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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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| US 07080461 | Jensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Jensen (Auburn, Washington); David M. Pett (Seattle, Washington); Paul Buehler (Mill Creek, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, for installation of fastening systems to a structure, includes a fastening system installation specification, which includes dimensional and qualitative requirements for components of the fastening systems; and a tool. The tool includes an outer housing having an interior hollow, a gage surface, and a base surface, the base surface having a contact area that contacts the surface of the structure. An inner plug disposed within the interior hollow translates axially within the interior hollow. The inner plug has a sensing end that contacts a bolt of the fastening system and references the shank section of the bolt. The inner plug has an indicator end dimensioned to accept washers and nuts of the fastening system stacked on the gage surface. The inner plug has an indicator that provides installation information, according to either qualitative or dimensional requirements, about the components of the fastening system being installed using the tool. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762084 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/645 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080555 | Austin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell K. Austin (Austin, Texas); Chris Coughlin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed real time health monitoring system is described for monitoring of acoustic emission signals from different regions of a structure such as aircraft or spacecraft structures. The health monitoring system has its analysis and prognosis intelligence distributed out to the local regions being monitored and therefore does not require extensive cabling systems to carry the high bandwidth information characteristic of acoustic emission. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862096 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080591 | Doherty |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Doherty (Feeding Hills, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydraulic assembly has a first fluid valve and a second fluid valve. A switching valve having a first fluid input and a second fluid input also has a fluid output. The first fluid input is in fluid communication with the first fluid valve while the second fluid input is in fluid communication with the second fluid valve. The switching valve is configured to switch fluid communication to the fluid output between the first fluid input and the second fluid input. A fluid actuator is in fluid communication with the fluid output. A housing for the switching valve is provided. The housing has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first fluid passage permitting fluid communication between the first fluid valve and the first fluid input and a second fluid passage permitting fluid communication between the second fluid valve and the second fluid input. The first fluid passage has a first opening and the second fluid passage has a second opening. The second portion has a first seal to seal the first opening and a second seal to seal the second opening. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/940923 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motors: Expansible chamber type 091/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080804 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald B. Anderson (Baltimore, Maryland); Richard M. Anthony (Bel Air, Maryland); Long T. Nguyen (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A weapons system is disclosed that provides hot-start navigational information to the Global-Positioning-System receivers on missiles prior to flight. The system comprises a Global-Positioning-System receiver that uses a classified red cryptographic key to decode the P(Y) signal from one or more of the Global-Positioning-System constellation of satellites. Once the P(Y) signal is decoded, one or more characteristics of the P(Y) signal is derived. These characteristics of the signal—and some other information including a black cryptographic key that comprises the red cryptographic key—are then provided to the Global-Positioning-System receivers on missiles prior to flight. By giving the missiles this information, the missiles are able to acquire the P(Y) signals, which enables them to determine their position more quickly than they otherwise could. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/881148 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080939 | Fair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoff E. Fair (Centerville, Ohio); Triplicane A. Parthasarathy (Beavercreek, Ohio); Ronald J. Kerans (Yellow Springs, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved thermal history sensor having multiple polymeric substrates with unique compositions is disclosed. By positioning the sensor adjacent to an item subject to thermal stressors, each of the polymeric substrates react with a different rate of crystallization and thus yield a specific measure of infrared (IR) absorption spectra, for example. By comparing these measurements for each polymeric substrate, a thermal history fingerprint may be obtained. This thermal history fingerprint may then be compared to baseline data to yield information about the item, such as the expected remaining useful lifetime of the item. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963008 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081161 | Genge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Genge (Columbia, South Carolina); Licia Wu (Cayce, South Carolina); Glenn R. Sauer (Fairfield, Connecticut); Roy E. Wuthier (Columbia, South Carolina); Ronald Genge (Watertown, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A cement powder is disclosed that contains reactive tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles and other ingredients required to form a cementous material. Methods of making the reactive tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles, the cement powder, the cement paste, and cured cement are also provided, as are methods and articles for using the cement. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841885 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081415 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Wang (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dry plasma etching a semiconductor structure (20), having at least one semiconductor material layer (21), on a semiconductor wafer (200), involving a dry plasma reaction gas mixture (30i) being chemically selected for, and having an etch rate corresponding to, each semiconductor material layer (21); dividing the semiconductor structure (20) into a masked portion (23a) and an unmasked portion (23b); and sequentially exposing the unmasked portion (23b) of the semiconductor structure (20) to the dry plasma reaction gas mixture (30i). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782538 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/714 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081433 | Rolison 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) | Debra Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Jeremy Pietron (Washington, District of Columbia); Rhonda Stroud (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Gold-titania (Au—TiO2) composite aerogels and ambigles were synthesized, characterized, and tested as ambient temperature catalysts for carbon monoxide. Adding alkanethiolate-monolayers-protected gold clusters (with ˜2 nm Au cores) directly to titania sol before gelation yields uniformly dispersed guests in the composite aerogel. The Au guests aggregate to 5 to 10 nm upon calcination to remove alkanethiolate and crystallize amorphous titania to anatase. The resulting composite aerogel exhibits high catalytic activity toward CO oxidation at room temperature at Au particle sizes that are essentially inactive in prior Au—TiO2 catalysts. Transmission electron microscopy illustrates the three-dimensional nature of the catalytic nanoarchitecture in which gold guests contact multiple anatase nanocrystallites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390257 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081529 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard A. Smith (Clarksburg, Maryland); Michael P. Byrne (New Market, Maryland); John L. Middlebrook (Middletown, Maryland); Hugh Lapenotiere (Charlestown, West Virginia); Michael A. Clayton (Mt. Airy, Maryland); Douglas R. Brown (Githersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to preparation and expression of synthetic genes encoding polypeptides containing protective epitopes of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT). The invention is also directed to production of immunogenic peptides encoded by the synthetic genes, as weel as recovery and purification of the immunogenic peptides from recombinant organisms. The invention is also directed to methods of vaccination against botulism using the expressed peptides. