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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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| US 07114240 | Baseman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel L. Baseman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lonny L. Berg (Elk River, Minnesota); Romney R. Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Daniel S. Reed (Maple Plain, Minnesota); Gordon A. Shaw (Plymouth, Minnesota); Wei D. Z. Zou (Minnetonka, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of fabricating a giant magnetoresistive (GMR) device a plurality of magnetoresistive device layers is deposited on a first silicon nitride layer formed on a silicon oxide layer. An etch stop is formed on the magnetoresistive device layers, and a second layer of silicon nitride is formed on the etch stop. The magnetoresistive device layers are patterned to define a plurality of magnetic bits having sidewalls. The second silicon nitride layer is patterned to define electrical contact portions on the etch stop in each magnetic bit. The sidewalls of the magnetic bits are covered with a photoresist layer. A reactive ion etch (RIE) process is used to etch into the first silicon nitride and silicon oxide layers to expose electrical contacts. The photoresist layer and silicon nitride layers protect the magnetoresistive layers from exposure to oxygen during the etching into the silicon oxide layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706531 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/603.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07114388 | French et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick French (Aurora, Colorado); Brad Veatch (Westminster, Colorado); Mike O'Connor (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a sensor network that includes a number of sensor units and a base unit. The base station operates in a network discovery mode (in which network topology information is collected) in a data polling mode (in which sensed information is collected from selected sensory units). Each of the sensor units can include a number of features, including an anemometer, a rain gauge, a compass, a GPS receiver, a barometric pressure sensor, an air temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a level, and a radiant temperature sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830166 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07114549 | Mitchell |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew P. Mitchell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a regenerator for a regenerative cycle machine, regenerator foil is grooved on both sides, with intersections of grooves on opposite side forming holes at which separate flows of fluid interact to induce flows ancillary to the overall direction of flow in the regenerator, thereby enhancing heat transfer to and from the material of the regenerator and improving thermodynamic performance of the gas cycle machine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990037 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07114711 | Allaei |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quality Research, Development and Consulting, Inc. (Chaska, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryoush Allaei (Minnetonka, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling vibrations includes receiving the vibrations from a vibration-generating substructure at at least two vibration diverters and diverting the vibrations away from each of the vibration diverters, using the respective vibration diverters, to a vibration confiner that interconnects the vibration diverters. The vibration diverters can include passive elements, e.g., plates, ribs, notched plates, plates having wells, etc., active elements, e.g., actuators, sensor/actuators, etc., or a combination of passive and active elements. The vibration confiner can include a passive layer damping material for dissipating vibrations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760796 |
| ART UNIT | 3683 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Spring devices 267/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07114764 | Barsoum 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) | Roshdy George S. Barsoum (McLean, Virginia); Rodney O. Peterson (Frederick, Maryland); David P. Owen (Columbia, Maryland); Wayne C. Jones (Elkridge, Maryland); David E. Johnson (Severna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Many military land vehicles are not designed to withstand extreme forces concomitant exploding mines. A vehicle's capacity to protect its occupants is inventively enhanced by structurally augmenting the vehicle, in lower structural portions closely related to the vehicle's cabin, with both elastomeric and rigid (non-elastomeric) materials. An elastomeric layer and a rigid layer (typically embodied as a metal or composite sheet or plate) are added to the vehicle in each of seven locations, viz., the four wheel wells (left-front, right-front, left-rear, right-rear), the two floorboards (left and right), and the intervening underside area. At each wheel well and floorboard location, the elastomer is sandwiched between the vehicle's existing rigid structure and the rigid member so as to form a tri-layer material system. At the intervening underside location, an elastomer-coated rigid member is attached with the elastomer face-down. The seven material systems are energy-dissipative and impact-deflective both locally and globally. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/829616 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/193.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115326 | Spitsberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Christine Govern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio); David Joseph Mitchell (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a top coat comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with up to about 10 mole % of an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals, and mixtures thereof. The article further comprises a transition layer between the environmental barrier layer and the top coat, the transition layer comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with up to about 10 mole % of an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals; and a low CTE oxide selected from the group consisting of niobia and tantala; and mixtures thereof. A method for preparing a thermal/environmental barrier coating system on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040156 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/697 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115327 | Spitsberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Christine Govern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio); David Joseph Mitchell (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a top coat comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals, and mixtures thereof. The article further comprises a transition layer between the environmental barrier layer and the top coat, the transition layer comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals; and a low CTE oxide selected from the group consisting of niobia and tantala; and mixtures thereof. A method for preparing a thermal/environmental barrier coating system on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040158 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/697 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115466 | Welser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kopin Corporation (Taunton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger E. Welser (Providence, Rhode Island); Paul M. Deluca (Providence, Rhode Island); Charles R. Lutz (Seekonk, Massachusetts); Kevin S. Stevens (Providence, Rhode Island); Noren Pan (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration includes gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentrations obtained. The material can be the base layer of gallium arsenide-based heterojunction bipolar transistors and can be lattice-matched to gallium arsenide emitter and/or collector layers by controlling concentrations of indium and nitrogen in the base layer. The base layer can have a graded band gap that is formed by changing the flow rates during deposition of III and V additive elements employed to reduce band gap relative to different III–V elements that represent the bulk of the layer. The flow rates of the III and V additive elements maintain an essentially constant doping-mobility product value during deposition and can be regulated to obtain pre-selected base-emitter voltages at junctions within a resulting transistor. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039299 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115503 | Im |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for processing a thin metal layer on a substrate to control the grain size, grain shape, and grain boundary location and orientation in the metal layer by irradiating the metal layer with a first excimer laser pulse having an intensity pattern defined by a mask to have shadow regions and beamlets. Each region of the metal layer overlapped by a beamlet is melted throughout its entire thickness, and each region of the metal layer overlapped by a shadow region remains at least partially unmelted. Each at least partially unmelted region adjoins adjacent melted regions. After irradiation by the first excimer laser pulse, the melted regions of the metal layer are pemitted to resolidify. During resolidification, the at least partially unmelted regions seed growth of grains in adjoining melted regions to produce larger grains. After completion of resolidification of the melted regions following irradiation by the first excimer laser pulse, the metal layer is irradiated by a second excimer laser pulse having a shifted intensity pattern so that the shadow regions overlap regions of the metal layer having fewer and larger grains. Each region of the metal layer overlapped by one of the shifted beamlets is melted throughout its entire thickness, while each region of the metal layer overlapped by one of the shifted shadow regions remains at least partially unmelted. During resolidification of the melted regions after irradiation by the second radiation beam pulse, the larger grains in the at least partially unmelted regions seed growth of even larger grains in adjoining melted regions. The irradiation, resolidification and re-irradiation of the metal layer may be repeated, as needed, until a desired grain structure is obtained in the metal layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/129159 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115651 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Robert M. Garbaccio (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Daniel K. Baeschlin (Arlesheim, Switzerland); Shawn J. Stachel (Perkasie, Pennsylvania); David Solit (New York, New York); Neal Rosen (Englewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds having the structure (and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof) wherein R0–R4, Z, X, A—B, D—E, G—J, and K—L are as defined herein, the synthesis thereof and the use of these compounds as therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/938754 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115688 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); SonBinh T. Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of preparing nanoparticles having at least one polymer shell attached to them, each polymer shell having a selected property or properties. The method comprises attaching initiation monomers to the surfaces of the nanoparticles, contacting the nanoparticles having the initiation monomers attached to them with a transition metal ring-opening metathesis catalyst to activate the initiation monomers, and contacting the nanoparticles with one or more types of propagation monomers of the formula P—L—N under conditions effective so that the monomers are polymerized to form the one or more polymer shells. In the formula P—L—N, N is a cyclic olefin-containing group, P is a moiety which gives each polymer shell a selected property or properties, and L is a bond or linker. The invention also provides polymers formed by polymerizing the propagation monomers. The invention further provides the nanoparticles, the initiation monomers, and propagation monomers of formula P—L—N wherein P is a moiety having a property selected from the group consisting of redox activity, optical activity, electrical activity and magnetic activity, and L and N are defined above. The invention also provides binding monomers of formula B—L—N, wherein B is a binding moiety that binds specifically to an analyte, and N and L are defined above. Finally, the invention provides methods and kits for detecting or quantitating an analyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/830620 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115712 | Leong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxygen, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Leong (Berkeley, California); Juha Punnonen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | New cytokine polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding them, are provided. Compositions including these polypeptides and nucleic acids, recombinant cells comprising said polypeptides and nucleic acids, methods of making the polypeptides and nucleic acid, antibodies to the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides and nucleic acids are provided. Integrated systems comprising the sequences of the nucleic acids or polypeptides are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/725324 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115884 | Walt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Walt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Todd A. Dickinson (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-encoding microspheres having distinct characteristic optical response signatures to specific target analytes may be mixed together while the ability is retained to identify the sensor type and location of each sensor in a random dispersion of large numbers of such sensors in a sensor array using an optically interrogatable encoding scheme, resulting in a microsphere-based analytic chemistry system. Individual microsphere sensors are disposed in microwells at a distal end of a fiber bundle and are optically coupled to discrete fibers or groups of fibers within the bundle to form an optical fiber bundle sensor. The identities of the individual sensors in the array are self-encoded by exposing the array to a reference analyte while illuminating the array with excitation light energy. A single sensor array may carry thousands of discrete sensing elements whose combined signal provides for substantial improvements in sensor detection limits, response times and signal-to-noise ratios. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/944850 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/459.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116115 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Larry L. Chu (Madison, Wisconsin); Kenichi Takahata (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ponnambalam Selvaganapathy (Freemont, California); Juda L. Shohet (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromachined probe apparatus and methods for making and using same to characterize liquid in a fluidic channel and map embedded charge in a sample on a substrate are provided. The probe apparatus includes an integrated scanning tip and a dither actuation mechanism. The actuation is achieved using a bent-beam electrothermal actuator, and the probe tip is insulated from the actuator with a wide isolation gap. The device is fabricated by a modified micro electro-discharge machining process which allows electrical isolation within the micromachined structure using an epoxy plug. The apparatus may be used to measure changes in the external surface potential of a microfluidic channel as a function of varying pH of liquid inside the channel. The apparatus also may be used to map embedded charge in a thin layer on a substrate, showing it to be suitable for monitoring microelectronics manufacturing processes. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852058 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/661 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116416 | Boss 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) | Pamela A. Boss (San Diego, California); Stephen H. Lieberman (La Mesa, California); Leonard J. Martini (San Diego, California); Gregory W. Anderson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system employs a thermo-electrically cooled surface enhanced Raman (SERS) structure that is positioned in a sample chamber. Gas or vapor that may contain an analyte of interest is introduced into the sample chamber so that the analyte may come into contact with the SERS structure. The SERS structure may be cooled to facilitate condensation of selected analytes onto the SERS structure. When in contact with each other, the analyte and SERS structure may be optically stimulated by an optical excitation signal to produce a unique spectral response that may be detected by a spectroanalysis system. The spectral response then may be correlated to a specific analyte, i.e., identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136765 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116426 | Lal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MetroLaser (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit K. Lal (Ladera Ranch, California); Cecil F. Hess (Irvine, California); Hansheng Zhang (Aliso Viejo, California); L. Ernesto Hurtado (Laguna Niguel, California); Vladimir B. Markov (Irvine, California); Vyacheslav Aranchuk (Oxford, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-beam laser Doppler vibrometer simultaneously measures velocity, displacement, and vibration history of multiple locations on an object. A beam of coherent light is split into an object beam and a reference beam. The object beam is divided into a plurality of object beams to simultaneously illuminate multiple locations on the object under inspection. The reference beam is frequency shifted and split into a corresponding plurality of frequency-shifted reference beams. A portion of each object beam is reflected by the object as a modulated object beam. The plurality of modulated object beams are collected and respectively mixed with the plurality of frequency-shifted reference beams to provide a plurality of beam pairs. Each beam pair may be focused onto a photodetector or an optical fiber connected to a photodetector. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262707 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116430 | Degertekin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Technology Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Decatur, Georgia); Neal Allen Hall (Atlanta, Georgia); Wook Lee (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to micron-scale displacement measurement devices. A first embodiment is a device that includes a substrate and a rigid structure suspended above the substrate to form a backside cavity. Formed in the rigid structure is a reflective diffraction grating positioned to reflect a first portion of an incident light and transmit a second portion of the incident light such that the second portion of the incident light is diffracted. The device also includes a membrane positioned a distance d above the reflective diffraction grating and at least a first photo-detector for receiving interference patterns produced from the first portion of the incident light reflected from the diffraction grating and the second portion of the incident light reflected from the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704932 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116575 | Katti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) ring-shaped (RS) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) element is provided in several embodiments including operational functionality of static read (SR) and dynamic read (DR). According to an embodiment, a memory element has one or more vias passing through a center hole in the CPP RS MRAM element. Each end of each via is coupled with a separate write line segment that extends radially from the center hole past a perimeter of the ring-shaped element. The write lines and vias are configured to generate magnetic fields for switching a magnetization direction of one or more layers of the ring-shaped bits in the array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087414 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116636 | Vernon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Vernon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for reducing the data rate in a network using a delay processor. Since an increase in the data rate can overwhelm parts of the network hardware, such as a router, a delay processor is introduced so that data is delayed by a fixed amount so as to lower the data rate. A configuration table determines the amount of delay. A slowly changing amount of delay can be used in place of a fixed amount. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/854623 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116687 | Kane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JDS Uniphase Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Kane (Menlo Park, California); Loren A. Eyres (Palo Alto, California); David R. Balsley (San Francisco, California); Gregory L. Keaton (San Francisco, California); James J. Morehead (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a Neodymium-doped lasing material having first and second surfaces and a passive Q-switch optically coupled to the second surface. The first-surface is substantially transparent to a pump radiation and substantially reflective to laser radiation generated by an interaction between the pump radiation and the Neodymium-doped lasing material. The laser radiation is characterized by a vacuum wavelength corresponding to an atomic transition from the 4F3/2 level to the 4I9/2 level of Neodymium in the lasing material. The second surface transmits at least a portion of the laser radiation. The lasing material and Q-switch are configured to produce pulses of the laser radiation characterized by a pulse length of greater than zero and less than about 1.5 nanoseconds and a pulse repetition rate greater than about 100 kHz. A PQSL laser, an apparatus for generating blue light and a display system based on the laser apparatus are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662086 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117067 | McLurkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James McLurkin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jennifer Smith (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive commands that describe a task the robot will perform in response to other robots and the external conditions. The commands facilitate a distributed command and control structure, relieving a central apparatus or operator from the need to monitor the progress of each robot. This virtually eliminates the corresponding constraint on the maximum number of robots that can be deployed to perform a task (e.g., data collection, mapping, searching). By increasing the number of robots, the efficiency in completing the task is also increased. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417401 |
