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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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| US 07086309 | Stoianovici et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Stoianovici (Baltimore, Maryland); Louis R. Kavoussi (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor suitable for use in a medical imaging environment has (a) a centrally located means for actuating a radial wave, (b) a deformable flexspline having an inner surface and a toothed outer surface with a first specified number of teeth, and (c) a circular spline having a toothed inner surface with a second specified number of teeth which is different than the first specified number of teeth in the flexspline, wherein the actuation means is operable so that the action of its radial wave causes at least one of the flexspline teeth to engage at a point the toothed side of the circular spline in such a manner that an engagement point passes as a wave around the inner perimeter of the circular spine, with the movement of this engagement point causing the flexspline to rotate around its central axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666213 |
| ART UNIT | 3681 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/640 |
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| US 07086350 | Tecott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence H. Tecott (San Francisco, California); Evan Goulding (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A behavioral monitoring system useful for the analysis of complex behaviors in a number of animal species. The monitoring systems of this invention allow continuous monitoring of feeding, drinking and movement of animals with high temporal and spatial resolution. In certain embodiments, the system comprises an enclosure comprising: an animal position indicator; a food consumption indicator; and a fluid consumption indicator, where the system reports behavioral data at a temporal resolution of 20 seconds or lower. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627187 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/421 |
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| US 07087213 | Prusiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley B. Prusiner (San Francisco, California); Jiri G. Safar (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of isolating and detecting the presence of a disease related conformation of a protein (e.g., PrPSc) is disclosed. The sample is treated such as by contacting it with a protease and then contacting the treated sample with a binding partner which binds the PrPSc which can be isolated and separated from the sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054585 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 07087230 | Nataro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Nataro (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) are provided. In particular, Aap and the five gene cluster (aat) of the AA probe region of the pAA plasmid of EAEC 042 have been identified, sequenced, and further characterized. The use of these novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of EAEC infections is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847321 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 07087234 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred W. Scott (Brooktondale, New York); Christopher K. Ngichabe (Kikuyu, Kenya); Liangbiao Hu (Baltimore, Maryland); Joseph J. Esposito (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to multivalent recombinant raccoon poxviruses, containing more than one exogenous gene inserted into either the thymidine kinase gene, the hemagglutinin gene, or a combination thereof. Disclosed is the use of the multivalent recombinant raccoon poxviruses as vaccines to immunize felines against subsequent challenge by feline pathogens. Also disclosed is a method of making a multivalent recombinant raccoon poxvirus by a recombination process involving the construction of an insertion vector into which the exogenous genes are inserted, and flanking the inserted genes are sequences which can recombine into the raccoon poxvirus thymidine kinase gene, or the hemagglutinin gene, or a combination thereof; introducing both the insertion vector containing the exogenous genes, and raccoon poxvirus into susceptible host cells; and selecting the recombinant raccoon poxvirus from the resultant plaques. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/873881 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07087369 | Steinhardt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Steinhardt (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Steinhardt defined medium preserves cornea tissue during cold storage. Tissue preservation kits comprise a premeasured amount of Steinhardt's medium and copackaged instructions describing use of the medium to preserve a tissue. Kits for making Steinhardt medium comprise premeasured amounts of medium ingredients; and copackaged instructions describing how to combine the ingredients to make the medium. The medium is made by combining the recited ingredients, and used by incubating a tissue in the medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/738331 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
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| US 07087370 | Forest et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Katrina T. Forest (Madison, Wisconsin); Michelle T. Lane (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems for the vitrification of a biological specimen. The systems employ a transfer instrument such as a loop, containing a base medium that includes a cryoprotectant. The biological specimen which has undergone vitrification may be stored for a period of time, and then thawed at a later date. The thawed biological specimen remains viable. Preferred biological specimens according to the present invention are developmental cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/241061 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.300 |
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| US 07087371 | Dobrinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ina Dobrinski (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Stefan Schlatt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ali Honaramooz (Kennett Sq., Pennsylvania); Hans Scholer (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of producing viable sperm from neonatal mammalian testes which have been engrafted in mice. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610302 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
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| US 07087374 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sho-Ya Wang (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method or screen for assessing the potential of a compound to treat a pathological condition, such as arrhythmia, which is manifested by an increased late sodium current in a heart is disclosed. The method employs a mutant sodium channel protein having an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids among the ten amino acids occurring at the carboxy end of the S6 segments of D1, D2, D3 or D4 domains of mammalian Nav1 differs from the amino acid in wild-type Nav1 by substitution with tryptophan, phenylalanine, tyrosine or cysteine. Cells transfected with a nucleic acid that encodes a mutant mammalian Nav1 protein, as well as isolated nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence that codes for a mutant mammalian Nav1 protein are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608584 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07087378 | Baird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eldon E. Baird (W. Columbia, South Carolina); Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses improved selective polyamides for binding to specific nucleotide sequences of double stranded DNA as well as methods for designing and synthesizing polyamide DNA binding ligands that are selective for an identified specific nucleotide sequence. The 3-hydroxy-N-methylpyrrole/N-methylpyrrole carboxamide pair specifically recognizes the T•A base pair, while the N-methylpyrrole/3-hydroxy-N-methylpyrrole pair recognizes A•T nucleotide pairs. Similarly, an N-methylimidizole/N-methylpyrrole carboxamide pair specifically recognizes the G•C nucleotide pair, and the N-methylpyrrole/N-methylimidizole carboxamide pair recognizes the C•G nucleotide pair. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/372474 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07087385 | Kalin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ned H. Kalin (Madison, Wisconsin); Patrick Henry Roseboom (Madison, Wisconsin); Steven Anil Nanda (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Various human urocortin II promoter sequences are disclosed. Nucleic acids and host cells that contain the promoter sequences are also disclosed. Further disclosed are various methods involving the use of these sequences. Also disclosed are methods of modulating the activity of a human urocortin II promoter sequence and methods of modulating urocortin II expression in a cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438803 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07087386 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Shu-ichi Matsuzawa (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, there are provided novel Siah-Mediated-Degradation-Proteins (SMDPs) and/or SCF-Complex Proteins (SCPs). Nucleic acid sequences encoding such proteins and assays employing same are also disclosed. The invention SMDPs and/or SCPs can be employed in a variety of ways, for example, for the production of anti-SMDP and/or SCP antibodies thereto, in therapeutic compositions, and methods employing such proteins and/or antibodies for drug screening, functional genomics and other applications. Also provided are transgenic non-human mammals that express the invention protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679246 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07087392 | Firestone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Firestone (Berkeley, California); Anita C. Maiyar (San Ramon, California); Patricia Buse (San Francisco, California); Lisa M. Bell (San Mateo, California); Meredith L. L. Leong (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions relating to activated Sgk and the association of activated Sgk activity with proliferating cells, including methods for inhibiting the growth of an undesirably proliferating cell by contacting the cell with a specific inhibitor of activated Sgk whereby the amount of activated Sgk activity in the cell is reduced. Specific inhibitors are disclosed, including dominant negative mutants of activated Sgk, an Sgk mutant or fragment thereof comprising an unphosphorylatable residue corresponding to Thr256 of native Sgk, and an active Sgk-specific antibody or antibody fragment, especially intrabody, etc. A wide variety of methods may be used to contact the target cell with the inhibitor, especially introducing into the cell a polynucleotide encoding the inhibitor under conditions whereby the inhibitor is expressed in the cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/189976 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07087409 | Barbas, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos F. Barbas, III (San Diego, California); Christoph Rader (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A humanized murine antibody is provided. The amino acid sequences of a light chain complementarity determining region from a mouse antibody are grafted onto a human light chain, and a heavy chain complementarity determining region from a mouse antibody are grafted onto a human antibody heavy chain to produce libraries from which a humanized murine antibody having the desired specificity is selected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/078757 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.600 |
