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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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| US 07134233 | Saur |
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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) | Thomas W. Saur (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A catcher, in combination with a firearm having an ejection port, for receiving and retaining expended magnetically attracted shell casings through the ejection port as the firearm is discharged. The catcher includes a hollow housing having a plurality of rigid walls, and retainers. One of the walls has an opening in communication with the ejection port when the catcher is mounted to the firearm for receiving the shell casings. At least one of the other walls includes a plurality of deflectors and each of the deflectors has a front face that is slanted away from the opening such that the deflectors are capable of deflecting the shell casings away from the opening and a rear face that is perpendicular to the planar surface of the housing or slanted away from the opening. At least one of the deflectors, alone or in combination with one or more other of the deflectors and a respective wall, provide a void and an aperture configured as an acoustic tuner structure tuned to provide reduction of noise emitted at the ejection port. The retainers are disposed at the rear face of the deflectors and are capable of retaining the shell casings when the catcher is in any position. The retainers comprise a permanent magnetic material. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345683 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07134486 | Santiago et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leeland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan G. Santiago (Fremont, California); Shulin Zeng (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods according to the present invention preferably utilize electroosmotic pumps that are capable of generating high pressure and flow without moving mechanical parts and the associated generation of unacceptable electrical and acoustic noise, as well as the associated reduction in reliability. These electroosmotic pumps are preferably fabricated with materials and structures that improve performance, efficiency, and reduce weight and manufacturing cost relative to presently available micropumps. These electroosmotic pumps also preferably allow for control including venting or recapture of evolved gases and deposited materials, which may provide for long-term closed-loop operation. A gas permeable membrane removes and vents electrolytic gasses generated within the fluid chamber of the electroosmotic pump to ambient. A catalyst can be used to recombine electrolytic gases to form a vapor product that can be vented or condensed into a liquid state. An osmotic membrane provides for re-entry of condensed fluid to the fluid chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272048 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07134664 | Tom 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) | Joe G. Tom (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi); Steven L. Larson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward J. Fransen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular bullet trap cover element generally includes a shell filled with a projectile trapping medium, preferably a mixture of a resilient granular ballistic medium and a hydrated super absorbent polymer (SAP) gel. The shell may be made of any of a number of fabric or polymeric materials. In embodiments, the shell includes at least two bags, an inner bag and at least one outer bag, each of which has an open end and a sealed end, connected to one another such that the outer bags may be inverted over the inner bag to cover at least a portion thereof. The modular cover element is formed by filling the inner bag with the projectile trapping medium and then inverting the outer bags to produce a multi-layer shell. In embodiments, the outer bags and inner bag are rotatably connected, permitting the outer bags to be rotated with respect to the inner bag such that bullet holes in the inner and outer bags no longer line up with each other. Several modular cover elements may be fixedly or releasably interconnected, preferably in a mattress-like arrangement, to form a bullet trap cover. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890846 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135054 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongchao Jin (Evanston, Illinois); Yunwei Cao (Evanston, Illinois); Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a novel photo-induced method for converting large quantities of silver nanospheres into nanoprisms, the nanoprisms formed by this method and applications in which the nanoprisms are useful. Significantly, this light driven process results in a colloid with a unique set of optical properties that directly relate to the nanoprism shape of the particles. Theoretical calculations coupled with experimental observations allow for the assignment of the nanoprism plasmon bands and the first identification of two distinct quadrupole plasmon resonances for a nanoparticle. Finally, unlike the spherical particles from which they derive and which Rayleigh light scatter in the blue, these nanoprisms exhibit scattering in the red, permitting multicolor diagnostic labels based not only on nanoparticle composition and size but also on shape. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256875 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135055 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Yun-Wei Cao (Evanston, Illinois); Rongchao Jin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to composite core/shell nanoparticles and a two-step method for their preparation. The present invention further relates to biomolecule-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates and methods for their preparation. The invention also relates to methods of detection of biomolecules comprising the biomolecule or specific binding substance-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397579 |
| 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 | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135102 | Morefield 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) | Sean W. Morefield (Champaign, Illinois); Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Vincent F. Hock (Mahomet, Illinois); Michael K. McInerney (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for dewatering particulate materials employs an improved dewatering probe generally including a single non-conducting pipe having a plurality of holes or slots, an anode mounted on the pipe adjacent one end of the pipe, and a cathode mounted on the pipe adjacent the opposite end of the pipe. The pipe serves as both a sonde for mounting the anode and cathode and as a well for extracting water that collects around the outside of the pipe and flows into the interior of the pipe through the holes or slots via gravitational and electro-osmotic forces. A pump may be used to extract both collected water and accumulated electrolytic gases from the pipe's interior. In embodiments, an array of guide electrodes is mounted on the pipe in addition to the anode and the cathode in order to deflect the major current flow out into the body of surrounding particulate materials. The guide electrodes also facilitate rapid depolarization of the probe. An array of probes according to the present invention may be employed as a system to dewater a volume of particulate. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421922 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/515 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135143 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Rahul R. Shah (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting a compound in a sample includes a substrate and a self-assembled monolayer. The substrate includes a support with a metallized top surface, and the self-assembled monolayer includes an alkanethiol attached to the metallized top surface of the substrate and having a functional group that reversibly or irreversibly interacts with the compound. A liquid crystal is disposed on the self-assembled monolayer opposite the side of the self-assembled monolayer attached to the metallized top surface of the substrate. The liquid crystal includes a moiety that interacts with the functional group of the alkanethiol. When the compound is present in a sample that that contacts the self-assembled monolayer, the orientation of the liquid crystal is altered. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/931635 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135243 | Shi 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) | Jianmin Shi (Rockville, Maryland); Eric Forsythe (Silver Spring, Maryland); David Claude Morton (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic EL device, comprising an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic luminescent layer comprising a compound of the formula: positioned between said anode and said cathode, and wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 are individual substituents, each substituent is an individual group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogens, and groups that contain 1 to 48 carbon atoms, and at least one group is not hydrogen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807099 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135312 | Kool |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric T Kool (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for synthesis and therapeutic use of DNA and RNA oligonucleotides and analogs. RNA oligonucleotides are synthesized using a small, circular DNA template which lacks an RNA polymerase promoter sequence. The RNA synthesis is performed by combining a circular single-stranded oligonucleotide template with an effective RNA polymerase and at least two types of ribonucleotide triphosphate to form an RNA oligonucleotide multimer comprising multiple copies of the desired RNA oligonucleotide sequence. Preferably, the RNA oligonucleotide multimer is cleaved to produce RNA oligonucleotides having well-defined ends. Preferred RNA oligonucleotide multimers contain ribozymes capable of both cis (autolytic) and trans cleavage. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/997931 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135359 | Agarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina); John W. Palmour (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Large area silicon carbide devices, such as light-activated silicon carbide thyristors, having only two terminals are provided. The silicon carbide devices are selectively connected in parallel by a connecting plate. Silicon carbide thyristors are also provided having a portion of the gate region of the silicon carbide thyristors exposed so as to allow light of an energy greater than about 3.25 eV to activate the gate of the thyristor. The silicon carbide thyristors may be symmetric or asymmetrical. A plurality of the silicon carbide thyristors may be formed on a wafer, a portion of a wafer or multiple wafers. Bad cells may be determined and the good cells selectively connected by a connecting plate. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845913 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135411 | Nam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Nam (Cerritos, California); Michael D. Lange (Anaheim, California); Roger S. Tsai (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antimony-based semiconductor devices are formed over a substrate structure (10) that includes an antimony-based buffer layer (24) and an antimony-based buffer cap (26). Multiple epitaxial layers (30–42) formed over the substrate structure (10) are dry etched to form device mesas (12) and the buffer cap (26) provides a desirably smooth mesa floor and electrical isolation around the mesas. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/918119 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/714 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135672 | Land |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay E. Land (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A flash ladar system has a laser provided with beam focusing optics for directing a laser fan beam pulse to a scanning element that in turn directs the laser fan beam to a vertical region of space. Light reflected from an object in the vertical region of space is directed by a reflecting element to a sensor provided with a column of photosensitive pixels that connects to a charge storage matrix of non-photosensitive pixels. After an integration period electrical charges are shifted from the photosensitive region to an adjacent column in the charge storage region. The process of integrate and shift is repeated for multiple integration periods until the charge storage region is filled with charges whereupon a serial shift register removes the information to be processed by a data processor. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017543 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135697 | Friesen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Gregory Friesen (Middleton, Wisconsin); Charles George Tahan (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert James Joynt (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark A. Eriksson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor quantum dot device converts spin information to charge information utilizing an elongated quantum dot having an asymmetric confining potential along its length so that charge movement occurs during orbital excitation. A single electron sensitive electrometer is utilized to detect the charge movement. Initialization and readout can be carried out rapidly utilizing RF fields at appropriate frequencies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/787075 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135747 | Allen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Thomas Allen (Apex, North Carolina); James William Milligan (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power, high frequency semiconductor device has a plurality of unit cells connected in parallel. The unit cells each having a controlling electrode and first and second controlled electrodes. A thermal spacer divides at least one of the unit cells into a first active portion and a second active portion, spaced apart from the first potion by the thermal spacer. The controlling electrode and the first and second controlled electrodes of the unit cell cross over the first thermal spacer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786962 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135777 | Bakir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhannad S. Bakir (Atlanta, Georgia); James D. Meindl (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices having one or more of the following: an input/output (I/O) interconnect system, an optical I/O interconnect, an electrical I/O interconnect, a radio frequency I/O interconnect, are disclosed. A representative I/O interconnect system includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a compliant pillar vertically extending from the first substrate. The compliant pillar is constructed a first material. The second substrate includes a compliant socket adapted to receive the compliant pillar. The compliant socket is constructed of a second material. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430670 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135917 | Kozyrev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander B. Kozyrev (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel W. van der Weide (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A left-handed nonlinear transmission line system has multiple nonlinear capacitors connected in series between input and output terminals and multiple inductances connected in parallel between the nonlinear capacitors and a return conductor extending between the input and output terminals. The nonlinear capacitors have a capacitance characteristic that changes with the voltage applied across the capacitors, such as a capacitance that decreases with increasing voltage. A radio frequency signal source is coupled to the input terminals and provides power at a selected drive frequency. Depending on the frequency of the drive signal with respect to the Bragg cutoff frequency of the nonlinear transmission line, the output signal may include a strong signal component at the third harmonic of the input drive signal frequency, components at higher harmonics, or components at fractional frequencies of the input drive signal frequency. Parametric generation of other signal waves that are phase matched with the signal wave produced by the input drive signal is also possible under appropriate conditions. The left-handed nonlinear transmission line system generates such output signal frequencies with high efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860389 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/4.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136009 | Tsui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Y. Tsui (Dayton, Ohio); Stephen L. Hary (Dayton, Ohio); David M. Lin (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital cueing radio receiver system embodied using digital memory in lieu of analog delay lines and thereby avoiding delay line implementation difficulties. The cueing receiver system includes a wideband receiver portion providing an output signal employed for tuning a narrowband receiver portion of the system. Signal delay enabling use of the wideband receiver portion output signals for tuning the narrow band receiver portion selection frequency is provided by a digital memory circuit operating on analog-to-digital converted samples of input signal data of the receiver system. Approximated unity value related mathematical multiplication free Kernel function values are employed in the Fourier transformation. Avoidance of analog delay line-elements in embodying the system is a significant practical advantage of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354266 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136324 | Quigley |
