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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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| US 07111462 | Epstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Steward-Davis International, Inc. (Van Nuys, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley W. Epstein (Van Nuys, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for supplementing a power system to achieve consistent operation at varying altitudes are disclosed herein. A hybrid power system comprising a single power source driving multiple generators may implement a power recovery turbine to drive a supercharger compressor, which may provide compressed air at increased altitudes. The supplemental power system disclosed herein provides necessary shaft horsepower at high altitudes to drive a generator and produce cooling air. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896309 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111521 | Andrews, Jr. |
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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) | George A. Andrews, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for sampling a moving fluid utilizes a housing in the shape of an airfoil having a leading edge adapted to be disposed in the moving fluid such that the moving fluid will initially encounter the leading edge. A fluid flow pathway extends through the airfoil. One or more sampling ports are formed in the airfoil on the airfoil's high pressure side. Each sampling port is in fluid communication with the fluid flow pathway. The system can also have one or more control ports formed on the low pressure side of the airfoil. Each control port is in fluid communication with the fluid flow pathway. The housing can be mounted to experience two rotational degrees of freedom, and can have an aerodynamic tail assembly coupled thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134603 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111523 | Plangetis |
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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) | Gus F. Plangetis (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural power transmitting component embodies a shaft and a gear or pulley held threadedly positioned on the shaft by four nuts while interconnected by a torque transmitting wedge and key. The shaft is especially configured to establish structural interrelationships with the nuts, wedge, key and gear so as to facilitate assembly and disassembly of the component as well as to maintain the wedge and key deformed under engagement by the nuts to avoid development of internal clearances during start-up and stoppage of torque transmission to thereby preclude generation of noise during such operational start-up and stoppage of transmission through the component. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641586 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111577 | Bruno |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretaryof the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony B. Bruno (East Lyme, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for effecting propagation of electromagnetic waves, comprising a hull outer surface, a dielectric material disposed over the hull outer surface, and an electrically conductive member embedded within the dielectric material. When a liquid medium contacts the dielectric material, the liquid medium, the hull outer surface, the dielectric material and the electrically conductive member cooperate to provide a waveguide through which electromagnetic waves can propagate wherein the boundaries of the waveguide are defined by the liquid medium and the hull outer surface. A sensor network can be provided within the dielectric material for receiving power and transmitting information. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/112937 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111635 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey S. Moore (Savory, Illinois); Jaisree Moorthy (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for fabricating a constriction region in a channel of a microfluidic device. The method includes the steps of introducing a pre-polymer mixture including a monomer, cross-linking agent and photoinitiator into the channel. The pre-polymer mixture is polymerized at a localized area of the channel so as to shrink and solidify the liquid mixture. The solidified and shrunken liquid mixture provides the constriction region in the channel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269476 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111809 | Tai 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) | Tsze C. Tai (Potomac, Maryland); Steven A. Woods (Mechanicsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Excessive fuel is dumped by ejection under a pressurized outflow velocity from an aircraft during flight as jets in a direction parallel to air stream flow relative to the aircraft, from a rearwardly facing exit opening of a fuel jettison device mounted on the lower surface of the aircraft, with the exit fixedly spaced below the lower aircraft surface a short distance to avoid the Coanda effect while reducing or eliminating fuel and fuel mist impingement on aircraft surfaces. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988402 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/135.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111847 | Larson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Larson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi); Joe G. Tom (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward J. Fransen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An additive for buffering a projectile trapping medium and spent projectiles trapped therein is a buffering compound formed as a low density foamed concrete block that will self-dispense via fragmentation or pulverization when subjected to incoming fire. The block combines at least one dry component selected from the group consisting of low solubility phosphate compounds, low solubility aluminum compounds, iron compounds, sulfate compounds, and calcium carbonate with a cementing material, water, and an aqueous based foam in substantially stoichiometric amounts. The aqueous based foam is added in a quantity sufficient to adjust the density of the resulting block to be non-buoyant without sinking in the projectile trapping medium. The additive may be employed in a projectile trapping medium to chemically stabilize the medium and environmentally stabilize projectiles trapped therein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911771 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07111980 | Pavlidis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ioannis Pavlidis (Minneapolis, Minnesota); James A. Levine (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal image data of at least a region of a face of a person is provided. The thermal image data is transformed to blood flow rate data which includes a slope representative of the change of blood flow rate over time. The slope is compared to a slope threshold to determine a physiological state of the person. For example, it may be determined whether the person is deceptive or non-deceptive, e.g., deceptive with respect to an elicited response from the person. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008786 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112332 | Lowell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George H. Lowell (Hampstead, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An immunogenic complex, essentially consisting of neisserial outer membrane protein proteosomes hydrophobically complexed to native purified bacterial lipopolysaccaride and formulated in accordance with the current invention for mucosal delivery such as via the oral or intranasal route is used as a vaccine. Specifically, a vaccine using shigella lipopolysaccharides complexed to proteosomes for such mucosal administration induces IgG and IgA antibodies in sera and in respiratory and intestinal fluids. Furthermore, such antibodies are associated with protection against shigella infection and these vaccines are herein demonstrated to protect against mucosal infection with shigella. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 1992 |
| APPL NO | 07/958426 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112444 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Madison, Wisconsin); Glenn M. Walker (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for performing a gradient-based assay in a microfluidic device. The method includes the steps of passing first and second fluids through a channel in the microfluidic device. The first fluid has a predetermined concentration of particles therein such that the particles in the first fluid diffuse into the second fluid so as to cause a gradient of concentration of particles in the second fluid as the second fluid flows through the channel. The second fluid sequentially intersects a series of targets along the channel wall as the second fluid flows through the channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422236 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112850 | Hughes 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) | Harold L. Hughes (West River, Maryland); Patrick J. McMarr (Alexandria, Virginia); Reed K. Lawrence (Leesburgh, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns a non-volatile memory device with a polarizable layer. The apparatus concerns a substrate, a buried oxide layer within the substrate, and a polarizable layer within the substrate. The polarizable layer is formed in a buried oxide layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate for the fabrication of non-volatile memory. The process of creating the polarizable layer comprises implanting, through the active silicon layer, Si ions into the buried oxide layer at an ion implantation energy selected so that the implanted ion has its peak concentration between 5–50 nm from the silicon/buried oxide interface. The implantation step can occur while externally heating the silicon-on-insulator substrate at a temperature between 25–300 degrees Celsius. An annealing step may be completed to repair any damage the implantation may have created in the silicon-on-insulator substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378651 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/349 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112885 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray T. Chen (Austin, Texas); Chulchae Chol (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for improved electrical-to-optical transmitters (100) disposed within printed circuit boards (104). The heat sink (110, 200) is a thermal conductive material disposed within a cavity (102) of the printed circuit board (104) and is thermally coupled to a bottom surface (112) of the electrical-to-optical transmitter (100). A portion of the thermal conductive material extends approximately to an outer surface (120, 122 or 124) of a layer (114, 116 or 118) of the printed circuit board (104). The printed circuit board may comprise a planarized signal communications system or an optoelectronic signal communications system. In addition, the present invention provides a method for fabricating the heat sink wherein the electrical-to-optical transmitter disposed within a cavity of the printed circuit board is fabricated. New methods for flexible waveguides and micro-mirror couplers are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888350 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112918 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Yong-In, South Korea); Jack Chen (Urbana, Illinois); Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microdischarge device has a semiconductor layer, an intermediate layer, and a conductive layer. A tapered cavity is disposed in at least the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/047469 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/356 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113097 | Kline et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Wallace Kline (Star Tannery, Virginia); Frederick R. Dental (Viewtown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus that attaches to a moving, typically man-made, underwater object and that is capable of sending a signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, which in some embodiments is configured to look like an underwater organism. Within or on the housing is a coupling device by which the housing couples, advantageously reversibly, to the underwater object. The housing also incorporates a transmitter that generates and transmits a signal. The housing also includes an energy storage device (e.g., capacitor, battery, etc.), which is used to power the transmitter and, as required, the coupling device. The housing also incorporates a generator, which generates the energy that is stored in the energy storage device. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/700166 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113142 | McCarville et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A McCarville (Auburn, Washington); Gerald F Herndon (Redmond, Washington); Joseph A Marshall, IV (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Robert G Vos (Auburn, Washington); David L Banks (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A conformal, load bearing, phased array antenna system having a plurality of adjacently positioned antenna aperture sections that collectively form a single, enlarged antenna aperture. The aperture sections are each formed by intersecting wall panels that form a honeycomb-like core having a plurality of electromagnetic radiating elements embedded in the wall panels that form the core. The aperture wall panels are assembled onto a single, multi-faceted back skin, bonded thereto, and then machined to produce a desired surface contour. A radome formed by a single piece of composite material is then bonded to the contoured surface. Antenna electronics