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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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| US 07021187 | Grassi |
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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) | James Grassi (Rockaway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A low velocity air burst munition and launcher system allows the user to program the munition to detonate in the air at a specified range from the muzzle. The system further allows the munition to detonate upon impact or self-destruct if the target is missed. The system allows the user to program and reset the munition multiple times, and allows the user to perform this operation at night in cold weather conditions. The system requires the user to manually input the range into a fuze programming device prior to projectile launch. The fuze programming device is capable of direct interface with electronic range determining devices. The system employs electrical contacts in the chamber of the munition launcher barrel and on the projectile body to complete the circuit used for programming. Furthermore, this system is capable of integrating a magnetic induction method of programming. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708772 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/6.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07021219 | Dindl |
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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) | Frank J. Dindl (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-impulse, non-lethal telescoping cartridge for deployment of non-lethal ordnance. The cartridge includes a payload cup containing at least one non-lethal projectile. The payload cup is telescopically mounted upon a cartridge case base. When fired, the payload cup telescopes out from the base and releases the non-lethal projectiles at a non-lethal velocity. The telescoping feature of the cartridge allows the cartridge to be fired from an automatic weapon, such as a 40 mm MK19 grenade machine gun. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709011 |
| 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 12/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07021893 | Mongillo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr. (West Hartford, Connecticut); Young H. Chon (Manchester, Connecticut); Eugene Kulak, legal representative (New Britain, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A component for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The component has an airfoil portion with a plurality of internal cooling passages and a non-linear trailing edge. The component further has a non-linear array of teardrop shaped assemblies which form a plurality of injection slots for injecting a coolant fluid into a fluid passing over the airfoil portion. The teardrop shaped assemblies are designed to maximize thermal performance of the component by reducing a relative diffusion angle between the injected coolant flow and the streamline direction of the fluid passing over the airfoil portion. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754265 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07021982 | Chadha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surjit S. Chadha (Meridian, Idaho); Charles M. Watkins (Meridian, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Conductive or semiconductive binders, both inorganic and organic, are used for providing sufficient binding action to hold powder phosphor particles together, as well as to the glass screen of a field emission display device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/042749 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022198 | Bruce 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) | Ralph W. Bruce (Arnold, Maryland); David Lewis, III (Alexandria, Virginia); Manfred Kahn (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina); Arne W. Fliflet (Alexandria, Virginia); Steven H. Gold (New Carrollton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for joining similar materials to create multi-component assemblies so the joint materials share similar physical, chemical, and electrical characteristics with the base materials. The method includes aligning the materials, applying joining material, focusing a microwave beam on the joint area to initially heat the joint area to allow the joining material to soften and fill physical discontinuities while the surrounding surfaces remains cool, rapidly heating the joint area to the reactive area of the joining material, rapidly cooling the joint area and maintaining the joint area at a recrystallization temperature. The materials can be ceramics such as aluminum oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672271 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022254 | Tucker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne C. Tucker (Exeter, Rhode Island); Maria G. Medeiros (Bristol, Rhode Island); Richard Brown (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-chromate solutions for treating and/or etching metals, particularly, aluminum, aluminum alloys, steel and titanium, and method of applying same wherein the solutions include either a titanate or titanium dioxide as a “drop-in replacement” for a chromium-containing compound in a metal surface etching solution that otherwise would contain chromium. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679682 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/79.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022261 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Klaus Kunze (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Sulfur-containing phosphor powders, methods for making phosphor powders and devices incorporating same. The powders have a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution and are substantially spherical. The method of the invention permits the continuous production of such powders. The invention also relates to products such as display devices incorporating such phosphor powders. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705735 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022288 | Boss |
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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) | Pamela Boss (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical detection sensor system comprises a support structure; multiple SERS chemical detection sensors supported by the support structure; multiple chemical reaction sensors, wherein each of the chemical reaction sensors is disposed for undergoing a state change in response to an occurrence of a chemical reaction at one of the SERS chemical detection sensors; a processor supported by the support structure for recording data representing occurrence of a chemical reaction at any of the chemical detection sensors in response to sensing the state change; and a power source for energizing the processor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294655 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022289 | Schlein 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) | Mark S. Schlein (Abingdon, Maryland); Peter A. Emanuel (Abingdon, Maryland); Kevin S. Wallace (Elkton, Maryland); Peter J. Schlitzkus (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-contained, leak-proof sampling device and kit employing said device for collecting chemical and biological samples from various surfaces. The invention provides a sampling device and kit that may be employed to easily collect chemical and biological samples, safely transport the collected samples, safely dispense collected samples for analysis and provide optimum sample recovery. The sampling device is in the form of a leak proof container that comprises a lid and base. The lid contains a sterile absorbent collection means integrated into and positioned on the inside surface of the lid. The base contains a means to facilitate sample recovery from the absorbent collection means via compression and/or scraping of the absorbent collections means. Methods for employing the present invention are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974436 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022378 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mrinal Kanti Das (Durham, North Carolina); Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nitrided oxide layer on a silicon carbide layer is processed by annealing the nitrided oxide layer in a substantially oxygen-free nitrogen containing ambient. The anneal may be carried out at a temperature of greater than about 900° C., for example, a temperature of about 1100° C., a temperature of about 1200° C. or a temperature of about 1300° C. Annealing the nitrided oxide layer may be carried out at a pressure of less than about 1 atmosphere, for example, at a pressure of from about 0.01 to about 1 atm or, in particular, at a pressure of about 0.2 atm. The nitrided oxide layer may be an oxide layer that is grown in a N2O and/or NO containing ambient, that is annealed in a N2O and/or NO containing ambient or that is grown and annealed in a N2O and/or NO containing ambient. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/640934 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022420 | Bruno 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) | Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Michael Sennett (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembled hematin is formed by depositing hematin on an electrically charged substrate in one or more layers alternating with one or more layers of polyelectrolyte, preferably a cationic polymer. In a method for polymerizing an aromatic monomer, the assembled hematin is contacted with the monomer and a template, preferably an anionic polymer. In a method for polymerizing aniline, the aniline, sulfonated multi walled carbon nano tubes, PEG hematin and a reaction initiator are dispersed in water. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775579 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/681 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022421 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Xiaofan Ren (Los Angeles, California); Vadim Adamovich (Los Angeles, California); Steven Cordero (Long Beach, California); Brian Wendell D'Andrade (Princeton, New Jersey); Bert Alleyne (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Light emitting devices having blocking layers comprising one or more metal complexes are provided. The blocking layers may serve to block electrons, holes, and/or excitons. Preferably, the devices further comprise a separate emissive layer in which charge and/or excitons are confined. Metal complexes suitable for blocking layers can be selected by comparison of HOMO and LUMO energy levels of materials comprising adjacent layers in devices of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/226674 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022541 | Yenilmez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erhan Yenilmez (Mountain View, California); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer-scale fabrication approach for manufacturing single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) tips is implemented. Catalyst material is selectively placed (e.g., patterned) onto a plurality of prefabricated elevated structures (e.g., silicon tips) on a wafer. SWNTs are grown protruding from the catalyst on the elevated structures. The resulting SWNT protruding from a tip can be implemented in a variety of applications, such as in atomic force microscopy (AFM). With this approach, nanotube tips can be implemented for a variety of applications, including advanced nanoscale imaging, imaging of solid-state and soft biological systems and for scanning probe lithography. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/299978 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022617 | Subramanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanakasabapathi Subramanian (Albany, New York); Noel C. MacDonald (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process cycles between etching and passivating chemistries to create rough sidewalls that are converted into small structures. In one embodiment, a mask is used to define lines in a single crystal silicon wafer. The process creates ripples on sidewalls of the lines corresponding to the cycles. The lines are oxidized in one embodiment to form a silicon wire corresponding to each ripple. The oxide is removed in a further embodiment to form structures ranging from micro sharp tips to photonic arrays of wires. Fluidic channels are formed by oxidizing adjacent rippled sidewalls. The same mask is also used to form other structures for MEMS devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606812 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022995 | Tumer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tumay O. Tumer (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high sensitivity, three-dimensional gamma ray detection and imaging system is provided. The system uses the Compton double scatter technique with recoil electron tracking. The system preferably includes two detector subassemblies; a silicon microstrip hodoscope and a calorimeter. In this system the incoming photon Compton scatters in the hodoscope. The second scatter layer is the calorimeter where the scattered gamma ray is totally absorbed. The recoil electron in the hodoscope is tracked through several detector planes until it stops. The x and y position signals from the first two planes of the electron track determine the direction of the recoil electron while the energy loss from all planes determines the energy of the recoil electron. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102825 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023065 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Siavash Pourkamali Anaraki (Tehran, Iran) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) capacitive resonator and methods for manufacturing the same are invented and disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises forming trenches in a substrate, conformally coating the substrate with an oxide, filling the coated trenches with polysilicon, patterning the polysilicon, releasing a resonating structure derived from the substrate, and removing the conformally coated oxide. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632176 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023206 | Viehland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight Viehland (Blacksburg, Virginia); Shu-Xiang Dong (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jie-Fang Li (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetoelectric magnetic field sensor has one or more laminated magnetostrictive layers and piezoelectric layers. The magnetostrictive layers are magnetized by a bias magnetic field in a longitudinal, in-plane direction. The piezoelectric layers can be poled in the longitudinal direction or perpendicular direction. The longitudinal magnetization of the magnetostrictive layers provides greatly increased sensitivity at lower bias fields compared to other magnetoelectric sensors. Perpendicular poling of the piezoelectric layers tends to provide higher sensitivity at lower detection frequency (e.g. less than 1 Hz). Longitudinal poling tends to provide higher sensitivity at high detection frequency (e.g. above 10 Hz). Also included are embodiments having relative thicknesses for the magnetostrictive layers that are optimized for sensitivity. Equations are provided for calculating the best relative thickness for the magnetostrictive layer for maximum sensitivity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687970 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023243 | Wijetunga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Panduka Wijetunga (Los Angeles, California); Anthony Levi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sense-amplifier based on current-source-evaluation. Compared to conventional sense-amplifiers, a design based on static-current sources scales better to small transistor geometries. The design has lower power consumption, reduced noise, and improved clock scaling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397452 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023278 | Vagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Vagher (Vinton, Iowa); Clayton Harmon (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Andrew J. Wiebold (Marion, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital power amplifier with variable output power control is disclosed. An amplifying stage includes a first attenuator that applies one of n attenuation steps to an RF signal in response to a desired output power level of the digital power amplifier. A feedback loop provides a gain control signal to the amplifying stage based upon an output of the amplifying stage. The feedback loop includes a second attenuator that applies another of the n attenuation steps to a sample of the output of the amplifying stage. The second attenuator applies the kth highest of the n attenuation steps when the first attenuator applies the kth lowest of the n attenuation steps, where 1≦k≦n. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946083 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023304 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Shen (Phoenix, Arizona); Meichun Ruan (Tempe, Arizona); Charles Wheeler (Paradise Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro magnetic latching device. The device comprises a substrate having a moveable element supported thereon. The moveable element (cantilever) has a long axis and a magnetic material. The device also has first and second magnets that produce a first magnetic field, which induces a magnetization in the magnetic material. The magnetization is characterized by a magnetization vector pointing in a direction along the long axis of the moveable element, wherein the first magnetic field is approximately perpendicular to a major central portion of the long axis. The device also has a coil that produces a second magnetic field to switch the movable element between two stable states, wherein only temporary application of the second magnetic field is required to change direction of the magnetization vector thereby causing the movable element to switch between the two stable states. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911902 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023311 | Baldwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Baldwin (Tallahassee, Florida); James A. Ferner (Battle Ground, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical device operating on the principle of induction, such as a transformer. The device employs High Temperature Superconductors to build pancake coils having a very low height to diameter ratio. These pancake coils are placed around ferromagnetic core legs as in a conventional transformer. In multiphase applications, the low height to diameter ratio of the pancake coils causes the transformer to become quite wide. The present invention proposes overlapping the adjacent pancake coils in a multiphase induction device to reduce the width. A specific example of a 3-phase power transformer is presented. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/811746 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023342 | Corbett 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) | Blaise L. Corbett (King George, Virginia); Michael L. Workman (Ruther Glen, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A far field radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging and tracking system employing a plurality of continuous wave (CW), unmodulated signals selected from frequencies including a predetermined frequency band, includes a RFID interrogator generating a group of CW unmodulated signals corresponding to a RFID tag and receiving a tag identification (ID) signal sequence uniquely identifying the RFID tag, while the RFID tag includes a power source supplying power to the RFID tag but not including a microprocessor. A corresponding RFID tag and method for operating both the tag and the system are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666823 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023546 | McMillan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. McMillan (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging spectropolarimeter for measuring the polarization and spectral content and the spatial signature of a target scene. The imaging spectropolarimeter includes an objective optic for receiving an electromagnetic signal and a modulator for modulating the electromagnetic signal The amplitude of each frequency component of the resulting modulated electromagnetic signal is a function of the particular polarization state of each frequency component of the electromagnetic signal. A linear polarizer passes a single polarization of the modulated electromagnetic signal to a tunable filter, which is tunable through a frequency spectrum. The tunable filter outputs a plurality of electromagnetic signal samples at predetermined frequency increments. A focal plane array receives each electromagnetic signal sample and outputs a spectrum signal and a processor applies Fourier transformation to the spectrum signal to obtain at least one Stokes polarization vector component for each pixel within the scene. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693844 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023716 | Wu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keng-Chih Wu (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A power supply for a capacitive-resistive load includes plural paralleled phase correcting modules together with current sharing controllers for tending to equalize their currents. Each module is provided with a diode, poled to prevent forward current from flowing in the return current path, for aiding in equalizing module currents. Surge currents are reduced by a single saturable reactor coupled to the combined outputs of current sharing controllers, thereby avoiding the need for soft-start in each controller. A precharging path extends from a source of pulsating direct voltage to the load, for precharging the load capacitance at turn-on. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701228 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023724 | Katti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a tunneling magnetoresistive element and a method of reading a logical state of the element. An embodiment of the magnetoresistive element, for example, provides a tri-layer device having a storage layer, a sense layer and a barrier layer. The storage layer is a conducting, magnetic layer having a magnetization direction along an easy axis of the element. The storage layer is configured such that its magnetization direction will invert in response to an externally applied magnetic field of at least a first threshold strength. The binary state of the tunneling element is determinable from the magnetization direction of the storage layer. The sense layer is also a conducting, magnetic layer having a magnetization direction along the easy axis of the element. The sense layer is configured such that its magnetization direction will invert in response to an externally applied magnetic field of at least a second threshold strength. The sense layer is designed with a lower coercivity than the storage layer, thus the second threshold strength is less than the first threshold strength. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754881 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024120 | Reynolds 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) | Timothy N. Reynolds (Lanham, Maryland); Edward M. Alexander (Falls Church, Virginia); Anthony E. Spezio (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase tracking multichannel apparatus includes a plurality of optical transmitters, an optical multiplexer, a common optical link, and a user electronics. RF signals having different phases are received and are output on separate RF channels, each of which is coupled to an optical transmitter. RF-modulated optical output signals are then output to the optical multiplexer to produce a multiplexed output signal. The multiplexed signal is applied to a common optical link that at its output substantially maintains the phase separation of RF modulation components on optical carriers as received at its input. The optical output of the common optical link is then applied to an optical signal receiving system, such as an optical demultiplexer and a plurality of photodetectors. By multiplexing all of the optical signals onto the common optical fiber, all signals transmit the same path and, therefore, have the same time and phase delay. The phase tracking is preserved because all of the signals experience the same optical or expansive properties of the common optical fiber. A typical use would be to transmit multiple RF signals from an antenna array to a remote RF phase measuring receiver, such as a RF direction finding system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/113653 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024288 | King |
