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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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| US 07048690 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackson D. Coleman (Haworth, New Jersey); Ronald J. Silverman (Nyack, New York); Mark J. Rondeau (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Visual displays of the geometry and/or topography of a portion of the eye is obtained from data generated during a number of angularly spaced scans taken across a meridional coronal section or of a marginal sector of the anterior surface of the eye, the data being processed for display, to thereby permit the optimization of the surgical placement and the configuration of lenses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/478319 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/452 |
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| US 07048856 | Fissell, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Fissell, IV (Ann Arbor, Michigan); H. David Humes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shuvo Roy (Cleveland, Ohio); Aaron Fleischman (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to ultrafiltration. In particular, the present invention provides a compact ultrafiltration device and methods for generating an ultrafiltrate, both of which can be used for a variety of applications, including, but not limited to filtering blood, diagnostic applications, and as a bioreactor. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660056 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/645 |
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| US 07048906 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry C. Lin (Manhattan Beach, California); Mark Pimentel (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of treating small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject. SIBO-caused conditions include irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, impaired mentation, impaired memory, halitosis, tinnitus, sugar craving, autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, drug sensitivity, an autoimmune disease, and Crohn's disease. Also disclosed are a method of screening for the abnormally likely presence of SIBO in a human subject and a method of detecting SIBO in a human subject. A method of determining the relative severity of SIBO or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject, in whom small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) has been detected, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/837797 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
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| US 07048919 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Williams (Lexington, Kentucky); Jay M. McDonald (Birmingham, Alabama); Margaret A. McKenna (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention demonstrates the biological function of a newly identified osteoclast-secreted protein. This protein, mim-1, has sequence homology with but is distinct from a previously identified neutrophil chemokine protein. Mim-1 may be a key signaling protein secreted by osteoclasts that regulates recruitment and/or differentiation of osteoblast and osteoclast precursor cells. This protein may also serve to maintain osteoclasts in a relatively inactive state prior to secretion. This mechanism is essential for regulating the mass and structural integrity of bone. This protein or an analog and/or antagonists of this protein will have potential therapeutic potential in the treatment of a variety of pathological bone diseases including osteoporosis and metastatic bone diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957800 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
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| US 07048923 | Lambeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. David Lambeth (Decatur, Georgia); Kathy K. Griendling (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Bernard P. Lassegue (Decatur, Georgia); Rebecca S. Arnold (Tucker, Georgia); Guangjie Cheng (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new genes encoding for the production of novel proteins involved in generation of reactive oxygen intermediates that affect cell division. The present invention also provides vectors containing these genes, cells transfected with these vectors, antibodies raised against these novel proteins, kits for detection, localization and measurement of these genes and proteins, and methods to determine the activity of drugs to affect the activity of the proteins of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319236 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
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| US 07048935 | Boyd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R Boyd (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, methods of removing virus from a sample, a composition comprising a solid support matrix to which is attached a cyanovirin, a conjugate comprising a cyanovirin coupled to at least one effector component, a composition comprising such a conjugate, methods of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically a viral infection of a host, and a matrix-anchored anti-cyanovirin antibody. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/197938 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
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| US 07048949 | Sligar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen G. Sligar (Urbana, Illinois); Timothy H. Bayburt (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Membrane proteins are difficult to express in recombinant form, purify, and characterize, at least in part due to their hydrophobic or partially hydrophobic properties. Membrane scaffold proteins (MSP) assemble with target membrane or other hydrophobic or partially hydrophobic proteins or membrane fragments to form soluble nanoscale particles which preserve their native structure and function; they are improved over liposomes and detergent micelles. In the presence of phospholipid, MSPs form nanoscopic phospholipid bilayer disks, with the MSP stabilizing the particle at the perimeter of the bilayer domain. The particle bilayer structure allows manipulation of incorporated proteins in solution or on solid supports, including for use with such surface-sensitive techniques as scanning probe microscopy or surface plasmon resonance. The nanoscale particles facilitate pharmaceutical and biological research, structure/function correlation, structure determination, bioseparation, and drug discovery. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/990087 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/499 |
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| US 07049058 | Singh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inderjit Singh (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for suppressing the induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase in a cell comprising contacting said cell with an effective amount of at least one induction suppressor of inducible nitric oxide synthase or a cytokine are disclosed. The induction suppressor can be an inhibitor of mevalonate synthesis, an inhibitor of the farnesylation of Ras, an antioxidant, an enhancer of intracellular cAMP, an enhancer of protein kinase A (PKA), an inhibitor of NF-kβ activation, an inhibitor of Ras/Raf/MAP kinase pathway, an inhibitor of mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase or an inhibitor of farnesyl pyrophosphate. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273557 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07049061 | Baird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eldon E. Baird (Foster City, California); Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides improved polyamides comprising a hairpin loop derived from γ-aminobutyric acid which bind to the minor groove of a promoter regions of a DNA sequence. Binding of the polyamide to the DNA sequence of the promoter region inhibits expression of the requisite gene. The improvement relates to the use of R-2,4-diaminobutyric acid and derivatives of the 2-amino group to form the hairpin loop. The improved asymmetric hairpin provides for tighter binding of the polyamides to the minor groove of DNA and additionally provides an amine function for derivatizing polyamides by, for example, forming amide linkages. Such derivatives may serve to attach detectable labels to the polyamide. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/374702 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07049066 | Bristow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Bristow (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Leslie A. Leinwand (Boulder, Colorado); Wayne Minobe (Golden, Colorado); Koichi Nakao (Kumamoto, Japan); Koichiro Kinugawa (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of diagnosing myocardial failure in a human. The methods comprise obtaining a sample of myocardial tissue from a ventricle of the heart. In one embodiment, the expression of α-myosin heavy chain, β-myosin heavy chain, or both, are quantitated and their expression levels compared to that seen normal human ventricular myocardial tissues. In another embodiment, the expression of α1-thyroid hormone receptor, α2-thyroid hormone receptor, a α1-thyroid hormone receptor+β1-thyroid hormone receptor, or combinations thereof, are quantitated, and their expression levels compared to that seen normal human ventricular myocardial tissues. Therapeutic interventions based on altering the expression of the aforementioned genes also are provide. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/969086 |
