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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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| US 07078014 | Pandey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra K. Pandey (Williamsville, New York); Zachary Grossman (Buffalo, New York); Peter Kanter (East Aurora, New York); Thomas J. Dougherty (Grand Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for MR imaging that comprises conducting the MR imaging after injecting compositions that are chemical combination of porphyrins, chlorins, bacteriochlorins, and related tetra-pyrrolic compounds with radioactive elements such as Technetium99, Gadolinium, Indium111 and radioactive iodine. When the element can form cations, the compound is usually a chelate with the porphyrin or chlorin structure. When the element forms anions, the compound is usually a direct chemical combination of the radioactive element into the porphyrin or chlorin structure. The method uses the compounds of the invention for diagnostic imaging of hyperproliferative tissue such as tumors and new blood vessel growth as is associated with the wet form of age related macular degeneration and methods of making the compounds. Compounds for MRI contrast imaging of the invention are usually Tc99, In111 or Gd(III) complexes of compounds of the formula: |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390438 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.300 |
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| US 07078031 | Marasco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A. Marasco (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Sandra Ogueta (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A vector system that will produce a pseudotyped lentiviral vector that can be used to deliver a desired gene is disclosed. The vector constructs that are described include a number of modifications that enhance the safety of the vector. The vector can be used to more specifically target cells for expression of certain genes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844873 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07078032 | MacLaughlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. MacLaughlin (Saugus, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Vacanti (Winchester, Massachusetts); Patricia K. Donahoe (Boston, Massachusetts); Peter T. Masiakos (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Normal cells, such as fibroblasts or other tissue or organ cell types, are genetically engineered to express biologically active, therapeutic agents, such as proteins that are normally produced in small amounts, for example, MIS, or other members of the TGF-beta family Herceptin™, interferons, and anti-angiogenic factors. These cells are seeded into a matrix for implantation into the patient to be treated. Cells may also be engineered to include a lethal gene, so that implanted cells can be destroyed once treatment is completed. Cells can be implanted in a variety of different matrices. In a preferred embodiment, these matrices are implantable and biodegradable over a period of time equal to or less than the expected period of treatment, when cells engraft to form a functional tissue producing the desired biologically active agent. Implantation may be ectopic or in some cases orthotopic. Representative cell types include tissue specific cells, progenitor cells, and stem cells. Matrices can be formed of synthetic or natural materials, by chemical coupling at the time of implantation, using standard techniques for formation of fibrous matrices from polymeric fibers, and using micromachining or microfabrication techniques. These devices and strategies are used as delivery systems via standard or minimally invasive implantation techniques for any number of parenterally deliverable recombinant proteins, particularly those that are difficult to produce in large amounts and/or active forms using conventional methods of purification, for the treatment of a variety of conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690077 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07078033 | Kropp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley P. Kropp (Edmond, Oklahoma); Yuan Yuan Zhang (Edmond, Oklahoma); Earl Y. Cheng (Elmhurst, Illinois); Hsueh-Kung Lin (Edmond, Oklahoma); Rick Cowan (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for repairing damaged or diseased urinary tract tissue includes providing a urinary tract tissue graft composition that includes a distal ileal segment of small intestinal submucosa. The distal ileal segment of small intestinal submucosa may be utilized as an unseeded tissue graft composition, or the distal ileal segment of small intestinal submucosa may be positioned in a tissue culture frame, and smooth muscle and urothelial cells isolated from a tissue specimen of a subject and cultured are then seeded upon the distal ileal segment of small intestinal submucosa, thereby forming a urinary tract tissue graft. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314799 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 07078037 | Galgiani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John N. Galgiani (Tucson, Arizona); Kris Orsborn (Tucson, Arizona); Tao Peng (Tucson, Arizona); Lisa Shubitz (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions of peptides and polynucleotides encoding the peptides, which peptides are useful for generating an immunological response in an individual and in therapeutic and diagnostic applications of infections due to pathogenic Coccidioides spp. fungi, such as C. immitis or C. posadasii. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417923 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07078041 | Koelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington); Zhi Liu (Seattle, Washington); Lawrence Corey (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a method of identifying an immunologically active antigen of a virus that attacks skin, as well as a method of enriching a population of lymphocytes for T lymphocytes that are specific to a virus that attacks skin. Also provided are HSV antigens and epitopes that are useful for the prevention and treatment of HSV infection that have been identified via the methods of the invention. T-cells having specificity for antigens of the invention have demonstrated cytotoxic activity against cells loaded with virally-encoded peptide epitopes, and in many cases, against cells infected with HSV. The identification of immunogenic antigens responsible for T-cell specificity provides improved anti-viral therapeutic and prophylactic strategies. Compositions containing antigens or polynucleotides encoding antigens of the invention provide effectively targeted vaccines for prevention and treatment of HSV infection. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/623429 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/229.100 |
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| US 07078042 | Briles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Briles (Birmingham, Alabama); Susan K. Hollingshead (Birmingham, Alabama); Alexis Brooks-Walter (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed are: epitopic regions of Pneumococcal Surface Protein C or “PspC”, different clades of PspC, isolated and/or purified nucleic acid molecules such as DNA encoding a fragment or portion of PspC such as an epitopic region of PspC or at least one epitope of PspC, uses for such nucleic acid molecules, e.g., to detect the presence of PspC or of S. pneumoniae by detecting a nucleic acid molecule therefor in a sample such as by amplification and/or a polymerase chain reaction, vectors or plasmids which contain and/or express such nucleic acid molecles, e.g., in vitro or in vivo, immunological, immunogenic or vaccine compositions including at least one PspC and/or a portion thereof (such as at least one epitopic region of at least one PspC and/or at least one polypeptide encoding at least one epitope of at least one PspC), either alone or in further combination with at least one second pneumococcal antigen, such as at least one different PspC and/or a fragment thereof and/or at least one PspA and/or at least one epitopic region of at least one PspA and/or at least one polypeptide including at least one epitope of PspA. PspC or a fragment thereof, and thus a composition including PspC or a fragment thereof, can be administered by the same routes, and in approximately the same amounts, as PspA. Thus, the invention further provides methods for administering PspC or a fragment thereof, as well as uses of PspC or a fragment thereof to formulate such compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/298523 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
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| US 07078176 | Bianco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Serivices (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caterina Bianco (Bethesda, Maryland); David Salomon (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for the detection and quantification of Cripto-1. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for the detection and quantification of Cripto-1 in samples such as milk, plasma, serum, and other biological fluids. In particularly preferred embodiments, the present invention finds use in the detection and/or quantification of Cripto-1 in human milk, plasma, serum, and other biological fluids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/470322 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07078180 | Genetta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Genetta (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and kits which employ one or more ZEB specific detection reagents for detection and localization of ZEB associated molecules in tumor cells are disclosed. Also provided are methods for determining stage and progression of cancer in a mammal based on alterations in ZEB expression levels and subcellular localization. Also provided are methods for treating a cancer in a mammal by modulating ZEB expression levels and activity. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232561 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07078182 | Cobb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melanie Cobb (Dallas, Texas); Michelle Hutchinson (Dallas, Texas); Zhu Chen (Dallas, Texas); Kevin Berman (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for potentiating the activity of the mitogen-activated protein kinase p38. In particular the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase MEK6, and variants thereof that stimulate phosphorylation of p38 are provided. Such compounds may be used, for example, for therapy of diseases associated with the p38 cascade and to identify antibodies and other agents that inhibit or activate signal transduction via p38. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/686346 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
