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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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| US 07036316 | Howell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenetady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen John Howell (West Newbury, Massachusetts); Allen Michael Danis (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method facilitates assembling a combustor for a gas turbine engine. The method comprises coupling an inner liner to an outer liner such that a combustion chamber is defined therebetween, positioning an outer support a distance radially outward from the outer liner, and positioning an inner support a distance radially inward from the inner liner. The method also comprises forming at least two rows of impingement openings extending through at least one of the inner support and the outer support for channeling impingement cooling air therethrough towards at least one of the inner liner and the outer liner, and forming at least one row of dilution openings extending through at least one of the inner liner and the outer liner for channeling dilution cooling air therethrough into the combustion chamber |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687683 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036373 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Burgess R. Johnson (Bloomington, Minnesota); Mark W. Weber (Zimmerman, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for reducing rate bias errors and scale factor errors in a MEMS gyroscope are disclosed. A MEMS actuator device in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention can include at least one substrate including one or more horizontal drive electrodes, and a movable electrode spaced vertically from and adjacent to the one or more horizontal drive electrodes. The horizontal drive electrodes and/or movable electrode can be configured to eliminate or reduce rate bias and scale factor errors resulting from the displacement of the movable electrode in the direction of a sense axis of the device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/881499 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036388 | Genovese 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) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland); Mark S. DiBeradino (Baltimore, Maryland); Lester D. Strauch (Bel Air, Maryland); Mark S. Schlein (Abingdon, Maryland); Emory W. Sarver (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Arthur Stuempfle (Edgewood, Maryland); Dennis J. Reutter (Churchville, Maryland); Richard S. Simak (Edgewood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample heater assembly which permits the detection of low volatility agents by existing chemical agent detectors is described. Existing chemical agent detectors often lack the capability to accurately detect low volatility agents, such as the chemical warfare agent VX. The sample heater assembly provides this capability by heating low volatility agents to vaporization and interfacing with the existing chemical agent detector. The sample heater assembly comprises a sample containment reservoir for holding the low volatility agent sample, which can be attached to the chemical agent detector, and a heating element which attaches to the sample containment reservoir for heating the sample. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633773 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036420 | Kummerer 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) | Anthony F. Kummerer (La Plata, Maryland); Debra M. Scroggins, legal representative (La Plata, Maryland); Lance A. Brown (Waldorf, Maryland); Christopher O'Donnell (La Plata, Maryland); Scott Strohman (King George, Virginia); William Transue (Indian Head, Maryland); Doug McDougal (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention, as embodied herein, comprises a back worn pack that allows a user to transport both energetic materials, such as primary explosives, and energetic initiators, such as blasting caps, within the pack without the threat of premature initiation of the energetic materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807573 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036434 | Vo 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) | Daniel Vo (Landing, New Jersey); Leon Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Michael Donadio (West Milford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A length of a rod of an axial kinetic energy projectile is increased as the projectile flies to the target. The projectile includes a nose, a rear, and a base rod. The base rod has a forward member, a rearward member, and a connection between the forward member and the rearward member which allows the forward member to move axially relative to the rearward member from a contracted position where the rod has a reduced length to an extended position where the rod has an increased length greater than the contracted length. Further, the base rod includes a locking mechanism which axially locks the forward member and the rearward member together when the forward member is moved from the contracted position to the extended position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709286 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036769 | Wood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Wood (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A drive assembly for a wing of a micromechanical flying insect. The drive assembly comprises a honey comb structure. A method for flying a micromechanical flying insect comprising moving a wing with a drive assembly having a stiffness to weight ratio greater than about 16×1010 N/mKg. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830374 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036786 | Schura |
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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) | Christopher Schura (Greenwood, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A mounting system for a shelter, which includes an angle assembly and a supporting understructure. The angle assembly is mountable on longitudinal sides of the shelter. The shelter is mountable on the understructure, the angle assembly is attached to the understructure. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672273 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/346.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036894 | Woodall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Woodall (Panama City Beach, Florida); Felipe Garcia (Panama City, Florida); Chris Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A tandem track system and method provides for safe withdrawal of a tracked vehicle if either of the main tracks becomes separated. The tracked vehicle has a main track longitudinally extending in a closed endless main loop on opposite sides and engaging a separate main drive sprocket assembly, extending under roadwheels to a main drive idler wheel, and back to the main drive-sprocket assembly in the main loop. The tandem drive system has a secondary track engaging each main drive-sprocket assembly and extending forward along the track vehicle from each main drive-sprocket assembly under only an aft-most fractional portion of the roadwheels. The secondary track is configured as a closed endless secondary loop inside of the main loop of each main track whereby each secondary track can transfer rotary power to move the tracked vehicle to safety. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768751 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Wheel substitutes for land vehicles 35/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037076 | Jacot et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Dean Jacot (Kent, Washington); Robert T. Ruggeri (Kirkland, Washington); Dan J. Clingman (Auburn, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred rotary actuator includes an actuator assembly having a torque tube formed of a shape memory alloy (SMA), a superelastic NiTinol return spring associated with the torque tube and adapted to bias the torque tube toward an initial position, and a torque tube heating element, especially a thermoelectric device, for switching the SMA to cause rotation to an object connected to the actuator or to generate a torque upon that object. The torque tube (24) includes a proximal end (32) and a distal end (34). The return spring and torque tube are connected at their ends, with the torque tube being pretwisted while in a martensitic state relative to the spring. Activation of the heating element causes the torque tube to enter an austenitic state in which it returns to its previous untwisted configuration. Removal of heat allows the torque tube to return to a martensitic state, when the return spring retwists the torque tube. A unique locking assembly 22 is used with the preferred actuator assembly. A helicopter blade twist rotation system for a rotorcraft blade 200 having a blade root 202 and a tip 204 includes a SMA rotary actuator 18 located within the blade near the blade root, and a passive torque tube (206) located within the blade and having a proximal end connected to the rotary actuator and a distal end connected to the blade near to the blade tip. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217351 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037425 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gil U. Lee (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sang Won Lee (Burbank, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and apparatus for the collection of biological materials from air. Collection and separation devices utilize a novel membrane structure formed from a functionalized inorganic mesoporous membrane supported by porous substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/313376 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037468 | Hammerstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MesoSystems Technology, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington); Joseph G. Birmingham (Richland, Washington); James S. Millar (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for using a non-thermal plasma or corona discharge generated at multiple points and distributed to decontaminate surfaces and objects contaminated with chemical or biological agents. The corona discharge can be generated using very short high voltage pulses. The pulsed corona discharge can be directed at a contaminated surface through the unbraided strands at an end of a dielectric covered conductor. Another pulsed discharge embodiment incorporates a primary coil surrounding a chamber having a void filled with a plurality of secondary coils. A silent corona discharge can be generated using a variety of different configurations of a dielectric coated electrode and a bare electrode. The silent discharge is produced at all intersections between the dielectric covered electrode and the bare electrode. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises a blanket-like structure that is useful for decontaminating surfaces or decontaminating a fluid passing between spaced-apart bare electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193089 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037499 | Glenn 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) | Gregory M. Glenn (Bethesda, Maryland); Carl R. Alving (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A transcutaneous immunization system delivers antigen to immune cells without perforation of the skin, and induces an immune response in an animal or human. The system uses an adjuvant, preferably an ADP-ribosylating exotoxin, to induce an antigen-specific immune response (e.g., humoral and/or cellular effectors) after transcutaneous application of a formulation containing antigen and adjuvant to intact skin of the animal or human. The efficiency of immunization may be enhanced by adding hydrating agents (e.g., liposomes), penetration enhancers, or occlusive dressings to the transcutaneous delivery system. This system may allow activation of Langerhans cells in the skin, migration of the Langerhans cells to lymph nodes, and antigen presentation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/266803 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037680 | Smith 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) | Leonard A. Smith (Clarksburg, Maryland); Melody Jensen (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Botulinum neurotoxins, the most potent of all toxins, induce lethal neuromuscular paralysis by inhibiting exocytosis at the neuromuscular junction. The light chains (LC) of these dichain neurotoxins are a new class of zinc-endopeptidases that specifically cleave the synaptosomal proteins, SNAP-25, VAMP, or syntaxin at discrete sites. The present invention relates to the construction, expression, purification, and use of synthetic or recombinant botulinum neutoroxin genes. For example, a synthetic gene for the LC of the botulinum neurotoxin serotype A (BoNT/A) was constructed and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The gene product was purified from inclusion bodies. The methods of the invention can provide 1.1 g of the LC per liter of culture. The LC product was stable in solution at 4° C. for at least 6 months. This rBoNT/A LC was proteolytically active, specifically cleaving the Glu-Arg bond in a 17-residue synthetic peptide of SNAP-25, the reported cleavage site of BoNT/A. Its calculated catalytic efficiency kcat/Km was higher than that reported for the native BoNT/A dichain. Treating the rBoNT/A LC with mercuric compounds completely abolished its activity, most probably by modifying the cysteine-164 residue located in the vicinity of the active site. About 70% activity of the LC was restored by adding Zn2+ to a Zn2+-free, apo-LC preparation. The LC was nontoxic to mice and failed to elicit neutralizing epitope(s) when the animals were vaccinated with this protein. In addition, injecting rBoNT/A LC into sea urchin eggs inhibited exocytosis-dependent plasma membrane resealing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/011588 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07037798 | Adam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas N. Adam (Poughkeepsie, New York); Kevin K. Chan (Staten Island, New York); Alvin J. Joseph (Williston, Vermont); Marwan H. Khater (Poughkeepsie, New York); Qizhi Liu (Essex Junction, Vermont); Beth Ann Rainey (Williston, Vermont); Kathryn T. Schonenberg (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods of fabricating a bipolar transistor that adds a silicon germanium (SiGe) layer or a third insulator layer of, e.g., high pressure oxide (HIPOX), atop an emitter cap adjacent the intrinsic base prior to forming a link-up layer. This addition allows for removal of the link-up layer using wet etch chemistries to remove the excess SiGe or third insulator layer formed atop the emitter cap without using oxidation. In this case, an oxide section (formed by deposition of an oxide or segregation of the above-mentioned HIPOX layer) and nitride spacer can be used to form the emitter-base isolation. The invention results in lower thermal cycle, lower stress levels, and more control over the emitter cap layer thickness, which are drawbacks of the first embodiment. The invention also includes the resulting bipolar transistor structure. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904482 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037805 | DCamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon B. DCamp (Savage, Minnesota); Harlan L. Curtis (Champlin, Minnesota); Lori A. Dunaway (New Hope, Minnesota); Max C. Glenn (Chanhassen, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for increasing the bonding strength between a die and a housing for the die is described where a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device is formed on the die. The method includes depositing a plurality of contacts of bonding material between the substrate and die, and forming a bond between the die and the housing by applying at least 25,000 kilograms of force per gram of bonding material to the housing, the contacts, and the die. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/878845 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037838 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York); Crystal IS Inc. (Latham, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Javier Martinez Lopez (Cadiz, Spain); Juan Carlos Rojo (East Setauket, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect of the invention, an improved process for preparing a surface of substrate is provided wherein the surface of the substrate is prepared for a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process, the CMP process is performed on the surface of the substrate, and the surface of the substrate is finished to clear the substrate surface of any active ingredients from the CMP process. Also, an improved substrate produced by the method is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, particular polishing materials and procedures may be used that allow for increased quality of AlN substrate surfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/300481 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037958 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hansen (Austin, Texas); Rock A. Rushing (Spicewood, Texas); John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Joshua B. Lightfoot (Austin, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an epoxy coating for use as a non-skid surface for applications such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. The epoxy coating can be formulated from (a) an amine curing agent, (b) an epoxide-containing toughening agent such as a polysulfide and/or a polythioether, (c) an epoxy resin, (d) a rubber toughening agent, and (e) an optional fire retardant, a glass fiber thixotrope and impact toughening agent, an optional pigment, an optional corrosion inhibitor, an optional moisture penetration inhibitor, an optional ultraviolet light stabilizer, an optional abrasive aggregate, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683976 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038125 | Petrenko et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Victor F. Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles R. Sullivan (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-frequency AC power in a range of about from 50 to 200 Hz flows through a cableway, providing 5 to 100 watts per meter of cableway. Through separate connections to a power bus, a cableway is electrically divided into branches of a parallel circuit that use low voltage to heat. A transformer connected to each branch transforms high-voltage low amperage current to low-voltage high amperage current. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056163 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/40.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038190 | Udd et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Udd (Fairview, Oregon); Sean G. Calvert (Troutdale, Oregon); Whitten L. Schulz (Fairview, Oregon); W. Marley Kunzler (Gresham, Oregon); M. Wesley Kunzler (Gresham, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber grating environmental sensing system is described that has the ability to measure strain, vibration, humidity and water content. Fiber gratings are used to measure axial strain to accomplish these goals. An approach is described that uses matched fiber grating sensors and filters to allow for thermal compensation greatly reducing one of the key performance issues facing these systems. The system may be deployed in such applications as roadways and paved surfaces, bridges, buildings and aircraft and spacecraft. Means are described to implement transducers optimized for specific environmental measurements as well as means to demodulate the fiber grating sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/325874 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038208 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the City of New York (New York, New York); Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Alfano (Bronx, New York); Iosif Zeylikovich (Brooklyn, New York); Wubao Wang (Flushing, New York); Jamal Ali (Brooklyn, New York); Vincent Benischek (Shrub Oak, New York); Yury Budansky (Oakland, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for non-destructively detecting material abnormalities beneath a coated surface, comprising a mid-infrared (MIR) illumination unit for illuminating an area of the coated surface, and an MIR 2-D imager, which includes an MIR CCD or CMOS camera, for capturing an image of a material abnormalities under the illuminated area of the coated surface. In addition, the system may further comprise a scanning unit for moving the system to a next area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653473 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038429 | Browning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Roy Browning (Denville, New Jersey); Stephanie Novak (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Control system for electromechanical arrangements having open-loop instability. The system includes a control unit that processes sensing signals and provides control signals to maintain a movable member, such as a rotor or shaft, in the desired position. The control unit according to the invention includes a unifying plant compensation filter, which isolates the open-loop instability characteristics so that the shaft is treated as a mass having substantially no open-loop structural properties. In magnetic bearings, the open-loop instability is manifested as negative stiffness. The invention isolates the negative stiffness thus providing for better positive stiffness and improved bandwidth. Various filters, summers, and other operators required to carry out the invention are preferably implemented on a programmed processing platform such as a digital signal processor (DSP) or an arrangement of multiple digital signal processors. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406477 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038458 | Wiegert |
