FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, August 29, 2006
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| US 07096888 | Thurston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Thurston (Mesa, Arizona); William F. Ryan (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluidic pulse generator system includes two fluidic diverter valves that are both controlled by a single fluidic pilot valve. The fluidic pilot valve and the two fluidic diverter valves are each adapted to receive a flow of pressurized fluid. The flow of pressurized fluid through the fluidic pilot valve is controlled in response to pressurized fluid flow through a control valve. In turn, the flow of pressurized fluid through the two fluidic diverters valves is simultaneously controlled in response to the flow of pressurized fluid through the fluidic pilot valve. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783744 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097411 | Smoke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason C. Smoke (Phoenix, Arizona); Cristopher Frost (Scottsdale, Arizona); Richard D. Kocher (Tempe, Arizona); Jeff D. Guymon (Gilbert, Arizona); Ly D. Nguyen (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressor scroll housing for use in conjunction with turbo-machinery, particularly applicable in aircraft. The scroll housing can include a plurality of scroll vanes arrayed around the scroll housing. Scroll vanes, integrally formed with the scroll housing, carry stress load on the scroll housing, including the load from fluid pressure within the scroll and carcass loading from the engine. The plurality of scroll vanes adapted for guiding flow of fluid from an inlet to an outlet while supporting the scroll housing. Chord length and cross sectional area of each scroll vane can be sized to maintain an equal stress in all scroll vanes. A method of making the scroll housing for use with an impeller connected to an engine is disclosed, as well as a method of operating turbo-machinery including supporting a load on the scroll housing with scroll vanes while maintaining an equal stress on each scroll vane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/829114 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097421 | Swanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Swanson (Coventry, Connecticut); James E. Jones (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A vernier duct blocker comprising a plurality of vanes each having a width and comprising a forward portion and an aft portion defining a plurality of gas paths each of the plurality of vanes being separated by a plurality of widths, and a rotatably movable ring interposed between the forward portion and the aft portion comprising a plurality of openings each having a width, wherein the width of one of the plurality of vanes differs from the width of another one of the plurality of vanes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/961178 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097424 | Cunha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Cunha (Avon, Connecticut); Keith Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut); Bret Teller (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine component, such as a high pressure turbine blade, has an airfoil portion, a platform, and micro-circuits within the platform for cooling at least one of a platform edge adjacent the pressure side of the airfoil portion and the trailing edge of the platform. The micro-circuits include a first micro-circuit on a suction side of the airfoil and a second micro-circuit on a pressure side of the airfoil. The micro-circuits within the platform achieve high thermal convective efficiency, high film coverage, and high cooling effectiveness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771485 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097425 | Cunha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut); Keith Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut); Scott W. Gayman (Manchester, Connecticut); Eric Couch (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil includes a plurality of cooling circuits embedded within the pressure and suction sidewalls and a first and a second flow passage. The first flow passage feeds the coolant fluid to the cooling circuits that are embedded only within the pressure sidewall and the second flow passage feeds the coolant fluid to the cooling circuits that are embedded only within the suction sidewall. A method embodiment of the present comprises placing the inlets of the cooling circuits embedded within the first sidewall in flow communication with only one of the flow passages and placing the inlets of the cooling circuits embedded within the second sidewall in flow communication with at least one of the other flow passages to minimize the difference in sink pressures of the suction and pressure sidewalls to ensure ingestion of the coolant fluid into the inlets of the respective cooling circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802260 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097426 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Aspi Rustom Wadia (Loveland, Ohio); David Glenn Cherry (Loveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade includes an airfoil having opposite pressure and suction sidewalls joined together at opposite leading and trailing edges and extending longitudinally from root to tip. A plurality of independent cooling circuits are disposed inside the airfoil correspondingly along the pressure and suction sidewalls thereof. Each circuit includes an inlet channel extending through the dovetail. One of the circuits includes multiple longitudinal channels separated by corresponding perforate partitions each including a row of impingement holes for cascade impingement cooling the inner surface of the airfoil. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/820325 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097427 | Kuhns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Kuhns (Euless, Texas); Ajay Sehgal (Leonardtown, Maryland); Ernest Powell (Bedford, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A helicopter main rotor blade balance weight retention system and assembly having a base plate (105), at least one support post (107) integral with the base plate and extending out perpendicularly from the base plate, a plurality of balance weights (109), a retaining nut plate (111), and one or more fastening bolts (113) for securing the balance weights to the base plate, and the base plate to the rotor blade. The balance weights (109) include apertures (117, 119) through which the support posts and the fastening bolts pass. The apertures through which the support posts pass are dimensioned such that the a snug fit is formed between the support posts and the balance weight; but the apertures through which the fastening bolts pass are dimensioned such that the threaded portions of the fastening bolts are not subjected to any shear loads from the balance weights due to the centrifugal force generated by the rotating rotor blades. The weight retention assembly is installed into pockets in the blade tip. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/483641 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097526 | Raina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanwal K. Raina (Boise, Idaho); Benham Moradi (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a resistor layer for use in field emission display devices and the like, and its method of manufacture. The resistor layer is an amorphous silicon layer doped with nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen concentration in the resistor layer is preferably between about 5 and 15 atomic percent. The presence of nitrogen and phosphorus in the silicon prevents diffusion of Si atoms into metal conductive layers such as aluminum, even up to diffusion and packaging temperatures. The nitrogen and phosphorus also prevent defects from forming at the boundary between the resistor layer and metal conductor. This leads to better control over shorting and improved resistivity in the resistor. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167695 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
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| US 07097686 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Nickel powder batches and methods for producing nickel powder batches. The powder batches include particles having a small particle size, narrow size distribution and a spherical morphology. The present invention is also directed to devices incorporating the nickel metal powders. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/991270 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097707 | Xu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xueping Xu (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a single crystal GaN boule, comprising contacting a GaN seed wafer with a GaN source environment under process conditions including a thermal gradient in the GaN source environment producing growth of gallium nitride on the GaN seed wafer, thereby forming the GaN boule. The GaN source environment in various implementations includes gallium melt in an ambient atmosphere of nitrogen or ammonia, or alternatively, supercritical ammonia containing solubilized GaN. The method produces single crystal GaN boules >10 millimeters in diameter, of device quality suitable for production of GaN wafers useful in the fabrication of microelectronic, optoelectronic and microelectromechanical devices and device precursor structures therefor. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328223 |
| 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 117/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098028 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Holmes (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shuguang Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexander Rich (Cambridge, Massachusetts); C. Michael DiPersio (Norton, Massachusetts); Curtis Lockshin (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the self-assembly of amphiphilic peptides, i.e., peptides with alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues, into macroscopic membranes. The membrane-forming peptides are greater than 12 amino acids in length, and preferably at least 16 amino acids, are complementary and are structurally compatible. Specifically, two peptides, (AEAEAKAK)2 (ARARADAD)2, were shown to self-assemble into macroscopic membranes. Conditions under which the peptides self-assemble into macroscopic membranes and methods for producing the membranes are also described. The macroscopic membranes have several interesting properties: they are stable in aqueous solution, serum, and ethanol, are highly resistant to heat, alkaline and acidic pH, chemical denaturants, and proteolytic digestion, and are non-cytotoxic. The membranes are potentially useful in biomaterial applications such as slow-diffusion drug delivery systems, artificial skin, and separation matrices, and as experimental models for Alzheimer's disease and scrapie infection. The sequence of the peptide, EAK16, was derived from a putative Z-DNA binding protein from yeast, called zuotin. The cloning and characterization of the ZUO1 gene are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390472 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/401 |