printed wiring boards are also bonded to an opposite side of the back skin. The contour is selected to match a mold line of a surface into which the antenna system is installed. The antenna is able to form an integral, load bearing portion of the structure into which it is installed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970711 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/797 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113169 | Gnanamgari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sakunthala Gnanamgari (Devon, Pennsylvania); Jacqueline Dacre Smith (Lee Center, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the untethered multiple user interaction of large information displays using laser pointers coordinated with voice commands. A projection system projects application windows onto a large information display. One or more users may command their respective window applications using laser pointers and/or voice commands. A registration program assigns a unique identification to each user that associates a particular users's voice and a particular laser pointer pattern chosen by that user, with that particular user. Cameras scan the information display and process the composite of the application windows and any laser pointer images thereon. A sequence of computer decisions checks each laser pointer command so as to correctly associate respective users with their commands and application windows. Users may speak voice commands. The system will then perform speech recognition of the user's voice command. If the command is recognized, the system performs the speech-recognized command as a window operation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/100339 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113229 | Willis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Willis (Powder Springs, Georgia); Michael L. McGuire (Snellville, Georgia); Charlie W. Clark (Robins AFB, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods for determining the logarithmic transfer function of a plurality of analog signals using digital circuitry components. The apparatus is a digital crystal video receiver that includes an analog-to-digital converter and a programmable logic component that determines the logarithmic transfer function of plurality of signals. The programmable logic component may include a FPGA, microprocessor, macroprocessor, combinations of discrete logic components, etc. The programmable logic component includes memory having one of a look-up table and an instruction set that enables the programmable logic component to process or calculate a signal that is logarithmically proportional to the plurality of signals. The method for determining the logarithmic transfer function of a plurality of analog signals comprises converting the plurality of analog signals to a plurality digital signals and determining the logarithmic transfer function of the plurality of analog signals via a programmable logic component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/322261 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113447 | Matthews 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) | Anthony D. Matthews (Panama City Beach, Florida); Victor Johnson (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic transducer system for acoustic signals in water has at least one hollow spherically-shaped shell for vibrating in response to acoustic signals impinging from the water. The hollow spherically-shaped shell has one or more portions that are reflective of impinging radiation, and a resilient matrix in contact with the water resiliently supports the responsive hollow shell. A laser Doppler velocimeter transmits radiation onto the reflective portion (portions) and receives reflected radiation from the reflective portion (portions). The reflected radiation generates signals in the laser Doppler velocimeter that are representative of the acoustic signals from the water medium. A computer receives the representative signals from the laser Doppler velocimeter and displays them on an interconnected display to determine direction and range to a target. The acoustic signals can originate from the target or can be reflected portions of acoustic energy transmitted from an acoustic projector. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943830 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113594 | Boneh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford University (Stanford, California); University of California Davis (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Matthew Franklin (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for encrypting a first piece of information M to be sent by a sender [100] to a receiver [110] allows both sender and receiver to compute a secret message key using identity-based information and a bilinear map. In a one embodiment, the sender [100] computes an identity-based encryption key from an identifier ID associated with the receiver [110]. The identifier ID may include various types of information such as the receiver's e-mail address, a receiver credential, a message identifier, or a date. The sender uses a bilinear map and the encryption key to compute a secret message key gIDr, which is then used to encrypt a message M, producing ciphertext V to be sent from the sender [100] to the receiver [110] together with an element rP. An identity-based decryption key dID is computed by a private key generator [120] based on the ID associated with the receiver and a secret master key s. After obtaining the private decryption key from the key generator [120], the receiver [110] uses it together with the element rP and the bilinear map to compute the secret message key gIDr, which is then used to decrypt V and recover the original message M. According to one embodiment, the bilinear map is based on a Weil pairing or a Tate pairing defined on a subgroup of an elliptic curve. Also described are several applications of the techniques, including key revocation, credential management, and return receipt notification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218697 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113654 | Russo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard E. Russo (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A computationally efficient modeling system for imagery scales both the original image and corresponding principal component tiles in the same proportion to be able to extract scaled principal components. The system includes recovery of feature weights for the image model by extracting the weights from the reduced size principal component tiles. The use of the reduced size tiles to derive weights dramatically reduces computer overhead both in the generation of the files and in the generation of the weights, and is made possible by the fact that the weights from the scaled down tiles are nearly equal to the weights of the tiles associated with the full size image. The subject system thus reduces computation and the number of bits required to represent features by first scaling the image and then tiling the image in the same proportion. In one embodiment, the scaled down tiles are used as training exemplars used to generate the principal components. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/334816 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07113746 | Payton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Payton (Woodland Hills, California); Bruce Hoff (Venice, California); Mike Howard (Westlake Village, California); Craig Lee (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for facilitating local signaling among a plurality of agents are presented. An agent 100 including a digital processor 102 a transmitter 104, and a directional receiver 106 comprising a plurality of angular regions 108 is configured to enable the selection of a signal from a plurality of signals received on the basis of local data such as the strength of the received signal. The local data may be incorporated into a cumulative data portion of a signal that is passed from local agent 100 to local agent 100 across a plurality of agents 100 in order to provide a gradient across the plurality of agents 100. The gradient could be used, for example, to determine a shortest path across the agents. The signaling techniques described can also be used to determine the distance and direction to objects in the signaling path. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/921295 |
| ART UNIT | 2642 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/41.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07112176 | Krivitski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transonic Systems, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, New York); Victor V. Kislukhin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate induced thermal influences on a dilution thermal sensor, wherein the thermal influences can occur prior to introduction of the injectate into the blood flow. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/079693 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112317 | Thorpe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Francis J. Burrows (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to methods and compositions for targeting the vasculature of solid tumors using immunological- and growth factor-based reagents. In particular aspects, antibodies carrying diagnostic or therapeutic agents are targeted to the vasculature of solid tumor masses through recognition of tumor vasculature-associated antigens, such as, for example, through endoglin binding, or through the specific induction of endothelial cell surface antigens on vascular endothelial cells in solid tumors. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376194 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112318 | Madar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igal Madar (Baltimore, Maryland); Hayden T. Ravert (Bel Air, Maryland); Robert Francis Dannals (Sparks, Maryland); Ursula A. Scheffel (Baltimore, Maryland); James J. Frost (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a series of lipophilic phosphonium cations (PhCs) labeled with 18F for non-invasive assessment of ΔΨm, lipophilic ammonium cation analogs of the PhCs, and methods of using same for imaging and detection of mitochondrial-related pathologies in patients using PET or SPECT. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/360566 |
| 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 424/1.890 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); Eduardo Vazquez (Bayamon, Puerto Rico); Robert Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Paula T. Hammond (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A decomposable thin film comprising a plurality of polyelectrolyte layers of alternating charge, wherein decomposition of the thin film is characterized by degradation of at least a portion of the polyelectrolyte layers. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280268 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/212 |
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| US 07112408 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Ye (Brookline, Massachusetts); Samuel C. Mok (Brookline, Massachusetts); Daniel W. Cramer (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Ross S. Berkowitz (Waban, Massachusetts); Steven Skates (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for determining whether a woman has, or is likely to develop, ovarian cancer based upon assays of the alpha subunit of haptoglobin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/162221 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07112409 | Blumenthal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology (Belleville, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rosalyn D. Blumenthal (Belleville, New Jersey); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides kits and methods for evaluating the myelosuppressive state of a patient. These methods and kits provide a useful adjunct for cytotoxic and myelosuppressive therapies. By establishing threshold levels of certain cytokines as a surrogate for myelosuppression, treatment protocols can be optimized to reduce myelotoxicity, while maximizing effective dose. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/173550 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07112420 | Shipp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret A. Shipp (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Ricardo Aguiar (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Liqun Gu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Kunihiko Takeyama (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated BBAP nucleic acid molecules, which encode proteins that interact with or bind to BAL molecules, which are differentially expressed in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing BBAP nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and non-human transgenic animals in which a BBAP gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated BBAP proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-BBAP antibodies. Diagnostic methods using compositions of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/957635 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.600 |