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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) | James M. Quigley (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid metallic piston of a fluidborne sound projector is provided with a plurality of parallel spaced fluid passages extending between opposite axial end faces of the piston so as to equalize fluid pressures exerted thereon within a chamber enclosed within an end portion of a conduit having an end wall attached thereto through which a solid piston rod extends from the piston to an acoustical power source from which acoustical energy is mechanically transmitted as displacing forces applied to one of the axial end faces of the piston. Displacement of the piston within the chamber is limited in one axial direction by abutment of the rear end face thereof with the conduit end wall and in the other axial direction by abutment of a larger diameter section of the piston with a forward stop on an annular seal fixed to the conduit end portion, through which a smaller diameter section of the piston extends from the larger diameter section. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975111 |
| 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 367/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136418 | Atlas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Les E. Atlas (Seattle, Washington); Mark S. Vinton (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for encoding and decoding an input signal in relation to the most perceptually relevant aspects of the input signal. A two-dimensional (2D) transform is applied to the input signal to produce a magnitude matrix and a phase matrix that can be inverse quantized by a decoder. A first column of coefficients of the magnitude matrix represents a mean spectral density (MSD) function of the input signal. Relevant aspects of the MSD function are encoded at a beginning of a data packet. The MSD function is also processed through a core perception model to determine bit allocation. The matrices are then quantized and priority ordered into a data packet, with the least perceptually relevant information at the end of the packet so that it may be ignored or truncated for scalability to the channel data rate capacity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/938119 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136738 | Zagranski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Goodrich Pump and Engine Control Systems, Inc. (West Hartford, Connecticut); Pratt and Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond D. Zagranski (Somers, Connecticut); John Mannarino (Montreal, Canada); Cristina Crainic (Longueuil, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel control systems for use with a gas turbine engines which accounts for real-time thermodynamic engine effects when attempting to match or track the NDOTActual rate to the NDOTDemand rate. The fuel control system includes a mechanism for measuring several engine operating parameters and a mechanism for determining an initial engine fuel demand based on the measured engine operating parameters. The control system further includes a mechanism for estimating, during engine operation and based on the measured operating parameters, the amount of heat transferred between fuel combustion gases and the engine metal and estimating an effective fuel flow adjustment based therefrom. The control system disclosed herein also includes a mechanism for determining a final engine fuel demand based on the initial predicted engine fuel demand and the estimated effective fuel flow adjustment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/694973 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136751 | Pinto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enpoint, LLC (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Pinto (Waltham, Massachusetts); James Kain (Shalimar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system determines three-dimensional attitude of a moving platform using signals from two closely spaced Global Positioning System (GPS) antennas. The system includes three rate gyroscopes and three accelerometers rigidly mounted in a fixed relationship to the platform to aid in determining the attitude. The system applies signals from one of the two GPS antennas to sufficient channels of a GPS receiver to support navigation. The system applies signals from a second of the two GPS antennas to the additional receive channels to support interferometry. The system resolves the ambiguity normally associated with the interferometric heading solution by having closely spaced GPS antennas, and uses interferometry to refine a coarse heading estimate from a GPS plus Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) transfer alignment solution. The system achieves sub-meter spacing of the two GPS antennas by merging many temporal interferometric measurements and the attitude memory provided by the IMU time-history solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843205 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39396 | Swift et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Science and Engineering, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roderick Swift (Belmont, Massachusetts); Andrew Tybinkowski (Boxford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for inspecting a cargo container such as a motor vehicle or freight pallet, with penetrating radiation. A source of penetrating radiation is mounted on a moveable bed, thereby allowing a beam of penetrating radiation to sweep the large container. At least one detector is also mounted on the bed, either on the side of the source or on a boom, so that, as the beam is scanned across the container, the container and any contents of the container are characterized by transmitted or scattered radiation, or both. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229993 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07134174 | Andrade |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Andrew Andrade (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A handheld tool, or a pair of such tools, such as for use in removing/installing a bolt-type clamping ring on a container barrel/drum, where the clamping ring has a pair of clamping ends each with a throughbore. Each tool has an elongated handle and an elongated lever arm transversely connected to one end of the handle. The lever arm is capable of being inserted into the throughbore of a selected clamping end and leveraged with the handle to exert a first moment on the selected clamping end. Each tool also has a second lever arm, such as a socket with an open-ended slot, which is suspended alongside the first lever arm. The second lever arm is capable of engaging the selected clamping end and being leveraged with the handle to exert a second moment which is orthogonal to the first moment. In this manner, the first and second moments operate to hold the selected clamping end fixed relative to the tool so that the selected clamping end may be controlled with the handle. The pair of clamping ends may also be simultaneously and independently controlled with the use of two handles/tools so as to contort the geometry of the drum clamping ring and enable its removal/installation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118300 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/225 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine (40) has a stator (43), a permanent magnet rotor (38) with permanent magnets (39) and a magnetic coupling uncluttered rotor (46) for inducing a slip energy current in secondary coils (47). A dc flux can be produced in the uncluttered rotor when the secondary coils are fed with dc currents. The magnetic coupling uncluttered rotor (46) has magnetic brushes (A, B, C, D) which couple flux in through the rotor (46) to the secondary coils (47c, 47d) without inducing a current in the rotor (46) and without coupling a stator rotational energy component to the secondary coils (47c, 47d). The machine can be operated as a motor or a generator in multi-phase or single-phase embodiments and is applicable to the hybrid electric vehicle. A method of providing a slip energy controller is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228679 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/596 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07134219 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy E. Wood (Livermore, California); Scott E. Groves (Brentwood, California); Greg J. Larsen (Brentwood, California); Roberto J. Sanchez (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight, small size, high sensitivity gauge for indirectly measuring displacement or absolute gap width by measuring axial strain in an orthogonal direction to the displacement/gap width. The gap gauge includes a preferably titanium base having a central tension bar with springs connecting opposite ends of the tension bar to a pair of end connector bars, and an elongated bow spring connected to the end connector bars with a middle section bowed away from the base to define a gap. The bow spring is capable of producing an axial strain in the base proportional to a displacement of the middle section in a direction orthogonal to the base. And a strain sensor, such as a Fabry-Perot interferometer strain sensor, is connected to measure the axial strain in the base, so that the displacement of the middle section may be indirectly determined from the measurement of the axial strain in the base. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132976 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/613 |