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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) | John M. King (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating predictions of rocket motor ballistic performance at specific firing temperatures and for generating data profiles for analysis. The method requires generally available specifications for the rocket motor to be tested and test data from one or more test firings at a known temperature. The method is implemented in software form and generates pressure and thrust versus time data at a selected temperature. The method generates a burnback profile with a correct final web that integrates to the correct final propellant weight as well as a throat area profile and thrust coefficient profile, for the test firing temperature and for the temperature to be predicted. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714351 |
| 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024309 | Doane |
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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) | Paul M. Doane (Manchester, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for autonomously keeping an aircraft's station in a formation flight of a plurality of aircraft includes a navigation system configured to determine a position of an aircraft. A data link is configured to allow the aircraft to communicate data with at least one other aircraft in the formation flight of the plurality of aircraft. A sensor is configured to detect a presence of another aircraft within a predetermined distance of the aircraft. A processor is configured to provide control signals to the aircraft's autoflight system to keep the aircraft at a predetermined station relative to the other of the plurality of aircraft in the formation flight. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650606 |
| 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 71/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024360 | Savic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Savic (Ballston Lake, New York); Michael Moore (Alplaus, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reconstructing a damaged sequence of symbols where some symbols are missing is provided in which statistical parameters of the sequence are used with confidence windowing techniques to quickly and efficiently reconstruct the damaged sequence to its original form. Confidence windowing techniques are provided that are equivalent to generalized hidden semi-Markov models but which are more easily used to determine the most likely missing symbol at a given point in the damaged sequence being reconstructed. The method can be used to reconstruct communications consisting of speech, music, digital transmission symbols and others having a bounded symbol set which can be described by statistical behaviors in the symbol stream. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390096 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024404 | Gerasoulis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State University Rutgers (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Apostolos Gerasoulis (Highland Park, New Jersey); Wei Wang (Edison, New Jersey); Hyun-Ju Seo (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques to assign a ranking value to objects in a database such as a collection of cross referencing documents, the World-Wide Web or a hyperlinked database are described. The ranking value assigned to a given data object represents a cross-cluster strength metric and is a function of the object's importance across all groups or clusters in which the object is classified. The cross-cluster strength metric may be particularly beneficial in enhancing the performance of web-based search engines because it emphasizes the importance of objects that appear in multiple groups while de-emphasizing the importance of objects that, while highly linked within one or a few groups, are relatively unlinked to objects in other groups. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/156336 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024405 | Salerno 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) | John J. Salerno (Deerfield, New York); David R. Couzelis (Whitesboro, New York); Douglas M. Boulware (St. Louis, Missouri); Carmen M. Malagisi (Rome, New York); John E. Myers (Oneida, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for improved Internet searching. A user defines their search objective using topic trees. The user is provided a set of tools that allow for the creation and modification of these topic trees and storage for later use. From the topic tree, a user can select a single item, a collection of items or the entire topic tree to collect upon. Results from the selected search engines are returned, stored and displayed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198245 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024409 | Iyengar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay S. Iyengar (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data transform system comprises a processor, a memory connected to the processor, storing a collection of data, and a data transform module, accepting two data constraints and the collection of data from memory, wherein a first constraint is a usage constraint and a second constraint is a privacy constraint, the data transform module transforming the collection of data according to the usage constraint and the privacy constraint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/123777 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024456 | Simonoff |
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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) | Adam J. Simonoff (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method permitting collaboration between a plurality of users of incompatible hardware and/or operating system, includes steps for selectively generating predetermined objects, text objects, active hyperlink objects, active track objects, and freehand drawing objects, which are displayable at user-selected locations on the White Board screen of one of the users, transmitting all generated ones of the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects for selective distributions to each of the other users, accumulating the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects, and filtering the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects to thereby permit selective transmission of the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects to respective ones the other users. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/296757 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024694 | Ko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | McAfee, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheuk W. Ko (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides content-based intrusion detection for a computer system by using an agile kernel-based auditing system. This auditing system operates by receiving an audit specification that specifies target attributes to be recorded during an auditing process. The audit specification also specifies an auditing criterion that triggers recording of the target attributes. Upon receiving the audit specification, the auditing system is configured to record the target attributes during system calls whenever the auditing criterion is satisfied. Next, an application program is monitored by the auditing system to produce an audit log containing the recorded target attributes. This audit log is examined in order to detect patterns for intrusion detection purposes. In one embodiment of the present invention, configuring the auditing system involves compiling the audit specification to produce a kernel module, and then loading the kernel module into a kernel of an operating system. It also involves linking code from within the kernel module into system calls within the operating system. In one embodiment of the present invention, in response to detecting an event during the auditing process, the system dynamically adjusts the auditing system to change the auditing criterion and/or the target attributes for subsequent operation of the auditing system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/593280 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07022315 | Neuwelt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Neuwelt (Portland, Oregon); Leslie Muldoon (Tigard, Oregon); Michael A. Pagel (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of administration of a thiol-based chemoprotectant agent including NAC (N-acetylcysteine) and STS (sodium thiosulfate) that markedly affects biodistribution and protects against injury from diagnostic or therapeutic intra-arterial procedures. A method for treating or mitigating the side effects of cytotoxic cancer therapy for tumors located in the head or neck and brain tumors. The thiol-based chemoprotectant agent is administered intra-arterially with rapid and first pass uptake in organs and tissues other than the liver. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/257879 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022324 | Binley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Binley (Brooklyn, New York); Norbert Schuelke (New City, New York); William C. Olson (Ossining, New York); Paul J. Maddon (Scarsdale, New York); John P. Moore (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid which comprises a nucleotide segment having a sequence encoding a viral envelope protein comprising a viral surface protein and a corresponding viral transmembrane protein wherein the viral envelope protein contains one or more mutations in amino acid sequence that enhance the stability of the complex formed between the viral surface protein and transmembrane protein. This invention also provides a viral envelope protein comprising a viral surface protein and a corresponding viral transmembrane protein wherein the viral envelope protein contains one or more mutations in amino acid sequence that enhance the stability of the complex formed between the viral surface protein and transmembrane protein. This invention further provides methods of treating HIV-1 infection. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032162 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022475 | Schuetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erin Schuetz (Memphis, Tennessee); Jiong Zhang (Memphis, Tennessee); Mahfoud Assem (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic polymorphisms responsible or associated with altered expression of cytochrome P450 CYP3A5 enzyme are described. Single nucleotide polymorphisms are provided. Methods for identifying subjects having a low or high drug metabolizing phenotype associated with CYP3A5 expression are provided. Assays, kits and methods for determining and assaying the CYP3A5 genotype and phenotype of individual patients are disclosed. Oligonucleotide probes and primers for use in the assays, kits and methods are described. Assays and methods for determining and evaluating an individual's metabolism of drugs and therapeutic agents, the potential for drug interactions, and thereby toxicity and effectiveness of certain drugs and treatment modalities, are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974619 |