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| US 07112434 | Cannon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Cannon (St. Petersburg, Florida); Robert N. Haire (Clearwater, Florida); Gary W. Litman (Gulfport, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns novel vectors for the rapid and robust selection for cDNA sequences that encode secreted or membrane-bound proteins. The invention also pertains to methods for cloning secreted or membrane-bound proteins, including proteins encoded by novel members of gene families. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138998 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07112442 | Rice et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Gerard Rice (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Manpreet S. Wadhwa (Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are described for nucleic acid formulation for gene delivery. A new class of low molecular weight condensing agents, namely aromatic amino acid—containing peptides, are described for use in receptor-mediated and nonreceptor-mediated gene delivery, both in vivo and in vitro. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/108844 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 07112563 | Stamler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Stamler (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Alfred Hausladen (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein it is shown that hemoproteins (e.g., Ascaris hemoglobin, myoglobin, flavohemoglobins) have NO-consuming and deoxygenase activities. The invention provides a method of reducing the concentration of oxygen and/or nitric oxide in a mammal. The method of the invention comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a hemoprotein having NO-activated deoxygenase activity or an enzymatically active fragment thereof to a mammal. The method can be used to treat a mammal having pathologically proliferating cells, such as a tumor. In one embodiment, the hemoprotein is administered to reduce the oxygen concentration of a tumor. In another embodiment, the hemoprotein is administered together with a cytotoxic agent to treat a mammal having a tumor. The invention also provides a method of enzymatically generating toxic reactive oxygen species in a mammal for therapeutic purposes. The method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a hemoprotein to a mammal. The invention also provides a composition comprising a hemoprotein having deoxygenase activity or an enzymatically active fragment thereof and a physiologically acceptable carrier. In one embodiment, the composition further comprises a cytotoxic agent and/or a reducing agent. The invention further provides a method of treating a mammal infected with Ascaris sp., comprising administering to said mammal a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of NO synthase. The NO-consuming activity of a hemoprotein (e.g., a flavohemoglobin) can be used in a treatment where constriction of blood vessels is desirable, or where it is otherwise desirable to reduce NO concentration, as in inflammation. |
| FILED | Monday, January 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/756478 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/6 |
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| US 07112566 | Siegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome M. Siegel (Northridge, California); Joshi John (Northridge, California); Ming-Fung Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treatment of sleep disorders. Such methods entail administering to the patient a therapeutically effective dosage regime of an agonist of a hypocretin 1 (Hcrt-1) receptor to a peripheral tissue of the patient, and monitoring the condition of the patient responsive to the treatment, wherein the monitoring indicates a reduction in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and an improvement in nighttime sleep consolidation and architecture. The methods are particularly useful for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of one or more sleep disorders in a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/569835 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07112569 | Ahn Jo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Health (, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sangmee Ahn Jo (Goyang-si, South Korea); Inho Jo (Goyang-si, South Korea); Ho Jeong Kwon (Seoul, South Korea); Chang Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jeong Eun Park (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel protein inhibiting β amyloid aggregation and a strain producing the protein, more precisely, to a novel protein inhibiting β amyloid aggregation, a gene coding the protein, a Streptomyces sp. strain producing the protein and a therapeutic agent for neurodegenerative disorders containing the protein as an effective ingredient. The therapeutic agent of the present invention containing the protein inhibiting β amyloid aggregation as an effective ingredient can be effectively used for the prevention and the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884729 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allison Hubel (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition and method for cryopreserving cells in a non-toxic medium is described. The composition and method provide cells for cell therapy and other in vivo applications. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/458862 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/54 |
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| US 07112579 | DeLuca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hector F. DeLuca (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Rafal R. Sicinski (Warsaw, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a novel class of vitamin D related compounds, namely, the 2-alkyl-19-nor-vitamin D derivatives, as well as a general method for their chemical synthesis. The compounds have the formula: where Y1 and Y2, which may be the same or different, are each selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a hydroxy-protecting group, R6 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, hydroxyalkyl and fluoroalkyl, and where the group R represents any of the typical side chains known for vitamin D type compounds. These 2-substituted compounds, especially the 2α-methyl and the 2α-methyl-20S derivatives, are characterized by relatively high intestinal calcium transport activity and relatively high bone calcium mobilization activity resulting in novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of diseases where bone formation is desired, particularly low bone turnover osteoporosis. These compounds also exhibit pronounced activity in arresting the proliferation of undifferentiated cells and inducing their differentiation to the monocyte thus evidencing use as anti-cancer agents and for the treatment of diseases such as psoriasis. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683330 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/167 |