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| US 07134273 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Mazur (Canton, Michigan); Devesh Upadhyay (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A diesel engine emission control system uses an upstream oxidation catalyst and a downstream SCR catalyst to reduce NOx in a lean exhaust gas environment. The engine and upstream oxidation catalyst are configured to provide approximately a 1:1 ratio of NO to NO2 entering the downstream catalyst. In this way, the downstream catalyst is insensitive to sulfur contamination, and also has improved overall catalyst NOx conversion efficiency. Degradation of the system is determined when the ratio provided is no longer near the desired 1:1 ratio. This condition is detected using measurements of engine operating conditions such as from a NOx sensor located downstream of the catalysts. Finally, control action to adjust an injected amount of reductant in the exhaust gas based on the actual NO to NO2 ratio upstream of the SCR catalyst and downstream of the oxidation catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/064957 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07134342 | Mueller 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) | Fred M. Mueller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Lawrence Bronisz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Holger Grube (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David C. Nelson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Jonathan L. Mace (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic infrasound sensor is produced by constraining a permanent magnet inside a magnetic potential well above the surface of superconducting material. The magnetic infrasound sensor measures the position or movement of the permanent magnet within the magnetic potential well, and interprets the measurements. Infrasound sources can be located and characterized by combining the measurements from one or more infrasound sensors. The magnetic infrasound sensor can be tuned to match infrasound source types, resulting in better signal-to-noise ratio. The present invention can operate in frequency modulation mode to improve sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio. In an alternate construction, the superconductor can be levitated over a magnet or magnets. The system can also be driven, so that time resolved perturbations are sensed, resulting in a frequency modulation version with improved sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932654 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith E. Lawrence (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector includes a homogenous charge nozzle outlet set and a conventional nozzle outlet set controlled respectively, by first and second needle valve members. The homogeneous charged nozzle outlet set is defined by a nozzle insert that is attached to an injector body, which defines the conventional nozzle outlet set. The nozzle insert is a one piece metallic component with a large diameter segment separated from a small diameter segment by an annular engagement surface. One of the needle valve members is guided on an outer surface of the nozzle insert, and the nozzle insert has an interference fit attachment to the injector body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209140 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/533.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schott Solar, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernhard P. Piwczyk (Dunbarton, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An inexpensive method of coating silicon shot with boron atoms comprises (1) immersing silicon shot in an aqueous solution comprising a boric acid and polyvinyl alcohol, and (2) heating the solution so as to evaporate water and form a polymerized polyvinyl alcohol coating containing boron on the shot. A precise amount of this coated shot may then be mixed with a measured quantity of intrinsic silicon pellets and the resulting mixture may then be melted to provide a boron-doped silicon melt for use in growing p-type silicon bodies that can be converted to substrates for photovoltaic solar cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/793539 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135241 | Ferraris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Ferraris (Coppell, Texas); Jose J. Gutierrez (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally, and in one form, the present invention is a composition of light-emitting block copolymer. In another form, the present invention is a process producing a light-emitting block copolymers that intends polymerizing a first di(halo-methyl) aromatic monomer compound in the presence of an anionic initiator and a base to form a polymer and contacting a second di(halo-methyl) aromatic monomer compound with the polymer to form a homopolymer or block copolymer wherein the block copolymer is a diblock, triblock, or star polymer. In yet another form, the present invention is an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting block copolymer, wherein the electroluminescent device is to be used in the manufacturing of optical and electrical devices. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155390 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135252 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Jaekook Kim (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium metal oxide positive electrode for a non-aqueous lithium cell is disclosed. The cell is prepared in its initial discharged state and has a general formula xLiMO2.(1-x)Li2M′O3 in which 0<x<1, and where M is more than one ion with an average trivalent oxidation state and with at least one ion being Ni, and where M′ is one or more ions with an average tetravalent oxidation state. Complete cells or batteries are disclosed with anode, cathode and electrolyte as are batteries of several cells connected in parallel or series or both. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/688004 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135288 | Lauf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Lauf (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Claudia A. Walls (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Lynn A. Boatner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A combinatorial library includes a gelcast substrate defining a plurality of cavities in at least one surface thereof; and a plurality of gelcast test materials in the cavities, at least two of the test materials differing from the substrate in at least one compositional characteristic, the two test materials differing from each other in at least one compositional characteristic. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256549 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07135310 | Bradbury et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Bradbury (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Ahmet Zeytun (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of amplifying target sequences without including regions flanking the target sequence in the amplified product or imposing amplification primer sequences on the amplified product. Also provided are methods of preparing a library from such amplified target sequences. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167634 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
