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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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| US 07117626 | Alzamora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronny Alzamora (Belleville, New Jersey); Adam Foltz (Budd Lake, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for testing a clearance between feed lips of an ammunition magazine includes a generally T-shaped member including a support portion and a measuring portion that is generally perpendicular to the support portion; the measuring portion including first and second surfaces, the first surface having a width that is less than the clearance between the feed lips and the second surface having a width that is greater than the clearance between the feed lips. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161773 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117680 | Cuva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Cuva (Jupiter, Florida); Donald E. Paulus (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling system for use in an engine having an element to be cooled includes at least one cooling channel on a first side of the element, at least one cooling channel on a second side of the element, and the at least one cooling channel on the first side communicating with the at least one channel on the second side in a nose region of the element so as to form a cooling circuit. The cooling system has particular utility in cooling interior and exterior surfaces of a movable cowl inlet flap used in a scramjet engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/829890 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117741 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lasson Technologies, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Klein (Pacific Palisades, California); Bruno Pouet (Los Angeles, California); Jerome Eichenberger (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic vibration monitoring of a cutting tool or workpiece is provided by propagating an ultrasonic carrier beam in a stream of fluid flowing from a probe chamber, which includes a transducer, to the cutting tool or workpiece target area. The modulated ultrasonic beam reflected from the target is detected via a transducer in the chamber, and is demodulated to provide measurements of vibrational surface displacement and velocity. The method is insensitive to the target surface roughness and can be used for dynamic characterization prior to machining, and for monitoring during the machining operation. The device is inexpensive and robust to the machining environment, and can be applied to small cutting tools. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807754 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117796 | Bogle 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) | Kurt D. Bogle (Virigina Beach, Virginia); Allen M. Bryant (Viriginia Beach, Virginia); Steve P. D'Arche (Odon, Indiana); Michael H. Jones (Bedford, Indiana); Vic N. Makximenko (Bedford, Indiana); Frank L. Soltis (Martinsville, Indiana); Brent T. Voigtschild (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An igniter's housing is bored continuously there through to define, in succession, several bore regions. A firing pin, slidingly fit in the first bore region, terminates in a tip that protrudes into a primer-filled second bore region when the firing pin is fully seated in the first bore region. An air-filled third bore region follows the second bore region. An open-ended cup is fitted substantially in and sealed to the fourth bore region with the cup's closed end being structurally weakened at a portion thereof. A bored out slug of pyrotechnic material is fitted in the cup. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/326674 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/275.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117807 | Bohn, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton C. Bohn, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida); Anthony B. Brennan (Gainesville, Florida); Ronald H. Baney (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic coating includes at least one polymeric layer for attachment to a surface. The polymeric layer includes at least one electrically conducting polymer including layer, wherein under influence of a dynamic signal applied to the polymeric layer, a contact angle of the polymeric layer dynamically and substantially increases or decreases upon oxidation or reduction of the polymer. The polymeric layer can also expand or contract upon oxidation or reduction. The coating can be used for a variety of applications including a non-toxic biofouling preventative system and for forming low voltage electrowetting pumps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/780424 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118305 | Corbett |
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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) | Blaise L. Corbett (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle barrier uses adjacent rows of wave-like sections adapted to be positioned on a ground surface. A section is defined by (i) a planar wall extending angularly upward from the ground surface to the section's peak, and (ii) a concave wall extending angularly downward from the section's peak to the ground surface. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145236 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118325 | Kvasnak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Kvasnak (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Kenneth K. Landis (Tequesta, Florida); Hans R. Przirembel (Monterey, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An internally-cooled turbomachine element has an airfoil extending between inboard and outboard ends. A cooling passageway is at least partially within the airfoil and has at least a first turn. Means are in the passageway for limiting a turning a loss of the first turn. The turbomachine element may result from a reengineering of an existing element configuration lacking such means. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/867282 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118340 | D'Anna |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Paul D'Anna (Seymour, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial counter-rotating rotor system for a hybrid aircraft includes an upper swashplate assembly and a lower swashplate assembly with a coaxial transmission system therebetween. Movement of the upper and lower swashplate assembly is reflected about a midplane of the coaxial transmission housing to generate sufficient cyclic and/or collective pitch inputs within a compact structural in which the rotor systems are closely spaced along an axis of rotation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937923 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118343 | Loftus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Loftus (Gilbert, Arizona); Michael J. McNulty (Scottsdale, Arizona); Kevin D. Henthorn (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of adjustable balancing weights is provided for a helicopter main rotor blade. The trailing edge of the rotor blade is formed with a plurality of recesses that each receive an aerodynamically shaped weight to adjust and balance the weight of the rotor blade. A forward weight recess and a forward weight are also provided on the rotor blade adjacent the rotor blade leading edge. The lateral spacing between the weight adjacent the rotor blade leading edge and the weights adjacent the rotor blade trailing edge provides greater flexibility in balancing the mass of the rotor blade. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847006 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118452 | Wood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey H. Wood (Eureka, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for end effectors for performing surface lapping using a robotic system are provided. In one embodiment, a lapping system includes a robotic arm and a pneumatic end effector unit. The pneumatic end effector unit includes a first base attached to the robotic arm, a second base, a lapping pad attachable to the second base, and a pneumatic piston system coupled between the first and second bases. An abrasive pad is attached to the lapping pad with a layer of pitch. The pneumatic piston system includes a piston chamber, a piston being slideably received within the piston chamber, and a component for controlling air pressure within the piston chamber. A slurry system introduces a slurry compound into one of the second base or the lapping pad. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777388 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118657 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Derek M. Stein (Delft, Netherlands); Jiali Li (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | For controlling a physical dimension of a solid state structural feature, a solid state structure is provided, having a surface and having a structural feature. The structure is exposed to a first periodic flux of ions having a first exposure duty cycle characterized by a first ion exposure duration and a first nonexposure duration for the first duty cycle, and then at a second periodic flux of ions having a second exposure duty cycle characterized by a second ion exposure duration and a second nonexposure duration that is greater than the first nonexposure duration, for the second duty cycle, to cause transport, within the structure including the structure surface, of material of the structure to the structural feature in response to the ion flux exposure to change at least one physical dimension of the feature substantially by locally adding material of the structure to the feature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695381 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118693 | Glatkowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eikos, Inc. (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Glatkowski (Littleton, Massachusetts); Nelson Landrau (Marlborough, Massachusetts); David H. Landis, Jr. (Barrington, Rhode Island); Joseph W. Piche (Raynham, Massachusetts); Jeffrey L. Conroy (Rumford, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to conformal coatings that provide excellent shielding against electromagnetic interference (EMI). A conformal coating comprises an insulating layer and a conducting layer containing electrically conductive material. The insulating layer comprises materials for protecting a coated object. The conducting layer comprises materials that provide EMI shielding such as carbon black, carbon buckeyballs, carbon nanotubes, chemically-modified carbon nanotubes and combinations thereof. The insulating layer and the conductive layer may be the same or different, and may be applied to an object simultaneously or sequentially. Accordingly, the invention is also directed to objects that are partially or completely coated with a conformal coating that provides EMI shielding. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/201568 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118758 | Wolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia K. Wolf (Silver Spring, Maryland); Fred J. Cassels (Ellicott City, Maryland); Edgar Charles Boedeker (Crownsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are antigens that stimulate protective antibodies against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Also disclosed herein are proteins encoded by cssA and cssB genes as well as constructs containing the genes and methods of using thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/479877 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118781 | Sumakeris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina); Michael James Paisley (Garner, North Carolina); Michael John O'Loughlin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling parasitic deposits in a deposition system for depositing a film on a substrate, the deposition system defining a reaction chamber for receiving the substrate and including a process gas in the reaction chamber and an interior surface contiguous with the reaction chamber, includes flowing a buffer gas between the interior surface and at least a portion of the process gas to form a gas barrier layer such that the gas barrier layer inhibits contact between the interior surface and components of the process gas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414787 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118923 | Lee 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) | Gil U. Lee (West Lafayette, Indiana); Carolyn Yanavich (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for a selected analyte in a test sample has (a) a semipermeable membrane with pores for retaining the analyte, where the membrane has been chemically modified by attachment of membrane modifiers; (b) immunoassay labels which have label binding ligands where these label binding ligands will have a binding affinity for the membrane modifiers in the presence of the analyte, and a measurably different binding affinity for the membrane modifiers in the absence of the analyte; and (c) a label detecting system, for detecting the presence of the labels on the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734241 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118928 | Steckl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Steckl (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Pan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Light-emitting devices having a semiconductor phosphor layer formed by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The semiconductor phosphor layer may be any Group III nitride semiconductor compound that is in-situ doped during MOCVD deposition with one or more dopants effective to act as luminescent centers. The MOCVD deposition conditions required for the formation of these extrinsic luminescent films differ significantly from the MOCVD deposition conditions utilized to deposit intrinsic GaN luminescent films. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307715 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119028 | Roberts 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) | M. Joseph Roberts (Ridgecrest, California); Scott K. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Richard A. Hollins (Ridgecrest, California); Curtis E. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Thomas J. Groshens (Ridgecrest, California); David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A film surface imprinted with nanometer-sized particles to produce micro- and/or nano-structured electron and hole collecting interfaces, including: at least one substrate; at least one photoabsorbing conjugated polymer (including polybutylthiophene (pbT)) applied on a substrate, nanometer-sized particles including multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) to produce a charge separation interface; at least one transparent polymerizable layer, wherein the MWNT are embedded in the conjugated polymer to produce mixture and applied on a substrate to form a MWNT bearing surface film layer to form a stamp surface which is imprinted into the surface of the polymerizable film layer to produce micro- and/or nano-structured electron and hole collecting interfaces; polymerizing the polymerizable film layer to form a conformal gap between the MWNT stamp surface and the surface of the polymerizable film layer, and filling the gap with a photoabsorbing material to promote the generation of photoexcited electrons and transport to the charge separation interface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699440 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119185 | Chodosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lewis A. Chodosh (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Heather P. Gardner (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a novel serine/threonine protein kinase, specifically to hormonally up-regulated, neu-tumor-associated kinase (HUNK); and to the nucleotide sequence encoding it. The kinase is temporally expressed during postnatal mammary development in a spatially heterogeneous manner in certain subsets of cells, and overexpressed in a subset of primary breast cancers. The invention further relates to an analysis of a correlation between carcinogenesis and postnatal development, particularly mammary development, especially associated with parity; to methods of using the kinase, or gene encoding it, as markers, prognostic tools, screening tools and therapies, in vitro and in vivo, that are based upon that correlation; and to the regulation of pregnancy-induced changes in the mammary tissue that occur in response to estrogen and progesterone. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032256 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119271 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Roland King (Thousand Oaks, California); Peter C. Colter (Canyon Country, California); James H. Ermer (Burbank, California); Moran Haddad (Winnetka, California); Nasser H. Karam (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic cell or other optoelectronic device having a wide-bandgap semiconductor used in the window layer. This wider bandgap is achieved by using a semiconductor composition that is not lattice-matched to the cell layer directly beneath it and/or to the growth substrate. The wider bandgap of the window layer increases the transmission of short wavelength light into the emitter and base layers of the photovoltaic cell. This in turn increases the current generation in the photovoltaic cell. Additionally, the wider bandgap of the lattice mismatched window layer inhibits minority carrier injection and recombination in the window layer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356028 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119313 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juming Tang (Pullman, Washington); Fang Liu (Pullman, Washington); Surya Kumar Pathak (Gujarat, India); Eugene E. Eves, II (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for pasteurizing and/or sterilizing foodstuffs. In one representative embodiment, an apparatus for pasteurizing or sterilizing a packaged foodstuff includes at least one cavity in which the foodstuff to be pasteurized or sterilized is positioned. The cavity is configured such that, as microwave energy radiates into the cavity, the cavity operates as a single-mode cavity for sterilizing or pasteurizing the foodstuff. In another embodiment, methods are provided for optimizing a microwave system for sterilizing or pasteurizing a foodstuff. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937547 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119356 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey); Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Jie Zheng (Atlanta, Georgia); James C. Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey); Troy Graves-Abe (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus and a method of fabricating the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a substrate having a planar surface and first and second electrodes located on the planar surface. The first electrode has a top surface and a lateral surface, and the lateral surface has an edge near or in contact with the substrate. An electrode insulating layer is located on the top surface and a self-assembled layer located on the lateral surface. The second electrode is in contact with both the self-assembled layer and the electrode insulating layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803244 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119416 | Adam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas N. Adam (Poughkeepsie, New York); Kevin K. Chan (Staten Island, New York); Alvin J. Joseph (Williston, Vermont); Marwan H. Khater (Poughkeepsie, New York); Qizhi Liu (Essex Junction, Vermont); Beth Ann Rainey (Williston, Vermont); Kathryn T. Schonenberg (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods of fabricating a bipolar transistor that adds a silicon germanium (SiGe) layer or a third insulator layer of, e.g., high pressure oxide (HIPOX), atop an emitter cap adjacent the intrinsic base prior to forming a link-up layer. This addition allows for removal of the link-up layer using wet etch chemistries to remove the excess SiGe or third insulator layer formed atop the emitter cap without using oxidation. In this case, an oxide section (formed by deposition of an oxide or segregation of the above-mentioned HIPOX layer) and nitride spacer can be used to form the emitter-base isolation. The invention results in lower thermal cycle, lower stress levels, and more control over the emitter cap layer thickness, which are drawbacks of the first embodiment. The invention also includes the resulting bipolar transistor structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169444 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119491 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California); Artan Qerushi (Irvine, California); Hooshang Tahsiri (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133807 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119636 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark T. -C. Nguyen (Arlington, Virginia); Yuan Xie (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical resonate device having an extensional wine-glass mode shape is described herein. Different embodiments of the device may employ vibrating polysilicon micromechanical ring resonators, utilizing a unique extensional wine-glass mode shape to achieve lower impedance than previous UHF resonators at frequencies as high as 1.2-GHz with a Q of 3,700, and 1.47-GHz (highest to date for polysilicon micromechanical resonators) with a Q of 2,300. The 1.2-GHz resonator exhibits a measured motional resistance of 560 kΩ with a dc-bias voltage of 20V, which is 6× lower than measured on radial contour mode disk counterparts at the same frequency, and which can be driven down as low as 2 kΩ when a dc-bias voltage of 100V and electrode-to-resonator gap spacing of 460 Å are used. The above high Q and low impedance advantages, together with the multiple frequency, on-chip integration advantages afforded by electrostatically-transduced μmechanical resonators, may be utilized in the front-end RF filtering and oscillator functions needed by wireless communication devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990785 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119712 | Kobbe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mini-Mitter Company, Inc. (Bend, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick Allen Kobbe (Powell Butte, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A telemetry system includes a transmitter unit that measures a first value of a parameter, incorporates the first value in a first data packet and transmits the first data packet, and measures a second value of the parameter, incorporates the second value and the first value in a second data packet and transmits the second data packet. A receiver unit periodically receives a signal and generates a sequence of bits therefrom, determines whether the sequence of bits includes a payload that meets a predetermined standard and, if so, recovers a more recent datum from the payload else enters a data recovery mode. In the data recovery mode, the receiver unit receives a transmission signal and generates a second sequence of bits and determines whether the second sequence of bits contains a payload that meets the predetermined standard and, if so, recovers both a more recent datum and a less recent datum from the payload. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666475 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/870.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119911 | Tyczka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LSA, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale R. Tyczka (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); John G. Lehman, Jr. (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania); Alvin B. Cabato (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania); Daniel Stern (Berwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A Moiré deflectometer includes at least three non-mechanical, transparent, spatial light modulators for demonstrating two sets of patterns on two parallel planes on two of the modulators thereby creating a Moiré fringe pattern and a method for using the same. More particularly, each of the spatial light modulators may be a liquid crystal display, an electrochromic device, a micromirror array, a microlouvre array, an electro-optic device, or a holographic device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/382585 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119942 | Nathanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Gruman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey C. Nathanson (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert S. Howell (Silver Spring, Maryland); Garrett A. Storaska (Reston, Virginia); John B. Goodell (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen D. Vancampen (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electrical mechanical system (MEMS) mirror assembly including an array of micro-mirrors formed on a substrate and having springs on one side and which angularly tilt between ON and OFF states in response to an electrostatic force generated by a voltage applied to an electrode located on the substrate. At least one, but preferably two springs in the form of two thin strips of metal attach to post(s) at the side edge of the mirror and act as springs which provide a restoring force when the mirror is tilted between an OFF state which occurs when the mirror is flat relative to the substrate with no voltage applied, and in the ON state when the mirror is tilted when a voltage is applied. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879040 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120048 | Sundstrom |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance Sundstrom (Pinellas Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetoresistive memory cell and array are provided for nonvolatile storage of binary information. According to an embodiment, a memory cell has a ring-shaped magnetoresistive multilayer element (or bit). A plurality of vias pass through a center hole in the ring-shaped element. Each end of each via is coupled with a separate write-read line segment that extends radially from the center hole past a perimeter of the ring-shaped element. The write-read lines 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 | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874132 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120088 | Gieseke 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) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island); Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Abraham N. Varghese (Wakefield, Rhode Island); John R. Grant (Jamestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A sonar system includes a forward looking array which is embedded in a cavitator for generating a gaseous cavity which minimizes hydrodynamic noise resulting from turbulent pressure fluctuations. A marine vessel incorporating the sonar system includes a hull, a hydrofoil suspended beneath the hull by a strut, and a cavitator for generating a laminar flow over the hydrofoil and for creating a cavity for eliminating turbulent flow contact. The cavitator is located at a leading edge area of the hydrofoil. The sonar array is embedded into the cavitator. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911751 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120089 | Shonting 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 H. Shonting (Middletown, Rhode Island); Peter R. Hebda (Fall River, Massachusetts); John S. Chaves (North Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an instrumentation apparatus for receiving and recording acoustic signals in a range of depths of approximately 5–100 m beneath the ocean surface and for providing a set of data outputs from which wind velocity and rainfall rate at the surface may be derived. The apparatus includes an omnidirectional hydrophone for substantially isotropical reception of acoustic energy from its upper hemisphere and for producing an output signal representative of the wind velocity and the rainfall rate at the surface. The apparatus further includes a preamplifier connected to the output of the hydrophone and a circuit for processing the amplified signal and recording data derived therefrom. This circuit includes a microprocessor and a data storage device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/569416 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120157 | Xue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fei Xue (Davis, California); Julie Taylor (Davis, California); Sung-Joo Ben Yoo (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An edge router for interfacing an optical label switched core IP network with client networks, which may be electronically switched and operate with different protocol. The core network has a limited number of ports, each with an edge router, which receives packets from one or more associated client networks and queues them according to egress port on the core network and optionally additionally according to attribute of service. When a queue has exceed a maximum packet length or a timeout limit assigned to the queue, the packets including their headers are assembled into a super packet for transmission across the core network in optical form, preferably using optical routers incorporating wavelength conversion of payloads and switching according to an attached label. The edge router at the egress port disassembles the super packet into constituent packets for respective destinations on the client network. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218816 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120198 | Dafesh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Dafesh (Los Angeles, California); Tien M. Nguyen (Placentia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A coherent adaptive subcarrier modulation system applies subcarrier modulation to quadrature modulated signals with constant envelope modulation suitable for efficient sinewave and squarewave subcarrier modulations. The quadrature subcarrier enables the addition of new signals to the in-phase and quadrature phase signals with spectral isolation in the Global Position System while maintaining a constant envelop amplitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/318560 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/261 |
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| ABSTRACT | A system for recovering degraded images captured through atmospheric turbulence, or other atmospheric inhomogeneities, such as snow, rain, smoke, fog, or underwater fluctuations, is provided having an imager for capturing through such turbulence both a degraded image of a scene having at least one object, and an image of a point source associated with the object. The imager converts the degraded image into first image data signals representing the degraded image, and converts the image of the point source into second image data signals representing a point spread function. A computer of the system receives the first and second image data signals and produces third image data signals representing a recovered image of the object of the degraded image in accordance with the first and second image data signals. In another embodiment, the imager captures a degraded image through atmospheric turbulence of a scene having a known reference object and an unknown object, and converts the degraded image into first image data signals. After receiving the first image data signals, the computer identifies in the first image data signals such image data signals representing the reference object. The computer produces image data signals representing a recovered image of the degraded image in accordance with the first image data signals, the image data signals representing the reference in the first image data signals, and image data signals representing an undegraded image of the reference. The computer may output the image data signals representing a recovered image to an output device to display or print the recovered image. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/205774 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120340 | Berkey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Berkey (Pine City, New York); Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, New York); Daniel A. Nolan (Corning, New York); Donnell T. Walton (Painted Post, New York); Luis A. Zenteno (Painted Post, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically active linear single polarization device includes a linearly birefringent and linearly dichroic optical waveguide (30) for propagating light and having single polarization wavelength range (48). A plurality of active dopants are disposed in a portion (34) of the linearly birefringent and linearly dichroic optical waveguide (30) for providing operation of the waveguide in an operating wavelength range (650) for overlapping the single polarization wavelength range (48). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696928 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120620 | Dumas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spatial Data Analytics Corporation (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Dumas (Vienna, Virginia); Ruth P. Willis (Alexandria, Virginia); Larry E Willis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A forecasting engine and method assists in forecasting occurrences of identifiable events and/or threats based on signature and/or pattern matching. The present invention derives signature for event-types based on a comparison of actual event data with pre-established representational surfaces. The surfaces represent proximity measurements and analysis associated with elements of the geospatial boundary being considered. The measurements and analysis can consider a vast array of potential variables of interest in order to provide a comprehensive, robust forecasting engine. In one embodiment, the present invention considers past data associated with several event-types in order to arrive at an assessment. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098351 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120657 | Ricks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Charles Ricks (Arlington, Virginia); Jay Scott Goldstein (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing data, the data characterized by a set of scalars and a set of vectors, to analyze the data into components related by statistical correlations. In preferred embodiments, the invention includes steps or devices for, receiving a set of a scalars and a set of vectors as the inputs; calculating a correlation direction vector associated with the scalar and vector inputs; calculating the inner products of the input vectors with the correlation direction vector; multiplying the inner products onto the correlation direction vector to form a set of scaled correlation direction vectors; and subtracting the scaled correlation direction vectors from the input vectors to find the projections of the input vectors orthogonal to the correlation direction vector. The outputs are the set of scalar inner products and the set of vectors orthogonal to the correlation vector. The steps or devices can be repeated in cascade to form a multi-stage analysis of the data. The invention can also be used with a steering vector preceding the adaptive analysis stages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/933004 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120856 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhang (Troy, New York); Keshab K. Parhi (Mission Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A joint code-encoder-decoder design approach and circuit architecture design for (3,k)-regular LDPC coding system implementation. The joint design process relies on a high girth (2,k)-regular LDPC code construction. The decoder realizes partly parallel decoding. The encoding scheme only contains multiplications between sparse matrices and vector and multiplication between a very small dense matrix and vector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670018 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39332 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Craig Homrighausen (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear polymer has repeating units represented by the formula wherein (a) n is an integer greater than or equal to 0, (b) x is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and represents an unconjugated acetylenic group when x is equal to 1 or conjugated acetylenic groups when x is greater than 1; (c) Ar is an aromatic group, and (c) R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl, and mixtures thereof. The linear polymer may be thermally cured to form a crosslinked polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816595 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Austin Roorda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning laser ophthalmoscope incorporates adaptive optics to compensate for wavefront aberrations in the eye. Light from a light source is scanned onto the retina. Light reflected from the retina is detected for imaging and is also used for wavefront sensing. The sensed wavefront aberrations are used to control an adaptive optic device, such as a deformable mirror, disposed in the path of the light from the source in order to compensate for the aberrations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125331 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118217 | Kardon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The Research Foundation of State Univ. of New York (Albany, New York); Kestrel Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy H. Kardon (Iowa City, Iowa); Young H. Kwon (Iowa City, Iowa); Daniel Tso (Jamesville, New York); Peter Soliz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An Optical Imaging Device of Retinal Function has been developed to detect changes in reflectance of near infrared light from the retina of human subjects in response to visual activation of the retina by a pattern stimulus. The measured changes in reflectance correspond in time to the onset and offset of the visual stimulus in the portion of the retina being stimulated. Any changes in reflectance can be measured by interrogating the retina with a light source. The light source may be presented to the retina via the cornea and pupil or through other tissues in and around the eye. Different wavelengths of interrogating light may be used to interrogate various layers of the retina. Additionally, various novel patterns and methods of stimulation have been developed for use with the imaging device and methods. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/347142 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118738 | Schlom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Therion Biologics Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Judith Kantor (Rockville, Maryland); Donald Kufe (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Dennis Panicali (Acton, Massachusetts); Linda Gritz (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant pox viruses capable of expressing an immunogenic fragment of the MUC1 tumor-associated antigen are disclosed. The recombinant viruses can be used as vaccines to prevent the establishment of or treat tumors or pre-tumorous cells expressing the MUC1 tumor-associated antigen. The vaccines can be provided as an admixture comprising: (1) a recombinant pox virus encoding the immunogenic fragment of the MUC1 tumor-associated antigen, and (2) a recombinant pox virus encoding a T-cell co-stimulatory factor. The vaccine admixture can be used, e.g., to prevent establishment of tumors or pre-tumorous cells expressing the MUC1 tumor-associated antigen. The MUC1 specific cytotoxic T-cells can be isolated and expanded and used in a method for treating a host having a tumor expressing MCU1 positive tumor cells. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057136 |
| 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 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118742 | Ware |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Ware (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel polypeptide ligand, p30, or LIGHT, for herpes virus entry mediator, HVEM, is provided. LIGHT is useful for modulating immune responses and in inhibiting infection and/or subsequent proliferation by herpesvirus. HVEM fusion proteins are also provided. Methods for treating subjects with lymphoid cell disorders, tumors, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders or those having or suspected of having a herpesvirus infection, utilizing p30 and the fusion proteins of the invention, are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/967604 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 07118745 | Meares et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claude Meares (Davis, California); Albert Chmura (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a mutant antibody comprising a reactive site not present in the wild-type of the antibody and a complementarity-determining region that specifically binds to a metal chelate, wherein the reactive site is in a position proximate to or within the complementarity-determining region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/671953 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/179.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118853 | Botstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California); Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Botstein (Belmont, California); Patrick O. Brown (Stanford, California); Charles M. Perou (Carrboro, North Carolina); Brian Ring (Foster City, California); Douglas Ross (San Francisco, California); Rob Seitz (Hampton Cove, Alabama); Jan Matthijs van de Rijn (La Henda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a variety of reagents for use in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer. The invention utilizes cDNA microarray technology to identify genes whose expression profile across a large group of tumor samples correlates with that of cytokeratin 5 and cytokeratin 17, markers for basal cells of the normal mammary lactation gland. The invention demonstrates that tumors that express cytokeratin 5/6 and/or 17 have a poor prognosis relative to tumors overall. The invention provides basal marker genes and their expression products and uses of these genes for diagnosis of breast cancer and for identification of therapies for breast cancer. In particular, the invention provides basal marker genes including cadherin3, matrix metalloproteinase 14, and cadherin EGF LAG seven-pass G-type receptor 2. The invention provides antibodies to the polypeptides expressed by these genes and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/916849 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07118862 | Kufe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Kufe (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Rima Kaddurah-Daouk (Belmont, Massachusetts); Ralph R. Weichselbaum (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of screening to identify compounds that modulate the ability of a protein to translocate to the mitochondria when a cell is subjected to cellular stress. Such compounds can be useful to modulate the level of apoptosis in a cell. For example, compounds identified according to the methods described herein can be used to treat disorders characterized by excessive apoptosis, e.g., a neurological disorder, or insufficient apoptosis, e.g., cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/125003 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07118865 | Behrens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy W. Behrens (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Emily C. Baechler (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Peter K. Gregersen (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and materials involved in diagnosing SLE. More particularly, the invention relates to methods and materials involved in diagnosing SLE, diagnosing severe SLE, and assessing a mammal's susceptibility to develop severe SLE. For example, the invention provides nucleic acid arrays that can be used to diagnose SLE in a mammal. Such arrays can allow clinicians to diagnose SLE based on a simultaneous determination of the expression levels of many genes that are differentially expressed in SLE patients as compared to healthy controls. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222202 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07118866 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angray Kang (Encinitas, California); Carlos F. Barbas, III (Solana Beach, California); Richard A. Lerner (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Filamentous phage comprising a matrix of cpVIII proteins encapsulating a genome encoding first and second polypeptides of an antogenously assembling receptor, such as an antibody, and a receptor comprised of the first and second polypeptides surface-integrated into the matrix via a filamentous phage coat protein membrane anchor domain fused to at least one of the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273973 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07118873 | Reenan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Reenan (West Hartford, Connecticut); Blanka Rogina (West Hartford, Connecticut); Stephen L. Helfand (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure encompasses the Indy gene, polypeptides encoded by the Indy gene and fragments thereof. This disclosure also encompasses homologs of the Indy gene both from Drosophila and other organisms. In addition, this disclosure encompasses the use of Indy polynucleotides, INDY proteins and polypeptides, antibodies to the INDY protein, antagonists that inhibit Indy activity or expression, and agonists that increase Indy activity or expression, in the diagnosis or treatment of body weight disorders or longevity in humans and animals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017479 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07118876 | Tyner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Tyner (Chicago, Illinois); Jason J. Derry (Aurora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for detecting abnormal prostate conditions, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), and adenocarcinoma, in an animal by comparing the amount of the Breast Tumor Kinase (BRK) tyrosine kinase in the nuclei of prostate luminal epithelial cells in a test sample with an amount of nuclear BRK protein in epithelial cells of normal prostate glands. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341232 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07118889 | Samelson 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) | Lawrence E. Samelson (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Weiguo Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to compositions and methods for identifying and testing tyrosine kinase signaling pathway agonists and antagonists, and more particularly, methods and compositions for screening compounds and identifying compounds that will modulate the interaction of protein tyrosine kinase substrates with their intracellular ligands, as well as between their intracellular ligands and other members of the signaling pathway. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/597920 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118893 | Ranum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura P. W. Ranum (St. Paul, Minnesota); Michael D. Koob (Roseville, Minnesota); Melinda L. Moseley-Alldredge (St. Paul, Minnesota); Kellie A. Benzow (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides diagnostic methods of identifying individuals at risk and not at risk of developing spinocerebellar ataxia type 7. The present invention also provides for methods for identifying expanded repeats, and the DNA flanking the expanded repeats, from genomic DNA. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/357322 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
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| US 07118899 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Jesus E. Gonzalez, III (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for detecting changes in membrane potential in membranes biological systems. In one aspect, the method comprises; a) providing a living cell with a first reagent comprising a charged hydrophobic molecule which is typically a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) acceptor or donor, or is a quencher and is capable of redistributing within the membrane of a biological membrane in response to changes in the potential across the membrane; b) providing the cell with a second reagent that can label the first face or the second face of a biological membrane within the cell; c) detecting light emission from the first reagent or the second reagent. One aspect of this method involves monitoring membrane potential changes in subcellular organelle membranes in a living cells. Another aspect of the invention is the use of certain embodiments of the method for the screening of test chemicals for activity to modulate the activity of a target ion channel. Another aspect of the present invention is a transgenic organism comprising a first reagent that comprises a charged hydrophobic fluorescent molecule, and a second reagent comprising a bioluminescent or naturally fluorescent protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/334288 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118907 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Li-Cor, Inc. (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. K. Williams (Lincoln, Nebraska); Gregory R. Bashford (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic system is provided that includes a substrate, a first microchannel disposed in the substrate for providing a reactant to a reaction zone, a second microchannel disposed in the substrate, and a third microchannel disposed in the substrate, the third microchannel providing fluid communication between the first and second microchannels. The system also typically includes first and second electrodes, positioned at opposite ends of the second microchannel, for providing an electric field within the second microchannel. In operation, when the reactant is in the reaction zone, a reaction product is produced having a net electric charge different from the electric charge of the reactant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/164685 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118912 | Markowitz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides, among other things, molecular markers for categorizing the neoplastic state of a patient, methods for using the molecular markers in diagnostic tests, nucleic acid and amino acid sequences related to the molecular markers, reagents for detection of molecular markers, and methods for identifying candidate molecular markers in highly parallel gene expression data. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/274177 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119070 | Selsted et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Selsted (Irvine, California); Dat Q. Tran (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides theta defensin analogs having antimicrobial activity. The invention also provides a method of reducing or inhibiting growth or survival of a microorganism in an environment capable of sustaining the growth or survival of the microorganism, comprising administering an effective amount of a theta defensin analog to the environment, thereby reducing or inhibiting the growth or survival of the microorganism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427715 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07119071 | Rameshwar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranela Rameshwar (Maplewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention establishes the fact that the degradation of SP to SP(1-4) by endogenous NEP in BM stroma can be a mediator of hematopoietic stimulation by stem cell factor (SCF) and induce the production of TGF-β and TNF-α in BM stroma. The present invention establishes that compositions containing the SP(1-4) polypeptide, or NEP genetic elements, can be used to slow and or stop the rapid growth of stem and progenitor cells thus protecting them from the deleterious effects of cancer therapy. Hence, the polynucleotides and proteins of the present invention may be used to protect stem cells from the toxic effects of chemo- and radio-therapy, in those undergoing, or about to undergo such cancer related treatments. Also provided are compositions containing NEP antisense sequences and antibodies used for the increased proliferation and differentiation of stem and/or progenitor cells in those whom have already undergone chemo- and/or radio-therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154332 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119083 | Bruns, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Azevan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Bruns, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Christophe D. G. Guillon (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ned D. Heindel (Easton, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Koppel (Indianapolis, Indiana); Marvin J. Miller (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel 2-(azetidin-2-on-1-yl)alkanedioic acid derivatives and 2-(azetidin-2-on-1-yl)alkoxyalkanoic acid derivatives are described for use in the treatment of disease states responsive to antagonism of the vasopressin V1a receptor. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/492323 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119095 | Rosowsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Rosowsky (Needham, Massachusetts); Ronald A. Forsch (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors having an aromatic group and a heteroaromatic group linked by a methylene group; and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/848094 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/264.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119105 | Ellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan A. Ellman (Oakland, California); Gary Lynch (Irvine, California); Irwin D. Kuntz (Greenbrae, California); Xiaoning Bi (Irvine, California); Christina E. Lee (San Francisco, California); A. Geoffrey Skillman (San Francisco, California); Tasir Haque (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to () non-peptide aspartyl protease inhibitors; (ii) methods for modulating the processing of an amyloid precursor protein (APP); (iii) methods for modulating the processing of a tau protein (τ-protein); and (iv) methods for treating neurodegenerative diseases. For instance, in one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for modulating the processing of an amyloid precursor protein (APP), the method comprising contacting a composition containing the APP with an aspartyl protease inhibitor having the formula: wherein: R1, R2 and R3 are members independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, arylalkyl, substituted arylalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, substituted aryloxyalkyl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heteroarylalkyl, substituted heteroarylalkyl, heterocycles, substituted heterocycles, heterocyclicalkyl and substituted heterocyclicalkyl; and R5 and R6 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, arylalkyl, substituted arylalkyl, aryloxyalkyl and substituted aryloxyalkyl; or R5 and R6 and the carbons to which they are bound join to form an optionally substituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic fused ring system having a total of 9- or 10-ring atoms within the fused ring system. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774262 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Strittmatter (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are NgR proteins and biologically active Nogo (ligand) protein fragments. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for modulating the expression or activity of the Nogo and NgR protein. Also disclosed are peptides which block Nogo-mediated inhibition of axonal extension. The compositions and methods of the invention are useful in the treatment of cranial or cerebral trauma, spinal cord injury, stroke or a demyelinating disease. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/972599 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07119172 | Pier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael J. Preston (Alan, Maine); Lisa Cavacini (Natick, Massachusetts); Marshall Posner (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that bind specifically to P. aeruginosa mucoid exopolysaccharide. The invention further provides methods for using these peptides in the diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy of P. aeruginosa infection and related disorders (e.g., cystic fibrosis). Some antibodies of the invention enhance opsonophagocytic killing of multiple mucoid strains of P. aeruginosa. Compositions of these peptides, including pharmaceutical compositions, are also provided, as are functionally equivalent variants of such peptides. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/440522 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
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| US 07119185 | Chodosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lewis A. Chodosh (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Heather P. Gardner (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a novel serine/threonine protein kinase, specifically to hormonally up-regulated, neu-tumor-associated kinase (HUNK); and to the nucleotide sequence encoding it. The kinase is temporally expressed during postnatal mammary development in a spatially heterogeneous manner in certain subsets of cells, and overexpressed in a subset of primary breast cancers. The invention further relates to an analysis of a correlation between carcinogenesis and postnatal development, particularly mammary development, especially associated with parity; to methods of using the kinase, or gene encoding it, as markers, prognostic tools, screening tools and therapies, in vitro and in vivo, that are based upon that correlation; and to the regulation of pregnancy-induced changes in the mammary tissue that occur in response to estrogen and progesterone. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032256 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07119193 | Gottesman 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); Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Gottesman (Bethesda, Maryland); Gisela Storz (Bethesda, Maryland); Francis Repoila (Colomiers, France); Karen Wassarman (Middleton, Wisconsin); Carsten Rosenow (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to new small RNAs and ORFs of E. coli as mediators of cell and intercell regulation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627007 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 07119196 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisys Technology Foundation, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Cook (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); Qi Huang (Moorpark, California); Xiaohui He (San Diego, California); Xioayan Li (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Jianming Yu (Princeton, New Jersey); Dongmei Han (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Snjezana Lelas (Middletown, Connecticut); John F. McElroy (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Orally active benzodiazepine derivatives and their salts are disclosed. These compounds and their salts have anxiolytic and anticonvulsant activity with reduced sedative/hypnotic/muscle relaxant/ataxic effects. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402538 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/562 |
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| US 07119208 | Safo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin K. Safo (Richmond, Virginia); Richmond Danso-Danquah (Richmond, Virginia); Gajanan S. Joshi (Glen Allen, Virginia); Donald J. Abraham (Windermere, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds for the treatment of sickle-cell disease, and methods for their use are provided. The compounds have a dual mode of action. First, binding of the compounds to hemoglobin increases the oxygen affinity of both normal and sickle hemoglobin. Secondly, binding of these compounds to the N-terminal amino acid of sickle hemoglobin results in destabilization of potential contacts between sickle hemoglobin molecules, preventing polymerization and the formation of fibrous precipitates of the sickle hemoglobin. The compounds are also useful for inducing hypoxia, e.g. to augment cancer treatments. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078690 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/280.400 |
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| US 07119645 | Vicci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leandra Vicci (Siler City, North Carolina); Richard Superfine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for controlling motion of and tracking a mechanically unattached magnetic probe are disclosed. One system for controlling motion of mechanically unattached magnetic probe may include a magnetic coil and pole assembly. The magnetic coil and pole assembly includes at least one pole carrier. The pole carrier includes a light transmissive substrate and a plurality of magnetic poles being patterned on the substrate for applying force to a mechanically unattached magnetic probe. A magnetic drive core provides a return path for magnetic flux flowing between the poles. A plurality of magnetic coils are wound around the magnetic drive core for conducting current and applying magnetic force to the probe through the pole pieces. A computer maintains the position of the probe within a volume defined by an optical tracking system by moving the probe and the system under test. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786427 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/296 |