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| US 07087413 | Weigel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Paul DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active Streptococcus equisimilis hyaluronate synthase (seHAS), and to the use of this nucleic acid segment in the preparation of recombinant cells which produce hyaluronate synthase and its hyaluronic acid product. Hyaluronate is also known as hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226480 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/84 |
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| US 07087416 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Jesus E. Gonzalez, III (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for detecting changes in membrane potential in membranes biological systems. In one aspect, the method comprises; a) providing a living cell with a first reagent comprising a charged hydrophobic molecule which is typically a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) acceptor or donor, or is a quencher and is capable of redistributing within the membrane of a biological membrane in response to changes in the potential across the membrane; b) providing the cell with a second reagent that can label the first face or the second face of a biological membrane within the cell; c) detecting light emission from the first reagent or the second reagent. One aspect of this method involves monitoring membrane potential changes in subcellular organelle membranes in a living cells. Another aspect of the invention is the use of certain embodiments of the method for the screening of test chemicals for activity to modulate the activity of a target ion channel. Another aspect of the present invention is a transgenic organism comprising a first reagent that comprises a charged hydrophobic fluorescent molecule, and a second reagent comprising a bioluminescent or naturally fluorescent protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/335517 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.500 |
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| US 07087427 | Ryazanov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey Ryazanov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel mammalian alpha-kinase proteins: melanoma alpha-kinase (MK), heart alpha-kinase (HK), kidney alpha-kinase (KK), skeletal muscle alpha-kinase (SK), and lymphocyte alpha-kinase (LK). In particular, a novel kinase type is herein provided, characterized by the presence of an alpha-kinase catalytic domain and an ion channel domain. Isolated nucleic acids of the alpha-kinases MK, HK, KK, SK and LK are provided. Methods for making the novel alpha-kinases, cells that express the alpha-kinases and methods for treating an animal in need of either increased or decreased activity of the alpha-kinases are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/832292 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07087431 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. H. David Wu (Pittsford, New York); Athanassios Mantalaris (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Nicki Panoskaltsis (Middlesex, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cultured leukemia cells. The method comprises isolating mononuclear cells, which contain leukemia cells, culturing the leukemia cells in a chamber having a scaffolding covered or surrounded with culture medium, where the scaffolding allows for leukemia cells to have cell to cell contacts in three dimensions. The subject leukemia cells are useful for screening compounds which inhibit or stimulate leukemia cell function or formation. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/796830 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/395 |
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| US 07087433 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiang Zhou (Berkeley, California); Zhiyuan Yang (Berkeley, California); Qingwei Zhu (Berkeley, California); Kunxin Luo (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for altering transcription in a cell comprising an amount of active CDK9/cyclin, comprises the steps of: (a) introducing in the cell an agent which modulates the amount of active CDK9/cyclin in the cell, and thereby alters transcription in the cell, wherein the agent comprises an RNA selected from the group consisting of an RNA aptamer that specifically binds CDK9/cyclin, a CDK9/cyclin-binding domain of 7SK RNA, a 7SK RNA-binding antisense 7SK RNA domain, and a 7SK RNA-specific RNAi, and (b) detecting a resultant altering of transcription in the cell. Methods for screening for an agent which modulates 7SK RNA-CDK9/cyclin binding generally comprise the steps of (a) incubating a mixture of 7SK RNA, CDK9/cyclin and a candidate agent under conditions wherein but for the presence of the agent, the 7SK RNA and CDK9/cyclin engage in a reference binding; and (b) detecting an agent-biased binding of the 7SK RNA to the CDK9/cyclin. |
| FILED | Sunday, August 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227367 |
| 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: Analytical and immunological testing 436/6 |
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| US 07087582 | Nabel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Nabel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhi-yong Yang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Elizabeth G. Nabel (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a combination including a double-balloon catheter and a nucleic acid encoding the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21. The nucleic acid may also encode HLA-B7, an immunotherapeutic agent, a cytokine or a prodrug converting enzyme. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/663889 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07087583 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Genzyme Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (BelAir, Maryland); Michael I. Sherman (Glen Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Specific sequences in the human genome are the sites of strong binding of wild-type p53 protein, but not mutant forms of the protein. These sequences are used diagnostically to detect cells in which the amount of wild-type p53 is diminished. The sequences can also be used to screen for agents which correct for loss of wild-type p53 to DNA in cancer cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/813824 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07087589 | Jacobson 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) | Kenneth A. Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Victor E. Marquez (Montgomery Village, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel nucleoside and nucleotide derivatives that are useful agonists or antagonists of P1 or P2 receptors. For example, the present invention provides a compound of formula A-M, wherein A is modified adenine or uracil and M is a constrained cycloalkyl group. The adenine or uracil is bonded to the constrained cycloakyl group. The compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment or prevention of various diseases including airway diseases (through A2B, A3, P2Y2 receptors), cancer (through A3, P2 receptors), cardiac arrhythmias (through A1 receptors), cardiac ischemia (through A1, A3 receptors), epilepsy (through A1, P2X receptors), and Huntington's Disease (through A2A receptors). |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/169975 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/81 |
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| US 07087591 | Kim 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) | Hyun K. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard P. Blye (Highland, Maryland); Pemmaraju N. Rao (San Antonio, Texas); James W. Cessac (San Antonio, Texas); Carmie K. Acosta (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the general formula: in which: R1 is a member selected from the group consisting of —OCH3, —SCH3, —N(CH3)2, —NHCH3, —CHO, —COCH3 and —CHOHCH3; R2 is a member selected from the group consisting of halogen, alkyl, acyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, acyloxy, alkyl carbonate, cypionyloxy, S-alkyl and S-acyl; R3 is a member selected from the group consisting of alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy and acyloxy; R4 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl; and X is a member selected from the group consisting of ═O and ═N—OR5, wherein R5 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl. In addition to providing the compounds of Formula I, the present invention provides methods wherein the compounds of Formula I are advantageously used, inter alia, to antagonize endogenous progesterone; to induce menses; to treat endometriosis; to treat dysmenorrhea; to treat endocrine hormone-dependent tumors; to treat uterine fibroids; to inhibit uterine endometrial proliferation; to induce labor; and for contraception. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/065632 |
| 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 514/179 |
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| US 07087631 | 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); Garry Southan (Lynn, Massachusetts); Siya Ram (Winchester, Massachusetts); Qi Zeng (North Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to 5-Aryltetrazole Compounds, compositions comprising an effective amount of a 5-Aryltetrazole Compound, and methods for treating an inflammation disease, a reperfusion disease, or hyperuricemia in an animal in need thereof comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a 5-Aryltetrazole compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620619 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/381 |
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| US 07087639 | Lam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LKT Laboratories, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke K. T. Lam (North Oaks, Minnesota); Nayaz Ahmed (Arden Hills, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound containing an alkylene selenocyanate or an alkylene isoselenocyanate moiety effective to prevent the occurrence or progression of cancer or a precancerous condition. The compound can be provided and administered in the form of a pharmaceutical composition, a cosmetic, a food additive, supplement, or the like. Methods for synthesis and use of the chemopreventive compound of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760741 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/438 |
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| US 07087711 | Ptashne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ptashne (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiangyang Lu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yibing Wu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes novel transcriptional activators and activation systems. The activators of the present invention comprise a DNA binding moiety linked to a short peptide of novel sequence. Preferably, the peptide is substantially hydrophobic. Preferred peptides include at least one aromatic amino acid. The present invention also provides improved transcriptional activation systems, useful for the identification and characterization of protein—protein interactions. The invention also describes the production and use of certain TBP mutants that enhance transcriptional activation by some activators. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/943944 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07087714 | Pasternak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gavril W. Pasternak (New York, New York); Ying-Xian Pan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses novel splice variant forms of the mu-opioid receptor-1 (MOR-1) and the polynucleotide sequences encoding the MOR-1 splice variants. The invention further encompasses methods of screening for compositions regulating the MOR-1 splice variant activities and the development of therapeutic modalities directed to regulating activity. Regulation of the MOR-1 splice variant activities may impact the physiologic process of analgesia. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/185083 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 |