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| US 07078188 | Batra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surinder Batra (Omaha, Nebraska); Nicolas Moniaux (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are human MUC17-encoding nucleotide sequences, proteins, antibodies, and methods for use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704781 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07078193 | Finlay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of British Columbia (Vancover, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Brett Finlay (Richmond, Canada); Brendan Kenny (Redland, United Kingdom); Markus Stein (Quercegrossa, Italy); Michael S. Donnenberg (Baltimore, Maryland); Li-Ching Lai (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a polypeptide, called EspA, which is secreted by pathogenic E. coli, such as the enteropathogenic (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) E. coli. The invention also provides isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding EspA polypeptide, EspA peptides, a recombinant method for producing recombinant EspA, antibodies which bind to EspA, and a kit for the detection of EspA-producing E. coli. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/967347 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/71.200 |
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| US 07078203 | Xiong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yue Xiong (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Tomohiko Ohta (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding the proteins ROC1 and ROC2, the isolated proteins themselves, expression vectors containing at least a fragment of the ROC1 and ROC2 polynucleotide sequences, and host cells comprising the same. Methods of producing the ROC1 and ROC2 proteins are also disclosed, and methods of detecting the polynucleotides in samples are included in this invention, as are antibodies to the ROC1 and ROC2 proteins and antisense molecules complementary to polynucleotides encoding the same. The present invention further includes methods for screening bioactive agents that are capable of binding to a ROC protein, methods of screening bioactive agents capable of interfering with the binding of ROC proteins, and methods of screening bioactive agents capable of modulating the activity of a ROC protein. Such screening methods are capable of identifying compounds that have pharmacological. Pharmaceutical formulations comprising such pharmacologically active compounds and methods of administering the same are an additional aspect of this invention. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/541462 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 07078377 | Climo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nutrition 21, Inc. (Purchase, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Climo (Richmond, Virginia); Ellen Murphy (Bronx, New York); Gordon Archer (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Co-administration of a lysostaphin or other anti-staphylococcal agent which cleaves cross-links of peptidoglycans of staphylococci cell walls such as lysostaphin and an antibiotic effective against staphylococci due to antibiotic activity mediated by cell-wall activity is effective against staphylococcal infection, even staphylococci that may be resistant to one or other of lysostaphin or the cell-wall active antibiotic. Co-administration simultaneously suppresses the generation of antibiotic-resistant mutant strains. Effective cell-wall active antibiotics include β-lactams and glycopeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/665077 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07078381 | Bachovchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Bachovchin (Melrose, Massachusetts); Andrew G. Plaut (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Drucker (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for modifying glucose metabolism and treating Type II diabetes in an animal, along with modifying metabolism of a peptide hormone in an animal. Compositions disclosed herein comprise one or more peptides and/or peptide analogs which include a functional group that reacts with an active site residue of a protease. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794316 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07078387 | Leiden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arch Development Corp. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Leiden (Weston, Massachusetts); Eric Svensson (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the use of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors to transduce cardiomyocytes in vivo by infusing the rAAV into a coronary artery or coronary sinus. rAAV infection is not associated with detectable myocardial inflammation or myocyte necrosis. Thus, rAAV is a useful vector for the stable expression of therapeutic genes in the myocardium and can be used to deliver genes for inducing angiogenesis, inhibiting angiogenesis, stimulating cell proliferation, inhibiting cell proliferation and/or treating or ameliorating other cardiovascular conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/473830 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07078396 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARCH Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching Song (Chicago, Illinois); Shutsung Liao (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a disorder related to a high cholesterol concentration, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a compound of formula (I): Also disclosed are methods, kits, combinations, and compositions for treating a disorder in a subject where an activator of liver X alpha is indicated, such as in, for example, treating a high cholesterol disease. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/290997 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/182 |
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| US 07078413 | Kudsk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Kudsk (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a seven amino acid peptide (7AA) of bombesin. Methods for reducing the impairment respiratory tract mucosal immunity, reducing the rate of infection of the respiratory tract by pathogenic microorganisms and reducing the atrophy or dysfunction of the GALT comprising administering an effective amount of 7AA are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/152611 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/308 |
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| US 07078423 | Nivorozhkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Nivorozhkin (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); John Van Duzer (Georgetown, Massachusetts); Andrew Salzman (Belmont, Massachusetts); Garry Southan (Lynn, Massachusetts); Siya Ram (Winchester, Massachusetts); Qi Zeng (North Andover, Massachusetts); Csaba Szabo (Gloucester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to 5-Aryltetrazole compounds, compositions comprising a 5-Aryltetrazole compound, and methods for treating an inflammation disease, a reperfusion disease, hyperuricemia, gout, or tumor-lysis syndrome in an animal in need thereof comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a 5-Aryltetrazole compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/197609 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/381 |
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| US 07078461 | Tomalia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Tomalia (Midland, Michigan); Istvan J. Majoros (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods involving biocompatible dendrimers. In particular, the present invention provides dendrimeric copolymers with poly(propyleneimine) (POPAM) interiors and poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) exteriors for use in transfection and imaging applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431956 |
| 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 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/43 |
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| US 07078501 | Heyman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California); South Carolina Research Institute (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Heyman (Rixensart, Belgium); Gabor Szalai (West Columbia, South Carolina); Michael Felder (Columbia, South Carolina); Knut R. Madden (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Vaccinia topoisomerase-adapted linker, which contains an oligonucleotide primer binding site of known sequence, useful for specifically joining the linker to the end of a polynucleotide of unknown sequence and allowing subsequent PCR amplification of the polynucleotide or DNA is provided. Kits containing the invention Vaccinia topoisomerase-adapted linker and one or more linker-specific oligonucleotides for annealing to the linker in PCR are also provided. In addition, the invention provides methods for using the invention linkers in linker-mediated PCR amplification procedures for isolation and optional sequencing of isolated PCR amplification products. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/792875 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07078507 | Narum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Narum (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Hong Liang (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Steve Fuhrmann (Germantown, Maryland); B. Kim Lee Sim (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic gene sequences encoding erythrocyte binding protein of a malaria pathogen for the expression of the erythrocyte binding protein. The codon composition of the synthetic gene sequences approximates the mammalian codon composition. The synthetic gene sequences are useful for incorporation into the DNA vaccine vectors, for the incorporation into various expression vectors for production of malaria proteins, or both. The synthetic genes may be modified to avoid post-translational modification of the encoded protein in hosts. Administration of the synthetic gene sequences, or the encoded protein, as an immunization agent is useful for induction of immunity against malaria, treatment of malaria, or both. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/293913 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07078508 | Francischetti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivo M. B. Francischetti (Bethesda, Maryland); Jesus G. Valenzuela (Gaithersburg, Maryland); José M. C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Ixolaris, a novel protein with anticoagulant activity is described. Ixolaris can be isolated from the salivary glands of ticks or made by recombinant methods using various DNA expression techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408166 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07078547 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Deng (Waltham, Massachusetts); Shi-Kai Tian (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for the catalytic asymmetric cyanosilylation of ketones, aldehydes, thioketones, thioaldehydes, imines and hydrazones. The critical elements of the method are: a non-racemic chiral tertiary-amine-containing catalyst; a substrate selected from the group consisting of ketones, aldehydes, thioketones, thioaldehydes, imines and hydrazones; and a silyl cyanide, e.g., trimethylsilyl cyanide. In preferred embodiments, the substrate is a ketone or aldehyde. A preferred embodiment of the present invention relates to practicing the method in a halocarbon solvent, e.g., chloroform. Another preferred embodiment of the present invention relates to practicing the method in an ester solvent, e.g., ethyl acetate. In certain embodiments, the methods of the present invention produce a silyl cyanohydrin with an enantiomeric excess greater than about 80%. In certain embodiments, the methods of the present invention produce a silyl cyanohydrin with an enantiomeric excess greater than about 90%. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/358990 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078679 | Westphall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Westphall (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Lloyd M. Smith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides devices, device configurations and methods for improved sensitivity, resolution and efficiency in mass spectrometry, particularly as applied to biological molecules, including biological polymers, such as proteins and nucleic acids. More particularly, the invention provides methods and devices for analyzing and detecting electrically charged particles, especially suitable for gas phase ions generated from high molecular weight compounds. In one aspect, the invention provides devices and methods for determining the velocity, charged state or both of electrically charged particles and packets of electrically charged particles. In another aspect, the invention provides methods and devices for the time-of-flight analysis of electrically charged particles comprising spatially collimated sources. In another aspect, the invention relates to multiple detection using inductive detectors, improved methods of signal averaging and charged particle detection in coincidence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723462 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079240 | Scherer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Marko Loncar (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and apparatus provide the ability to detect a chemical in an analyte. To detect the chemical, the invention utilizes a laser having an open cavity. A photonic crystal lattice structure having a defect defines a suitable geometry for such a cavity. The analyte is introduced directly into a high optical field of the cavity. Thereafter, the cavity is pumped and an emission from the laser is used to detect the presence of the chemical in the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794071 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079956 | Ramakrishnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical Research Council (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Ditlev Egeskov Brodersen (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Andrew Philip Carter (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides high resolution X-ray crystal structures of the 30S ribosome, obtained from Thermus thermophilus 30S subunit, having a tetragonal space group P41212 to which are bound an antibiotic selected from the group paromomycin, streptomycin, spectinomycin, tetracycline, pactamycin and hygromycin B. An advantageous feature of the structure is that it diffracts at about 3 Å resolution. The invention also provides a crystal of 30S having the three dimensional atomic coordinates of the 30S ribosome, the coordinates being provided in any one of tables 1 to 4. The data may be used for the rational design and modelling of inhibitors for the 30S ribosome, which have potential use as antibiotics. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/953814 |
| 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 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institude (San Antonio, Texas); Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota); Dennis L. Orphal (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Anderson, Jr. (San Antonio, Texas); Dennis L. Orphal (Pleasanton, California); Gordon R. Johnson (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A momentum trap ballistic armor comprises an accelerating layer, a plug layer adjacent to the accelerating layer, and an energy absorbing layer. The plug layer includes an opening and at least one plug maintained within the opening. When a projectile impacts the accelerating layer, the plug is accelerated to the velocity of the projectile before the projectile perforates the plug, forming a projectile-plug combination. The energy absorbing layer is used to capture the projectile-plug combination. The accelerating layer is typically ceramic, the plug layer is typically metal, and the energy absorbing layer is typically ballistic cloth material. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/805955 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077167 | Nayfeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samir A. Nayfeh (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonathan D. Rohrs (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Osamah Rifai (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sappinandana Akamphon (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mauricio Diaz (Santa Catarina, Mexico); Emily C. Warman (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A bias-weaving machine is provided. In one embodiment, the bias-weaving machine includes a plurality of yarn carriers, each holding a yarn under tension that extends in a downstream direction towards a woven product. The yarn carriers are translatable in at least one direction other than the downstream direction. The apparatus further includes a plurality of reeds disposed to comb the yarns in a downstream direction. The reeds have a range of motion extending between positions upstream and downstream of the yarn carriers. Embodiment of this invention may advantageously be utilized to weave three-dimensional woven products, such as textile preforms for aerospace composites. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928971 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Textiles: Weaving 139/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077358 | 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 (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A helicopter having a torque-correcting thruster device. The helicopter has an aerodynamic body which has opposite side portions, a top portion and a bottom portion. The aerodynamic body has a cockpit and a pilot seat in the cockpit. The helicopter includes landing gear attached to the bottom portion of the aerodynamic body. The helicopter includes a rotor that is supported by the aerodynamic body and a rotor blade attached to the rotor, and a thruster device operative on one of the side portions of the aerodynamic body to produce an aft-directed thrust that counteracts the torque produced by rotation of the rotor blade so as to control the yaw of the helicopter. The aft-directed thrust simultaneously supplements the forward thrust of the helicopter. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045038 |
| 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 244/17.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077643 | Holladay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamelyn D. Holladay (Kennewick, Washington); Max R. Phelps (Richland, Washington); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Ya-Huei Chin (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microcombustors, microreformers, and methods of steam reforming alcohols over a catalyst. The microcombustors can be manufactured with a very small size and can operate at very low temperature. Surprisingly superior results and properties obtained in methods of the present invention are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008363 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077882 | Kodas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Gold powders and methods for producing gold powders. The powders preferably have a small particle size, narrow size distribution and a spherical morphology. The method includes forming the particles by a spray pyrolysis technique. The invention also includes novel devices and products formed from the gold powders. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/893715 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077991 | Wan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julin Wan (Schenectady, New York); Amiya K. Mukherjee (Davis, California); Matthew J. Gasch (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Densified composites of silicon nitride, silicon carbide, and boron nitride that exhibit high creep resistance are obtained by sintering a mixture of amorphous powders of silicon nitride, silicon carbide, and boron nitride in the presence of an electric field under high pressure. The grain size in the resulting composite is less than 100 nanometers for all components of the composite, and the composite exhibits high creep resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773758 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078032 | MacLaughlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. MacLaughlin (Saugus, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Vacanti (Winchester, Massachusetts); Patricia K. Donahoe (Boston, Massachusetts); Peter T. Masiakos (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Normal cells, such as fibroblasts or other tissue or organ cell types, are genetically engineered to express biologically active, therapeutic agents, such as proteins that are normally produced in small amounts, for example, MIS, or other members of the TGF-beta family Herceptin™, interferons, and anti-angiogenic factors. These cells are seeded into a matrix for implantation into the patient to be treated. Cells may also be engineered to include a lethal gene, so that implanted cells can be destroyed once treatment is completed. Cells can be implanted in a variety of different matrices. In a preferred embodiment, these matrices are implantable and biodegradable over a period of time equal to or less than the expected period of treatment, when cells engraft to form a functional tissue producing the desired biologically active agent. Implantation may be ectopic or in some cases orthotopic. Representative cell types include tissue specific cells, progenitor cells, and stem cells. Matrices can be formed of synthetic or natural materials, by chemical coupling at the time of implantation, using standard techniques for formation of fibrous matrices from polymeric fibers, and using micromachining or microfabrication techniques. These devices and strategies are used as delivery systems via standard or minimally invasive implantation techniques for any number of parenterally deliverable recombinant proteins, particularly those that are difficult to produce in large amounts and/or active forms using conventional methods of purification, for the treatment of a variety of conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690077 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078101 | Ramotowski 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) | Thomas S. Ramotowski (Tiverton, Rhode Island); George J. Kavarnos (New London, Connecticut); Qiming Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a new class of terpolymers for use as high strain electrostrictive polymer films. More particularly, the invention is a class of electrostrictive terpolymers comprising vinylidene fluoride (VDF), trifluoroethylene (TrFE) and at least one monomer having at least one halogen atom side group. The monomer is preferably an ethylene-based monomer and preferably selected to favor gauche-type linkage along the polymer backbone. The halogen atom side group is preferably large enough to move or cause adjacent polymer chains to be farther apart from or away from each other than in the absence of such side group, but not so large that it would inhibit polymer crystallites from forming. The monomer is preferably a chloro-monomer such as chlorofluoroethylene (CFE). The chlorofluoroethylene (CFE) is preferably 1-chloro-2-fluoroethylene or 1-chloro-1-fluoroethylene. The chlorofluoroethylene (CFE) favors gauche-type linkage which favors high electrostrictive strains. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719852 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078113 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Xiaofan Ren (Los Angeles, California); Peter Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Haiping Hong (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Chihaya Adachi (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Light emitting devices having charge transporting layers comprising one or more metal complexes are provided. More particularly, devices include hole transporting layers comprising at least one metal complex are disclosed. The present devices can further comprise an electron blocking layer for improved efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/226861 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078461 | Tomalia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Tomalia (Midland, Michigan); Istvan J. Majoros (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods involving biocompatible dendrimers. In particular, the present invention provides dendrimeric copolymers with poly(propyleneimine) (POPAM) interiors and poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) exteriors for use in transfection and imaging applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431956 |