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| US 07098057 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhaseet Hills, New York); Qiping C. Ouyang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon and silicon germanium based semiconductor MODFET device design and method of manufacture. The MODFET design includes a high-mobility layer structure capable of ultra high-speed, low-noise for a variety of communication applications including RF, microwave, sub-millimeter-wave and millimeter-wave. The epitaxial field effect transistor layer structure includes critical (vertical and lateral) device scaling and layer structure design for a high mobility strained n-channel and p-channel transistor incorporating silicon and silicon germanium layers to form the optimum modulation-doped heterostructure on an ultra thin SOI or SGOI substrate capable of achieving greatly improved RF performance. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/983488 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098297 | Pei |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qibing Pei (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides conjugated polymers that have good solubility and semiconductivity, and that display high photoluminescent and electroluminescent efficiency. Representative polymers containing monomer units having the general structure of formula (I) wherein: Ar1 and Ar2 are independently selected from the group consisting of monocyclic, bicyclic and polycyclic arylene, heteroarylene, substituted arylene and substituted heteroarylene groups; L is alkylene, alkenylene, substituted alkylene, substituted alkenylene, heteroalkylene, heteroalkenylene, substituted heteroalkylene, substituted heteroalkenylene, arylene, heteroarylene, substituted arylene, substituted heteroarylene, or a combination thereof; Q is a heteroatom; m is zero or 1; p is zero or 1, and q is zero or 1, with the proviso that when p is zero, then q is zero; x is zero or 1; Q1 and Q2 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, aryl, heteroaryl, substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl, alkyl, substituted alkyl, heteroalkyl, and substituted heteroalkyl, and Q3 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, substituted alkyl, heteroalkyl, and substituted heteroalkyl, with the proviso that when m is 1, Q1 and Q2 are other than H; and A− is a negatively charged counterion. Electroluminescent and other devices containing a polymer of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932685 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
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| US 07098302 | Krag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Krag (Shelburne, Vermont); Stephanie C. Pero (Burlington, Vermont); Lyn Oligino (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for diagnosing and treating subjects using EBPs. Specifically disclosed are peptides and peptidomimetics that bind selectively to the extracellular domain of ErbB2. These compositions are useful in the prevention and treatment of disorders characterized by ErbB2 overexpression (e.g., breast cancer). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272437 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07098320 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas Andrew Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975384 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07098438 | Frazier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Frazier (Garland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A latch circuit includes first and second resonant tunneling diodes coupled in series, and a reset portion having a photodiode portion responsive to varying photonic energy for switching between first and second states which are different. When the photodiode portion is in its first state, the reset portion normalizes a voltage across each of the resonant tunneling diodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717864 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098498 | Diorio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Diorio (Shoreline, Washington); Todd E. Humes (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Hot-electron injection driven by hole impact ionization in the channel-to-drain junction of a p-channel MOSFET provides a new mechanism for writing a floating-gate memory. Various pFET floating-gate structures use a combination of this mechanism and electron tunneling to implement nonvolatile analog memory, nonvolatile digital memory, or on-line learning in silicon. The memory is nonvolatile because the devices use electrically isolated floating gates to store electronic charge. The devices enable on-line learning because the electron injection and tunneling mechanisms that write the memory can occur during normal device operation. The memory updates and learning are bidirectional because the injection and tunneling mechanisms add and remove electrons from the floating gate, respectively. Because the memory updates depend on both the stored memory and the pFETs terminal voltages, and because they are bidirectional, the devices can implement on-line learning functions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914968 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/302 |
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| US 07098572 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byung Jin Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Stephen C. Johnson (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus to control displacement of a body spaced-apart from a surface includes a flexure system having a first flexure member defining a first axis of rotation and a second flexure member defining a second axis of rotation. A body is coupled to the flexure system to move about a plurality of axes. An actuation system is coupled to the flexure system to selectively constrain movement of the body along a subset of the plurality of axes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806956 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098587 | Hofmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Hofmann (Boise, Idaho); John K. Lee (Meridian, Idaho); David A. Cathey (Boise, Idaho); Glen E. Hush (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method for stabilizing the threshold voltage in an active matrix field emission device are disclosed. The method includes the formation of radiation-blocking elements between a cathodoluminescent display screen of the FED and semiconductor junctions formed on a baseplate of the FED. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400732 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098718 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zibing Yang (Natick, Massachusetts); Todd A. Hinck (Arlington, Massachusetts); Howard I. Cohen (Waltham, Massachusetts); Allyn Hubbard (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable current mode integrator for low-frequency continuous-time filters that requires a reduced amount of area when implemented in an integrated circuit (IC). The integrator includes input and output transistors, and cross-coupled current mirrors, integration capacitors, and operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) that form a feedback structure with the input transistors. Input currents are converted to small current swings within the OTAs, and are subsequently integrated by the capacitors. Resulting integrated voltages are converted to output currents by the output transistors. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009377 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/336 |
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| US 07098757 | Avazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Avazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Siavash Pourkamali Anaraki (Tehran, Iran) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically-coupled micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) filter system and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the MEMS filter system comprises a first microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator comprising a first resonating element, a second MEMS resonator comprising a second resonating element, the sescond resonating element closely spaced and mechanically separate from the first resonating element, wherein the first MEMS resonator is coupled to the second MEMS resonator through the electrostatic force acting between resonating portions of the MEMS resonators, and additional MEMS resonators electrically coupled to the first MEMS resonator, the second MEMS resonator, or the first and second MEMS resonators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669178 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
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| US 07098848 | Ksienski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Ksienski (Los Angeles, California); Gwendolyn M. Shaw (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An intermodulation suppression method using phased array antenna electronics insignificantly degrades the desired primary main beams while substantially suppressing undesired intermodulation product beams, and particularly undesired third-ordered intermodulation product beams. The beam smearing method has two aspects, including phase smearing and angle smearing for respective subarrays to reduce the intermodulation-product beams of the phased array antenna beam patterns. With a 1 dB degradation of the primary main beams, a 6 dB to 10 dB suppression of the intermodulation product beams is achieved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963877 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/372 |
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| US 07099074 | Muller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heinrich G. Muller (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system couples laser light into an optical fiber, such as a optical amplifier fiber, from the side of the fiber by side-pumping of the fiber that is in contact with the laser such that refracted laser light is redirected into and through the fiber using direct attachment of a laser, such as a high-power laser diode, to the inner cladding of a fiber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999885 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.300 |
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| US 07099187 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire); Ovonyx, Inc. (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Li (Chantilly, Virginia); Kenneth R. Knowles (Manassas, Virginia); David C. Lawson (Haymarket, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A read/write circuit for accessing chalcogenide non-volatile memory cells is disclosed. The read/write circuit includes a chalcogenide storage element, a voltage limiting circuit, a current-to-voltage converter, and a buffer circuit. The voltage limiting circuit, which is coupled to the chalcogenide storage element, ensures that voltages across the chalcogenide storage element will not exceed a predetermined value during a read operation. During a read operation, the current-to-voltage converter, which is coupled to the voltage limiting circuit, converts a current pulse read from the chalcogenide storage element to a voltage pulse. By sensing the voltage pulse from the current-to-voltage converter, the buffer circuit can determine a storage state of the chalcogenide storage element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225953 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/163 |