| 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 07049074 | Schwartz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Schwartz (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for observing and determining the size of individual molecules and for determining the weight distribution of a sample containing molecules of varying size, which involves placing a deformable or nondeformable molecule in a medium, subjecting the molecule to an external force, thereby causing conformational and/or positional changes, and then measuring these changes. Preferred ways to measure conformational and positional changes include: (1) determining the rate at which a deformable molecule returns to a relaxed state after termination of the external force, (2) determining the rate at which a molecule becomes oriented in a new direction when the direction of the perturbing force is changed, (3) determining the rate at which a molecule rotates, (4) measuring the length of a molecule, particularly when it is at least partially stretched, or (5) measuring at least one diameter of a spherical or ellipsoidal molecule. Measurements of relaxation, reorientation, and rotation rates, as well as length and diameter can be made using a light microscope connected to an image processor. Molecule relaxation, reorientation and rotation also can be determined using a microscope combined with a spectroscopic device. The invention is particularly useful for measuring polymer molecules, such as nucleic acids, and can be used to determine the size and map location of restriction digests. Breakage of large polymer molecules mounted on a microscope slide is prevented by condensing the molecules before mounting and unfolding the molecules after they have been placed in a matrix. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341576 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07049075 | Eastman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Richard Eastman (Hanover, New Hampshire); Ronald J. Krieser (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cDNAs encoding deoxyribonuclease IIβ and isolated, purified deoxyribonuclease IIβ proteins. Antibodies against this protein and antisense agents targeted to a cDNA or corresponding mRNA encoding deoxyribonuclease IIβ are provided. In addition, methods of identifying and using modulators of deoxyribonuclease IIβ activity are described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790589 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07049082 | Halperin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for determining levels of K41-glycated CD59 in subjects. Treatments for subjects based upon levels of K41-glycated CD59 also are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833581 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07049086 | Chang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ta-Yuan Chang (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high-throughput screening assay to identify test agents as cholesterol inhibitors via mutant NCP1 mammalian cells. Also provided are cholesterol inhibiting agents identified in accordance with this assay and methods for using such agents to inhibit cholesterol accumulation in cells. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469183 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/11 |
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| US 07049102 | Van Gelder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell N. Van Gelder (Des Peres, Missouri); Mark E. Von Zastrow (San Carlos, California); Jack D. Barchas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James H. Eberwine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the use of promoters for ribonucleic acid amplification and other genetic manipulations. Processes are provided wherein complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) is synthesized from a ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequence using a complementary primer linked to an RNA polymerase promoter region complement and then anti-sense RNA (aRNA) is transcribed from the cDNA by introducing an RNA polymerase capable of binding to the promoter region. Additional processes using the resulting aRNA are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/713545 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
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| US 07049121 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Molecular Evolution (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry D Watkins (Encinitas, California); James D Pancook (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides twenty-one butyrylcholinesterase variants having increased cocaine hydrolysis activity as well as the corresponding encoding nucleic acids. The invention further provides methods of hydrolyzing a cocaine-based butyrylcholinesterase substrate as well as methods of treating a cocaine-induced condition. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324466 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
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| US 07049132 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy S. Lee (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and methods for selective expression of a heterologous nucleic acid sequence in a targeted tissue, and more particularly to the glucose regulated protein 78 (grp78) stress-responsive promoter and its use in gene therapy and the production of transgenic animals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/606804 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
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| US 07049140 | Hallahan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of delivering an active agent to a target tissue, particularly neoplastic tissue, vascular anomaly or tumor tissue, in a vertebrate subject. The method includes the steps of exposing the target tissue to ionizing radiation; and administering a delivery vehicle to the vertebrate subject before, after, during, or combinations thereof, exposing the target tissue to the ionizing radiation. The delivery vehicle includes the active agent and delivers the agent to the target tissue. Representative delivery vehicles include platelets; leukocytes; proteins or peptides which bind activated platelets; antibodies which bind activated platelets; microspheres coated with proteins or peptides which bind activated platelets; liposomes conjugated to proteins or peptides, platelets, or leukocytes which bind activated platelets, or antibodies which bind activated platelets; and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/914605 |
| 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 435/372 |
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| US 07049282 | Frank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Frank (Durham, North Carolina); Haixiang J. Jiang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of blocking biochemical function of the classical complement pathway and thereby preventing immunologic damage in a variety of diseases and conditions including autoimmune diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/984017 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07049287 | Judd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synvax, Inc. (North Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit K. Judd (North Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a family of hexapeptide compounds exhibiting activity with regard to the ORL-1 receptor. The compounds share a general formula of Arg-Tyr-Tyr-Arg-Trp-Arg, and may be constructed having modifications or substitutions at any position, and may include modifications of the amino- and carboxy-termini of the hexapeptide. These compounds include agents exhibiting agonist activity and antagonist activity when exposed to the human ORL-1 receptor. As such, the hexapeptides may be useful as analgesics, anxiolytics, diuretics, and anti-cancer agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268020 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/7 |
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| US 07049291 | Luyten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank P. Luyten (Kraainem, Belgium); Malcolm Moos, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Bang Hoang (New York, New York); Shouwen Wang (Levittown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated cDNA encoding a growth-inducing protein, Frzb, capable of stimulating bone, cartilage, muscle and nerve tissue formation. Frzb binds to and modulates the activity of Wnt growth factors which play a role in various developmental and neoplastic processes. The cDNA and protein sequences of human, bovine and Xenopus Frzb are provided. Production and purification of recombinant Frzb are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/090049 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07049294 | Carney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthologic Corp. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of promoting healing of a chronic dermal skin ulcer, such as a diabetic ulcer, on a subject. The method comprises the step of contacting the chronic dermal skin ulcer with an effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/766752 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07049395 | May et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. May (New Haven, Connecticut); Sankar Ghosh (Madison, Connecticut); Mark A. Findeis (Belmont, Massachusetts); Kathryn Phillips (Boston, Massachusetts); Gerhard Hannig (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides anti-inflammatory compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof for treating inflammatory disorders. The present invention also provides methods of identifying anti-inflammatory compounds and methods of inhibiting NF-κB-dependent target gene expression in a cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/847946 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07049398 | Sharma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palatin Technologies, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shubh D. Sharma (Cranbury, New Jersey); Yiqun Shi (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Wei Yang (Edison, New Jersey); Hui-Zhi Cai (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Metallopeptides and metallopeptide combinatorial libraries specific for melanocortin receptors are provided, for use in biological, pharmaceutical and related applications. The metallopeptides and combinatorial libraries are made of peptides, peptidomimetics and peptide-like constructs, in which the peptide, peptidomimetic or construct is conformationally fixed on complexation of a metal ion-binding portion thereof with a metal ion. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/049718 |
| 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 530/328 |
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| US 07049419 | Briles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Briles (Birmingham, Alabama); Susan K. Hollingshead (Birmingham, Alabama); Alexis Brooks-Walter (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed are: epitopic regions of Pneumococcal Surface Protein C or “PspC”, different clades of PspC, isolated and/or purified nucleic acid molecules such as DNA encoding a fragment or portion of PspC such as an epitopic region of PspC or at least one epitope of PspC, uses for such nucleic acid molecules, e.g., to detect the presence of PspC or of S. pneumoniae by detecting a nucleic acid molecule therefor in a sample such as by amplification and/or a polymerase chain reaction, vectors or plasmids which contain and/or express such nucleic acid molecles, e.g., in vitro or in vivo, immunological, immunogenic or vaccine compositions including at least one PspC and/or a portion thereof (such as at least one epitopic region of at least one PspC and/or at least one polypeptide encoding at least one epitope of at least one PspC), either alone or in further combination with at least one second pneumococcal antigen, such as at least one different PspC and/or a fragment thereof and/or at least one PspA and/or at least one epitopic region of at least one PspA and/or at least one polypeptide including at least one epitope of PspA. PspC or a fragment thereof, and thus a composition including PspC or a fragment thereof, can be administered by the same routes, and in approximately the same amounts, as PspA. Thus, the invention further provides methods for administering PspC or a fragment thereof, as well as uses of PspC or a fragment thereof to formulate such compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341201 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07049428 | Rice, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Rice, III (University City, Missouri); Keril J. Blight (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | HCV variants are described. The variants include polynucleotides comprising non-naturally occurring HCV sequences and HCV variants that have a transfection efficiency and ability to survive subpassage greater than HCV that have wild-type polyprotein coding regions. Expression vectors comprising the above polynucleotides and HCV variants are also described, as are the provision of cells and host cells comprising the expression vectors. Methods for identifying a cell line that is permissive for infection with HCV are also provided, as are vaccines comprising the above polynucleotides in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Additionally, methods for inducing immunoprotection to HCV in a primate are described, as are methods for testing a compound for inhibiting HCV replication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/576989 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049816 | Mistretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin Michael Johnson (Hartland, Wisconsin); Tianliang Gu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase contrast image is produced using a 3D projection reconstruction pulse sequence. A high velocity-to-noise image is produced by using a LOW VENC motion encoding gradient. Phase wrap errors caused by high velocity flow is corrected using phase information in a HIGH VENC image produced from highly undersampled data acquired during the same scan. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955816 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050528 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A data consistency condition is derived for an array of attenuation values acquired with a fan-beam x-ray CT system. Using this data consistency condition, estimates of selected attenuation values can be calculated from the other attenuation values acquired during the scan. Such estimates reduce artifacts caused truncated data and by loss of data due to x-ray absorption. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955459 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050662 | Behrmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EM Photonics, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Behrmann (Stevensville, Maryland); Dennis W. Prather (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber Bragg grating compression sensor and a flexure mount that is attached to the sensor to significantly enhance its compression sensitivity. By incorporating the flexure mount, compressive forces are converted to tensile forces allowing an entire new set of measurement possibilities. The sensor may be used in implantable tendon and ligament force sensing or as a generalized compression sensor. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992047 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051017 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An information retrieval system that deals with the problems of synonymy, polysemy, and retrieval by concept by allowing for a wide margin of uncertainty in the initial choice of keywords in a query. For each input query vector and an information matrix, the disclosed system solves an optimization problem which maximizes the stability of a solution at a given level of misfit. The disclosed system may include a decomposition of the information matrix in terms of orthogonal basis functions. Each basis encodes groups of conceptually related keywords. The bases are arranged in order of decreasing statistical relevance to a query. The disclosed search engine approximates the input query with a weighted sum of the first few bases. Other commercial applications than the disclosed search engine can also be built on the disclosed techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/316973 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07047862 | Davis 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) | Erik L. Davis (Elkton, Maryland); Dale H. Gjerning (Pomfret, Maryland); Alan L. Gehl (Alexandria, Virginia); Alan Richwald (Newton, New Jersey); Dennis G. Fikejs (Waldorf, Maryland); Richard H. Watkins (Pomfret, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention, as embodied herein, comprises an aiming device that is attached to the end of the barrel of a dearmer or gun system in order to more quickly and more precisely align the dearmer or gun system with precise, small target. The aiming device also ensures that the dearmer or gun system remains at the minimum standoff distance required without the need to specifically measure the placement. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436603 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07047885 | Crickenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew B. Crickenberger (Fort Ashby, West Virginia); Saleem L. Ghazi (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronically controlled multi-pulse ignitor ignites a cartridge used to launch a projectile. An electronics module is programmed with a temperature performance profile for the cartridge. A temperature sensor is coupled to supply current cartridge temperature data to the electronics module. A first event ignitor is coupled to the electronics module and initiates a ballistic cycle upon command from the electronics module. A translation mechanism, including a first charge coupled to the first event ignitor, moves the projectile forward to increase the free volume in the cartridge. A second event ignitor, coupled to receive a second event ignition signal from the electronics module, ignites the main propellant charge on receiving the second event ignition signal from the electronics module, where the timing of ignition of the second event ignitor is determined by the temperature performance profile and the current cartridge temperature data. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/503524 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/202.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048095 | Baumgartner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest S. Baumgartner (Dayton, Ohio); Bryan P. Riddiford (Dayton, Ohio); Schuyler S. Shaw (Dayton, Ohio); John B. Hageman (Vandalia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A parking brake system including at least one braking unit actuated by at least one cable, a cylinder having a piston chamber and a rod chamber, a piston slidably received within the cylinder and having a rod connected thereto, the rod extending through the rod chamber and operably connected to the cable, a pressurized fluid source connected to the piston chamber, and a valve for controlling the flow of the fluid to the piston chamber, wherein the piston and rod move through the cylinder when the fluid pressurizes the piston chamber, thereby actuating the braking unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000465 |
| ART UNIT | 3683 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Brakes 188/72.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048807 | Stoffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James O. Stoffer (Rolla, Missouri); Thomas J. O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Matthew O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Eric L. Morris (Rolla, Missouri); Scott Hayes (Rolla, Missouri); Paul Yu (Rolla, Missouri); Alex Williams (Rolla, Missouri); Berny F. Rivera Vasquez (Samegua-Moquegua, Peru); Xuan Lin (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A cerium-based coating for corrosion resistance is applied by exposing a cleaned aluminum-based component to a corrosion-inhibiting cerium solution containing cerium ions in the presence of an oxidizing agent. The coating deposits spontaneously without an external source of electrons. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/214955 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048815 | Senkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UES, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg N. Senkov (Fairborn, Ohio); Svetlana V. Senkova (Fairborn, Ohio); Madan G. Mendiratta (Beavercreek, Ohio); Daniel B. Miracle (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of making a high strength aluminum alloy composition. The alloy composition exhibits high tensile strength at ambient temperatures and cryogenic temperatures. The alloy composition can exhibit high tensile strength while maintaining a high elongation in ambient temperatures and cryogenic temperatures. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/291201 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048854 | Lee 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) | T. Richard Lee (Hacienda Heights, California); Ye Yi (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus which uses a process reactor having three separate reaction stages to remove high concentrations of 3000 mg/l heavy metals from acidic wastewater and chemical solutions. During each of three stages the pH level of the wastewater is increased and sludge and flocculate organic and metal hydroxyl matters are removed from the wastewater to provide clean water which is discharged in to a sewer system. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250707 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/221.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049044 | Gonsalves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Gonsalves (Concord, North Carolina); Mohammed Azam Ali (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new high resolution nanocomposite resists applicable to next generation lithographies, methods of making these novel resists, and methods of using these new resists in lithographic processes to effect state-of-the-art lithographies. New nanocomposite negative resists comprising a photoacid generating component, a styrene component, and an optional polyhedral oligosilsequioxane component are provided. Negative resists of this invention may also contain an optional methacrylate component. This invention and the embodiments described herein constitute fundamentally new architectures for high resolution resists. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324642 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049085 | Bavari 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) | Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); Edna R. Torres Melendez (Frederick, Maryland); Frank J. Lebeda (Phurmont, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies for binding epitopes of BoNT/A and hybridomas which produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies of the present invention can be used in a method for detecting BoNT/A in a sample and/or in a method for purifying BoNT/A from an impure solution. In addition, the antibodies can be used for passive immunization against BoNT/A intoxication or as intoxication therapy. Another aspect of the invention is a kit for detecting BoNT/A in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655450 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049098 | Sykes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn F. Sykes (Dallas, Texas); Stephen Albert Johnston (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to linear expression elements (LEEs) and circular expression elements (CEEs), which are useful in a variety of molecular biology protocols. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of LEEs and CEEs to screen for gene function, biological effects of gene function, antigens, and promoter function. The invention also provides methods of producing proteins, antibodies, antigens, and vaccines. Also, the invention relates to methods of making LEEs and CEEs, and LEEs and CEEs produced by such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/077621 |