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| US 07113623 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiuh-Yung James Chen (Englewood, Colorado); John D. Carroll (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for reconstruction of a three-dimensional representation of a moving arterial tree structure from a pair of sequences of time varying two-dimensional images thereof and for analysis of the reconstructed representation. In one aspect of the invention, a pair of time varying arteriographic image sequences are used to reconstruct a three-dimensional representation of the vascular tree structure as it moves through a cardiac cycle. The arteriographic image sequences maybe obtained from a biplane imaging system or from two sequences of images using a single plane imaging system. Another aspect of the invention then applies analysis methods and systems utilizing the three-dimensional representation to analyze various kinematic and deformation measures of the moving vascular structure. Analysis results may be presented to the user using color coded indicia to identify various kinematic and deformation measures of the vascular tree. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/267151 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Western Digital (Fremont), Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Knapp (Livermore, California); Ronald A. Barr (Mountain View, California); Lien-Chang Wang (Fremont, California); Benjamin P. Law (Fremont, California); James Spallas (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for forming current perpendicular to the plane thin film read heads. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of forming a lower sensor lead, forming a lower sensor lead cladding of a low sputter yield material on the lower sensor lead, forming a sensor element on the lower sensor lead cladding, and forming an upper sensor lead coupled to the sensor element. The low sputter yield material helps to reduce redeposition of the lower sensor lead material onto side walls of the sensor element as the sensor element is being formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175399 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/603.70 |
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| US 07112036 | Lubell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Capstone Turbine Corporation (Chatsworth, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Lubell (Northridge, California); Dennis Weissert (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor and bearing system for a turbomachine. The turbomachine includes a drive shaft, an impeller positioned on the drive shaft, and a turbine positioned on the drive shaft proximate to the impeller. The bearing system comprises one gas journal bearing supporting the drive shaft between the impeller and the turbine. The area between the impeller and the turbine is an area of increased heat along the drive shaft in comparison to other locations along the drive shaft. The section of the drive shaft positioned between impeller and the turbine is also a section of the drive shaft that experiences increased stressed and load in the turbomachine. The inventive bearing machine system positions only one radial bearing in this area of increased stress and load. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862136 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/104 |
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| US 07112429 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi-You Ding (Golden, Colorado); William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); Todd B. Vinzant (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a thermal tolerant mannanase that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase family. The invention further discloses this mannanase as ManA. ManA has been isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus. The invention further provides recombinant forms of the identified ManA. Methods of making ManA polypeptides, including fusions, variants, and derivatives, are also disclosed. Methods of using mannanase A, including for the processing of food and for use in food stuffs as bulking agents and the like, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/917378 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/210 |
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| US 07112796 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale M Brown (Schenectady, New York); Peter M Sandvik (Guilderland, New York); Jeffrey B Fedison (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin S Matocha (Rexford, New York); Thomas E Johnson (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical spectrometer for combustion flame temperature determination includes at least two photodetectors positioned for receiving light from a combustion flame, each of the at least two photodetectors having a different, overlapping bandwidth for detecting a respective output signal in an ultraviolet emission band; and a computer for subtracting a respective output signal of a first one of the at least two photodetectors from a respective output signal of a second one of the at least two photodetectors to obtain a segment signal, and using the segment signal to determine the combustion flame temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701472 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.150 |
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| US 07112846 | Wolfe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse D. Wolfe (Fairfield, California); Steven D. Theiss (Woodbury, Minnesota); Paul G. Carey (Mountain View, California); Patrick M. Smith (San Ramon, California); Paul Wickboldt (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fabrication of silicon thin film transistors (TFT) on low-temperature plastic substrates using a reflective coating so that inexpensive plastic substrates may be used in place of standard glass, quartz, and silicon wafer-based substrates. The TFT can be used in large area low cost electronics, such as flat panel displays and portable electronics such as video cameras, personal digital assistants, and cell phones. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621875 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/347 |
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| US 07113920 | Brisiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Russell Brisiel (Newport News, Virginia); Eric Gordon Cooper (Yorktown, Virginia); Mark Edward Davis (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An intranet based comprehensive ordering system that allows authorized employees to simultaneously search many different vendor's catalogs that are stored in a server on a company's intranet. The present Electronic Stockroom and Catalog (ESAC) allows vendors to download their catalogs to the system for storage, browsing and possible purchase by authorized employees. ESAC also allows vendors to update catalogs that may already be in the system. ESAC stores the catalogs and provides the employee with the ability to easily search all of the vendors catalogs for desired items. Thus, employees have access to a wide variety of items. The present system is an attempt at providing the company with one-stop-shopping for every item that every employee will ever need in the course of their employment. If the desired item is available on-site i.e., in one of the stockrooms of the company, then ESAC informs the employee and provides location information relating to the desired item. If the desired item is not available on-site, then the item can be electronically ordered from a vendor. Generally speaking, the ESAC operates within the security of a company firewall and access is not available to unauthorized personnel or to the general public that may try to access ESAC via the Internet. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/690055 |