| 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 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078536 | Ge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genesoft Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (So. San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yigong Ge (So. San Francisco, California); Matthew J. Taylor (San Francisco, California); Eldon E. Baird (Half Moon Bay, California); Heinz E. Moser (San Mateo, California); Roland W. Bürli (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Charged compounds are provided that comprise one or more regions of localized positive charge, compositions comprising such compounds, methods of synthesizing such compounds, methods of screening such compounds to identify those having anti-infective activity, and methods of using such compounds to prevent or inhibit infections. These compounds, and compositions containing them, have multiple applications, including use in human and animal medicine and in agriculture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/278870 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078542 | Jen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Hong Ma (Seattle, Washington); Sen Liu (Seattle, Washington); Larry R Dalton (Silverdale, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nonlinear optically active compounds, methods for making nonlinear optically active compounds, compounds useful for making nonlinear optically active compounds, methods for making compounds useful for making nonlinear optically active compounds, macrostructures that include nonlinear optically active components, and devices including the nonlinear optically active compounds and the macrostructures. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934964 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078548 | Houser 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) | Eric J. Houser (Ocean View, New Jersey); Robert A. McGill (Lorton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a device for selective molecular recognition, the device comprising a sensing portion, wherein said sensing portion includes a substrate having coated thereon a layer comprising a hyperbranched compound having: (1) a polymer backbone portion that is at least partly randomly branched; (2) at least one pendant group extending from the polymer backbone portion; and (3) at least one halogen substituted alcohol or phenol group substituted at the pendant group(s) of the polymer backbone portion. The compound of the invention preferably has the general formula: wherein A is the hyperbranched backbone portion of the polymer; L and M are independently selected pendant groups of said polymer backbone; X and Y are independently selected halogen substituted alcohol or phenol groups; q and r are independently selected and at least 1; and n is at least 3. The device is used to detect the molecules of a hydrogen bond accepting vapor such as organophosphorus or nitroaromatic species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/091024 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078680 | Griffin 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) | Matthew T. Griffin (Bloomington, Indiana); Jack E. Fulton, Jr. (Elnora, Indiana); Robert F. McAtee (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a system and a method for analyzing and identifying an unknown sample using ion mobility spectrometry. The method pulses an ion gate using a temporally spaced pattern of ion admitting periods and ion repelling periods to achieve an admission duty cycle of about 50% of the total scan time. Ions passing through the drift tube strike an ion detector, generating a time dependent mobility spectrum. A combination of wavelet decomposition and statistical evaluators are used on the mobility spectrum to produce a distinct signature associated with the sample. Signatures are also generated for a number of known agents, and the known agent signatures are used to program a neural network. The sample signature is then compared to the signatures for the known agents using a fuzzy decision maker. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774644 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079535 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Universtiy of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang H. Kim (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The sender of a multicast in a computer network attaches an official release time to the message being multicast, asking every receiver to process the message at or after the official release time. A receiver may receive a cancellation notice after receiving the multicast message but before its official release time. The official release time is chosen so that the multicast can succeed or be cancelled by the official release time with the probability at or above a user selected level under reasonably bounded numbers of occurrences of permanent and temporary faults and reasonably bounded durations of temporary faults. This multicast protocol is formulated to suit the environment where it is not worth it for a node to wait for a reply from another node beyond a certain time-period, called the timeout period. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/917575 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/390 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079730 | Fallahi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahmoud Fallahi (Tucson, Arizona); Amir Fardad (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid optoelectronic device and method of producing the hybrid device in which the hybrid device includes a substrate with an input region configured to accept input light, a sol-gel glass multimode interference region coupled to and contiguous with the input region and configured to accept and replicate the input light as multiple self-images, and a sol-gel glass output region contiguous with the multimode region and configured to accept and to output the multiple self-images. Alternatively, the hybrid optoelectronic device includes a substrate with a photoelectronic device, a surface resonator including a light-emitting part of the photelectronic device and configured to resonate light from the photoelectronic device to produce a laser light, and a grating outcoupler contiguous with the surface resonator and configured to diffract the laser light outward from the grating outcoupler and to electrically vary an index of refraction of the outcoupler and change a direction of the diffracted laser light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/134431 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079778 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shannon Mary Nelson (Chicago, Illinois); Richard Joseph Paul (Bartlett, Illinois); Mark D. Hischke (Algonquin, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Infrared communications scheme for use in an embedded system. According to a preferred embodiment, the invention comprises the use of an infrared communications scheme, according to IrDA protocol, which is utilized to transmit and receive data optically between circuit cards housed within an enclosed, embedded system. Preferably, each respective circuit card is provided with an LED and photodiode to respectively transmit and receive data optically. As such, wire connections are eliminated and allows the systems and methods of the present invention to withstand a greater degree of vibration and shock than that of the prior-art systems and methods. Moreover, the systems and methods of the present invention provide increased reliability and provide greater electrical isolation between modules than prior-art systems and methods. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544762 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079820 | Bortnyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Bortnyk (Seminole, Florida); David J. Lupia (Oldsmar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Combining signals includes receiving first signals having a first frequency and second signals having a second frequency. A first weight reflecting a signal-to-noise ratio associated with a first signal is determined for each first signal, and a first signal output is generate from the first signals in accordance with the first weights. A second weight reflecting a signal-to-noise ratio associated with a second signal is determined for each second signal, and a second signal output is generate from the second signals in accordance with the second weights. The first signal output and the second signal output are combined to yield a combined signal output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007084 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079899 | Petrofsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerrold S. Petrofsky (Redlands, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of promoting the healing of a wound disposed in soft tissue and having a physical extent is disclosed, comprising the steps of providing control circuitry to control the application of electrical current through a plurality of electrodes; applying three or more electrodes to the surface of the soft tissue around and in proximity to the wound, wherein each of the three or more electrodes is connected to the control circuitry; conducting an electrical current through the three or more electrodes, such that one electrode functions as a current source and one or more of the remaining electrodes functions as a current sink; and switching the function of acting as a current source and as a current sink among the electrodes. A device and suitable control circuitry are also disclosed. Feedback control is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605132 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079993 | Stephenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Mark Stephenson (West Chester, Pennsylvania); William Reynolds Monach (Grafton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an automated process for producing accurate statistical models from sample data tables. The process solves for optimal parameters of each statistical model considered, computes test statistics and degrees of freedom in the model, and uses these test statistics and degrees of freedom to establish a complete ordering of the statistical models. In cases where the sample data table is sufficiently small, the process constructs and analyzes all reasonable statistical models that might fit the data table provided. In cases where the number of possible models is prohibitively high, the process begins by constructing and solving more general models and then constructs and solves those more detailed models that are similar to those general models that achieved the highest ordering. In either of these two cases, the process arrives at a statistical model that is highest in the ordering and is thus deemed most suitable to model the sample data table. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/424878 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080055 | Campos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier Campos (Arlington, Texas); Frank L. Lewis (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for backlash compensation. A dynamics inversion compensation scheme is designed for control of nonlinear discrete-time systems with input backlash. The techniques of this disclosure extend the dynamic inversion technique to discrete-time systems by using a filtered prediction, and shows how to use a neural network (NN) for inverting the backlash nonlinearity in the feedforward path. The techniques provide a general procedure for using NN to determine the dynamics preinverse of an invertible discrete time dynamical system. A discrete-time tuning algorithm is given for the NN weights so that the backlash compensation scheme guarantees bounded tracking and backlash errors, and also bounded parameter estimates. A rigorous proof of stability and performance is given and a simulation example verifies performance. Unlike standard discrete-time adaptive control techniques, no certainty equivalence (CE) or linear-in-the-parameters (LIP) assumptions are needed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/969549 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080214 | Peterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Lyle Peterson (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiprocessor system includes a plurality of data processing nodes. Each node has a processor coupled to a system memory, a cache memory, and a cache directory. The cache directory contains cache coherency information for a predetermined range of system memory addresses. An interconnection enables the nodes to exchange messages. A node initiating a function shipping request identifies an intermediate destination directory based on a list of the function's operands and sends a message indicating the function and its corresponding operands to the identified destination directory. The destination cache directory determines a target node based, at least in part, on its cache coherency status information to reduce memory access latency by selecting a target node where all or some of the operands are valid in the local cache memory. The destination directory then ships the function to the target node over the interconnection. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687261 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura J. H. Lewis (Calverton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetocaloric effect heterostructure having a core layer of a magnetostructural material with a giant magnetocaloric effect having a magnetic transition temperature equal to or greater than 150 K, and a constricting material layer coated on at least one surface of the magnetocaloric material core layer. The constricting material layer may enhance the magnetocaloric effect by restriction of volume changes of the core layer during application of a magnetic field to the heterostructure. A magnetocaloric effect heterostructure powder comprising a plurality of core particles of a magnetostructural material with a giant magnetocaloric effect having a magnetic transition temperature equal to or greater than 150 K, wherein each of the core particles is encapsulated within a coating of a constricting material is also disclosed. A method for enhancing the magnetocaloric effect within a giant magnetocaloric material including the step of coating a surface of the magnetocaloric material with a constricting material is disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072125 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077532 | Diver, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Diver, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James W. Grossman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael Reshetnik (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar collector comprising a glass mirror, and a composite panel, wherein the back of the mirror is affixed to a front surface of the composite panel. The composite panel comprises a front sheet affixed to a surface of a core material, preferably a core material comprising a honeycomb structure, and a back sheet affixed to an opposite surface of the core material. The invention may further comprise a sealing strip, preferably comprising EPDM, positioned between the glass mirror and the front surface of the composite panel. The invention also is of methods of making such solar collectors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/543622 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/871 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077800 | Gross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian G Gross (Clinton, Tennessee); Larry A Pierce (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In cancer brachytherapy treatment, a small californium-252 neutron source capsule is attached to a guide cable using a modified crimping technique. The guide cable has a solid cylindrical end, and the attachment employs circumferential grooves micromachined in the solid cable end. The attachment was designed and tested, and hardware fabricated for use inside a radioactive hot cell. A welding step typically required in other cable attachments is avoided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941130 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077939 | Crooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Crooks (College Station, Texas); Li Sun (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment an apparatus includes a membrane and at least a portion of a nanotube imbedded within the membrane. The portion of the nanotube imbedded within the membrane provides a conduit through the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/173905 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077945 | Bergsma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwest Aluminum Technologies (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Craig Bergsma (The Dalles, Oregon); Craig W. Brown (Seattle, Washington); Donald R Bradford (Underwood, Washington); Robert J. Barnett (Goldendale, Washington); Michael B. Mezner (Sandy, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing aluminum in an electrolytic cell containing alumina dissolved in an electrolyte, the method comprising the steps of providing a molten salt electrolyte at a temperature of less than 900° C. having alumina dissolved therein in an electrolytic cell having a liner for containing the electrolyte, the liner having a bottom and walls extending upwardly from said bottom. A plurality of non-consumable Cu—Ni—Fe anodes and cathodes are disposed in a vertical direction in the electrolyte, the cathodes having a plate configuration and the anodes having a flat configuration to compliment the cathodes. The anodes contain apertures therethrough to permit flow of electrolyte through the apertures to provide alumina-enriched electrolyte between the anodes and the cathodes. Electrical current is passed through the anodes and through the electrolyte to the cathodes, depositing aluminum at the cathodes and producing gas at the anodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431403 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077983 | Sandi-Tapia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giselle Sandi-Tapia (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Kathleen Carrado Gregar (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A single ion-conducting nanocomposite of a substantially amorphous polyethylene ether and a negatively charged synthetic smectite clay useful as an electrolyte. Excess SiO2 improves conductivity and when combined with synthetic hectorite forms superior membranes for batteries. A method of making membranes is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/334880 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078012 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eattelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William T. Zollinger (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a high pressure gas is disclosed and which includes providing a container; supplying the container with a liquid such as water; increasing the pressure of the liquid within the container; supplying a reactant composition such as a chemical hydride to the liquid under pressure in the container and which chemically reacts with the liquid to produce a resulting high pressure gas such as hydrogen at a pressure of greater than about 100 pounds per square inch of pressure; and drawing the resulting high pressure gas from the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/685771 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/659 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078108 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinghang Zhang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Amit Misra (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael A. Nastasi (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Richard G. Hoagland (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Very high strength single phase stainless steel coating has been prepared by magnetron sputtering onto a substrate. The coating has a unique microstructure of nanometer spaced twins that are parallel to each other and to the substrate surface. For cases where the coating and substrate do not bind strongly, the coating can be peeled off to provide foil. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/891323 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078237 | Mowry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis D. Mowry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Catherine H. Morgan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory C. Frye-Mason (Cedar Crest, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A micropyrolyzer has applications to pyrolysis, heated chemistry, and thermal desorption from liquid or solid samples. The micropyrolyzer can be fabricated from semiconductor materials and metals using standard integrated circuit technologies. The micropyrolyzer enables very small volume samples of less than 3 microliters and high sample heating rates of greater than 20° C. per millisecond. A portable analyzer for the field analysis of liquid and solid samples can be realized when the micropyrolyzer is combined with a chemical preconcentrator, chemical separator, and chemical detector. Such a portable analyzer can be used in a variety of government and industrial applications, such as non-proliferation monitoring, chemical and biological warfare detection, industrial process control, water and air quality monitoring, and industrial hygiene. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/035537 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078364 | Haw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Haw (Altadena, California); Weiguo Song (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention there is provided a novel catalyst system in which the catalytic structure is tailormade at the nanometer scale using the invention's novel ship-in-a-bottle synthesis techniques. The invention describes modified forms of solid catalysts for use in heterogeneous catalysis that have a microporous structure defined by nanocages. Examples include zeolites, SAPOs, and analogous materials that have the controlled pore dimensions and hydrothermal stability required for many industrial processes. The invention provides for modification of these catalysts using reagents that are small enough to pass through the windows used to access the cages. The small reagents are then reacted to form larger molecules in the cages. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/127346 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078705 | Ianakiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiril D. Ianakiev (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Martyn T. Swinhoe (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John Paul Lestone (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector for detecting neutrons and gamma radiation includes a cathode that defines an interior surface and an interior volume. A conductive neutron-capturing layer is disposed on the interior surface of the cathode and a plastic housing surrounds the cathode. A plastic lid is attached to the housing and encloses the interior volume of the cathode forming an ionization chamber, into the center of which an anode extends from the plastic lid. A working gas is disposed within the ionization chamber and a high biasing voltage is connected to the cathode. Processing electronics are coupled to the anode and process current pulses which are converted into Gaussian pulses, which are either counted as neutrons or integrated as gammas, in response to whether pulse amplitude crosses a neutron threshold. The detector according to the invention may be readily fabricated into single or multilayer detector arrays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677040 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078838 | Post |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Conductive lap windings are interleaved with conventional loops in the stator of a motor-generator. The rotor provides magnetic induction lines that, when rotated, cut across the lap windings and the loops. When the rotor is laterally displaced from its equilibrium axis of rotation, its magnetic lines of induction induce a current in the interleaved lap windings. The induced current interacts with the magnetic lines of induction of the rotor in accordance with Lenz's law to generate a radial force that returns the rotor to its equilibrium axis of rotation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/946298 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/90.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079192 | Wysocki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick J. Wysocki (Los Alamos, New Mexico); George H. Nickel (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A blackener for letter box lines associated with a HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid television transmission where the blackener counts horizontal sync pulses contained in the HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid television transmission and determines when the HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid television transmission is in letter-box lines: if it is, then the blackener sends substitute black signal to an output; and if it is not, then the blackener sends the HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid television transmission to the output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209147 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079309 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn-Yu Lin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James G. Fleming (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ihab El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical amplifier having a uniform gain profile uses a photonic crystal to tune the density-of-states of a gain medium so as to modify the light emission rate between atomic states. The density-of-states of the gain medium is tuned by selecting the size, shape, dielectric constant, and spacing of a plurality of microcavity defects in the photonic crystal. The optical amplifier is particularly useful for the regeneration of DWDM signals in long optical fibers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607065 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079449 | Shook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Batelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Michael Shook (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Samuel D. LeRoy (Houston, Texas); William M. Benzing (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining the existence and characteristics of a gradational pressurized zone within a subterranean formation are disclosed. One embodiment involves employing an attenuation relationship between a seismic response signal and increasing wavelet wavelength, which relationship may be used to detect a gradational pressurized zone and/or determine characteristics thereof. In another embodiment, a method for analyzing data contained within a response signal for signal characteristics that may change in relation to the distance between an input signal source and the gradational pressurized zone is disclosed. In a further embodiment, the relationship between response signal wavelet frequency and comparative amplitude may be used to estimate an optimal wavelet wavelength or range of wavelengths used for data processing or input signal selection. Systems for seismic exploration and data analysis for practicing the above-mentioned method embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368875 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079924 | Galbraith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Galbraith (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for allowing a robot to avoid objects along a programmed path: first, a field of view for an electronic imager of the robot is established along a path where the electronic imager obtains the object location information within the field of view; second, a population coded control signal is then derived from the object location information and is transmitted to the robot; finally, the robot then responds to the control signal and avoids the detected object. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689924 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Williams (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A vision metric, called the sharpness metric, indicates the subjective sharpness of a patient's vision by taking into account both the wavefront aberration and the retinal response to the image. A retinal image quality function such as the point spread function is convolved by a neural quality function, and the maximum of the convolution over the retinal plane provides the sharpness metric. The sharpness metric can be used to control eye surgery or the fabrication of a lens. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/428159 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07077939 | Crooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Crooks (College Station, Texas); Li Sun (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment an apparatus includes a membrane and at least a portion of a nanotube imbedded within the membrane. The portion of the nanotube imbedded within the membrane provides a conduit through the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/173905 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078364 | Haw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Haw (Altadena, California); Weiguo Song (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention there is provided a novel catalyst system in which the catalytic structure is tailormade at the nanometer scale using the invention's novel ship-in-a-bottle synthesis techniques. The invention describes modified forms of solid catalysts for use in heterogeneous catalysis that have a microporous structure defined by nanocages. Examples include zeolites, SAPOs, and analogous materials that have the controlled pore dimensions and hydrothermal stability required for many industrial processes. The invention provides for modification of these catalysts using reagents that are small enough to pass through the windows used to access the cages. The small reagents are then reacted to form larger molecules in the cages. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/127346 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078435 | Livinghouse |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Livinghouse (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Autoinducer compounds which enhance gene expression in a wide variety of microorganisms, therapeutic compositions and therapeutic methods wherein gene expression within microorganisms is regulated are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683892 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078647 | Kou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sindo Kou (Madison, Wisconsin); Guoping Cao (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Friction stir welding is enhanced by preheating of the workpiece with an electrical arc, such as an arc applied by a common gas-tungsten arc welding (GTAW) torch. As the arc is moved about a path on the workpiece, it preheats or partially welds the path, with the friction stir welding head following along the path to complete the weld. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970058 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078684 | Beu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahasee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Beu (Austin, Texas); Greg T. Blakney (Tallahassee, Florida); John P. Quinn (Havana, Florida); Christopher L. Hendrickson (Tallahassee, Florida); Alan G. Marshall (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high resolution Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry system includes excitation circuitry including an excitation amplifier for generating an electrical excitation signal and excitation electrodes for applying an oscillating electric field to excite ions in the system. Detection circuitry including detection electrodes measures a detection signal which includes a plurality of signal values including signal values induced by the ions. Structure is provided for reducing or canceling coupling of the excitation signal into the detection signal, wherein simultaneous excitation and detection is used. A computing structure generates a Fourier transformed frequency domain representation of the detection signal and deconvolves the frequency domain representation using complex division to separate a dispersion spectrum portion and an absorption spectrum portion. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/051092 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078896 | Bonnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dawn A. Bonnell (Media, Pennsylvania); Sergei V. Kalinin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Rodolfo Antonio Alvarez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a magnetic force profile of a sample by using a cantilevered probe having a magnetic tip, the method comprising the steps of: traversing the tip along a predetermined path on the surface of the sample, the tip being proximate the surface of the sample while traversing along the predetermined path; determining the sample surface topography along the path; substantially canceling the sample surface potential along the path using the determined sample surface topography; and determining magnetic force data along the path based on the determined surface topography, wherein the determined magnetic force data is not magnetic force gradient data and the determined magnetic force data includes substantially no components from the sample surface potential. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072914 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079240 | Scherer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Marko Loncar (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and apparatus provide the ability to detect a chemical in an analyte. To detect the chemical, the invention utilizes a laser having an open cavity. A photonic crystal lattice structure having a defect defines a suitable geometry for such a cavity. The analyte is introduced directly into a high optical field of the cavity. Thereafter, the cavity is pumped and an emission from the laser is used to detect the presence of the chemical in the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794071 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079254 | Kane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Kane (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Andrei B. Vakhtin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kristen A. Peterson (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for spectral interferometry comprising providing an interferometer comprising a light source and dithering an element to provide a continuous relative phase shift between target and reference arms of the interferometer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804804 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079257 | Kirkpatrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health System (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean J. Kirkpatrick (Portland, Oregon); Donald D. Duncan (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring strains in circuit substrates such as circuit boards and semiconductor wafers include illuminating a specimen with a substantially collimated laser flux. A temperature change is produced in the specimen and a series of laser speckle patterns produced by a laser flux scattered or reflected by the specimen is recorded. Localized strains are detected based on speckle pattern shifts that are calculated using the recorded speckle patterns. Stains can be recorded as a function of temperature or rate of change of temperature, and strains at one or more circuit substrate locations can be detected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414707 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079299 | Conant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Conant (Berkeley, California); Jocelyn T. Nee (Albany, California); Kam-Yin Lau (Danville, California); Richard S. Muller (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A staggered torsional electrostatic combdrive includes a stationary combteeth assembly and a moving combteeth assembly with a mirror and a torsional hinge. The moving combteeth assembly is positioned entirely above the stationary combteeth assembly by a predetermined vertical displacement during a combdrive state. A method of fabricating the staggered torsional electrostatic combdrive includes the step of deep trench etching a stationary combteeth assembly in a first wafer. A second wafer is bonded to the first wafer to form a sandwich including the first wafer, an oxide layer, and the second wafer. A moving combteeth assembly is formed in the second wafer. The moving combteeth assembly includes a mirror and a torsional hinge. The moving combteeth assembly is separated from the first wafer by the oxide layer. The oxide layer is subsequently removed to release the staggered torsional electrostatic combdrive. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/584835 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079308 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan Reed (Pine Islan, Minnesota); Marin Soljacic (Somerville, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (St. Charles, Illinois); Maksim Skorobogatiy (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for converting frequency of electromagnetic radiation includes a nonlinear medium that forms a moving grating in the nonlinear medium by introducing at opposite ends of the nonlinear medium a first set of electromagnetic radiation having varying frequencies. Electromagnetic radiation is inputted into the nonlinear medium at a first frequency and extracted at a second frequency from the nonlinear medium. The moving grating in the nonlinear medium allows for electromagnetic radiation to be converted into the second frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/820420 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079535 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Universtiy of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang H. Kim (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The sender of a multicast in a computer network attaches an official release time to the message being multicast, asking every receiver to process the message at or after the official release time. A receiver may receive a cancellation notice after receiving the multicast message but before its official release time. The official release time is chosen so that the multicast can succeed or be cancelled by the official release time with the probability at or above a user selected level under reasonably bounded numbers of occurrences of permanent and temporary faults and reasonably bounded durations of temporary faults. This multicast protocol is formulated to suit the environment where it is not worth it for a node to wait for a reply from another node beyond a certain time-period, called the timeout period. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/917575 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/390 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080054 | Wells et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Wells (Moscow, Idaho); Bruce Calvert Barnes (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial neuron is formed from an input subcircuit, a capacitor free leaky integrator subcircuit, and an output switching subcircuit. The input subcircuit is configured to supply a pulsed input signal. The capacitor free leaky integrator subcircuit is configured to supply a parasitic capacitance and to utilize the parasitic capacitance to provide differing time constants for the rising and falling edges of an output signal produced in response to the pulsed input signal. The output switching subcircuit s configured to, upon receipt of a sufficient output signal from the capacitor free leaky integrator subcircuit, switch off the input subcircuit and to release a neuron firing signal. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/893407 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080115 | Parhi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Broadcom Corporation (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keshab K Parhi (Mission Viejo, California); Jin-Gyun Chung (Jeonbuk, South Korea); Sang-Min Kim (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An error compensation bias circuit and method for a canonic signed digit (CSD) fixed-width multiplier that receives a W-bit input and produces a W-bit product. Truncated bits of the multiplier are divided into two groups (a major group and a minor group) depending upon their effects on quantization error. An error compensation bias is expressed in terms of the truncated bits in the major group. The effects of the remaining truncated bits in the minor group are taken into account by a probabilistic estimation. The error compensation bias circuit typically requires only a few logic gates to implement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420889 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/625 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07078384 | Nachman 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) | Ronald J. Nachman (Willis, Texas); Peter E. A. Teal (Gainesville, Florida); Christopher S. Garside (Toronto, Canada); Stephen S. Tobe (Virgil, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel pseudopeptide analogs of the insect allatostatin neuropeptide family which possess biological activity mimicking that of the naturally occurring neuropeptides are disclosed. By addition of a hydrophobic moiety to an active portion of the allatostatin peptides, analogs are produced which exhibit an overall amphiphilic nature and which are capable of penetrating the insect cuticle while still retaining biological activity. Furthermore, by substituting sterically hindered amino acids or aromatic acids for any or all of the first, third or fifth amino acid residues of the allatostatin C-terminal pentapeptide, analogs may be produced which are resistant to degradation by insect peptidases while still retaining biological activity. The analogs may be used for insect control by disrupting critical reproductive and/or developmental processes normally regulated by allatostatins in insects. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/385317 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078913 | Pelletier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathew G. Pelletier (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The moisture content of a test material may be determined using a microwave-based process and device which is free from interference by multipath standing waves. Multipath signals may be electronically removed from the measured signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/749484 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07077692 | Chintala |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Chintala (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The described embodiments provide devices and methods for creating an electrical connection in an electronic system. The devices and methods include a standoff that connects a circuit element with a circuit board and supports the circuit element at a sufficient height above the circuit board to create an additional layout area. The additional layout area may be utilized to mount additional circuit elements to the circuit board. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964105 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079857 | Maggenti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Maggenti (San Diego, California); Douglas M. Crockett (San Diego, California); Eric Rosen (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for arbitrating between a first communication device having floor control in a group communication network and a second communication device competing for floor control provides receiving a floor-control request from the second communication device, comparing respective priority levels of the first communication device and the second communication device, and granting floor control to the second communication device if the second communication device has a higher or equal priority level. In one embodiment, the controller receives the request for floor control from a push-to-talk (PTT) device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/045121 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07078233 | Barr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences Incorporated (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Barr (Oakland, California); Daniel V. Santi (San Francisco, California); Gary W. Ashley (Alameda, California); Rainer Ziermann (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybrid and novel polyketide synthases and polyketides are produced by use of a multiple vector system. The combinatorial possibilities offered by placing the various catalytic activities of PKS systems on separate vectors permits the construction of improved libraries of PKS and polyketides. In addition, polyketides can be produced in hosts that ordinarily do not produce polyketides by supplying, along with an expression system for the desired PKS, an expression system for holo ACP synthase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/851650 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078377 | Climo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nutrition 21, Inc. (Purchase, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Climo (Richmond, Virginia); Ellen Murphy (Bronx, New York); Gordon Archer (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Co-administration of a lysostaphin or other anti-staphylococcal agent which cleaves cross-links of peptidoglycans of staphylococci cell walls such as lysostaphin and an antibiotic effective against staphylococci due to antibiotic activity mediated by cell-wall activity is effective against staphylococcal infection, even staphylococci that may be resistant to one or other of lysostaphin or the cell-wall active antibiotic. Co-administration simultaneously suppresses the generation of antibiotic-resistant mutant strains. Effective cell-wall active antibiotics include β-lactams and glycopeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/665077 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07078731 | D'Evelyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Philip D'Evelyn (Niskayuna, New York); Dong-Sil Park (Niskayuna, New York); Steven Francis LeBoeuf (Schenectady, New York); Larry Burton Rowland (Scotia, New York); Kristi Jean Narang (Voorheeesville, New York); Huicong Hong (Niskayuna, New York); Stephen Daley Arthur (Glenville, New York); Peter Micah Sandvik (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A GaN crystal having up to about 5 mole percent of at least one of aluminum, indium, and combinations thereof. The GaN crystal has at least one grain having a diameter greater than 2 mm, a dislocation density less than about 104 cm−2, and is substantially free of tilt boundaries. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010507 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07079260 | Montgomery |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Montgomery (Indialantic, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical profile determining apparatus includes an optical detector and an optical source. The optical source generates a transmit beam including a plurality of wavelengths, and generates a reference beam including the plurality of wavelengths. Optical elements direct the transmit beam to a target, direct a resulting reflected transmit beam back from the target to the optical detector, and combine the reference beam with the reflected transmit beam so that a profile of the target is based upon fringe contrast produced by the plurality of wavelengths in the reference beam and the plurality of wavelengths in the reflected transmit beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631271 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07079730 | Fallahi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahmoud Fallahi (Tucson, Arizona); Amir Fardad (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid optoelectronic device and method of producing the hybrid device in which the hybrid device includes a substrate with an input region configured to accept input light, a sol-gel glass multimode interference region coupled to and contiguous with the input region and configured to accept and replicate the input light as multiple self-images, and a sol-gel glass output region contiguous with the multimode region and configured to accept and to output the multiple self-images. Alternatively, the hybrid optoelectronic device includes a substrate with a photoelectronic device, a surface resonator including a light-emitting part of the photelectronic device and configured to resonate light from the photoelectronic device to produce a laser light, and a grating outcoupler contiguous with the surface resonator and configured to diffract the laser light outward from the grating outcoupler and to electrically vary an index of refraction of the outcoupler and change a direction of the diffracted laser light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/134431 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07080109 | Koç et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cetin K. Koç (Corvallis, Oregon); Tugrul Yanik (Corvallis, Oregon); Erkay Savas (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for modular arithmetic operations with respect to a modulus p include representing operands as a series of s w-bit numbers, wherein Operations are executed word by word and a carry, borrow, or other bit or word is obtained from operations on most significant words of the operands. Depending on the value of this bit or word, an operation-specific correction factor is applied. Cryptographic systems include computer executable instructions for such methods. Bit-level operations are generally avoided and the methods and apparatus are applicable to systems based on, for example, public-key cryptographic algorithms defined over the finite field GF(p). |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/895835 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07079981 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Keller (Washington, District of Columbia); Pat V. Laffey (Washington, District of Columbia); Tom G. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing the operation of a delivery system. The method includes: determining a seeding plan; placing a seed piece into the delivery system; tracking the seed piece through the delivery system to generate tracking data; storing the tracking data in a central repository; and analyzing the tracking data to determine one or more faults. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932051 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07078249 | Zhang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianhong Zhang (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a sharp silicon structure, such as a silicon field emitter, includes oxidizing the silicon structure to form an oxide layer thereon, then removing the oxide layer. Oxidizing may occur at a low temperature and form a relatively thin (e.g., about 20 Å to about 40 Å) oxide layer on the silicon field emitter. The oxide layer may be removed by etching. A silicon field emitter that has been fabricated in accordance with the method is substantially free of crystalline defects and may include an emitter tip having a diameter as small as about 40 Å to about 20 Å or less. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074187 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07078487 | Jüppner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harald Jüppner (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David A Rubin (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel parathyroid hormone (PTH) and parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) receptors (PTH1R and PTH3R) isolated from zebrafish. The receptors of the present invention share homology with previously identified parathyroid hormone (PTH)/parathyroid related protein (PTHrP) receptors. Isolated nucleic acid molecules are provided encoding the zebrafish PTH1R and PTH3R receptors. PTH1R and PTH3R receptor polypeptides are also provided, as are vectors, host cells and recombinant methods for producing the same. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of PTH1R and PTH3R receptor activity and to diagnostic and therapeutic methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/372095 |
| 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 07078906 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl V. Nelson (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal detector capable of operating in both a time-domain mode and a frequency-domain mode includes a transmitter component and a receiver component. The transmitter component includes a transmitter coil that can receive both an AC and DC current source for frequency-and time-domain operation respectively. The AC signal is impressed on the DC signal such that while the transmitter coil is charging, frequency-domain sensing is occurring and when the transmitter coil is switched off, time-domain sensing is occurring. The receiver component uses a primary field bucking method to ensure that both time-and frequency-domain modes can operate with the receiver coil. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942146 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07079081 | Parsche et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis E. Parsche (Palm Bay, Florida); Brian J. Haman (West Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna (100) for RF communications. The antenna includes a radiating member (102) which is substantially tubular so as to define a cavity (104) therein. The radiating member (102) is made of a conductive material having a non-conductive slot (106) extending from a first portion (108) of the radiating member (102) to a second portion (110). An impedance matching device (120) is electrically connected to the radiating member (102) via a conductor (134) to match an impedance of the radiating member (102) with an impedance of a signal source or an impedance of a load. The impedance matching device (120), the conductor (134), and at least a portion of the radiating member radiating element (102) can formed from a single conductive sheet, or molded or extruded as a single conductive structure. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/619299 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080098 | Smirniotopoulos et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Smirniotopoulos (Silver Spring, Maryland); Henry Andrew Irvine (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical image storage and retrieval system includes a database with relationally linked tables including a disease factoid table, an image and image caption table, and a patient data table. A flexible system allows for peer review, remote access and maintenance of the stored data, and query searching and retrieval of groups of related multimedia (image and text) case file information. The system facilitates distance learning and remote consultation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138793 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/104.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
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Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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