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| US 07135508 | Chaiko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Chaiko (Naperville, Illinois); Argentina A. Leyva (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for making clay/wax nanocomposites and coatings and films of same with improved chemical resistance and gas barrier properties. The invention further provides methods for making and using emulsions of such clay/wax nanocomposites. Typically, an organophillic clay is combined with a wax or wax/polymer blend such that the cohesion energy of the clay matches that of the wax or wax/polymer blend. Suitable organophilic clays include mica and phyllosilicates that have been surface-treated with edge or edge and surface modifying agents. The resulting nanocomposites have applications as industrial coatings and in protective packaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371214 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Hofmann (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to sulfonimide-containing polymers, specifically sulfonimide-containing poly(arylene ether)s and sulfonimide-containing poly(arylene ether sulfone)s, and processes for making the sulfonimide-containing poly(arylene ether)s and sulfonimide-containing poly(arylene ether sulfone)s, for use conductive membranes and fuel cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833786 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07135544 | Schrock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts); Robert Bauman (Mannheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for the living polymerization of olefin monomers with terminal carbon-carbon double bonds are disclosed. The processes employ initiators that include a metal atom and a ligand having two group 15 atoms and a group 16 atom or three group 15 atoms. The ligand is bonded to the metal atom through two anionic or covalent bonds and a dative bond. The initiators are particularly stable under reaction conditions in the absence of olefin monomer. The processes provide polymers having low polydispersities, especially block copolymers having low polydispersities. It is an additional advantage of these processes that, during block copolymer synthesis, a relatively small amount of homopolymer is formed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/004038 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akio Kato (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for chromosome doubling in plants. The technique overcomes the low yields of doubled progeny associated with the use of prior techniques for doubling chromosomes in plants such as grasses. The technique can be used in large scale applications and has been demonstrated to be highly effective in maize. Following treatment in accordance with the invention, plants remain amenable to self fertilization, thereby allowing the efficient isolation of doubled progeny plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/164362 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/276 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Bartholomew (Springville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for setting and adjusting a frequency of electrical output pulses derived from an oscillator in a network is disclosed. The system comprises an accumulator module configured to receive pulses from an oscillator and to output an accumulated value. An adjustor module is configured to store an adjustor value used to correct local oscillator drift. A digital adder adds values from the accumulator module to values stored in the adjustor module and outputs their sums to the accumulator module, where they are stored. The digital adder also outputs an electrical pulse to a logic module. The logic module is in electrical communication with the adjustor module and the network. The logic module may change the value stored in the adjustor module to compensate for local oscillator drift or change the frequency of output pulses. The logic module may also keep time and calculate drift. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711648 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/1.A00 |
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| US 07136158 | Ellingson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Ellingson (Naperville, Illinois); Robert J. Visher (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for observing and measuring in realtime surface and subsurface characteristics of objects having complex shapes includes an optical fiber bundle having first and second opposed ends. The first end includes a linear array of fibers, where the ends of adjacent fibers are in contact and are aligned perpendicular to the surface of the object being studied. The second ends of some of the fibers are in the form of a polished ferrule forming a multi-fiber optical waveguide for receiving laser light. The second ends of the remaining fibers are formed into a linear array suitable for direct connection to a detector, such as a linear CMOS-based optical detector. The output data is analyzed using digital signal processing for the detection of anomalies such as cracks, voids, inclusions and other defects. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865651 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.100 |
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| US 07136757 | Goloshubin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennady M. Goloshubin (Sugar Land, Texas); Valeri A. Korneev (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying, imaging and monitoring dry or fluid-saturated underground reservoirs using seismic waves reflected from target porous or fractured layers is set forth. Seismic imaging the porous or fractured layer occurs by low pass filtering of the windowed reflections from the target porous or fractured layers leaving frequencies below low-most corner (or full width at half maximum) of a recorded frequency spectra. Additionally, the ratio of image amplitudes is shown to be approximately proportional to reservoir permeability, viscosity of fluid, and the fluid saturation of the porous or fractured layers. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120579 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136759 | Kangas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lars J. Kangas (West Richland, Washington); Kenneth J. Auberry (Kennewick, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting the elution time of a peptide in chromatographic and electrophoretic separations by first providing a data set of known elution times of known peptides, then creating a plurality of vectors, each vector having a plurality of dimensions, and each dimension representing the elution time of amino acids present in each of these known peptides from the data set. The elution time of any protein is then be predicted by first creating a vector by assigning dimensional values for the elution time of amino acids of at least one hypothetical peptide and then calculating a predicted elution time for the vector by performing a multivariate regression of the dimensional values of the hypothetical peptide using the dimensional values of the known peptides. Preferably, the multivariate regression is accomplished by the use of an artificial neural network and the elution times are first normalized using a transfer function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323387 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Edelberg (New York, New York); Shahin Rafii (Great Neck, New York); Mun Hong (New York, New York); Robert P. Lanza (Clinton, Massachusetts); Michael D. West (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of treating and preventing loss of tissue vascularization that can occur, for example, upon aging. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367639 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07135173 | Bohach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn H. Bohach (Moscow, Idaho); Witold A. Ferens (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for eliminating virally-infected cells by administering a Shiga-toxin composition, and the present invention provides methods and compositions for suppressing bovine leukemia-related cell proliferation. In the methods, a Shiga-toxin composition is administered in an amount effective to suppress bovine leukemia-related cell proliferation. The Shiga-toxin composition can include a Shiga-toxin polypeptide; a probiotic microorganism expressing a Shiga-toxin polypeptide; or a transgenic plant expressing a Shiga-toxin polypeptide. In one embodiment, the Shiga-toxin polypeptide is Stx1A and, in another embodiment, the Shiga-toxin polypeptide is Stx1 holotoxin. In yet a further embodiment, the Shiga-toxin polypeptide comprises Stx2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/325664 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Castric (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for eliciting an immune response against Gram-negative bacterial infections and methods of making such compositions are provided. The composition comprises glycosylated pilin, the pilin being glycosylated with the O-antigen of a target Gram-negative bacteria of interest. Methods of eliciting an immune response by administration of such compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192962 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07135176 | Norris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Norris (Houston, Texas); Jing-Ren Zhang (Delmar, New York); John M. Hardham (Gales Ferry, Connecticut); Jerrilyn K. Howell (Houston, Texas); Alan G. Barbour (Newport Beach, California); George M. Weinstock (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to DNA sequences encoding Vmp-like polypeptides of pathogenic Borrelia, the use of the DNA sequences in recombinant vectors to express polypeptides, the encoded amino acid sequences, application of the DNA and amino acid sequences to the production of polypeptides as antigens for immunoprophylaxis, immunotherapy, and immunodiagnosis. Also disclosed are the use of the nucleic acid sequences as probes or primers for the detection of organisms causing Lyme disease, relapsing fever, or related disorders, and kits designed to facilitate methods of using the described polypeptides, DNA segments and antibodies. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852555 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