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| US 07087717 | Bloch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald B. Bloch (Newton, Massachusetts); Kenneth D. Bloch (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Cloning and characterization of a full length cDNA encoding Sp110 (speckled 110), a novel 110 kDa polypeptide, is disclosed. It is disclosed that Sp110 is a component of the nuclear body, is expressed in leukocytes, and is also expressed in other types of cells, including endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, liver cells and heart cells, after contact with certain cytokines. The disclosure also includes the following: Sp140 recruits Sp110 to the nuclear body, Sp110 functions as an activator of gene transcription, and Sp110 serves as a nuclear hormone receptor co-activator. Sp110 DNAs, polypeptides, antibodies are disclosed. Also disclosed are Sp110-related screening methods and clinical diagnostic methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/333227 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 |
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| US 07087736 | Pouliot 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) | Jeffrey Pouliot (San Mateo, California); Howard A. Nash (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule encoding a tyrosine-DNA phosphodiesterase (TDP), and a related vector, host cell, polypeptide, antibody, antisense nucleic acid molecule, and ribozyme. Also provided are a method of altering the level of TDP in a cell, tissue, organ or organism, as well as the resulting cell, tissue, organ or non-human organism, as well as a method of identifying a TDP-resistant compound, a method of assessing TDP1 activity in an animal, and a method of assessing the efficacy of a topoisomerase I inhibitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/110176 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
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| US 07087741 | Nataro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Nataro (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) are provided. In particular, Aap and the five gene cluster (aat) of the AA probe region of the pAA plasmid of EAEC 042 have been identified, sequenced, and further characterized. The use of these novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of EAEC infections is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847391 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07087895 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Liu (Charleston, South Carolina); Daniel R. Knapp (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A pointed carbon fiber electrospray ionization emitter has a length of electrically conductive fiber that is present within a lumen of a microfluidic device, and protrudes from the terminus. A point is present on an end of the electrically conductive fiber, or the electrically conductive fiber is otherwise sufficiently small on the end to create a desired spray. A conductor supplies electrical current to the electrically conductive fiber. Fluid to be sprayed is transported through the lumen and out of the terminus of the lumen, and an electrical field established by the conductive fiber distributes and sprays the fluid. The emitter is rugged and is able to generate stable electrospray over a wide range of flow rates, voltages, and surface tension variations. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862803 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
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| US 07087898 | Willoughby et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ross C. Willoughby (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Sheehan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Craig M. Whitehouse (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Atmospheric pressure, intermediate pressure and vacuum laser desorption ionization methods and ion sources are configured to increase ionization efficiency and the efficiency of transmitting ions to a mass to charge analyzer or ion mobility analyzer. An electric field is applied in the region of a sample target to accumulate ions generated from a local ion source on a solid or liquid phase sample prior to applying a laser desorption pulse. The electric field is changed just prior to or during the desorption laser pulse to promote the desorption of charged species and improve the ionization efficiency of desorbed sample species. After a delay, the electric field may be further changed to optimize focusing and transmission of ions into a mass spectrometer or ion mobility analyzer. Charged species may also be added to the region of the laser desorbed sample plume to promote ion-molecule reactions between the added ions and desorbed neutral sample species, increasing desorbed sample ionization efficiency and/or creating desired product ion species. The cycling of electric field changes is repeated in a timed sequence with one or more desorption laser pulse occurring per electric field change cycle. Embodiments of the invention comprise atmospheric pressure, intermediate pressure and vacuum pressure laser desorption ionization source methods and devices for increasing the analytical flexibility and improving the sensitivity of mass spectrometric analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862304 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
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| US 07088101 | Mett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Specialties, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Raymond Mett (Cedarburg, Wisconsin); James Stewart Hyde (Dousman, Wisconsin); Jason Walter Sidabras (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample holder for use in an EPR spectrometer is extruded using a material having a low dielectric constant. The extruded sample holder has a plurality of channels formed in it for holding sample material for testing. The shape and orientation of these channels are such that losses due to the high dielectric constant of the sample are minimized. Sample holders for cylindrical and rectangular cavity resonators and uniform field cavity resonators are disclosed, as well as for two-gap and four-gap loop-gap resonators. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898120 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Kleinmeyer (Abingdon, Maryland); Joseph Deitzel (Abingdon, Maryland); James Hirvonen (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro spinning process yields uniform, nanometer diameter polymer filaments. A thread-forming polymer is extruded through an anodically biased die orifice and drawn through an anodically biased electrostatic field. A continuous polymer filament is collected on a grounded collector. The polymer filament is linearly oriented and highly uniform in quality. The filament is particularly useful for weaving body armor, for chemical/biological protective clothing, as a biomedical tissue growth support, for fabricating micro sieves and for microelectronics fabrication. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697283 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/174.8R0 |
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| US 07087112 | Rojo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Carlos Rojo (Sound Beach, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York); Jan Barani (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for fabricating a mount for an aluminum nitride (AlN) seed for single crystal aluminum nitride growth is provided. A holder having a proximal base and wall portions extending therefrom is fabricated from crystal growth crucible material, and defines an internal cavity. An AlN seed is placed within the holder, and placed within a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature at or exceeding the melting point of a suitable material capable of forming a nitride ceramic by nitridation, such as aluminum. Pellets fabricated from this material are dropped into the holder and onto the seed, so that they melt and react with the nitrogen atmosphere to form a nitride ceramic. The seed is effectively molded in-situ with the ceramic, so that the ceramic and holder forms a closely conforming holder for the seed, suitable for single crystal AlN growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725869 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/77 |
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| US 07087186 | Tidrow 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) | Steven C. Tidrow (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel M. Potrepka (Silver Spring, Maryland); Arthur Tauber (Elberon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Single-phase, non-cubic and single-phase, cubic ferroelectric/paraelectric perovskite-structured materials having reasonably low and fairly temperature insensitive dielectric constants (stable dielectric constants over a wide range of operating temperatures of −80° C. to 100° C.), reasonable loss tangents (<˜10−1), high tunability, and significantly lowered Curie temperature below the temperature range of operation for previous undoped perovskite structures are provided. The FE/PE materials of the present invention have dilute charge-compensated substitutions in the Ti site of the perovskite structure. This single-phase structure or a variant of it with a Ti rich composition, provided herein, allows for pulsed-laser-deposition of a thin film with uniform transfer of the structure of the target into the deposited film, which enables production of very small, lightweight devices that are extremely efficient and consume little power. These ferroelectric/paraelectric materials may be used in phase shifter devices (such as used in cell phones, antennas and the like), variable true time delay devices, steerable beams, tunable filters, impedance transformers, variable control oscillators, antennas, radios, filters, microwave variable capacitors, radar systems, electronic warfare sensors, resonators, microwave transverse-electromagnetic-ferroelectric voltage-controlled oscillators, and other RF, microwave, or millimeter wave tunable devices for synthesizers and systems incorporating all of the above, as well as any application that enhances the performance of various types of electrical and electro-optic devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/301876 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.9R0 |
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07087198 — Aerosol method and apparatus, particulate products, and electronic devices made therefrom
| US 07087198 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an aerosol method, and accompanying apparatus, for preparing powdered products of a variety of materials involving the use of an ultrasonic aerosol generator (106) including a plurality of ultrasonic transducers (120) underlying and ultrasonically energizing a reservoir of liquid feed (102) which forms droplets of the aerosol. Carrier gas (104) is delivered to different portions of the reservoir by a plurality of gas delivery ports (136) delivering gas from a gas delivery system. The aerosol is pyrolyzed to form particles, which are then cooled and collected. The invention also provides powders that include particles made by the method and devices made using the particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904558 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/14 |