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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) | Roy Wiegert (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic anomaly homing system and method utilize an array of four triaxial magnetometer (TM) sensors coupled to a non-magnetic platform. The four TM sensors are positioned at the vertices of a rectangular parallelogram. The magnetic field sensed at the four TM sensors is processed to generate complete gradient tensors and corresponding scalar gradient contractions thereof for four two-axis gradiometers formed by the array. The scalar gradient contractions define guidance control parameters used to steer the platform toward the magnetic anomaly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964009 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038461 | Deppe |
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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) | Louis W. Deppe (Middleburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A test set that includes a circuit breaker, at least two test points, a single pole switch, a double pole switch, and a set of test lights. The at least two test points are for reading amperage when testing a bleed air shutoff valve in aircraft. The at least two test points electronically communicate with the circuit breaker. The single pole switch electronically communicates with the circuit breaker and the at least two test points. The double pole switch is able to open and close and shut off the bleed air shutoff valve electronically. The double pole switch electronically communicates with the single pole switch and the at least two test points. One of the lights is able to inform whether power is being applied to the test set, another light is able to inform whether the double pole switch is open. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956587 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038616 | Pillai |
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| INVENTOR(S) | S. Unnikrishna Pillai (Harrington Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A design methodology for jointly optimizing the transmit waveform and receiver filter for multiple target identification is presented in presence of transmit signal dependent clutter like interference and noise. The methodology is applied and illustrated for various multiple ‘target ID’ problems in presence of transmit signal dependent clutter like interference and noise. The resulting correct target classification is significantly better than that achieved by a conventional chirp or any other transmit waveform. Unlike the classical radar case, the choice of transmit pulse shape can be critically important for the detection of extended targets in presence of additive channel noise and signal-dependent clutter. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/743368 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038639 | Olstad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Olstad (Panama City, Florida); Dennis Gallagher (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system displays information in a full face mask. A display module is mounted inside the full face mask on faceplate support structure outside of a forward viewing area of a faceplate portion. The display module is located to be free of interference with an operator's forward field of view through the forward viewing area. A display control module is externally mounted on outside components of the full face mask and has a waterproof housing, processing and display driving electronics, memory, internal sensors, external sensors, and battery. A power-data cable is connected to the display control module externally mounted on the full face mask and to the display module inside the full face mask via an accessory interface plate. A switch on the display control module can be accessed and selectably actuated by an operator to present data from the display control module on the display module. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457700 |
| 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 345/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038785 | Hall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Woodland Hills, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Hall (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor array employs a parameter to induce a time-varying phase angle on an optical signal that comprises a phase generated carrier with a demodulation phase offset. An output signal from the sensor array is filtered to create a filtered signal. The phase angle is calculated independently of the demodulation phase offset through employment of the filtered signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615729 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038789 | Carrieri |
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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) | Arthur H. Carrieri (Abington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive interferometer chemical sensor and photopolarimeter communicator includes collector and collimator optics, shared solid-state interferometer/photopolarimeter phase-modulation optics, and a lens imager system. The passive interferometer locates, identifies, and tracks an infrared-absorbing vapor in an open panorama by measuring vibration spectrum moiety. The communicator includes a communications beam that is modulated by the shared projected into the same object space from which chemical imaging is preformed. The communications beam provides detection data that is binary encrypted by Mueller matrix-element encoding. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/370312 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038924 | 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 | 10/700848 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039076 | Kane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JDS Uniphase Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Kane (Menlo Park, California); Gregory L. Keaton (San Francisco, California); James J. Morehead (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light source is disclosed having a pulsed laser, a fiber amplifier optically coupled to the pulsed laser, and a nonlinear frequency converting element optically coupled to the fiber amplifier. The pulsed laser, e.g., a passively Q-switched laser, is configured to generate light pulses characterized by a pulse length of less than about 1.7 nsec and sufficiently large that a frequency bandwidth of the pulses after they emerge from the fiber amplifier is less than an acceptance bandwidth of the nonlinear frequency converting element. The laser is pulsed at a pulse repetition rate sufficiently large that the fiber amplifier does not spontaneously emit radiation between pulses. In such a source, the fiber amplifier is substantially free of stimulated Brillouin scattering and self-phase modulation may be held to a level that does not reduce conversion of infrared radiation to visible radiation. Such a light source can be combined with an image generator and a scanner in an image projection system. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662097 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039087 | Nettleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Nettleton (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dallas N. Barr (Woodbridge, Virginia); Charlie W. Trussell (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The End Pumped Slab Laser Cavity incorporates all optical components required for a short-pulse laser. These optical components are ‘locked’ into alignment forming an optical laser cavity for diode laser or flash lamp pumping. The optical laser cavity never needs optical alignment after it is fabricated. The cavity is configured for optimal absorbtion for diode laser end-pumping over broad temperature ranges. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844446 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039316 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gee-Kung Chang (Holmdel, New Jersey); Arshad M. Chowdhury (Eatontown, New Jersey); Georgios Ellinas (Long Island City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical signaling header technique applicable to optical networks wherein packet routing information is embedded in the same channel or wavelength as the data payload so that both the header and data payload propagate through network elements with the same path and the associated delays. The technique effects survivability and security of the optical networks by encompassing conventional electronic security with an optical security layer by generating replicated versions of the input data payload at the input node, and the transmission of each of the replicated versions over a corresponding one of the plurality of links. Moreover, each of the links is composed of multiple wavelengths to propagate optical signals or optical packets, and each of the replicated versions of the data payload may be propagated over a selected one of the wavelengths in each corresponding one of the plurality of links. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/772504 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039367 | Kucik |
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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) | Daniel Kucik (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications system and method utilizes an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of collecting data about an environment in which the USV resides. At least one micro-aerial vehicle (MAV), equipped for unmanned flight after a launch thereof, is mounted on the USV. Each MAV has onboard radio frequency (RF) communications. Each MAV launched into the air transmits the data collected by the USV using the MAV's RF communications. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356931 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039473 | Corban |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Guided Systems Technologies, Inc. (McDonough, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Eric Corban (McDonough, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system for controlling a nonlinear physical process. The computer system comprises a linear controller and a neural network. The linear controller receives a command signal for control of the nonlinear physical process and a measured output signal from the output of the nonlinear physical process. The linear controller generates a control signal based on the command signal, a measured output signal, and a fixed linear model for the process. The neural network receives the control signal from the linear controller and the measured output signal from the output of the nonlinear physical process. The neural network uses the measured output signal to modify the connection weights of the neural network. The neural network also generates a modified control signal supplied to the linear controller to iterate a fixed point solution for the modified control signal used to control the nonlinear physical process. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806501 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039506 | Richburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Richburg (Panama City, Florida); Donald D. Hobden (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A light system for defining a line of approach uses light sources arranged in an array. The light sources are arranged such that they define a primary field-of-view (FOV) from which all of the light sources are visible. Less than all of the light sources are visible from positions outside of the primary FOV. The light sources are further divided into sections with each section having a portion of the light sources associated therewith. The light sources are controlled in accordance with cyclical on/off sequences. A primary waveform of light energy is defined by the cyclical on/off sequence visible from within the primary FOV. A plurality of secondary waveforms of light energy are defined by the cyclical on/off sequences visible from positions outside of the primary FOV. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608118 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2155 | Tsui 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) | James B. Y. Tsui (Dayton, Ohio); David M. Lin (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved apparatus and method for determining the carrier frequency in a biphase coded signal such as the course acquisition code signal in a global position sensing system. The described system may also be used for other purposes. The described system is based on use of the conventional data signal squaring or frequency doubling step to remove biphase coding but performs a series of frequency reducing steps prior to applying the Fourier transformation sequence. The frequency reducing steps include heterodyne mixing and signal averaging. These frequency-reducing steps diminish the speed and capacity requirements imposed on the Fourier transformation sequence and thereby decrease the cost and complexity of the overall system. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057864 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07037114 | Eiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Eiger (Eastlake, Ohio); Matthew Tarler (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to a flexible circuit connector as well as a system using the connector. The present invention further includes an electrical case comprising part of the flexible circuit connection system. Various embodiments of each the flexible circuit connector, flexible circuit system and electrical packaging integrated with the flexible circuit system of the present invention are possible. The flexible circuit connector of the present invention takes advantage of the stiffness of the flexible circuit to bias the circuit against leads in the connector. The flexible circuit connector can also be designed to provide for polarization (or only one means) to connect to the connector. In particular embodiments the connector can be designed into a circuit board, an electrical case or housing or into other types of connectors. The flexible circuit itself can be designed to allow for varying stiffness across the width of the flexible circuit to allow for numerous improvements including better contacts, greater fatigue resistance and improved user characteristics. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040649 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037486 | Aneja |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nutrimed Biotech (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajindra Aneja (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds comprising cellular phosphoinositides and analogues tagged with stable or radioactive isotopes. The present invention also provides novel methods for the preparation of the said phosphoinositides by syntheses, and novel key intermediates of synthesis; the novel methods of synthesis are applied also for the preparation of the phosphoinositides in non-labelled form. In addition, the present invention discloses a class of novel compounds as isotope labelled key precursors of labelled phosphoinositides. These precursors are derivatives of the target phosphoinositides, labelled with stable or radioactive isotopes, wherein OH and phosphate groups are blocked with temporary protecting groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056188 |
| 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 424/1.770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037493 | Goldman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (South Salem, New York); Abdellatif Benraiss (Astoria, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of inducing neuronal production in the brain, recruiting neurons to the brain, and treating a neurodegenerative condition by providing a nucleic acid construct encoding a neurotrophic factor, and injecting the nucleic acid construct intraventricularly into a subject's brain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/846588 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037500 | Silverstein 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) | Samuel C. Silverstein (New York, New York); John D. Loike (Jamaica, New York); Francesco DiVirgilio (Polverara, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of delivering an antigen to an Class I or Class II MHC receptors to induce immunity against the antigen in a subject having a disease. This invention also provides methods of delivering an antigen to an Class II or class I MHC receptor to supress immunity against the antigen in a subject having a disease. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/658698 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037503 | Collier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. John Collier (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Bret R. Sellman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides mutant forms of pore-forming toxins. These mutant toxins may be used in vaccines for the prevention of bacterial infection. Additionally, dominant negative mutants may be administered as therapeutics for the treatment of bacterial infection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/848909 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037583 | Furman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas); Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Furman (San Antonio, Texas); Stephen T. Wellinghoff (San Antonio, Texas); Henry R. Rawls (San Antonio, Texas); Hong Dixon (Helotes, Texas); Barry K. Norling (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal oxide nanoparticles having at least some surface acid sites functionalized with an adhesion promoter and at least some surface acid sites functionalized with a coupling agent. The nanoparticles are useful in forming composites comprising photopolymerizable matrix monomers, and are primarily suitable for dental and medical restoration. In a preferred embodiment, the metal oxide comprises zirconium, and the coupling agent is a zirconate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/726769 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037647 | Israeli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ron S. Israeli (Staten Island, New York); Warren D. W. Heston (New York, New York); William R. Fair (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated mammalian nucleic acid molecule encoding an alternatively spliced prostate-specific membrane (PSM′) antigen. This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a prostate-specific membrane antigen promoter. This invention provides a method of detecting hematogenous micrometastic tumor cells of a subject, and determining prostate cancer progression in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 08/894583 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07037657 | Le et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Dong Le (Houston, Texas); Demetrios K. Vassilatis (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The identification of mutations in NURR1 provides molecular tools for the development of diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic agents for Parkinson's Disease. In specific embodiments, two point mutations are identified in exon 1 of the NURR1 gene in 10/107 (9.3%) cases of familial Parkinson's disease (PD). The mutations reduce NURR1 gene expression (mRNA and protein levels) by 87–95% and decrease tyrosine hydroxylase (a rate-limited dopamine synthesis enzyme) gene expression in vitro. It is also demonstrated that in vivo NURR1 mRNA levels in the lymphocytes from the PD patients with the exon 1 mutation are reduced by 68–84%, and in over 50% sporadic PD patients the NURR1 mRNA levels in lymphocytes are significantly reduced. A homozygous polymorphism is identified in intron 6 of NURR1 that correlates with the presence of Parkinson's disease. A splicing variant in NURR1 exon 5 is identified. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/205951 |
| 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 |
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| US 07037658 | Ginsburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ginsburg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gallia Levy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Han-Mou Tsai (Manhasset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a disintegrin and metalloproteinase containing thrombospondin 1-like domains (ADAMTS) and in particular to a novel ADAMTS13 protease and to nucleic acids encoding ADAMTS13 proteases. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of ADAMTS13, as well as mutant and variant forms including fragments, some of which posses altered characteristics relative to the wild-type ADAMTS13. The present invention also relates to methods of using ADAMTS13, including for treatment of TTP. The present invention also relates to methods for screening for the presence of TTP. The present invention further relates to methods for developing anticoagulant drugs based upon ADAMTS13. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222334 |
| 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 |
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| US 07037670 | Haycock |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Haycock (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Several synthetic peptides modeled after Ser31 in tyrosine hydroxylase (“Ser31 peptides”) have been developed and evaluated as in vitro substrates for assaying the activity of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 1 and 2 (“ERK1/2”). The phosphorylation of the Ser31 peptides by activated, recombinant ERK2 was found to exhibit catalytic efficiencies (Vmax/Km) up to 4-fold higher than that of a synthetic myelin basic protein (MBP)-based peptide. Several synthetic peptides were tested using cellular extracts from PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cells, both untreated cells and cells treated with nerve growth factor. Although the phosphorylation of the MBP peptide by extracts of PC12 cells was higher than that of the Ser31 peptide, the relative treatment-dependent increase was much greater for the Ser31 peptide and the pattern of ERK1/2 activation more closely mimicked the pattern seen with more complicated assays that initially isolated ERK1/2 from other kinases in the cellular extracts. This result suggested that the Ser31 peptide was a more specific substrate for the ERK1/2. Use of the new Ser31 peptide substrates will decrease the amount of peptide required to assay for ERK1/2 activity. In addition, the higher catalytic efficiencies associated with greater specificity for ERK1/2 will enable researchers to assay for activity of ERK1/2 in cellular extracts without prior immunoprecipitation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/126834 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