| 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 07117108 | Rapp et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Ernest Rapp (Narberth, Pennsylvania); Christopher Joseph Cellucci (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Tanya Schmah (Marsfield, N.S.W., Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing a categorical analysis on one or more time dependent dynamic processes is provided. A reference library of data pertaining to multiple characteristics of time series reflective of the dynamic process is created and used to define selected categories for performing the categorical analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854700 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117133 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chiping Chen (Needham, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shapiro (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Evgenya I. Smirnova (Somerville, Massachusetts); Richard J. Temkin (Newton, Massachusetts); Jagadishwar R. Sirigiri (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for designing photonic band gap structures. The system and method provide a user with the capability to produce a model of a two-dimensional array of conductors corresponding to a unit cell. The model involves a linear equation. Boundary conditions representative of conditions at the boundary of the unit cell are applied to a solution of the Helmholtz equation defined for the unit cell. The linear equation can be approximated by a Hermitian matrix. An eigenvalue of the Helmholtz equation is calculated. One computation approach involves calculating finite differences. The model can include a symmetry element, such as a center of inversion, a rotation axis, and a mirror plane. A graphical user interface is provided for the user's convenience. A display is provided to display to a user the calculated eigenvalue, corresponding to a photonic energy level in the Brilloin zone of the unit cell. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/171725 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| US 07117488 | Franz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Franz (Irvine, California); Wolfram Amme (Jena, Germany); Jeffrey Von Ronne (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inherently safe code format for representing computer programs is disclosed. The format provides incorruptible referential integrity and uses type separation to achieve intrinsic type safety. The format preserves a safety guarantee found in a source code language representation of the computer program while the computer program proceeds through various stages of the code compilation process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/112002 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/144 |
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| US H2173 | Newborn 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) | David A. Newborn (Boca Raton, Florida); Richard K. Knutson (Germantown, Maryland); Stephen P. Ebner (Wheaton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An unmanned hydroplaning water surface vehicle having a gondola housing with external midway lift and control foils that allow the unmanned surface vehicle to provide lift and control in water at sufficient speed. A superstructure trimaran hull serves as a stable operation platform during low speed maneuvers or at rest. The superstructure hull encloses command and control systems capable of remote, semi-autonomous or fully autonomous control and navigation and vehicle attitude control. A plurality of mission specific payloads and sensors are positioned within the superstructure hull and gondola housing to allow for various types of missions. A strut connects the gondola housing and the superstructure hull above the waterline, as well as to provide for the passage therebetween of a plurality of transmission and control lines. The strut also mounts a rudder above propeller at the stern end of the gondola housing. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/617445 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39321 | MacPhee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The American National Red Cross (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. MacPhee (North Potomac, Maryland); William N. Drohan (Springfield, Virginia); Gene Liau (Darnestown, Maryland); Hernan Nunez (Derwood, Maryland); Wilson H. Burgess (Clifton, Virginia); Jeffrey O. Hollinger (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Thomas Maciag (Freeport, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a fibrin sealant dressing, wherein said fibrin sealant may be supplemented with at least one composition selected from, for example, one or more regulatory compounds, antibody, antimicrobial compositions, analgesics, anticoagulants, antiproliferatives, antiinflammatory compounds, cytokines, cytotoxins, drugs, growth factors, interferons, hormones, lipids, demineralized bone or bone morphogenetic proteins, cartilage inducing factors, oligonucleotides polymers, polysaccharides, polypeptides, protease inhibitors, vasoconstrictors or vasodilators, vitamins, minerals, stabilizers and the like. Also disclosed are methods of preparing and/or using the unsupplemented or supplemented fibrin sealant dressing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465853 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arch Development Corp. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Un Jung Kang (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for the therapeutic intervention of Parkinson's disease. More particularly, methods of making and sequestering dopamine are disclosed. Additionally, methods of genetically modifying donor cells by gene transfer for grafting into the central nervous system to treat defective, diseased or damaged cells are disclosed. Methods and compositions for carrying out such gene transfer and grafting are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285308 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115261 | Lode et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolia, California); EMD Lexigen Research Center Corp. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holger N. Lode (Berlin, Germany); Ralph A. Reisfeld (La Jolla, California); David A. Cheresh (Encinitas, California); Stephen D. Gillies (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention teaches methods for treating tumors and tumor metastases in a mammal comprising administering, to a mammal in need of treatment, a therapeutic amount of an antagonist sufficient to inhibit angiogenesis in combination with a therapeutic amount of anti-tumor immunotherapeutic agent, such as a anti-tumor antigen antibody/cytokine fusion protein having a cytokine and a recombinant immunoglobulin polypeptide chain sufficient to elicit a cytokine-specific biological response. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/502732 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07115262 | Berger 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) | Edward A. Berger (Rockville, Maryland); Christie M. Del Castillo (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to bispecific fusion proteins effective in viral neutralization. More specifically, such proteins have two different binding domains, an inducing-binding domain and an induced-binding domain, functionally linked by a peptide linker. Such proteins, nucleic acid molecules encoding them, and their production and use in preventing or treating viral infections are provided. One prototypical bispecific fusion protein is sCD4-SCFv(17b), in which a soluble CD4 fragment (containing domains D1 and D2) is fused to a single chain Fv portion of antibody 17b via a linker. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/936702 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115265 | Riggins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Riggins (Durham, North Carolina); Anita Lal (Durham, North Carolina); William T. Loging (Salem, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | ABCC3, GPNMB, NNMT, and SEC61γ are expressed at higher levels in glioblastoma than in normal brain tissue. These four genes and their expression products are useful for diagnosing and treating glioblastoma and for identifying potential anticancer drugs. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853880 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115272 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Seattle, Washington); Martin A. Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise a WT1 polypeptide comprising an immunogenic portion of WT1, wherein said WT1 polypeptide comprises the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:144. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/684361 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
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| US 07115360 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Clarke (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sean J. Morrison (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Max S. Wicha (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Muhammad al-Hajj (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A small percentage of cells within an established solid tumor have the properties of stem cells. These solid tumor stem cells give rise both to more tumor stem cells and to the majority of cells in the tumor that have lost the capacity for extensive proliferation and the ability to give rise to new tumors. Thus, solid tumor heterogeneity reflects the presence of tumor cell progeny arising from a solid tumor stem cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343692 |