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| US 07099404 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/372630 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhannad S. Bakir (Atlanta, Georgia); Kevin P. Martin (Atlanta, Georgia); James D. Meindl (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and systems having one or more of the following components: a compliant pillar with a modified tip surface (non-flat tip) and a corresponding compliant socket; an optical/electrical I/O interconnect and a corresponding compliant socket; a lens/waveguide optical pillar, a polymer bridge, and an L-shaped pillar, are described herein. In addition, methods of making these components and methods of using these components are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647703 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099579 | Sweeney 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) | Brian Sweeney (Woodbridge, Virginia); Charles West (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The commercial demand for higher aggregate data rates has led to DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed) transmissions. Network elements need the capacity in these systems to reconfigure in case of a bit stream failure. The instant invention can bridge communications between other network elements including optical and electrical signal network elements, when a loss of signal detection circuit to substitute a second bit stream for a time delayed original bit stream and a circuit element connected to the loss of signal detection circuit to permit the network elements to reconfigure without activating automatic protect switch mechanisms of a bridged network. The instant invention also teaches a method for ensuring communication of network elements of a bridged network including optical and electrical signal network elements, by detecting a loss of signal in a transmitted bit stream; substituting a second bit stream for a time delayed original bit stream; and allowing network elements to crossconnect to reconfigure optical channels in a manner that will not interfere with network functions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/180333 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099593 | Islam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed N. Islam (Allen, Texas); Tiejun J. Xia (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for self-synchronizing an optical packet network by selecting a seed pulse from among the data pulses within a packet having no synchronization marker, transforming the seed pulse to be optically distinguishable from the remaining data pulses after the packet has been transmitted, and extracting that seed pulse for use in synchronizing the operation of the network. In one embodiment, the process is practiced using a intensity modifier (such as a fast-saturation, slow-recovery amplifier) to modify the seed pulse intensity, and an intensity discriminator (such as an unbalanced NOLM, or a dispersion-shifted fiber and bandpass filter) to extract the differentiated seed pulse. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/646859 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099753 | Gvillo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis W. Gvillo (Moro, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer readable media, includes instructions capable of being interpreted for execution by a computer processor. The instructions provide information sufficient for: reading a master telemetry definition data file; producing a source code for implementing a data stream telemetry method, and generating documentation files for the source code. The source code includes a get component, a format component, and a blocks component. The get component includes source code for accessing flight software variable values according to the master telemetry definition data file. The format component includes source code for scaling the flight software variable values according to the master telemetry definition data file. The format component includes source code for formatting the values as telemetry stream parameters according to the master telemetry definition data file. The blocks component includes source code for placing telemetry parameters into a data stream according to the master telemetry definition data file. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/832638 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099908 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A generalized radix-2 block transform method enables true split and merge transform processing of equal sized data halves in the transform domain enabling recursive merges and splits in transform domain data degradation. Input data in the time domain or spatial domain during either the split and merge radix-2 forward transform processing is firstly transform processed followed by combinational processing. Whole transformed data is split using combinational processing into transformed data halves in the transform domain as a true split. The transformed halves are merged using combinational processing into whole merged transformed data in the transform domain. Time or spatial domain input data can be transformed into the transform domain in the form of split halves or merged whole. The split halves can be merged by the merge process combinational processing and the merged whole can be split by the split process combinational processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175388 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099909 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fast Fourier Transforms in a radix-2 block transform method enables true split and merge transform processing of equal sized data halves in the Fourier transform domain for enabling recursive merges and splits in Fourier transform domain without data degradation. Input data in the time domain or spatial domain during either the split and merge radix-2 forward transform processing is firstly transform processed followed by combinational processing. Whole transformed data is split using combinational processing into transformed data halves in the transform domain as a true split. Transform halves are merged using combinational processing into whole merged transformed data in the transform domain. Time or spatial domain input data can be transformed into the transform domain in the form of split halves or merged whole. The split halves can be merged by the merge process combinational processing and the merged whole are split by the split process combinational processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177197 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07100205 | McDermott |
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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) | John P. McDermott (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A central processing unit comprising means for processing computer instructions. The Means for processing computer instructions includes means for receiving computer instructions and means for executing computer instructions. A secure memory unit is coupled to the processing means, and contains one or more resident security check programs therein. When the means for processing information receives a secure attention instruction through the receiving means the means for executing computer instructions interrupts the instructions it is executing, and executes the security check program by retrieving its instructions from the secure memory. The security check program returns the result of the check program. If the results are satisfactory, a cryptographic check key authenticates the result values transmitted to the source of the secure attention instruction. If the cryptographic check value is incorrect or non-existent, the source of the secure attention instruction is notified of a security problem. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693843 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic delivery system substrate is coated with ultra-nanocrystalline diamond (UNCD) or with a thin ceramic film, such as alumina or zirconia, that is applied by ion-beam assisted deposition; assuring that the device is impermeably sealed, to prevent the substrate from being dissolved by hostile environments and to protect the molecules from premature release or undesired reaction with hostile environments. The UNCD coating may be selectively patterned by doping to create electrically conductive areas that can be used as an electrically activated release mechanism for drug delivery. The UNCD coating provides a conformal coating, of approximately uniform thickness, around sharp corners and on high aspect-ratio parts, assuring impermeability and strength despite the need to coat difficult shapes. The microfluidic delivery system is suitable for use as an iontophoresis device, for transport of molecule, having a substrate, a reservoir in the substrate for containing the molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096183 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097809 | Van Dam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Van Dam (Pasadena, California); Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a microfluidic device for synthesizing an array of compounds and methods for using the same. In particular, the microfluidic device of the present invention comprises a solid support base, an elastomeric layer attached to the solid support, and a plurality of flow channels located within the interface between the solid support and the elastomeric layer. In addition, the solid support comprises a functional group for forming a bond with a reactive reagent. In some embodiments, the microfluidic device further comprises a second plurality of flow channels that intersect the first plurality of flow channels. A plurality of control channels are also present in the microfluidic devices of the present invention. The control channels can be actuated to regulate flow of fluids within the flow channel(s). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/116761 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097824 | Sharma |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palatin Technologies, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shubh D. Sharma (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Tuftsin receptor-specific peptides, peptidomimetics and peptide-like constructs are provided, particularly for use in biological, pharmaceutical and radiopharmaceutical applications, in which the peptide, peptidomimetic or construct is conformationally fixed on complexation of the metal ion-binding portion thereof with a metal ion, resulting in a peptide, peptidomimetic or construct with increased affinity for the tuftsin receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364842 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097826 | Pandey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra K. Pandey (Williamsville, New York); Zachary Grossman (Buffalo, New York); Peter Kanter (East Aurora, New York); Thomas J. Dougherty (Grand Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound comprising a chemical combination of a photodynamic tetra-pyrrolic compound with a plurality of radionuclide element atoms such that the compound may be used to enhance MR imaging and also be used as a photodynamic compound for use in photodynamic therapy to treat hyperproliferative tissue. The preferred compounds have the structural formula: where R1, R2, R2a R3, R3a R4, R5, R5a R6, R7, R7a, and R8 cumulatively contain at least two functional groups that will complex or combine with an MR imaging enhancing element or ion. The compound is intended to include such complexes and combinations and includes the use of such compounds for MR imaging and photodynamic therapy treatment of tumors and other hyperproliferative tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177129 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097835 | Chalupa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo M Chalupa (Davis, California); Emine Gunhan (Babil Caddesi, None); Prabhakara V. Choudary (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides immunoselective targeting agents that bind to transporters that