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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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| US 07059111 | King |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyon Brad King (Calumet, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A thruster for use with an external power supply. The thruster includes a propellant that exists in a non-gaseous state at standard temperature and pressure and has a melting point Tm, a boiling point Tb, and an evaporation rate. The thruster further includes a reservoir adapted to house the propellant and selectively heated to a temperature greater than Tm and less than Tb, and a power control mechanism positioned to control the amount of power from the external power supply being deposited into the reservoir to control the evaporation rate of the propellant. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693127 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059236 | Gonzalez |
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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) | Rene′ G. Gonzalez (Southfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An elongate ballistic protection apparatus is described and claimed herein which has minimal weight and maximum flexibility to conform to the most contorted and undulating ground surfaces. In use, it is immediately positioned below a military vehicle to protect the crew compartment positioned above said apparatus by extending transversely between the propulsive means and laterally along the direction of travel for the vehicle. The apparatus may detonate mines while operated by driven engagement over mine bearing terrains, but it will do so in a manner sufficient to defeat them without inducing unacceptable damages to either the vehicle or crew. Thereby, this invention provides a means to effectively disrupt the firing sequence of the explosive charges in these mines by contact with my minimal weight roller link chain. Beneficially, the blast gasses and ejecta of the mine simply vents through the open areas of my chain. This is a substantial improvement over devices having solid configurations or geometries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885390 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059250 | Sutherland 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) | Gerrit T. Sutherland (White Plains, Maryland); Phillip J. Miller (Issue, Maryland); Harold W. Sandusky (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Molten droplets of a metal fuel, such as aluminum, are dispersed into air or water for a reaction releasing energy for military or other purposes. In one warhead embodiment, a cylinder of solid metal is disposed within a ceramic heat insulator; heaters of thermite-like material are embedded in the metal; and an explosive dispersing charge is disposed around or at one end of the cylinder. On activation, the heaters are ignited to melt the metal, and the charge then detonated to disperse droplets of the molten metal. In a related embodiment, the metal and heaters are within a containment having an atomizing nozzle at one end and, oppositely of the metal from the nozzle, a piston and gas generator. When the metal is melted, the gas generator is activated to expel molten metal droplets from the nozzle. The fuel may be pressed particles heated below the melting point and then dispersed by a charge providing enough heat to melt the particles; may be a single component, fuel-rich thermite compound; and may include droplet surface tension reducing additives. Advantages are that the weight and volume of a warhead do not include explosives, binders, and underwater-use oxidizers employed with fuel particles in conventional energetic materials. A warhead may thus have greater density for effective penetration; and, since the fuel is not incorporated in an explosive, dispersing charges can be removed until use, and metal fuels hazardous when incorporated in an explosive can be used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609865 |
| 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 12/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059251 | Khanna 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) | Vishwa Khanna (Randolph, New Jersey); Richard C. Dzury (Dover, New Jersey); David Ondre (Piscataway, New Jersey); Jason B. Runell (Andover, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A propelling charge support comprises horseshoe-shaped clips for engaging the tail fin and holding the propelling charges together for protection, a rounded saddle for holding the propelling charges of the cartridge, and winged edges to protect the propelling charges and aid in removal of the propelling charge support from the tail fin. The propelling charge support further comprises a flat outer surface on which the propelling charge support loaded with propelling charges can rest while being installed onto the tail fin. It comprises a fin engagement clip that interfaces with a fin blade when installed on the cartridge, and that prevents rotation of the propelling charge support and propelling charges about the tail fin axis during rough handling and transportation, preventing damage to the propelling charges. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711304 |
| 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 12/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059260 | Quartarone |
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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) | James R. Quartarone (Loveland, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A steering system is provided for a hydrodynamically shaped vehicle having a nose end, a tail end, and forward propulsion. The steering system includes an internal supply of drag-reducing medium, at least one ejector ring positioned adjacent a nose end of the vehicle, and a plurality of ejector sections formed in the at least one ejector ring. Each ejector section includes an opening arrangement for ejecting drag-reducing medium to an external surface of the vehicle. A control unit selectively supplies drag-reducing medium to at least one of the plurality of ejector sections. The drag-reducing medium ejected from selected ejector sections causes a reduced-drag surface on said vehicle body and an increased speed thereof relative to a remainder of the vehicle body and thereby imparting a directional motion to the vehicle in the form of pitch and/or yaw. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217841 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/67.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059513 | Daugs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APG Cash Drawer (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Daugs (Shoreview, Minnesota); Mark Stulz (Victoria, Minnesota); Duane Putnam (Blaine, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A short depth cash drawer including, a cash drawer and an opening device. The cash drawer includes an open top side, a till holding portion, a front portion, a rear portion, and an opening device interface region. The opening device opens the cash drawer when an input is received. The rear portion of the opening device does not extend beyond the rear portion of the cash drawer when the cash drawer is closed, and is located to one side of the cash drawer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342106 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059566 | Byers 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) | David W. Byers (Arlington, Virginia); Gary A. Hall (King George, Virginia); Graham D. Hunter (Horncastle, United Kingdom); Colen G. Kennell (University Park, Maryland); Aleksander B. Macander (Rockville, Maryland); Judah H. Milgram (Hyattsville, Maryland); Jason D. Strickland (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hollow elliptical-cylindrical hull conformingly houses a hollow rectangular-prismatic cabin whereby the four longitudinal parallel outside edges of the latter make contact with the inside surface of the former. The fully constructed aircraft (either non-powered or powered) includes the integral hull-plus-cabin structure along with nose, tail and airfoil structures that are coupled therewith. The cabin conformingly accommodates hollow rectangular-prismatic modules useful for cargo storage. While the nose and/or tail structure is uncoupled from the integral hull-plus-cabin structure, the modules are inserted into the cabin and the cabin is sealed. The aircraft is lifted (e.g., via airplane, helicopter, rocket or balloon) to a particular elevation and released, whereupon the two wings fully emerge and the aircraft effects controlled flight until reaching its destination. After landing, the nose and/or tail structure is uncoupled from the integral hull-plus-cabin structure, the cabin is unsealed, and the modules are removed from the cabin. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856360 |
| 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 244/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059569 | Beyerle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Beyerle (Oneida, New York); Gary L. Illingworth (Oswego, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for the aerial transfer of munitions from a rearming aircraft to the weapons pylon of the recipient combat aircraft. The invention also provides for the selection of munitions from a database of munitions and aircraft types in response to an Air Tasking Order. The invention allows a variety of combat aircraft to be adapted to aerial rearmament. The invention also allows the release of precision guided munitions directly from a rearming aircraft so that orbiting combat aircraft can guide these munitions to the target by remote control. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052173 |
| 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 244/137.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059831 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine rotor stack includes one or more longitudinally outwardly concave spacers. The spacers may provide a longitudinal compression force that increases with rotational speed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825255 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/199.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060139 | 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); Yuly V. Milman (Kiev, Ukraine); Dina V. Lotsko (Kiev, Ukraine); Alexandr I. Sirko (Kiev, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high strength aluminum alloy composition and applications of the 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 | 10/291184 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060178 | Korpi 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) | John Korpi (Livonia, Michigan); Michael Manceor (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A filter-testing fixture holds a single fuel filter and is adjustable to accommodate a range of filter sizes and shapes. The fixture has a base section that defines a water collection reservoir, and the base opens upward toward a housing. Water separated from fuel in the housing thus drains into the reservoir. A fuel inlet conduit passes through the reservoir, one end of the conduit being disposed above the base section. The first, or filter-supporting, adapter is removably attached to this end of the conduit, and both the first adapter and this end are disposed within, the housing. The housing removably and sealingly mates to the base, and a cap assembly likewise removably and sealingly mates to the housing. A second, repositionable, filter-holding adapter is connected to the inner surface of the cap. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460815 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060222 | Sachs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuel M. Sachs (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam M. Lorenz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Samuel Allen (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An infiltrant is used to fill a metal powder skeleton. The infiltrant is similar in composition to the base powder, but contains a melting point depressant. The infiltrant will quickly fill the powder skeleton, then as the melting point depressant diffuses into the base powder, the liquid will undergo solidification and the material will eventually homogenize. This process allows more accurate control of dimensions in large parts with uniform or homogeneous microstructure or bulk properties. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/276457 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060224 | Edman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanogen, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl F. Edman (San Diego, California); Michael J. Heller (Encinitas, California); Rachel Formosa (San Diego, California); Christian Gurtner (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for the fabrication of microscale, including micron and sub-micron scale, including nanoscale, devices. Electronic transport of movable component devices is utilized through a fluidic medium to effect transport to a desired target location on a substrate or motherboard. Forces include electrophoretic force, electroosmotic force, electrostatic force and/or dielectrophoretic force. In the preferred embodiment, free field electroosmotic forces are utilized either alone, or in conjunction with, other forces. These forces may be used singly or in combination, as well as in conjunction with yet other forces, such as fluidic forces, mechanical forces or thermal convective forces. Transport may be effected through the use of driving electrodes so as to transport the component device to yet other connection electrodes. In certain embodiments, the component devices may be attached to the target device using a solder reflow step. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/337450 |