| 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 435/69.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049579 | Ozkan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihrimah Ozkan (Riverside, California); Sadik Esener (La Jolla, California); Mark Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more microbeams derived from a corresponding number of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) are used to manipulate and to transport inorganic and organic objects. The optical tweezing apparatus and method is compact size, and suitable to manipulate multiple objects in an array concurrently, and in parallel. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/917139 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049732 | Pei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qibing Pei (Fremont, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that conform to the shape of a polymer included in a transducer. The present invention provides methods for fabricating electromechanical devices including one or more electroactive polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/893730 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049747 | Goodberlet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Goodberlet (Melrose, Massachusetts); Vemura H. S. Moorthy (Andhra Pradesh, India) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated micro-photomultiplier is disclosed which employs sub-micron-wide channels for electron amplification. These channels are created with standard lithographic and planar-fabrication techniques, and sealed with a vacuum-deposition process. A photocathode, continuous dynode, anode and signal-collector are fabricated along the channels. This photomultiplier design obviates the needs for through-substrate etching, and mechanical assembly of separate layers. Because large-scale-integration techniques can be used to fabricate multiple micro-photomultipliers, significant reductions in device cost and size are expected. The integrated micro-photomultiplier is useful for high-speed, low-light-level optical detection, and may find applications in optical communications, visible or infrared imaging, and chemical or biological sensing. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606870 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049998 | Frady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trent J. Frady (Bloomfield, Indiana); Dustin L. Wilson (Odon, Indiana); Kyle R. Werner (Jasper, Indiana); Eric S. Moody (Bloomfield, Indiana); Nancy J. Flynn (Bloomington, Indiana); Michael P. Konerman (Bloomington, Indiana); Paul L. Schmidt (Bloomfield, Indiana); Robert E. Mullen (Bedford, Indiana); Mark R. Koi (Bloomington, Indiana); Nigel G. Wasil (Bedford, Indiana); Michael G. Daugherty (Mitchell, Indiana); Bret R. Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention can be generally described as a protection system. This protection system is formed by the integration of commonly available subsystems, which may be controlled by non-proprietary, open architecture software, which, in turn, may accommodate the commonly known “plug and play” capability. This allows the present invention to easily incorporate a variety of lethal (or less-than-lethal) weapon payloads as well as a variety of sensors and detectors; thereby providing the user with the first real, integrated system (of systems) solution capable of providing an enhanced situational awareness capability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094541 |
| 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 342/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050050 | Tackett |
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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 B. Tackett (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for as-needed, pseudo-random, computer-generated environments. The as-needed step allows for that area of the environment actually in use to be instantiated only as needed and only for as long as it remains in use. The as-needed step allows for a potentially infinite environment (as to size and detail) while minimizing the opportunity and resource costs to create and store such an environment. The pseudo-random step allows any degree of creative freedom or control in the presentation (e.g., size, shape, location, orientation, movement, density, transparency, etc.) of the environment and components within any required rule sets. An optional step would combine the concept of “nested fidelity” with the as-needed and pseudo-random steps. The “nested fidelity” step allows for successively greater levels of detail to be given to components only as needed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/021701 |
| ART UNIT | 2672 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050171 | Banerjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represneted by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajit Banerjee (Bel Air, Maryland); James O. Jensen (Bel Air, Maryland); William R. Loerop (Aberdeen, Maryland); Clifton N. Merrow (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A interferometer that has no moving parts and can acquire an interferogram in a single exposure is disclosed. Embodiments according to the invention can be used for polychromatic and/or monochromatic detection and include a fixed-position element that divides a beam segment into a plurality of parallel sub-beams of successively increasing path lengths. Embodiments according to the invention can be constructed from separate elements or can be combined into a one-piece device to provide increased stability and ruggedness. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701408 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050235 | Belikov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruslan Belikov (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A diffractive optical filter having a fractional level density s[j] and a transfer function C[m] that is an approximation to a desired Hermitian, passive transfer function B[m] is provided. The fractional level density s[j] is obtained by Fourier (or inverse Fourier) transforming B[m] to obtain t[j], calculating u[j]=t[j]−min(t[j]), calculating v[j]=u[j]/D where D is the sum of u[j] over j, and setting s[j] substantially equal to v[j]. A 2-D tiltable mirror array can be used to provide a 1024 tap optical filter having 10-bit tap resolution. Applications of the invention include laser tuning elements, spectroscopy and wavelength-division multiplexing, switching, and/or filtering. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062781 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050717 | Blumenthal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Blumenthal (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention disclosed herein therefore provides systems and methods of optical packet switching. The present invention further enables systems and methods of all-optical label swapping (AOLS) with optical subcarrier multiplexed addressing for WDM-IP networks. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/949177 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050950 | Goebel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Frank Goebel (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | System, method and computer product for incremental improvement of algorithm performance during algorithm development. In one aspect of this disclosure, there is a system, method and computer readable medium that stores instructions for instructing a computer system, to assess the performance of an algorithm during development. In this embodiment, a design of experiments component establishes an acceptable number of experiments for analyzing incremental improvements of the algorithm. An experiment performance component runs the established number of experiments for the algorithm. A simulation component simulates the behavior of the algorithm using results from the experiment performance component. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/683020 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051008 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Nanocorp (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritpal Singh (Media, Pennsylvania); Craig Fennie, Jr. (New Brunswick, New Jersey); David E. Reisner (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining the state-of-health of a nickel-metal hydride battery connected to a load comprises: detecting at least one of a real and imaginary part of an impedance of the battery at each of a first set of selected frequencies, the first set of selected frequencies including at least one frequency, and determining the state-of-health of the battery from a fuzzy system trained in a relationship between each impedance and the state-of-health, wherein the state-of-health is a function of the battery's ability to deliver power required by the load and the battery's capacity to meet load requirements. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/127292 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051017 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An information retrieval system that deals with the problems of synonymy, polysemy, and retrieval by concept by allowing for a wide margin of uncertainty in the initial choice of keywords in a query. For each input query vector and an information matrix, the disclosed system solves an optimization problem which maximizes the stability of a solution at a given level of misfit. The disclosed system may include a decomposition of the information matrix in terms of orthogonal basis functions. Each basis encodes groups of conceptually related keywords. The bases are arranged in order of decreasing statistical relevance to a query. The disclosed search engine approximates the input query with a weighted sum of the first few bases. Other commercial applications than the disclosed search engine can also be built on the disclosed techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/316973 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051028 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU-Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor T. Shi (Fargo, North Dakota); William K. Perrizo (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for concurrency control in high performance database systems. Generally includes receiving a database access request message from a transaction. Then, generating an element that corresponds to the access request message. The element type is that of a read element, commit element, validated element, or restart element. The element is then posted to a read-commit (RC) queue. If the element is a commit element, an intervening validation of the transaction is performed. Upon the transaction passing validation the requested database access is performed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/001193 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051098 | Masters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Masters (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Paul V. Werme (King George, Virginia); William D. Synan (King George, Virginia); Lonnie R. Welch (Athens, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A monitoring system for a distributed environment including a plurality of hosts capable of executing multiple copies of a scalable application includes a first device for generating first data corresponding to performance of all copies of the scalable application; a second device for generating second data corresponding to performance of all host in the distributed environment; and a third device for generating performance metrics based on the first and second data. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/864830 |