| 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 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115369 | Nilsen-Hamilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marit Nilsen-Hamilton (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides functional nucleic acid probes, and methods of using functional nucleic acid probes, for binding a target to carry out a desired function. The probes have at least one functional nucleic acid, at least one regulating nucleic acid, and at least one attenuator. The functional nucleic acid is maintained in an inactive state by the attenuator and activated by the regulating nucleic acid only in the presence of a regulating nucleic acid target. In its activated state the functional nucleic acid can bind to its target to carry out a desired function, such as generating a signal, cleaving a nucleic acid, or catalyzing a reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096872 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115374 | Linnen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gen-Probe Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Linnen (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods and kits for detecting flavivirus nucleic acids. Particularly described are oligonucleotides that are useful as hybridization probes and amplification primers for detecting very low levels of West Nile virus nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/688489 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07115394 | McMahon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. McMahon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Pao-Tien Chuang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery of a new family of hedgehog binding proteins, refered to herein as “hedgehog interacting proteins” or “HIPs”, which are demonstrated to bind to hedgehog polypeptides with high affinity. As described herein, the vertebrate HIP proteins exhibit spatially and temporally restricted expression domains indicative of important roles in hedgehog-mediated induction. |
| FILED | Monday, November 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288556 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07115401 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Jesus E. Gonzalez, III (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for determining the potential of a membrane. In one aspect, the method comprises: (a) introducing a first reagent comprising a hydrophobic fluorescent ion capable of redistributing from a first face of the membrane to a second face of the membrane in response to changes in the potential of the membrane, as described by the Nernst equation, (b) introducing a second reagent which labels the first face or the second face of the membrane, which second reagent comprises a chromophore capable of undergoing energy transfer by either (i) donating excited state energy to the fluorescent ion, or (ii) accepting excited state energy from the fluorescent ion, (c) exposing the membrane to radiation; (d) measuring energy transfer between the fluorescent ion and the second reagent, and (e) relating the energy transfer to the membrane potential. Energy transfer is typically measured by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. In some embodiments the first and second reagents are bound together by a suitable linker. In one aspect the method is used to identify compounds which modulate membrane potentials in biological membranes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/334589 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.500 |
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| US 07115405 | Weigel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Paul DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active hyaluronate synthase (HAS), and to the use of this nucleic acid segment in the preparation of recombinant cells which produce hyaluronate synthase and its hyaluronic acid product. Hyaluronate is also known as hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228079 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115555 | Zonana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Zonana (Portland, Oregon); Betsy M. Ferguson (Portland, Oregon); Denis Headon (Manchester, United Kingdom); Paul Overbeek (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The DNA and amino acid sequences are disclosed for a ligand (EDA1-II) and receptor (dl in mice and DL in humans) involved in ectodermal dysplasia. Also disclosed are variant DNA and amino acid sequences, and therapeutic applications of the ligands and receptors. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/729658 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07115567 | Vinkemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uwe Vinkemeier (New York, New York); James E. Darnell, Jr. (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods of producing milligram quantities of three forms of purified Stat1 protein from recombinant DNA constructs. In addition, the Stat proteins may be isolated in their phosphorylated or nonphosphorylated forms (Tyr 701). The proteins can be produced in baculovirus infected insect cells, or E. coli. A compact domain in the amino terminus of Stat1α was isolated and found to enhance DNA binding due to its ability to interact with a neighboring Stat protein. A relatively protease-resistant recombinant truncated form of the Stat protein was isolated in 40–50 mg quantities. Purification of the Stat proteins were performed after modifying specific cysteine residues of the Stat proteins to prevent aggregation. Activated EGF-receptor partially purified from membranes by immunoprecipitation was shown to be capable of in vitro catalysis of the phosphorylation of the tyrosine residue of Stat1 known to be phosphorylated in vivo. Techniques are enclosed to separate the phosphorylated from the nonphosphorylated Stat proteins. The techniques disclosed are general for Stat proteins and may be used to isolate large quantities of purified Stat 2, 3, 4, 5A, 5B and 6. Methods for using purified Stat proteins, truncated Stat proteins, or Stat N-terminal fragments for drug discovery are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245120 |
| 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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| US 07115582 | Boudreau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Boudreau (San Francisco, California); David M. Young (Larkspur, California); Cornelia Myers (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions useful in localized transfer of genetic material or proteins. Moreover, the present invention provides methods and compositions for improving and/or controlling wound healing by applying a wound care device comprising HoxD3 and/or HoxA3. In addition, the present invention provides methods and compositions for improved wound healing in subjects having impaired healing capabilities, such as diabetic subjects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/305667 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07115584 | Schinazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond F. Schinazi (Decatur, Georgia); Jennifer L. Hammond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John W. Mellors (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dennis C. Liotta (McDonough, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for treating HIV that includes administering β-D-D4FC or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug to a human in need of therapy in combination or alternation with a drug that induces a mutation in HIV-1 at a location other than the 70(K to N), 90 or the 172 codons of the reverse transcriptase region. Also disclosed is a method for using β-D-D4FC as “salvage therapy” to patients which exhibit drug resistance to other anti-HIV agents. β-D-D4FC can be used generally as salvage therapy for any patient which exhibits resistance to a drug that induces a mutation at other than the 70(K to N), 90 or the 172 codons. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351170 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/45 |
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| US 07115651 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Robert M. Garbaccio (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Daniel K. Baeschlin (Arlesheim, Switzerland); Shawn J. Stachel (Perkasie, Pennsylvania); David Solit (New York, New York); Neal Rosen (Englewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds having the structure (and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof) wherein R0–R4, Z, X, A—B, D—E, G—J, and K—L are as defined herein, the synthesis thereof and the use of these compounds as therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/938754 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/434 |
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| US 07115660 | Boger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California); David A. Cheresh (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Angiogenesis, tumor growth, and metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) interaction with integrin-αvβ3 are inhibited by an inhibitor compound of formula (I): wherein G1 and G2 are each independently NH—C(O)—O—R1, —NH—C(O)—O—(CH2)v—(C6H4)—X3, —NH—C(O)—NH—(CH2)v—(C6H4)—X3, —O—C(O)—NH—(CH2)v—(C6H4)—X3, —O—C(O)—O—(CH2)v—(C6H4)—X3, or NH—C(O)—CH2—(C6H4)—X3; Y1 and Y2 are each independently OH, C1–C4 alkyl, C1–C4 hydroxyalkyl, C1–C4 alkoxy, phenyl, benzyl, or NH2; R1 is C1–C4 alkyl; X1 and X2 are each independently halo or C1–C4 alkoxy; X3 is halo, nitro, C1–C4 alkyl, C1–C4 alkoxy, or C1–C4 perfluoroalkyl; Z is —C≡C—, —C6H4—, cis-CH═CH—, trans CH═CH—, cis-CH2—CH═CH—CH2—, trans —CH2—CH═CH—CH2—, 1,4-naphthyl, cis-1,3-cyclohexyl, trans-1, 3-cyclohexyl, cis-1,4-cyclohexyl, or trans-1,4-cyclohexyl; A is H or a covalent bond; m and n are each independently an integer having a value of 0 or 1; t is an integer having a value of 0 or 1; and p, r, and v are each independently an integer having a value of 1 or 2; with provisos that when A is H, t is O; when A is a covalent bond, t is 1; when m is 0, Y1 is C1–C4 hydroxyalkyl; and when n is 0, Y2 is C1 C4 hydroxyalkyl. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/240142 |
| 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 514/478 |