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| US 07037678 | Kumagai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akiko Kumagai (Altadena, California); William G. Dunphy (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Claspin proteins and nucleotides encoding Claspin proteins are provided. Also provided is a method for identifying a compound that modulates cell cycle progression. A method is further provided for modulating cell cycle progression. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/982091 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07037686 | MacNicol |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Angus M. MacNicol (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides genomic and cDNA encoding human cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein, expression vectors comprising human cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein cDNA and host cells that contain the expression vectors. Also provided are recombinant human cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein and polypeptides derived thereof. In addition, the present invention reports that the human Mos 3′ untranslated region (3′ UTR) contains a functional cytoplasmic polyadenylation element (CPE), interacts with the human CPEB1 protein and directs maturation-dependent cytoplasmic polyadenylation of the endogenous Mos mRNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945703 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.800 |
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| US 07037691 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott J. Miller (Natick, Massachusetts); Bianca Sculimbrene (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam J. Morgan (Scituate, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptide-based phosphorylation catalysts (PBPC's) for the asymmetric monophosphorylation of cyclitols, particularly myo-inositols. The PBPC's of the invention effect a regio and enantioselective phosphorylation of a myo-inositol in a manner analogous to enzymatic kinases, thereby functioning as effective “kinase mimics.” Although orders of magnitude less complex in terms of structure than macromolecular proteins, the PBPC's of the invention control product formation with high enantioselectivity (>98% ee). The synthetic (+)-myo-inositol-1-phosphate is optically and spectroscopically equivalent to naturally occuring compound. The ability of the low molecular weight PBPC's of the present invention to mimic stereoselective enzymes represents a powerful approach toward catalytic asymmetric synthesis of biologically important molecules, and for mechanistic modeling of biochemical transformations to enable their use in drug applications. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187208 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/131 |
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| US 07037707 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Gordon Webster (Memphis, Tennessee); Richard John Webby (Memphis, Tennessee); Hiroichi Ozaki (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the discovery that a high titer reassortant influenza virus is produced in mammalian cell culture by replacing the NS gene of the A/PuertoRico/3/24 master strain with the NS gene of the A/England/1/53 strain. The invention provides influenza viruses and vaccines generated in mammalian cells as well as methods for producing such. The invention further provides an influenza virus master strain and kits for generating reassortant influenza viruses in mammalian cell culture and methods of making and using the master strain. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654737 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037715 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The McLean Hospital (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang-Soo Kim (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features an enhancer cassette having the formula [X-Y]n, wherein each X is independently a noradrenergic cell-specific enhancer derived from a DBH gene; Y is absent or is a mono or polynucleotide that has between one and thirty nucleotides; and n is an integer between three and twenty, inclusive. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/350257 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037718 | Ealick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Ealick (Ithaca, New York); William B. Parker (Birmingham, Alabama); John A. Secrist, III (Birmingham, Alabama); Eric J. Sorscher (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a procaryotic host cell stably transformed or transfected by a vector including a DNA sequence encoding for mutant purine nucleoside phosphorylase or hydrolase. The transformed or transfected procaryotic host cell can be used in combination with a purine substrate to treat tumor cells and/or virally infected cells. The present invention provides nucleotide sequences encoding mutant E. coli derived purine nucleoside phosphorylase proteins which can be used in conjunction with an appropriate substrate to produce toxins which impair abnormal cell growth. The invention provides for delivery of the toxin by generation within target cells or by administration and delivery to the cells from without. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/035300 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037978 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of SUNY at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Liguo Song (Williamsville, New York); Dufei Fang (Painted Post, New York); Dehai Liang (Stony Brook, New York); Tianbo Liu (Coram, New York); Yanmei Wang (Hefei, China PRC); Qicong Ying (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a quasi-interpenetrating network of polymer chains, the chains comprising linear polyacrylamide (LPA) chains in the form of a main frame having a weight average molecular weight of approximately 0.05 million to approximately 25 million g/mole, and a radius of gyration of approximately 10 nm to 350 nm; and polydimethylacrylamide (PDMA) chains prepared by polymerizing PDMA in the presence of the LPA main frame, wherein the LPA and PDMA chains are entangled within one another and interpenetrate one another, and wherein the quasi-interpenetrating network has substantially no chemical cross-linking. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/671335 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038010 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (Rootstown, Ohio); Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary B. Schneider (Hudson, Ohio); Steven N. Popoff (Warrington, Pennsylvania); Fayez Safadi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Agents for promoting bone deposition and growth in a mammalian subject. The agents are O-glycosylated and non-glycosylated peptides that are derived from vitamin D binding protein, collectively referred to hereinafter as “DBP” peptides. The DBP peptides are from 3 to 18, preferably from 4 to 14 amino acids in length and comprise a sequence which is at least 80% identical, preferably at least 90% identical to the amino acid sequence of a fragment contained within domain III of DBP. Methods for promoting bone deposition in a subject in need of the same are also provided. The methods comprise administering to the subject a therapeutically effective quantity of an agent selected from the group consisting of an activated form of vitamin D binding protein referred to hereinafter as “ADBP”, one or more DBP peptides, and combinations thereof. The agents may be administered locally or systemically. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/045673 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038011 | Innerarity et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Innerarity (Lafayette, California); Jan Boren (Gothenburg, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the study and control of atherosclerosis through the modulation of LDL-proteoglycan binding at Site B (amino acids 3359–3369) of the apo-B100 protein in LDL. The invention encompasses methods of identifying compounds which modulate LDL-proteoglycan binding, methods of identifying compounds which modulate atherosclerotic lesion formation, and methods of modulating the formation of atherosclerotic lesions. The invention also encompasses mutant apo-B100 proteins and LDL which exhibit reduced proteoglycan binding while maintaining LDL-receptor binding, polynucleotides which encode these apo-B100 proteins, as well as cells and animals which express the mutant apo-B100 proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/822965 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038013 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon Freeman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vassiliki Boussiotis (Brookline, Massachusetts); Tatyana Chernova (Brighton, Massachusetts); Nelly Malenkovich (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated B7-4 nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel B7-4 polypeptides. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing B7-4 nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and nonhuman transgenic animals in which a B7-4 gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated B7-4 proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-B7-4 antibodies. Diagnostic, screening, and therapeutic methods utilizing compositions of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002775 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038014 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. William Harris (Dover, Massachusetts); Edward M. Brown (Milton, Massachusetts); Steven C. Hebert (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polycation-sensing receptors present in aquatic species and methods of regulating polycation-sensing receptor-mediated functions in aquatic species are described. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/016496 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038030 | Litman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Litman (Gulfport, Florida); Noel A. Hawke (Durham, North Carolina); Jeffrey A. Yoder (St. Petersburg, Florida); Donna D. Eason (Bradenton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides polynucleotide sequences, designated BIVM, and transcriptional/translational products obtained from the polynucleotide sequences of the invention. The subject invention also provides polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences provided by SEQ ID NOs:1–28. Also provided are methods of detecting the presence of BIVM nucleic acids or polypeptides in samples suspected of containing BIVM genes, BIVM transcriptional products, or BIVM translational products. These methods are also useful for the detection of BIVM orthologs. Other embodiments provide polypeptide and/or nucleic acid vaccines for the induction of an immune response to in an individual. Kits for detecting the presence of BIVM genes, orthologs thereof, BIVM polypeptides, or BIVM transcriptional products are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417476 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038041 | Ray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Ray (Wayland, Massachusetts); Scott C. Mohr (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Narasimha Swamy (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An estrogen/antiestrogen-porphyrin conjugate, their composition and methods for their use are claimed. The active compounds of the invention are conjugates consisting of an estrogen or anti estrogen portion, tether or linker portion and a porphyrin portion. The method of invention exploits an active process that involves strong and specific interactions between nuclear receptor and its cognate ligand. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/257081 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038078 | Aldrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Marlyland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane V. Aldrich (Lawrence, Kansas); Vivek Kumar (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A synthetic reaction to produce [2-(2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy] acetic acid (AEEA) derivatives. This synthetic reaction does not require isolation and purification of intermediates. The AEEA derivatives can be used to synthesize high load polystyrene-polyethylene glycol-like resins having excellent swelling characteristics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308672 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07036220 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); Julie K. Hamilton (Tracy, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Armando R. Tovar (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of metalization of an integrated microsystem. The method comprises providing a substrate and applying a conductive material to the substrate by taking up small aliquots of conductive material and releasing the conductive material onto the substrate to produce a circuit component. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742112 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/846 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07036612 | Raymond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Raymond (Edgewood, New Mexico); Mostafa Ahmed Elsayed (Youngsville, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A damping apparatus and method for a drillstring comprising a bit comprising providing to the drillstring a damping mechanism comprising magnetorheological fluid and generating an electromagnetic field affecting the magnetorheological fluid in response to changing ambient conditions encountered by the bit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465505 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037474 | Nolan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Babcock and Wilcox Company (New Orleans, Louisiana); McDermott Technology, Inc. (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Nolan (North Canton, Ohio); William Downs (Washington Township, Stark County, Ohio); Ralph T. Bailey (Uniontown, Ohio); Stanley J. Vecci (Washington Township, Stark County, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reducing and removing mercury in industrial gases, such as a flue gas, produced by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, adds sulfide ions to the flue gas as it passes through a scrubber. Ideally, the source of these sulfide ions may include at least one of: sulfidic waste water, kraft caustic liquor, kraft carbonate liquor, potassium sulfide, sodium sulfide, and thioacetamide. The sulfide ion source is introduced into the scrubbing liquor as an aqueous sulfide species. The scrubber may be either a wet or dry scrubber for flue gas desulfurization systems. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324833 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
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| US 07037554 | Tao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiquan Tao (Starkville, Mississippi); Jagdish P. Singh (Starkville, Mississippi); Christopher B. Winstead (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber moisture sensor that can be used to sense moisture present in gas phase in a wide range of concentrations is provided, as well techniques for making the same. The present invention includes a method that utilizes the light scattering phenomenon which occurs in a porous sol-gel silica by coating an optical fiber core with such silica. Thus, a porous sol-gel silica polymer coated on an optical fiber core forms the transducer of an optical fiber moisture sensor according to an embodiment. The resulting optical fiber sensor of the present invention can be used in various applications, including to sense moisture content in indoor/outdoor air, soil, concrete, and low/high temperature gas streams. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608228 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/163.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037807 | Murakami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuichi Murakami (Yokohama, Japan); Naoto Nagaosa (Tokyo, Japan); Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and a method for generating an electric-field-induced spin current are disclosed. A highly spin-polarized electric current is generated using a semiconductor structure and an applied electric field across the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure can be a hole-doped semiconductor having finite or zero bandgap or an undoped semiconductor of zero bandgap. In one embodiment, a device for injecting spin-polarized current into a current output terminal includes a semiconductor structure including first and second electrodes, along a first axis, receiving an applied electric field and a third electrode, along a direction perpendicular to the first axis, providing the spin-polarized current. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor material whose spin orbit coupling energy is greater than room temperature (300 Kelvin) times the Boltzmann constant. In one embodiment, the semiconductor structure is a hole-doped semiconductor structure, such as a p-type GaAs semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746050 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07038094 — Hydrogenolysis of 5-carbon sugars, sugar alcohols, and methods of making propylene glycol
| US 07038094 | Werpy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd A. Werpy (West Richland, Washington); John G. Frye, Jr. (Richland, Washington); Alan H. Zacher (Kennewick, Washington); Dennis J. Miller (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for reactions of hydrogen over a Re-containing catalyst with compositions containing a 5-carbon sugar, sugar alcohol, or lactic acid are described. It has been surprisingly discovered that reaction with hydrogen over a Re-containing multimetallic catalyst resulted in superior conversion and selectivity to desired products such as propylene glycol. A process for the synthesis of PG from lactate or lactic acid is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676497 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/864 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038150 | Polosky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Polosky (Tijeras, New Mexico); Laurance L. Lukens (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) acceleration switch is disclosed which includes a proof mass flexibly connected to a substrate, with the proof mass being moveable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the substrate in response to a sensed acceleration. An electrode on the proof mass contacts one or more electrodes located below the proof mass to provide a switch closure in response to the sensed acceleration. Electrical latching of the switch in the closed position is possible with an optional latching electrode. The MEM acceleration switch, which has applications for use as an environmental sensing device, can be fabricated using micromachining. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886142 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Circuit makers and breakers 2/61.45R |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038190 | Udd et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Udd (Fairview, Oregon); Sean G. Calvert (Troutdale, Oregon); Whitten L. Schulz (Fairview, Oregon); W. Marley Kunzler (Gresham, Oregon); M. Wesley Kunzler (Gresham, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber grating environmental sensing system is described that has the ability to measure strain, vibration, humidity and water content. Fiber gratings are used to measure axial strain to accomplish these goals. An approach is described that uses matched fiber grating sensors and filters to allow for thermal compensation greatly reducing one of the key performance issues facing these systems. The system may be deployed in such applications as roadways and paved surfaces, bridges, buildings and aircraft and spacecraft. Means are described to implement transducers optimized for specific environmental measurements as well as means to demodulate the fiber grating sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/325874 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.110 |
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| US 07038211 | Bross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universities Research Association, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. Bross (Downers Grove, Illinois); Kerry L. Mellott (Malta, Illinois); Anna Pla-Dalmau (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for detecting x-rays are disclosed herein. One or more x-ray-sensitive scintillators can be configured from a plurality of heavy element nano-sized particles and a plastic material, such as polystyrene. As will be explained in greater detail herein, the heavy element nano-sized particles (e.g., PbWO4) can be compounded into the plastic material with at least one dopant that permits the plastic material to scintillate. X-rays interact with the heavy element nano-sized particles to produce electrons that can deposit energy in the x-ray sensitive scintillator, which in turn can produce light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308313 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/368 |