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| US 07087235 | Ulrich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Ulrich (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to genetically attenuated superantigen toxin vaccines altered such that superantigen attributes are absent, however the superantigen is effectively recognized and an appropriate immune response is produced. The attenuated superantigen toxins are shown to protect animals against challenge with wild type toxin. Methods of producing and using the altered superantigen toxins are described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002784 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/236.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087414 | Gerdes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applera Corporation (Foster City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Gerdes (Denver, Colorado); Elaine Best (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jeffery M. Marmaro (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a two-step multiplex amplification reaction wherein the first step truncates the standard initial multiplex amplification round to “boost” the sample copy number by only a 100–1000 fold increase in the target. Following the first step the product is divided into optimized secondary single amplification reactions, each containing one of the primer sets that were used previously in the first or multiplexed booster step. The booster step can occur using an aqueous target nucleic acid or using a solid phase archived nucleic acid. In particular, nucleic acid sequences that uniquely identify E. Coli were identified using the multiplex amplification method. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441158 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
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| US 07087447 | Sridharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Kumar Sridharan (Palo Alto, California); Shailendhar Saraf (San Jose, California); Robert L. Byer (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for batch manufacturing of slabs for zig-zag lasers including steps of bonding two non-active media to either side of an active medium to form a sandwich, dicing the sandwich to provide slices, rendering two surfaces of each slice into total-internal-reflection (TIR) surfaces, and then dicing the slices perpendicular to the TIR surfaces to provide a plurality of zig-zag slabs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696278 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/27 |
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| US 07087707 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matt Laskoski (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A cyanate ester system is disclosed. An aryl ether oligomer may be made from a dihydroxyaromatic compound and a dihaloaromatic compound in the presence of a base. The oligomer is then reacted with a cyanide compound in the presence of a base to form the cyanate ester shown below. The cyanate ester may then be cross-linked to a thermoset having triazine ring cross-links. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825799 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/367 |
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| US 07087876 | Petrenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor F. Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternating electric field is applied at an ice interface to generate a resistive AC current having a frequency greater than 1000 Hz in interfacial ice. Typically, a first electrode and a second electrode proximate to the interface are separated by an interelectrode distance of about 50 μm to 500 μm. An AC power source provides a voltage of about 10 to 500 volts across the electrodes in order to create the alternating electric field. Interfacial ice converts capacitive AC current into resistive AC current, which generates Joule heat in the interfacial ice. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976210 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/770 |
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| US 07087902 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaohong Wang (Troy, New York); Xi-Cheng Zhang (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reconstructing a plurality of images of an object. An exemplary system includes a radiation source adapted to emit radiation at a plurality of frequencies; a lens with frequency-dependent focal length, such as a Fresnel lens, adapted to receive radiation modified by the object and to project onto a fixed image plane a frequency-dependent image of a slice of the object perpendicular to the radiation path; a sensor for capturing the frequency-dependent image of the object; and apparatus for facilitating creation and capture of a plurality of frequency-dependent images of the object at the plurality of frequencies. A system for reconstructing a tomographic image of the object further includes apparatus for assembling the plurality of frequency-dependent images to reconstruct the tomographic image. Methods and systems are described for use in the visible, audible, and THz frequency ranges and with broadband or narrowband radiation sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417597 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088117 | Uher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aehr Test System (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Otto Uher (Los Altos, California); John William Andberg (Santa Cruz, California); Mark Charles Carbone (Mountain View, California); Donald Paul Richmond, II (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position. This provides a positive clamping force that pulls the chuck and probe plates together when the mechanical connecting device is engaged. To load a wafer into the cartridge, the wafer is placed on the chuck plate, the probe plate is aligned with the wafer, and the chuck plate and the probe plate are locked together. The cartridge can then be removed from the alignment device and placed in a burn-in or test chamber that does not itself require means for aligning the wafer or for providing a probe actuation force. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396170 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088141 | Deogun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harmander Singh Deogun (Lincoln, Nebraska); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas); Rahul M. Rao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-threshold complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (MTCMO) bus circuit reduces bus power consumption via a reduced circuit leakage standby and pulsed control of standby mode so that the advantages of MTCMOS repeater design are realized in dynamic operation. A pulse generator pulses the high-threshold voltage power supply rail standby switching devices in response to changes detected at the bus circuit inputs. The delay penalty associated with leaving the standby mode is overcome by reducing cross-talk induced delay via a cross-talk noise minimization encoding and decoding scheme. A subgroup of bus wires is encoded and decoded, simplifying the encoding, decoding and change detection logic and results in the bus subgroup being taken out of standby mode only when changes occur in one or more of the subgroup inputs, further reducing the power consumption of the overall bus circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965106 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/82 |
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| US 07088143 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Ding (Sunnyvale, California); Pinaki Mazumder (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of different dynamic circuits having improved noise tolerance and a method for designing same are provided. The circuits include a power supply node and a precharge node. Keeper circuitry is connected to the nodes and has a current-voltage characteristic that exhibits a negative differential resistance property to improve noise tolerance of the circuits. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847018 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088178 | Rosenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Rosenfeld (Rochester, New York); Mucahit Kozak (Tonawanda, New York); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-low voltage rail-to-rail operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is based on a standard digital 0.18 μm CMOS process. Techniques for designing a 0.8 volt fully differential OTA include bias and reference current generator circuits. To achieve rail-to-rail operation, complementary input differential pairs are used, where the bulk-driven technique is applied to reduce the threshold limitation of the MOSFET transistors. The OTA gain is increased by using auxiliary gain boosting amplifiers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870684 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088419 | Dowski, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CDM Optics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado); Gregory E. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Kenneth S. Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical lithography system that has extended depth of focus exposes a photoresist coating on a wafer, and includes an illumination sub-system, a reticle, and an imaging lens that has a pupil plane function to form an aerial image of the reticle proximate to the photoresist. The pupil plane function provides the extended depth of focus such that the system may be manufactured or used with relaxed tolerance, reduced cost and/or increased throughput. The system may be used to form precise vias within integrated circuits even in the presence of misfocus or misalignment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/858337 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088727 | Short et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadix, Inc. (Westlake Village, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel E. Short (Los Angeles, California); Leonard Kleinrock (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for connecting a user device to a network where the user device settings, the network settings, or both are unknown include intercepting packets transmitted by the user device and modifying the packets to be compatible with the network. The system and method are particularly suited for use by mobile computers, such as laptop computers, which are connected to various foreign networks. Depending upon the particular application, a device may be carried with the mobile computer, or attached as a node on the network. The device automatically determines the network settings of the user device and/or the network and modifies packets appropriately so that the user device can communicate over the network without having to reconfigure the user device with appropriate settings for each network it may encounter. Communication settings such as network address, gateway, proxy address, etc. are automatically determined using various techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/684937 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088759 | Orr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean Welhouse Orr (Thousand Oaks, California); Yan Sau Tam (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system (52A) is illustrated having a laser cavity (54) that generates a laser beam (78). An outcoupling resonator box (62) has a reflective mirror (70) therein. A return resonator box (64) has a reflective mirror (72) therein. A first solid window assembly (66) is disposed between the outcoupling resonator box (62) and the laser cavity (54). A second solid window assembly (68) is disposed between the return resonator box (64) and the laser cavity (54) so that the beam (78) is directed through the solid window assemblies (66), (68) during operation of the laser system, thereby isolating the usually caustic environment of laser cavity (54) from that of mirrors (70), (72) that are housed in said resonator boxes (62), (64), without the use of isolation valves and optical tunnels as in traditional arrangements. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396804 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088794 | Nichols |