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| US 07115708 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cognetix, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Maren Watkins (Salt Lake City, Utah); James E. Garrett (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to β-superfamily conotoxin peptides, derivatives or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present invention is further directed to the use of this peptide, derivatives thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for the treatment of disorders associated with voltage-gated ion channels, ligand gated channels and other receptors. The invention is further directed to nucleic acid sequences encoding the β-superfamily conotoxin peptides and encoding β-superfamily conotoxin propeptides, as well as the β-superfamily conotoxin propeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198847 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07115725 | Collier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. John Collier (Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is DNA encoding diphtheria toxin polypeptides having multiple mutations, which render the polypeptides useful as vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/224209 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07115766 | Mulholland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Keith Mulholland (Indianapolis, Indiana); Martin J. O'Donnell (Indianapolis, Indiana); Frederick T. Chin (Walnut Creek, California); Francisca Delgado (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Radiolabeled fluorinated compounds useful for imaging in the diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease are disclosed. Methods and kits for their synthesis are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/433053 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/21 |
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| US 07115784 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); Artis Klapars (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jon C. Antilla (Malden, Massachusetts); Gabriel E. Job (Quincy, Massachusetts); Martina Wolter (Berlin, Germany); Fuk Y. Kwong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gero Nordmann (Boston, Massachusetts); Edward J. Hennessy (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to copper-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming methods. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of an amide or amine moiety and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In additional embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between a nitrogen atom of an acyl hydrazine and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In other embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic, e.g., indole, pyrazole, and indazole, and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-oxygen bond between the oxygen atom of an alcohol and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. The present invention also relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-carbon bond between a reactant comprising a nucleophilic carbon atom, e.g., an enolate or malonate anion, and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. Importantly, all the methods of the present invention are relatively inexpensive to practice due to the low cost of the copper comprised by the catalysts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/028500 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piera S. Sun (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of nucleic acid molecule delivery into a fertilized egg. This method involves providing a fertilized egg prior to its formation of a protective layer, providing a nucleic acid molecule, and combining the nucleic acid molecule and the fertilized egg under conditions effective to allow the nucleic acid molecule to be delivered into the egg. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/849082 |
| 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 8/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117030 | Berenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omer Berenfeld (Dewitt, New York); Jose Jalife (Manlius, New York); Ravi Vaidyanathan (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer program product comprising an algorithm adapted to execute a method of identifying the spatial coordinates of a sustaining source of fibrillatory activity in a heart by computing a set of point-dependent dominant frequencies and a set of point-dependent regularity indices for a set of products of point-dependent unipolar discrete power spectra and point-dependent bipolar discrete power spectra, derived by spectral analyses of corresponding unipolar and bipolar cardiac depolarization signals simultaneously acquired from a set of points of the heart. A maximum dominant frequency is selected whose associated coordinates identify the point of the sustaining source of fibrillatory activity. The magnitude of the regularity index is interpreted to verify the identification of the spatial coordinates of the sustaining source of fibrillatory activity. When indicated, surgical intervention is directed to the spatial coordinates of the sustaining source of fibrillatory activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002947 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/515 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07114340 | Pecharsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandra O. Pecharsky (Ames, Iowa); Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr. (Ames, Iowa); Vitalij K. Pecharsky (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy made of heat treated material represented by Gd5(SixGe1−x)4 where 0.47≦x≦0.56 that exhibits a magnetic entropy change (−ΔSm) of at least 16 J/kg K, a magnetostriction of at least 2000 parts per million, and a magnetoresistance of at least 5 percent at a temperature of about 300K and below, and method of heat treating the material between 800 to 1600 degrees C. for a time to this end. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/413417 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07114388 | French et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick French (Aurora, Colorado); Brad Veatch (Westminster, Colorado); Mike O'Connor (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a sensor network that includes a number of sensor units and a base unit. The base station operates in a network discovery mode (in which network topology information is collected) in a data polling mode (in which sensed information is collected from selected sensory units). Each of the sensor units can include a number of features, including an anemometer, a rain gauge, a compass, a GPS receiver, a barometric pressure sensor, an air temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a level, and a radiant temperature sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830166 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Lane (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A lubrication pump coupled to the engine is sized such that the it can supply the engine with a predetermined flow volume as soon as the engine reaches a peak torque engine speed. In engines that operate predominately at speeds above the peak torque engine speed, the lubrication pump is often producing lubrication fluid in excess of the predetermined flow volume that is bypassed back to a lubrication fluid source. This arguably results in wasted power. In order to more efficiently lubricate an engine, a lubrication circuit includes a lubrication pump and a variable delivery pump. The lubrication pump is operably coupled to the engine, and the variable delivery pump is in communication with a pump output controller that is operable to vary a lubrication fluid output from the variable delivery pump as a function of at least one of engine speed and lubrication flow volume or system pressure. Thus, the lubrication pump can be sized to produce the predetermined flow volume at a speed range at which the engine predominately operates while the variable delivery pump can supplement lubrication fluid delivery from the lubrication pump at engine speeds below the predominant engine speed range. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/419550 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/196.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07114858 | Gupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sreenath Borra Gupta (Naperville, Illinois); Ramanujam Raj Sekar (Naperville, Illinois); Gregory E. Hillman (Chicago Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser based ignition system for stationary natural gas engines, a distributor system for use with high-powered lasers, and a method of determining a successful ignition event in a laser-based ignition system are provided. The laser based ignition (LBI) system for stationary natural gas engines includes a high power pulsed laser providing a pulsed emission output coupled to a plurality of laser plugs. A respective one of the plurality of laser plugs is provided in an engine cylinder. The laser plug focuses the coherent emission from the pulsed laser to a tiny volume or focal spot and a high electric field gradient at the focal spot leads to photoionization of the combustible mixture resulting in ignition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/940467 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115369 | Nilsen-Hamilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marit Nilsen-Hamilton (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides functional nucleic acid probes, and methods of using functional nucleic acid probes, for binding a target to carry out a desired function. The probes have at least one functional nucleic acid, at least one regulating nucleic acid, and at least one attenuator. The functional nucleic acid is maintained in an inactive state by the attenuator and activated by the regulating nucleic acid only in the presence of a regulating nucleic acid target. In its activated state the functional nucleic acid can bind to its target to carry out a desired function, such as generating a signal, cleaving a nucleic acid, or catalyzing a reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096872 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115542 | Tranter 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) | Troy J. Tranter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dieter A. Knecht (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry A. Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho); Larry A. Burchfield (W. Richland, Washington); Alexander G. Anshits (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); Tatiana Vereshchagina (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); Alexander A. Tretyakov (Zheleznogorsk, Russian Federation); Albert S. Aloy (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Natalia V. Sapozhnikova (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Hollow glass microspheres obtained from fly ash (cenospheres) are impregnated with extractants/ion-exchangers and used to remove hazardous material from fluid waste. In a preferred embodiment the microsphere material is loaded with ammonium molybdophosphonate (AMP) and used to remove radioactive ions, such as cesium-137, from acidic liquid wastes. In another preferred embodiment, the microsphere material is loaded with octyl(phenyl)-N-N-diisobutyl-carbamoylmethylphosphine oxide (CMPO) and used to remove americium and plutonium from acidic liquid wastes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748913 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115709 | Gray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe W. Gray (Livermore, California); Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Ol'li-Pekka Kallioniemi (Tampere, Finland); Anne Kallioniemi (Tampere, Finland); Masaru Sakamoto (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for staining based upon nucleic acid sequence that employ nucleic acid probes are provided. Said methods produce staining patterns that can be tailored for specific cytogenetic analyses. Said probes are appropriate for in situ hybridization and stain both interphase and metaphase chromosomal material with reliable signals. The nucleic acid probes are typically of a complexity greater than 50 kb, the complexity depending upon the cytogenetic application. Methods and reagents are provided for the detection of genetic rearrangements. Probes and test kits are provided for use in detecting genetic rearrangements, particularly for use in tumor cytogenetics, in the detection of disease related loci, specifically cancer, such as chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), retinoblastoma, ovarian and uterine cancers, and for biological dosimetry. Methods and reagents are described for cytogenetic research, for the differentiation of cytogenetically similar but genetically different diseases, and for many prognostic and diagnostic applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/487701 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115887 | Hassanein 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) | Ahmed Hassanein (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Isak Konkashbaev (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for generating extremely short-wave ultraviolet electromagnetic wave uses two intersecting plasma beams generated by two plasma accelerators. The intersection of the two plasma beams emits electromagnetic radiation and in particular radiation in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength. In the preferred orientation two axially aligned counter streaming plasmas collide to produce an intense source of electromagnetic radiation at the 13.5 nm wavelength. The Mather type plasma accelerators can utilize tin, or lithium covered electrodes. Tin, lithium or xenon can be used as the photon emitting gas source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/079238 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/504.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116010 | Lasseter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Lasseter (Madison, Wisconsin); Paolo Piagi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A power electronics interface in a microsource controller allows efficient connection in a power system of small, low cost and reliable distributed generators such as microturbines, fuel cells and photovoltaic. Power electronics provide the control and flexibility to insure stable operation for large numbers of distributed generators. The power electronics controls are designed to insure that new generators can be added to the system without modification of existing equipment. A collection of sources and loads can connect to or isolate from the utility grid in a rapid and seamless fashion, each inverter can respond effectively to load changes without requiring data from other sources, and voltage sag and system imbalances can be corrected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245729 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116102 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Clarke (Berkeley, California); Robert McDermott (Louisville, Colorado); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California); Andreas Heinz Trabesinger (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals are detected in microtesla fields. Prepolarization in millitesla fields is followed by detection with an untuned dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. Because the sensitivity of the SQUID is frequency independent, both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spectral resolution are enhanced by detecting the NMR signal in extremely low magnetic fields, where the NMR lines become very narrow even for grossly inhomogeneous measurement fields. MRI in ultralow magnetic field is based on the NMR at ultralow fields. Gradient magnetic fields are applied, and images are constructed from the detected NMR signals. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277550 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116199 | 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); Cameron Sneddon (Lombard, Illinois); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Michael A. Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An inductive coupler for downhole components. The inductive coupler includes an annular housing having a recess defined by a bottom portion and two opposing side wall portions. At least one side wall portion includes a lip extending toward but not reaching the other side wall portion. A plurality of generally U-shaped MCEI segments, preferably comprised of ferrite, are disposed in the recess and aligned so as to form a circular trough. The coupler further includes a conductor disposed within the circular trough and a polymer filling spaces between the segments, the annular housing and the conductor. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276983 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116425 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee); Philip R. Bingham (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for faster processing of multiple spatially-heterodyned direct to digital holograms. A method includes of obtaining multiple spatially-heterodyned holograms, includes: digitally recording a first spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis; digitally recording a second spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis; Fourier analyzing the recorded first spatially-heterodyned hologram by shifting a first original origin of the recorded first spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes in Fourier space to sit on top of a spatial-heterodyne carrier frequency defined as a first angle between a first reference beam and a first, object beam; applying a first digital filter to cut off signals around the first original origin and performing an inverse Fourier transform on the result; Fourier analyzing the recorded second spatially-heterodyned hologram by shifting a second original origin of the recorded second spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes in Fourier space to sit on top of a spatial-heterodyne carrier frequency defined as a second angle between a second reference beam and a second object beam; and applying a second digital filter to cut off signals around the second original origin and performing an inverse Fourier transform on the result, wherein digitally recording the first spatially-heterodyned hologram is completed before digitally recording the second spatially-heterodyned hologram and a single digital image includes both the first spatially-heterodyned hologram and the second spatially-heterodyned hologram. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607840 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117133 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chiping Chen (Needham, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shapiro (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Evgenya I. Smirnova (Somerville, Massachusetts); Richard J. Temkin (Newton, Massachusetts); Jagadishwar R. Sirigiri (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for designing photonic band gap structures. The system and method provide a user with the capability to produce a model of a two-dimensional array of conductors corresponding to a unit cell. The model involves a linear equation. Boundary conditions representative of conditions at the boundary of the unit cell are applied to a solution of the Helmholtz equation defined for the unit cell. The linear equation can be approximated by a Hermitian matrix. An eigenvalue of the Helmholtz equation is calculated. One computation approach involves calculating finite differences. The model can include a symmetry element, such as a center of inversion, a rotation axis, and a mirror plane. A graphical user interface is provided for the user's convenience. A display is provided to display to a user the calculated eigenvalue, corresponding to a photonic energy level in the Brilloin zone of the unit cell. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/171725 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117390 | Klarer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Klarer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Hayward (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Wendy A. Amai (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to system architectures, specifically failure-tolerant and self-reconfiguring embedded system architectures. The invention provides both a method and architecture for redundancy. There can be redundancy in both software and hardware for multiple levels of redundancy. The invention provides a self-reconfiguring architecture for activating redundant modules whenever other modules fail. The architecture comprises: a communication backbone connected to two or more processors and software modules running on each of the processors. Each software module runs on one processor and resides on one or more of the other processors to be available as a backup module in the event of failure. Each module and backup module reports its status over the communication backbone. If a primary module does not report, its backup module takes over its function. If the primary module becomes available again, the backup module returns to its backup status. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441598 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07115241 | Hemley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Hemley (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ho-Kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Chih-shiue Yan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A single crystal diamond grown by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition annealed at pressures in excess of 4.0 GPa and heated to temperature in excess of 1500 degrees C. that has a hardness of greater than 120 GPa. A method for manufacture a hard single crystal diamond includes growing a single crystal diamond and annealing the single crystal diamond at pressures in excess of 4.0 GPa and a temperature in excess of 1500 degrees C. to have a hardness in excess of 120 GPa. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889170 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115764 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wm. Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew R. Barron (Houston, Texas); Naureen Shahid (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming carboxylate-alumoxane nanoparticles comprises subjecting a mixture comprising boehmite and carboxylic acid to mechanical shear. The method can be carried out at a temperature above ambient and preferably a temperature greater than 80° C., and can be carried out in the absence of a liquid phase. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/636174 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116115 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Larry L. Chu (Madison, Wisconsin); Kenichi Takahata (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ponnambalam Selvaganapathy (Freemont, California); Juda L. Shohet (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromachined probe apparatus and methods for making and using same to characterize liquid in a fluidic channel and map embedded charge in a sample on a substrate are provided. The probe apparatus includes an integrated scanning tip and a dither actuation mechanism. The actuation is achieved using a bent-beam electrothermal actuator, and the probe tip is insulated from the actuator with a wide isolation gap. The device is fabricated by a modified micro electro-discharge machining process which allows electrical isolation within the micromachined structure using an epoxy plug. The apparatus may be used to measure changes in the external surface potential of a microfluidic channel as a function of varying pH of liquid inside the channel. The apparatus also may be used to map embedded charge in a thin layer on a substrate, showing it to be suitable for monitoring microelectronics manufacturing processes. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852058 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/661 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116157 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander S. Ross (Albany, New York); Gary J. Saulnier (East Greenbush, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit for applications such as electrical impedance tomography includes a voltage-to-current converter having an input for receiving a voltage waveform and an output for outputting a current waveform to a load at an output resistance for the voltage-to-current converter. The voltage-to-current converter includes resistance control means for adjusting the output resistance of the voltage-to-current converter under computer control. The circuit of the present invention also includes an inductance control circuit operatively connected to the voltage-to-current converter for synthesizing a selected inductance. The inductance control circuit includes inductance control means for adjusting the value of the selected inductance by computer control. The operative connection between the voltage-to-current converter and the inductance control circuit causes application of the selected inductance to the output of the voltage-to-current converter so that an overall output impedance of the current source at the load is both high and controllable. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898647 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116419 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Weiner (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xiang Wang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for measuring the state of polarization (SOP) for each wavelength channel in a multi-wavelength-channel light beam are disclosed. The system includes a set of two or more rapidly switchable waveplates switched to form a sequence of secondary light beams having different polarizations. A polarizer filters the set of secondary light beams, and a spectral dispersing element spatially divides the secondary light beams into their respective wavelength components. A detector array measures in parallel the intensity of the different wavelength components for each of the polarization-filtered light beams. A controller stores the intensity measurements and calculates the Stokes parameters for each wavelength component, thereby characterizing the SOP for all the wavelength channels of the multi-wavelength light beam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705119 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116458 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan Reed (Pine Island, Minnesota); Marin Soljacic (Somerville, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical modulator includes a crystal structure that exhibits polaritonic or excitonic behavior. A shock wave propagates through the crystal structure so as to optically modulate and manipulate a light signal propagating in the crystal structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076374 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116710 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Aamod Khandekar (Pasadena, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate substantially close to one. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/861102 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116864 | Yanik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Stanford, California); Wonjoo Suh (Stanford, California); Zhang Wang (Stanford, California); Shanhui Fan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We introduce a new all-optical mechanism that can compress the bandwidth of light pulses to absolute zero, and bring them to a complete stop. The mechanism can be realized in a system consisting of a waveguide side-coupled to tunable resonators, which generates a photonic band structure that represents a classical analogue of the Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. The same system can also achieve a time-reversal operation. We demonstrate the operation of such a system by finite-difference time-domain simulations of an implementation in photonic crystals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000679 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117045 | Hittle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Hittle (Fort Collins, Colorado); Charles Anderson (Fort Collins, Colorado); Peter M. Young (Fort Collins, Colorado); Christopher Delnero (Maple Shade, New Jersey); Michael Anderson (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A neural network controller in parallel with a proportional-plus-integral (PI) feedback controller in a control system. At least one input port of the neural network for receiving an input signal representing a condition of a process is included. A first set of data is obtained that includes a plurality of output values of the neural network obtained during a training period thereof using a plurality of first inputs representing a plurality of conditions of the process. The process/plant condition signals generally define the process/plant, and may include one set-point as well as signals generated using measured systems variables/parameters. In operation, the neural network contributes to an output of the PI controller only upon detection of at least one triggering event, at which time a value of the first set of data corresponding with the condition deviation is added-in thus, contributing to the proportional-plus-integral feedback controller. The triggering event can be characterized as (a) a change in any one of the input signals greater-than a preselected amount, or (b) a detectable process condition deviation greater-than a preselected magnitude, for which an adjustment is needed to the process/plant being controlled. Also a method for controlling a process with a neural network controller operating in parallel with a IP controller is included. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/238575 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07114684 | Kinstler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Kinstler (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided methods, apparatus, and computer program products for implementing a KINSTLER maneuver for an exit vehicle that is departing from a rotating space vehicle such that the exit vehicle does not contact the space vehicle during departure. A composite spin axis of the space vehicle is determined, which defines a plurality of spin axis planes that contain the exit vehicle along the exit flight path. The spin rate of the rotating space vehicle is determined about the composite spin axis, and the exit vehicle is launched from the space vehicle, providing the exit vehicle with a departure velocity having a VS component. Lateral thrust is applied to provide a lateral acceleration, which provides a turn rate of the exit vehicle's VS component in the spin axis plane about the composite spin axis that is proportionate to the spin rate of the rotating space vehicle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802021 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115305 | Bronikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Bronikowski (Altadena, California); Brian D. Hunt (LaCrescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a periodic array of nano-scale objects using a block copolymer, and nano-scale object arrays formed from the method are provided. The method for forming the arrays generally includes the steps of depositing a block copolymer of at least two blocks on a substrate to form an ordered meso-scale structured array of the polymer materials, forming catalytic metal dots based on the meso-scale structure, and growing nano-scale objects on the catalytic dots to form an ordered array of nano-scale objects. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356299 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116051 | Vancil et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard K. Vancil (Beaverton, Oregon); Edwin G. Wintucky (Willoughby, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A multibeam, electrostatically focused klystron includes a plurality of conductive members, ones of which are recessed to provide input and output sections of microwave cavities, wherein focusing voltage is applied between those sections. The conductive members are either spaced along the path of multiple beams, or stacked in insulated relation, in either case being supported by glass rods within a glass envelope. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888093 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116098 | Alhorn 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) | Dean C. Alhorn (Huntsville, Alabama); David E. Howard (Hazel Green, Alabama); Dennis A. Smith (Athens, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A limit and position sensing system includes a sensor assembly and an emitter. The sensor assembly includes first and second electrical conductors arranged in opposing parallel planes. The first electrical conductor is coiled outwardly from either end thereof in a clockwise fashion to form a first coil region and a second coil region. The second electrical conductor forms a single coil with portions of the single coil's rings lying between the first end and second end of the first electrical conductor being parallel to an axis of the first electrical conductor's plane. Ferromagnetic material is aligned with the first and second electrical conductors and spans beyond (a) the first and second ends of the first electrical conductor, and (b) the portions of the rings of the second electrical conductor's single coil that lie between the first end and second end of the first electrical conductor. The emitter is spaced apart from the sensor assembly and transmits a periodic electromagnetic wave towards the sensor assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357454 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116568 | Birchenough |