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| US 07135182 | Sundstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula Sundstrom (Columbus, Ohio); Steven D. Bradway (Aberdeen, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The infection of a mammalian host by a microorganism can be prevented or treated through the administration of substrates for transglutaminases or antibodies against such substrates that inhibit the transglutaminase-mediated interaction of the microorganism with the mammalian host. These compounds may be used in the identification, prevention or treatment of microbial infection of mammalian hosts such as immunocompromised or immunosuppressed humans, for example, those having AIDS or undergoing transplantation or anti-cancer therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/117121 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Abraham (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an assay for the identification of agents which can modulate TOR-mediated phosphorylation of substrate proteins. The assays of the invention utilize substrate proteins whose amino acid sequence contains the Ser/Thr motif recognized by TOR. Naturally occurring TOR which may be used in the methods of the invention include TOR isolated from a variety of species, particularly mammalian tissues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/401058 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07135303 | Levine |
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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) | Stewart Levine (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the regulation of cytokine signaling through the Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) pathway. Specifically, the invention provides a novel gene, polypeptide and related compositions and methods for the regulation of ectodomain shedding. In preferred embodiments, methods and compositions for the regulation of TNF Type-1 Receptor ectodomain shedding are provided. The present invention finds use in therapeutics, diagnostics, and drug screening applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/220443 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.720 |
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| US 07135305 | Broderick et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Broderick (Cincinnati, Ohio); Joseph F. Clark (Cincinnati, Ohio); Daniel Woo (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inhibiting lysis of coagulated blood and reducing risk of excessive lysis comprising administration of lysis-inhibiting amounts of apolipoprotein E4, and methods for inhibiting lysis of coagulated blood and reducing risk of excessive lysis comprising administration of a specific level of a lysis-inhibiting agent wherein the specific level is based on the apolipoprotein phenotype of an individual, are provided. Methods for enhancing lysis of coagulated blood by administration of an Apo E peptide fragment to blood containing a clot lysis agent are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/398882 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/13 |
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| US 07135312 | Kool |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric T Kool (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for synthesis and therapeutic use of DNA and RNA oligonucleotides and analogs. RNA oligonucleotides are synthesized using a small, circular DNA template which lacks an RNA polymerase promoter sequence. The RNA synthesis is performed by combining a circular single-stranded oligonucleotide template with an effective RNA polymerase and at least two types of ribonucleotide triphosphate to form an RNA oligonucleotide multimer comprising multiple copies of the desired RNA oligonucleotide sequence. Preferably, the RNA oligonucleotide multimer is cleaved to produce RNA oligonucleotides having well-defined ends. Preferred RNA oligonucleotide multimers contain ribozymes capable of both cis (autolytic) and trans cleavage. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/997931 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.310 |
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| US 07135324 | Weller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra Weller (Unionville, Connecticut); Richard S. Myers (Miami, Florida); Nina Bacher Reuven (Bloomfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A Herpes simplex virus (HSV) recombinase comprises a purified or isolated alkaline nuclease and a single stranded DNA binding protein. In HSV-1, the alkaline nuclease is the UL12 protein and the single stranded DNA binding protein is the ICP8 protein. The HSV recombinase can be purified from an in vitro expression system or can be expressed in an appropriate vector or vectors wherein the DNAs encoding the polypeptides are operatively linked to expression control sequences. Methods of use of the HSV recombinase include cloning, treating cells and organisms, and producing transgenic animals. The HSV recombinase can be in the form of a kit useful for cloning. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656868 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/199 |
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| US 07135339 | McCray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. McCray, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel pseudotyped retroviral vectors that can transduce human and other cells. Vectors are provided that are packaged efficiently in packaging cells and cell lines to generate high titer recombinant virus stocks expressing novel envelope glycoproteins. The present invention further relates to compositions for gene therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718262 |
| 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 435/456 |
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| US 07135453 | Brophy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colleen Brophy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Padmini Komalavilas (Tempe, Arizona); Alyssa Panitch (Higley, Arizona); Brandon Seal (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel polypeptides comprising heat shock protein 20 (HSP20)-derived polypeptides to treat or inhibit smooth muscle vasospasm, as well to treat and inhibit smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/226956 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07135463 | Sebti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the use of the protein RhoB and its variants to inhibit cancer cell growth, migration, invasion, metastasis, malignant cell transformation, and/or to modulate oncogenic signaling, wherein introducing RhoB directly, or indirectly via a nucleic acid sequence encoding RhoB, into a malignantly transformed cell or a cancerous cell decreases phosphorylation of Erk and Akt proteins inhibiting the PI3-kinase/Akt cell survival pathway and promoting apoptotic cell death. In one aspect, the compositions and methods of the present invention are used to inhibit the malignant transformation of cells by the oncogenes H-Ras, N-Ras, K-Ras, EGFR, or ErbB2, or to inhibit the growth of cancer cells transformed by such oncogenes. The compositions and methods of the present invention may be used to inhibit cancer cell growth, inhibit malignant cell transformation, and modulate oncogenic signaling in vivo or in vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759328 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07135491 | Nivorozhkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Nivorozhkin (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); John Van Duzer (Georgetown, Massachusetts); Andrew Salzman (Belmont, Massachusetts); Garry Southan (Lynn, Massachusetts); Siya Ram (Winchester, Massachusetts); Qi Zeng (North Andover, Massachusetts); Csaba Szabo (Gloucester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to 5-Aryltetrazole Compounds, compositions comprising an effective amount of a a 5-Aryltetrazole Compound, and methods for treating an inflammation disease, a reperfusion disease, or hyperuricemia in an animal in need thereof comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a 5-Aryltetrazole compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030536 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/381 |
