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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07150200 | Cavallaro |
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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) | Paul V. Cavallaro (Raynham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature axisymmetric streamline tensile (MAST) specimen having improved axisymmetric surface profile design and surface stress concentration factor (SSCF) improvements, i.e., close to unity is described. The MAST specimen also has improved variable curvature transition fillets, miniaturized profile dimension and shoulder region features used in conjunction with the collet loading method. An axisymmetric, rather than flat, design is preferred since no stress gradients exist in the hoop direction, i.e., circumferential direction, of the specimen. The MAST specimen is designed to permit various loading options. The MAST specimen 10 may be used for testing any suitable material including, but not limited to, metals, plastics and ceramics. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/814360 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/826 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150234 | Gilman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Gilman (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Anthony Farina (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Leon Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A finless cone-nosed, ogival-nosed, or combination ogive-cone nosed training projectile is statically stable, yet has adequate spin rate to compensate for aerodynamic or mass asymmetries. In addition, the training projectile can be fired from smooth bore or rifled cannons of various calibers, including 120 mm and 105 mm. Spin torque and stability augmentation are provided by a radially angled slotted tail flange attached to the rear of the training projectile, providing high performance and improved accuracy at low cost for use in training exercises. The training projectile has a higher static margin than conventional devices, and provides the ability to train personnel with a training projectile that achieves flight ranges similar to its matching tactical projectile, and has improved accuracy. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711714 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150235 | Mikhail |
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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) | Ameer G. Mikhail (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An anti-armor projectile has a tail fin boom having an inner hollow area. A warhead made of high density materials is disposed in the hollow area to serve as a kinetic-energy penetrator that is released upon impact to increase the lethality of the anti-armor projectile. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/798954 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150412 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clean Earth Technologies LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaupoh Wang (Chesterfield, Missouri); Jeffry Golden (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Christopher G. Kocher (Belleville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to improve the atomization of liquid and the efficiency of depositing liquid particles onto target objects, or to coat the target object with a thin film of liquid, to reduce the risk of high-voltage electrical shock, and to reduce the weight of an electrostatic spray system has been developed by inducing electrostatic charges onto the atomized liquid particles sprayed from a grounded metal nozzle. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632891 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/102.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150434 | Bandyopadhyay |
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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) | Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Wake vortices are made less detectable or reduced in their effect on nearby vehicles by re-orientation of vorticity about an axis in the direction of vehicle motion to transverse vorticity interacting with the longitudinal vorticity. The re-orientation may be by a flapping foil, and arrangements of a plurality of foils moving toward or from each other may be used. Alternatively, fluid may be injected longitudinally between opposite surfaces each having a port so that selective suction through the ports alternately attaches the fluid to the surfaces to deflect the fluid from the longitudinal direction and generate transverse vortices. Oppositely rotating vortices may be formed by separators extendable from each surface to engage the deflected fluid, and extension of the separators may be varied to control vortex trajectory. The transverse vortices may be intermittent, selected for speed, or made asymmetric for maneuvering. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070401 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150617 | Lowell 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) | Mark D. Lowell (Gloucester, Virginia); James A. Gusack (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular press assembly for performing multiple position pressing with a single press. The modular press assembly includes a floating mount attached to the upper platen of the press, a hydraulic cylinder, and a press ram coupled to the cylinder which automatically guides itself precisely into axial alignment with a die situated on a lower platen and containing material to be pressed. A plurality of such press assemblies are mounted on the upper platen and are connected through respective flow control valves to an independent hydraulic control system to allow adjustment of the travel of the multiple press rams. This configuration facilitates multiple position pressing and equally divides the total press force from the single hydraulic press, distributing it among each of the multiple positions independent of the final height of each pressed body. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714352 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150667 | Leung |
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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) | Fee Chan Leung (Hazlet, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An individual flotation device includes a shell that has a cavity for receiving air and a housing that is connected to the shell. The housing has a metal air battery compartment that is dimensioned and configured to receive a metal air battery and also has an aperture. The housing may be located on the shell such that the aperture will generally remain above water during use of the flotation device. A membrane that may comprise hydrophobic properties may be located within the aperture of the housing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975118 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices 441/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150778 | Dauber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle D. Dauber (Street, Maryland); David R. Peterson (Fallston, Maryland); Carl A. Betten (Bel Air, Maryland); Thomas S. Thoner (Havre de Grace, Maryland); D. Michael Reid (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a system and method for improving the useful life of sorbent beds, such as activated carbon filter beds. It is known that breakthrough in carbon filter beds first occurs at the low gas velocity regions of the filter bed, i.e., at the filter's edges. A recirculation jacket filter system diverts already filtered air from the downstream side of the filter bed toward the peripheral region of the upstream side of the filter bed so that contaminants near the filter's edges are reduced and filter life is improved. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/832151 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150852 | Beierle, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Beierle, legal representative (Toms River, New Jersey); Jules F. Senske (Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for preventing galvanic corrosion associated with a fastener of a first metal type and within an orifice of a second metal type for receiving said fastener. The method includes coating the fastener with a corrosive inhibitor and by further coating at least one of the fastener and orifice with an anaerobic composition that expands after the fastener is inserted into the orifice. The system includes a corrosive inhibitor coating at least a portion of the fastener adapted to contact the second metal type; and an anaerobic composition interposed between the corrosive inhibited portion of the fastener and orifice, and adapted to expand after the corrosive inhibitor portion of the fastener is inserted into the orifice. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605090 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150855 | Nauflett 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) | George W. Nauflett (Ft. Washington, Maryland); Robert E. Farncomb (Accokeek, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making pelletized nitrocellulose (PNC) includes preparing a lacquer, the lacquer comprising nitrocellulose (NC), ethyl acetate and ethyl centralite, the NC having a nitrogen content of at least about 12.2%; mixing the lacquer with an antisolvent to thereby emulsify the lacquer and form PNC; drowning the PNC with the antisolvent; and separating the antisolvent and ethyl acetate from the PNC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216894 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150875 | Lanar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Lanar (Takoma Park, Maryland); Sheetij Dutta (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lisa A. Ware (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium vivax (SalI) PvMSP-1 p42. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified protein which retains folding and disulfide bridging of the native molecule. The recombinant PvMSP-1 p42 is useful as a diagnostic reagent, for use in antibody production, and as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/100699 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150920 | Kodas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal-carbon composite powders and methods for producing metal-carbon composite powders. The powders have a well-controlled microstructure and morphology and preferably have a small average particle size. The method includes forming the particles from an aerosol of powder precursors. The invention also includes novel devices and products formed from the composite powders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209234 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/570 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150968 | Prendergast et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Prendergast (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Kai Ge (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides Bin2 sequences and proteins encoded thereby. Also provided are compositions and methods utilizing these sequences and proteins in the diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders, including hepatocarcinoma. Further provided are oligonucleotides derived from sequences encoding Bin2, as well as compositions and methods utilizing same for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976492 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150991 | Potts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malcolm Potts (Blacksburg, Virginia); Richard Helm (New Castle, Virginia); Mark S. Berninger (N. Potomac, Maryland); Herbert A. Avila (Monrovia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed that provide for the preservation of living human and other cells at room temperature or higher temperatures which can be applied to research, medical and defense applications. These methods represent a significant improvement relative to currently used methods that employ preservation at cryogenic temperatures. Using these methods, living human and other cells can be stored at room temperature or higher, and subsequently be recovered as living cells capable of dividing and exhibiting other well recognized properties of living cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402925 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151277 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di Gao (Albany, California); Roger T. Howe (Martinez, California); Roya Maboudian (Orinda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of etching silicon carbide using a nonmetallic mask layer. The method includes providing a silicon carbide substrate; forming a non-metallic mask layer by applying a layer of material on the substrate; patterning the mask layer to expose underlying areas of the substrate; and etching the underlying areas of the substrate with a plasma at a first rate, while etching the mask layer at a rate lower than the first rate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613508 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151330 | Rose |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiance Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Millard Franklin Rose (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A vector inversion generator utilizes closed-path ferrites to modify the characteristics of the generator. The closed-path ferrites increase an inductance within a portion of the generator and additionally provide a protective shield for associated electronic circuits. By increasing the inductance, the closed-path ferrites increase the voltage efficiency and the energy efficiency of the generator. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393325 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151342 | Sellars et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Jeffrey Sellars (Buellton, California); Nugent Truong (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for protecting first electrodes, conductive leads and the underlying substrate from the process of removing organic layers during the fabrication of an organic electronic device. After first electrodes and conductive leads are formed over a substrate, a protective layer is selectively formed over the structure, with the protective layer not being disposed over selected portions of the first electrodes, the conductive leads and the substrate. Organic layers are then formed over the structure, and second electrodes are formed over the organic layers. Those portions of the organic layers disposed over the selected portions of the first electrodes, conductive leads and substrate are removed, and the protective layer protects adjacent portions of the first electrodes, conductive leads and substrate from the process of removing the portions of the organic layers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840981 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151362 | Siri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kasemsan Siri (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A uniform converter output voltage distribution power system evenly controls the individual output voltages of DC-to-DC parallel-input series-output connected converters using a uniform output voltage distribution controller including a generator for generating respective error signals from the converter output voltages using a common distribution reference signal for providing respective converter control signals connected to the converters through respective shared-bus controls for evenly distributing the power delivered by the converters that are shared-bus current-mode converters for preferably providing high output voltages. Employing a common regulation control signal, the controller can also provide system output voltage regulation, system input current limiting, proportional-voltage control, relaxed voltage uniformity, and fault-tolerant power control. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145336 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151412 | Hairston |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen W Hairston (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described techniques extend (e.g., by a factor of 2) the dynamic range of voltage swing for amplifiers and other integrated circuits (e.g., buffers) that are fabricated using lower voltage rated semiconductor processes. Such processes include, for instance, thin gate oxide MOS, and other semiconductor processes that provide desirable features that are typically not associated with high voltage processes, such as increased radiation hardness, higher speed logic, and compactness. Thus, relatively large dynamic range is enabled for integrated circuits fabricated using feature-rich lower voltage rated semiconductor processes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/929604 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151415 | Zhou |
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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) | Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An injection locked dual opto-electronic oscillator having a master oscillator which generates a high Q RF output signal with a plurality of harmonic signals within a predetermined pass band. A slave oscillator has a modulation input coupled to the output signal from the master oscillator as well as an output signal. The slave oscillator has a cavity length selected to produce a single mode operation within the pass band. An electronic phase shifter in the slave oscillator is adjustable to produce constructive interference at a single harmonic of the output signal from the master oscillator and destructive interference of all other harmonics within the pass band and to bring the slave oscillator into injection locked condition with the master oscillator. Therefore the slave OEO is used as a filter for the spurious radiation generated by the master OEO and at the same time preserves the high Q of the RF carrier signal from the master OEO. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046789 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07152023 | Das |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Indraneel Das (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An active set algorithm exploits a ‘hot start’ for the set of binding constraints at optimality along with efficient linear algebra to make rapid progress towards the solution. The linear algebra is designed to deal with degenerate constraints as the required factorizations are performed and as degeneracy emerges, and not via a mostly unnecessary pre-process step. Combined together, these novel approaches enable solution of the control problem in real-time. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367458 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07150268 | Shafer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott F. Shafer (Morton, Illinois); Lifeng Wang (Normal, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel pumping system that includes a pump drive is provided. A first pumping element is operatively connected to the pump drive and is operable to generate a first flow of pressurized fuel. A second pumping element is operatively connected to the pump drive and is operable to generate a second flow of pressurized fuel. A first solenoid is operatively connected to the first pumping element and is operable to vary at least one of a fuel pressure and a fuel flow rate of the first flow of pressurized fuel. A second solenoid is operatively connected to the second pumping element and is operable to vary at least one of a fuel pressure and a fuel flow rate of the second flow of pressurized fuel. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201301 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150531 | Toeppen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Toeppen (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An autostereoscopic viewer is employed to produce aberration corrected images to simulate a virtual presence by employing pairs of projector optical components coupled with an image corrector plate and a field lens. Images are designed with magnifications and optical qualities and positioned at predetermined eyezones having controlled directional properties. The viewer's eyes are positioned in these eyezones. The size of these zones is related to the aperture of the projection lenses, the magnification produced by the Fresnel(s), and the optical properties and position of the image corrector plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649314 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150836 | Meikrantz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Meikrantz (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for use in separating, at least in part, a mixture, including at least one chamber and at least one microwave generation device configured for communicating microwave energy into the at least one chamber is disclosed. The rotor assembly may comprise an electric generator for generating electricity for operating the microwave generation device. At least one microwave generation device may be positioned within a tubular interior shaft extending within the rotor assembly. At least a portion of the tubular interior shaft may be substantially transparent to microwave energy. Microwave energy may be emitted in an outward radial direction or toward an anticipated boundary surface defined between a mixture and a separated constituent thereof. A method including flowing a mixture through at least one chamber and communicating microwave energy into the at least one chamber while rotating same is disclosed. Methods of operating a centrifugal separator and design thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892883 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150863 | Alford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael Alford (Lakewood, Colorado); Michael D. Diener (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides improved methods for combustion synthesis of carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, employing multiple-ring aromatic hydrocarbon fuels selected for high carbon conversion to extractable fullerenes. The multiple-ring aromatic hydrocarbon fuels include those that contain polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. More specifically, multiple-ring aromatic hydrocarbon fuels contain a substantial amount of indene, methylnapthalenes