| 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 07022476 | Pricop |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Society for Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the Hospital for Special Surgery (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luminita Pricop (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for predicting the likelihood of development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in an individual, which comprise determining the sequence at one or more polymorphic positions within the human genes encoding FcγRIIB. The invention also provides isolated nucleic acids encoding FcγRIIB polymorphisms, nucleic acid probes that hybridize to polymorphic positions and kits for the prediction of SLE status. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/085484 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022480 | Gargus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Jay Gargus (Irvine, California); K. George Chandy (Laguna Beach, California); Vikram Shakkottai (Irvine, California); Hiroaki Tomita (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the discovery and cloning of two variants of the small conductance calcium activated potassium channel type 3 (hKCa3/KCNN3) gene. The isoform variants are identical to the structure of the SKCa3-1a transcript with regard to exons 2–8, but differ in that one variant, SKCa3-1b, contains exon 1b in place of exon 1a and in that the other variant, SKCa3-1c, contains exon 1c in place of exon 1a. When expressed simultaneously with SKCa3-1a, the variants will independently dominantly negatively suppress SKCa3-1a and other functional members of the SKCa channel family. Accordingly, the present invention provides the novel gene variants, methods for the detection of the variants and treatment of disorders related to the activity of these variants. Kits employing the methods of the invention are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269503 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 07022483 | Albani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salvatore Albani (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore Albani (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for the identification and isolation of antigen-specific T cells using a novel class of artificial antigen presenting cells. The resulting T cells may be used to produce expanded T cell populations as well as for modulating T cell responses. In general, the artificial antigen presenting cells useful in such methods are liposomes that contain MHC:peptide complexes presented on the outer surface of the liposome. Such artificial antigen presenting cells may also include accessory molecules, co-stimulatory molecules, adhesion molecules, and other molecules irrelevant to T cell binding or modulation that are used in the binding of artificial antigen presenting cells to solid support systems that may be used in the retrieval and identification of antigen-specific T cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/421506 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022484 | High et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karin Westlund High (League City, Texas); Giulio Taglialatela (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for treating neuropathological states and neurogenic inflammatory states in a subject. The present invention also provides methods for identifying compounds that can be used to treat such states. Preferably, the compounds alter the distribution of NMDA glutamate receptor NR1 subunit in cells, and/or alter the production of TNFα by cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/877220 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07022487 — Compositions and methods for regulating RNA stability using polypyrimidine tract proteins
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. C. Rigby (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for regulating CD154 gene expression are provided that rely on the interaction of polypyrimidine tract proteins with the 3′-untranslated region of CD154. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/497838 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022496 | Ketner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Ketner (Columbia, Maryland); Julie L. Boyer (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a modified adenovirus comprising genomic adenoviral DNA which has been modified so that (i) the only gene product of the early region (E4) that is expressed is open reading frame 6 (ORF-6), (ii) neither the gene product of the E1A region nor the gene product of the E1B region is expressed, and (iii) no other early or late gene products are expressed. The present invention also provides methods of inhibiting repair of breaks in double-stranded DNA in a cell, preventing concatamerization of linear wild-type adenoviral DNA, inhibiting V(D)J recombination of nucleic acid sequences encoding immunoglobulins, preventing apoptosis, and preventing and treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/904698 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022517 | McDevitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. McDevitt (Austin, Texas); Eric V. Anslyn (Austin, Texas); Jason B. Shear (Austin, Texas); Dean P. Neikirk (Austin, Texas); Damon V. Borich (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for the rapid characterization of multi-analyte fluids, in one embodiment, includes a light source, a sensor array, and a detector. The sensor array is formed from a supporting member into which a plurality of cavities may be formed. A series of chemically sensitive particles are, in one embodiment positioned within the cavities. The particles may be configured to produce a signal when a receptor coupled to the particle interacts with the analyte. Using pattern recognition techniques, the analytes within a multi-analyte fluid may be characterized. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/616731 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022666 | Barasch 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) | Jonathan M. Barasch (New York, New York); Juan A. Oliver (New York, New York); Jun Yang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of using a gp130 receptor ligand, e.g. leukemia inhibitory factor, to induce the formation of kidney epithelia, to treat subjects suffering from kidney failure, and to preserve kidneys for transplantation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/980853 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022680 | Sauvé et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Sauvé (Bronx, New York); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds having the formula: wherein A is a nitrogen-, oxygen-, or sulfur-linked aryl, alkyl, cyclic, or heterocyclic group, the group being further substituted with an electron contributing moiety; B is hydrogen, or a halogen, amino, or thiol group; C is hydrogen, or a halogen, amino, or thiol group; and D is a primary alcohol, a hydrogen, or an oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, or sulfur linked to phosphate, a phosphoryl group, a pyrophosphoryl group, or adenosine monophosphate through a phosphodiester or carbon-, nitrogen-, or sulfur-substituted phosphodiester bridge, or to adenosine diphosphate through a phosphodiester or carbon-, nitrogen-, or sulfur-substituted pyrophosphodiester bridge. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing the above compounds, methods of using the above compounds as pharmaceuticals, and processes for preparing the above compounds. Also provided are methods for inhibiting an ADP-ribosyl transferase, ADP-ribosyl cyclase, ADP-ribosyl hydrolase, or NAD-dependent deacetylase enzyme, and methods for treating a disease or condition associated with an ADP-ribosyl transferase, ADP-ribosyl cyclase, ADP-ribosyl hydrolase, or NAD-dependent deacetylase enzyme in a subject in need of treatment thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/158636 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022720 | Harran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick G. Harran (Dallas, Texas); Jing Li (Dallas, Texas); Susan Jeong (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The application discloses novel synthetic compounds, modeled after unique toxins extracted from the marine invertebrate Diazona angulata useful in the treatment abnormal cell mitosis. The application also discloses novel methods for synthesis of these compounds and methods of using these compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227509 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022737 | Stamler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Stamler (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Owen W. Griffith (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Mammals are treated for infections or for conditions associated with pathologically proliferating mammalian cell growth by administration of a manipulator of nitrosative stress to selectively kill or reduce the growth of the microbes or helminths causing the infection or of host cells infected with the microbes or of the pathologically proliferating mammalian cells. Novel agents include α-alkyl-S-alkyl-homocysteine sulfoximines wherein the α-alkyl contains 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and the S-alkyl contains 1 to 10 carbon atoms. Mammals in need of increased nitrosative stress defenses are treated, e.g., humans at risk for a stroke because of having had a transient ischemic attack, are treated. Treatments to increase nitrosative stress defenses include repeated administrations of low doses of manipullators of nitrosative stress so that subject treated has increased tolerance to nitrosative stress. Mammals are treated for protozoal infections by systemic administration of L-buthionine-S-sulfoximine and agent that increases nirtrosative stress. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417238 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/588 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022826 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); David A. Zacharias (San Diego, California); Geoffrey S. Baird (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-oligomerizing fluorescent protein, which is derived from a fluorescent protein having at least one mutation that reduces or eliminates the ability of the fluorescent protein to oligomerize, is provided. The non-oligomerizing fluorescent protein can be derived from a naturally occurring green fluorescent protein, a red fluorescent protein, or other fluorescent protein, or a fluorescent protein related thereto. Also provided is a fusion protein, which includes a non-oligomerizing fluorescent protein linked to at least one polypeptide of interest. In addition, a polynucleotide encoding a non-oligomerizing fluorescent protein is provided, as is a recombinant nucleic acid molecule, which includes polynucleotide encoding a non-oligomerizing fluorescent protein operatively linked to at least a second polynucleotide. Vectors and host cells containing such polynucleotides also are provided, as are kits containing one or more non-oligomerizing fluorescent proteins or encoding polynucleotides or constructs derived therefrom. Further provided are methods of making and using the proteins and polynucleotides. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/794308 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022831 | Reed |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel anticode oligomers and methods of using them for controlling the growth of cancer cells expressing the bcl-2 gene. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/375514 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022834 | Hellerstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc K. Hellerstein (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a labeled deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule. In one aspect, the labeled DNA molecule is produced by contacting a cell or subject with a detectable amount of a stable isotope label which is incorporated into DNA via the de novo nucleotide synthesis pathway to produce the labeled DNA molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944154 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022852 | Furneaux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industrial Research Limited (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Hubert Furneaux (Wellington, New Zealand); Peter Charles Tyler (Wellington, New Zealand); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of preparing a compound of the formula (I) wherein B is chosen from OH, NH2, NHR, H or halogen; D is chosen from OH, NH2, NHR, H halogen or SCH3; R is an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group; and Z is selected from OH, hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, SQ or OQ, Q is an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group; or a tautomer thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; or an ester thereof; or a prodrug thereof, which comprises reacting a compound of the formula (II) with an anion produced by abstraction of the bromine or iodine atom from a compound of formula (XIX), to form a compound of formula (XX) The compound of formula (LXX) is N- and O-deprotected to obtain the compound of formula (I). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/737724 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022862 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Savithri Dhanalekshmi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Joydev K. Laha (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A (preferably nonaqueous) method of making a dipyrromethane is described. The comprises the steps of: (a) providing a reaction system consisting essentially of an aldehyde or acetal, excess pyrrole and a catalyst; (b) reacting the aldehyde or acetal with the pyrrole in the reaction system to form the dipyrromethane therein; (c) quenching the reaction system by adding a base thereto (preferably without simultaneously or concurrently adding water and/or an organic solvent thereto); (d) separating the catalyst from the reaction system; and then (e) separating the pyrrole from the reaction system to produce the dipyrromethane as a residual |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641412 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022870 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Craig A. Marhefka (Belmont, Massachusetts); Wenqing Gao (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a class of androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA). The agents define a new subclass of compounds, which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM). Several of the SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. Other SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected antiandrogenic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The SARM compounds, either alone or as a composition, are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of acute and/or chronic muscular wasting conditions; e) preventing and/or treating dry eye conditions; f) oral androgen replacement therapy; and/or g) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462837 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022995 | Tumer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tumay O. Tumer (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high sensitivity, three-dimensional gamma ray detection and imaging system is provided. The system uses the Compton double scatter technique with recoil electron tracking. The system preferably includes two detector subassemblies; a silicon microstrip hodoscope and a calorimeter. In this system the incoming photon Compton scatters in the hodoscope. The second scatter layer is the calorimeter where the scattered gamma ray is totally absorbed. The recoil electron in the hodoscope is tracked through several detector planes until it stops. The x and y position signals from the first two planes of the electron track determine the direction of the recoil electron while the energy loss from all planes determines the energy of the recoil electron. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102825 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023209 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Zhang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Wei Chen (Roseville, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for MRI imaging using a coil constructed of microstrip transmission line (MTL coil) are disclosed. In one method, a target is positioned to be imaged within the field of a main magnetic field of a magnet resonance imaging (MRI) system, a MTL coil is positioned proximate the target, and a MRI image is obtained using the main magnet and the MTL coil. In another embodiment, the MRI coil is used for spectroscopy. MRI imaging and spectroscopy coils are formed using microstrip transmission line. These MTL coils have the advantageous property of good performance while occupying a relatively small space, thus allowing MTL coils to be used inside restricted areas more easily than some other prior art coils. In addition, the MTL coils are relatively simple to construct of inexpensive components and thus relatively inexpensive compared to other designs. Further, the MTL coils of the present invention can be readily formed in a wide variety of coil configurations, and used in a wide variety of ways. Further, while the MTL coils of the present invention work well at high field strengths and frequencies, they also work at low frequencies and in low field strengths as well. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974184 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024068 | Canary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Canary (New York, New York); Suffen Zahn (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Complexes of organic ligands with a metal ion exhibit unique conformation and spectroscopic properties upon changes in oxidation state of the metal ion. The metal is a redox-active metal ion and may possess additional ligands bonded to it. The organic ligand has three “arms” that are linked together at a central atom; each arm contains atoms that may also coordinate to the metal ion. At least two of the arms possess chromophoric properties. At least one arm contains two different groups that may coordinate to the metal ion. In one oxidation state, a first atom binds to the metal. In a second oxidation state, a second atom binds to the metal. This change in coordination of the metal ion results in a rotation of one of the arms, which changes the orientation of another group, which inverses the orientation of the two chromophoric species with respect to one another. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/328126 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024398 | Kilgard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Scientific Learning Corporation (Berkeley, California); The University of Texas (Austin, Texas); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Kilgard (Richardson, Texas); Michael M. Merzenich (San Francisco, California); Shaowen Bao (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein provides computer-implemented methods and systems for alleviating an abnormal behavior, such as a behavior associated with a fear, abnormal activity, or obsession. It has been found that behaviorally abnormal self-sustaining behaviors may be unlearned or diminished through directed forms of computer-implemented interaction. The computer-implemented interaction is generally directed to reduce the neurological representations of inputs and actions associated with the abnormal behavior. The interaction will typically comprise strategically and repeatedly presenting computer-implemented stimuli including context related to the abnormal behavior. The computer-implemented stimuli are then repeatedly presented and altered over time in a manner that alleviates the abnormal behavior. For example, the content of the computer-implemented stimuli may change to gradually vary in their ability to trigger an episode in the person. In this manner, the neurological representation pertaining to the undesirable behavior may be gradually reduced. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/000844 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39057 | Hoxie |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Hoxie (Berwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an anti-immunodeficiency virus antibody which binds to a cellular protein and diagnostic and therapuetic methods of using the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/829475 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald W. Davis (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A safety and performance enhancement arrangement for primary explosive detonators. This arrangement involves a circuit containing an energy storage capacitor and preset self-trigger to protect the primary explosive detonator from electrostatic discharge (ESD). The circuit does not discharge into the detonator until a sufficient level of charge is acquired on the capacitor. The circuit parameters are designed so that normal ESD environments cannot charge the protection circuit to a level to achieve discharge. When functioned, the performance of the detonator is also improved because of the close coupling of the stored energy. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302103 |
| 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 12/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07021410 | Hughes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Hughes (Wixom, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for determining the torque required to launch a vehicle having a hybrid drive-train that includes at least two independently operable prime movers. The method includes the steps of determining the value of at least one control parameter indicative of a vehicle operating condition, determining the torque required to launch the vehicle from the at least one determined control parameter, comparing the torque available from the prime movers to the torque required to launch the vehicle, and controlling operation of the prime movers to launch the vehicle in response to the comparing step. The system of the present invention includes a control unit configured to perform the steps of the method outlined above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/306499 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/65.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07021888 | Jostlein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universities Research Association, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Jostlein (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-high speed vacuum pump evacuation system includes a first stage ultra-high speed turbofan and a second stage conventional turbomolecular pump. The turbofan is either connected in series to a chamber to be evacuated, or is optionally disposed entirely within the chamber. The turbofan employs large diameter rotor blades operating at high linear blade velocity to impart an ultra-high pumping speed to a fluid. The second stage turbomolecular pump is fluidly connected downstream from the first stage turbofan. In operation, the first stage turbofan operates in a pre-existing vacuum, with the fluid asserting only small axial forces upon the rotor blades. The turbofan imparts a velocity to fluid particles towards an outlet at a high volume rate, but moderate compression ratio. The second stage conventional turbomolecular pump then compresses the fluid to pressures for evacuation by a roughing pump. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/737570 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022165 | Paglieri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen N. Paglieri (White Rock, New Mexico); Stephen A. Birdsell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert S. Barbero (Santa Cruz, New Mexico); Ronny C. Snow (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Frank M. Smith (Espanola, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A tubular hydrogen permeable metal membrane and fabrication process comprises obtaining a metal alloy foil having two surfaces, coating the surfaces with a metal or metal alloy catalytic layer to produce a hydrogen permeable metal membrane, sizing the membrane into a sheet with two long edges, wrapping the membrane around an elongated expandable rod with the two long edges aligned and overlapping to facilitate welding of the two together, placing the foil wrapped rod into a surrounding fixture housing with the two aligned and overlapping foil edges accessible through an elongated aperture in the surrounding fixture housing, expanding the elongated expandable rod within the surrounding fixture housing to tighten the foil about the expanded rod, welding the two long overlapping foil edges to one another generating a tubular membrane, and removing the tubular membrane from within the surrounding fixture housing and the expandable rod from with the tubular membrane. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652574 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022263 | Comanzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holly Ann Comanzo (Niskayuna, New York); Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Europium-activated phosphors comprise oxides of at least a rare-earth metal selected from the group consisting of gadolinium, yttrium, lanthanum, and combinations thereof and at least a Group-IIIB metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, gallium, indium, and combinations thereof. A method for making such phosphors comprises adding at least a halide of at least one of the selected Group-IIIB metals in a starting mixture. The method further comprises firing the starting mixture in an oxygen-containing atmosphere. The phosphors produced by such a method exhibit improved absorption in the UV wavelength range and improved quantum efficiency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779086 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4R0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022287 | Schoeniger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Schoeniger (Oakland, California); Albert W. Flounders (Berkeley, California); Robert C. Hughes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Antonio J. Ricco (Los Gatos, California); Karl Wally (Lafayette, California); Stanley H. Kravitz (Placitas, New Mexico); Richard P. Janek (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses an electrochemical device for detecting single particles, and methods for using such a device to achieve high sensitivity for detecting particles such as bacteria, viruses, aggregates, immuno-complexes, molecules, or ionic species. The device provides for affinity-based electrochemical detection of particles with single-particle sensitivity. The disclosed device and methods are based on microelectrodes with surface-attached, affinity ligands (e.g., antibodies, combinatorial peptides, glycolipids) that bind selectively to some target particle species. The electrodes electrolyze chemical species present in the particle-containing solution, and particle interaction with a sensor element modulates its electrolytic activity. The devices may be used individually, employed as sensors, used in arrays for a single specific type of particle or for a range of particle types, or configured into arrays of sensors having both these attributes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/141806 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022381 | Kirby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Kirby (San Francisco, California); David S. Reichmuth (Oakland, California); Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microvalve having a cast-in-place and lithographically shaped mobile, polymer monolith for fluid flow control in microfluidic devices and method of manufacture. The microvalve contains a porous fluorinated polymer monolithic element whose pores are filled with an electrically insulating, high dielectric strength fluid, typically a perfluorinated liquid. This combination provides a microvalve that combines high dielectric strength with extremely low electrical conductivity. These microvalves have been shown to have resistivities of at least 100 GΩ and are compatible with solvents such as water at a pH between 2.7 and 9.0, 1-1 propanol, acetonitrile, and acetone. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610093 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022435 | Stearns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV Limited Liability Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Stearns (Los Altos, California); Donald W. Sweeney (San Ramon, California); Paul B. Mirkarimi (Sunol, California); Anton Barty (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating an EUV phase shift mask is provided that includes a substrate upon which is deposited a thin film multilayer coating that has a complex-valued reflectance. An absorber layer or a buffer layer is attached onto the thin film multilayer, and the thickness of the thin film multilayer coating is altered to introduce a direct modulation in the complex-valued reflectance to produce phase shifting features. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256454 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022505 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell P. Chandler (Richland, Washington); Gerald J. Posakony (Richland, Washington); Leonard J. Bond (Richland, Washington); Cynthia J. Bruckner-Lea (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an apparatus for ultrasonically treating a liquid to generate a product. The apparatus is capable of treating a continuously-flowing, or intermittently-flowing, liquid along a line segment coincident with the flow path of the liquid. The apparatus has one or more ultrasonic transducers positioned asymmetrically about the line segment. The ultrasonic field encompasses the line segment and the ultrasonic energy may be concentrated along the line segment. Lysing treatments have been successfully achieved with efficiencies of greater than 99% using ultrasound at MHz frequencies without erosion or heating problems and without the need for chemical or mechanical pretreatment, or contrast agents. The present invention overcomes drawbacks of current ultrasonic treatments beyond lysing and opens up new sonochemical and sonophysical processing opportunities. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269772 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022647 | Kong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating cermet materials and methods of utilizing the same such as in filtering particulate and gaseous pollutants from internal combustion engines having intermetallic and ceramic phases. The cermet material may be made from a transition metal aluminide phase and an aluminia phase. The mixture may be pressed to form a green compact body and then heated in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere so as to melt aluminum particles and form the cermet. Filler materials may be added to increase the porosity or tailor the catalytic properties of the cermet material. Additionally, the cermet material may be reinforced with fibers or screens. The cermet material may also be formed so as to pass an electrical current therethrough to heat the material during use. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/213112 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022810 | Cornelius |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Cornelius (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of hybrid organic-inorganic materials, and methods of synthesis, that can be used as a proton exchange membrane in a direct methanol fuel cell. In contrast with Nafion® PEM materials, which have random sulfonation, the new class of materials have ordered sulfonation achieved through self-assembly of alternating polyimide segments of different molecular weights comprising, for example, highly sulfonated hydrophilic PDA-DASA polyimide segment alternating with an unsulfonated hydrophobic 6FDA-DAS polyimide segment. An inorganic phase, e.g., 0.5–5 wt % TEOS, can be incorporated in the sulfonated polyimide copolymer to further improve its properties. The new materials exhibit reduced swelling when exposed to water, increased thermal stability, and decreased O2 and H2 gas permeability, while retaining proton conductivities similar to Nafion®. These improved properties may allow direct methanol fuel cells to operate at higher temperatures and with higher efficiencies due to reduced methanol crossover. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739644 |
| 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 07022861 | McElhanon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. McElhanon (Manteca, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Thomas Zifer (Manteca, California); Gregory M. Jamison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas A. Loy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kamyar Rahimian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Timothy M. Long (Urbana, Illinois); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chad L. Staiger (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Two new surfactant molecules are reported which contain thermally labile Diels-Alder adducts connecting the polar and non-polar sections of each molecule. The two surfactants possess identical non-polar dodecyl tail segments but exhibit different polar headgroups. The surfactants become soluble in water when anionic salts are formed through the deprotonation of the surfactant headgroups by the addition of potassium hydroxide. When either surfactant is exposed to temperature above about 60° C., the retro Diels-Alder reaction occurs, yielding hydrophilic and hydrophobic fragments and the aqueous solutions of the surfactants subsequently exhibit loss of all surface-active behavior. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866475 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023171 | Su et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gui-Jia Su (Knoxville, Tennessee); John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine drive (50) has a plurality of inverters (50a, 50b) for controlling respective electric machines (57, 62), which may include a three-phase main traction machine (57) and two-phase accessory machines (62) in a hybrid or electric vehicle. The drive (50) has a common control section (53, 54) for controlling the plurality of inverters (50a, 50b) with only one microelectronic processor (54) for controlling the plurality of inverters (50a, 50b), only one gate driver circuit (53) for controlling conduction of semiconductor switches (S1–S10) in the plurality of inverters (50a, 50b), and also includes a common dc bus (70), a common dc bus filtering capacitor (C1) and a common dc bus voltage sensor (67). The electric machines (57, 62) may be synchronous machines, induction machines, or PM machines and may be operated in a motoring mode or a generating mode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706256 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023209 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Zhang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Wei Chen (Roseville, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for MRI imaging using a coil constructed of microstrip transmission line (MTL coil) are disclosed. In one method, a target is positioned to be imaged within the field of a main magnetic field of a magnet resonance imaging (MRI) system, a MTL coil is positioned proximate the target, and a MRI image is obtained using the main magnet and the MTL coil. In another embodiment, the MRI coil is used for spectroscopy. MRI imaging and spectroscopy coils are formed using microstrip transmission line. These MTL coils have the advantageous property of good performance while occupying a relatively small space, thus allowing MTL coils to be used inside restricted areas more easily than some other prior art coils. In addition, the MTL coils are relatively simple to construct of inexpensive components and thus relatively inexpensive compared to other designs. Further, the MTL coils of the present invention can be readily formed in a wide variety of coil configurations, and used in a wide variety of ways. Further, while the MTL coils of the present invention work well at high field strengths and frequencies, they also work at low frequencies and in low field strengths as well. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974184 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023235 | Hoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universities Research Association, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Hoff (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | CMOS transistors are configured to operate as either a redundant, SEU-tolerant, positive-logic, cross-coupled Nor Gate SR-flip flop or a redundant, SEU-tolerant, negative-logic, cross-coupled Nand Gate SR-flip flop. The register can operate as a memory, and further as a memory that can overcome the effects of radiation. As an SR-flip flop, the invention can be altered into any known type of latch or flip-flop by the application of external logic, thereby extending radiation tolerance to devices previously incapable of radiation tolerance. Numerous registers can be logically connected and replicated thereby being electronically configured to operate as a redundant circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735489 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023423 | Rosenberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis B. Rosenberg (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing high bandwidth and low noise mechanical input and output for computer systems. A gimbal mechanism provides two revolute degrees of freedom to an object about two axes of rotation. A linear axis member is coupled to the gimbal mechanism at the intersection of the two axes of rotation. The linear axis member is capable of being translated along a third axis to provide a third degree of freedom. The user object is coupled to the linear axis member and is thus translatable along the third axis so that the object can be moved along all three degrees of freedom. Transducers associated with the provided degrees of freedom include sensors and actuators and provide an electromechanical interface between the object and a digital processing system. Capstan drive mechanisms transmit forces between the transducers and the object. The linear axis member can also be rotated about its lengthwise axis to provide a fourth degree of freedom, and, optionally, a floating gimbal mechanism is coupled to the linear axis member to provide fifth and sixth degrees of freedom to an object. Transducer sensors are associated with the fourth, fifth, and sixth degrees of freedom. The interface is well suited for simulations of medical procedures and simulations in which an object such as a stylus or a joystick is moved and manipulated by the user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/852401 |
| ART UNIT | 2675 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023673 | Cha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yung S. Cha (Darien, Illinois); John R. Hull (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting shielded core reactor (SSCR) operates as a passive device for limiting excessive AC current in a circuit operating at a high power level under a fault condition such as shorting. The SSCR includes a ferromagnetic core which may be either closed or open (with an air gap) and extends into and through a superconducting tube or superconducting rings arranged in a stacked array. First and second series connected copper coils each disposed about a portion of the iron core are connected to the circuit to be protected and are respectively wound inside and outside of the superconducting tube or rings. A large impedance is inserted into the circuit by the core when the shielding capability of the superconducting arrangement is exceeded by the applied magnetic field generated by the two coils under a fault condition to limit the AC current in the circuit. The proposed SSCR also affords reduced AC loss compared to conventional SSCRs under continuous normal operation. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328324 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024165 | Stepp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey David Stepp (Grandview, Missouri); Dale Hensley (Grandview, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A frequency transverter (10) and method for enabling bi-frequency dual-directional transfer of digitally encoded data on an RF carrier by translating between a crowded or otherwise undesirable first frequency band, such as the 2.4 GHz ISM band, and a less-crowded or otherwise desirable second frequency band, such as the 5.0 GHz-6.0 GHz U-NII band. In a preferred embodiment, the transverter (10) connects between an existing data radio (11) and its existing antenna (30), and comprises a bandswitch (12); an input RF isolating device (14); a transmuter (16); a converter (18); a dual output local oscillator (20); an output RF isolating device (22); and an antenna (24) tuned to the second frequency band. The bandswitch (12) allows for bypassing the transverter (10), thereby facilitating its use with legacy systems. The transmuter (14) and converter (16) are adapted to convert to and from, respectively, the second frequency band. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172151 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07022524 | Phillips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, Office of Technology Transfer (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Phillips (Davis, California); Cecillia M. Joseph (Davis, California); James R. Sanborn (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel enhancers of photosynthesis and plant growth and methods of using same. In one embodiment, the enhancer is derived from a microorganism. In alternative embodiments, the compounds are microbial extracts, microbial secretion products, and microbially generated natural products. The invention also provides a method for increasing net photosynthesis in a plant by applying an agent comprising triacetylphloroglucinol, diacetylphloroglucinol or monoacetylphloroglucinol to the plant in an amount effective in increasing net photosynthesis in the plant. The invention further provides novel bacterial genes and recombinant microorganisms comprising these genes which are used to practice the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/831958 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022720 | Harran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick G. Harran (Dallas, Texas); Jing Li (Dallas, Texas); Susan Jeong (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The application discloses novel synthetic compounds, modeled after unique toxins extracted from the marine invertebrate Diazona angulata useful in the treatment abnormal cell mitosis. The application also discloses novel methods for synthesis of these compounds and methods of using these compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227509 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022789 | Maughon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bob R. Maughon (Midland, Michigan); Takeharu Morita (Osaka, Japan); Robert H. Grubbs (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to telechelic polymers having crosslinkable end groups of the formula and methods for preparing the same wherein n is an integer; is an alkadienyl group; Y is an alkyl group; and Z is crosslinkable end group. In general, the inventive synthesis involves reacting a functionalized chain transfer agent having crosslinkable ends with a cycloalkene in the presence of a ruthenium or osmium catalyst of the formula wherein: M is ruthenium or osmium; X and X1 are independently any anionic ligand; L and L1 are any neutral electron donor ligand; R and R1 are each hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted substituent wherein the substituent is selected from the group consisting of C1–C20 alkyl, C2–C20 alkenyl, C2–C20 alkynyl, aryl, C1–C20 carboxylate, C1–C20 alkoxy, C1–C20 alkenyloxy, C2–C20 alkynyloxy, aryloxy, C2–C20 alkoxycarbonyl, C1–C20 alkylthio, C1–C20 alkylsulfonyl and C1–C20 alkylsulfinyl. In another aspect of the invention, methods for controlling the molecular weight of the resulting telechelic polymer are also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064033 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023220 | Pelz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan P. Pelz (Columbus, Ohio); David T. Lee (Dublin, Ohio); Bharat Bhushan (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring nm-scale tip-sample capacitance including (a) measuring a cantilever deflection and a change in probe-sample capacitance relative to a reference level as a function of a probe assembly height; (b) fitting out-of-contact data to a function; (c) subtracting the function from capacitance data to get a residual capacitance as a function of the probe assembly height; and (d) determining the residual capacitance at a z-position where the cantilever deflection is zero. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967930 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/658 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023423 | Rosenberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis B. Rosenberg (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing high bandwidth and low noise mechanical input and output for computer systems. A gimbal mechanism provides two revolute degrees of freedom to an object about two axes of rotation. A linear axis member is coupled to the gimbal mechanism at the intersection of the two axes of rotation. The linear axis member is capable of being translated along a third axis to provide a third degree of freedom. The user object is coupled to the linear axis member and is thus translatable along the third axis so that the object can be moved along all three degrees of freedom. Transducers associated with the provided degrees of freedom include sensors and actuators and provide an electromechanical interface between the object and a digital processing system. Capstan drive mechanisms transmit forces between the transducers and the object. The linear axis member can also be rotated about its lengthwise axis to provide a fourth degree of freedom, and, optionally, a floating gimbal mechanism is coupled to the linear axis member to provide fifth and sixth degrees of freedom to an object. Transducer sensors are associated with the fourth, fifth, and sixth degrees of freedom. The interface is well suited for simulations of medical procedures and simulations in which an object such as a stylus or a joystick is moved and manipulated by the user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/852401 |
| ART UNIT | 2675 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023435 | Litke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Jacob Litke (Pasadena, California); Adi Levin (Ganey Tikva, Israel); Peter Schroeder (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of subdividing a representation of an object surface comprising a tessellated mesh of polygons is provided. The surface may be bounded by one or more boundary curves. One or more polygons in the mesh may be each subdivided into child polygons, each having one or more vertices. The result is a second mesh representation which may have a finer level of resolution than the original mesh. The locations or parameters of the vertices of the child polygons in the second mesh may be determined using suitable weightings of the locations or parameters of adjacent vertices in the original mesh. The locations of the vertices in the second mesh may be further refined through application of detail vectors. The locations of boundary vertices are always constrained to lie on one of the boundary curves bounding the surface in question. The method may continue iterating until the surface as represented by the subdivided surface representation is fine enough for the intended application. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/833268 |