| 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 | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060241 | Glatkowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eikos, Inc. (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Glatkowski (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive film is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the film includes a plurality of single-walled nanotubes having a particular diameter. The disclosed film demonstrates excellent conductivity and transparency. Methods of preparing the film as well as methods of its use are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/105623 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060276 | Lanar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Lanar (Takoma Park, Maryland); Sheetij Dutta (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lisa A. Ware (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lalitha P. V. Nair (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (3D7) AMA-1 ectodomain. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified protein which retains folding and disulfide bridging of the native molecule. The recombinant AMA-1 is useful as a diagnostic reagent, for use in antibody production, and as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Monday, March 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/105717 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060324 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Bailey (Fishkill, New York); Byung J. Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Matthew Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); C. Grant Willson (Austin, Texas); John Ekerdt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method of moving a liquid between a substrate extending in a first plane and a template extending in a second plane. More specifically, the method may include forming an oblique angle between the first plane and the second plane, reducing a distance between the substrate and the template such that the template is in contact with a portion of the liquid at a desired location, and creating a dispersion of the liquid away from the desired location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/755918 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060402 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byung Jin Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Stephen C. Johnson (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method of orientating a template with respect to a substrate spaced from the template, the method including, rotating the template about a first and a second axis to orientate the template with respect to the substrate and maintain the orientation in response to a force being exerted upon the template. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788685 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060636 | Phillips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice P. Phillips (Salem, Virginia); Bryan E. Koene (Blacksburg, Virginia); Steven A. Stevenson (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Daniela M. Topasna (Lexington, Virginia); Martin E. Rogers (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a tunable dielectric device comprising: a substrate and an endohedral fullerene encapsulating trimetallic nitride template compound disposed on the substrate. The endohedral fullerene encapsulating trimetallic nitride template compound has a dipole moment that is oriented when a voltage of less than about 5 volts is applied thereto causing a change in the orientation of the dipole moment of the compound. The physical dimension of the compound is essentially unchanged. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/960341 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060783 | Seki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mieko Seki (Kanagawa, Japan); Hirohito Yoneyama (Kanagawa, Japan); Daisuke Okuda (Kanagawa, Japan); Hidekazu Hirose (Kanagawa, Japan); Tadayoshi Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan); Takeshi Agata (Kanagawa, Japan); Toru Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan); Hiroaki Moriyama (Kanagawa, Japan); Kiyokazu Mashimo (Kanagawa, Japan); Katsuhiro Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a diamine compound polymer and a method for producing the diamine compound polymer. The diamine compound polymer of the present invention has a condensed aromatic group represented by the following formulae (1-1) and (1-2). A represents a structure represented by the following formula (II-1). Y and Z represent divalent hydrocarbon groups. B and B′ each independently represents a group represented by —O—(Y—O)m-H or —O—(Y—O)m-CO-Z-CO—OR′, wherein R′ is a hydrogen atom, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. m represents an integer from 1 to 5; and p represents an integer from 5 to 5000. Ar represents a monovalent aromatic group. X represents a divalent condensed aromatic group. T represents a divalent linear hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a divalent branched hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms. k and n each represents an integer of 0 or 1. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783774 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060811 | Aldaz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Marcelo Aldaz (Austin, Texas); Andrzej Bednarek (Lodz, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the isolation and cloning of WWOX, a novel WW domain-containing protein mapping to human chromosome 16q23.3–24.1, a region frequently affected in several cancers. This gene encodes a tumor suppressor with apoptotic functions. The invention provides WWOX nucleic acid- and polypeptide-based cancer therapies. The invention also provides methods for cancer detection, diagnosis and prognosis involving WWOX nucleic acids and polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/978318 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060983 | Tumer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tumay O. Tumer (Riverside, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tumay O. Tumer (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system for imaging an object has an x-ray source for emitting x-rays. A detection system has a plurality of position sensitive detector planes, and the object is located between the x-ray source and the detection system. A portion of the x-rays pass through said object and pass into said plurality of detector planes and are detected within the plurality of detector planes. A multi-channel readout system is coupled to the plurality of position sensitive detector planes. A display system is coupled to the multi-channel readout system, and the display system displays an image of said object. A portion of the x-rays passing into the plurality of detector planes undergoes at least one Compton scatter within the plurality of detection planes and is detected. A total or partial energy corresponding to each portion of the emitted x-rays is recorded by a multichannel readout system. The direction for the said detected x-ray is determined and the direction and total or partial energy corresponding to each detected x-ray is processed by a multi-channel readout system to generate said image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420897 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061022 | Pham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Pham (Fairfax, Virginia); John D. Bruno (Bowie, Maryland); Richard L. Tober (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same comprising a substrate, a mesa region adjacent to the substrate, an electroplated metal layer, for reducing the thermal resistance of the device, surrounding the mesa region, an insulator layer separating a side portion of the mesa region from the electroplated metal layer, a heat sink, a bonding layer adjacent to the heat sink, and a second metal layer in between the substrate and the heat sink, wherein the substrate is adjacent to the bonding layer, and wherein the electroplated metal layer dimensioned and configured to have a thickness of at least half a thickness of the mesa region; and to laterally spread heat away from the mesa region. The mesa region comprises a first cladding layer adjacent to the substrate, an active region adjacent the first cladding layer, and a second cladding layer adjacent to the active region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927653 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061061 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. Goodman (Altadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Robert H. Grubbs (So. Pasadena, California); Jeffery Dickson (Pasadena, California); Vincent F. Koosh (Pasadena, California); Richard S. Payne (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are used to detect and identify analytes. Techniques are used to fabricate and manufacture sensors to detect analytes. An analyte (810) is sensed by sensors (820) that output electrical signals in response to the analyte. The electrical signals may be preprocessed (830) by filtering and amplification. In one embodiment, a plurality of sensors are formed on a single integrated circuit. The sensors may have diverse compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280795 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061220 | Nalbandian 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) | Vahakn Nalbandian (Tinton Falls, New Jersey); Ernest Potenziani, II (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrum analyzer includes a resonator board that in turn has a substrate and a plurality of resonators. Each resonator may include a first segment that includes a first segment discontinuity and that may also define a boundary and a second segment that has a second segment discontinuity. The second segment may be spaced from the first segment and wherein the second segment is disposed within the boundary defined by the first segment. The resonator board may also include a plurality of wires each of which may be generally parallel to each other and each having a resonator interposed therebetween. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886273 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061265 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin J. Nowka (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Leakage current in logic circuitry is managed by coupling and decoupling the voltage potentials of the power supply from circuitry with large high leakage devices. Driver circuits comprise a low leakage logic path for holding logic states of the output. A high leakage logic path in parallel with the low leakage logic path is used to assert each logic state in the forward direction from input to output. The large output device in each high leakage path that enhances the current drive of a logic state on the output are leakage stress relieved by allowing their drive inputs to collapse after the output logic state has been asserted. The high leakage logic paths employ multiple stages with collapsing logic states that are generated in response to asserted logic states on the output and logic states of the low leakage logic path thus reducing the device sizes needed to control leakage. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916980 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061354 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent magnet assembly, for engaging a generally planar surface of a ferromagnetic object to affix items of interest thereto, includes a shell of a magnetic material. The shell has a portion of either a magic sphere or a magic cylinder and a cavity and the shell terminates in a surface that is generally planar for engaging a ferromagnetic object. The permanent magnet assembly also has an insert located in the cavity. A method of fabricating the permanent magnet assembly is also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/086726 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061414 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murry Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Kai Chen (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Andreas Leven (Gillette, New Jersey); Kun-Yii Tu (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical digital-to-analog conversion is realized by employing either a continuous wave or pulsed laser optical signal. The laser optical signal is split into a plurality of mutually coherent optical beams, which are phase shift modulated by bits of a digital data sequence to be converted to an analog signal. The phase shift modulated optical beams are recombined to realize the desired digital-to-analog converted optical signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771089 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061431 | Tonn |