| ART UNIT | 3625 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/27 |
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| US 07113958 | Lantrip et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Lantrip (Oxnard, California); Kelly A. Pennock (Richland, Washington); Marc C. Pottier (Richland, Washington); Anne Schur (Richland, Washington); James J. Thomas (Richland, Washington); James A. Wise (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for spatializing text content for enhanced visual browsing and analysis. The invention is applied to large text document corpora such as digital libraries, regulations and procedures, archived reports, and the like. The text content from these sources may e transformed to a spatial representation that preserves informational characteristics from the documents. The three-dimensional representation may then be visually browsed and analyzed in ways that avoid language processing and that reduce the analysts' effort. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602802 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/102 |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik J. Mentze (Moscow, Idaho); Herbert L. Hess (Moscow, Idaho); Kevin M. Buck (Pullman, Washington); David F. Cox (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A shifter circuit comprises a high and low voltage buffer stages and an output buffer stage. The high voltage buffer stage comprises multiple transistors arranged in a transistor stack having a plurality of intermediate nodes connecting individual transistors along the stack. The transistor stack is connected between a voltage level being shifted to and an input voltage. An inverter of this stage comprises multiple inputs and an output. Inverter inputs are connected to a respective intermediate node of the transistor stack. The low voltage buffer stage has an input connected to the input voltage and an output, and is operably connected to the high voltage buffer stage. The low voltage buffer stage is connected between a voltage level being shifted away from and a lower voltage. The output buffer stage is driven by the outputs of the high voltage buffer stage inverter and the low voltage buffer stage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920639 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/63 |
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| US 07113265 | Sarrazin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe C. Sarrazin (Palo Alto, California); David F. Blake (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for causing a powder sample in a sample holder to undergo at least one of three motions (vibration, rotation and translation) at a selected motion frequency in order to present several views of an individual grain of the sample. One or more measurements of diffraction, fluorescence, spectroscopic interaction, transmission, absorption and/or reflection can be made on the sample, using light in a selected wavelength region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808704 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
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| US 07113820 | Schlegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd T. Schlegel (Nassau Bay, Texas); Jude L. DePalma (Pueblo, Colorado); Saeed Moradi (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Real time cardiac electrical data are received from a patient, manipulated to determine various useful aspects of the ECG signal, and displayed in real time in a useful form on a computer screen or monitor. The monitor displays the high frequency data from the QRS complex in units of microvolts, juxtaposed with a display of conventional ECG data in units of millivolts or microvolts. The high frequency data are analyzed for their root mean square (RMS) voltage values and the discrete RMS values and related parameters are displayed in real time. The high frequency data from the QRS complex are analyzed with imbedded algorithms to determine the presence or absence of reduced amplitude zones, referred to herein as “RAZs”. RAZs are displayed as “go, no-go” signals on the computer monitor. The RMS and related values of the high frequency components are displayed as time varying signals, and the presence or absence of RAZs may be similarly displayed over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/906013 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa Research, The University Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. N. Rosazza (Iowa City, Iowa); Mohammed Hosny (Makrum Abid-Nasr, Egypt) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides new isoflavonoid and triterpenoid compounds isolated from a soybean phytochemical concentrate. The new compounds have exhibited cytotoxic activity against selected tumor cell lines. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the new compounds and methods for use thereof are provided by the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/126483 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112700 | Sauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne M. Sauer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); William E. Crowe (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Roger A. Laine (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Gregg Henderson (St. Gabriel, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An inexpensive, stereoselective synthesis for nootkatone, tetrahydronootkatone, and their derivatives is disclosed. The starting materials used in the synthesis are inexpensive. The principal starting material, (−)-β-Pinene, is on the GRAS list (generally recognized as safe). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106338 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dhandapani Venkataraman (Hadley, Massachusetts); Craig G. Bates (South Hadley, Massachusetts); Rattan K. Gujadhur (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mild, palladium-free synthetic protocol for the cross-coupling reaction of vinyl or aryl iodides and thiols or selenols using, in certain embodiments, 10 mol % CuI and 10 mol % neocuproine, with NaOt-Bu as the base, in toluene at 110 ° C. A variety of vinyl/aryl sulfides and vinyl/aryl selenides can be synthesized in excellent yields from readily available iodides and thiols or selenols. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889311 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112954 | Palazoglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tunc Koray Palazoglu (Mersin, Turkey); Josip Simunovic (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth R. Swartzel (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kandiyan Puthalath Sandeep (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Evaluation of Thermal Treatment. A magnetically detectable particle and related methods, systems, and devices are provided for generating a temperature measurement for a batch or a continuous stream of material. The particle can include a first and second magnet each comprising a positive and negative pole. The particle can also include an adhesive having a release temperature and operable to attach one or both of the positive and negative poles of the first magnet proximate to the same polarity pole of the second magnet or to attach one of the positive and negative poles of the first magnet between the poles of the second magnet below the release temperature such that a first magnetic field is generated by the first and second magnet. The adhesive can also be operable to release the first and second magnets from one another above the release temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767427 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07112649 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Lu Jiang (Oakville, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device containing a polythiophene prepared by a metal halide-mediated coupling polymerization in an appropriate solvent, and which polythiophene is comprised of at least one monomer unit selected from the group consisting of 2,5-thienylene (or 2,5-thiophenediyl) (I), 2,5-thienylene (or 2,5-thiophenediyl) (II), and a divalent linkage D wherein, for example, A is alkyl, alkoxy or derivatives thereof; B is a hydrogen atom, a small substituent like alkyl or alkoxy. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032711 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07112566 | Siegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome M. Siegel (Northridge, California); Joshi John (Northridge, California); Ming-Fung Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treatment of sleep disorders. Such methods entail administering to the patient a therapeutically effective dosage regime of an agonist of a hypocretin 1 (Hcrt-1) receptor to a peripheral tissue of the patient, and monitoring the condition of the patient responsive to the treatment, wherein the monitoring indicates a reduction in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and an improvement in nighttime sleep consolidation and architecture. The methods are particularly useful for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of one or more sleep disorders in a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/569835 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07112176 | Krivitski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transonic Systems, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, New York); Victor V. Kislukhin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate induced thermal influences on a dilution thermal sensor, wherein the thermal influences can occur prior to introduction of the injectate into the blood flow. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/079693 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
| US 07111407 | Jones |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tennessee Valley Authority (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery Carl Jones (Dunlap, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method for aligning a vertical shaft or multiple axially coupled vertical shafts in a hydroelectric turbine generator or a similar vertical-shaft system, and for providing precise plumb inclination alignment of a vertical rotating shaft. Precision inclinometers attached to the vertical shaft measure plumb inclination. Proximity probe displacement devices mounted externally of the vertical shaft measure radial movement, throw, or run out at various shaft elevations as the shaft is rotated relative to a fixed point. Data acquisition devices and communication devices accumulate and transmit alignment data to a micro-computer which receives and processes such data. Methods of defining shaft plumb inclination in a static single rotational position and defining plumb inclination of the virtual centerline of a shaft's rotational throw position. A method of swinging, tilting, or adjusting a vertical shaft to a corrected or different plumb position relative to the earth's gravity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/998627 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/366.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07112319 | Broderick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia A. Broderick (Bronx, New York); Steven V. Pacia (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to devices and methods of use thereof for making semiderivative voltammetric and chronoamperometric measurements of chemicals, e.g. neurotransmitters, precursors, and metabolites, in vitro, in vivo, or in situ. The invention relates to methods of diagnosing and/or treating a subject as having or being at risk of developing a disease or condition that is associated with abnormal levels of one or more neurotransmitters including, inter alia, epilepsy, diseases of the basal ganglia, athetoid, dystonic diseases, neoplasms, Parkinson's disease, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and cancer. The invention provides methods of differentiating white matter from grey matter using microvoltammetry. In some embodiments, regions of the brain to be resected or targeted for pharmaceutical therapy are identified using Broderick probes. The invention further provides methods of measuring the neurotoxicity of a material by comparing Broderick probe microvoltammograms of a neural tissue in the presence and absence of the material. |
| FILED | Monday, April 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118571 |
| 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 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07112758 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut); US Nanocorp, Inc. (Farmington, Connecticut); Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinqing Ma (Storrs, Connecticut); Stephen Murphy (Willimantic, Connecticut); Jeffrey Roth (Coventry, Connecticut); Danny Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); Baki M. Cetegen (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The apparatus for the thermal spray delivery of a precursor solution comprises a first solution reservoir, a second solution reservoir, singular or multiple atomizing liquid injector(s) disposed in fluid communication with the reservoirs, a flame source configured to direct a spray from the atomizing liquid injector to a substrate, and a thermal control device disposed in thermal communication with the substrate. The method of depositing a precursor solution at a substrate to form a coating comprises maintaining a substrate at a pre-selected temperature, delivering the precursor solution from a reservoir bank, atomizing the precursor solution, injecting the atomized precursor solution into a flame, and directing the flame to the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/755863 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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, September 26, 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.
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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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)
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