are transiently accessible on the surface of neuronal cells, and that deliver compounds selectively to such cells. The invention provides methods of selectively killing, as well as methods of selectively promoting survival of, a neuronal cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198003 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097839 | Waldman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Waldman (Ardmore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Conjugated compounds which comprises an ST receptor binding moiety and a radiostable active moiety are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent, and a conjugated compound which comprises an ST receptor binding moiety and a radiostable active moiety or an ST receptor binding moiety and a radioactive active moiety are disclosed. Methods of treating an individual suspected of suffering from metastasized colorectal cancer comprising the steps of administering to said individual a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent, and a therapeutically effective amount of a conjugated compound which comprises an ST receptor binding moiety and a radiostable active moiety or an ST receptor binding moiety and a radiostable active moiety are disclosed. Methods of radioimaging metastasized colorectal cancer cells comprising the steps of first administering to an individual suspected of having metastasized colorectal cancer cells, a pharmaceutical composition that comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent, and conjugated compound that comprises an ST receptor binding moiety and a radioactive active moiety wherein the conjugated compound is present in an amount effective for diagnostic use in humans suffering from colorectal cancer and then detecting the localization and accumulation of radioactivity in the individual's body are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/468449 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097965 | Klimpel 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) | Kurt Klimpel (San Diego, California); Theresa J. Goletz (Kensington, Maryland); Naveen Arora (Delhi, India); Stephen H. Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a vaccine for inducing an immune response in mammal to a specific antigen, where the vaccine comprises a unit dose of a binary toxin protective antigen and the antigen, which is bound to a binary toxin protective antigen binding protein. In one embodiment the vaccine is comprised of an anthrax protective antigen and the antigen bound to anthrax protective antigen binding protein. The present invention also provides a method of immunizing a mammal against an antigen using the vaccine, and a method of inducing antigen-presenting mammalian cells to present specific antigens via the MHC class I processing pathway. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446890 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097966 | Altieri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dario C. Altieri (Hamden, Connecticut); Robert M. Weiss (North Haven, Connecticut); Victor A. Morris, legal representative (Guilford, Connecticut); Marcia A. Wheeler (Branford, Connecticut); Janet Plescia (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method for diagnosing cancer comprising detecting the presence of survivin in the biological fluid of a patient. The present invention also provides kits comprising one or more agents that detect survivin polypeptide or survivin nucleic acid and a container for collecting biological fluid for testing. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/042302 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097972 | Dixit |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vishva M. Dixit (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides non-naturally occurring and isolated naturally occurring nucleic acid molecules which encode proteins designated pro-Yama, p11 Yama and p20 Yama. This invention also provides recombinant polynucleotides coding for these proteins. Also provided by this invention is a non-naturally occurring nucleic acid molecule encoding mutant CrmA protein and a dominant inhibitory Yama. Vectors and host cells containing these nucleic acid molecules are further provided. Methods of modulating a cellular function regulated by the Fas receptor pathway in a cell is provided herein. In one aspect, this method comprises introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule coding for a gene product having CrmA biological activity such as dominant inhibitory Yama or alternatively, the CrmA gene product. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/457731 |
| 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 07097980 | Barany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Matthew Lubin (Rye Brook, New York); George Barany (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Phillip Belgrader (Severna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using coupled ligase detection reaction and polymerase chain reaction. One aspect of the present invention involves use of a ligase detection reaction coupled to a polymerase chain reaction. Another aspect of the present invention relates to the use of a primary polymerase chain reaction coupled to a secondary polymerase chain reaction coupled to a ligase detection reaction. A third aspect of the present invention involves a primary polymerase chain reaction coupled to a secondary polymerase chain reaction. Such coupling of the ligase detection reaction and the polymerase chain reaction permits multiplex detection of nucleic acid sequence differences. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852289 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07097984 | Seifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B Seifer (Holmdel, New Jersey); Robert Shelden (Kendall Park, New Jersey); Bo Feng (Edison, New Jersey); Cheryl Dreyfus (Short Hills, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for manipulating and predicting the reproductive capacity of a female subject. The presence of endogenous neurotrophins and addition of exogenous neurotrophins, particularly BDNF, NT-4/5, and NGF, increase the reproductive capacity of a female patient by binding to receptors on the oocytes and stimulating maturation of the oocytes. Administration of antagonists act as a contraceptive because the antagonists prevent the neurotrophins from binding to oocyte receptors. Neurotrophins may also be used to stimulate the maturation of oocyte in vitro. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209779 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07097988 | Yu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Research and Technology Institute (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Yu (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to compositions of and methods for obtaining mu opioid receptor polypeptides. The invention relates as well to polynucleotides encoding mu opioid receptor polypeptides, the recombinant vectors carrying those sequences, the recombinant host cells including either the sequences or vectors, recombinant opioid receptor polypeptides, and antibodies immunoreactive with mu opioid receptors. The invention includes as well, methods for using the isolated, recombinant receptor polypeptide in assays designed to select and improve substances capable of interacting with mu opioid receptor polypeptides for use in diagnostic, drug design and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/626616 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 07097992 | Czernik et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr J. Czernik (Little Rock, Arkansas); Anna Radominska-Pandya (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 2B7 (UGT2B7) protein expression is limited to ovarian surface epithelium cells and that this protein is not present in tumors arising from this cell layer. UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 2B7 protein accumulates in cells when the cells enter stationary phase and growth inhibition. UGT2B7 protein is not expressed in exponentially growing ovarian tumor cells. Overexpression of UGT2B7 protein in human ovarian tumor cells results in cell growth arrest, significant reduction of lipid content and changes in cell morphology. Thus, active UGT2B7 protein expression in tumor cells can be used to decrease cell proliferation and to treat various cancers, whereas UGT2B7 mRNA expression, protein expression and/or enzymatic activity can be used as a tumor specific marker in diagnostic procedures. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/132499 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07097993 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Anderson (Cross Plains, Wisconsin); Kun Ling (Madison, Wisconsin); Renee L. Doughman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of identifying agents which modulate the activity of PIPKIγ661. Methods of using such agents to prevent or treat a cell migration-mediated condition or disease in a subject are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606038 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
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| US 07097996 | Ron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ron (New York, New York); Céline Jousse (Saint Genes Champanelle, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to methods and reagents for identifying test substances useful for the prevention or treatment of diseases involving an oxidative stress. The methods involve screening assays, including high throughput screening techniques, in which the test substances are tested for their ability to promote resistance to oxidative stress by inhibiting the activity of GADD34L, and thereby inhibiting the dephosphorylation of eIF2α, while not causing stress. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650482 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098007 | Dunphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Dunphy (Altadena, California); Akiko Kymagai (Altadena, California); Zijian Guo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions of ATR nucleic acids and proteins, as well as methods of using said compositions in screening assays. The invention further provides antibodies and transgenic animals based on the ATR compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227610 |
| 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 435/70.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098028 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Holmes (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shuguang Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexander Rich (Cambridge, Massachusetts); C. Michael DiPersio (Norton, Massachusetts); Curtis Lockshin (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the self-assembly of amphiphilic peptides, i.e., peptides with alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues, into macroscopic membranes. The membrane-forming peptides are greater than 12 amino acids in length, and preferably at least 16 amino acids, are complementary and are structurally compatible. Specifically, two peptides, (AEAEAKAK)2 (ARARADAD)2, were shown to self-assemble into macroscopic membranes. Conditions under which the peptides self-assemble into macroscopic membranes and methods for producing the membranes are also described. The macroscopic membranes have several interesting properties: they are stable in aqueous solution, serum, and ethanol, are highly resistant to heat, alkaline and acidic pH, chemical denaturants, and proteolytic digestion, and are non-cytotoxic. The membranes are potentially useful in biomaterial applications such as slow-diffusion drug delivery systems, artificial skin, and separation matrices, and as experimental models for Alzheimer's disease and scrapie infection. The sequence of the peptide, EAK16, was derived from a putative Z-DNA binding protein from yeast, called zuotin. The cloning and characterization of the ZUO1 gene are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390472 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/401 |
