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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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| US 07140092 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Woo Park (Altanta, Georgia); Paul Floretn Cros (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Yong Kyu Yoon (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A representative method for manufacturing a highly-laminated magnetic inductor core includes: depositing at least a first layer of a ferromagnetic material; depositing at least a first layer of a sacrificial conductive material; depositing a support structure formed of a ferromagnetic material; and removing the sacrificial conductive material, thereby leaving the at least first layer of ferromagnetic material mechanically supported by the support structure. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/751360 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/602.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07140265 | McGill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Jennifer L. Stepnowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Stanley V. Stepnowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Viet Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Russell Chung (Oceanside, California); Eric J. Houser (Nokesville, Virginia); Stephen C. Francesconi (Crofton, Maryland); Ronald L. Kelly (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for collecting particles or vapor from air or surfaces comprising: a housing comprising an inlet open to the air to be sampled and an outlet; and a fan having one or more open areas within the housing capable of being driven at a speed effective to cause collection on the surface of the fan of particles or vapor in the air. A method of collecting a particulate sample from air comprising the step of driving a fan having one or more open areas within a housing comprising an inlet open to the air to be sampled and an outlet, at a speed effective to cause collection on the surface of the fan of particles in the air. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384925 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07140289 | Ansay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Ansay (Johnston, Rhode Island); Harry Zervas (Lincoln, Rhode Island); Michael J. Wroblewski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); James T. Broadmeadow (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater missile launch system includes one or more missile loading modules for supporting a plurality of missiles disposed within protective capsules in a stackable, in-line configuration within a pressure vessel. The missiles are arranged inside the modules, which may be stacked in groups inside a single pressure vessel, or payload bay. Each module is preferably substantially identical including a common size, shape, and payload of missiles in common with the module above and below it. A one-way positioning latch is provided that prevents the upper missiles from dropping down on top of the lower missiles, while allowing the lower missiles to later pass up through the same launch tube as the upper missiles, after the upper missiles have been ejected. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985083 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141150 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Welch (Bourne, Massachusetts); Thomas S. Ramotowski (Tiverton, Rhode Island); Gerald J. Roche (Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and test apparatus for carrying out testing on a variety of samples of polymer bonded to metal wherein the samples are subjected to an accelerated cathodic reaction causing cathodic delamination of the samples. In particular, the method and test apparatus include a closed vessel that is partially filled with synthetic ocean water. An impressed current system is employed to protect the metal component of the samples. The synthetic ocean water is heated with an external band heater raising the temperature of the synthetic ocean water to thermal levels exceeding normal ocean temperatures in order to accelerate the reaction. Pure oxygen is then introduced into the closed vessel at a desired pressure to dissolve the oxygen into the synthetic ocean water to further simulate natural ocean conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895469 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141277 | Vaia 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) | Richard A. Vaia (Beavercreek, Ohio); Hao Fong (Germantown, Maryland); Jeffrey H. Sanders (Vandalia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing high-use temperature, light-weight polymer/inorganic nanocomposite materials with enhanced thermal stability and performance characteristics, which comprises treating a polymer/inorganic nanocomposite material with oxygen plasma under conditions which result in a thin, protective, ceramic-like layer at the surface of the thus-treated nanocomposite material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/379215 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141436 | Gatto-Menking et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Technology Corp. (Hampton, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah L. Gatto-Menking (Bel Air, Maryland); Michael T. Goode (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A sandwich immunoassay is disclosed that provides simple to perform yet sensitive identification of analytes in samples. All assay constituents needed (except analyte to be detected) for one assay are dried. Upon reconstitution with sample, a 10 to 15 minute incubation gives a rapid and convenient detection assay capability. The method incorporates the capture of antigen to an immobilized capture antibody. A labeled reporter antibody with the molecule, binds to the antigen to form an immunocomplex capable of generating a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147965 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141815 | Yankielun |
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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) | Norbert E. Yankielun (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrays of optical fibers connected to specially configured electronics, e.g., a phototransistor, an LED, an amplifier, a detector, and display, software and PCMCIA A/D board available on a personal computer, are used to obtain continuous real-time acquisition, processing, and visualization of change in a media occurring in natural environments. Alternatively, many of the individual circuit elements above may be replaced with a power meter. In a specific application, data are collected on the depth of sediment below a body of water. As the sediment depth is changed by an event, the ends of the optical fibers in the array display a different reflection or transmission coefficient indicating that water has replaced sediment or vice versa. By knowing which of the optical fiber ends in the array is indicating the changed reflection or transmission coefficient, scour depth or silt accretion may be estimated. A method of employment of the system is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767600 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141968 | Hibbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quasar Federal Systems, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Hibbs (La Jolla, California); Robert Matthews (San Diego, California); David Matthew Jabson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact sensor system integrates electric and/or magnetic field sensors to accurately measure, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more electric and magnetic vector components of fields. The electric and magnetic field data can be utilized separately or combined. The sensor system is self-contained so as to include a built-in power source, as well as data storage and/or transmission capability. The integrated sensor system also preferably includes a global positioning system (GPS) to provide timing and position information, a sensor unit which can determine the orientation and tilt of the sensor system, and self-calibrating structure which produces local electric and/or magnetic fields used to calibrate the sensor system following deployment. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959480 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142015 | Kuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung Cai Ngo (Austin, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A buffer, logic circuit, and data processing system employing fast turn-off drive circuitry for reducing leakage. Leakage current in logic circuitry is managed by coupling and decoupling the voltage potentials applied to large, high-leakage devices. Circuitry includes a low leakage logic path for holding logic states of an output after turning off high-leakage devices. A fast turn-off logic path in parallel with the low leakage logic path is used to assert each logic state in the forward direction from input to output. The large output device in each fast turn-off path is relieved of leakage stress by asserting logic states at driver inputs that cause the driver to turn OFF after the output logic state has been asserted. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/948444 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142076 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois); David Becher (Urbana, Illinois); Shyh-Chiang Shen (Champaign, Illinois); Richard Chan (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A high life cycle and low voltage MEMS device. In an aspect of the invention, separate support posts are disposed to prevent a suspended switch pad from touching the actuation pad while permitting the switch pad to ground a signal line. In another aspect of the invention, cantilevered support beams are made from a thicker material than the switching pad. Increased thickness material in the cantilever tends to keep the switch flat in its resting position. Features of preferred embodiments include dimples in the switch pad to facilitate contact with a signal line and serpentine cantilevers arranged symmetrically to support the switch pad. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868130 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142145 | Lauritzen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keir C. Lauritzen (Odenton, Maryland); Martin Peckerar (Sliver Spring, Maryland); Frank K. Perkins (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An analog to digital converter circuit includes an isolation circuit, an input circuit including a resistor chain, a plurality of fixed threshold comparators, and an encoder. The resistor chain includes a plurality of resistors connected in series, the isolation circuit being configured to isolate a device supplying the analog input signal from the input circuit. The isolation circuit is connected to the input circuit at a top node of the resistor chain, and wherein 2N values of the analog input voltage are connected to inputs of the fixed threshold comparators to produce corresponding output signals. Methods of converting an analog signal to a digital signal are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997092 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142291 | Sarkozi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janos Gyorgy Sarkozi (Niskayuna, New York); Nicole Andrea Evers (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cable, system and method for detecting partial discharges or arcing in wiring or cables via fiber optics are provided. The cable for detecting partial discharges includes a conductor for carrying electrical signals; at least one fluorescent optical fiber for detecting light generated by a partial discharge; and a first transparent layer surrounding the conductor for supporting the at least one fluorescent optical fiber generally parallel to the conductor. By employing a fluorescent optical fiber, incident light generated by a partial discharge along a length of the optical fiber will be transmitted via the optical fiber to an optical receiver for determining a partial discharge has occurred. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/745245 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142303 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ghester G. Wilson (Ruston, Louisiana); Long Que (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bhaskar Mitra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ponnambalam Selvaganapathy (Chennai, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-discharge optical source apparatus and a method and system which utilizes the apparatus to analyze a sample are provided. The apparatus includes a substrate and an anode electrode and a cathode electrode supported on the substrate. One of the electrodes, such as the cathode, is preferably a liquid electrode. The electrodes are spaced apart to define an inter-electrode gap therebetween. The apparatus further includes a voltage source for applying a voltage between the electrodes sufficient to generate a glow micro-discharge in the gap to cause a first emission having a first desired excitation spectrum. An optical element is integrated with the substrate to direct the first emission to travel along an optical path including an axis. In one embodiment, the system detects the direct fluorescence of a sample such as tryptophan and other amino acids. In another embodiment, the system detects fluorescence of dye-labeled biochemicals. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937918 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142364 | Suh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wonjoo Suh (Stanford, California); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California); Shanhui Fan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We theoretically introduce a new type of optical all-pass filter based on guided resonance in coupled photonic crystal slabs. The filter exhibits near-complete transmission for both on- and off-resonant frequencies and yet generates large resonant group delay. We further show that such a filter can be mechanically switched into a flat-top band rejection filter. We also show that a single photonic crystal slab can also function either as optical all-pass transmission or flattop reflection filter for normally incident light. Both filter functions are synthesized by designing the spectral properties of guided resonance in the slab. The structure is extremely compact along the vertical direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/936837 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142607 | Song |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Song (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A subband channelizer that includes a demultiplexer that receives input samples of a signal and distributes the input samples to a plurality of channelizer filter banks. A Fourier transform module that receives outputs from the plurality of channelizer filter banks and performs Fourier transformation on each of the outputs of the channelizer filters, and outputs a plurality of Fourier signals. A plurality of multiplier modules that receive the Fourier signals, and each of the Fourier signals is multiplied with an exponential value assigned to each of the plurality of multiplier modules to produce oversampled subbands. A combiner for generating a wideband signal from a plurality of input subbands is also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/156066 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142610 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Wang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo coded communication system includes a gray scale mapper in a transmitter for generating a symbol constellation of modulated signals points that can be separated by boundary lines in the constellation space into bitwise groups of zero bits and one bits where the shortest distance from a boundary line to received value in the constellation space indicates the bitwise soft metrics that is computed using a set of bitwise soft metric equations are a function of the minimum distance using closed form algebraic equations in turbo decoding receiver. In the case of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the bit boundary lines are predetermined by a minimum distance in the constellation space for a specified M-ary modulation, so that, the soft metric equations are only a function of the received signal value for providing efficient computation of the bitwise soft metric. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462962 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142611 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Wang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo coded communication system includes a gray scale mapper in a transmitter for generating a symbol constellation of modulated signals points that can be separated by boundary lines in the constellation space into bitwise groups of zero bits and one bits where the shortest distance from a boundary line to received value in the constellation space indicates the bitwise soft metrics that is computed using a set of bitwise soft metric equations are a function of a minimum angle using closed form algebraic equations in turbo decoding receiver. In the case of phase shift keying (PSK) modulation, the bit boundary lines are predetermined by a minimum angle in the constellation space for a specified M-ary modulation, so that, the soft metric equations are only a function of the received signal value for providing efficient computation of the bitwise soft metric. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462987 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142747 | Oosterhuis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Moog Inc. (East Aurora, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. Oosterhuis (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jerry T. Perdue (Christiansburg, Virginia); Carlton W. Sutphin (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic rotary joint is provided that is unaffected by variations in the optical properties of a fluid that fills its internal cavity. The rotary joint includes a housing defining the internal cavity, first and second optical collimation arrays on opposite sides of the internal cavity, and a reversion prism between the optical collimation arrays. Further, the rotary joint includes an interface optical element proximate at least one of the first and second optical collimation arrays and the reversion prism. Each interface optical element includes an optically-flat surface adapted to contact the fluid such that optical signals that are oriented normal to the optically-flat surface can be transmitted without refraction, thereby rendering the optical signals immune to variations in the fluid's optical properties. A reversion prism assembly, an optical collimation assembly and a method of aligning an optical collimation array utilizing alignment pins are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/657403 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142748 | Yang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Span Opto-Technology, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianwen Yang (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An evanescent optically coupled electronic device including: a backplane wave guide or mother board including a set of parallel carriers that define a first plurality of parallel channels and include a first array of optical fibers having exposed cores in the first plurality of parallel channels; at least one electronic card or daughter board including a high speed optical waveguide bus; a flexible fiber ribbon or film including waveguides made up of individual optical fibers of locally increased refractive index joined by a web of suitable material forming the high speed optical waveguide bus and optically connecting the backplane waveguide and the at least one electronic card with no 90° angle turns; and a mechanism for retaining the first array of optical fibers having exposed cores in abutting and facing evanescent optical contact with the individual optical fibers in the flexible fiber or ribbon. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/798209 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142757 | Ward |