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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) | Arthur G. Birchenough (Brook Park, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A Series Connected Buck-Boost Regulator (SCBBR) that switches only a fraction of the input power, resulting in relatively high efficiencies. The SCBBR has multiple operating modes including a buck, a boost, and a current limiting mode, so that an output voltage of the SCBBR ranges from below the source voltage to above the source voltage. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/188962 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07115272 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Seattle, Washington); Martin A. Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise a WT1 polypeptide comprising an immunogenic portion of WT1, wherein said WT1 polypeptide comprises the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:144. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/684361 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115466 | Welser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kopin Corporation (Taunton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger E. Welser (Providence, Rhode Island); Paul M. Deluca (Providence, Rhode Island); Charles R. Lutz (Seekonk, Massachusetts); Kevin S. Stevens (Providence, Rhode Island); Noren Pan (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration includes gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentrations obtained. The material can be the base layer of gallium arsenide-based heterojunction bipolar transistors and can be lattice-matched to gallium arsenide emitter and/or collector layers by controlling concentrations of indium and nitrogen in the base layer. The base layer can have a graded band gap that is formed by changing the flow rates during deposition of III and V additive elements employed to reduce band gap relative to different III–V elements that represent the bulk of the layer. The flow rates of the III and V additive elements maintain an essentially constant doping-mobility product value during deposition and can be regulated to obtain pre-selected base-emitter voltages at junctions within a resulting transistor. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039299 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07115764 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wm. Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew R. Barron (Houston, Texas); Naureen Shahid (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming carboxylate-alumoxane nanoparticles comprises subjecting a mixture comprising boehmite and carboxylic acid to mechanical shear. The method can be carried out at a temperature above ambient and preferably a temperature greater than 80° C., and can be carried out in the absence of a liquid phase. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/636174 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07114448 | Salleo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto Salleo (San Francisco, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of patterning soluble materials on a substrate is described. In the method, a stamp is applied to a liquid carrier solution. The raised areas of the stamp removes mainly a liquid carrier leaving behind a precipitate while the non-raised areas of the stamp lifts both the liquid carrier and the precipitate from the substrate. The result is a precipitate pattern residue that matches the raised area of the stamp. One use of the method is for patterning large areas of polymers used in large area electronics such as displays and sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703049 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Printing 11/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07116880 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xueyuan Liu (Webster, New York); Yao Rong Wang (Webster, New York); Kristine A. German (Webster, New York); Peter M. Gulvin (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | First and second ridge type photonic waveguides are provided. Each of the waveguides includes a core layer and a reflective cladding layer in continuous contact with a first side of a core layer. The core layer has a core index of the refraction and is formed in a ridge in a dimension and shape to impose lateral confinement. The reflective cladding layer has an index of refraction that is substantially different than the core index of refraction. An inter-waveguide slab portion is provided between the first and second waveguides. A substrate supports the first and second waveguides, the slab portion, and the reflective cladding layer. A light interceptor region is provided to hinder a transfer of photons between the first and second waveguides through the inter-waveguides slab portion. The light interceptor region may include a trench region, which is an air gap in one embodiment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/170869 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
07115295 — Methods of preparing corn fiber oil and of recovering corn aleurone cells from corn fiber
| US 07115295 | Singh 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) | Vijay Singh (Savoy, Illinois); Robert A. Moreau (Quakertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing corn fiber oil involving separating corn fiber from corn kernels (e.g., by a wet milling process), drying the corn fiber, grinding the dried corn fiber to produce ground corn fiber having a particle size of less than about 100 microns, combining the ground corn fiber with an aqueous solution having a specific gravity effective to float aleurone cells, removing the floating aleurone fraction, drying the aleurone fraction to form a dried aleurone fraction, grinding the dried aleurone fraction to form a ground aleurone fraction, extracting corn fiber oil from the ground aleurone fraction by a way selected from the group consisting of an organic solvent and supercritical fluid extraction, and separating the extracted corn fiber oil from the extraction medium. Also shown is a method of recovering corn aleurone cells from corn fiber involving separating corn fiber from corn kernels by a wet milling process, drying the corn fiber, grinding the dried corn fiber to produce ground corn fiber having a particle size of less than about 100 microns, combining the ground corn fiber with an aqueous solution having a specific gravity effective to float aleurone cells, and removing the floating aleurone fraction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373509 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07117108 | Rapp et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Ernest Rapp (Narberth, Pennsylvania); Christopher Joseph Cellucci (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Tanya Schmah (Marsfield, N.S.W., Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing a categorical analysis on one or more time dependent dynamic processes is provided. A reference library of data pertaining to multiple characteristics of time series reflective of the dynamic process is created and used to define selected categories for performing the categorical analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854700 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07115305 | Bronikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Bronikowski (Altadena, California); Brian D. Hunt (LaCrescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a periodic array of nano-scale objects using a block copolymer, and nano-scale object arrays formed from the method are provided. The method for forming the arrays generally includes the steps of depositing a block copolymer of at least two blocks on a substrate to form an ordered meso-scale structured array of the polymer materials, forming catalytic metal dots based on the meso-scale structure, and growing nano-scale objects on the catalytic dots to form an ordered array of nano-scale objects. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356299 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07114203 | Lloyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Derek Lloyd (San Antonio, Florida); Stuart Wilkinson (Zephyrhills, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A lateral transfer accessory (LTA) expands the capabilities of overhead ceiling lifts(OCLs). The accessory includes passive mechanical components requiring no electrical power supply or batteries. The accessory is powered by the OCL. In a particular embodiment, the LTA is a mobile unit positioned adjacent to the side of a patient's bed or gurney. A pair of releasable patient draw straps are secured to and coiled around patient draw pulleys. The free ends of the draw straps are attached to the draw sheet beneath the patient. A drive pulley carries a drive strap. The drive strap is secured to the pull strap of the overhead ceiling lift (OCL) positioned over the accessory. The OCL is controlled to draw out the drive strap from the accessory to thereby operate the main drive. The main drive, in turn, actuates the patient draw pulley to retract the patient draw straps attached to the draw sheet and thereby laterally transfer the patient. In an alternative embodiments the LTA is height adjustable; has a manual actuator for the drive; and includes a drive assembly with a transmission or a simplified drive assembly with a direct drive. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017208 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Beds 05/81.1HS |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07116636 | Vernon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Vernon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for reducing the data rate in a network using a delay processor. Since an increase in the data rate can overwhelm parts of the network hardware, such as a router, a delay processor is introduced so that data is delayed by a fixed amount so as to lower the data rate. A configuration table determines the amount of delay. A slowly changing amount of delay can be used in place of a fixed amount. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/854623 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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