| ART UNIT | 2141 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39098 | Klabunde et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Klabunde (Manhattan, Kansas); Olga Koper (Manhattan, Kansas); Abbas Khaleel (Uaeu, Jordan) |
| ABSTRACT | Pelletized adsorbent compositions and methods of adsorbing toxic target compounds are provided for the destructive adsorption or chemisorption of toxic or undesired compounds. The pelletized adsorbents are formed by pressing together powder nanocrystalline particles comprising a metal hydroxide or a metal oxide at pressures of from about 50 psi to about 6000 psi to form discrete self-sustaining bodies. The pelletized bodies should retain at least about 25% of the surface area/unit mass and total pore volume of the starting metal particles. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/933474 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07047661 | Alcaraz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armando Alcaraz (Livermore, California); Michael H. Wiefel (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A SPME-fiber cleaning and conditioning apparatus and method having an elongated heating chamber with first and second opposite ends. The first end is capable of insertably receiving a SPME fiber portion of a SPME device, and the second end is a fluid outlet. A heater is provided for heating the chamber and heat-treating an inserted SPME fiber. Contaminants and other particles are agitated, desorbed and purged from the inserted SPME fiber by flowing a fluid through the chamber from the first end to the second end, away from the SPME device. Additionally, turbulence may be produced in the flow at a location adjacent the first end, to enhance agitation, desorption, and purging. A holder may also be provided extending from the first end for supporting the SPME device in a substantially horizontal orientation when the SPME fiber is positioned in the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421582 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids 034/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048089 | West et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. West (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James R. Fincke (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Teddy R. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting seismic waves propagating through a subterranean formation surrounding a borehole. In a first embodiment, a sensor module uses the rotation of bogey wheels to extend and retract a sensor package for selective contact and magnetic coupling to casing lining the borehole. In a second embodiment, a sensor module is magnetically coupled to the casing wall during its travel and dragged therealong while maintaining contact therewith. In a third embodiment, a sensor module is interfaced with the borehole environment to detect seismic waves using coupling through liquid in the borehole. Two or more of the above embodiments may be combined within a single sensor array to provide a resulting seismic survey combining the optimum of the outputs of each embodiment into a single data set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431872 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048872 | Derenzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Richmond, California); Marvin J. Weber (Danville, California); Mattias K. Klintenberg (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fast, bright inorganic scintillators at room temperature are based on radiative electron-hole recombination in direct-gap semiconductors, e.g. CdS and ZnO. The direct-gap semiconductor is codoped with two different impurity atoms to convert the semiconductor to a fast, high luminosity scintillator. The codopant scheme is based on dopant band to dopant trap recombination. One dopant provides a significant concentration of carriers of one type (electrons or holes) and the other dopant traps carriers of the other type. Examples include CdS:In,Te; CdS:In,Ag; CdS:In,Na; ZnO:Ga,P; ZnO:Ga,N; ZnO:Ga,S; and GaN:Ge,Mg. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662944 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6R0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049031 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Arthur J. Kahaian (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A positive electrode for a non-aqueous lithium cell comprising a LiMn2−xMxO4 spinel structure in which M is one or more metal cations with an atomic number less than 52, such that the average oxidation state of the manganese ions is equal to or greater than 3.5, and in which 0≦x≦0.15, having one or more lithium spine oxide LiM′2O4 or lithiated spinel oxide Li1+yM′2O4 compounds on the surface thereof in which M′ are cobalt cations and in which 0≦y≦1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/353385 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049033 | Stearns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Stearns (Los Altos, California); Donald W. Sweeney (San Ramon, California); Paul B. Mirkarimi (Sunol, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorber material used in conventional EUVL reticles is eliminated by introducing a direct modulation in the complex-valued reflectance of the multilayer. A spatially localized energy source such as a focused electron or ion beam directly writes a reticle pattern onto the reflective multilayer coating. Interdiffusion is activated within the film by an energy source that causes the multilayer period to contract in the exposed regions. The contraction is accurately determined by the energy dose. A controllable variation in the phase and amplitude of the reflected field in the reticle plane is produced by the spatial modulation of the multilayer period. This method for patterning an EUVL reticle has the advantages (1) avoiding the process steps associated with depositing and patterning an absorber layer and (2) providing control of the phase and amplitude of the reflected field with high spatial resolution. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631359 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049073 | Chernov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Chernov (Willowbrook, Illinois); Julia Golova (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a new method of constructing double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) microarrays based on the use of pre-synthesized or natural DNA duplexes without a stem-loop structure. The complementary oligonucleotide chains are bonded together by a novel connector that includes a linker for immobilization on a matrix. A non-enzymatic method for synthesizing double-stranded nucleic acids with this novel connector enables the construction of inexpensive and robust dsDNA/dsRNA microarrays. DNA-DNA and DNA-protein interactions are investigated using the microarrays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283670 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049125 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl8, and the corresponding EGVIII amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVIII, recombinant EGVIII proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/028245 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049152 | Stevens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond C. Stevens (La Jolla, California); Quan Cheng (Riverside, California); Jie Song (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention herein provides the design, synthesis and characterization of compositions comprising asymmetric bolaamphiphilic lipids that form extended polymeric ribbons and wide sheets. These compositions may be doped, or interspersed, with various compounds to fine-tune the fluidity and rigidity of the bolaamphiphilic lipid composition, and promote other morphologies of the composition, including fluid vesicles and truncated flat sheets. Upon an increase in pH these compositions undergo a calorimetric and morphological transformation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096569 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/531 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049347 | Hu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Z. Hu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for making amorphous spherical particles of zirconium titanate and crystalline spherical particles of zirconium titanate comprising the steps of mixing an aqueous solution of zirconium salt and an aqueous solution of titanium salt into a mixed solution having equal moles of zirconium and titanium and having a total salt concentration in the range from 0.01 M to about 0.5 M. A stearic dispersant and an organic solvent is added to the mixed salt solution, subjecting the zirconium salt and the titanium salt in the mixed solution to a coprecipitation reaction forming a solution containing amorphous spherical particles of zirconium titanate wherein the volume ratio of the organic solvent to aqueous part is in the range from 1 to 5. The solution of amorphous spherical particles is incubated in an oven at a temperature ≦100° C. for a period of time ≦24 hours converting the amorphous particles to fine or ultrafine crystalline spherical particles of zirconium titanate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/623395 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049446 | Holladay |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan E. Holladay (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to processes for converting amino acids and amides to desirable conversion products including pyrrolidines, pyrrolidinones, and other N-substituted products. L-glutamic acid and L-pyroglutamic acid provide general reaction pathways to numerous and valuable selective conversion products with varied potential industrial uses. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841687 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/570 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049543 | Roos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Victor Roos (Los Altos, California); Franklin Roeske (Livermore, California); Ronald S. Lee (Livermore, California); Jerry J. Benterou (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a pulsed laser ablation method of metals and/or dielectric films from the surface of a wafer, printed circuit board or a hybrid substrate. By utilizing a high-energy ultra-short pulses of laser light, such a method can be used to manufacture electronic circuits and/or electro-mechanical assemblies without affecting the material adjacent to the ablation zone. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704459 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07049622 — Optical position sensor for determining the interface between a clear and an opaque fluid