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| US 07038216 | Dahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Dahl (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Anthony D. Appelhans (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrostatic shape-shifting ion optics includes an outer electrode that defines an interior region between first and second opposed open ends. A first inner electrode is positioned within the interior region of the outer electrode at about the first open end. A second inner electrode is positioned within the interior region of the outer electrode at about the second open end. A first end cap electrode is positioned at about a first open end of the first inner electrode so that the first end cap electrode substantially encloses the first open end of the first inner electrode. A second end cap electrode is positioned at about a second open end of the second inner electrode so that the second end cap electrode substantially encloses the second open end of the second inner electrode. A voltage source operatively connected to each of the electrodes applies voltage functions to each of the electrodes to produce an electric field within an interior space enclosed by the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/021380 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.R00 |
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| US 07038460 | Skinner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Skinner (Lawrenceville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detecting dust in a variety of environments which can include radioactive and other hostile environments both in a vacuum and in a pressurized system. The apparatus consists of a grid coupled to a selected bias voltage. The signal generated when dust impacts and shorts out the grid is electrically filtered, and then analyzed by a signal analyzer which is then sent to a counter. For fine grids a correlation can be developed to relate the number of counts observed to the amount of dust which impacts the grid. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/787220 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038727 | Majumder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditi Majumder (Woodridge, Illinois); Rick L. Stevens (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to smooth photometric variations across multi-projector displays. Photometric calibration is performed to generate a luminance attenuation map (LAM) for each projector. An image for each projector is modified using the luminance attenuation map (LAM) for each projector to provide image correction in real time. In the photometric calibration step a digital camera is used to measure the color response of the multi-projector display. Using the generated luminance attenuation map (LAM) for each projector for image correction in real time smoothes out distracting color variations across the multi-projector display while maximizing a perceived dynamic range of the display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283991 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038787 | Price |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery R. Price (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for content-based fused off-axis illumination direct-to-digital holography. A method includes calculating an illumination angle with respect to an optical axis defined by a focusing lens as a function of data representing a Fourier analyzed spatially heterodyne hologram; reflecting a reference beam from a reference mirror at a non-normal angle; reflecting an object beam from an object the object beam incident upon the object at the illumination angle; focusing the reference beam and the object beam at a focal plane of a digital recorder to from the content-based off-axis illuminated spatially heterodyne hologram including spatially heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis; and digitally recording the content based off-axis illuminated spatially heterodyne hologram including spatially heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/234043 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038844 | Dawson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California); Zhi Ming Liao (Pleasanton, California); Raymond J. Beach (Livermore, California); Alexander D. Drobshoff (Livermore, California); Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California); Deanna M. Pennington (Livermore, California); Wolfgang Hackenberg (Munich, Germany); Domenico Bonaccini Calia (Garching, Germany); Luke Taylor (Montauban de Bretagne, France) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber amplifier includes a length of silica optical fiber having a core doped with neodymium, a first cladding and a second cladding each with succeeding lower refractive indices, where the first cladding diameter is less than 10 times the diameter of the core. The doping concentration of the neodymium is chosen so that the small signal absorption for 816 nm light traveling within the core is less than 15 dB/m above the other fiber losses. The amplifier is optically pumped with one laser into the fiber core and with another laser into the first cladding. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674513 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07036769 | Wood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Wood (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A drive assembly for a wing of a micromechanical flying insect. The drive assembly comprises a honey comb structure. A method for flying a micromechanical flying insect comprising moving a wing with a drive assembly having a stiffness to weight ratio greater than about 16×1010 N/mKg. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830374 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037691 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott J. Miller (Natick, Massachusetts); Bianca Sculimbrene (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam J. Morgan (Scituate, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptide-based phosphorylation catalysts (PBPC's) for the asymmetric monophosphorylation of cyclitols, particularly myo-inositols. The PBPC's of the invention effect a regio and enantioselective phosphorylation of a myo-inositol in a manner analogous to enzymatic kinases, thereby functioning as effective “kinase mimics.” Although orders of magnitude less complex in terms of structure than macromolecular proteins, the PBPC's of the invention control product formation with high enantioselectivity (>98% ee). The synthetic (+)-myo-inositol-1-phosphate is optically and spectroscopically equivalent to naturally occuring compound. The ability of the low molecular weight PBPC's of the present invention to mimic stereoselective enzymes represents a powerful approach toward catalytic asymmetric synthesis of biologically important molecules, and for mechanistic modeling of biochemical transformations to enable their use in drug applications. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187208 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07037807 | Murakami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuichi Murakami (Yokohama, Japan); Naoto Nagaosa (Tokyo, Japan); Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and a method for generating an electric-field-induced spin current are disclosed. A highly spin-polarized electric current is generated using a semiconductor structure and an applied electric field across the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure can be a hole-doped semiconductor having finite or zero bandgap or an undoped semiconductor of zero bandgap. In one embodiment, a device for injecting spin-polarized current into a current output terminal includes a semiconductor structure including first and second electrodes, along a first axis, receiving an applied electric field and a third electrode, along a direction perpendicular to the first axis, providing the spin-polarized current. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor material whose spin orbit coupling energy is greater than room temperature (300 Kelvin) times the Boltzmann constant. In one embodiment, the semiconductor structure is a hole-doped semiconductor structure, such as a p-type GaAs semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746050 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038111 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Kang Zhu (Tucson, Arizona); Liming Xiong (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for improving the drought resistance of plants. More specifically, the present invention utilizes overexpression of a molybdenum cofactor sulfurase in plants and plant cells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231035 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038125 | Petrenko et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Victor F. Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles R. Sullivan (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-frequency AC power in a range of about from 50 to 200 Hz flows through a cableway, providing 5 to 100 watts per meter of cableway. Through separate connections to a power bus, a cableway is electrically divided into branches of a parallel circuit that use low voltage to heat. A transformer connected to each branch transforms high-voltage low amperage current to low-voltage high amperage current. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056163 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/40.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038208 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the City of New York (New York, New York); Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Alfano (Bronx, New York); Iosif Zeylikovich (Brooklyn, New York); Wubao Wang (Flushing, New York); Jamal Ali (Brooklyn, New York); Vincent Benischek (Shrub Oak, New York); Yury Budansky (Oakland, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for non-destructively detecting material abnormalities beneath a coated surface, comprising a mid-infrared (MIR) illumination unit for illuminating an area of the coated surface, and an MIR 2-D imager, which includes an MIR CCD or CMOS camera, for capturing an image of a material abnormalities under the illuminated area of the coated surface. In addition, the system may further comprise a scanning unit for moving the system to a next area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653473 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038452 | Epstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Epstein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jeremy Magland (North Wales, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The discrete inverse scattering (DIST) approach is used to design selective RF-pulses. As in SLR, a hard pulse approximation is used to actually design the pulse. Unlike SLR, the pulse is designed using the full inverse scattering data (the reflection coefficient and the bound states) rather than the flip angle profile. The reflection coefficient is approximated in order to obtain a pulse with a prescribed rephasing time. In contrast to the SLR approach, direct control on the phase of the magnetization profile is retained throughout the design process. Explicit recursive algorithms are provided for computing the hard pulse from the inverse scattering data. These algorithms are essentially discretizations of the Marchenko equations. When bound states are present, both the left and right Marchenko equations are used in order to improve the numerical stability of the algorithm. The DIST algorithm is used in preferred applications to generate pulses for use in magnetic resonance imaging, although it has applications in other two-level quantum systems such as quantum computing and spintronics. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734799 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07037946 | Reinhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debra R. Reinhart (Maitland, Florida); Christian Clausen (Chuluota, Florida); Cherie L. Geiger (Geneva, Florida); Jacqueline Quinn (Titusville, Florida); Kathleen Brooks (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A zero-valent metal emulsion is used to dehalogenate solvents, such as pooled dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), including trichloroethylene (TCE). The zero-valent metal emulsion contains zero-valent metal particles, a surfactant, oil and water. The preferred zero-valent metal particles are nanoscale and microscale zero-valent iron particles. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701412 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038358 | Bryant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Bryant (Lightfoot, Virginia); Robert L. Fox (Hayes, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-active transducer includes a ferroelectric material sandwiched by first and second electrode patterns. When the device is used as an actuator, the first and second electrode patterns are configured to introduce an electric field into the ferroelectric material when voltage is applied to the electrode patterns. When the device is used as a sensor, the first and second electrode patterns are configured to introduce an electric field into the ferroelectric material when the ferroelectric material experiences deflection in a direction substantially perpendicular thereto. In each case, the electrode patterns are designed to cause the electric field to: i) originate at a region of the ferroelectric material between the first and second electrode patterns, and ii) extend radially outward from the region of the ferroelectric material (at which the electric field originates) and substantially parallel to the ferroelectric material's plane. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/347563 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07039207 | Elrod et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Vinz Elrod (Huntsville, Alabama); Richard W. Dabney (Tanner, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An entertainment and pacification system for use with a child car seat has speakers mounted in the child car seat with a plurality of audio sources and an anti-noise audio system coupled to the child car seat. A controllable switching system provides for, at any given time, the selective activation of i) one of the audio sources such that the audio signal generated thereby is coupled to one or more of the speakers, and ii) the anti-noise audio system such that an ambient-noise-canceling audio signal generated thereby is coupled to one or more of the speakers. The controllable switching system can receive commands generated at one of first controls located at the child car seat and second controls located remotely with respect to the child car seat with commands generated by the second controls overriding commands generated by the first controls. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392488 |
| ART UNIT | 2644 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07038164 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser head is adapted to irradiate an interaction region of an inhabitable structure with laser light to remove material from the structure. The laser head includes a housing and a connector coupled to the housing and optically coupled to a laser generator. The connector is adapted to transmit laser light from the laser generator. The laser head further includes a first optical element and a second optical element contained in the housing. The second optical element is optically coupled to the first optical element. The laser head further includes a containment plenum coupled to the housing. The containment plenum is optically coupled to the second optical element to receive the laser light from the second optical element. The containment plenum is adapted to confine the material and to remove the material from the interaction region resulting from irradiating the structure with the laser light. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803243 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038166 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew P. Joseph (Pickerington, Ohio); John S. Phillips (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A containment plenum is adapted to deliver laser light to an interaction region of an inhabitable structure to remove material from the structure. The containment plenum includes a plenum housing adapted to be coupled to a source of laser light. The containment plenum further includes a window substantially transparent to the laser light. The window is mounted within the plenum housing to transmit the laser light in a downstream direction and to provide a barrier to upstream transport of particulate matter generated by interaction of the laser light and the structure. The containment plenum further includes a nozzle fluidly coupled to a source of compressed gas. The nozzle is mounted downstream of the window whereby the laser light and the compressed gas are transmitted through the nozzle in the downstream direction to the interaction region of the structure. The containment plenum further includes a resilient interface coupled to the plenum housing and adapted to resiliently contact the structure and to substantially surround the interaction region, thereby confining the material and removing the material from the interaction region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690975 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.860 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07037958 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hansen (Austin, Texas); Rock A. Rushing (Spicewood, Texas); John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Joshua B. Lightfoot (Austin, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an epoxy coating for use as a non-skid surface for applications such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. The epoxy coating can be formulated from (a) an amine curing agent, (b) an epoxide-containing toughening agent such as a polysulfide and/or a polythioether, (c) an epoxy resin, (d) a rubber toughening agent, and (e) an optional fire retardant, a glass fiber thixotrope and impact toughening agent, an optional pigment, an optional corrosion inhibitor, an optional moisture penetration inhibitor, an optional ultraviolet light stabilizer, an optional abrasive aggregate, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683976 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07038616 | Pillai |
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| INVENTOR(S) | S. Unnikrishna Pillai (Harrington Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A design methodology for jointly optimizing the transmit waveform and receiver filter for multiple target identification is presented in presence of transmit signal dependent clutter like interference and noise. The methodology is applied and illustrated for various multiple ‘target ID’ problems in presence of transmit signal dependent clutter like interference and noise. The resulting correct target classification is significantly better than that achieved by a conventional chirp or any other transmit waveform. Unlike the classical radar case, the choice of transmit pulse shape can be critically important for the detection of extended targets in presence of additive channel noise and signal-dependent clutter. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/743368 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07037959 | Willett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julious L. Willett (Morton, Illinois); William M. Doane (Morton, Illinois); Donald Garlotta (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer composition includes a first component being a hydroxy-functional polymer, a second component being a natural polymer and a third component being a thermoplastic polyester. The first component, second component and third component are compounded to form a polymer composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/536555 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07039497 | Reese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret Reese (Tempe, Arizona); Thomas Amonette (Greenfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for obtaining a random sample from a batch of delivery items include determining what type of items are to be sampled, how many items are in the batch, and where the items in the batch are located. The items are typically located in several places as they undergo a sorting and delivery process. The number of items needed for the random sample, and the location(s) of the items to be included in the random sample is determined. The determined number of items are pulled from the batch at the specified location(s). The pulled items forming the random sample may then be analyzed to determine whether the batch conforms to information describing the batch and/or standards applicable to the batch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469511 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07038450 | Romalis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Romalis (Princeton, New Jersey); Tom Kornack (Washington, District of Columbia); Joel Allred (Seattle, Washington); Rob Lyman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Ioannis Kominis (Athens, Greece) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high sensitivity atomic magnetometer and methods of measuring low intensity magnetic fields that relate to the use of an alkali metal vapor and a buffer gas; increasing the magnetic polarization of the alkali metal vapor thereby increasing the sensitivity of the alkali metal vapor to a low intensity magnetic field; probing the magnetic polarization of the alkali metal vapor, the probing means providing an output from the alkali metal vapor, the output including characteristics related to the low intensity magnetic field; and measuring means that receives the output, determines the characteristics of the low intensity magnetic field, and provides a representation of the low intensity magnetic field. In addition, the invention relates to a magnetometer and methods that provide a representation of a first magnetic field originating within a sample volume. The sample volume may be part or all of a subject, such as a human subject. The representation includes a representation of a source of a magnetic field occurring within the sample volume displayed in one, two, or three of three orthogonal Cartesian coordinates, referenced to the sample volume. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687012 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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