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| US 07135589 | Norling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry K. Norling (San Antonio, Texas); Neera Satsangi (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid crystal monomers and secondary monomers useful to blend with liquid crystal monomers to maintain a nematic state under processing conditions while maintaining low cure shrinkage, particularly suitable for use in dental resin composites. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836532 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/85 |
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| US 07135608 | O'Gorman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen O'Gorman (San Diego, California); Geoffrey Wahl (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Site-specific recombinases provide a means of efficiently manipulating chromosomal sequences in mammalian cells in culture and in animals. Embryonic stem cells containing recombinase nucleic acid constructs that were expressed in the male germline simplify current protocols for producing mice bearing homologously recombined alleles that have been secondarily rearranged by a site-specific recombinase. In different ProCre strains, between 80% and 100% of the progeny that inherited a Cre target nucleic acid construct from males that were also heterozygous for a ProCre nucleic acid construct inherited the Cre-recombined target. ProCre nucleic acid constructs and recombined targets segregated in the first generation. When ES cells prepared from one ProCre line were transfected with vectors containing a loxP-flanked neomycin cassette, G418 resistant, homologously recombined clones, in which the loxP sites remained functional, were readily isolated. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/919501 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/8 |
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| US 07135611 | MacDougald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ormond A. MacDougald (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Kenneth A. Longo (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sarah E. Ross (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to transgenic animal models for altered Wnt expression. The present invention also provides methods for generating animal models and screening methods for identifying biologically active compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/755594 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07134349 | Xi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ning Xi (Okemos, Michigan); Yantao Shen (East Lansing, Michigan); Fathi Salem (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved microforce sensing system is provided. The microforce sensing system includes: a force sensor configured to detect a contact force exerted on a contact tip of the cantilever and operable to generate a signal indicative of the contact force, where the cantilever is constructed from a polyvinylidene fluoride material in the form of a substantially rectangular plate or other suitable shapes; and a processing circuit adapted to receive the signal from the force sensor and operable to determine the contact force exerted on the tip by integrating the signal from the force sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886497 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.634 |
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| US 07135054 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongchao Jin (Evanston, Illinois); Yunwei Cao (Evanston, Illinois); Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a novel photo-induced method for converting large quantities of silver nanospheres into nanoprisms, the nanoprisms formed by this method and applications in which the nanoprisms are useful. Significantly, this light driven process results in a colloid with a unique set of optical properties that directly relate to the nanoprism shape of the particles. Theoretical calculations coupled with experimental observations allow for the assignment of the nanoprism plasmon bands and the first identification of two distinct quadrupole plasmon resonances for a nanoparticle. Finally, unlike the spherical particles from which they derive and which Rayleigh light scatter in the blue, these nanoprisms exhibit scattering in the red, permitting multicolor diagnostic labels based not only on nanoparticle composition and size but also on shape. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256875 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/255 |
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| US 07135055 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Yun-Wei Cao (Evanston, Illinois); Rongchao Jin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to composite core/shell nanoparticles and a two-step method for their preparation. The present invention further relates to biomolecule-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates and methods for their preparation. The invention also relates to methods of detection of biomolecules comprising the biomolecule or specific binding substance-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397579 |
| 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 | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/343 |
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| US 07135578 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Huey Wong (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Junjie Liu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Designed imminocyclitols have potent inhibition activity with respect to hexoaminidases and glycosidases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/798617 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/556 |
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| US 07135615 | Kato |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akio Kato (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for chromosome doubling in plants. The technique overcomes the low yields of doubled progeny associated with the use of prior techniques for doubling chromosomes in plants such as grasses. The technique can be used in large scale applications and has been demonstrated to be highly effective in maize. Following treatment in accordance with the invention, plants remain amenable to self fertilization, thereby allowing the efficient isolation of doubled progeny plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/164362 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/276 |
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| US 07135621 | Yanofsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin F. Yanofsky (San Diego, California); Sarah Liljegren (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides methods and compositions that modulate fruit dehiscence in plants. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/871651 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/290 |
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| US 07135948 | Markiewicz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahasse, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Denis Markiewicz (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An actively shielded superconducting magnet having a dipole shim coil for adjusting and fine-tuning an external or far fringe magnetic field produced by a main coil of the magnet. An active shield coil is coupled to the main coil in reverse polarity and produces a magnetic field when energized that opposes the far fringe field to substantially reduce the far fringe field. The dipole shim coil is electrically isolated from the active shield and main coils of superconducting magnet, and produces a magnetic field when energized that provides for the fine adjustment of any residual far fringe field. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243530 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/299 |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07134885 | Howard 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) | David E. Howard (Hazel Green, Alabama); Dennis A. Smith (Athens, Alabama); Dean C. Alhorn (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature assembly is disclosed which includes a housing assembly with a cover configured to be sealably secured to a box-like receptacle. The receptacle comprises openings on opposing sides for the seating therein of communications connectors. Enclosed within housing is custom-sized circuit board for supporting, at least, a standard communications interface and at least one electronic device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185132 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/76.100 |