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/910186 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081619 | Bashkirov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California); Yeda, Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Bashkirov (Loma Linda, California); Reinhard W. Schulte (Grand Terrace, California); Sergei Shchemelinin (Rehovot, Israel); Amos Breskin (Nes Ziona, Israel); Rachel Chechik (Moshav Bet Hanan, Israel); Guy Garty (Rehovot, Israel); Jamie Milligan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanodosimeter device (15) for detecting positive ions induced in a sensitive gas volume by a radiation field of primary particle, comprising an ionization chamber (10) for holding the sensitive gas volume to be irradiated by the radiation field of primary particles; an ion counter system connected to the ionization chamber (10) for detecting the positive ions which pass through the aperture opening and arrive at the ion counter (12) at an arrival time; a particle tracking system for position-sensitive detection of the primary particles passing through the sensitive gas volume; and a data acquisition system capable of coordinating the readout of all data signals and of performing data analysis correlating the arrival time of the positive ions detected by the ion counter system relative to the position sensitive data of primary particles detected by the particle tracking system. The invention further includes the use of the nanodosimeter for method of calibrating radiation exposure with damage to a nucleic acid within a sample. A volume of tissue-equivalent gas is radiated with a radiation field to induce positive ions. The resulting positive ions are measured and compared with a determination of presence or extent of damage resulting from irradiating a nucleic acid sample with an equivalent dose of radiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894873 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081624 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jun Zou (Urbana, Illinois); Xuefeng Wang (Champaign, Illinois); David Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating scanning probe microscopy (SPM) probes is disclosed. The probes are fabricated by forming a structural layer on a substrate, wherein the substrate forms a cavity. A sacrificial layer is located between the substrate and the structural layer. Upon forming the structural layer, the sacrificial layer is selectively removed, and the probe is then released from the substrate. The substrate may then later be reused to form additional probes. Additionally, a contact printing method using a scanning probe microscopy probe is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670585 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081630 | Saini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Saini (Dallas, Texas); Zoran Jandric (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A microcolumn including an assembly substrate and a plurality of beam modification components. The assembly substrate includes a plurality of sockets, and the beam modification components each include a connector coupled to a corresponding one of the sockets. Assembly of the beam modification components to the assembly substrate may employ automation and/or automated calibration, including automated motion of robotic stages in a substantially automated manner. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799836 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/398 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081658 | Worledge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); Infineon Technologies North America Corp. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Christopher Worledge (Poughquag, New York); Ulrich Klostermann (Fontainebleau, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides techniques for data storage. In one aspect of the invention, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises at least one free layer and at least one fixed layer, with at least one barrier layer therebetween. At least one pinned magnetic layer is separated from the at least one free layer by at least one non-magnetic layer, the at least one pinned magnetic layer and non-magnetic layer being configured to cancel out at least a portion of a Neel coupling between the at least one free layer and the at least one fixed layer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/878156 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081699 | Keolian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Keolian (State College, Pennsylvania); Kevin J. Bastyr (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoacoustic generator includes a housing with a thermoacoustic core supported in the housing. The core is operable to introduce acoustical power into the housing to thereby oscillate the pressure of the gas in the housing at a frequency. A piezoelectric alternator is also supported in the housing and has a face that is movable when acted on by the acoustical power. The alternator includes a portion of piezoelectric material operable to produce electrical power when acted upon by a stress. The piezoelectric material is in mechanical communication with the movable face so that movement of the face stresses the piezoelectric material. The alternator has a moving mass that serves as a substantial portion of the resonating mass inside the housing, thereby providing a pressure oscillation frequency in the housing substantially lower than for a similar system with a rigid member replacing the alternator. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810907 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081729 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Chang (Newbury Park, California); Kirby Keller (Chesterfield, Missouri); Anhua Wang (Thousand Oaks, California); Jiajia Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a diagnostics methodology and embedded electronic system that allows optimized low-frequency data sampling for EMA motoring subsystems in an operating vehicle. Each of the EMA motoring subsystems includes: an EMA; at least one motor for driving the EMA; and power controls for operating the motor, wherein the power controls includes a DSP controller for sampling and processing data at low-frequency sampling rates. The diagnostic methodology includes a method that has the steps of: determining an operational mode of the EMA motoring subsystem; selecting a sampling rate optimized for the determined operational mode; acquiring and processing data at the selected sampling rate; and analyzing the processed data to identify and classify a fault of the EMA motoring subsystem. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807645 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/565 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082001 | Vizgaitis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay N. Vizgaitis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual mode mirror imaging system is described having a Cassegrain-type objective assembly having a primary mirror with a hole in its center and a secondary mirror spaced in front of the primary mirror, and imager optics disposed in the hole. The secondary mirror is adapted to receive laser wavelength light and infrared wavelength light reflected from the primary mirror and to reflect the light back through the imager optics to focal plane. The secondary mirror has one reflecting surface for the laser light and another reflecting surface for the infrared light. The pair of reflecting surface is positioned to change the optical path length between the laser light and the infrared light so that the laser light and the infrared light are imaged at the same focal plane without defocusing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/813068 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/729 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082132 | Beshai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nortel Networks Limited (St. Laurent, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Canada); Harold G. Edwards (Sterling, Virginia); Paul F. Daspit (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A universal electronic switching node serves as an edge node in a high-capacity network with an optical core. The universal edge node may handle a variety of traffic classes and may control traffic admission, connection definition, connection routing and core node configuration. The provided capabilities significantly simplify network operation and control. The universal edge node includes input ports for receiving data streams, output ports for transmitting the data streams though the optical core, a switching fabric for communicating these data streams between input and output ports and a controller for controlling this communicating. In particular, the controller can select a route through the optical core, schedule the communication between input and output ports and adaptively allocate the bitrate of this communication. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/025982 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082172 | Pringle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Charles Pringle (Van Nuys, California); Joanna S. Quan (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital signal gating method and apparatus of a preprocessor in a detection system wherein the detection system includes a central processing unit, a main memory and a receiver, whereby the apparatus and method bifurcate received digital signals, delays them along a first path while subjecting the digital signals along a second path to detection, delay, and thresholding and thereby generates a gating signal from the second path so that digital signals of the first path, including pre-threshold amplitudes, may be recorded. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268170 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082182 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jianping Lu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yueh Lee (Durham, North Carolina); Weili Lin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yuan Cheng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jian Zhang (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Computed tomography device comprising an x-ray source and an x-ray detecting unit. The x-ray source comprises a cathode with a plurality of individually programmable electron emitting units that each emit an electron upon an application of an electric field, an anode target that emits an x-ray upon impact by the emitted electron, and a collimator. Each electron emitting unit includes an electron field emitting material. The electron field emitting material includes a nanostructured material or a plurality of nanotubes or a plurality of nanowires. Computed tomography methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923385 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082219 | Bourbakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas G. Bourbakis (Dayton, Ohio); Stanley E. Borek (New York Mills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein provides a method and apparatus for document processing that efficiently separates and interrelates single modalities, such as text, handwriting, and images. In particular, the present invention starts with the recognition of text characters and words for the efficient separation of text paragraphs from images by maintaining their relationships for a possible reconstruction of the original page. The text separation and extraction is based on a hierarchical framing process. The process starts with the framing of a single character, after its recognition, continues with the recognition and framing of a word, and ends with the framing of all text lines. The method and apparatus described herein can process different types of documents, such as typed, handwritten, skewed, mixed, but not half-tone ones. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314483 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082249 | Whaley, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph D. Whaley, Jr. (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Joseph H. Abeles (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Martin H. Kwakernaak (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Viktor B. Khalfin (Hightstown, New Jersey); Winston K. Chan (Princeton, New Jersey); Haiyan An (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Steven Lipp (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system including: a substrate having a recess; and, a substantially planar, semiconductor waveguiding membrane suspended over the recess and having a thickness less than about 200 nm; wherein, the optical system supports a propagating optical mode having a majority of its energy external to the semiconductor waveguiding membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091186 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082355 | Jacobson |
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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) | Donald R. Jacobson (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Onboard a marine vessel in transit a speedometer, a fathometer and a computer run in conjunction to track the Froude depth number (which is a function of vessel speed and water depth). A warning (e.g., display, signal and/or alarm) appears and/or sounds when the vessel nears or approaches the critical Froude depth number value of one (which is associated with wake wash at its most deleterious level), thus alerting the crew that the vessel's speed must be adjusted (usually, reduced) in order to avoid Froude depth number criticality. Typical embodiments establish a Froude depth number threshold value below 1.0 (e.g., 0.8), above which a red (prohibitive) zone warning is given. Some embodiments additionally establish a Froude depth number value above 1.0 (e.g., 1.2), below which a red (prohibitive) zone warning is given, above which an yellow (cautionary) zone warning (appreciably different from the red zone warning) is given. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943828 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082369 | Rubin 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) | Stuart H. Rubin (San Diego, California); Shu-Ching Chen (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed biohazard surveillance system including a plurality of robust miniaturized remote monitoring stations for the detection, localized analysis and reporting of a broad range of biohazards. The remote monitoring station may be adapted to identify many different biological particles and is not limited to particular predetermined biohazard profiles. It is centrally and dynamically reconfigurable and can be adapted to operate unattended in a remote location. The distributed system may be used to locate and report unsuspected sources of biohazards and to monitor the localized effects in real-time cooperation with a centralized data processing facility. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850004 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082371 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry H. Griffin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Drew M. Feiner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reduced order model called the Fundamental Mistuning Model (FMM) accurately predicts vibratory response of a bladed disk system. The FMM software may describe the normal modes and natural frequencies of a mistuned bladed disk using only its tuned system frequencies and the frequency mistuning of each blade/disk sector (i.e., the sector frequencies). The FMM system identification methods—basic and advanced FMM ID methods—use the normal (i.e., mistuned) modes and natural frequencies of the mistuned bladed disk to determine sector frequencies as well as tuned system frequencies. FMM may predict how much the bladed disk will vibrate under the operating (rotating) conditions. Field calibration and testing of the blades may be performed using traveling wave analysis and FMM ID methods. The FMM model can be generated completely from experimental data. Because of FMM's simplicity, no special interfaces are required for FMM to be compatible with a finite element model. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836422 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/56 |