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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) | Benjamin G. Ward (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified photonic crystal fiber yielding a higher peak power for a given maximum intensity. The multi-mode signal core has a depressed index of refraction that pushes the mode distribution to the core edges while a pattern of larger air holes is used to flatten the mode distribution. The core is further surrounded by tuned cladding elements defined by a pattern of smaller air holes that cause loss in all of the core modes except the fundamental while maintaining robust guiding of the fundamental mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/231110 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142789 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marc Weiner (West Lafayette, Indiana); Daniel E. Leaird (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus or generating a radiation pulse sequence are disclosed. One embodiment of the apparatus includes two coupled direct space-to-time pulse generators (DSTPGs) with a channel operation element (COE) in between. The first DSTPG forms multiple spatially separated radiation pulse sequences. The COE operates to modify one or more of the radiation pulse sequences, such as imparting a time delay between them. The modified radiation pulse sequences are then combined by the second DSTPG to form a single output radiation pulse sequence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/188293 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07143015 | Preuss |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Preuss (Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure describes techniques for determining the response characteristics of a system. One such technique includes applying a series of M vector probe input signal sets of a form {overscore (V)}m x(t) to the system, wherein {overscore (V)}m is an m-th column of a matrix V and x(t) is a scalar input signal. The response signals {overscore (y)}t are measured and a single-input system {overscore (F)}m(z) is determined by considering the approximate relationship {overscore (y)}z≈{overscore (F)}m(z)x(z), where {overscore (F)}m(z) is an m-th column of a matrix F(z). The system characteristics can be determined from the relationship H(z)=F(z)V−1, where V−1 denotes the right-matrix-inverse of the matrix V. The matrix V may be a matrix with mutually orthogonal rows, or may have entries consisting of plus one and minus one values, or may be a portion of a Hadamard matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/289765 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07143031 | Ahroon |
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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) | William A. Ahroon (Enterprise, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method and system for performing speech intelligibility testing includes calibrating one or more recorded spoken words to have substantially the same sound energy and presenting the one or more calibrated recorded spoken words to a test subject. Speech intelligibility of the test subject is measured by utilizing the one or more calibrated recorded spoken words wherein the speech intelligibility measured is indicative of a percentage of the calibrated word or words that the test subject successfully identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/025042 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07143033 | Belenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert V. Belenger (Raynham, Massachusetts); Gennaro R. Lopriore (Somerset, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-language phonetic transcribing system and method are provided for automatically transcribing speech into a phonetic equivalent. The phonetic transcribing system need only be able to recognize the limited number of phonemes of a particular language, e.g., the forty-two phonemes in the English language. Each language to be translated may be broken down into the phonetic elements and stored in a phonetic library for that language. The transcribing system detects speech, converts the speech to an electrical signal, and analyzes the frequency, amplitude, and timing characteristics of the speech to produce incoming phoneme information. The incoming phoneme information is compared to the phonetic elements in the active library. A correlator determines the degree of correlation between the incoming phoneme information and the stored information for each phoneme in the library. For each match, based on the degree of correlation, a respective phoneme is preferably stored and/or printed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/124706 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07143418 | Patterson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron D. Patterson (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for creating run-time reconfigurable cores using a core template package. The core template package provides an object-oriented application programming interface for specifying run-time reconfigurable (RTR) electronic circuit designs in a RTR application program. A run-time parameterizable (RTP) core library includes a plurality of predefined RTP core classes that implement selected functions in an electronic circuit design when invoked from an RTR application program. An RTP core template package includes a plurality of template classes. Each template class has a predefined set of method interfaces and fields. The RTP core template package further includes an RTP core template class that includes methods for building, connecting and traversing a hierarchy of RTP core objects based on the template classes and the predefined RTP core classes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/013764 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/328 |
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| US 07143444 | Porras et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip Andrew Porras (Cupertino, California); Magnus Almgren (Mountain View, California); Ulf E. Lindqvist (Mountain View, California); Steven Mark Dawson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes passing a request for data received by a first server process executing in a first server to a detection process that includes packing a subset of the data into an analysis format and passing the subset to an analysis process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/996154 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiang Liu (Upland, California); Steve S. Sommer (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | pK-matched buffers, each containing two effective buffering components: one weak base and one weak acid which have similar pKa at 25° C. (within 0.3 pK units). On agarose gels, the buffers in various concentrations were tested for separation of double-stranded DNA fragments with various DNA markers, agarose gel concentrations, and field strengths. Mobility was inversely proportional to the logarithm of molecular weight. The buffers provided high resolution without smearing at more dilute concentration than is possible with standard TAE (Tris/Acetate, pH 8.0) or TBE (Tris/Borate, pH 8.3) buffers. The buffers were also tested in 7M urea denaturing LongRanger™ sequencing gels and in non-denaturing polyacrylamide SSCP gels. The pK-matched buffers provide good separation and high resolution, at a broad range of potential pH values. In comparison to TAE and TBE, pK-matched buffers provide higher voltage and current stability, lower working concentration, more concentrated stock solutions, and lower current per unit voltage, resulting in less heat generation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441099 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141160 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | V{dot over (a)}nderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tingyu Li (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A general chiral column with a multipleproline-based chiral stationary phase. Embodiments include chiral stationary phases of the following formula: wherein n is any integer of 2 or greater, and analogs and isomers thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833602 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141234 | Collins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry M. Collins (Rockville, Maryland); Raymond W. Klecker (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lawrence Anderson (Wheaton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes the use of radio-labeled antitumor drugs in the treatment of solid tumors by the method of administering a radio-labelled anticancer drug to a patient and imaging at least a part of the patient using Positron Emission Tomography imaging. The method is used to monitor delivery of antitumor drugs to tumors and may be used to predict the effectiveness of therapy with a particular antitumor drug or combination of antitumor drugs, to assess the effectiveness of modulators of cellular accumulation, to individualize therapy and to evaluate the effectiveness of antitumor drugs with respect to particular cancers. Particularly preferred drugs are labeled taxanes, e.g., 11C-paclitaxel and 11C-docetaxel, labeled anthracyclines, e.g., 11C-doxorubicin and 11C-epirubicin, and other radio-labeled drug, e.g. 11C-topotecan and 11C-mitoxantrone. The invention further describes antitumor drugs labeled with the radioactive label 11C and methods of preparing radio-labeled drugs. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/088561 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141363 | Poznansky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Poznansky (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Andrew D. Luster (Wellesley, Massachusetts); David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for modulating movement of eukaryotic cells with migratory capacity. More specifically, the invention relates to methods and compositions for modulating movement of cells of hematopoietic, neural, epithelial, or mesenchymal origin, in a specific site in a subject. The foregoing are useful, inter alia, in the treatment of conditions characterized by a need to modulate migratory-cell movement associated with specific sites in a subject. More specifically, specific sites include sites of inflammation and modulation of migratory-cell movement is movement away from an agent source, or repulsion. Other sites include tumor sites, sites of pathogenic infection, and germ cell bearing sites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/191988 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141370 | Hassibi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arjang Hassibi (Palo Alto, California); Nader Pourmand (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods of quantifying nucleic acids using a bioluminescence regenerative cycle (BRC). In BRC, steady state levels of bioluminescence result from processes that produce pyrophosphate. Pyrophosphate reacts with APS in the presence of ATP sulfurylase to produce ATP. The ATP reacts with luciferin in a luciferase-catalyzed reaction, producing light and regenerating pyrophosphate. The pyrophosphate is recycled to produce ATP and the regenerative cycle continues. Because the kinetic properties of ATP sulfurylase are much faster than luciferase, a steady state results wherein concentrations of ATP and pyrophosphate and the rate of light production remain relatively constant. Photons are counted over a time interval to determine the number of target molecules present in the initial sample. The BRC process has a controllable dynamic range up to seven orders of magnitude and is sensitive enough to detect a few thousand molecules of target nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/186455 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141372 | Spivack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Incorporated (Rensselaer, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simmon D. Spivack (Nassau, New York); Gregory J. Hurteau (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a novel Universal RT-coupled PCR strategy for the specific detection and accurate quantitation of mRNA. Claimed and disclosed are novel Universal reverse transcription (RT) primers, a specific primer mix containing the Universal RT-primers, a transcript specific forward primer and a reverse PCR primer identical to a unique tag sequence, and methods and kits thereof for avoiding the amplification of genomic DNA and/or pseudogenes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342684 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141373 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent D. Taylor (Ventura, California); Jerome I. Rotter (Los Angeles, California); Huiying Yang (Cerritos, California); Willa A. Hsueh (Pacific Palisades, California); Xiuqing Guo (Santa Monica, California); Leslie J. Raffel (Los Angeles, California); Mark O. Goodarzi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for determining haplotypes useful for large-scale genetic analysis, within a genomic reference sequence of interest, for a human subpopulation. The method can applied to statistically evaluating the genotypes of subjects for any statistically significant association with a phenotype of interest, such as insulin resistance or coronary artery disease. Thus, also disclosed are a method of detecting a genetic predisposition in a Mexican-American human subject for developing insulin resistance and methods of detecting a lower than normal risk in a Mexican-American human subject for developing insulin resistance or coronary artery disease. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463301 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141382 | Parikh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chirag R. Parikh (Denver, Colorado); Charles L. Edelstein (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns methods of detecting a molecule, interleukin 18, in a sample, and using the detection of IL-18 to predict a condition. In a particular embodiment, the present invention concerns methods of detecting interleukin 18, in a sample, preferably prior to the increase in serum creatinine in a subject predisposed to a condition. In certain embodiments, the methods may comprise obtaining a sample from a subject such as a urine or blood sample and analyzing the sample for the presence or absence of IL-18 to predict a condition for example acute renal failure or organ transplant failure. In another embodiment, the methods may comprise analyzing a sample from a subject for the presence of IL-18 and applying information obtained from analyzing the presence of IL-18 to determine a treatment for a medical condition of the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964201 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141384 | Wellstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wellstein (Washington, District of Columbia); Boussad Souttou (Paris, France); Daniel Raulais (Paris, France); Marc Vigny (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a novel method and kit for detecting and measuring pleiotrophin in samples and diagnosing pleiotrophin-positive diseases. The method involves incubating a sample suspected of containing PTN with anti-PTN antibodies and determining the presence of PTN using a sandwich ELISA. Also methods for treating a pleiotrophin-positive disease by administering an anti-PTN antibody or fragment thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/806820 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Galen (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to a Plasmid Maintenance System for the stabilization of expression plasmids encoding foreign antigens, and methods for making and using the Plasmid Maintenance System. The invention optimizes the maintenance of expression plasmids at two independent levels by: (1) removing sole dependence on balanced lethal maintenance functions; and (2) incorporating at least one plasmid partition function to prevent random segregation of expression plasmids, thereby enhancing their inheritance and stability. The Plasmid Maintenance System may be employed within a plasmid which has been recombinantly engineered to express a variety of expression products. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229069 |
| 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 435/252.300 |
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| US 07141409 | Weigel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Paul DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a recombinant host cell that includes an expression construct having a hyaluronan synthase gene that encodes an enzymatically active hyaluronan synthase (HAS), and to the use of these recombinant cells that produce hyaluronan synthase and its hyaluronic acid product. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446871 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 07141417 | Croce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Hideshi Ishii (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated polynucleotides homologous with a portion of one strand of the human tumor suppressor gene, FEZ1, and to the tumor suppressor protein encoded thereby, Fez1. The polynucleotides are useful, for example, as probes, primers, portions of expression vectors, and the like. The invention also includes diagnostic, therapeutic, cell proliferation enhancement, and screening methods which involve these polynucleotides and protein. The invention further includes kits useful for performing the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/513888 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
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| US 07141420 | Allikmets et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); John Hopkins University (Baltiomore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rando Allikmets (Frederick, Maryland); Kent L. Anderson (Houston, Texas); Michael Dean (Frederick, Maryland); Mark Leppert (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard A. Lewis (Houston, Texas); Yixin Li (Houston, Texas); James R. Lupski (Houston, Texas); Jeremy Nathans (Baltimore, Maryland); Amir Rattner (Baltimore, Maryland); Noah F. Shroyer (Houston, Texas); Nanda Singh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Philip Smallwood (Woodbine, Maryland); Hui Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of an ATP binding cassette transporter and mutated sequences thereof associated with macular degeneration. Methods of detecting agents that modify ATP-binding cassette transporter comprising combining purified ATP binding cassette transporter and at least one agent suspected of modifying the ATP binding cassette transporter an observing a change in at least one characteristic associated with ATP binding cassette transporter. Methods of detecting macular degeneration is also embodied by the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/340097 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07141426 | Calos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele P. Calos (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods of identifying altered recombinases and compositions thereof, wherein at least one amino acid is different from a parent, wild-type recombinase and the altered recombinase has improved recombination efficiency towards wild-type and/or pseudo att site sequences relative to the parent, wild-type recombinase. The present invention also includes methods of modifying the genomes of cells using the altered recombinases, including methods of site-specifically integrating a polynucleotide sequence of interest in a genome of a eucaryotic cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836323 |