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| US 07135172 | Loftus 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) | David J. Loftus (Palo Alto, California); Theodore Leng (Mountain View, California); Philip Huie (Cupertino, California); Harvey Fishman (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for repairing a retinal system of an eye, using bucky paper on which a plurality of retina pigment epithelial cells and/or iris pigment epithelial cells and/or stem cells is deposited, either randomly or in a selected cell pattern. The cell-covered bucky paper is positioned in a sub-retinal space to transfer cells to this space and thereby restore the retina to its normal functioning, where retinal damage or degeneration, such as macular degeneration, has occurred. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/238515 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 07135682 | Lucey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawai'i (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul G. Lucey (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensor device employs a combination of an interferometer with an uncooled microbolometer array camera to produce hyperspectral images without the use of bulky, power-hungry motorized components, making it suitable for UAV vehicles, small mobile platforms, or in extraterrestrial environments. The sensor device can provide signal-to-noise ratios near 200 for ambient temperature scenes with 33 wavenumber resolution at a frame rate of 50 Hz, with higher results indicated by ongoing component improvements. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913306 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.20 |
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| US 07135684 | Campbell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Campbell (Harvest, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The sky contains many active sources that emit X-rays, gamma rays, and neutrons. Unfortunately hard X-rays, gamma rays, and neutrons cannot be imaged by conventional optics. This obstacle led to the development of Fourier imaging systems. In early approaches, multiple grid pairs were necessary in order to create rudimentary Fourier imaging systems. At least one set of grid pairs was required to provide multiple real components of a Fourier derived image, and another set was required to provide multiple imaginary components of the image. It has long been recognized that the expense associated with the physical production of the numerous grid pairs required for Fourier imaging was a drawback. Herein one grid pair (two grids), with accompanying rotation and translation, can be used if one grid has one more slit than the other grid, and if the detector is modified. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116167 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.100 |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07135173 | Bohach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn H. Bohach (Moscow, Idaho); Witold A. Ferens (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for eliminating virally-infected cells by administering a Shiga-toxin composition, and the present invention provides methods and compositions for suppressing bovine leukemia-related cell proliferation. In the methods, a Shiga-toxin composition is administered in an amount effective to suppress bovine leukemia-related cell proliferation. The Shiga-toxin composition can include a Shiga-toxin polypeptide; a probiotic microorganism expressing a Shiga-toxin polypeptide; or a transgenic plant expressing a Shiga-toxin polypeptide. In one embodiment, the Shiga-toxin polypeptide is Stx1A and, in another embodiment, the Shiga-toxin polypeptide is Stx1 holotoxin. In yet a further embodiment, the Shiga-toxin polypeptide comprises Stx2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/325664 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
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| US 07135871 | Pelletier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United State of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathew G. Pelletier (Idalou, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The moisture content of soil may be determined using a swept-frequency microwave-based process and device. The process includes the steps of: producing a primary microwave signal with a varying frequency, splitting the primary signal to provide first and second microwave signals, which first signal is transmitted through an electric conductor in the soil where it will be delayed in proportion to the dielectric constant of the soil, while the second signal provides an internal reference signal, receiving a third signal which includes the first signal after it has passed through the electrical conductor, mixing the third signal together with the second signal, generating a mixed signal, filtering the mixed signal to remove upper side-band interference signals, generating a filtered-mixed signal, measuring the frequency of the filtered-mixed signal and calculating the moisture content of the soil. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/304285 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/640 |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07135292 | Willoughby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin Willoughby (Vero Beach, Florida); Shirley A. Pomponi (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention identifies changes in gene expression related to treatment of marine invertabret cell cultures. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611113 |
| 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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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US RE39396 | Swift et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Science and Engineering, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roderick Swift (Belmont, Massachusetts); Andrew Tybinkowski (Boxford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for inspecting a cargo container such as a motor vehicle or freight pallet, with penetrating radiation. A source of penetrating radiation is mounted on a moveable bed, thereby allowing a beam of penetrating radiation to sweep the large container. At least one detector is also mounted on the bed, either on the side of the source or on a boom, so that, as the beam is scanned across the container, the container and any contents of the container are characterized by transmitted or scattered radiation, or both. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229993 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/57 |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07135177 | Benz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Benz (Novato, California); Demetrois Papahadjopoulos (San Francisco, California); John W. Park (San Francisco, California); Keelung Hong (San Francisco, California); Dmitri Kirpotin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for immunoliposomes that optimizes internalization of a drug into target cells bearing a characteristic cell surface marker. The immunoliposomes comprise an Fab' domain of an antibody that specifically binds the characteristic marker, an amphipathic vesicle-forming lipid, and a polyethylene glycol derivatized lipid. The invention also provides for growth-inhibiting immunoliposomes that lack growth-inhibiting therapeutic agents and yet are capable of inhibiting the growth and proliferation of target cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/797544 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07136752 | Needelman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Needelman (Torrance, California); Rongsheng Li (Hacienda Heights, California); Richard A. Fowell (Rolling Hills Estates, California); Peter C. Lai (Alhambra, California); Yeong-Wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (18) includes: a) A vehicle (12) includes an attitude or angular velocity control system (38), a plurality of star trackers or star sensors (22) each having a field of view (28); b) a memory (30) having a star catalog (32), an allocated area for a star pair catalog (58) and a reference table (56) stored therein; and c) a processor (24) coupled to the attitude or angular velocity control system (38), the star trackers or star sensors (22), and the memory (30). The processor (24) populates the star pair catalog (58), using the method described herein. The processor (24) then periodically determines the vehicle inertial attitude or angular velocity or sensor alignment, based, in part, on the star pair catalog (58) and reference table (56). The novel ability of the software to autonomously populate the star pair catalog (58) allows users to avoid uploading a large amount of data, and the problems associated with such an upload. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710178 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2006/fedinvent-patents-20061114.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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