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| US 07082514 | Rajamony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Robert B. Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and memory controller for adaptive row management within a memory subsystem provides metrics for evaluating row access behavior and dynamically adjusting the row management policy of the memory subsystem in conformity with measured metrics to reduce the average latency of the memory subsystem. Counters provided within the memory controller track the number of consecutive row accesses and optionally the number of total accesses over a measurement interval. The number of counted consecutive row accesses can be used to control the closing of rows for subsequent accesses, reducing memory latency. The count may be validated using a second counter or storage for improved accuracy and alternatively the row close count may be set via program or logic control in conformity with a count of consecutive row hits in ratio with a total access count. The control of row closure may be performed by a mode selection between always closing a row (non-page mode) or always holding a row open (page mode) or by intelligently closing rows after a count interval (row hold count) determined from the consecutive row access measurements. The logic and counters may be incorporated within the memory controller or within the memory devices and the controller/memory devices may provide I/O ports or memory locations for reading the count values and/or setting a row management mode or row hold count. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666814 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082570 | von Wiegand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. von Wiegand (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonathan D. Pfautz (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable haptic interface includes at least one pod adapted to be removeably mounted on one or more portions of a moveable object. The at least one pod includes at least one actuator adapted to communicate with the one or more portions of the moveable object. The system further includes a plurality of transmitter/receiver units, which are in a communication relationship with the at least one pod. The plurality of transmitter/receiver units detect and communicate relative position information of the at least one pod to a host computer. The host computer processes the relative position information of the at least one pod to control actuation of the at least one actuator located on the at least one pod. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/230850 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07081238 | Madras et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Organix, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bertha K. Madras (Newton, Massachusetts); Alan J. Fischman (Boston, Massachusetts); Peter C. Meltzer (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of diagnosing attention deficient-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a human patient by assessing the level of dopamine transporter in at least one region of the patient's central nervous system, where an elevated level of dopamine transporter in the patient is indicative of ADHD. In embodiments of the invention, assessment of dopamine transporter levels includes assessing binding of a dopamine transporter ligand to the dopamine transporters using PET or SPECT. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/932302 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081241 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann Marie Schmidt (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey); David Stern (Great Neck, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for an isolated human EN-RAGE peptide. The present invention also provides for a method for determining whether a compound is capable of inhibiting the interaction of an EN-RAGE peptide with a RAGE peptide, which comprises: (a) admixing: (i) a RAGE peptide or an sRAGE peptide or a fragment of either thereof, (ii) an EN-RAGE peptide or a fragment thereof, and (iii) the compound; (b) measuring the level of interaction between the peptide of step (a)(i) and the peptide of step (a)(ii), and (c) comparing the amount of interaction meausred in step (b) with the amount measured between the peptide of step (a) (i) and the peptide of step (a) (ii) in the absence of the compound, thereby determining whether the compound is capable of inhibiting the interaction of the EN-RAGE peptide with the RAGE peptide, wherein a reduction in the amount of interaction in the presence of the compound indicates that the compound is capable of inhibiting the interaction. The present invention also provides for a method for inhibiting inflammation in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a compound capable of interfering with the interaction between EN-RAGE peptide and receptor for advanced glycation endproduct (RAGE) in the subject thereby inhibiting inflammation in the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/167705 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081243 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Rose (Guilford, Connecticut); Matthias Schnell (Harleysville, Pennsylvania); E. Erik Johnson (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Replication-competent recombinant rhabdoviruses that lack a functional glycoprotein gene and express at least one foreign polypeptide such as a celluar receptor for another virus in their viral envelopes are useful in the treatment of pathogenic viruses. In one embodiment, a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) lacking its glycoprotein (G) gene and expressing instead the HIV receptor and a coreceptor is employed in a method for treating persons infected with HIV. The recombinant virus is defective for entry into normal cells but is able to control HIV infection in a T cell line by replicating in, and killing, HIV-infected cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/462543 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081350 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael O'Connor (Roseville, Minnesota); Lawrence I. Gilbert (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James T. Warren (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and materials useful for identifying inhibitors of ecdysteroid biosynthetic enzymes, specifically the Drosophila P450 enzyme, shade. These methods and materials can be used, for example, to identify molecules having insecticidal properties. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/236433 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081363 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xing Wang Deng (Hamden, Connecticut); Timothy McNellis (State College, Pennsylvania); Keiko Torii (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to seedlings which demonstrate better emergence characteristics when grown in darkness and improved seedling growth when grown under low-light levels. More specifically, the present invention relates to producing plant cells and whole plants which contain a nucleic acid sequence coding for the Coil domain as well as the sequence coding for the wildtype COP1 gene. The plants of this invention display unopened, compact leaves during seedling emergence in the darkness and reduced etiolation of seedings grown in low-levels after emergence. The invention further relates to plant breeding methods which enable the transfer of these desirable traits to wildtype plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386499 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081444 | Mochly-Rosen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing damage to cells and tissue caused by an ischemic or hypoxic event is disclosed. The method includes administering to the cell or tissue, either in vivo or ex vivo, ψεRACK peptide. The peptide can be administered before, during or after the ischemic or hypoxic event. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807553 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081446 | Lustbader |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce Lustbader (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides FSH analogues having increased serum half-life relative to FSH. This invention also provides related compositions and methods for increasing fertility, egg production and spermatogenesis in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/112321 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081452 | Brechbiel 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) | Martin W. Brechbiel (Annandale, Virginia); Hyun-Soon Chong (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted 1,4,7-triazacyclononane-N,N′,N″-triacetic acid compounds with a pendant donor amino group, metal complexes thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of use in diagnostic imaging and treatment of a cellular disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318821 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081459 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen Chen (San Diego, California); Dongpei Wu (San Diego, California); Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Martin Rowbottom (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed which have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein A, R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4, R5, R6, and n are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122246 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081474 | Sumikawa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katumi Sumikawa (Irvine, California); Ken-Ichi Ito (Yamagata, Japan); James L. McGaugh (Newport Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peripherally administered Brefeldin A and its analogs and derivatives are used to enhance learning and reverse memory dysfunction through induced long term potentiation in hippocampal issues. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806953 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081475 | Powis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prolx Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Tuscon, Arizona); Arizona Board of Regents, Acting on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tuscon, Arizona); University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth Powis (Tucson, Arizona); Wipf Peter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel Wortmannin analogs and their use in inhibiting inhibiting PI-3-kinase activity in mammals as well as tumor formation in a subject are described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245779 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides, among other things, molecular markers for categorizing the neoplastic state of a patient, methods for using the molecular markers in diagnostic tests, nucleic acid and amino acid sequences related to the molecular markers, reagents for detection of molecular markers, and methods for identifying candidate molecular markers in highly parallel gene expression data. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229345 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 07081518 | Pastan 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) | Ira Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Partha S. Chowdhury (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Mesothelin is a differentiation antigen present on the surface of ovarian cancers, mesotheliomas and several other types of human cancers. Because among normal tissues, mesothelin is only present on mesothelial cells, it represents a good target for antibody mediated delivery of cytotoxic agents. The present invention is directed to anti-mesothelin antibodies, including Fv molecules with particularly high affinity for mesothelin, and immunoconjugates employing them. Also described are diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the antibodies. The anti-mesothelin antibodies are well-suited for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the ovary, stomach, squamous cells, mesotheliomas and other malignant cells expressing mesothelin. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/979539 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081524 | Saavedra 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) | Joseph E Saavedra (Thurmount, Maryland); Larry K Keefer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides O2-substituted 1-[(2-carboxylato)pyrrolidin-1-yl]diazen-1-ium-1,2-diolates (1-[(2-carboxylato)pyrrolidin-1-yl]diazeniumdiolates) of the formula in which R and R22are as described herein. Also provided is a composition comprising such a compound and a carrier. The 1-[(2-carboxylato)pyrrolidin-1-yl]diazeniumdiolates compounds release nitric oxide under physiological conditions and are useful for treating biological disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104232 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/556 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081561 | Weisgraber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl H. Weisgraber (Walnut Creek, California); Robert V. Farese (San Francisco, California); Robert Raffai (San Francisco, California); Li-Ming Dong (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides gene-targeted non-human animals comprising a genetically modified apoE gene encodes a recombinant apoE polypeptide displaying domain interaction. The invention further provides cells isolated from the gene-targeted animals, which cells produce a recombinant apoE polypeptide displaying domain interaction. The invention further provides methods of identifying agents that reduce apoE4 domain interaction, and which are useful to treat apoE4-related neurological and cardiovascular disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017718 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081621 | Willoughby et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ross Clark Willoughby (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Edward William Sheehan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin laminated high transmission electro-optical lens populated with a plurality of apertures in communication with its laminates used to improve the collection, focusing, and selection of ions generated from atmospheric pressure sources, such as electrospray, atmospheric pressure chemical ionization, inductively coupled plasma, discharge, photoionization and atmospheric pressure matrix assisted laser desorption ionization. The laminated lens is made of alternating layers of electrically insulating and metal laminates. The geometry of the lens may be planar or shaped into various curve shapes, any of which act to optimize both the direct current (DC) and alternate current (AC) electric field geometries and strengths across the lens for transferring virtually all the ions from the ion source into an ion-focusing region adjacent and upstream of a high pressure or atmospheric pressure interface to a mass spectrometer, ion mobility analyzer, or combination thereof. Embodiments of this invention are methods and devices for improving sensitivity of mass spectrometry when coupled to high pressure or atmospheric pressure ionization sources. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/989821 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081751 | Twieg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Baker Twieg (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for estimating properties of a sample are provided in which, for some embodiments, each datum of a set of data is modeled using a parameterized equation. The parameterized equation has multiple parameters, where each parameter represents a property of the subject. The parameterized equation is inverted, and the inverted parameterized equation provides an indication of one or more properties associated with the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740731 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Detroit Diesel Corporation (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Kenneth Bolton (Birmingham, Michigan); Kevin Dean Sisken (Saline, Michigan); Anne-Lise Grosmougin (Birmingham, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for controlling engine air/fuel ratio includes an engine, a compressor having an inlet receiving air. The compressor discharges air to the engine intake. A recirculation path is provided from the compressor discharge to the compressor inlet. A controllable valve is located along the recirculation path. A controller is programmed to control the valve to vary the air flow to the engine intake, thereby controlling the air/fuel ratio. Various applications for the compressor recirculation arrangement are possible. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/033770 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/611 |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Frank B. Simpson (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A wrap spring clutch syringe ram pushes at least one syringe with virtually instantaneous starting and stopping, and with constant motion at a defined velocity during the intervening push. The wrap spring clutch syringe ram includes an electric motor, a computer, a flywheel, a wrap spring clutch, a precision lead screw, a slide platform, and syringe reservoirs, a mixing chamber, and a reaction incubation tube. The electric motor drives a flywheel and the wrap spring clutch couples the precision lead screw to the flywheel when a computer enables a solenoid of the wrap spring clutch. The precision lead screw drives a precision slide which causes syringes to supply a portion of solution into the mixing chamber and the incubation tube. The wrap spring clutch syringe ram is designed to enable the quantitative study of solution phase chemical and biochemical reactions, particularly those reactions that occur on the subsecond time scale. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615072 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/162.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07080998 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Cameron Sneddon (Provo, Utah); Scott Steven Dahlgren (Alpine, Utah); Michael A. Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a seal system for a coaxial cable and is placed within the coaxial cable and its constituent components. A series of seal stacks including load ring components and elastomeric rings are placed on load bearing members within the coaxial cable sealing the annular space between the coaxial cable and an electrical contact passing there through. The coaxial cable is disposed within drilling components to transmit electrical signals between drilling components within a drill string. The seal system can be used in a variety of downhole components, such as sections of pipe in a drill string, drill collars, heavy weight drill pipe, and jars. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904347 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081227 | Clague et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Reagents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Clague (Livermore, California); Elizabeth K. Wheeler (Livermore, California); Abraham P. Lee (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow cytometer includes a flow cell for detecting the sample, an oil phase in the flow cell, a water phase in the flow cell, an oil-water interface between the oil phase and the water phase, a detector for detecting the sample at the oil-water interface, and a hydrophobic unit operatively connected to the sample. The hydrophobic unit is attached to the sample. The sample and the hydrophobic unit are placed in an oil and water combination. The sample is detected at the interface between the oil phase and the water phase. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862998 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081231 | Aardahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois); Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Aardahl (Richland, Washington); Mari Lou Balmer-Miller (West Richland, Washington); Ashok Chanda (Peoria, Illinois); Craig F. Habeger (West Richland, Washington); Kent A. Koshkarian (Peoria, Illinois); Paul W. Park (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for treatment of oxygen rich exhaust and more specifically to a method and system that combines non-thermal plasma with a metal doped γ-alumina catalyst. Current catalyst systems for the treatment of oxygen rich exhaust are capable of achieving only approximately 7 to 12% NOx reduction as a passive system and only 25–40% reduction when a supplemental hydrocarbon reductant is injected into the exhaust stream. It has been found that treatment of an oxygen rich exhaust initially with a non-thermal plasma and followed by subsequent treatment with a metal doped γ-alumina prepared by the sol gel method is capable of increasing the NOx reduction to a level of approximately 90% in the absence of SO2 and 80% in the presence of 20 ppm of SO2. Especially useful metals have been found to be indium, gallium, and tin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/708863 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081371 | Katiyar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram S. Katiyar (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Pijush Bhattacharya (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Rasmi R. Das (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A stable, wide-bandgap (approximately 6 eV) ZnO/MgO multilayer thin film is fabricated using pulsed-laser deposition on c-plane Al2O3 substrates. Layers of ZnO alternate with layers of MgO. The thickness of MgO is a constant of approximately 1 nm; the thicknesses of ZnO layers vary from approximately 0.75 to 2.5 nm. Abrupt structural transitions from hexagonal to cubic phase follow a decrease in the thickness of ZnO sublayers within this range. The band gap of the thin films is also influenced by the crystalline structure of multilayer stacks. Thin films with hexagonal and cubic structure have band-gap values of 3.5 and 6 eV, respectively. In the hexagonal phase, Mg content of the films is approximately 40%; in the cubic phase Mg content is approximately 60%. The thin films are stable and their structural and optical properties are unaffected by annealing at 750° C. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932656 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081483 | Chaiko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Chaiko (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides phyllosilicates and polyfunctional dispersants which can be manipulated to selectively control the viscosity of phyllosilicate slurries. The polyfunctional dispersants used in the present invention, which include at least three functional groups, increase the dispersion and exfoliation of phyllosilicates in polymers and, when used in conjunction with phyllosilicate slurries, significantly reduce the viscosity of slurries having high concentrations of phyllosilicates. The functional groups of the polyfunctional dispersants are capable of associating with multivalent metal cations and low molecular weight organic polymers, which can be manipulated to substantially increase or decrease the viscosity of the slurry in a concentration dependent manner. The polyfunctional dispersants of the present invention can also impart desirable properties on the phyllosilicate dispersions including corrosion inhibition and enhanced exfoliation of the phyllosilicate platelets. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/452818 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081626 | Ianakiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiril D. Ianakiev (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sin Tao Hsue (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Michael C. Browne (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jeffrey M. Audia (Abiquiu, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus and corresponding method for temperature correction and count rate expansion of inorganic scintillation detectors. A temperature sensor is attached to an inorganic scintillation detector. The inorganic scintillation detector, due to interaction with incident radiation, creates light pulse signals. A photoreceiver processes the light pulse signals to current signals. Temperature correction circuitry that uses a fast light component signal, a slow light component signal, and the temperature signal from the temperature sensor to corrected an inorganic scintillation detector signal output and expanded the count rate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/858620 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081711 | Glidden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Pulsed Power, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Glidden (Freeville, New York); Howard D. Sanders (Ithaca, New York); John B. Greenly (Lansing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel pulsed, neutralized ion beam source is provided. The source uses pulsed inductive breakdown of neutral gas, and magnetic acceleration and control of the resulting plasma, to form a beam. The beam supplies ions for applications requiring excellent control of ion species, low remittance, high current density, and spatial uniformity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974622 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081815 | Runyon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Runyon (Richland, Washington); Wayne M. Gunter (Richland, Washington); Ronald W. Gilbert (Gilroy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for remotely monitoring the status of one or more fire extinguishers includes means for sensing at least one parameter of each of the fire extinguishers; means for selectively transmitting the sensed parameters along with information identifying the fire extinguishers from which the parameters were sensed; and means for receiving the sensed parameters and identifying information for the fire extinguisher or extinguishers at a common location. Other systems and methods for remotely monitoring the status of multiple fire extinguishers are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669669 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081992 | Tichenor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Tichenor (Castro Valley, California); Glenn D. Kubiak (Livermore, California); Sang Hun Lee (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Employing collector optics that have a sacrificial reflective surface can significantly prolong the useful life of the collector optics and the overall performance of the condenser in which the collector optics are incorporated. The collector optics are normally subject to erosion by debris from laser plasma source of radiation. The presence of an upper sacrificial reflective surface over the underlying reflective surface effectively increases the life of the optics while relaxing the constraints on the radiation source. Spatial and temporally varying reflectivity that results from the use of the sacrificial reflective surface can be accommodated by proper condenser design. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760118 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082148 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California); Raymond J. Beach (Livermore, California); Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California); William F. Krupke (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is provided for producing near-diffraction-limited laser light, or amplifying near-diffraction-limited light, in diode pumped alkali vapor photonic-band-gap fiber lasers or amplifiers. Laser light is both substantially generated and propagated in an alkali gas instead of a solid, allowing the nonlinear and damage limitations of conventional solid core fibers to be circumvented. Alkali vapor is introduced into the center hole of a photonic-band-gap fiber, which can then be pumped with light from a pump laser and operated as an oscillator with a seed beam, or can be configured as an amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679538 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082185 | Freifeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry M. Freifeld (Oakland, California); Timothy J. Kneafsley (Albany, California); Jacob Pruess (Berkeley, California); Liviu Tomutsa (Hercules, California); Paul A. Reiter (Berkeley, California); Ted M. deCastro (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An operator shielded X-ray imaging system has sufficiently low mass (less than 300 kg) and is compact enough to enable portability by reducing operator shielding requirements to a minimum shielded volume. The resultant shielded volume may require a relatively small mass of shielding in addition to the already integrally shielded X-ray source, intensifier, and detector. The system is suitable for portable imaging of well cores at remotely located well drilling sites. The system accommodates either small samples, or small cross-sectioned objects of unlimited length. By rotating samples relative to the imaging device, the information required for computer aided tomographic reconstruction may be obtained. By further translating the samples relative to the imaging system, fully three dimensional (3D) tomographic reconstructions may be obtained of samples having arbitrary length. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777947 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082379 | Bickford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); James P. Herzog (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method providing surveillance of an asset such as a process and/or apparatus by providing training and surveillance procedures that numerically fit a probability density function to an observed residual error signal distribution that is correlative to normal asset operation and then utilizes the fitted probability density function in a dynamic statistical hypothesis test for providing improved asset surveillance. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/027998 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082606 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Wood (Livermore, California); Philip D. Eckert (Livermore, California); Gregg Hommes (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for job backfill scheduling dedicated heterogeneous nodes in a multi-node computing environment. Heterogeneous nodes are grouped into homogeneous node sub-pools. For each sub-pool, a free node schedule (FNS) is created so that the number of to chart the free nodes over time. For each prioritized job, using the FNS of sub-pools having nodes useable by a particular job, to determine the earliest time range (ETR) capable of running the job. Once determined for a particular job, scheduling the job to run in that ETR. If the ETR determined for a lower priority job (LPJ) has a start time earlier than a higher priority job (HPJ), then the LPJ is scheduled in that ETR if it would not disturb the anticipated start times of any HPJ previously scheduled for a future time. Thus, efficient utilization and throughput of such computing environments may be increased by utilizing resources otherwise remaining idle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/137014 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07081350 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael O'Connor (Roseville, Minnesota); Lawrence I. Gilbert (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James T. Warren (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and materials useful for identifying inhibitors of ecdysteroid biosynthetic enzymes, specifically the Drosophila P450 enzyme, shade. These methods and materials can be used, for example, to identify molecules having insecticidal properties. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/236433 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081565 | Ohlrogge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Ohlrogge (Okemos, Michigan); Christoph Benning (East Lansing, Michigan); Hongbo Gao (East Lansing, Michigan); Thomas Arno Alfred Girke (Poway, California); Joseph A. White (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel seed specific promoter regions. The present invention further provide methods of producing proteins and other products of interest and methods of controlling expression of nucleic acid sequences of interest using the seed specific promoter regions. The present invention also provides methods of identifying and isolating novel seed specific promoters. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/998059 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081622 | Kameoka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Kameoka (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray ionization device incorporates a shaped thin film with a microfluidic channel. The device may be interfaced to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TFOMS). In one embodiment, the shaped thin film has a polygonal-shaped or triangle-shaped thin polymer tip formed by lithography and etching. The microfluidic channel is approximately 20 micrometer wide and 10 micrometers deep, and embossed in a substrate using a silicon master. The shaped thin film is aligned with the channel and bonded between the channel substrate and a flat plate to create a microfluidic channel with a wicking tip protruding from the end of the channel. Application of a high voltage at one end of the channel creates an electrospray from the tip, which is provided to the TFOMS. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082329 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07081624 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jun Zou (Urbana, Illinois); Xuefeng Wang (Champaign, Illinois); David Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating scanning probe microscopy (SPM) probes is disclosed. The probes are fabricated by forming a structural layer on a substrate, wherein the substrate forms a cavity. A sacrificial layer is located between the substrate and the structural layer. Upon forming the structural layer, the sacrificial layer is selectively removed, and the probe is then released from the substrate. The substrate may then later be reused to form additional probes. Additionally, a contact printing method using a scanning probe microscopy probe is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670585 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07081730 | Howard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Howard (Hazel Green, Alabama); Dean C. Alhorn (Huntsville, Alabama); Dennis A. Smith (Athens, Alabama); Kenneth R. Dutton (Athens, Alabama); Mitchell Scott Paulson (Hunstville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor controller system uses a rotary sensor with a plurality of signal conditioning units, coupled to the rotary sensor. Each of these units, which is associated with a particular range of motor output shaft rotation rates, generate a feedback signal indicative of the position of the motor's output shaft. A controller (i) converts a selected motor output shaft rotation rate to a corresponding incremental amount of rotational movement for a selected fixed time period, (ii) selects, at periodic completions of the selected fixed time period, the feedback signal from one of the signal conditioning units for which the particular range of motor output shaft rotation rates associated therewith encompasses the selected motor output shaft rotation rate, and (iii) generates a motor drive signal based on a difference between the incremental amount of rotational movement and the feedback signal from the selected one of the signal conditioning units. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/857375 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082379 | Bickford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); James P. Herzog (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method providing surveillance of an asset such as a process and/or apparatus by providing training and surveillance procedures that numerically fit a probability density function to an observed residual error signal distribution that is correlative to normal asset operation and then utilizes the fitted probability density function in a dynamic statistical hypothesis test for providing improved asset surveillance. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/027998 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07081630 | Saini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Saini (Dallas, Texas); Zoran Jandric (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A microcolumn including an assembly substrate and a plurality of beam modification components. The assembly substrate includes a plurality of sockets, and the beam modification components each include a connector coupled to a corresponding one of the sockets. Assembly of the beam modification components to the assembly substrate may employ automation and/or automated calibration, including automated motion of robotic stages in a substantially automated manner. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799836 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/398 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082379 | Bickford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); James P. Herzog (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method providing surveillance of an asset such as a process and/or apparatus by providing training and surveillance procedures that numerically fit a probability density function to an observed residual error signal distribution that is correlative to normal asset operation and then utilizes the fitted probability density function in a dynamic statistical hypothesis test for providing improved asset surveillance. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/027998 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07081335 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa); PIG Improvement Company UK Limited (, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max F. Rothschild (Ames, Iowa); Amy L. Vincent (Jewell, Iowa); Christopher K. Tuggle (Ames, Iowa); Christy Gladney (Berkeley, California); Alan Mileham (Berkeley, California); Olwen Southwood (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Graham Plastow (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Carole Sargent (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are genetic markers for animal litter size, methods for identifying such markers, and methods of screening animals to determine those more likely to produce larger litters and preferably selecting those animals for future breeding purposes. The markers are based upon the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms in the prolactin receptor gene. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/900063 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07080545 | Dimeo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Michele Stawasz (Bethel, Connecticut); Thomas H. Baum (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Mackenzie E. King (Southbury, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey F. Roeder (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas detector and process for detecting a fluorine-containing species in a gas containing same, e.g., an effluent of a semiconductor processing tool undergoing etch cleaning with HF, NF3, etc. The detector in a preferred structural arrangement employs a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based device structure and/or a free-standing metal element that functions as a sensing component and optionally as a heat source when elevated temperature sensing is required. The free-standing metal element can be fabricated directly onto a standard chip carrier/device package so that the package becomes a platform of the detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273036 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07081595 | Brandt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Brandt (Gainesville, Virginia); Jay David Fadely (Palmetto, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software. In one embodiment, a mail processing device uses the sorter application software to communicate with an identification code server. In this embodiment, different types of mail processing devices can use the common sorter application software to communicate with the same or different identification code servers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/652275 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07081337 | Südhof et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Südhof (Dallas, Texas); Thomas Biederer (Dallas, Texas); Angela Ho (Dallas, Texas); Xinran Liu (Irving, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to isolated nucleic acids encoding Mint protein variants having enhanced abilities to modulate the transcriptional activation mediated by the cytoplasmic tail of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) relative to wild-type Mint proteins. The present invention is further directed toward purified Mint protein variants having enhanced abilities to modulate the transcriptional activation mediated by the cytoplasmic tail of APP relative to wild-type Mint proteins. The present invention also encompasses methods of modulating transcriptional activation and methods of identifying compounds that modulate transcriptional activation, and vectors, as well as transfected cells and kits useful for modulating transcriptional activation or for the identification of compounds that can modulate transcriptional activation. The present invention further encompasses transgenic knockout mice with little or no expression of Mint 1, Mint 2 or Mint 3 proteins. Such reagents may be useful as candidate therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease (AD), or as models for the rational design of drugs useful for the treatment of AD. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227490 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07082420 | Lo |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James Ting-Ho Lo (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of training neural systems and estimating regression coefficients of regression models with respect to an error criterion is disclosed. If the error criterion is a risk-averting error criterion, the invented method performs the training/estimation by starting with a small value of the risk-sensitivity index of the risk-averting error criterion and gradually increasing it to ensure numerical feasibility. If the error criterion is a risk-neutral error criterion such as a standard sum-of-squares error criterion, the invented method performs the training/estimation first with respect to a risk-averting error criterion associated with the risk-neutral error criterion. If the result is not satisfactory for the risk-neutral error criterion, further training/estimation is performed either by continuing risk-averting training/estimation with decreasing values of the associated risk-averting error criterion or by training/estimation with respect to the given risk-neutral error criterion or by both. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193984 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/25 |
| 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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