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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) | Gregory M. Nichols (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic gain control RF signal processor for receiver systems, such as radar intercept receivers, includes an attenuator having an input for receiving an analog RF input signal, an amplifier coupled to the attenuator, a bandpass filter coupled to the amplifier output, a single ADC coupled to the bandpass filter, a digital logic circuit, and a FIFO buffer. The digital logic circuit has an input for receiving the ADC output signal, a first output coupled to a variable gain control input of the attenuator, and a second output. The logic circuit includes signal detection logic for detecting the presence of a pulse within the ADC signal, determining a peak amplitude value of the pulse, and based on the peak amplitude value generating an attenuation value at the first output that is applied to the variable gain control input of the attenuator. The sampling logic averages a number of ADC data samples to determine a moving average pulse amplitude, and compares this moving average pulse amplitude to a processing threshold value to determine a delta value with which to adjust an attenuation value for the attenuator, and to determine when to terminate a pulse and reset the attenuation value to zero. The averaging is carried out to determine whether an assigned number m of n samples is above the processing threshold value or whether the pulse should be terminated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/077730 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088826 | Houlberg 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) | Christian L Houlberg (Ventura, California); Gary S. Borgen (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for storing a crypto key and an associated checkword of the crypto key stored in a non-volatile memory within a micrcontroller and then providing the crypto key and associated checkword to an encryption device. The method next loads the crypto key and associated checkword into the encryption device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928875 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088884 | Gerken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martina Gerken (Mountain View, California); David A. B. Miller (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for spatially shifting a light using a multilayer thin-film stack of at least two materials having unequal optical properties, such as indices of refraction and absorption coefficients. The apparatus has an input face for admitting the light into the apparatus and an impedance matching mechanism for maximizing the in-coupling of the light into the multilayer thin-film stack at a non-normal incidence. The non-normal incidence is sufficient to generate a spatial shift of the light in the multilayer thin-film stack as a function of at least one light parameter, such as wavelength and/or polarization of the light, thereby separating the light into light components. The spatial shift is achieved by any one or any combination of effects including superprism, turning point and energy confinement. These effects are achieved in the multilayer thin-film stack by appropriately engineering its layer sequence. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227138 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Kyongyop O (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A true single-chip radio for bidirectional wireless communications includes a bulk substrate, at least one integrated antenna, at least one transceiver, baseband circuitry and at least one filter all integrally formed in or on the substrate. The radio preferably includes a low-loss dielectric propagating layer disposed beneath the substrate to improve antenna gain. The integrated antenna can be an adaptive array for beamforming. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677704 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/90.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089014 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metric Systems Corporation (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Brown (San Marcos, California); Robert S. Bell (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to certain embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a wireless communication system control apparatus and method to determine available wireless communication channels locally and remotely, and for sending a probe signal to a remote wireless communication control apparatus location on a determined available communication channel. A confirmation message is received from the remote wireless communication apparatus location to verify the establishment of the viable communication path. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/212972 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089148 | Bachmann 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 R. Bachmann (Oxford, Ohio); Robert B. McGhee (Carmel, California); Xiaoping Yun (Salinas, California); Michael J. Zyda (Carmel, California); Douglas L. McKinney (Prunedale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment the invention includes a method of determining an orientation of a sensor. The method includes measuring a local magnetic field vector and a local gravity vector and using those measurements to determine the orientation of the sensor. Embodiments can include measuring the magnetic field vector and the local gravity vector using quaternion coordinates. Another embodiment includes measuring a local magnetic field vector, a local gravity vector, and the angular velocity of the sensor. These three vectors are processed to determine the orientation of the sensor. In one embodiment the three vectors can all be measured in quaternion coordinates. Another method embodiment includes determining a local gravity vector by providing a acceleration detector, moving the detector from a start point to an end point over a time period, and summing acceleration measurements over the time period. The local gravity vector is calculated using the summed acceleration measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963007 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089220 | Fromherz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus P. J. Fromherz (Palo Alto, California); Yi Shang (Columbia, Missouri); Lara S. Crawford (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooperative solving method for controlling a plurality of constraint problem solvers identifies complexity criteria, which provide direction for selecting and for transitioning between constraint problem solvers. The method includes randomly selecting a test point and determining whether the test point satisfies a first complexity criterion. A first constraint problem solver is selected, and an alternate test point is identified by the first solver if the complexity criterion has not been satisfied. If the alternate test point is a problem solution, it is transmitted to the system. If the alternate test point is not a problem solution or if the original randomly-selected test point satisfies the complexity criterion, a second constraint solver selects a new test point. If the new test point is a problem solution, it is transmitted to the system; if the new test point is not a solution, the cooperative solver is restarted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602189 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089221 | Fromherz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus P. J. Fromherz (Palo Alto, California); Lara S. Crawford (Mountain View, California); Yi Shang (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for feedback control of cooperative problem solving for real-time applications in complex systems utilizes solvers parameterized by control variables. The method includes initializing the time setting and selecting at least one solver parameter value. The solver is operated with the selected solver parameter value or values for a specified interim and the operational conditions are reviewed. A solution is transmitted to the system if a solution quality condition is satisfied. The solver continues to operate if the solution quality condition is not satisfied and the performance differential is not greater than a specified threshold. If the solution quality condition is unsatisfied, but the performance differential exceeds the threshold, at least one alternate solver parameter value is selected and the solver is operated with the new solver parameter value for a specified interim. The solver continues to operate until the solution quality condition is satisfied. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602193 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089266 | Stolte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for producing graphics. A hierarchical structure of a database is determined. A visual table, comprising a plurality of panes, is constructed by providing a specification that is in a language based on the hierarchical structure of the database. In some cases, this language can include fields that are in the database schema. The database is queried to retrieve a set of tuples in accordance with the specification. A subset of the set of tuples is associated with a pane in the plurality of panes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453834 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/104.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089443 | Albonesi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Albonesi (Rochester, New York); Greg Semeraro (Fairport, New York); Grigorios Magklis (Barcelona, Spain); Michael L. Scott (Rochester, New York); Rajeev Balasubramonian (Rochester, New York); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple clock domain (MCD) microarchitecture uses a globally-asynchronous, locally-synchronous (GALS) clocking style. In an MCD microprocessor each functional block operates with a separately generated clock, and synchronizing circuits ensure reliable inter-domain communication. Thus, fully synchronous design practices are used in the design of each domain. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762550 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089477 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California); Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Fabrizio Pollara (Lacanada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo-like code is formed by repeating the signal, coding it, and interleaving it. A serial concatenated coder is formed of an inner coder and an outer coder separated by an interleaver. The outer coder is a coder which has rate greater than one e.g. a repetition coder. The interleaver rearranges the bits. An outer coder is a rate one coder. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/922852 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lawrence LeMieux (Tehachapi, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting ice on a wind turbine having a rotor and one or more rotor blades each having blade roots includes monitoring meteorological conditions relating to icing conditions and monitoring one or more physical characteristics of the wind turbine in operation that vary in accordance with at least one of the mass of the one or more rotor blades or a mass imbalance between the rotor blades. The method also includes using the one or more monitored physical characteristics to determine whether a blade mass anomaly exists, determining whether the monitored meteorological conditions are consistent with blade icing; and signaling an icing-related blade mass anomaly when a blade mass anomaly is determined to exist and the monitored meteorological conditions are determined to be consistent with icing. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865376 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087113 | Goyal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Knox, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a sharply biaxially textured substrate, such as a single crystal substrate, includes the steps of providing a deformed metal substrate, followed by heating above the secondary recrystallization temperature of the deformed substrate, and controlling the secondary recrystallization texture by either using thermal gradients and/or seeding. The seed is selected to shave a stable texture below a predetermined temperature. The sharply biaxially textured substrate can be formed as a tape having a length of 1 km, or more. Epitaxial articles can be formed from the tapes to include an epitaxial electromagnetically active layer. The electromagnetically active layer can be a superconducting layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/189678 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087211 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uthamalingam Balachandran (Hinsdale, Illinois); Shuangyan Wang (Hinsdale, Illinois); Stephen E. Dorris (LaGrange Park, Illinois); Tae H. Lee (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for separating water into hydrogen and oxygen is disclosed. A first substantially gas impervious solid electron-conducting membrane for selectively passing protons or hydrogen is provided and spaced from a second substantially gas impervious solid electron-conducting membrane for selectively passing oxygen. When steam is passed between the two membranes at dissociation temperatures the hydrogen from the dissociation of steam selectively and continuously passes through the first membrane and oxygen selectively and continuously passes through the second membrane, thereby continuously driving the dissociation of steam producing hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is thereafter reacted with methane to produce syngas which optimally may be reacted in a water gas shift reaction to produce CO2 and H2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669832 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/658.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087544 | Satcher, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Alex Gash (Livermore, California); Randall Simpson (Livermore, California); Richard Landingham (Livermore, California); Robert A. Reibold (Salida, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method to produce ceramic materials utilizing the sol-gel process. The methods enable the preparation of intimate homogeneous dispersions of materials while offering the ability to control the size of one component within another. The method also enables the preparation of materials that will densify at reduced temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/447119 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087691 | Rhodes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promerus LLC (Brecksville, Ohio); Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry F. Rhodes (Silver Lake, Ohio); Larry Seger (Gates Mills, Ohio); Ayusman Sen (University Park, Pennsylvania); April Hennis Marchetti (Ashland, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass photo-imageable compositions that include polymers of acrylate-type monomers and norbornene-type monomers. In some embodiments a catalyst system comprising a cationic or a neutral Pd(II) dimer component having the formula (Allyl)Pd(P(R21)3) or (L′)[(L)Pd(R)(X)]2, respectively is employed to effect polymerization. In other embodiments a free radical or living free radical catalyst is employed to effect polymerization. At least one of the acrylate-type monomers and norbornene-type monomers of the polymer embodiments of the present invention encompass an acid labile moiety. Some polymer embodiments of the present invention include more than one type of acrylate-type monomer and norbornene-type monomer. Embodiments of the present invention include forming a patterned layer on a substrate and some embodiments include transferring the patterned structure to a material layer first formed on the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/614502 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088094 | VunKannon, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinia Corporation (Kennewick, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S VunKannon, Jr. (Burbank, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A displacement sensing system and method addresses demanding requirements for high precision sensing of displacement of a shaft, for use typically in a linear electro-dynamic machine, having low failure rates over multi-year unattended operation in hostile environments. Applications include outer space travel by spacecraft having high-temperature, sealed environments without opportunity for servicing over many years of operation. The displacement sensing system uses a three coil sensor configuration, including a reference and sense coils, to provide a pair of ratio-metric signals, which are inputted into a synchronous comparison circuit, which is synchronously processed for a resultant displacement determination. The pair of ratio-metric signals are similarly affected by environmental conditions so that the comparison circuit is able to subtract or nullify environmental conditions that would otherwise cause changes in accuracy to occur. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895019 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088106 | Agarwal, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rekha Agarwal, legal representative (Laramie, Wyoming); John Ackerman (Laramie, Wyoming); Ron Borgialli (Laramie, Wyoming); Jerry Hamann (Laramie, Wyoming); Suresh Muknahalliptna (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for the measuring membrane permeability in electrical/electrochemical/photo-electrochemical fields is provided. The device is a permeation cell and a tube mounted within the cell. An electrode is mounted at one end of the tube. A membrane is mounted within the cell wherein a corona is discharged from the electrode in a general direction toward the membrane thereby generating heated hydrogen atoms adjacent the membrane. A method for measuring the effects of temperature and pressure on membrane permeability and selectivity is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022245 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088115 | Glenn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Glenn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gretchen E. Matthern (Idaho Falls, Idaho); W. Alan Propp (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Anne W. Glenn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Peter G. Shaw (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for determining spatial locations of defects in a material are described. The method includes providing a plurality of electrodes in contact with a material, applying a sinusoidal voltage to a select number of the electrodes at a predetermined frequency, determining gain and phase angle measurements at other of the electrodes in response to applying the sinusoidal voltage to the select number of electrodes, determining impedance values from the gain and phase angle measurements, computing an impedance spectrum for an area of the material from the determined impedance values, and comparing the computed impedance spectrum with a known impedance spectrum to identify spatial locations of defects in the material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/015427 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088639 | Walls et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | RDSP I L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Walls (Houston, Texas); M. Turhan Taner (Houston, Texas); Jack Dvorkin (Emerald Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for seismic characterization of subsurface Earth formations includes determining at least one of compressional velocity and shear velocity, and determining reservoir parameters of subsurface Earth formations, at least including density, from data obtained from a wellbore penetrating the formations. A quality factor for the subsurface formations is calculated from the velocity, the density and the water saturation. A synthetic seismogram is calculated from the calculated quality factor and from the velocity and density. The synthetic seismogram is compared to a seismic survey made in the vicinity of the wellbore. At least one parameter is adjusted. The synthetic seismogram is recalculated using the adjusted parameter, and the adjusting, recalculating and comparing are repeated until a difference between the synthetic seismogram and the seismic survey falls below a selected threshold. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098010 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — 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 367/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088972 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLP (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Dewayne Brown (Grain Valley, Missouri); David Dunson (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed data transmitter (DTXR) which is an adaptive data communication microwave transmitter having a distributable architecture of modular components, and which incorporates both digital and microwave technology to provide substantial improvements in physical and operational flexibility. The DTXR has application in, for example, remote data acquisition involving the transmission of telemetry data across a wireless link, wherein the DTXR is integrated into and utilizes available space within a system (e.g., a flight vehicle). In a preferred embodiment, the DTXR broadly comprises a plurality of input interfaces; a data modulator; a power amplifier; and a power converter, all of which are modularly separate and distinct so as to be substantially independently physically distributable and positionable throughout the system wherever sufficient space is available. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/271459 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089177 | Burnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg C. Burnett (Livermore, California); John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California); Lawrence C. Ng (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a system and method for characterizing human (or animate) speech voiced excitation functions and acoustic signals, for removing unwanted acoustic noise which often occurs when a speaker uses a microphone in common environments, and for synthesizing personalized or modified human (or other animate) speech upon command from a controller. A low power EM sensor is used to detect the motions of windpipe tissues in the glottal region of the human speech system before, during, and after voiced speech is produced by a user. From these tissue motion measurements, a voiced excitation function can be derived. Further, the excitation function provides speech production information to enhance noise removal from human speech and it enables accurate transfer functions of speech to be obtained. Previously stored excitation and transfer functions can be used for synthesizing personalized or modified human speech. Configurations of EM sensor and acoustic microphone systems are described to enhance noise cancellation and to enable multiple articulator measurements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198287 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089266 | Stolte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for producing graphics. A hierarchical structure of a database is determined. A visual table, comprising a plurality of panes, is constructed by providing a specification that is in a language based on the hierarchical structure of the database. In some cases, this language can include fields that are in the database schema. The database is queried to retrieve a set of tuples in accordance with the specification. A subset of the set of tuples is associated with a pane in the plurality of panes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453834 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/104.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07087431 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. H. David Wu (Pittsford, New York); Athanassios Mantalaris (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Nicki Panoskaltsis (Middlesex, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cultured leukemia cells. The method comprises isolating mononuclear cells, which contain leukemia cells, culturing the leukemia cells in a chamber having a scaffolding covered or surrounded with culture medium, where the scaffolding allows for leukemia cells to have cell to cell contacts in three dimensions. The subject leukemia cells are useful for screening compounds which inhibit or stimulate leukemia cell function or formation. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/796830 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087876 | Petrenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor F. Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternating electric field is applied at an ice interface to generate a resistive AC current having a frequency greater than 1000 Hz in interfacial ice. Typically, a first electrode and a second electrode proximate to the interface are separated by an interelectrode distance of about 50 μm to 500 μm. An AC power source provides a voltage of about 10 to 500 volts across the electrodes in order to create the alternating electric field. Interfacial ice converts capacitive AC current into resistive AC current, which generates Joule heat in the interfacial ice. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976210 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087902 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaohong Wang (Troy, New York); Xi-Cheng Zhang (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reconstructing a plurality of images of an object. An exemplary system includes a radiation source adapted to emit radiation at a plurality of frequencies; a lens with frequency-dependent focal length, such as a Fresnel lens, adapted to receive radiation modified by the object and to project onto a fixed image plane a frequency-dependent image of a slice of the object perpendicular to the radiation path; a sensor for capturing the frequency-dependent image of the object; and apparatus for facilitating creation and capture of a plurality of frequency-dependent images of the object at the plurality of frequencies. A system for reconstructing a tomographic image of the object further includes apparatus for assembling the plurality of frequency-dependent images to reconstruct the tomographic image. Methods and systems are described for use in the visible, audible, and THz frequency ranges and with broadband or narrowband radiation sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417597 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088143 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Ding (Sunnyvale, California); Pinaki Mazumder (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of different dynamic circuits having improved noise tolerance and a method for designing same are provided. The circuits include a power supply node and a precharge node. Keeper circuitry is connected to the nodes and has a current-voltage characteristic that exhibits a negative differential resistance property to improve noise tolerance of the circuits. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847018 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088178 | Rosenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Rosenfeld (Rochester, New York); Mucahit Kozak (Tonawanda, New York); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-low voltage rail-to-rail operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is based on a standard digital 0.18 μm CMOS process. Techniques for designing a 0.8 volt fully differential OTA include bias and reference current generator circuits. To achieve rail-to-rail operation, complementary input differential pairs are used, where the bulk-driven technique is applied to reduce the threshold limitation of the MOSFET transistors. The OTA gain is increased by using auxiliary gain boosting amplifiers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870684 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088455 | Kirkpatrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health Systems Oregon (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean J. Kirkpatrick (Portland, Oregon); Donald D. Duncan (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring strains in biological and other samples include illuminating a specimen with substantially collimated laser flux. An electro-acoustic transducer is activated to generate acoustic waves in the specimen, including a surface wave component such as a Rayleigh wave. A series of laser speckle patterns produced by a laser flux scattered or reflected by the specimen is recorded and speckle pattern shifts are calculated based on the recorded speckle patterns. Phase shifts produced by acoustic wave propagation in the specimen are used to identify specimen regions associated with irregularities such as inclusions, cracks, or tissue abnormalities. In some examples, specimens are stretched or otherwise stressed by one or more light fluxes, and specimen elongation is estimated based on a series of associated speckle patterns. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172754 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089443 | Albonesi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Albonesi (Rochester, New York); Greg Semeraro (Fairport, New York); Grigorios Magklis (Barcelona, Spain); Michael L. Scott (Rochester, New York); Rajeev Balasubramonian (Rochester, New York); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple clock domain (MCD) microarchitecture uses a globally-asynchronous, locally-synchronous (GALS) clocking style. In an MCD microprocessor each functional block operates with a separately generated clock, and synchronizing circuits ensure reliable inter-domain communication. Thus, fully synchronous design practices are used in the design of each domain. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762550 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089477 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California); Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Fabrizio Pollara (Lacanada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo-like code is formed by repeating the signal, coding it, and interleaving it. A serial concatenated coder is formed of an inner coder and an outer coder separated by an interleaver. The outer coder is a coder which has rate greater than one e.g. a repetition coder. The interleaver rearranges the bits. An outer coder is a rate one coder. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/922852 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07086593 | Woodard 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) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia); Qamar A. Shams (Yorktown, Virginia); Christopher L. Fox, legal representative (Yorktown, Virginia); Melanie L. Fox, legal representative (Hayes, Virginia); Robert G. Bryant (Lightfoot, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic field response sensors designed as passive inductor-capacitor circuits produce magnetic field responses whose harmonic frequencies correspond to states of physical properties for which the sensors measure. Power to the sensing element is acquired using Faraday induction. A radio frequency antenna produces the time varying magnetic field used for powering the sensor, as well as receiving the magnetic field response of the sensor. An interrogation architecture for discerning changes in sensor's response frequency, resistance and amplitude is integral to the method thus enabling a variety of measurements. Multiple sensors can be interrogated using this method, thus eliminating the need to have a data acquisition channel dedicated to each sensor. The method does not require the sensors to be in proximity to any form of acquisition hardware. A vast array of sensors can be used as interchangeable parts in an overall sensing system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/839445 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07086648 | Steinetz |
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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) | Bruce M. Steinetz (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a sealing device having an acoustic resonator. The acoustic resonator is adapted to create acoustic waveforms to generate a sealing pressure barrier blocking fluid flow from a high pressure area to a lower pressure area. The sealing device permits noncontacting sealing operation. The sealing device may include a resonant-macrosonic-synthesis (RMS) resonator. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652088 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087447 | Sridharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Kumar Sridharan (Palo Alto, California); Shailendhar Saraf (San Jose, California); Robert L. Byer (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for batch manufacturing of slabs for zig-zag lasers including steps of bonding two non-active media to either side of an active medium to form a sandwich, dicing the sandwich to provide slices, rendering two surfaces of each slice into total-internal-reflection (TIR) surfaces, and then dicing the slices perpendicular to the TIR surfaces to provide a plurality of zig-zag slabs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696278 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07089456 | Gender |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Gender (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An error response test system and method with increased functionality and improved performance is provided. The error response test system provides the ability to inject errors into the application under test to test the error response of the application under test in an automated and efficient manner. The error response system injects errors into the application through a test mask variable. The test mask variable is added to the application under test. During normal operation, the test mask variable is set to allow the application under test to operate normally. During testing, the error response test system can change the test mask variable to introduce an error into the application under test. The error response system can then monitor the application under test to determine whether the application has the correct response to the error. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161207 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07087341 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen Atanassov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paolina Atanassova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Klaus Kunze (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Napolitano (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Dericotte (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rimple Bhatia (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Energy devices such as batteries and methods for fabricating the energy devices. The devices are small, thin and lightweight, yet provide sufficient power for many handheld electronics. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/213147 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087387 | Gerdes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applera Corporation (Foster City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Gerdes (Denver, Colorado); Jeffery M. Marmaro (Aurora, Colorado); Jeffrey T. Ives (Arvada, Colorado); Christopher A. Roehl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a kit comprising a substrate having a surface coated with a solid phase matrix for nucleic acid manipulation. The solid phase matrix exhibits sufficient hydrophilicity and electropositivity to tightly bind the nucleic acids in a sample. The manipulations include nucleic acid (double or single stranded DNA and RNA) capture from high volume and/or low concentration specimens, buffer changes, washes, and volume reductions, and enable the interface of solid phase bound nucleic acid with enzyme, hybridization or amplification strategies. The tightly bound nucleic acid may be used, for example, in repeated analyses to confirm results or test additional genes in both research and commercial applications. Further, a method for virus extraction, purification, and solid phase amplification from large volume plasma specimens is described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690359 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087456 | Gory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Gory (Richardson, Texas); Bruce Gnade (Lewisville, Texas); Fadziso Mantiziba (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of releasing a micro-electronic device formed over an insulator of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. In one embodiment, the release method includes etching at least a portion of the insulator to separate the micro-electronic device from the SOI substrate, rinsing at least the micro-electronic device, exposing at least the micro-electronic device to a micro-sphere solution and removing the micro-electronic device from the SOI substrate. The release method may also include exposing the micro-electronic device to an etching plasma to substantially expunge the micro-sphere solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/680021 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07086184 | Archuleta, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Archuleta, Jr. (Roseburg, Oregon); Michael W. Karr (Idleyld Park, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A grapple rake adapted for receiving subsoiler shanks is useful for multiple post-timber harvest management activities. A pair of downwardly-depending, forward-oriented subsoiling shanks is mounted on the underside of the rake, allowing the implement to accomplish the tasks of (1) grapple piling to deal with post-timber harvest fuels reduction and (2) subsoiling to improve soil productivity by reducing soil compaction. The implement is optionally equipped with a coulter blade. This invention will be useful for decommissioning forest roads, skid trails, landings, and harvest units with new and/or legacy compaction without the need for multiple pieces of heavy equipment or for multiple entries into the treatment area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781612 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Excavating 037/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087371 | Dobrinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ina Dobrinski (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Stefan Schlatt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ali Honaramooz (Kennett Sq., Pennsylvania); Hans Scholer (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of producing viable sperm from neonatal mammalian testes which have been engrafted in mice. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610302 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07087832 | Scher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik C. Scher (San Francisco, California); Mihai Buretea (San Francisco, California); Calvin Y. H. Chow (Portola Valley, California); Stephen A. Empedocles (Menlo Park, California); Andreas P. Meisel (San Francisco, California); J. Wallace Parce (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocomposite photovoltaic devices are provided that generally include semiconductor nanocrystals as at least a portion of a photoactive layer. Photovoltaic devices and other layered devices that comprise core-shell nanostructures and/or two populations of nanostructures, where the nanostructures are not necessarily part of a nanocomposite, are also features of the invention. Varied architectures for such devices are also provided including flexible and rigid architectures, planar and non-planar architectures and the like, as are systems incorporating such devices, and methods and systems for fabricating such devices. Compositions comprising two populations of nanostructures of different materials are also a feature of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007916 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087833 | Scher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik C. Scher (San Francisco, California); Mihai Buretea (San Francisco, California); Stephen A. Empedocles (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocomposite photovoltaic devices are provided that generally include semiconductor nanocrystals as at least a portion of a photoactive layer. Photovoltaic devices and other layered devices that comprise core-shell nanostructures and/or two populations of nanostructures, where the nanostructures are not necessarily part of a nanocomposite, are also features of the invention. Varied architectures for such devices are also provided including flexible and rigid architectures, planar and non-planar architectures and the like, as are systems incorporating such devices, and methods and systems for fabricating such devices. Compositions comprising two populations of nanostructures of different materials are also a feature of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008315 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of State (DOS)
| US 07088178 | Rosenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Rosenfeld (Rochester, New York); Mucahit Kozak (Tonawanda, New York); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-low voltage rail-to-rail operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is based on a standard digital 0.18 μm CMOS process. Techniques for designing a 0.8 volt fully differential OTA include bias and reference current generator circuits. To achieve rail-to-rail operation, complementary input differential pairs are used, where the bulk-driven technique is applied to reduce the threshold limitation of the MOSFET transistors. The OTA gain is increased by using auxiliary gain boosting amplifiers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870684 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07087112 | Rojo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Carlos Rojo (Sound Beach, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York); Jan Barani (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for fabricating a mount for an aluminum nitride (AlN) seed for single crystal aluminum nitride growth is provided. A holder having a proximal base and wall portions extending therefrom is fabricated from crystal growth crucible material, and defines an internal cavity. An AlN seed is placed within the holder, and placed within a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature at or exceeding the melting point of a suitable material capable of forming a nitride ceramic by nitridation, such as aluminum. Pellets fabricated from this material are dropped into the holder and onto the seed, so that they melt and react with the nitrogen atmosphere to form a nitride ceramic. The seed is effectively molded in-situ with the ceramic, so that the ceramic and holder forms a closely conforming holder for the seed, suitable for single crystal AlN growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725869 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07087008 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Fox (San Antonio, Texas); Jack Lancaster (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are apparatus and methods for delivery of transcranial magnetic stimulation. The apparatus includes a TMS coil which when energized generates an electric field substantially parallel to a long axis of the coil and substantially normal to a surface of the coil. Furthermore disclosed an apparatus for delivery of TMS in which a coil is adapted to a robotic member for computer-aided control and delivery. Further disclosed are methods of TMS planning and delivery in which subject images are utilized to plan, position and orient the TMS coil for precise delivery. Disclosed also are TMS coils having unique designs to better focus and direct magnetic stimulation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138543 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07087106 | Kem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Reade Kem (Gainesville, Florida); Ferenc Soti (Gainesville, Florida); Dan Rittschof (Morehead City, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides materials and methods for inhibiting the biofouling of surfaces exposed to aquatic environments. In one embodiment, the subject invention provides additives for marine paints and surface treatments. The subject invention further provides repellants and selective inhibitors for aquatic and/or terrestrial crustacean pests. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783312 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/18.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07088526 | Braun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufactruing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy O. Braun (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A lens collimator according to the present invention includes a plurality of lens elements bonded together. The lens elements, preferably three, each include spherical surfaces and are generally concentrically disposed relative to each other. The lens elements are arranged to produce an increased quantity of reflections and refractions within a lens optical path. The reflections and refractions reduce aberrations and control signal intercept angles relative to an image plane, thereby enabling the lens to match the performance of an optical signal carrier utilized with the lens. The lens element arrangement basically serves to provide an optical path with a quantity of reflections similar to that achieved with a lens having a greater quantity of elements or surfaces. The reflections and refractions enable the lens to cancel out or remove undesired characteristics (e.g., aberrations, etc.) from the resulting optical signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/635448 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/732 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 08, 2006.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2006/fedinvent-patents-20060808.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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