| 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 435/462 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141546 | Rivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biologicial Studies (LaJolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Wylie W. Vale (LaJolla, California); Marilyn H. Perrin (LaJolla, California); Jozsef Gulyas (Julian, California); Dean A. Kirby (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | CRF peptide analogs that bind to CRFR2 with an affinity far greater than they bind to CRFR1. These analogs exhibit CRF antagonist activity, and they can be based upon the native structures of sauvagine, CRF, and urocortin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210889 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07141589 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myung Hee Park (Potomac, Maryland); Paul M Clement (Bethesda, Maryland); Hartmut M Hanauske-Abel (Edgewater, New Jersey); Edith C. Wolff (Bethesda, Maryland); Hynda K Kleinman (Kensington, Maryland); Bernadette M Cracchiolo (Edgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting formation of vascular channels in tissues and a method of inhibiting proliferation of a cell of a non-vascularized intraepithelial neoplasia, both of which methods comprise administering to the tissues or the cell a compound. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/486671 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/345 |
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| US 07141600 | Guy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Kiplin Guy (Concord, California); Irwin D. Kuntz (Greenbrae, California); Jose Haresco (San Francisco, California); Naoaki Fujii (South San Francisco, California); Kathleen P. Novak (Watham, Massachusetts); David Stokoe (San Francisco, California); Biao He (San Mateo, California); Liang You (San Francisco, California); Zhidong Xu (San Francisco, California); David M. Jablons (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds that have been found effective in inhibiting PDZ domain interactions, and particularly interactions of PDZ domains in MAGIs with the oncogenic (tumor suppressor) protein PTEN and interactions between the PDZ domain in the Dishevelled (Dvl) protein and other proteins such as the Frizzled (Fz) protein, have the general formula The invention also includes combinatorial libraries, arrays and methods for screening and studying proteins using such compounds. Compounds of the invention have produced apoptosis in certain cell lines that overexpress the Dishevelled protein (Dvl); inhibiting Wnt signaling. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826175 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
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| US 07141649 | Zwiebel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence J. Zwiebel (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses a polynucleotide and polypeptide of arrestin 2. Also disclosed are methods for producing such polypeptide. This invention also discloses a method of identifying compounds that bind to arrestin 2 or odorant receptors. A method of identifying compounds that inhibit the binding of mosquito arrestin 2 to a mosquito odorant receptor is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/094240 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07141655 | Ebright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Yon W. Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecule with two pendant phenylarsine moieties according to the general structural Formula (I) and tautomers, acids, and salts thereof: wherein: (i) R1 or R2, are each independently O−, S−, OR3 or SR3 with the provision that if either R1 or R2 is absent, the other remaining group is ═O or ═S; or R1 and R2, together with the arsenic atom, form a ring according to one of the general structural Formulae (II), (III), (IV), or (V): wherein R3 is H, CH(OH)CH2OH, or (CH2)q—Y, with q being 1–4 and Y being H, OH, NH2, SH, COOH, OAc, CONH2 or CN, and Z represents a hydrocarbon chain comprising 2–4 singly or doubly bonded carbon atoms each of which may be further substituted with one or more of hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, 1-propyl, 2-propyl, methoxy, hydroxy, amino, carboxy, sulfo, oxo, thio, halo (fluoro, chloro, bromo, or fluoro) and (CH2)n″SO3, wherein n″ is 1 or 2; (ii) R4, R5, R6 and R7 are each independently H, F, OR3, R3, OAc, NH2, N(C1–C4 alkyl)2, R1; or R4 with R5, or R6 together with R7, or both, form a ring; (iii) R8 is a linear or branched optionally substituted spacer having a minimum length of approximately 1.5 and a maximum length of approximately 15 Ångstroms; and (iv) X is a detectable group. Methods of using the bis-phenylarsine molecule also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/461224 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
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| US 07141661 | Eling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Eling (Raleigh, North Carolina); Seung Joon Baek (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for drug screens to identify and characterize agents that are agonistic or antagonistic to activation of the promoter region of the NAG-1 gene. Activation of the NAG-1 gene is associated with the apoptotic elimination of cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo. The invention also provides novel promoter region sequences of the NAG-1 gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/363514 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
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| US 07141662 | Nataro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Nataro (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) are provided. In particular, Aap and the five gene cluster (aat) of the AA probe region of the pAA plasmid of EAEC 042 have been identified, sequenced, and further characterized. The use of these novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of EAEC infections is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307294 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07141665 | Joyce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald F. Joyce (Encinitas, California); Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses deoxyribonucleic acid enzymes—catalytic or enzymatic DNA molecules—capable of cleaving nucleic acid sequences or molecules, particularly RNA, in a site-specific manner, as well as compositions including same. Methods of making and using the disclosed enzymes and compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/423035 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141971 | Duensing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invivo Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Randy Duensing (Gainesville, Florida); Steve Varosi (Gainesville, Florida); Scott B. King (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for enhanced multiple coil imaging. The subject invention is advantageous for use in imaging devices, such as MRIs where multiple images can be combined to form a single composite image. In one specific embodiment, the subject method and apparatus utilize a novel process of converting from the original signal vector in the time domain to allow the subject invention to be installed in-line with current MRI devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269968 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142304 | Barbour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Barbour (Glen Head, New York); Yaling Pei (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention recognizes that contrary to intuitive expectations, sensitivity and resolution of the data for image reconstruction can be increased by decreasing the absorption or scattering mean free path length of the imaging source energy. Methods are disclosed in this respect for enhancing sensitivity and resolution in the imaging of scattering target media (116). In one method, source energy wavelength is selected to optimize scattering and absorption of the energy while maintaining measurable and acceptable detector signals (112). In another aspect of the invention, the scattering target medium (116) is radially compressed and the imaging source wavelength is then adjusted in conjunction with the compression to improve sensitivity and resolution. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/088185 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142635 | Kamath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srijit Kamath (Gainesville, Florida); Sartaj Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Jonathan Gang Li (Gainesville, Florida); Jatinder Palta (Gainesville, Florida); Sanjay Ranka (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of delivering intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is disclosed. An intensity profile for the treatment of a patient is provided which spans a prescribed field width and includes a discrete profile having intensity values at each of a plurality of sample points bounded by the prescribed width. The prescribed width is compared to a maximum field width provided by the radiation treatment system. The intensity profile is split into a plurality of intensity profile portions, each having respective widths less than the maximum width if the prescribed width is greater than the maximum width. The prescribed field is also divided into a plurality of different profile portion split arrangements. A monitor unit (MU) efficiency is calculated for each of the arrangements. One of the arrangements is selected for delivery by the system using a leaf sequencing method. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102083 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142909 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon County, California); Jordan Neysmith (Canyon County, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package, that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/236396 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07140239 | Greenwood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret S. Greenwood (Richland, Washington); Paul D. Panetta (Richland, Washington); Judith A. Bamberger (Richland, Washington); Richard A. Pappas (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining properties of settling suspensions includes a settling container, a mixer, and devices for ultrasonic interrogation transverse to the settling direction. A computer system controls operation of the mixer and the interrogation devices and records the response to the interrogating as a function of settling time, which is then used to determine suspension properties. Attenuation versus settling time for dilute suspensions, such as dilute wood pulp suspension, exhibits a peak at different settling times for suspensions having different properties, and the location of this peak is used as one mechanism for characterizing suspensions. Alternatively or in addition, a plurality of ultrasound receivers are arranged at different angles to a common transmitter to receive scattering responses at a variety of angles during particle settling. Angular differences in scattering as a function of settling time are also used to characterize the suspension. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391070 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07140259 | Hendrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U. T. Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Ray Hendrich (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Wallace Jefferson McAfee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Claire Roberta Luttrell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the circumferential properties of a tubular product, especially nuclear fuel cladding, utilizes compression of a polymeric plug within the tubular product to determine strain stress, yield stress and other properties. The process is especially useful in the determination of aging properties such as fuel rod embrittlement after long burn-down. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/952503 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/824 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy R. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A percussion tool is described and which includes a housing mounting a tool bit; a reciprocally moveable hammer borne by the housing and which is operable to repeatedly strike the tool bit; and a reciprocally moveable piston enclosed within the hammer and which imparts reciprocal movement to the reciprocally moveable hammer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968379 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Tool driving or impacting 173/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141154 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Michael Henry (Batavia, Illinois); Jamie Hestekin (Morton Grove, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois); Edward J. St. Martin (Libertyville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of and apparatus for continuously making an organic ester from a lower alcohol and an organic acid is disclosed. An organic acid or salt is introduced or produced in an electrode ionization (EDI) stack with a plurality of reaction chambers each formed from a porous solid ion exchange resin wafer interleaved between anion exchange membranes or an anion exchange membrane and a cation exchange membrane or an anion exchange membrane and a bipolar exchange membranes. At least some reaction chambers are esterification chambers and/or bioreactor chambers and/or chambers containing an organic acid or salt. A lower alcohol in the esterification chamber reacts with an anion to form an organic ester and water with at least some of the water splitting with the ions leaving the chamber to drive the reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794231 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141617 | Gratson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Gratson (Urbana, Illinois); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polyelectrolyte inks comprising a solvent, a cationic polyelectrolyte, dissolved in the solvent, and an anionic polyelectrolyte, dissolved in the solvent. The concentration of at least one of the polyelectrolytes in the solvent is in a semidilute regime. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463834 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141675 | Tappan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryce C. Tappan (Santa Fe, New Mexico); My Hang V. Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael A. Hiskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Steven F. Son (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David M. Oschwald (Santa Fe, New Mexico); David E. Chavez (Rancho de Taos, New Mexico); Darren L. Naud (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoporous metal foams are prepared by ignition of high nitrogen transition metal complexes. The ammonium salts of iron(III) tris[bi(tetrazolato)-amine], cobalt(III) tris(bi(tetrazolato)amine), and high nitrogen compounds of copper and silver were prepared as loose powders, pressed into pellets and wafers, and ignited under an inert atmosphere to form nanoporous metal foam monoliths having very high surface area and very low density. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964218 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141799 | Neal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Neal (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Mihalczo (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector system that combines a 6Li loaded glass fiber scintillation thermal neutron detector with a fast scintillation detector in a single layered structure. Detection of thermal and fast neutrons and ionizing electromagnetic radiation is achieved in the unified detector structure. The fast scintillator replaces the polyethelene moderator layer adjacent the 6Li loaded glass fiber panel of the neutron detector and acts as the moderator for the glass fibers. Fast neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays are detected in the fast scintillator. Thermal neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays are detected in the glass fiber scintillator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094679 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141834 | Atwater, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry A. Atwater, Jr. (South Pasadena, California); James M. Zahler (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Ge/Si and other nonsilicon film heterostructures are formed by hydrogen-induced exfoliation of the Ge film which is wafer bonded to a cheaper substrate, such as Si. A thin, single-crystal layer of Ge is transferred to Si substrate. The bond at the interface of the Ge/Si heterostructures is covalent to ensure good thermal contact, mechanical strength, and to enable the formation of an ohmic contact between the Si substrate and Ge layers. To accomplish this type of bond, hydrophobic wafer bonding is used, because as the invention demonstrates the hydrogen-surface-terminating species that facilitate van der Waals bonding evolves at temperatures above 600° C. into covalent bonding in hydrophobically bound Ge/Si layer transferred systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165328 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141863 | Compaan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alvin D. Compaan (Sylvania, Ohio); Akhlesh Gupta (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a diode structure includes the step of depositing a transparent electrode layer of any one or more of the group ZnO, ZnS and CdO onto a substrate layer, and depositing an active semiconductor junction having an n-type layer and a p-type layer onto the transparent electrode layer under process conditions that avoid substantial degradation of the electrode layer. A back electrode coating layer is applied to form a diode structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722643 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142075 | Roesler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Alburquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander W. Roesler (Tijeras, New Mexico); Todd R. Christenson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) apparatus is disclosed which can be used to generate electrical power in response to an external source of vibrations, or to sense the vibrations and generate an electrical output voltage in response thereto. The MEM apparatus utilizes a meandering electrical pickup located near a shuttle which holds a plurality of permanent magnets. Upon movement of the shuttle in response to vibrations coupled thereto, the permanent magnets move in a direction substantially parallel to the meandering electrical pickup, and this generates a voltage across the meandering electrical pickup. The MEM apparatus can be fabricated by LIGA or micromachining. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/817786 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142129 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); David B. Bartholomew (Springville, Utah); Monte Johnson (Orem, Utah); Justin Moon (Bountiful, Utah); Roger O. Koehler (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for use in synchronizing at least two clocks in a downhole network are disclosed. The method comprises determining a total signal latency between a controlling processing element and at least one downhole processing element in a downhole network and sending a synchronizing time over the downhole network to the at least one downhole processing element adjusted for the signal latency. Electronic time stamps may be used to measure latency between processing elements. A system for electrically synchronizing at least two clocks connected to a downhole network comprises a controlling processing element connected to a synchronizing clock in communication over a downhole network with at least one downhole processing element comprising at least one downhole clock. Preferably, the downhole network is integrated into a downhole tool string. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710875 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/853.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142434 | Beihoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce C. Beihoff (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Dennis L. Kehl (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Lee A. Gettelfinger (Brown Deer, Wisconsin); Steven C. Kaishian (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Mark G. Phillips (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Lawrence D. Radosevich (Muskego, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | EMI shielding in an electric vehicle drive is provided for power electronics circuits and the like via a direct-mount reference plane support and shielding structure. The thermal support may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support forms a shield from both external EMI/RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as improved terminal configurations. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/252330 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142625 | Jones et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Jones (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jerry M. Hoggan (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Yale D. Harker (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Woo Y. Yoon (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Larry O. Johnson (Island Park, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting photonuclear-induced neutrons is described herein. One embodiment of the device may comprise a neutron detector and a detection circuit. The neutron detector may comprise a detector output. The detection circuit may be operatively connected to the detector output and may comprise an amplifier, a low-pass filter, and a high pass filter. The amplifier may comprise an amplifier input and an amplifier output. The amplifier input may be being operatively connected to the detector output. The low-pass filter may comprise a low-pass filter input and a low-pass filter output. The low-pass filter input may be operatively connected to the amplifier output. The high-pass filter may comprise a high-pass filter input and a high-pass filter output. The high-pass filter input may be operatively connected to the amplifier output. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703863 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07141615 | Scranton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alec Scranton (Coralville, Iowa); Lijing Gou (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for addressing oxygen inhibition in free radical polymerization systems and determination of oxygen content in a monomer or oligomer. The compositions used include a singlet oxygen generator and a singlet oxygen trapper. Addition of the generator and trapper resulting in removal of oxygen can occur before polymerization or essentially simultaneously with polymerization. Determination of oxygen content comprises monitoring the concentration changes from the reaction of the singlet oxygen trapper with the oxygen in the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752778 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141617 | Gratson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Gratson (Urbana, Illinois); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polyelectrolyte inks comprising a solvent, a cationic polyelectrolyte, dissolved in the solvent, and an anionic polyelectrolyte, dissolved in the solvent. The concentration of at least one of the polyelectrolytes in the solvent is in a semidilute regime. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463834 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141649 | Zwiebel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence J. Zwiebel (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses a polynucleotide and polypeptide of arrestin 2. Also disclosed are methods for producing such polypeptide. This invention also discloses a method of identifying compounds that bind to arrestin 2 or odorant receptors. A method of identifying compounds that inhibit the binding of mosquito arrestin 2 to a mosquito odorant receptor is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/094240 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141677 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Hoon Lee (Clemson, South Carolina); Mark A. Schlautman (Pendleton, South Carolina); Elizabeth A. Carraway (Pendleton, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An unstable, methyl-substituted (1,1 oxaly diimidazole) molecule capable of accelerating the rate at which a material attains maximum chemiluminescence when reacted hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a fluorophore and a method to synthesize such molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705586 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/334.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142303 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ghester G. Wilson (Ruston, Louisiana); Long Que (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bhaskar Mitra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ponnambalam Selvaganapathy (Chennai, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-discharge optical source apparatus and a method and system which utilizes the apparatus to analyze a sample are provided. The apparatus includes a substrate and an anode electrode and a cathode electrode supported on the substrate. One of the electrodes, such as the cathode, is preferably a liquid electrode. The electrodes are spaced apart to define an inter-electrode gap therebetween. The apparatus further includes a voltage source for applying a voltage between the electrodes sufficient to generate a glow micro-discharge in the gap to cause a first emission having a first desired excitation spectrum. An optical element is integrated with the substrate to direct the first emission to travel along an optical path including an axis. In one embodiment, the system detects the direct fluorescence of a sample such as tryptophan and other amino acids. In another embodiment, the system detects fluorescence of dye-labeled biochemicals. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937918 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142364 | Suh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wonjoo Suh (Stanford, California); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California); Shanhui Fan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We theoretically introduce a new type of optical all-pass filter based on guided resonance in coupled photonic crystal slabs. The filter exhibits near-complete transmission for both on- and off-resonant frequencies and yet generates large resonant group delay. We further show that such a filter can be mechanically switched into a flat-top band rejection filter. We also show that a single photonic crystal slab can also function either as optical all-pass transmission or flattop reflection filter for normally incident light. Both filter functions are synthesized by designing the spectral properties of guided resonance in the slab. The structure is extremely compact along the vertical direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/936837 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07143431 | Eager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek L. Eager (Saskatoon, Canada); Mary K. Vernon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An improvement on dynamic skyscraper delivery of continuous media programs, such as video, divides the channels used for the delivery of the video into leading and trailing groups. A cluster defining on transmission of a program can then be broken into mini-clusters in the leading group which may be freely matched to full clusters in the lower group with loosened alignment requirements. This decoupling provides more efficient allocation of bandwidth to on-demand consumer requests and permits strategic opportunities to merge requests with concurrently allocated bandwidth for similar programs. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/633506 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Interactive video distribution systems 725/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07141207 | Jandeska, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Motors Corporation (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Jandeska, Jr. (Rochester, Michigan); James E. Hetzner (Saginaw, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D Printing Rapid Prototyping process using Al/Mg particles coated with a metal (i.e. copper, nickel, zinc, or tin) that (1) prevents oxidation of the Al/Mg particles, and (2) either alone, or when alloyed with the aluminum or magnesium core metal, melts below the liquidus temperature of the core. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/929273 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141232 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California); PQ Corporation (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Miller (San Francisco, California); David Allen Cooper (Morrisville, Pennsylvania); Gerald Martin Woltermann (Harleysville, Pennsylvania); William Edward Cormier (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Molecular sieves are prepared by forming a reaction mixture slurry, spray drying the reaction mixture slurry to form particles, and heating the spray dried reaction mixture at a temperature and pressure sufficient to cause crystallization of the molecular sieve. The reaction mixture contains an organic templating agent capable of forming the molecular sieve. The template may be added to the reaction mixture either by adding all of the template prior to spray drying, or by adding a portion of the template prior to spray drying with the remainder being added after spray drying. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107496 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/716 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07141644 | Ong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Lu Jiang (Oakville, Canada); Yu Qi (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Polythiophenes of the formula wherein R is a side chain; m is the number of substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the numbers of R substituted thienylene, unsubstituted thienylene, and divalent linkages A in the monomer segment with z being either 0 or 1; and n represents the number of the repeating monomer segments in the polymer chain or the degree of polymerization. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/042357 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07141092 | Roychoudhury et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Jay Perry (Madison, Alabama); Dennis Walsh (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for regenerable adsorption includes providing a substrate that defines at least one layer of ultra short channel length mesh capable of conducting an electrical current therethrough, coating at least a portion of the substrate with a desired sorbent for trace contaminant control or CO2 sorption, resistively heating the substrate, and passing a flowstream through the substrate and in contact with the sorbent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/126012 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142105 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shin-Juh Chen (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for and method of detecting fires comprising detecting (with one or more detectors) levels of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and smoke in an ambient environment, computing (using a processor) over time rates of increase of each of the levels, and generating an alarm if one or more of the rates of increase exceed predetermined threshold rates of increase. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056811 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07141395 | Triplett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Triplett (Middleton, Wisconsin); Thomas C. Herlache (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for controlling crown gall disease in plants using an effective quantity of α-proteobacteria that produces trifolitoxin (TFX). The present invention also provides a biocontrol agent for use in the above method, and a plant coated with the biological control agent. The biocontrol agent is characterized as a biologically pure culture of an α-proteobacteria strain that produces TFX, or an α-proteobacteria strain genetically engineered to produce TFX. The α-proteobacteria strain employed may include any one of the many strains of Agrobacterium capable of producing crown galls, including Agrobacterium vitis and, in particular, A. vitis F2/5. The α-proteobacteria strain employed may be genetically engineered to produce TFX by introducing a genetic construct into the Agrobacterium so as to cause the Agrobacterium to carry and express the tfx operon from Rhizobium. The bacteria may also be genetically engineered to produce TFX by introducing a pT2TFXK plasmid into the Agrobacterium. The biocontrol agent may also be the strain Agrobacterium vitis F2/5 (pT2TFXK), ATCC Patent Deposit Designation PTA-2356. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/927616 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/71.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07142607 | Song |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Song (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A subband channelizer that includes a demultiplexer that receives input samples of a signal and distributes the input samples to a plurality of channelizer filter banks. A Fourier transform module that receives outputs from the plurality of channelizer filter banks and performs Fourier transformation on each of the outputs of the channelizer filters, and outputs a plurality of Fourier signals. A plurality of multiplier modules that receive the Fourier signals, and each of the Fourier signals is multiplied with an exponential value assigned to each of the plurality of multiplier modules to produce oversampled subbands. A combiner for generating a wideband signal from a plurality of input subbands is also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/156066 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07141371 | Liu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guowen Liu (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods for detecting and localizing DNA mutations by DNA microarray. In various embodiments, the described methods include use of restriction endonuclease(s) and/or mismatch-recognition nuclease(s) to detect and/or localize mutations. In one representative method, reference and target DNA are digested using one or more restriction endonucleases, resultant DNA strands are labeled (e.g., using a DNA polymerase), and the labeled mixture of DNAs is hybridized to a microarry. In another representative method, reference and target DNA are denatured and annealed to form a mixture containing heteroduplex DNA, one or more mismatch-recognition nuclease(s) are used to nick or cleave at least a portion of the heteroduplex DNA, resultant DNA strands are labeled (e.g., using a DNA polymerase) and the labeled mixture of DNAs is hybridized to a microarray. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/236598 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07141367 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Schwartz (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Brian C. Schutte (Iowa City, Iowa); Eva Lorenz (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods to identify polymorphisms at the human TLR4 locus, as well as methods to identify individuals at risk of indications that increase their morbidity and mortality. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/010066 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07142953 | Marshall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Marshall (Manassas, Virginia); Alan F. Dennis (Chantilly, Virginia); Charles A. Dennis (Warrenton, Virginia); Steven G. Santee (Bristow, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable digital processing system for space includes the utilization of field programmable gate arrays utilizing a hardware centric approach to reconfigure software processors in a space vehicle through the reprogramming of multiple FPGAs such that one obtains a power/performance characteristic for signal processing tasks that cannot be achieved simply through the use of off-the-shelf processors. In one embodiment, for damaged or otherwise inoperable signal processors located on a spacecraft, the remaining processors which are undamaged can be reconfigured through changing the machine language and binary to the field programmable gate arrays to change the core processor while at the same time maintaining undamaged components so that the signal processing functions can be restored utilizing a RAM-based FPGA as a signal processor. In one embodiment, multiple FPGAs are connected together by a data bus and are also provided with data pipes which interconnect selected FPGAs together to provide the necessary processing function. Flexibility in reconfiguration includes the utilizing of a timing and synchronization block as well as a common configuration block which when coupled to an interconnect block permits reconfiguration of a customizable application core, depending on the particular signal processing function desired. The result is that damaged or inoperable signal processing components can be repaired in space without having to physically attend to the hardware by transmitting to the spacecraft commands which reconfigure the particular FPGAs thus to alter their signal processing function. Also mission changes can be accomplished by reprogramming the FPGAs. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672844 |
| 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, November 28, 2006.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Army Research Office (ARO)
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The 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)
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