment within a cell. In certain embodiments, both redox status and pH are analyzed concurrently. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/471857 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 07013836 | Lynn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Lynn (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for using a spawning agent and a steroid to stimulate gonadal development, oocyte maturation, and meiotic synchrony in oysters and other bivalves. Advantages of the novel technique include a decrease in the variability of fertilization among different individuals, a decrease in the variability of larval production by synchronizing gamete maturation within a population, the ability to mature and spawn broodstock without sacrificing the animals, to conserve and maintain genetic lines, and the ability to improve cross-breeding programs, with or without the use of transgenics, by repeated spawning of individuals. The method may be used, for example, in oyster hatchery production, with an emphasis on conservation of broodstock. The invention allows the successful and repeatable breeding of either diploids or polyploids, selective breeding, and the breeding of transgenic oyster lines, all without the need to sacrifice the founder animals. The animals are first treated with estradiol-17β or an agonist. The estradiol-17β or agonist promotes the maturation of oocytes, so that mature oocytes are then released with high meiotic synchrony in response to subsequent induced spawning stimuli such as serotonin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/603134 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07014856 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Ordway Livingston (New York, New York); Friedhelm Helling (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a vaccine for stimulating or enhancing in a subject to which the vaccine is administered, production of an antibody which recognizes a ganglioside, comprising an amount of ganglioside or oligosaccharide portion thereof conjugated to an immunogenic protein effective to stimulate or enhance antibody production in the subject, an effective amount of adjuvant and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/196154 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/194.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015316 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene M. Johnson (St. Louis, Missouri); Jeffrey D. Milbrandt (St. Louis, Missouri); Paul T. Kotzbauer (Aston, Pennsylvania); Patricia A. Lampe (St. Louis, Missouri); Robert Klein (Palo Alto, California); Fred DeSauvage (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel growth factor, persephin, which belongs to the GDNF/neurturin family of growth factors, is disclosed. The human, mouse and rat amino acid sequences have been identified. Human, mouse and rat persephin genomic DNA sequences have been cloned and sequenced and the respective cDNA sequences identified. In addition, methods for treating degenerative conditions using persephin, methods for detecting persephin gene alterations and methods for detecting and monitoring patient levels of persephin are provided. Methods for identifying additional members of the persephin-neurturin-GDNF family of growth factors are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 24, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/220617 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07015454 — Relaxed tolerance optical interconnect system capable of providing an array of sub-images
| US 07015454 | Stone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical interconnect system having a GRIN rod lens, the GRIN rod lens having a first end and a second end, and further having a preselected length, a preselected width and a preselected index of refraction. Means are fixedly secured to the first end of the GRIN rod lens for emitting electromagnetic radiation and means are fixedly secured to said second end of said GRIN rod lens for receiving the emitted electromagnetic radiation. The GRIN rod lens forms an image of the emitting means onto the receiving means and overcomes problems associated with misalignment. Further embodiments of this optical interconnect system are capable of use in even further applications in an environment where alignment problems are at issue. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/675873 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07015467 | Maldonado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Ramon Maldonado (Palo Alto, California); Steven T. Coyle (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron beam apparatus comprises a beam source to generate a radiation beam that is directed onto a photocathode to generate an electron beam. The photocathode comprises an electron-emitting material composed of activated alkali halide, such as for example, cesium bromide or cesium iodide. The activated alkali halide has a lower minimum electron emission energy level than the same material in the un-activated state, and provides efficient photoyields when exposed to radiation having an energy level that is higher than the minimum electron emission energy level. The emitted electrons can be collimated into beams and used to write on, inspect, or irradiate a workpiece. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697715 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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