| ART UNIT | 2672 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07023955 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | X-Ray Optical System, Inc. (East Greenbush, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zewu Chen (Schenectady, New York); Shinichi Terada (Uji Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Measurement technique and apparatus for examining a region of a patterned surface such as an integrated circuit (IC). Excitation x-ray, neutron, particle-beam or gamma ray radiation is directed toward a two-dimensional sample area of the IC. Emissions (e.g., x-ray fluorescence—XRF) from the sample area are detected. A mask is placed in a planar radiation path formed by the source, detector and the sample area, and in one embodiment moveable relative to the sample area. The mask includes an elongate aperture to substantially confine the excitation radiation directed to the sample area, and the emissions from the sample area, to the planar radiation path when arranged parallel to a first axis of the two-dimensional sample area. The invention allows predictive measurement of feature characteristics in active circuit regions of the IC, using sample areas outside of these regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/639359 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07022544 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy Moshe Cohen (Mohegan Lake, New York); Qiqing C. Ouyang (Elmsford, New York); Jeremy Daniel Schaub (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure (and method for forming the structure) includes a photodetector, a substrate formed under the photodetector, and a barrier layer formed over the substrate. The buried barrier layer preferably includes a single or dual p-n junction, or a bubble layer for blocking or eliminating the slow photon-generated carriers in the region where the drift field is low. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/321660 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07022889 | Gillespie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph D. Gillespie (Gurnee, Illinois); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois); Lynn H. Rice (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the isomerization of a feedstream comprising C5–C6 hydrocarbons where the process involves charging hydrogen and a feedstream comprising at least normal C5–C6 hydrocarbons into an isomerization zone and contacting said hydrogen and feedstream with an isomerization catalyst at isomerization conditions to increase the branching of the feedstream hydrocarbons and produce an isomerization effluent stream comprising at least normal pentane, normal hexane, methylbutane, dimethylbutane, and methylpentane has been discovered. The catalyst used is a solid acid catalyst comprising a support comprising a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of at least an element of Group IVB (IUPAC 4) of the Periodic Table, a first component selected from the group consisting of at least one lanthanide-series element, mixtures thereof, and yttrium, and a second component selected from the group of platinum-group metals and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804358 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07023118 | Morrison |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos R. Morrison (North Ridgeville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In a rotor assembly having a rotor supported for rotation by magnetic bearings, a processor controlled by software or firmware controls the generation of force vectors that position the rotor relative to its bearings in a “bounce” mode in which the rotor axis is displaced from the principal axis defined between the bearings and a “tilt” mode in which the rotor axis is tilted or inclined relative to the principal axis. Waveform driven perturbations are introduced to generate force vectors that excite the rotor in either the “bounce” or “tilt” modes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390256 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/90.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07024069 | Savchenkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoliy Savchenkov (La Crescenta, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices with two or more coupled resonators to produce narrow spectral responses due to interference of signals that transmit through the resonators and techniques for operating such devices to achieve certain operating characteristics are described. The devices may be optical devices where optical resonators such as whispering gallery mode resonators may be used. In one implementation, at least one of the coupled optical resonators is a tunable resonator and is tuned to change its resonance frequency to tune the spectral response of the device. The described devices and techniques may be applied in optical filters, optical delays, optical waveform generators, and other applications. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956876 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07020996 | Beroza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Beroza (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morton Beroza (Silver Spring, Maryland); Roman Machan (Severna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Detection and monitoring of flying insects of a given species can be facilitated by placing inside a lure-baited trap a microcontroller assembly that can sense and discriminate the presence of that species, usually by the sound it makes and then sending a positive report to a central monitoring station by satellite, internet, or antennae transmission. The central monitoring station receives the putative identifications of the targeted insect species, matched with the locations of traps responding positively, and then maps the locations of the positive trap responses. Additional features include: identification of insect species by a characteristic acoustic frequency range, a pattern stored in the microcontroller and/or the central monitoring station; use of multi-lure traps; periodic transfer of test signals from the central monitoring station to remote detection stations to verify that the system is working properly; and use of the microcontroller sensor assembly without traps to monitor sound-emitting life forms at sites attractive to targeted species. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627654 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07024320 | Rogovin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Rogovin (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for determining the location of a short circuit in a branched wiring system. The distance from the short circuit to an impedance measurement point is determined based on a measured impedance of the branched wiring system. The branch in which the short circuit is located is then determined by identifying a calculated high-frequency impedance phase spectrum for the branched wiring system with one of the branches short-circuited that correlates to a measured high-frequency impedance phase spectrum for the branched wiring system. The measured high-frequency impedance phase spectrum is measured from the impedance measurement point. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/902522 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07022315 | Neuwelt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Neuwelt (Portland, Oregon); Leslie Muldoon (Tigard, Oregon); Michael A. Pagel (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of administration of a thiol-based chemoprotectant agent including NAC (N-acetylcysteine) and STS (sodium thiosulfate) that markedly affects biodistribution and protects against injury from diagnostic or therapeutic intra-arterial procedures. A method for treating or mitigating the side effects of cytotoxic cancer therapy for tumors located in the head or neck and brain tumors. The thiol-based chemoprotectant agent is administered intra-arterially with rapid and first pass uptake in organs and tissues other than the liver. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/257879 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07024559 | Solinas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome A. Solinas (Westminster, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating and verifying a cryptographic digital signature using joint sparse expansion by a signer first selecting a field, an elliptic curve over the field, a point P of order q on the elliptic curve, w, k. Next, generating W=wP and K=kP. Next, transforming K to K*. Next, combining K*, W, and a message M to produce h. Next, combining K*, W, and M to produce c. Next, generating, s by either s=hw+ck (mod q), s=(hw+c)/k (mod q), or s=(hk+c)/w (mod q). Next, forming the digital signature as (K*,s). Next, a verifier acquires the field, the elliptic curve, P, W, M, and (K*,s). Next, computing h and c. Next, selecting (n0, n1) as either (sc−1 (mod q), −hc−1 (mod q)), (cs−1 (mod q), hs−1 (mod q)) or (−ch−1 (mod q), sh−1 (mod q)). Next, generating binary expansions of n0 and n1 in joint sparse form. Next, computing, Q=n0P+n1W via twin multiplication and a double-add-subtract method with the binary expansions in joint sparse form. Next, transforming, Q to Q*. Lastly, verifying, the digital signature if Q*=K*. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/185843 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07021033 | Close et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Close (Fairfax, Virginia); Mark Bankard (Sykesville, Maryland); William D. Finch (New Windsor, Maryland); Robert Cutlip (Millersville, Maryland); Robert D. Lundahl (Frederick, Maryland); Dwight Koogle (Middletown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is disclosed that can automatically remove lids from trays and place lids on trays. Further the device can sense the presence of a lid on a tray and can sense the dimensions of the tray. Based on the sensed dimensions of the tray, the device can select an appropriate sized lid to place on the tray. In one embodiment of the invention, a device holds a lid with a lid manipulator having lid holders. At least one end mechanism is attached to at least one end of the lid manipulator, and the end mechanism folds the lid flaps of an appropriate lid. Guided by the lid manipulator, lids are then positioned on the tray. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441875 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Package making 053/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07022815 | Gardella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Gardella (Needham, Massachusetts); Henry M. Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts); John T. Potts, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Harald Jüppner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel parathyroid hormone(PTH) polypeptide derivatives are disclosed, as are pharmaceutical compositions containing said polypeptides, and synthetic and recombinant methods for producing said polypeptides. Also disclosed are methods for treating mammalian conditions characterized by decreases in bone mass using therapeutically effective pharmaceutical compositions containing said polypeptides. Also disclosed are methods for screening candidate compounds of the invention for antagonistic or agonistic effects on parathyroid hormone receptor action. Also disclosed are diagnostic and therapeutic methods of said compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/672020 |
| 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 530/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 04, 2006.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2006/fedinvent-patents-20060404.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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