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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) | David A. Tonn (Charlestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A segmented patch antenna has a dielectric material substrate, a plurality of primary electrically conductive segments consecutively disposed on the dielectric material substrate and spaced apart so that a portion of the substrate is exposed between any pair of adjacent primary segments, and a layer of dielectric material disposed over the primary segments. Secondary electrically conductive segments are disposed over the layer of dielectric material wherein each secondary segment corresponds to a pair of adjacent primary segments. Each secondary segment overlaps a portion of each primary segment of the corresponding pair of adjacent primary segments to which that secondary segments corresponds. The overlap of each secondary segment with a portion of each primary segment in a pair of adjacent primary segments produces a plurality of capacitive gaps that capacitively couple the primary and secondary segments together to define a single antenna. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911758 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061440 | Choo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hosung Choo (Seoul, South Korea); Hao Ling (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Inductively coupled antennas and methods of designing the same are disclosed. Electrically small antennas having relatively high efficiency and relatively broad bandwidth may be formed by inductively coupling an antenna loop to at least one antenna winding. Such antennas may be substantially planar. Various operating characteristics of such antennas may be adjustable by and/or dependent upon the strength of the inductive coupling between an antenna winding and an antenna loop. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/867563 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061447 | Bozler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); Mark A. Gouker (Lexington, Massachusetts); Sean M. Duffy (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable antenna is presented that uses MEMs shutters to reconfigure a Fresnel zone plate antenna. It can be used to either point a main beam in different directions or to point multiple beams in different directions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911762 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/910 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061450 | Bright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microvision, Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Scott Bright (Kirkland, Washington); Scott W. Straka (Kirkland, Washington); Philip C. Black (Woodbridge, Connecticut); James G. Moore (Guilford, Connecticut); John R. Lewis (Bellevue, Washington); Hakan Urey (Redmond, Washington); Clarence T. Tegreene (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning control circuit generates a clock signal corresponding to an expected scan timing of a resonant scanner. In one approach, the control circuit uses a pair of direct digital synthesis (DDS) integrated circuits. A first DDS chip provides a system clock that is synchronized to the monitored period of the scanner. A second DDS chip generates a frequency chirped signal that has a frequency profile corresponding to a desired pixel clock timing. To control phase precisely, four complementary clock signals are weighted and mixed at light source drivers to produce relative phase shifts for different light sources. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118861 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — 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 345/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061483 | Desbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu Desbrun (Pasadena, California); Alan H. Barr (Pasadena, California); Mark Meyer (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for deriving barycentric coordinates for a point p within an n-sided polygon is provided wherein, for a particular coordinate wj, corresponding to the vertex qj, the method embodies a formula which depends only on the edge pqj, and the two adjacent angles δj and γj. Similarly, a method is provided for deriving weights wij for expressing a vertex qi in a mesh representation of an object surface in terms of its one-ring neighbors qj, ∀jεN(i). For a particular vertex qj, and neighbor vertex qj, this method embodies a formula which depends only on the edge qiqj, and the two adjacent angles δj and γj. A method of parameterizing a mesh representation of an object surface using the latter formula is also provided. This method begins with the step of computing the weights wij in 3D space (in contrast to parameter space) for each of the vertices in the mesh representation. For a vertex i, iε[1 . . . n], the weights wij allow the vertex i to be expressed in terms of its one-ring neighbors jεN(i). The method then proceeds to parameterizing the mesh representation responsive to the weights wij. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071268 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — 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 07061604 | Beam 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) | Robert Charles Beam (North Wales, Pennsylvania); John B. Niles (Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey); Drew Diedalis (Oak Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural member of a mortar projectile is inspected. The structural member is a composite structure having a thermoplastic matrix with a filler of steel balls. The composite structure has a central cavity into which is placed a strobe light. Surrounding the composite structure is a detection arrangement having a detection medium of photographic film. When the strobe light is activated the film is exposed and developed to obtain an image indicative of the distribution of the steel balls in the matrix. The image is analyzed to determine if the structural member is acceptable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708148 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/241.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061611 | Mitchell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Mitchell (Nazareth, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact spectrometer that is relatively free of spatial and spectral image distortions. The spectrometer includes one or more slit elements located at an object plane, a first optical sub-system having at least one refractive optical element, one or more dispersive elements located substantially at a center plane, a second optical sub-system having at least one refractive optical element, and one or more one detecting elements located at substantially an image plane. The first optical sub-system is capable of substantially collimating, at the center plane, electromagnetic radiation originating from the one or more slit elements. The second optical sub-system is, in one embodiment, substantially symmetric to said first optical sub-system, the center plane being the plane of symmetry. The second optical sub-system is capable of imaging the substantially collimated electromagnetic radiation from the center plane onto the image plane. Another embodiment has a reflective dispersive element, and the first optical sub-system is also the second optical sub-system, acting as a dual optical sub-system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/749363 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061749 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Liu (Marietta, Georgia); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a supercapacitor, also known as an electrical double-layer capacitor or ultracapacitor, having electrode material comprising single-wall carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes can be derivatized with functional groups. The electrode material is made by preparing a polymer-nanotube suspension comprising polymer and nanotubes, forming the polymer-nanotube suspension into a polymer-nanotube composite of the desired form, carbonizing the polymer-nanotube composite to form a carbonaceous polymer-nanotube material, and activating the material. The supercapacitor includes electrode material comprising activated carbonaceous polymer-nanotube material in contact with current collectors and permeated with an electrolyte, which may be either fluid or solid. In the case of a fluid or compressible electrolyte, an electrolyte-permeable separator or spacer is interposed between the electrodes to keep the electrodes from shorting. The supercapacitor made with electrodes comprising underivatized single-wall carbon nanotubes and polymer that has been carbonized and activated appears to operate as a non-Faradaic supercapacitor. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609725 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061787 | Trouilloud et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); Infineon Technologies North America Corp. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Louis Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey); Ulrich Klostermann (Fontainebleau, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for processing magnetic devices are provided. In one aspect, a method of processing a magnetic device including two or more anti-parallel coupled layers comprises the following steps. A magnetic field is applied in a given direction to orient a direction of magnetization of the two or more anti-parallel coupled layers. The direction of the applied magnetic field is rotated in relation to a positioning of the two or more anti-parallel coupled layers to counteract at least a portion of a change in a direction of magnetization experienced by at least one of the two or more anti-parallel coupled layers when the applied magnetic field is reduced. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835623 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061791 | Bocian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Werner G. Kuhr (Oak Hills, California); Jonathan Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel high density memory devices that are electrically addressable permitting effective reading and writing, that provide a high memory density (e.g., 1015 bits/cm3), that provide a high degree of fault tolerance, and that are amenable to efficient chemical synthesis and chip fabrication. The devices are intrinsically latchable, defect tolerant, and support destructive or non-destructive read cycles. In a preferred embodiment, the device comprises a fixed electrode electrically coupled to a storage medium having a multiplicity of different and distinguishable oxidation states wherein data is stored in said oxidation states by the addition or withdrawal of one or more electrons from said storage medium via the electrically coupled electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723315 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061955 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Kwang Kim (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Andrew Sumika Huntington (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention creates oxide and air apertures in material systems, such as InP, that do not usually accommodate epitaxial incorporation of highly oxidizing materials, such as AlAs, of sufficient thickness to adequately provide optical as well as current aperturing. A composite structure of relatively slowly oxidizing layer or layers (e.g. AlInAs on InP) with a faster-oxidizing layer or layers (e.g. AlAs on InP) can be used to produce oxide and air apertures of various shapes and sizes, and to also increase the oxidation rate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/953576 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/46.13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062055 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sonic actuator including a multi-layer membrane having a non-metallic elastomeric dielectric polymer layer with a first surface and a second surface, a first compliant electrode layer contacting the first surface of the polymer layer, and a second compliant electrode layer contacting the second surface of the polymer layer. The actuator further includes a support structure in contact with the sonic actuator film. Preferably, the non-metallic dielectric polymer is selected from the group consisting essentially of silicone, fluorosilicone, fluoroelastomer, natural rubber, polybutadiene, nitrile rubber, isoprene, and ethylene propylene diene. Also preferably, the compliant electrode layer is made from the group consisting essentially of graphite, carbon, and conductive polymers. The support structure can take the form of grid having a number of circular apertures. When a voltage is applied to the electrodes, portions of the film held at the aperture of the support structure can bulge due to the electrostriction phenomenon. The resultant “bubbles” can be modulated to generate sonic vibrations, or can be used to create a variable surface for airflow control. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/047485 |
| ART UNIT | 2646 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062066 | Wolfson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marilyn Wolfson (Acton, Massachusetts); Richard Johnson (Harvard, Massachusetts); Barbara Forman (Framingham, Massachusetts); William Dupree (Westborough, Massachusetts); Kim E. Theriault (Milford, New Hampshire); Robert Boldi (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Carol Wilson (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert G. Hallowell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Richard L. Delanoy (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for forecasting the likely occurrence of convective weather events, such as thunderstorms. An image filter is used to identify areas of interest within a meteorological image that are likely to contain convective weather. The image filter and an image difference processor identify sub-image regions within the meteorological image that are likely to experience a growth and/or decay of weather events. The classification filter classifies sub-image regions within the meteorological image into a number of predetermined storm categories. The meteorological images are filtered using matched filters, features within the filtered images are tracked, and the resulting track vectors are combined according to the storm classification. The meteorological image, interest image, growth/decay image, classification image, and combined vectors are processed to produce the short-term forecast. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144667 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062131 | Ilchenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OEwaves, Inc. (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Ilchenko (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes whispering gallery modes resonators that are optically coupled to one or two waveguide grating couplers formed on a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886009 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062385 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel E. White (Millis, Massachusetts); John S. Kauer (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nucleic acid-based sensors and methods for detecting volatile analytes. More particularly, this invention relates to nucleic acid-based optical sensors, sensor arrays, sensing systems and sensing methods for intelligent sensing and detection of unknown materials by way of real-time feedback and control of sampling conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/303548 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062386 | Hull |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Hull (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring the complex frequency-dependent dilatational and shear wavespeeds of a slab of material subjected to insonification. Transfer functions that are obtained by insonifying the material at different angles. Once this is accomplished, the transfer functions are manipulated with an inverse method to yield closed form values of dilatational and shear wavespeeds at any test frequency. The wavespeeds can be combined to determine complex Lamé constants, complex Young's modulus, complex shear modulus, and complex Poisson's ratio. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730194 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062522 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fast Hartley Transforms in a radix-2 block transform method enables true split and merge transform processing of equal sized data halves for enabling recursive merges and splits in Hartley transform domain without data degradation. Input data in the time domain or spatial domain during either the split and merge radix-2 forward Hartley transform processing is firstly transform processed followed by combinational processing. Whole transformed data is split using combinational processing into transformed data halves in the Hartley transform domain as a true split. The transformed halves are merged using combinational processing into whole merged transformed data in the Hartley transform domain. Time or spatial domain input data can be transformed into the Hartley transform domain in the form of split halves or merged whole. The split halves can be merged by the merge process combinational processing and the merged whole can be split by the split process combinational processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/174894 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07060249 | Ganetzky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry S. Ganetzky (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael J. Palladino (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for obtaining a Drosophila neurodegeneration mutant includes the steps of selecting at least one Drosophila mutant having an aberrant phenotype selected from the group consisting of temperature-sensitive paralysis and bang-sensitive paralysis; and screening the at least one selected Drosophila mutant for age-dependent neurodegeneration. Neurodegeneration mutants are obtained in the method and causal mutations are characterized. The neurodegeneration mutants can be used in screening methods to identify putative neuroprotective agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154086 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060274 | Blumberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Blumberg (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Neil E. Simister (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Wayne I. Lencer (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates in general to methods and products for initiating an immune response against an antigen, and in particular relates to transepithelial delivery of antigens to provoke tolerance and immunity. The present invention further relates to methods and products for the transepithelial delivery of therapeutics. In particular, the invention relates to methods and compositions for the delivery of therapeutics conjugated to a FcRn binding partner to intestinal epithelium, mucosal epithelium and epithelium of the lung. The present invention further relates to the synthesis, preparation and use of the FcRn binding partner conjugates as, or in, pharmaceutical compositions for oral systemic delivery of drugs and vaccines. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/215297 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060281 | Dattwyler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York); Brook Biotechnology, Inc. (Stony, Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Dattwyler (Setauket, New York); Gerald Seinost (Graz, Austria); Daniel Dykhuizen (St. James, New York); Benjamin J. Luft (Setauket, New York); Maria J. C. Gomes-Solecki (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to an immunogenic composition comprising OspC polypeptides from Lyme Disease causing Borrelia. In one embodiment, the immunogenic composition of the present invention comprises at least one OspC polypeptide or immunogenic fragment thereof from each of Borrelia burgdorferi OspC families A, B, I and K. In another embodiment, the immunogenic composition of the present invention comprises at least one OspC polypeptide or immunogenic fragment thereof from each of Borrelia afzelii OspC families A and B. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/596746 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/203.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060284 | Kaumaya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pravin T. P. Kaumaya (Westerville, Ohio); Vernon C. Stevens (Dublin, Ohio); Pierre L. Triozzi (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for stimulating the immune system and for treating malignancies associated with overexpression of the HER-2 protein are provided. Such compositions include immunogenic epitopes of the HER-2 proteins and chimeric and multivalent peptides which comprise such epitopes. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides which encode the chimeric peptides. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such immunogenic compositions. Methods for stimulating an immune response to HER-2 protein are provided. Methods for treating breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and lung cancer are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/632036 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
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| US 07060429 | Krueger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce K. Krueger (Ellicott City, Maryland); Tami J. Kingsbury (Baltimore, Maryland); Linda L. Bambrick (Baltimore, Maryland); Susan G. Dorsey (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of treating or preventing neuro-degenerative disorders and neuro-developmental disorders by altering the ratio of the amount of full-length TrkB polypeptide to the amount of truncated TrkB polypeptides in a neuron or by altering the ratio of the amount of full-length TrkC polypeptide to the amount of truncated TrkC polypeptides in a neuron. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/645546 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060442 | Nuñez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Nuñez (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Naohiro Inohara (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yasunori Ogura (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to intracellular signaling molecules, in particular the Nod2 protein and nucleic acids encoding the Nod2 protein. The present invention provides methods of identifying modulators of Nod2 signaling. In particular, the present invention additionally provides methods of screening immune modulators such as adjuvants using Nod2. The present invention further provides methods of altering Nod2 signaling. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314506 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060450 | Tabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Imperial Cancer Research Technology Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford Tabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Valeria Marigo (Milan, Italy); Philip W. Ingham (Summertown, United Kingdom); Andrew P. McMahon (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of vertebrate genes, termed here hedgehog-related genes, comprise morphogenic signals produced by embryonic patterning centers, and are involved in the formation of ordered spatial arrangements of differentiated tissues in vertebrates. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, for example to generate and/or maintain an array of different vertebrate tissue both in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/711724 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060455 | Doetsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Doetsch (Atlanta, Georgia); Angela M. Avery (Sligo, Ireland); Balveen Kaur (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes DNA damage endonucleases which exhibit broad specificity with respect to the types of structural aberrations in double stranded DNA. These enzymes recognize double stranded DNA with distortions in structure, wherein the distortions result from photoproducts, alkylation, intercalation, abasic sites, mismatched base pairs, insertion deletion loops, cisplatin adducts and other types of base damage (for example, uracil resulting from cytosine deamination). The UVDE (Uve1p) of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, certain truncated forms of that UVDE (lacking from about 100 to about 250 amino acids of N-terminal sequence) and certain endonucleases from Homo sapiens, Neurospora crassa, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus anthracis, Methanococcus jannaschii, and Deinococcus radiodurans. The present disclosure further provides methods for cleaving double stranded DNA having structural distortions as set forth herein using the exemplified endonucleases or their stable, functional truncated derivatives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724296 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060457 | Rothstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Rothstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Chieng-Liang Glenn Lin (Baltimore, Maryland); Lynn A. Bristol (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention features methods for detecting at least one neurological disorder in a patient, the method comprising obtaining a biological sample from the patient; and detecting at least one aberrant human glutamate transporter 2 (EAAT 2) mRNA in the sample as being indicative of the neurological disorder in the patient. In a particular aspect, the invention is useful for detecting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/040736 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060466 | Weigel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active Streptococcus equisimilis hyaluronate synthase (seHAS), and to the use of this nucleic acid segment in the preparation of recombinant cells which produce hyaluronate synthase and its hyaluronic acid product. Hyaluronate is also known as hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109855 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060493 | Nunez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Nunez (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Naohiro Inohara (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yasunori Ogura (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to intracellular signalling molecules, in particular the Nod2 protein and nucleic acids encoding the Nod2 protein. The present invention provides isolated nucleotide sequence encoding Nod2, isolated Nod2 peptides, antibodies that specifically bind Nod2, methods for the detection of Nod2, and methods for screening compounds for the ability to alter Nod2 associated signal transduction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984710 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060497 | Nakai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroyuki Nakai (Redwood City, California); Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for introducing an expression cassette into a cell. In the subject methods, a population of at least two distinct adeno-associated viral particles is provided, where each distinct type of viral particle in the population comprises a different portion of the expression cassette to be introduced into the cell. The target cell is contacted with population of adeno-associated viral vectors under conditions sufficient to produce a hetero-concatemer in the cell, where the hetero-concatemer includes a functional expression cassette having an intron that includes an ITR sequence. Also provided by the subject invention are vector preparations for practicing the subject methods as well as kits for use in producing the vectors employed in the subject methods. The subject methods find use in a variety of different gene transfer applications, including both in vivo and in vitro gene transfer applications, and are particularly suited for use in the transfer of long genes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/797858 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060507 | Akeson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Akeson (Santa Cruz, California); David W. Deamer (Santa Cruz, California); Wenonah Vercoutere (Santa Cruz, California); Hugh E. Olsen (Santa Cruz, California); Rebecca Braslau (Santa Cruz, California); Bakthan Singaram (Santa Cruz, California); Derek Steiner (Santa Cruz, California); Frank Cappuccio (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Targeted molecular bar codes and methods for using the same are provided. The subject targeted molecular bar codes include a molecular bar code and a member of a specific binding pair, where the specific binding pair member is generally bonded to the bar code through a linking group. The subject molecular bar code may be read during translocation through a single nano-meter scale pore. The subject targeted molecular bar codes find use in a variety of different applications involving analyte detection, such as screening and diagnostic applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/219989 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060667 | Browning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biogen Idec MA, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Browning (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jeanette Thorbecke (Douglaston, New York); Vincent Tsiagbe (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Therapeutic uses of inhibitors of the Lymphotoxin Pathway to treat tumors, specifically to treat follicular lymphomas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/626219 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Perfume compositions 512/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060674 | Lim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | House Ear Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Lim (Pasadena, California); Haa-Yung Lee (La Cresenta, California); Paul Webster (Pasadena, California); Ali Andalibi (Studio City, California); Jian-Dong Li (Glendale, California); Tomas Ganz (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a composition and a method for the treatment of otitis media and paranasal sinusitis using human defensins, lysozyme and/or lactoferrin as a new class of non-antibiotic antimicrobials. From studies of otitis media and paranasal sinusitis, it was observed that certain innate immune modulators were important in the bodies response to the infection. Therefore, these innate immune modulators, lysozyme, lactoferrin, and defensins were tested for use as a non-antibiotic treatment for infection, particularly infections such as otitis media and sinusitis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/819714 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060676 | Chuenkova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marina Chuenkova (Allston, Massachusetts); Miercio A. Pereira (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to T. cruzi trans-sialidase (TS) and to the neurotrophic and IL-6 secretion-inducing activities of the protein. TS, neurotrophic variants and/or neurotrophic peptides based upon the sequence of TS can be administered to a mammal to directly or indirectly provide neurotrophic support for neurons. A mammalian neurotrophic factor (e.g., CNTF, LIF) can be co-administered with the TS, neurotrophic variant and/or neurotrophic peptide. TS, IL-6 secretion-inducing variants and/or IL-6 secretion-inducing peptides based upon the sequence of TS can be administered to a mammal to induce the secretion of IL-6. TS, active variants and/or active peptides can be administered to a mammal having an acquired or congenital condition characterized by neuronal degeneration or to a mammal that has experienced trauma to the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves. The invention also relates to neurotrophic and IL-6 secretion-inducing variants of TS and to neurotrophic and IL-6 secretion-inducing peptides. The invention also relates to compositions comprising TS, active variants thereof and/or active peptides and a physiologically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/745008 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060688 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen-Hwa Lee (Newport Coast, California); Huei-Jen Sue Huang (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Eva Y. H. P. Lee (Newport Coast, California); Theodore Friedmann (La Jolla, California); Jiing-Kuan Yee (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for gene therapy for cancers wherein chromosomal location of an inactive or defective cancer suppressing gene is established, a replacement gene which is preferably cloned is then used to replace the inactive or defective cancer suppressing gene in the chromosome. In addition to its uses in therapy, the present invention provides a means for prophylactically treating individuals having a genetic predisposition to cancer and provides an animal model for testing for carcinogenicity of environmental substances. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/028726 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060689 | Goins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beth A. Goins (San Antonio, Texas); William T. Phillips (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to delivery and retention of active agents to targeted lymph nodes in a mammal using a ligand/anti-ligand pair. More particularly, the invention involves methods, compositions, and kits for delivery and retention of active agents to targeted lymph nodes using compositions comprising a ligand-colloid moiety and compositions comprising an anti-ligand. Active agents may be associated with one or more of the colloid, ligand, or anti-ligand. Conjugation of the ligand and anti-ligand after administration permits retention of aggregated colloid complex in targeted lymph nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044650 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060733 | Pandol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Pandol (Los Angeles, California); Ilya Y. Gukovsky (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating, preventing, modulating, attenuating, or inhibiting a disease or a disorder associated with inflammation related to NF-κB activation in a subject which comprises administering to the subject at least one curcumin compound. Also disclosed are combination therapies comprising the administration of at least one curcumin compound and at least one ROS inhibitor. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218518 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/731 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060793 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Geoffrey Baird (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding fluorescent indicators, which contain a sensor polypeptide inserted within a fluorescent moiety, are provided, as are polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides. Also provided are circularly permuted fluorescent polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the circularly permuted fluorescent polypeptides. In addition, methods of using the fluorescent indicators and the circularly permuted fluorescent polypeptides are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/999745 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060794 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MetroHealth System (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M Brown (Brecksville, Ohio); Barbara A Wible (Cleveland, Ohio); Qing Yang (S. Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polynucleotides that encode a protein, designated herein as K+ Channel Associated Protein or “KChAP”. It has been determined that expressing polynucleotides that encode KChAP in host cells, along with polynucleotides that encode the Kvα channel subunit Kv 2.1, the Kvα channel subunit Kv 2.2, the Kvα channel subunit Kv 1.3, or the Kvα channel subunit Kv 4.3, increases the number of Kv2.1, Kv 2.2, Kv1.3 or Kv4.3 channels, respectively, in the plasma membrane of such cells. The present invention also relates to a method of making cells that have increased numbers of Kv channels on the plasma membranes thereof and to a method of using such cells as model systems for studying the effect of pharmacological agents on Kv channels, particularly on Kv2.1, Kv 2.2, Kv 1.3, and Kv 4.3 channels. The present invention also relates to the protein KChAP. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/075074 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060799 | Burton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis R. Burton (La Jolla, California); Roberto Burioni (Del Mar, California); R. Anthony Williamson (Del Mar, California); Pietro P. Sanna (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel method for the identification and clonal isolation of antibodies that bind to unique epitopes. The method is based on the use of antibodies as solid phase capture reagents to bind a known capture antibody epitope, thereby precluding the capture antibody epitope from being presented to a population of antibodies to be screened. The method is particularly suited for screening libraries of cloned antibodies, such as phage display combinatorial antibodies. An antibody specific for herpes simplex virus (HSV), was employed as a model for the assay. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/079802 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060850 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fluorous Technologies Incorporated (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Zhang (Mars, Pennsylvania); Zhiyong Luo (San Diego, California); Tadamichi Nagashima (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Christine Hiu-Tung Chen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marvin S. Yu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods and compositions for increasing the fluorous nature of an organic compound by reacting it with at least one fluorous compound to produce a fluorous tagged organic compound. The increased fluorous nature of the fluorous tagged organic compound can then be utilized to separate the fluorous organic compound from untagged reagents, reactants, catalysts and/or products derived therefrom. The resultant fluorous tagged organic compound can be subjected to subsequent chemical transformations, wherein the fluorous nature of the tagged compound is utilized to increase the ease of separation of the fluorous tagged organic compound from untagged reagents, reactants, catalysts and/or products derived therefrom, after each chemical transformation. The chemical transformations result in a second fluorous tagged organic compound wherein the fluorous nature of the second fluorous tagged organic compound can then be reduced by removing the fluorous group therefrom, thereby producing a second organic compound that may be employed as a pharmaceutical compound or intermediate, or a combinatorial library component. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/617431 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060869 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Atsushi Miyawaki (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluorescent indicators including a binding protein moiety, a donor fluorescent protein moiety, and an acceptor fluorescent protein moiety are described. The binding protein moiety has an analyte-binding region which binds an analyte and causes the indicator to change conformation upon exposure to the analyte. The donor moiety and the acceptor moiety change position relative to each other when the analyte binds to the analyte-binding region. The donor moiety and the acceptor moiety exhibit fluorescence resonance energy transfer when the donor moiety is excited and the distance between the donor moiety and the acceptor moiety is small. The indicators can be used to measure analyte concentrations in samples, such as calcium ion concentrations in cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/554000 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
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| US 07060870 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Stern (Great Neck, New York); Shi Du Yan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a transgenic non-human animal whose cells contain a DNA sequence comprising: (a) a nerve tissue specific promoter operatively linked to a DNA sequence which encodes amyloid-beta peptide alcohol dehydrogenase (ABAD), and (b) a nerve tissue specific promoter operatively linked to a DNA sequence encoding a mutant human amyloid precursor protein hAPP695, hAPP751 and hAPP770 bearing mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's disease in humans, wherein the non-human animal exhibits at least one phenotype from the group consisting of: reduced basal synaptic transmission; inhibited synaptic plasticity; increased neuronal stress; elevated 4-hydroxynonenal in cerebral cortex; increased heme oxygenase type I in cerebral cortex; decreased synaptophysin in cerebral cortex; decreased micortubule-associated protein 2 in cerebral cortex; and increased levels of activated caspase 3 antigen in cortical neurons. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/638647 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060976 | Sheehan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chem-Space Associates (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward William Sheehan (Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania); Ross Clark Willoughby (Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Improvements have been made for selective collecting, focusing, and directing of ions and/or charged particles generated at atmospheric or near atmospheric pressure sources, such as but not limited to, electrospray; atmospheric pressure discharge ionization, chemical ionization, photoionization, and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization; and inductively coupled plasma ionization. A multiple-aperture laminated structure is place at the interface of two pressure regions. Electric fields geometries and strengths across the laminated structure and diameters of the apertures; all of which act to optimize the transfer of the ions from the higher pressure region into the lower pressure region while reducing the gas-load on the lower pressure region. Embodiments of this invention are methods and devices for improving sensitivity of mass spectrometry when coupled to atmospheric, near atmospheric, or higher pressure ionization sources by reducing the gas-load on the vacuum system. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173377 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062384 | Rocke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Rocke (Davis, California); Danh V. Nguyen (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of classifying biological samples based on high dimensional data obtained from the samples. The methods are especially useful for prediction of a class to which the sample belongs under circumstances in which the data are statistically under-determined. The advent of microarray technologies which provide the ability to measure en masse many different variables (such as gene expression) at once has resulted in the generation of high dimensional data sets, the analysis of which benefits from the methods of the present invention. High dimensional data is data in which the number of variables, p, exceeds the number of independent observations (e.g. samples), N, made. The invention relies on a dimension reduction step followed by a logistic determination step. The methods of the invention are applicable for binary (i.e. univariate) classification and multi-class (i.e. multivariate) classifications. Also provided are data selection techniques that can be used in accordance with the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/957100 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