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| US 07120290 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis L. Parker (Centerville, Utah); Andrew L. Alexander (Madison, Wisconsin); John A. Roberts (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian E. Chapman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are disclosed for generating enhanced images of multiple dimensional data using a depth-buffer segmentation process. The method and system operate in a computer system modify the image by generating a reduced-dimensionality image data set from a multidimensional image by formulating a set of projection paths through image points selected from the multidimensional image, selecting an image point along each projection path, analyzing each image point to determine spatial similarities with at least one other point adjacent to the selected image point in a given dimension, and grouping the image point with the adjacent point or spatial similarities between the points is found thereby defining the data set. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/692133 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
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| US 07120486 | Leuthardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C. Leuthardt (St. Louis, Missouri); Gerwin Schalk (Albany, New York); Daniel W. Moran (Ballwin, Missouri); Jonathan Rickel Wolpaw (Delmar, New York); Jeffrey G. Ojemann (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrocorticography-based brain computer interface (BCI) and related methods are described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735474 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/545 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BWXT Y-12, L.L.C. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fariborz M. Bzorgi (Concord, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A shelter for the protection of for the protection of persons, animals, equipment, materials, property, and similar things of value from potentially damaging environmental conditions is disclosed. Various embodiments include the use of a frame structure and hinged panels which are unfolded to create the walls of the structure. Optionally flexible surfaces may be added to the ends of the shelter to at least partially close the end of the shelter. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138147 |
| ART UNIT | 3637 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/79.500 |
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| US 07118338 | Moroz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emilian Mieczyslaw Moroz (San Diego, California); David Lawrence LeMieux (Boulder, Montana); Kirk Gee Pierce (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling a wind turbine having twist bend coupled rotor blades on a rotor mechanically coupled to a generator includes determining a speed of a rotor blade tip of the wind turbine, measuring a current twist distribution and current blade loading, and adjusting a torque of a generator to change the speed of the rotor blade tip to thereby increase an energy capture power coefficient of the wind turbine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/880732 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
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| US 07118339 | Moroz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emilian Mieczyslaw Moroz (San Diego, California); Kirk Gee Pierce (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing load and providing yaw alignment in a wind turbine includes measuring displacements or moments resulting from asymmetric loads on the wind turbine. These measured displacements or moments are used to determine a pitch for each rotor blade to reduce or counter asymmetric rotor loading and a favorable yaw orientation to reduce pitch activity. Yaw alignment of the wind turbine is adjusted in accordance with the favorable yaw orientation and the pitch of each rotor blade is adjusted in accordance with the determined pitch to reduce or counter asymmetric rotor loading. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/881244 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
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| US 07118591 | Frank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey I. Frank (Lincolnshire, Illinois); Axel J. Rosengart (Chicago, Illinois); Ken Kasza (Palos Park, Illinois); Wenhua Yu (Woodridge, Illinois); Tai-Hsin Chien (Darien, Illinois); Jeff Franklin (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer code for, among other things, monitoring the health of samples such as the brain while providing local cooling or heating. A representative device is a heat transfer probe, which includes an inner channel, a tip, a concentric outer channel, a first temperature sensor, and a second temperature sensor. The inner channel is configured to transport working fluid from an inner inlet to an inner outlet. The tip is configured to receive at least a portion of the working fluid from the inner outlet. The concentric outer channel is configured to transport the working fluid from the inner outlet to an outer outlet. The first temperature sensor is coupled to the tip, and the second temperature sensor spaced apart from the first temperature sensor. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/827114 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/105 |
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| US 07118606 | Labinov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon Davidovich Labinov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy Robert Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Roddie Reagan Judkins (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for converting fuel energy to electricity includes a reformer for converting a higher molecular weight gas into at least one lower molecular weight gas, at least one turbine to produce electricity from expansion of at least one of the lower molecular weight gases, and at least one fuel cell. The system can further include at least one separation device for substantially dividing the lower molecular weight gases into at least two gas streams prior to the electrochemical oxidization step. A nuclear reactor can be used to supply at least a portion of the heat the required for the chemical conversion process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/813714 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/127.900 |
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| US 07118630 | Balooch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehdi Balooch (Berkeley, California); Long N. Dinh (Concord, California); Wigbert J. Siekhaus (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Short-wavelength photons are used to ablate material from a low work function target onto a suitable substrate. The short-wavelength photons are at or below visible wavelength. The elemental composition of the deposit is controlled by the composition of the target and the gaseous environment in which the ablation process is performed. The process is carried out in a deposition chamber to which a short-wavelength laser is mounted and which includes a substrate holder which can be rotated, tilted, heated, or cooled. The target material is mounted onto a holder that spins the target during laser ablation. In addition, the deposition chamber is provided with a vacuum pump, an external gas supply with atomizer and radical generator, a gas generator for producing a flow of molecules on the substrate, and a substrate cleaning device, such as an ion gun. The substrate can be rotated and tilted, for example, whereby only the tip of an emitter can be coated with a low work function material. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/636134 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118657 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Derek M. Stein (Delft, Netherlands); Jiali Li (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | For controlling a physical dimension of a solid state structural feature, a solid state structure is provided, having a surface and having a structural feature. The structure is exposed to a first periodic flux of ions having a first exposure duty cycle characterized by a first ion exposure duration and a first nonexposure duration for the first duty cycle, and then at a second periodic flux of ions having a second exposure duty cycle characterized by a second ion exposure duration and a second nonexposure duration that is greater than the first nonexposure duration, for the second duty cycle, to cause transport, within the structure including the structure surface, of material of the structure to the structural feature in response to the ion flux exposure to change at least one physical dimension of the feature substantially by locally adding material of the structure to the feature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695381 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118661 | Surh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Surh (Livermore, California); William D. Wilson (Pleasanton, California); Troy W. Barbee, Jr. (Palo Alto, California); Stephen M. Lane (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device made from nanolaminate materials that are capable of electrophoretic selection of particles on the basis of their mobility. Nanolaminate materials are generally alternating layers of two materials (one conducting, one insulating) that are made by sputter coating a flat substrate with a large number of layers. Specific subsets of the conducting layers are coupled together to form a single, extended electrode, interleaved with other similar electrodes. Thereby, the subsets of conducting layers may be dynamically charged to create time-dependent potential fields that can trap or transport charge colloidal particles. The addition of time-dependence is applicable to all geometries of nanolaminate electrophoretic and electrochemical designs from sinusoidal to nearly step-like. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/261392 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118712 | Manginell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas R. Adkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sara S. Sokolowski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick R. Lewis (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-planar chemical preconcentrator comprises a high-surface area, low mass, three-dimensional, flow-through sorption support structure that can be coated or packed with a sorptive material. The sorptive material can collect and concentrate a chemical analyte from a fluid stream and rapidly release it as a very narrow temporal plug for improved separations in a microanalytical system. The non-planar chemical preconcentrator retains most of the thermal and fabrication benefits of a planar preconcentrator, but has improved ruggedness and uptake, while reducing sorptive coating concerns and extending the range of collectible analytes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696649 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118720 | Mendelsohn 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) | Marshall H. Mendelsohn (Downers Grove, Illinois); C. David Livengood (Lockport, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for removing elemental Hg and nitric oxide simultaneously from a gas stream is provided whereby the gas stream is reacted with gaseous chlorinated compound to convert the elemental mercury to soluble mercury compounds and the nitric oxide to nitrogen dioxide. The method works to remove either mercury or nitrogen oxide in the absence or presence of each other. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/842818 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118777 | Visco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Craig P. Jacobson (El Cerrito, California); Lutgard C. DeJonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-cost, mechanically strong, highly electronically conductive porous substrates and associated structures for solid-state electrochemical devices, techniques for forming these structures, and devices incorporating the structures provide solid state electrochemical device substrates of novel composition and techniques for forming thin electrode/membrane/electrolyte coatings on the novel or more conventional substrates. In particular, in one aspect the invention provides techniques for co-firing of device substrate (often an electrode) with an electrolyte or membrane layer to form densified electrolyte/membrane films 5 to 20 microns thick. In another aspect, densified electrolyte/membrane films 5 to 20 microns thick may be formed on a pre-sintered substrate by a constrained sintering process. In some cases, the substrate may be a porous metal, alloy, or non-nickel cermet incorporating one or more of the transition metals Cr, Fe and Cu, or alloys thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260009 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119158 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Lubin Luo (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sung Cheol Yoon (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst system useful to polymerize and co-polymerize polar and non-polar olefin monomers is formed by in situ reduction with a reducing agent of a catalyst precursor comprising {Cp*MRR′n}+{A}− wherein Cp* is a cyclopentadienyl or substituted cyclopentadienyl moiety; M is an early transition metal; R is a C1–C20 hydrocarbyl; R′ are independently selected from hydride, C1–C20 hydrocarbyl, SiR″3, NR″2, OR″, SR″, GeR″3, SnR″3, and C═C-containing groups (R″=C1–C10 hydrocarbyl); n is an integer selected to balance the oxidation state of M; and A is a suitable non-coordinating anionic cocatalyst or precursor. This catalyst system may form stereoregular olefin polymers including syndiotactic polymers of styrene and methylmethacrylate and isotactic copolymers of polar and nonpolar olefin monomers such as methylmethacrylate and styrene. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842725 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119179 | Huynh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | My Hang V. Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael A. Hiskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The high-nitrogen compound of the formula was prepared. Pyrolysis of the compound yields carbon nitrides C2N3 and C3N5. The carbon nitrides vary in their density, texture, and morphology. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085395 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119226 | Sen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ayusman Sen (State College, Pennsylvania); Minren Lin (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the facile two-step synthesis of methanol from methane is disclosed. In accordance with the invention, an appropriate combination of initiator and reaction medium is employed to achieve methane conversion in very high selectivity and yield under near-ambient temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/105245 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119245 | Thoma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Thoma (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tina M. Nenoff (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods for synthesizing wholly un-supported, high-flow catalytic membranes consisting of 100% crystalline ZSM-22 crystals with no binder phase, having sufficient porosity to allow high Weight Hourly Space Velocities of feedstock to pass through without generating back pressure. The ZSM-22 membranes perform favorably to existing bulk ZSM-22 catalysts (e.g., via 1-butene conversion and selectivity). The method of membrane synthesis, based on Vapor Phase Transport, allows free-standing, binder-less membranes to be fabricated in varied geometries and sizes so that membranes can be tailor-made for particular geometries applications. The ZSM-22 precursor gel may be consolidated into a semi-cohesive body prior to vapor phase crystallization, for example, by uniaxial pressing. These crystalline membranes may be modified by ion exchange, pore ion exchange, framework exchange, synthesis modification techniques to incorporate other elements into the framework, such as K, H, Mg, Zn, V, Ga, and Pt. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280252 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/820 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119250 | Keith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170912 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119339 | Ferguson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley Stuart Ferguson (Northgate, Australia); Shaohong Wang (Bud Lake, New Jersey); Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of obtaining a series of images of a three-dimensional object by transmitting pulsed terahertz (THz) radiation through the entire object from a plurality of angles, optically detecting changes in the transmitted THz radiation using pulsed laser radiation, and constructing a plurality of imaged slices of the three-dimensional object using the detected changes in the transmitted THz radiation. The THz radiation is transmitted through the object as a scanning spot. The object is placed within the Rayleigh range of the focused THz beam and a focusing system is used to transfer the imaging plane from adjacent the object to a desired distance away from the object. A related system is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844105 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/358.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119453 | Bywaters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Power Systems, Inc. (Waitsfield, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garrett Bywaters (Waitsfield, Vermont); William Danforth (Rochester, Vermont); Christopher Bevington (Waitsfield, Vermont); Stowell Jesse (Warren, Vermont); Daniel Costin (Chelsea, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind turbine is provided that minimizes the size of the drive train and nacelle while maintaining the power electronics and transformer at the top of the tower. The turbine includes a direct drive generator having an integrated disk brake positioned radially inside the stator while minimizing the potential for contamination. The turbine further includes a means for mounting a transformer below the nacelle within the tower. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276869 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119478 | Mentesana |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P. Mentesana (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A step-motion actuator using piezoelectric material to launch a flight mass which, in turn, actuates a drive pawl to progressively engage and drive a toothed wheel or rod to accomplish stepped motion. Thus, the piezoelectric material converts electrical energy into kinetic energy of the mass, and the drive pawl and toothed wheel or rod convert the kinetic energy of the mass into the desired rotary or linear stepped motion. A compression frame may be secured about the piezoelectric element and adapted to pre-compress the piezoelectric material so as to reduce tensile loads thereon. A return spring may be used to return the mass to its resting position against the compression frame or piezoelectric material following launch. Alternative embodiment are possible, including an alternative first embodiment wherein two masses are launched in substantially different directions, and an alternative second embodiment wherein the mass is eliminated in favor of the piezoelectric material launching itself. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/776968 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119491 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California); Artan Qerushi (Irvine, California); Hooshang Tahsiri (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133807 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119646 | Golner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Waukesha Electric Systems, Incorporated (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Golner (Pewaukee, Michigan); Edward Pleva (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Shirish Mehta (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for controlling the temperature of a core of a transformer is provided that includes a core, a shield surrounding the core, a cast formed between the core and the shield, and tubing positioned on the shield. The cast directs heat from the core to the shield and cooling fluid is directed through the tubing to cool the shield. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017381 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/84.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119905 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip R. Bingham (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee); Ken W. Tobin (Harriman, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for spatial-heterodyne interferometry for transmission (SHIFT) measurements. A method includes digitally recording a spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis using a reference beam, and an object beam that is transmitted through an object that is at least partially translucent; Fourier analyzing the digitally recorded spatially-heterodyned hologram, by shifting an original origin of the digitally recorded spatially-heterodyned hologram to sit on top of a spatial-heterodyne carrier frequency defined by an angle between the reference beam and the object beam, to define an analyzed image; digitally filtering the analyzed image to cut off signals around the original origin to define a result; and performing an inverse Fourier transform on the result. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649251 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119937 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrolyte solutions for electrochromic devices such as rear view mirrors and displays with low leakage currents are prepared using inexpensive, low conductivity conductors. Preferred electrolytes include bifunctional redox dyes and molten salt solvents with enhanced stability toward ultraviolet radiation. The solvents include lithium or quaternary ammonium cations, and perfluorinated sulfonylimide anions selected from trifluoromethylsulfonate (CF3SO3−), bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3SO2)2N−), bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3CF2SO2)2N−) and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide ((CF3SO2)3C−). Electroluminescent, electrochromic and photoelectrochromic devices with nanostructured electrodes include ionic liquids with bifunctional redox dyes. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041069 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07120184 | Holzrichter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for generating a powerful laser beam includes a first laser element and at least one additional laser element having a rear laser mirror, an output mirror that is 100% reflective at normal incidence and <5% reflective at an input beam angle, and laser material between the rear laser mirror and the output mirror. The system includes an injector, a reference laser beam source, an amplifier and phase conjugater, and a combiner. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804282 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunghorng R. Liu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Salah Ramadan Agha (Gaza Strip, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining expected fatigue life of machined bearing races or other components wherein a hardened surface of each bearing race is machined to provide a machined surface including the steps of determining hardness distribution and residual stress distribution along a depth into the machined surface as a function of cutting parameters, determining a relationship of expected fatigue life of the machined bearing races as a function of the hardness distribution and the residual stress distribution using a fracture mechanics model, and determining expected fatigue life from the relationship using actual cutting parameters employed in machining the hardened surface of the bearing races. Cutting conditions to optimize fatigue life can be selected based on the expected fatigue life. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/389241 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/407.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07117741 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lasson Technologies, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Klein (Pacific Palisades, California); Bruno Pouet (Los Angeles, California); Jerome Eichenberger (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic vibration monitoring of a cutting tool or workpiece is provided by propagating an ultrasonic carrier beam in a stream of fluid flowing from a probe chamber, which includes a transducer, to the cutting tool or workpiece target area. The modulated ultrasonic beam reflected from the target is detected via a transducer in the chamber, and is demodulated to provide measurements of vibrational surface displacement and velocity. The method is insensitive to the target surface roughness and can be used for dynamic characterization prior to machining, and for monitoring during the machining operation. The device is inexpensive and robust to the machining environment, and can be applied to small cutting tools. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807754 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118216 | Roorda |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Austin Roorda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning laser ophthalmoscope incorporates adaptive optics to compensate for wavefront aberrations in the eye. Light from a light source is scanned onto the retina. Light reflected from the retina is detected for imaging and is also used for wavefront sensing. The sensed wavefront aberrations are used to control an adaptive optic device, such as a deformable mirror, disposed in the path of the light from the source in order to compensate for the aberrations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125331 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118657 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Derek M. Stein (Delft, Netherlands); Jiali Li (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | For controlling a physical dimension of a solid state structural feature, a solid state structure is provided, having a surface and having a structural feature. The structure is exposed to a first periodic flux of ions having a first exposure duty cycle characterized by a first ion exposure duration and a first nonexposure duration for the first duty cycle, and then at a second periodic flux of ions having a second exposure duty cycle characterized by a second ion exposure duration and a second nonexposure duration that is greater than the first nonexposure duration, for the second duty cycle, to cause transport, within the structure including the structure surface, of material of the structure to the structural feature in response to the ion flux exposure to change at least one physical dimension of the feature substantially by locally adding material of the structure to the feature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695381 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118873 | Reenan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Reenan (West Hartford, Connecticut); Blanka Rogina (West Hartford, Connecticut); Stephen L. Helfand (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure encompasses the Indy gene, polypeptides encoded by the Indy gene and fragments thereof. This disclosure also encompasses homologs of the Indy gene both from Drosophila and other organisms. In addition, this disclosure encompasses the use of Indy polynucleotides, INDY proteins and polypeptides, antibodies to the INDY protein, antagonists that inhibit Indy activity or expression, and agonists that increase Indy activity or expression, in the diagnosis or treatment of body weight disorders or longevity in humans and animals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017479 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119154 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Jun Tian (LaPorte, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Bis(salicylaldiminato)titanium complex with optionally substituted phenyl or cyclohexyl on nitrogen catalyzes highly syndiospecific polymerization of propylene. Syndiotactic polypropylene with defects of the type rmr having [rrrr] content greater than 0.70 and block copolymer containing block(s) of the syndiotactic polypropylene and block(s) of poly(ethylene-co-propylene) and/or poly(alpha-olefin-co-propylene) are obtained. Certain of the catalysts provide living polymerization. Living olefin polymers and olefin terminated oligomers and polymers are also products. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/891114 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119250 | Keith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170912 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119619 | Komijani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abbas Komijani (Los Angeles, California); Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Tustin, California); Ichiri Aoki (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reconfigurable distributed active transformers are provided. The exemplary embodiments provided allow changing of the effective number and configuration of the primary and secondary windings, where the distributed active transformer structures can be reconfigured dynamically to control the output power levels, allow operation at multiple frequency bands, maintain a high performance across multiple channels, and sustain desired characteristics across process, temperature and other environmental variations. Integration of the distributed active transformer power amplifiers and a low noise amplifier on a semiconductor substrate can also be provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037527 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119833 | Jaynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher O. Jaynes (Lexington, Kentucky); Robert M. Steele (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique, and associated system and computer executable program code on a computer readable storage medium, for automatically correcting distortion of a front-projected display under observation by at least one camera. The technique may be employed in a myriad of front-projected display environments, e.g., single or multiple projectors and cameras are used. The technique includes: observing a first image, projected from at least one projector, comprising at least one target distribution of light intensities; for each conglomeration of white pixels of a difference image, compute a bounding box comprising a corresponding conglomeration of pixels in a framebuffer information of the camera, compute a bounding box comprising a corresponding conglomeration of pixels in a framebuffer information of the projector, compute an initial homography matrix, Htemp, mapping pixels of the projector's bounding box to those of the camera's bounding box, optimize the initial homography matrix, compute a central location, (Cx, Cy), of the camera's bounding box using the initial homography matrix; and using a plurality of correspondence values comprising the correspondence, compute a corrective transform to aid in the automatic correcting of the display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/727953 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07118870 | Field et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katharine G. Field (Corvallis, Oregon); Anne E. Bernhard (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein disclosed are nucleic acid sequences that can be used to detect fecal contamination in a sample. In one embodiment, the probes and primers disclosed herein can be used to identify the host species that is the source of fecal bacterial contamination in the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381904 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119250 | Keith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170912 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07118074 | Johnson 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) | Charles L. Johnson (Madison, Alabama); Judy L. C. Ballance (Huntsville, Alabama); Kenneth J. Welzyn (Brownsboro, Alabama); Jason A. Vaughn (Madison, Alabama); Enrico Lorenzini (Wayland, Massachusetts); Peter S. Schuler (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tether system for providing thrust to or power subsystems of an artificial satellite in a low earth orbit. The tether has three main sections, an insulated section connected to the satellite, a conducting section connected to the insulating section for drawing in and releasing electrons from the space plasma and a non-conducting section for providing a tension to the other sections of the tether. An oxygen resistant coating is applied to the bare wire of the conducting section as well as the insulated wires of the insulated section that prevents breakdown during tether operations in the space plasma. The insulated and bare wire sections also surround a high tensile flexible polymer core to prevent any debris from breaking the tether during use. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690161 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/158.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07118626 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Ng (Huntsville, Alabama); Juan-Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (Granada, Spain); Jose A. Gavira-Gallardo (Granada, Spain); Mark Wells (Athens, Alabama); Greg Jenkins (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a crystallization cassette and associated method for growing and analyzing macromolecular crystals in situ by X-ray crystallography. The cassette allows proteins (as well as other macromolecules) to be crystallized by the counter-diffusion method in a restricted geometry. Using this procedure, crystals can be adequately prepared for direct X-ray data analysis such that the protein's three-dimesional structure can be solved without crystal manipulation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651499 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07118693 | Glatkowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eikos, Inc. (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Glatkowski (Littleton, Massachusetts); Nelson Landrau (Marlborough, Massachusetts); David H. Landis, Jr. (Barrington, Rhode Island); Joseph W. Piche (Raynham, Massachusetts); Jeffrey L. Conroy (Rumford, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to conformal coatings that provide excellent shielding against electromagnetic interference (EMI). A conformal coating comprises an insulating layer and a conducting layer containing electrically conductive material. The insulating layer comprises materials for protecting a coated object. The conducting layer comprises materials that provide EMI shielding such as carbon black, carbon buckeyballs, carbon nanotubes, chemically-modified carbon nanotubes and combinations thereof. The insulating layer and the conductive layer may be the same or different, and may be applied to an object simultaneously or sequentially. Accordingly, the invention is also directed to objects that are partially or completely coated with a conformal coating that provides EMI shielding. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/201568 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07119250 | Keith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Gregory Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170912 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07118870 | Field et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katharine G. Field (Corvallis, Oregon); Anne E. Bernhard (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein disclosed are nucleic acid sequences that can be used to detect fecal contamination in a sample. In one embodiment, the probes and primers disclosed herein can be used to identify the host species that is the source of fecal bacterial contamination in the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381904 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07118870 | Field et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katharine G. Field (Corvallis, Oregon); Anne E. Bernhard (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein disclosed are nucleic acid sequences that can be used to detect fecal contamination in a sample. In one embodiment, the probes and primers disclosed herein can be used to identify the host species that is the source of fecal bacterial contamination in the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381904 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07118870 | Field et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katharine G. Field (Corvallis, Oregon); Anne E. Bernhard (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein disclosed are nucleic acid sequences that can be used to detect fecal contamination in a sample. In one embodiment, the probes and primers disclosed herein can be used to identify the host species that is the source of fecal bacterial contamination in the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381904 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07119078 | Jing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naijie Jing (Pearland, Texas); Weijun Xiong (Missouri City, Texas); Yongli Guan (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of intracellular delivery of oligonucleotides. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use of the delivery system to deliver G-quartet oligonucleotides as a cancer therapy or an anti-viral therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/107746 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 10, 2006.
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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