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| US 07098184 | Godfrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Godfrey (Birchwood, Minnesota); Edgar G. Engleman (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides ligands and fragments thereof to a receptor on the surface of activated CD4+ T-cells. An exemplary ligand is designated ACT-4-L-h-1. Preferred fragments include purified extracellular domains of ligands. The invention also provides humanized and human antibodies to the ligand. The invention further provides methods of using the ligand and the antibodies in treatment of diseases and conditions of the immune system. The invention also provides methods of monitoring activated CD4+ T-cells using the ligands or fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323274 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098195 | Sackstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Charles J. Dimitroff (Williamsville, New York); Ralph J. Bernacki (Elma, New York); Moheswar Sharma (Amherst, New York); Khushi L. Matta (Williamsville, New York); Brajeswar Paul (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting cell migration, e.g., lymphocytes and inflammation. The invention also provides an improved process for preparing fluorinated N-acetylglucosamines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/305812 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098197 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Ganesh D. Kini (Bristow, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to phosphonate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use for treating a variety of medical disorders, e.g., osteoporosis and other disorders of bone metabolism, cancer, viral infections, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101259 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098216 | Carson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Carson (Del Mar, California); Howard B. Cottam (Escondido, California); Lynn Deng (Grenanda Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides derivatives of thiazolo[4,5-d1]pyrimidine and their use as inhibitors of proinflammatory cytokines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/952077 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/260.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098248 | Herndon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Herndon (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a method of method of treating an individual having a severe burn, comprising the step of administering to said individual a pharmacologically effective dose of a beta-adrenergic antagonist. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/901429 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098302 | Krag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Krag (Shelburne, Vermont); Stephanie C. Pero (Burlington, Vermont); Lyn Oligino (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for diagnosing and treating subjects using EBPs. Specifically disclosed are peptides and peptidomimetics that bind selectively to the extracellular domain of ErbB2. These compositions are useful in the prevention and treatment of disorders characterized by ErbB2 overexpression (e.g., breast cancer). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272437 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098306 | Economou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Economou (Pacific Palisades, California); Lisa H. Butterfield (Long Beach, California); Antoni Ribas Bruguera (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preventing or for treating cancer in a mammal, where the cancer cells express at least a part of an alpha fetoprotein molecule at the cell surface. The method comprises creating an immune response in the mammal to at least part of the amino acid sequence of an alpha fetoprotein molecule, where the immune response comprises activating alpha fetoprotein peptide specific T lymphocytes against the cancer cells, and where the part of the alpha fetoprotein molecule is selected from the group consisting of residues 137–145 of SEQ ID NO:2, and residues 325–334 of SEQ ID NO:2 and a combination of the preceeding. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/214725 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
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| US 07098310 | Pfahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ligand Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Magnus Pfahl (Solana Beach, California); Xiao-kun Zhang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a purified heterodimer comprising an RXR and a hormone receptor. The invention also provides a method of screening ligands for their effect on the activity of an RXR-containing hormone receptor heterodimer comprising combining the heterodimer with the ligand and determining the effect on activity. Also provided is a method of amplifying the activity of a hormone receptor comprising forming a heterodimer with another hormone receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 24, 1991 |
| APPL NO | 07/814871 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098320 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas Andrew Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975384 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098334 | Furneaux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industrial Research Limited (Auckland, New Zealand); Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Hubert Furneaux (Wellington, New Zealand); Peter Charles Tyler (Wellington, New Zealand); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Gary Brian Evans (Lower Hutt, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a compound of the formula: wherein A is selected from N, CH and CR; R is selected from halogen, optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl and aryl, OH, NH2, NHR1, NR1R2 and SR3; R1, R2 and R3 are each optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl groups; B is selected from NH2 and NHR4; R4 is an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group; X is selected from H, OH and halogen; Z is selected from H, Q, SQ and OQ; Q is an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group; or a tautomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, an ester, or a prodrug thereof; with the proviso that the stereochemistry of the aza-sugar moiety is D-ribo or 2′-deoxy-D-erythro-; pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compound; and methods of treatment using said compound. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395636 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098359 | Wellinghoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen T. Wellinghoff (San Antonio, Texas); Douglas P. Hanson (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | New, efficient methods for making novel platform molecules and polymerizable mesogens are provided, as well as the novel mesogens and methods of using same. |
| FILED | Friday, July 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190470 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/76 |
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| US 07098374 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Klein (Gainesville, Florida); Edwin Meyer (Gainesville, Florida); Nicholas Muzyczka (Gainesville, Florida); Mike King (Gainesville, Florida); Craig Meyers (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a system for modeling neurodegenerative and other diseases through somatic gene transfer. In addition, methods of multiple gene transfer, disease analysis and drug testing are provided for. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/780041 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098463 | Adamovics |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Heuris Pharma, LLC (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Adamovics (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of forming a three-dimensional (3D) dosimetric map in a solid translucent or transparent polymer and to an article of manufacture comprising a polymer formulated to capture data imparted by incident penetrating radiation. The present invention provides a method of preparation of a solid translucent or transparent polymer matrix capable of detecting and displaying a dose or doses of penetrating radiation by forming within the polymeric matrix a 3D dosimetric map which is measurable and quantifiable by various known procedures. The dosimetric map is representative of the 3D distribution of the dose or doses of the penetrating radiation to which the polymer had been exposed and can be quantified at high spatial resolution, thereby providing an accurate, stable, storable record in three dimensions of the radiation exposure or dosing event(s). |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790280 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/474.100 |
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| US 07099428 | Clinthorne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal H. Clinthorne (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Predrag Sukovic (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A high spatial resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) system is provided. The system includes a support structure including a gantry mounted to rotate about a vertical axis of rotation. The system further includes a first assembly including an X-ray source mounted on the gantry to rotate therewith for generating a cone X-ray beam and a second assembly including a planar X-ray detector mounted on the gantry to rotate therewith. The detector is spaced from the source on the gantry for enabling a human or other animal body part to be interposed therebetween so as to be scanned by the X-ray beam to obtain a complete CT scan and generating output data representative thereof. The output data is a two-dimensional electronic representation of an area of the detector on which an X-ray beam impinges. A data processor processes the output data to obtain an image of the body part. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/183146 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099519 | Barbour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Barbour (Glen Head, New York); Harry L. Graber (Brooklyn, New York); Yaling Pei (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of significantly improving the quality of solutions to a system of linear equations. The solution to a system of linear equations is enhanced by: (1) modeling a target medium into a plurality of elements and imposing at least one localized fluctuation into the target medium; (2) measuring an output resulting from at least one localized fluctuation; and (3) processing the measured output to reconstruct a result, determining a correction filter, and applying the correction filter to the result. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/485841 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07096722 | Benson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Woodward Governor Company (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly J. Benson (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jimmy D. Thornton (Morgantown, West Virginia); George A. Richards (Morgantown, West Virginia); Douglas L. Straub (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method to sense the onset of combustion stability is presented. An electrode is positioned in a turbine combustion chamber such that the electrode is exposed to gases in the combustion chamber. A control module applies a voltage potential to the electrode and detects a combustion ionization signal and determines if there is an oscillation in the combustion ionization signal indicative of the occurrence of combustion stability or the onset of combustion instability. A second electrode held in a coplanar but spaced apart manner by an insulating member from the electrode provides a combustion ionization signal to the control module when the first electrode fails. The control module broadcasts a notice if the parameters indicate the combustion process is at the onset of combustion instability or broadcasts an alarm signal if the parameters indicate the combustion process is unstable. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329664 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/118.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07096736 | Pfeifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent Bryant Pfeifer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Robert Leslie Williams (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert Lee Waldschmidt (Calgary, Canada); Catherine Hook Morgan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface acoustic wave device includes a micro-machined pressure transducer for monitoring tire pressure. The device is configured having a micro-machined cavity that is sealed with a flexible conductive membrane. When an external tire pressure equivalent to the cavity pressure is detected, the membrane makes contact with ridges on the backside of the surface acoustic wave device. The ridges are electrically connected to conductive fingers of the device. When the detected pressure is correct, selected fingers on the device will be grounded producing patterned acoustic reflections to an impulse RF signal. When the external tire pressure is less than the cavity reference pressure, a reduced reflected signal to the receiver results. The sensor may further be constructed so as to identify itself by a unique reflected identification pulse series. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633774 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
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| US 07096794 | Post |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Freeman Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A simple permanent-magnet-excited maglev geometry provides levitation forces and is stable against vertical displacements from equilibrium but is unstable against horizontal displacements. An Inductrack system is then used in conjunction with this system to effect stabilization against horizontal displacements and to provide centering forces to overcome centrifugal forces when the vehicle is traversing curved sections of a track or when any other transient horizontal force is present. In some proposed embodiments, the Inductrack track elements are also employed as the stator of a linear induction-motor drive and braking system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651346 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Railways 14/281 |
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| US 07096921 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Moore (Evergreen, Colorado); Dalong Zhong (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides coating systems that minimize thermal and residual stresses to create a fatigue- and soldering-resistant coating for aluminum die casting dies. The coating systems include at least three layers. The outer layer is an alumina- or boro-carbide-based outer layer that has superior non-wettability characteristics with molten aluminum coupled with oxidation and wear resistance. A functionally-graded intermediate layer or “interlayer” enhances the erosive wear, toughness, and corrosion resistance of the die. A thin adhesion layer of reactive metal is used between the die substrate and the interlayer to increase adhesion of the coating system to the die surface. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136613 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/113 |
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| US 07097148 | DeWall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin G. DeWall (Pocatello, Idaho); John C Watkins (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael E. Nitzel (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for actuating a valve includes a support frame and at least one valve driving linkage arm, one end of which is rotatably connected to a valve stem of the valve and the other end of which is rotatably connected to a screw block. A motor connected to the frame is operatively connected to a motor driven shaft which is in threaded screw driving relationship with the screw block. The motor rotates the motor driven shaft which drives translational movement of the screw block which drives rotatable movement of the valve driving linkage arm which drives translational movement of the valve stem. The valve actuator may further include a sensory control element disposed in operative relationship with the valve stem, the sensory control element being adapted to provide control over the position of the valve stem by at least sensing the travel and/or position of the valve stem. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896579 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.120 |
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| US 07097662 | Evans, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boyd McCutchen Evans, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Richard D. Komistek (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas A. Dennis (Littleton, Colorado); Mohamed Mahfouz (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for providing in vivo diagnostics of loads, wear, and infection in orthopedic implants having at least one load sensor associated with the implant, at least one temperature sensor associated with the implant, at least one vibration sensor associated with the implant, and at least one signal processing device operatively coupled with the sensors. The signal processing device is operable to receive the output signal from the sensors and transmit a signal corresponding with the output signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926216 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/18.110 |
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| US 07097675 | Detering et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent A. Detering (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A fast-quench reactor for production of diatomic hydrogen and unsaturated carbons is provided. During the fast quench in the downstream diverging section of the nozzle, such as in a free expansion chamber, the unsaturated hydrocarbons are further decomposed by reheating the reactor gases. More diatomic hydrogen is produced, along with elemental carbon. Other gas may be added at different stages in the process to form a desired end product and prevent back reactions. The product is a substantially clean-burning hydrogen fuel that leaves no greenhouse gas emissions, and elemental carbon that may be used in powder form as a commodity for several processes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/109427 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/127.900 |
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| US 07097747 | Herceg et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Herceg (Naperville, Illinois); James G. Saiveau (Hickory Hills, Illinois); Lubomir Krajtl (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A new device is provided for the electrorefining of uranium in spent metallic nuclear fuels by the separation of unreacted zirconium, noble metal fission products, transuranic elements, and uranium from spent fuel rods. The process comprises an electrorefiner cell. The cell includes a drum-shaped cathode horizontally immersed about half-way into an electrolyte salt bath. A conveyor belt comprising segmented perforated metal plates transports spent fuel into the salt bath. The anode comprises the conveyor belt, the containment vessel, and the spent fuel. Uranium and transuranic elements such as plutonium (Pu) are oxidized at the anode, and, subsequently, the uranium is reduced to uranium metal at the cathode. A mechanical cutter above the surface of the salt bath removes the deposited uranium metal from the cathode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637088 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098009 | Shanmugam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keelnatham T. Shanmugam (Gainesville, Florida); Lonnie O'Neal Ingram (Gainesville, Florida); Milind A. Patel (Gainesville, Florida); Mark S. Ou (Gainesville, Florida); Roberta Harbrucker (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates to newly isolated organisms from nature that produce L(+)-lactic acid high yield from hexose and pentose sugars found in biomass. Organisms and processes or methods for the production of lactic acid and other industrially important chemicals from cellulose and hemicellulose are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/793568 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098058 | Karpov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor G. Karpov (Toledo, Ohio); Yann Roussillon (Mountain View, California); Diana Shvydka (Toledo, Ohio); Alvin D. Compaan (Holland, Ohio); Dean M. Giolando (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a photovoltaic device using light energy and a solution to normalize electric potential variations in the device. A semiconductor layer having nonuniformities comprising areas of aberrant electric potential deviating from the electric potential of the top surface of the semiconductor is deposited onto a substrate layer. A solution containing an electrolyte, at least one bonding material, and positive and negative ions is applied over the top surface of the semiconductor. Light energy is applied to generate photovoltage in the semiconductor, causing a redistribution of the ions and the bonding material to the areas of aberrant electric potential. The bonding material selectively bonds to the nonuniformities in a manner such that the electric potential of the nonuniformities is normalized relative to the electric potential of the top surface of the semiconductor layer. A conductive electrode layer is then deposited over the top surface of the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/035170 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098615 | Swenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Linac Systems, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Swenson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); W. Joel Starling (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An interdigital (Wideröe) linear accelerator employing drift tubes, and associated support stems that couple to both the longitudinal and support stem electromagnetic fields of the linac, creating rf quadrupole fields along the axis of the linac to provide transverse focusing for the particle beam. Each drift tube comprises two separate electrodes operating at different electrical potentials as determined by cavity rf fields. Each electrode supports two fingers, pointing towards the opposite end of the drift tube, forming a four-finger geometry that produces an rf quadrupole field distribution along its axis. The fundamental periodicity of the structure is equal to one half of the particle wavelength βλ, where β is the particle velocity in units of the velocity of light and λ is the free space wavelength of the rf. Particles are accelerated in the gaps between drift tubes. The particle beam is focused in regions inside the drift tubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/834506 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098767 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Scott Dahlgren (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Cameron Sneddon (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an element for use in an inductive coupler in a downhole component. The element includes a plurality of ductile, generally U-shaped leaves that are electrically conductive. The leaves are less than about 0.0625″ thick and are separated by an electrically insulating material. These leaves are aligned so as to form a generally circular trough. The invention also includes an inductive coupler for use in downhole components, the inductive coupler including an annular housing having a recess with a magnetically conductive, electrically insulating (MCEI) element disposed in the recess. The MCEI element includes a plurality of segments where each segment further includes a plurality of ductile, generally U-shaped electrically conductive leaves. Each leaf is less than about 0.0625″ thick and separated from the otherwise adjacent leaves by electrically insulating material. The segments and leaves are aligned so as to form a generally circular trough. The inductive coupler further includes an insulated conductor disposed within the generally circular trough. A polymer fills spaces between otherwise adjacent segments, the annular housing, insulated conductor, and further fills the circular trough. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708793 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098802 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Kline Bradford (Orem, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal transmission connection for a tool string used in exploration and production of natural resources, namely: oil, gas, and geothermal energy resources. The connection comprises first and second annular elements deployed in cooperative association with each other. The respective elements comprise inductive transducers that are capable of two-way signal transmission between each other, with downhole components of the tool string, and with ground-level equipment. The respective inductive transducers comprise one or more conductive loops housed within ferrite troughs, or within ferrite trough segments. When energized, the conductive loops produce a magnetic field suitable for transmitting the signal. The second element may be rotational in drilling applications. The respective elements may be fitted with electronic equipment to aid and manipulate the transmission of the signal. The first element may also be in communication with the World Wide Web. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/315263 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098912 | Borden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Borden (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jason F. Shepherd (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and machine-readable medium provide a technique to modify a hexahedral finite element volume mesh using dual generation and sheet insertion. After generating a dual of a volume stack (mesh), a predetermined algorithm may be followed to modify (refine) the volume mesh of hexahedral elements. The predetermined algorithm may include the steps of locating a sheet of hexahedral mesh elements, determining a plurality of hexahedral elements within the sheet to refine, shrinking the plurality of elements, and inserting a new sheet of hexahedral elements adjacently to modify the volume mesh. Additionally, another predetermined algorithm using mesh cutting may be followed to modify a volume mesh. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601896 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099141 | Kaufman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Y. Kaufman (Chicago, Illinois); Sanjib Saha (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A short-resistant capacitor comprises an electrically conductive planar support substrate having a first thickness, a ceramic film deposited over the support substrate, thereby defining a ceramic surface; and a metallic film deposited over the ceramic surface, said film having a second thickness which is less than the first thickness and which is between 0.01 and 0.1 microns. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145220 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07097311 | Jaynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher O. Jaynes (Lexington, Kentucky); Divya T. Ramakrishnan (Madras, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique, associated system and computer executable program code, for projecting a superimposed image onto a target display surface under observation of one or more cameras. A projective relationship between each projector being used and the target display surface is determined using a suitable calibration technique. A component image for each projector is then estimated using the information from the calibration, and represented in the frequency domain. Each component image is estimated by: Using the projective relationship, determine a set of sub-sampled, regionally shifted images, represented in the frequency domain; each component image is then composed of a respective set of the sub-sampled, regionally shifted images. In an optimization step, the difference between a sum of the component images and a frequency domain representation of a target image is minimized to produce a second, or subsequent, component image for each projector. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/827176 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097788 | Kirkor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ewa Stanislawa Kirkor (Bradford, Connecticut); April Dawn Schricker (Austin, Texas); Alexander Scheeline (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of increasing conductivity of an ink, comprises orienting particles in the ink. The ink comprises the particles and solvent, and the particles are conductive anisotropic particles. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610363 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098294 | McCullough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Jinsong Liu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Paul C. Ewbank (St. Paul, Minnesota); Elena E. Sheina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polythiophenes, particularly regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-alkylthiophenes) (HT-PATs), block copolymers made therefrom, and their methods of formation. The present invention provides HT-PATs with well-defined, specific end-groups, functionalization of the defined HT-PATs, and incorporation of end group functionalized HT-PATs into block copolymers with structural polymers. The intrinsically conductive diblock and triblock copolymers, formed from the HT-PATs, have excellent conductivity and low polydispersities that are useful in a number of applications. The block copolymers of the present invention have been found to exhibit conductivities that range from a low of 10−8 S/cm for certain applications to as high as several hundred S/cm or more. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417244 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098916 | Khodakovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei Khodakovsky (Pasadena, California); Peter Schroeder (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of connectivity encoding polygonal mesh representations of objects are described, along with methods of decoding encoded connectivity information for polygonal mesh representations of objects. In the encoding process, an active vertex queue is initialized with one or more vertices incident to a seed face. A vertex is selected from the queue, and the ring of the vertex traversed. If an unprocessed face is encountered during the traversal, the degree of the face, and the valences of any unprocessed vertices incident to the face are output. Any such unprocessed vertices are also entered into the queue. The method iterates until no more vertices remain on the active queue. In one implementation, an encoded data stream is output, which comprises two logical streams, one for face-degree information and the other for vertex-valence information. In the decoding process, the encoded data stream is received, and the connectivity of the mesh regenerated. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/252019 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099433 | Sommer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectramet, LLC (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a metal sorting device including an X-ray tube, a dual energy detector array, a microprocessor, and an air ejector array. The device senses the presence of samples in the x-ray sensing region and initiates identifying and sorting the samples. After identifying and classifying the category of a sample, at a specific time, the device activates an array of air ejectors located at specific positions in order to place the sample in the proper collection bin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/069243 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07096568 | Nilsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Nilsen (McKinney, Texas); Matthew D. Ellis (Allen, Texas); Charles L. Goldsmith (Plano, Texas); Jeong Bong Lee (Plano, Texas); Xiaojun Huang (Goleta, California); Arun Kumar Nallani (Richardson, Texas); Kabseog Kim (Dallas, Texas); George D. Skidmore (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new process and structure for microcomponent interconnection utilizing a post-assembly activated junction compound. In one embodiment, first and second microcomponents having respective first and second contact areas are provided. A junction compound is formed on one of the first and second contact areas, and the first and second contact areas are positioned adjacent each other on opposing sides of the junction compound. The junction compound is then activated to couple the first and second microcomponents. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/616735 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/611 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098163 | 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); Paolina Atanassova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rimple Bhatia (Placitas, New Mexico); Ross A. Miesem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Napolitano (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gordon L. Rice (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the manufacture of electrodes for fuel cells. The compositions and methods are particularly useful for the manufacture of anodes and cathodes for proton exchange membrane fuel cells, particularly direct methanol fuel cells. The methods can utilize direct-write tools to deposit ink compositions and form functional layers of a membrane electrode assembly having controlled properties and enhanced performance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417417 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07098487 | D'Evelyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Philip D'Evelyn (Niskayuna, New York); Dong-Sil Park (Niskayuna, New York); Steven LeBoeuf (Schenectady, New York); Larry Rowland (Scotia, New York); Kristi Narang (Voorheesville, New York); Huicong Hong (Niskayuna, New York); Peter M. Sandvik (Guilderland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a GaN single crystal at least about 2 millimeters in diameter, with a dislocation density less than about 104 cm−1, and having no tilt boundaries. A method of forming a GaN single crystal is also disclosed. The method includes providing a nucleation center, a GaN source material, and a GaN solvent in a chamber. The chamber is pressurized. First and second temperature distributions are generated in the chamber such that the solvent is supersaturated in the nucleation region of the chamber. The first and second temperature distributions have different temperature gradients within the chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329981 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099777 | Ghandour |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ghassan Ghandour (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for identifying, confirming, mapping, and categorizing sample polymers, such as nucleic acid sequences, are provided. An estimation of the fraction of first and second polymers in a sample of polymers can be calculated by inputting a first hybridization value indicative of hybridization affinity of the sample of polymers to polymers probes that are complementary to the first polymer and inputting a second hybridization value indicative of hybridization affinity of the sample of polymers to polymers probes that are complementary to the second polymer. The estimation of the fraction of the first and second polymers in the sample of polymers can then be calculated by dividing the first hybridization value by a sum of the first and second hybridization values. Estimations of the fractions of alleles in a sample can be clustered to form a fraction pattern usable for identifying, confirming, mapping, and genotyping sample nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Monday, January 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/229060 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07096653 | Shinners et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Shinners (Madison, Wisconsin); Neil G. Barnett (Winnipeg, Canada); Walter M. Schlesser (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Yield monitor apparatus and method for a forage processing machinery are provided according to the invention. The yield monitor measures a forage yield by measuring a forage volume increment accumulation. In one embodiment of the invention, the yield monitor includes a volume increment accumulation measuring device generating a volume increment accumulation signal substantially related to a forage mass and a computer that receives the volume increment accumulation signal. The computer generates a yield amount based upon the accumulation signal, a forage processing machinery groundspeed, and forage processing machinery intake parameters. The yield monitor may generate a yield amount, with the yield amount capable of being stored and displayed to a forage processing machinery operator. Alternatively, the yield monitor may generate a groundspeed control signal that is used by the forage processing machinery to control a forage processing machinery groundspeed or other forage processing machinery parameters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611610 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Harvesters 056/10.2G0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07097975 | Frederick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reid D. Frederick (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Soybean rust occurs in many countries throughout Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America. The causal agents of soybean rust are two closely related fungi, Phakopsora pachyrhizi and P. meibomiae, which are differentiated based upon morphological characteristics of the telia. Determination of the nucleotide sequence of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region revealed greater than 99%/95% nucleotide sequence similarity among isolates of either P. pachyrhizi or P. meibomiae, but only 80% sequence similarity between the two species. Utilizing differences within the ITS region, four sets of PCR primers were designed specifically for P. pachyrhizi, and two sets of PCR primers were made specific to P. meibomiae. Classical and real-time fluorescent PCR assays were developed to identify and differentiate between P. pachyrhizi and P. meibomiae. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/907818 |
| 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 07098327 | Marshall 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) | Wayne E. Marshall (Slidell, Louisiana); Lynda H. Wartelle (Metairie, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the production of dual-functional ion exchange resins from lignocellulosic agricultural material involving anionization of the lignocellulosic agricultural material with citric acid and then cationization of the lignocellulosic agricultural material with dimethyloldihydroxyethylene urea (DMDHEU) and choline chloride, or cationization of the lignocellulosic agricultural material with DMDHEU and choline chloride and then anionization of the lignocellulosic agricultural material with citric acid. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/921646 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07098393 | Fleurial et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Pierre Fleurial (Altadena, California); Margaret A. Ryan (Pasadena, California); Alexander Borshchevsky (Santa Monica, California); Jennifer Herman (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric device formed of nanowires on the nm scale. The nanowires are preferably of a size that causes quantum confinement effects within the wires. The wires are connected together into a bundle to increase the power density. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/150772 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099746 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Ross (Saranac Lake, New York); James F. Hoburg (Baden, Pennsylvania); Christopher Fromme (Sycamore, Pennsylvania); John Bares (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Mark DeLouis (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile device for traversing a ferromagnetic surface. The device includes a frame and at least one surface contacting device attached to the frame. The device also includes a Halbach magnet array attached to the frame, wherein the Halbach magnet array provides a magnetic force to maintain the surface contacting device substantially into contact with the ferromagnetic surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/912437 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099965 | Ellerbrock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Ellerbrock (Bridgeton, Missouri); Robert L. Grant (St. Peters, Missouri); Daniel W. Konz (Hazelwood, Missouri); Joseph P. Winkelmann (St. Peters, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a network device interface and method for digitally connecting a plurality of data channels to a controller using a network bus. The network device interface interprets commands and data received from the controller and polls the data channels in accordance with these commands. Specifically, the network device interface receives digital commands and data from the controller, and based on these commands and data, communicates with the data channels to either retrieve data in the case of a sensor or send data to activate an actuator. In one embodiment, the bus controller transmits messages to the network device interface containing a plurality of bits having a value defined by a transition between first and second states in the bits. The network device interface determines timing of the data sequence of the message and uses the determined timing to communicate with the bus controller. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/729560 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07098615 | Swenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Linac Systems, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Swenson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); W. Joel Starling (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An interdigital (Wideröe) linear accelerator employing drift tubes, and associated support stems that couple to both the longitudinal and support stem electromagnetic fields of the linac, creating rf quadrupole fields along the axis of the linac to provide transverse focusing for the particle beam. Each drift tube comprises two separate electrodes operating at different electrical potentials as determined by cavity rf fields. Each electrode supports two fingers, pointing towards the opposite end of the drift tube, forming a four-finger geometry that produces an rf quadrupole field distribution along its axis. The fundamental periodicity of the structure is equal to one half of the particle wavelength βλ, where β is the particle velocity in units of the velocity of light and λ is the free space wavelength of the rf. Particles are accelerated in the gaps between drift tubes. The particle beam is focused in regions inside the drift tubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/834506 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099433 | Sommer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectramet, LLC (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a metal sorting device including an X-ray tube, a dual energy detector array, a microprocessor, and an air ejector array. The device senses the presence of samples in the x-ray sensing region and initiates identifying and sorting the samples. After identifying and classifying the category of a sample, at a specific time, the device activates an array of air ejectors located at specific positions in order to place the sample in the proper collection bin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/069243 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07099404 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/372630 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07098686 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kam Wah Kong (West Covina, California); David W. Gunning (Culver City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A discharge guard circuit for use in combination with an integrated circuit that prevents the integrated circuit logic from damage or upset caused by system generated electromagnetic pulses at the integrated circuit outputs. The integrated circuit core logic is isolated from the output drivers and the discharge guard circuit, and the integrated circuit is configured to route system generated electromagnetic pulse current through the discharge guard circuit and out of the integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847183 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07099468 | Shuniak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Shuniak (Tierra Verde, Florida); Jeff T. Pound (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A telephone handset restraining and release mechanism comprises a cup-shaped enclosure for receiving and restraining the transmitter end of a telephone handset. This cup-shaped enclosure is mounted to the top surface of a housing that also supports a receiver end restraining mechanism. The receiving end restraining mechanism comprises a roller mounted to a slidable bracket biased into a telephone handset restraining position by means of cushioning spring pads. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/948463 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/455 |
| 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 29, 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?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2006/fedinvent-patents-20060829.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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