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Weiss (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An inexpensive, optical position sensor for measuring a position or length, x, along a one-dimensional curvilinear, coordinate system. The sensor can be used, for example, to determine the position of an interface between a clear and an opaque fluid (such as crude oil and water). In one embodiment, the sensor utilizes the principle of dual-fluorescence, where a primary fiber emits primary fluorescent light and a parallel secondary fiber collects a portion of the primary fluorescent light that is not blocked by the opaque fluid. This, in turn, excites secondary fluorescence in the secondary fiber at a longer wavelength. A light detector measures the intensity of secondary fluorescence emitted from an end of the secondary fiber, which is used to calculate the unknown position or length, x. Side-emitting fibers can be used in place of, or in addition to, fluorescent fibers. The all-optical sensor is attractive for applications involving flammable liquids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/019841 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049757 | Foust et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Franklin Foust (Glenville, New York); Ernest Wayne Balch (Ballston Spa, New York); Anil Raj Duggal (Niskayuna, New York); Christian Maria Anton Heller (Albany, New York); Renato Guida (Wynantskill, New York); William Francis Nealon (Schenectady, New York); Tami Janene Faircloth (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device comprises a plurality of organic light emitting diode (OLED) modules. The OLED modules are arranged into a series group where the individual OLED modules are electrically connected in series. The device is configured to be coupled to a power supply. A display is also provided. The display includes a plurality of OLED modules arranged to depict a shape selected from the group consisting of at least one letter, at least one number, at least one image, and a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/212182 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/185.S00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049952 | Kulesz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Kulesz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Brian A. Worley (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting the occurrence of anomalies, includes a plurality of spaced apart nodes, with each node having adjacent nodes, each of the nodes having one or more sensors associated with the node and capable of detecting anomalies, and each of the nodes having a controller connected to the sensors associated with the node. The system also includes communication links between adjacent nodes, whereby the nodes form a network. Each controller is programmed to query its adjacent nodes to assess the status of the adjacent nodes and the communication links. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084339 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050174 | Deason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vance A. Deason (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kenneth L. Telschow (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system includes: an object wavefront source and an optical microscope objective all positioned to direct an object wavefront onto an area of a vibrating subject surface encompassed by a field of view of the microscope objective, and to direct a modulated object wavefront reflected from the encompassed surface area through a photorefractive material; and a reference wavefront source and at least one phase modulator all positioned to direct a reference wavefront through the phase modulator and to direct a modulated reference wavefront from the phase modulator through the photorefractive material to interfere with the modulated object wavefront. The photorefractive material has a composition and a position such that interference of the modulated object wavefront and modulated reference wavefront occurs within the photorefractive material, providing a full-field, real-time image signal of the encompassed surface area. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146576 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050237 | Chapman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry N. Chapman (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetric-cut multilayer diffracts EUV light. A multilayer cut at an angle has the same properties as a blazed grating, and has been demonstrated to have near-perfect performance. Instead of having to nano-fabricate a grating structure with imperfections no greater than several tens of nanometers, a thick multilayer is grown on a substrate and then cut at an inclined angle using coarse and inexpensive methods. Effective grating periods can be produced this way that are 10 to 100 times smaller than those produced today, and the diffraction efficiency of these asymmetric multilayers is higher than conventional gratings. Besides their ease of manufacture, the use of an asymmetric multilayer as a spectral purity filter does not require that the design of an EUV optical system be modified in any way, unlike the proposed use of blazed gratings for such systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862127 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/574 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050474 | Shan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Shan (Manhattan, Kansas); Chun Wang (Manhattan, Kansas); Zenghu Chang (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a technique for achieving high peak power output in a laser employing single-stage, multi-pass amplification. High gain is achieved by employing a very small “seed” beam diameter in gain medium, and maintaining the small beam diameter for multiple high-gain pre-amplification passes through a pumped gain medium, then leading the beam out of the amplifier cavity, changing the beam diameter and sending it back to the amplifier cavity for additional, high-power amplification passes through the gain medium. In these power amplification passes, the beam diameter in gain medium is increased and carefully matched to the pump laser's beam diameter for high efficiency extraction of energy from the pumped gain medium. A method of “grooming” the beam by means of a far-field spatial filter in the process of changing the beam size within the single-stage amplifier is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656343 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050951 | Tautges et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Tautges (Madison, Wisconsin); David R. White (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of and software for automatically determining whether a mesh can be generated by sweeping for a representation of a geometric solid comprising: classifying surface mesh schemes for surfaces of the representation locally using surface vertex types; grouping mappable and submappable surfaces of the representation into chains; computing volume edge types for the representation; recursively traversing surfaces of the representation and grouping the surfaces into source, target, and linking surface lists; and checking traversal direction when traversing onto linking surfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/927691 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07047792 | Bhethanabotla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkat R. Bhethanabotla (Tampa, Florida); Shekhar Bhansali (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a delay line SAW device fabricated on a lithium niobate substrate and coated with a bilayer of nanocrystalline or other nanomaterials such as nanoparticles or nanowires of palladiumn and metal free pthalocyanine which will respond to hydrogen gas in near real time, at low (room) temperature, without being affected by CO, O2, CH4 and other gases, in air ambient or controlled ambient, providing sensitivity to low ppm levels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886386 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07047807 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible framework supports electrically-conductive elements in a capacitive sensing arrangement. Identical frames are arranged end-to-end with adjacent frames being capable of rotational movement therebetween. Each frame has first and second passages extending therethrough and parallel to one another. Each of the first and second passages is adapted to receive an electrically-conductive element therethrough. Each frame further has a hollowed-out portion for the passage of a fluent material therethrough. The hollowed-out portion is sized and shaped to provide for capacitive sensing along a defined region between the electrically-conductive element in the first passage and the electrically-conductive element in the second passage. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203583 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/304.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050161 | Rakoczy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Rakoczy (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus controls positions of plural mirror segments in a segmented mirror with an edge sensor system and a controller. Current mirror segment edge sensor measurements and edge sensor reference measurements are compared with calculated edge sensor bias measurements representing a global radius of curvature. Accumulated prior actuator commands output from an edge sensor control unit are combined with an estimator matrix to form the edge sensor bias measurements. An optimal control matrix unit then accumulates the plurality of edge sensor error signals calculated by the summation unit and outputs the corresponding plurality of actuator commands. The plural mirror actuators respond to the actuator commands by moving respective positions of the mirror segments. A predetermined number of boundary conditions, corresponding to a plurality of hexagonal mirror locations, are removed to afford mathematical matrix calculation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637085 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050212 | Matsko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (La Canada, California); Anatoliy Savchenkov (La Crescenta, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and devices using whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical resonators, where the optical materials of the WGM resonators exhibit an electro-optical effect to perform optical modulation. Examples of actively mode-locked lasers and other devices are described. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689831 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050256 | Oakley |