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| US 07062385 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel E. White (Millis, Massachusetts); John S. Kauer (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nucleic acid-based sensors and methods for detecting volatile analytes. More particularly, this invention relates to nucleic acid-based optical sensors, sensor arrays, sensing systems and sensing methods for intelligent sensing and detection of unknown materials by way of real-time feedback and control of sampling conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/303548 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39132 | Bergeron, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida, Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Bergeron, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Phenyl- and pyridyl-substituted thiazoline acid derivatives useful in diagnosing and treating pathological conditions associated with an excess of trivalent metals in humans and animals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/981586 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07059364 | Kountz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth John Kountz (Palatine, Illinois); Kenneth Robert Kriha (New Lenox, Illinois); William E. Liss (Libertyville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for quick filling a vehicle hydrogen storage vessel with hydrogen, the key component of which is an algorithm used to control the fill process, which interacts with the hydrogen dispensing apparatus to determine the vehicle hydrogen storage vessel capacity. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911938 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07059993 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi-You Ding (Golden, Colorado); William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); Todd B. Vinzant (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado); Stephen R. Decker (Berthoud, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a thermal tolerant cellulase that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase family. The invention further discloses this cellulase as GuxA. GuxA has been isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus. The invention further provides recombinant forms of the identified GuxA. Methods of making and using GuxA polypeptides, including fusions, variants, and derivatives, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/917383 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Planetary gear transmission systems or components 475/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060247 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Hoffman (Columbia, Missouri); Wynn A. Volkert (Columbia, Missouri); Gary Sieckman (Ashland, Missouri); Charles J. Smith (Columbia, Missouri); Hariprasad Gali (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound for use as a therapeutic or diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes a group capable of complexing a medically useful metal attached to a moiety which is capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. A method for treating a subject having a neoplastic disease includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a radiopharmaceutical having a metal chelated with a chelating group attached to a-moiety capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor expressed on tumor cells with subsequent internalization inside of the cell. A method of forming a therapeutic or diagnostic compound includes reacting a metal synthon with a chelating group covalently linked with a moiety capable of binding a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/847134 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060473 | Phelps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy J. Phelps (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert J. Lauf (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Ji-Won Moon (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Yul Roh (Gwangju, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing mixed metal oxide compounds includes the steps of: providing a supply of a metal reducing bacteria; providing a culture medium suitable for growth of the bacteria; providing a first mixed metal oxide phase comprising at least a first and a second metal, at least one of the first and second metal being reducible from a higher to a lower oxidation state by the bacteria; and, combining the bacteria, the culture medium, the first mixed metal oxide, and at least one electron donor in a reactor, wherein the bacteria reduces at least one of the first metal and the second metal from the higher to the lower oxidation state to form a second mixed metal oxide phase. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227586 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060523 | Tindall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig S. Tindall (San Ramon, California); Paul N. Luke (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for creating both segmented and unsegmented radiation detectors which can operate at room temperature. The devices include a metal contact layer, and an n-type blocking contact formed from a thin layer of amorphous semiconductor. In one embodiment the material beneath the n-type contact is n-type material, such as lithium compensated silicon that forms the active region of the device. The active layer has been compensated to a degree at which the device may be fully depleted at low bias voltages. A p-type blocking contact layer, or a p-type donor material can be formed beneath a second metal contact layer to complete the device structure. When the contacts to the device are segmented, the device is capable of position sensitive detection and spectroscopy of ionizing radiation, such as photons, electrons, and ions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845600 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060641 | Qian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiang Qian (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yusheng Zhao (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Fully dense, diamond-silicon carbide composites are prepared from ball-milled microcrystalline diamond/amorphous silicon powder mixture. The ball-milled powder is sintered (P=5–8 GPa, T=1400K–2300K) to form composites having high fracture toughness. A composite made at 5 GPa/1673K had a measured fracture toughness of 12 MPa·m1/2. By contrast, liquid infiltration of silicon into diamond powder at 5 GPa/1673K produces a composite with higher hardness but lower fracture toughness. X-ray diffraction patterns and Raman spectra indicate that amorphous silicon is partially transformed into nanocrystalline silicon at 5 GPa/873K, and nanocrystalline silicon carbide forms at higher temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110252 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061237 | Pines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California); Sunil Saxena (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Adam Moule (Albany, California); Megan Spence (Zurich, Switzerland); Juliette A. Seeley (El Cerrito, California); Kimberly L. Pierce (El Cerrito, California); Song-I Han (Berkeley, California); Josef Granwehr (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for remote NMR/MRI spectroscopy having an encoding coil with a sample chamber, a supply of signal carriers, preferably hyperpolarized xenon and a detector allowing the spatial and temporal separation of signal preparation and signal detection steps. This separation allows the physical conditions and methods of the encoding and detection steps to be optimized independently. The encoding of the carrier molecules may take place in a high or a low magnetic field and conventional NMR pulse sequences can be split between encoding and detection steps. In one embodiment, the detector is a high magnetic field NMR apparatus. In another embodiment, the detector is a superconducting quantum interference device. A further embodiment uses optical detection of Rb—Xe spin exchange. Another embodiment uses an optical magnetometer using non-linear Faraday rotation. Concentration of the signal carriers in the detector can greatly improve the signal to noise ratio. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268922 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061483 | Desbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu Desbrun (Pasadena, California); Alan H. Barr (Pasadena, California); Mark Meyer (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for deriving barycentric coordinates for a point p within an n-sided polygon is provided wherein, for a particular coordinate wj, corresponding to the vertex qj, the method embodies a formula which depends only on the edge pqj, and the two adjacent angles δj and γj. Similarly, a method is provided for deriving weights wij for expressing a vertex qi in a mesh representation of an object surface in terms of its one-ring neighbors qj, ∀jεN(i). For a particular vertex qj, and neighbor vertex qj, this method embodies a formula which depends only on the edge qiqj, and the two adjacent angles δj and γj. A method of parameterizing a mesh representation of an object surface using the latter formula is also provided. This method begins with the step of computing the weights wij in 3D space (in contrast to parameter space) for each of the vertices in the mesh representation. For a vertex i, iε[1 . . . n], the weights wij allow the vertex i to be expressed in terms of its one-ring neighbors jεN(i). The method then proceeds to parameterizing the mesh representation responsive to the weights wij. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071268 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — 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 07061775 | Beihoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce C. Beihoff (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Dennis L. Kehl (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Lee A. Gettelfinger (Brown Deer, Wisconsin); Steven C. Kaishian (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Mark G. Phillips (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Lawrence D. Radosevich (Muskego, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | EMI shielding is provided for power electronics circuits and the like via a direct-mount reference plane support and shielding structure. The thermal support may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support forms a shield from both external EMI/RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as improved terminal configurations. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/252303 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062134 | Veligdan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York); Leonard DeSanto (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A display system includes a waveguide optical panel having an inlet face and an opposite outlet face. A projector and imaging device cooperate with the panel for projecting a video image thereon. An optical detector bridges at least a portion of the waveguides for detecting a location on the outlet face within a target zone of an inbound light spot. A controller is operatively coupled to the imaging device and detector for displaying a cursor on the outlet face corresponding with the detected location of the spot within the target zone. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651190 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062348 | Folta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Extreme Ultaviolet Lithography LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Folta (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing single layer or multilayer films with high thickness uniformity or thickness gradients. The method utilizes a moving mask which blocks some of the flux from a sputter target or evaporation source before it deposits on a substrate. The velocity and position of the mask is computer controlled to precisely tailor the film thickness distribution. The method is applicable to any type of vapor deposition system, but is particularly useful for ion beam sputter deposition and evaporation deposition; and enables a high degree of uniformity for ion beam deposition, even for near-normal incidence of deposition species, which may be critical for producing low-defect multilayer coatings, such as required for masks for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). The mask can have a variety of shapes, from a simple solid paddle shape to a larger mask with a shaped hole through which the flux passes. The motion of the mask can be linear or rotational, and the mask can be moved to make single or multiple passes in front of the substrate per layer, and can pass completely or partially across the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/615281 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062399 | Bruce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advance Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Bruce (Austin, Texas); Victoria J. Bruce (Austin, Texas); Rosalinda M. Ring (Austin, Texas); Edward Jr. I. Cole (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles F. Hawkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paiboon Tangyungong (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an example embodiment of the present invention a semiconductor die having a resistive electrical connection is analyzed. Heat is directed to the die as the die is undergoing a state-changing operation to cause a failure due to suspect circuitry. The die is monitored, and a circuit path that electrically changes in response to the heat is detected and used to detect that a particular portion therein of the circuit is resistive. In this manner, the detection and localization of a semiconductor die defect that includes a resistive portion of a circuit path is enhanced. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/586518 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062504 | Cantu-Paz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erick Cantu-Paz (Oakland, California); Chandrika Kamath (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A decision tree system that is part of a parallel object-oriented pattern recognition system, which in turn is part of an object oriented data mining system. A decision tree process includes the step of reading the data. If necessary, the data is sorted. A potential split of the data is evaluated according to some criterion. An initial split of the data is determined. The final split of the data is determined using evolutionary algorithms and statistical sampling techniques. The data is split. Multiple decision trees are combined in ensembles. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/133992 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07060130 | Golding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brage Golding (DeWitt, Michigan); Connie Bednarski-Meinke (Syracuse, New York); Zhong-ning Dai (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for growing by chemical vapor deposition a heteroepitaxial single crystal diamond is disclosed. The process provides a substrate which enables the growth of single crystal diamond which is vapor coated on an iridium film. An intermediate process for producing a composite composition with diamond nuclei is also described. Further described are composite compositions of metal oxide, iridium and single crystal diamond films or diamond nuclei. Single crystal diamond is useful in a variety of electronics and acoustics fields. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/634908 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060237 | Paine, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Technology Corporation @ UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Paine, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gary L. Wood (Valdosta, Georgia); Jerzy F. Janik (Woj. Malopolskie, Poland); William J. Kroenke (Placitas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous route and process for preparation of boron nitride utilizing aerosol assisted vapor phase synthesis (AAVS) wherein boron precursors are nitrided in one or two heating steps, and wherein a boron oxide nitride carbide intermediary composition is formed after the first heating step and may be further nitrided to form resultant spheroidal boron nitride powders including spheroidal particles that are smooth, bladed, have protruding whiskers, and are of turbostratic or hexagonal crystalline structure, specifically wherein the boron precursor is dissolved in a non-aqueous solution prior to aerosolization. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280456 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060243 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Frederic V. Mikulec (Austin, Texas); Sungjee Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Tellurium-containing nanocrystallites are produced by injection of a precursor into a hot coordinating solvent, followed by controlled growth and annealing. Nanocrystallites may include CdTe, ZnTe, MgTe, HgTe, or alloys thereof. The nanocrystallites can photoluminesce with quantum efficiencies as high as 70%. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456592 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060510 | Bonnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dawn A. Bonnell (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Xiaojun Lei (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); David Joseph Conklin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are electronic, plasmonic and opto-electronic components that are prepared using patterned photodeposited nanoparticles on a substrate surface. Also disclosed are ferroelectric nanolithography methods for preparing components, circuits and devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128462 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060992 | Barney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tiax LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Barney (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods of the invention utilize time-resolved techniques to deconvolve a measured response to characterize the nature of particles. The measured response is deconvolved into a scatter component and a fluorescence component. The fluorescence component is further characterized into biological and non-biological components. A discriminant vector is mapped to characterize the nature of the particle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797716 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061061 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. Goodman (Altadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Robert H. Grubbs (So. Pasadena, California); Jeffery Dickson (Pasadena, California); Vincent F. Koosh (Pasadena, California); Richard S. Payne (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are used to detect and identify analytes. Techniques are used to fabricate and manufacture sensors to detect analytes. An analyte (810) is sensed by sensors (820) that output electrical signals in response to the analyte. The electrical signals may be preprocessed (830) by filtering and amplification. In one embodiment, a plurality of sensors are formed on a single integrated circuit. The sensors may have diverse compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280795 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061483 | Desbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu Desbrun (Pasadena, California); Alan H. Barr (Pasadena, California); Mark Meyer (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for deriving barycentric coordinates for a point p within an n-sided polygon is provided wherein, for a particular coordinate wj, corresponding to the vertex qj, the method embodies a formula which depends only on the edge pqj, and the two adjacent angles δj and γj. Similarly, a method is provided for deriving weights wij for expressing a vertex qi in a mesh representation of an object surface in terms of its one-ring neighbors qj, ∀jεN(i). For a particular vertex qj, and neighbor vertex qj, this method embodies a formula which depends only on the edge qiqj, and the two adjacent angles δj and γj. A method of parameterizing a mesh representation of an object surface using the latter formula is also provided. This method begins with the step of computing the weights wij in 3D space (in contrast to parameter space) for each of the vertices in the mesh representation. For a vertex i, iε[1 . . . n], the weights wij allow the vertex i to be expressed in terms of its one-ring neighbors jεN(i). The method then proceeds to parameterizing the mesh representation responsive to the weights wij. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071268 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — 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 07062384 | Rocke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Rocke (Davis, California); Danh V. Nguyen (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of classifying biological samples based on high dimensional data obtained from the samples. The methods are especially useful for prediction of a class to which the sample belongs under circumstances in which the data are statistically under-determined. The advent of microarray technologies which provide the ability to measure en masse many different variables (such as gene expression) at once has resulted in the generation of high dimensional data sets, the analysis of which benefits from the methods of the present invention. High dimensional data is data in which the number of variables, p, exceeds the number of independent observations (e.g. samples), N, made. The invention relies on a dimension reduction step followed by a logistic determination step. The methods of the invention are applicable for binary (i.e. univariate) classification and multi-class (i.e. multivariate) classifications. Also provided are data selection techniques that can be used in accordance with the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/957100 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07061122 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Gon Kim (Cupertino, California); David Gibson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Michael Warner (San Jose, California); Philip Damberg (Cupertino, California); Philip Osborn (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra thin system-in-a-package (SIP) with independent test and repair capability comprises an interposer having arranged on a top surface and a bottom surface thereof a number of packaged semiconductor chips mounted via solder bumps in accordance with a Land Grid Array (LGA) format and wherein no underfill is used on the SIP. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683097 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/778 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061914 | Mankins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (New York, New York); BBNT Solutions LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Patrick Mankins (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Schemes for determining whether all of the fragments of a datagram are received are described herein. The schemes described herein can allocate fifteen bits of memory to one or more counters to facilitate a determination of whether all of the fragments of a datagram are received. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446309 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062043 | Solinas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome A. Solinas (Westminster, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating and verifying a cryptographic digital signature using coefficient splitting. The digital signature is formed by first selecting a finite field, an elliptic curve of a first type or a second type, a point P, an integer w1, and an integer k1. Next, generating, via coefficient splitting, a point W=w1P and a point K=k1P. Next, transforming, K to a bit string K*. Next, combining K*, W, and a message M in a first manner to produce h1, and in a second manner to produce c. Next, generating s be either s=h1w1+ck1 (mod q), s=(h1w1+c)/k1 (mod q), or s=(h1k1+c)/w1 (mod q). Next, forming the cryptographic digital signature as (K*,s). The digital signature is verified by acquiring the finite field, the elliptic curve, the point P, the point W, the message M, and the cryptographic digital signature (K*,s). Next, computing h1 and c. Next, selecting (n0, n1) from (sc−1 (mod q), −h1c−1 (mod q)), (cs−1 (mod q), h1s−1 (mod q)) or (−ch1−1 (mod q), sh1−1 (mod q)). Next, generating the point n0P via coefficient splitting. Next, generating the point n1W via coefficient splitting. Next, summing the points computed in the last two steps and designating the sum Q. Next, transforming Q to Q*. Lastly, verifying the digital signature (K*,s) if Q*=K*. Otherwise rejecting the cryptographic digital signature (K*,s) as unverified. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/185805 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07062044 | Solinas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome A. Solinas (Westminster, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating a cryptographic key in an authenticated manner using coefficient splitting. Select a prime number p and an elliptic curve of either a first class or a second class. Select a point P. The first user generates ra, wa, and Ra=raP and Wa=waP via coefficient splitting. The second user generates rb, wb, and Rb=rbP and Wb=wbP via coefficient splitting. After the users have exchanged the points Ra, Wa, Rb, Wb, the first user generates ca, ga, and caWb, and gaRb via coefficient splitting, and the second user generates cb, gb, and cbWa and gbRa via coefficient splitting. Each user then sums the corresponding results to form K and derives the cryptographic key from K in the same user-definable manner. An unauthenticated key exchange method is also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/185831 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07060241 | Glatkowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eikos, Inc. (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Glatkowski (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive film is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the film includes a plurality of single-walled nanotubes having a particular diameter. The disclosed film demonstrates excellent conductivity and transparency. Methods of preparing the film as well as methods of its use are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/105623 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060968 | Leviton |