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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) | Ernest C. Oakley (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact fast erase method for erasing information stored on a magnetic or optical media. The magnetic media element includes a magnetic surface affixed to a toroidal conductor and stores information in a magnetic polarization pattern. The fast erase method includes applying an alternating current to a planar inductive element positioned near the toroidal conductor, inducing an alternating current in the toroidal conductor, and heating the magnetic surface to a temperature that exceeds the Curie-point so that information stored on the magnetic media element is permanently erased. The optical disc element stores information in a plurality of locations being defined by pits and lands in a toroidal conductive layer. The fast erase method includes similarly inducing a plurality of currents in the optical media element conductive layer and melting a predetermined portion of the conductive layer so that the information stored on the optical medium is destroyed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885529 |
| ART UNIT | 2651 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07049044 | Gonsalves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Gonsalves (Concord, North Carolina); Mohammed Azam Ali (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new high resolution nanocomposite resists applicable to next generation lithographies, methods of making these novel resists, and methods of using these new resists in lithographic processes to effect state-of-the-art lithographies. New nanocomposite negative resists comprising a photoacid generating component, a styrene component, and an optional polyhedral oligosilsequioxane component are provided. Negative resists of this invention may also contain an optional methacrylate component. This invention and the embodiments described herein constitute fundamentally new architectures for high resolution resists. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324642 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049148 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Empedocles (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoactive moiety exhibiting an anisotropic transition dipole. The moiety exhibits emission of polarized light in response to energy absorption. In a preferred embodiment, the moiety comprises a particle from the group consisting of a crystalline arrangement of photoactive molecules and a photoactive nanocrystal. The moiety may include a matrix in which photoactive objects exhibiting an anisotropic emission dipole are embedded. The moiety may be photobleached to product the anisotropy and the photoactive objects may have a one dimensional transition dipole in their natural state. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742608 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050051 | McCormack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay P. McCormack (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Cagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of recognizing a first shape in a second shape. The method includes decomposing the first shape into at least one subshape belonging to one of a plurality of subshape groups, and searching the second shape for a parametric transformation of the subshape. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/493903 |
| ART UNIT | 2671 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050717 | Blumenthal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Blumenthal (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention disclosed herein therefore provides systems and methods of optical packet switching. The present invention further enables systems and methods of all-optical label swapping (AOLS) with optical subcarrier multiplexed addressing for WDM-IP networks. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/949177 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051028 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU-Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor T. Shi (Fargo, North Dakota); William K. Perrizo (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for concurrency control in high performance database systems. Generally includes receiving a database access request message from a transaction. Then, generating an element that corresponds to the access request message. The element type is that of a read element, commit element, validated element, or restart element. The element is then posted to a read-commit (RC) queue. If the element is a commit element, an intervening validation of the transaction is performed. Upon the transaction passing validation the requested database access is performed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/001193 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07049105 | Leathers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy D. Leathers (Peoria, Illinois); Melinda S. Nunnally (Washburn, Illinois); Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Four new Penicillium spp. isolates (NRRL 21966, NRRL 21967, NRRL 21968, and NRRL 21969) are capable of essentially quantitative conversion of native alternan to a polymeric modified form having a lower apparent molecular weight than native alternan. A fifth isolate (NRRL 30489) obtained from a survey of deposited organisms and classified as a Penicillium subgenus Biverticillium has the same ability. The modified alternan has rheological properties similar to ultrasonicated alternan and is produced without the expense of ultrasonication. It would have utility as a substitute for gum arabic for uses such as bulking agents and extenders in foods and cosmetics. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/235132 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049396 | Blecha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Blecha (Manhattan, Kansas); Jishu Shi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inhibiting leukocyte O2− production and attracting leuckocytes using specific peptides are disclosed. These peptides include the proline-arginine (PR)-rich antimicrobial peptide known as PR-39 and truncated analogs thereof. These peptides can be used as medicaments that fight infection by attracting leukocytes to a wound site, yet restrict tissue damage at the wound site caused by excessive oxygen radicals produced by these leukocytes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/014147 |
| 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 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07049492 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand); University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yin-Ming Li (Potomac, Maryland); Rufus L. Chaney (Beltsville, Maryland); Roger D. Reeves (Palmerston North, New Zealand); J. Scott Angle (Ellicott City, Maryland); Alan J. M. Baker (Melbourne, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A cadmium and zinc hyperaccumulating subspecies from Thlaspi caerulescense and methods for removing or recovering cadmium and zinc from soils by cultivating the Thlaspi caerulescense subspecies on soils containing cadmium and zinc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/856561 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07047741 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for close control and adjustment of in-cylinder oxygen concentration levels together with boost adjustments to minimize harmful emissions during transients in engines which utilize late direct cylinder injection of fuel. EGR flow rates are adjusted in a closed loop, linked fashion together with boost pressure changes during transients, to maintain intake charge-air oxygen concentration and boost levels within critical ranges for controlled temperature, low emission combustion. Changes in fuel feed into the cylinder are made to wait for or follow changes in the boost level of charge-air into the cylinder for combustion. Temporary fuel levels are not allowed to exceed desired fuel/oxygen ratios during transients, by controlling fuel feed responsive to the level of boost of charge-air being taken into the cylinder for combustion. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/665634 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07047933 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A low emission, direct injection, compression ignition, internal combustion engine operates with reduced charge-air oxygen concentration levels to control localized peak combustion temperatures and reduce NOx formation. Low cetane fuel, below 43 cetane, and most preferably with a cetane rating below 30, is utilized with the combustion system to reduce smoke and PM formation simultaneously with the reduced NOx formation. In a preferred embodiment, FCC Naptha fuel, with a cetane rating below 30 and an end boiling point below 120 degrees Celsius, is used with the combustion system together with the reduced charge-air oxygen concentration levels to produce engine-out NOx emissions of 0.2 g/bhp-hr or lower, and PM emissions at 0.01 g/bhp-hr or lower, without the need for NOx (and potentially PM) aftertreatment. Potential commercial applications of the fuel and combustion system are discussed, including application to vehicle fleets, with novel methods of operating a vehicle fleet (and of providing fuel to such fleets) to meet motor vehicle emissions regulations at a reduced cost also being disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/883255 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048781 | Lovell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Stanley Lovell (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a contaminant removal agent comprising a polyvalent metal sulfide on the surface of an inert substrate. The substrate can be a layered silicate, such as vermiculite, an aluminosilicate such as montmorillonite, or a nonlayered silicate such as a zeolite. The agent removes mercury from process streams. The ion exchange to deposit the polyvalent metal on the substrate is preferably performed at a pH above the pHZPC. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/681671 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07049100 | Santi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences Incorporated (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel V. Santi (San Francisco, California); Qun Xue (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gary Ashley (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple-plasmid system for heterologous expression of polyketides facilitates combinatorial biosynthesis. The method can be extended to any modular polyketide synthase (PKS) or non-ribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) and has the potential to produce thousands of novel natural products, including ones derived from further modification of the PKS or NRPS products by tailoring enzymes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/104417 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050447 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Houston Associates, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Silverman (Front Royal, Virginia); Daniel T. Sullivan (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system utilizing a multi-level expedited forwarding per hop behavior (MLEF PHB) which manages buffer space to provide priority to calls based on a predefined priority scheme. The MLEF PHB defines a set of configurable parameters that define how much buffer space is available to each class or level of voice call. The MLEF PHB may optionally be implemented as programming statements in the SIP User Agent, SIP Proxy, and kernel of a LINUX-based PC router. The MLEF PHB applies an algorithm for dropping packets exceeding a caller precedence level-specific buffer capacity, which variable buffer capacity is determined by the particular DSCP (and the particular MLEF PHB to which it relates). |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/764656 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07051017 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An information retrieval system that deals with the problems of synonymy, polysemy, and retrieval by concept by allowing for a wide margin of uncertainty in the initial choice of keywords in a query. For each input query vector and an information matrix, the disclosed system solves an optimization problem which maximizes the stability of a solution at a given level of misfit. The disclosed system may include a decomposition of the information matrix in terms of orthogonal basis functions. Each basis encodes groups of conceptually related keywords. The bases are arranged in order of decreasing statistical relevance to a query. The disclosed search engine approximates the input query with a weighted sum of the first few bases. Other commercial applications than the disclosed search engine can also be built on the disclosed techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/316973 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07049629 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Lu Jiang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device containing a thienylene-arylene polymer comprised of a repeating segment containing at least one 2,5-thienylene segment of (I) or (II), and at least one arylene segment of (IIIa), (IIIb), or (IIIc) wherein each R is independently an alkyl or an alkoxy side chain; R′ is halogen, alkyl, or alkoxy, and a and b represent the number of R segments or groups, and wherein the number of arylene segments (IIIa), (IIIb), and (IIIc) is from about 1 to about 3. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/646389 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07050470 | Hayden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph S. Hayden (Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania); David L. Veasey (Boulder, Colorado); Norman A. Sanford (Boulder, Colorado); David S. Funk (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to optical devices comprising a solid-state structured glass substrate having at least one waveguide incorporated therein, particularly waveguides and lasers incorporating such structure. The invention is also directed to methods for modifying such devices and their properties. The waveguides and lasers of the invention provide advantageous high power and increased slope efficiency and find use, for example, in telecommunications applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/492178 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07048544 | Olsen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale E. Olsen (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based training tool and method that emulates human behavior using a computer-simulated person in a realistic scenario. It provides an interactive experience in detecting deception during interviews and acceptance of statements during interpersonal conversations. The simulated person provides verbal responses in combination with an animated video display reflecting the body language of the simulated person in response to questions asked and during and after responses to the questions. The questions and responses are pre-programmed and interrelated groups of questions and responses are maintained in dynamic tables which are constantly adjusted as a function of questions asked and responses generated. The system provides a critique and numerical score for each training session. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/353896 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07049410 | Majumdar et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Adhip P. N. Majumdar (W. Bloomfield, Michigan); Fazlul H. Sarkar (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to ERRP (EGF-Receptor Related Protein) specific antibodies that could be used 1) to study the functional properties of ERRP and; 2) as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for malignancies. Preferably, the antibody reacts with a segment of ERRP containing 15 amino acids (SEQ ID NO: 4) that possesses the most antigenic property. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302868 |
| 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 530/388.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07050579 | Koç et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Çetin K. Koç (Corvallis, Oregon); Erkay Savaş (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Cryptographic methods and apparatus are provided for determination of multiplicative inverses. A Montgomery radix is selected based on a wordsize, permitting word-wise Montgomery multiplication. Using word-wise Montgomery multiplication, methods and apparatus determine various multiplicative inverses with reduced computation time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/558138 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07047975 | Austin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Path (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn D. Austin (Seattle, Washington); Lisa Tam (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Employing the known “tensegrity” principle, a female condom is configured such that when the condom is inserted into a woman's vagina, the woman's introitus acts on a proximal section of an elongated pouch extending between internal and external biasing members (e.g., rings) of the condom. Inward compressive forces exerted by the introitus on the inner ring of the condom cause the inner ring to be pushed distally within the vaginal canal, and the proximal pouch section to become a tension member pulling against the external ring. This causes a “tenting” of the proximal pouch section against the introitus. The resulting interaction of compression and tensile forces (a tensegrity effect) serves to provide the condom with a high degree of internal and external stability, including resistance to twisting and slippage. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/921016 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/844 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048174 | Buchheit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack G. Buchheit (St. Charles, Missouri); Colleen A. Oberlee (Hazelwood, Missouri); Louis F. Murray (Eureka, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Adaptable spring force clamping apparatus and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes at least one elongated member adapted to be positioned proximate to a surface of a work piece. The elongated member includes first and second end portions adapted to be secured to substantially prevent movement of the elongated member relative to the surface. A plurality of pressure applying devices are operatively attached to the elongated member, each pressure applying device including a contact member moveable relative to the elongated member and adapted to engage the surface of the work piece, and a resilient member operatively coupled to the contact member and to the elongated member. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648535 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/44.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048235 | McLean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. McLean (Seattle, Washington); David P. Witkowski (Des Moines, Washington); Richard L. Campbell (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A swept aircraft wing includes a leading airfoil element and a trailing airfoil element. At least one full-span slot is defined by the wing during at least one transonic condition of the wing. The full-span slot allows a portion of the air flowing along the lower surface of the leading airfoil element to split and flow over the upper surface of the trailing airfoil element so as to achieve a performance improvement in the transonic condition. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678397 |
| 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 244/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07048956 | Beelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Beelman (State College, Pennsylvania); Ali Demirci (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Preservative compositions using toxicologically acceptable ingredients, and employing a pH of 9.0 or above for at least part of the process, for reducing the initial population and controlling the growth of spoilage bacteria and human pathogens and for preventing unwanted color changes in fresh and processed produce, particularly mushrooms. Aqueous solutions of preservatives are prepared and applied in multiple stages to the mushrooms, by spraying or immersion. More specifically, disclosed is a method for preserving fresh and processed mushrooms, comprising the steps of: contacting the mushrooms with an antimicrobial solution having a pH of about 9.0 or above; and rinsing the mushrooms one or more times immediately after the contacting step with pH-neutralizing solutions having a pH sufficient to return the produce to its physiological pH. In a preferred embodiment, electrolyzed basic water is used in the first stage high-pH rinse step and electrolyzed acid water is used in the second stage neutralizing solution step. Tyrosinase inhibitors such as ascorbates, erythorbates, EDTA or calcium chloride are added to the neutralizing solutions to inhibit enzymatic browning. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/091367 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/268 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
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Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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