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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) | Douglas B. Leviton (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents an optical encoder with increased conversion rates. Improvement in the conversion rate is a result of combining changes in the pattern recognition encoder's scale pattern with an image sensor readout technique which takes full advantage of those changes, and lends itself to operation by modern, high-speed, ultra-compact microprocessors and digital signal processors (DSP) or field programmable gate array (FPGA) logic elements which can process encoder scale images at the highest speeds. Through these improvements, all three components of conversion time (reciprocal conversion rate)—namely exposure time, image readout time, and image processing time—are minimized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456164 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/231.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061607 | Barkhoudarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarkis Barkhoudarian (West Hills, California); Scott A. Kittinger (Westlake, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The engine spectrometer probe and method of using the same of the present invention provides a simple engine spectrometer probe which is both lightweight and rugged, allowing an exhaust plume monitoring system to be attached to a vehicle, such as the space shuttle. The engine spectrometer probe can be mounted to limit exposure to the heat and debris of the exhaust plume. The spectrometer probe 50 comprises a housing 52 having an aperture 55 and a fiber optic cable 60 having a fiber optic tip 65. The fiber optic tip 65 has an acceptance angle 87 and is coupled to the aperture 55 so that the acceptance angle 87 intersects the exhaust plume 30. The spectrometer probe can generate a spectrum signal from light in the acceptance angle 506 and the spectrum signal can be provided to a spectrometer 508. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/428693 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07059072 | Archuleta, Jr. 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) | James G. Archuleta, Jr. (Roseburg, Oregon); Michael W. Karr (Idleyld Park, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An excavator bucket adapted to receive subsoiler shanks and an optional coulter blade enables multiple treatment of compacted soil. In a preferred embodiment, the shanks depend downward below the bucket and curve forward toward the bottom of the bucket. The shanks allow a single implement to be used for both excavating and subsoiling, and also for contouring sloping terrain. One application for such an implement is for decommissioning forest roads without the need for multiple pieces of heavy equipment or for multiple entries into the treatment area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781487 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Excavating 037/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060432 | Hyldig-Nielsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applera Corporation (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens J. Hyldig-Nielsen (Moss Beach, California); Heather P. O'Keefe (Lexington, Massachusetts); Henrik Stender (Gentofte, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is related to novel probes, probe sets, methods and kits pertaining to the detection, identification and/or quantitation of yeasts and particularly Dekkera bruxellensis (a.k.a. Brettanomyces) an organism that spoils wine. Preferred probes for the detection of one or more species of the Dekkera/Brettanomyces genus comprise a probing nucleobase sequence, at least a portion of which is selected from the group consisting of: AGC-GGG-TCT-ATT-AGA (Seq. ID No. 1); CCA-GGT-GAG-GGT-CGC (Seq. ID No. 2); CGG-TTG-CCC-GAT-TTC (Seq. ID No. 3); TCG-CCT-TCC-TCC-TCT (Seq. ID No. 4); CGG-TCT-CCA-GCG-ATT (Seq. ID No. 5); CAC-AAG-ATG-TCC-GCG (Seq. ID No. 6); GCG-GGC-ACT-AAT-TGA (Seq. ID No. 7); CAT-CCA-CGA-GGA-ACG (Seq. ID No. 8); GTG-TAA-ACC-AGG-TGC (Seq. ID No. 9); ATG-GCT-CCC-AGA-ACC (Seq. ID No. 10) and GAC-AGA-ATC-GAA-GGG (Seq. ID No. 11). The probes, probe sets, methods and kits of this invention are particularly well suited for use in the analysis of yeast in wine, beer and liquor and in the monitoring of contamination of in-process product as well as the equipment and facilities used to manufacture product in wineries and breweries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/593914 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07060247 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Hoffman (Columbia, Missouri); Wynn A. Volkert (Columbia, Missouri); Gary Sieckman (Ashland, Missouri); Charles J. Smith (Columbia, Missouri); Hariprasad Gali (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound for use as a therapeutic or diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes a group capable of complexing a medically useful metal attached to a moiety which is capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. A method for treating a subject having a neoplastic disease includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a radiopharmaceutical having a metal chelated with a chelating group attached to a-moiety capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor expressed on tumor cells with subsequent internalization inside of the cell. A method of forming a therapeutic or diagnostic compound includes reacting a metal synthon with a chelating group covalently linked with a moiety capable of binding a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/847134 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07060733 | Pandol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Pandol (Los Angeles, California); Ilya Y. Gukovsky (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating, preventing, modulating, attenuating, or inhibiting a disease or a disorder associated with inflammation related to NF-κB activation in a subject which comprises administering to the subject at least one curcumin compound. Also disclosed are combination therapies comprising the administration of at least one curcumin compound and at least one ROS inhibitor. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218518 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/731 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07060686 | Jacobs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Jacobs (Santa Barbara, California); Russell G. Kerr (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating, preventing, or inhibiting diseases and disorders associated with inflammation, cell-proliferation, and pain comprising the administration of a compound having the structural formula wherein R1 is a hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, hydroxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, carboxylic acid, alkylamino or amide group having from 2 to 20 carbon atoms, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen or an acyl residue having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R5 is hydrogen, CH3, or CH2OH, and R6 is an organo group such as a hydrocarbon having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms are disclosed. Other seco-pseudopterosins and compounds related to pseudopterosins are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/903261 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07060932 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew P. Joseph (Pickerington, Ohio); John S. Phillips (Powell, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Hilliard, Ohio); Michael N. Patena (Pataskala, Ohio); Tim Burnham (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Paul Coleman (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus processes a surface of an inhabitable structure. The apparatus includes a laser base unit adapted to provide laser light to an interaction region, the laser light removing material from the structure. The laser base unit includes a laser generator and a laser head coupled to the laser generator. The laser head is adapted to remove the material from the interaction region, thereby providing reduced disruption to activities within the structure. The apparatus further includes a laser manipulation system which includes an anchoring mechanism adapted to be releasably coupled to the structure and a positioning mechanism coupled to the anchoring mechanism and coupled to the laser head. The laser manipulation system is adapted to controllably adjust the position of the laser head relative to the structure. The apparatus further includes a controller electrically coupled to the laser base unit and the laser manipulation system. The controller is adapted to transmit control signals to the laser base unit and to the laser manipulation system in response to user input. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690983 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07062066 | Wolfson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marilyn Wolfson (Acton, Massachusetts); Richard Johnson (Harvard, Massachusetts); Barbara Forman (Framingham, Massachusetts); William Dupree (Westborough, Massachusetts); Kim E. Theriault (Milford, New Hampshire); Robert Boldi (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Carol Wilson (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert G. Hallowell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Richard L. Delanoy (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for forecasting the likely occurrence of convective weather events, such as thunderstorms. An image filter is used to identify areas of interest within a meteorological image that are likely to contain convective weather. The image filter and an image difference processor identify sub-image regions within the meteorological image that are likely to experience a growth and/or decay of weather events. The classification filter classifies sub-image regions within the meteorological image into a number of predetermined storm categories. The meteorological images are filtered using matched filters, features within the filtered images are tracked, and the resulting track vectors are combined according to the storm classification. The meteorological image, interest image, growth/decay image, classification image, and combined vectors are processed to produce the short-term forecast. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144667 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07060992 | Barney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tiax LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Barney (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods of the invention utilize time-resolved techniques to deconvolve a measured response to characterize the nature of particles. The measured response is deconvolved into a scatter component and a fluorescence component. The fluorescence component is further characterized into biological and non-biological components. A discriminant vector is mapped to characterize the nature of the particle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797716 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07060798 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the Oregon State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon); Yuan Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An adhesive composition made by reacting a soy protein with at least one compound under conditions sufficient for introducing additional phenolic hydroxyl functional groups, amine functional groups, and/or thiol functional groups into the soy protein structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437595 |
| 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 530/378 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07060926 | Edmonds |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean S. Edmonds (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The sorting and packaging system comprises an induction and scanning system, a single pass sorting and packaging system for automatically sorting and packaging a plurality of mailpieces based on a single scan by the induction and sorting system, and a control unit connected to and controlling the induction and scanning system and the single pass sorting and packaging system. The single pass sorting and packaging system comprises at least one cell rack, at least one packaging system, and at least one delivery system. The cell rack is connected to the induction and scanning system by a transport sorting system. The cell rack comprises a plurality of cells and a purging system. The packaging system is connected to the cell rack and comprises a transport packaging system and a packaging unit. The delivery system is connected to the packaging system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/312402 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07059176 | Sparks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Ray Sparks (Whitmore Lake, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for assessing the viscosity of a fluid. The method and device utilize a tube with a vibrating freestanding portion into which the fluid is introduced, and relies on sensing the influence that the fluid has on the vibrational movement of the tube to assess the viscosity of the fluid. For this purpose, the freestanding portion is preferably driven at or near a resonant frequency, movement of the freestanding portion is sensed, and the viscosity of a fluid within the tube is assessed by ascertaining the damping effect the fluid has on movement of the freestanding portion at or near the resonant frequency. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710106 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07061074 | Dang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Dept of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khoa V. Dang (Springfield, Virginia); Conrad W Terrill (Lorton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a modified darlington phototransistor wherein a phototransistor is coupled to a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT). This design provides a high sensitivity and a fast response and effectively increases the gain of the photocurrent. This circuit is particularly will suited for the readily available CMOS and Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (BiCMOS) processes prevalent today. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962813 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/567 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2006/fedinvent-patents-20060613.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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