or mixtures thereof. Coal tar and petroleum distillate fractions provide low cost hydrocarbon fuels containing polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, including without limitation, indene, methylnapthalenes or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099095 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.B00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150904 | D'Urso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. D'Urso (Clinton, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material having sharp surface features includes a recessive phase and a protrusive phase, the recessive phase having a higher susceptibility to a preselected etchant than the protrusive phase, the composite material having an etched surface wherein the protrusive phase protrudes from the surface to form a sharp surface feature. The sharp surface features can be coated to make the surface super-hydrophobic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900248 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150910 | Eisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans J. Eisler (Weingarten/Baden, Germany); Vikram C. Sundar (Hoboken, New Jersey); Michael E. Walsh (Everett, Massachusetts); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure including a grating and a semiconductor nanocrystal layer on the grating, can be a laser. The semiconductor nanocrystal layer can include a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals including a Group II–VI compound, the nanocrystals being distributed in a metal oxide matrix. The grating can have a periodicity from 200 nm to 500 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294742 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151252 | Lehmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joerg Lehmann (Pleasanton, California); Joshua Levy (Salem, New York); Robin L. Stern (Lodi, California); Christine Hartmann Siantar (Livermore, California); Zelanna Goldberg (Carmichael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation phantom comprising a body with a general humanoid shape and at least a portion having an adjustable thickness. In one embodiment, the portion with an adjustable thickness comprises at least one tissue-equivalent slice. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915889 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151256 | Guillorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Guillorn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bojan Ilic (Ithaca, New York); Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for cantilever structures that include a vertically aligned nanostructure, especially vertically aligned carbon nanofiber scanning probe microscope tips. An apparatus includes a cantilever structure including a substrate including a cantilever body, that optionally includes a doped layer, and a vertically aligned nanostructure coupled to the cantilever body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/716770 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151266 | Christo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southeastern Univ. Research Assn. (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Basil Christo (Gloucester Point, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for the inspection of cargo containers for nuclear materials comprising one or more arrays of modules comprising grounded, closed conductive tubes filled with an ionizing gas mixture such as, but not limited to, Argon:CO2. A wire is suspended along each tube axis and electrically connected at both ends of the tube. A positive, dc high voltage is supplied to one end of the wire and an amplifier is attached to the other end through a capacitance to decouple the amplifier from the high voltage. X-rays, gamma rays or neutrons produced by nuclear material and passing through the tube ionize the gas. The electrons from the gas ionization process are accelerated toward the wire surface due to the wire's electrical potential. The acceleration of the electrons near the wire's surface is sufficient to ionize more gas and produce an amplification of electrons/ions that create a surge of current large enough to be detectable by the amplifier. Means are also provided for a warning device coupled to the amplifier. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/412990 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/385.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151277 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di Gao (Albany, California); Roger T. Howe (Martinez, California); Roya Maboudian (Orinda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of etching silicon carbide using a nonmetallic mask layer. The method includes providing a silicon carbide substrate; forming a non-metallic mask layer by applying a layer of material on the substrate; patterning the mask layer to expose underlying areas of the substrate; and etching the underlying areas of the substrate with a plasma at a first rate, while etching the mask layer at a rate lower than the first rate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613508 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151347 | Myneni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ganapati Rao Myneni (Yorktown, Virginia); Bjorgvin Hjorvarsson (Lagga Arby, Sweden); Gianluigi Ciovati (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A niobium cavity exhibiting high quality factors at high gradients is provided by treating a niobium cavity through a process comprising: 1) removing surface oxides by plasma etching or a similar process; 2) removing hydrogen or other gases absorbed in the bulk niobium by high temperature treatment of the cavity under ultra high vacuum to achieve hydrogen outgassing; and 3) assuring the long term chemical stability of the niobium cavity by applying a passivating layer of a superconducting material having a superconducting transition temperature higher than niobium thereby reducing losses from electron (cooper pair) scattering in the near surface region of the interior of the niobium cavity. According to a preferred embodiment, the passivating layer comprises niobium nitride (NbN) applied by reactive sputtering. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/168198 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151466 | Gabelmann et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Gabelmann (Boerne, Texas); J. Stephen Kattner (San Antonio, Texas); Robert A. Houston (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is an ultra-low frequency electromagnetic telemetry receiver which fuses multiple input receive sources to synthesize a decodable message packet from a noise corrupted telemetry message string. Each block of telemetry data to be sent to the surface receiver from a borehole tool is digitally encoded into a data packet prior to transmission. The data packet is modulated onto the ULF EM carrier wave and transmitted from the borehole to the surface and then are simultaneously detected by multiple receive sensors disbursed within the rig environment. The receive sensors include, but are not limited to, electric field and magnetic field sensors. The spacing of the surface receive elements is such that noise generators are unequally coupled to each receive element due to proximity and/or noise generator type (i.e. electric or magnetic field generators). The receiver utilizes a suite of decision metrics to reconstruct the original, non noise-corrupted data packet from the observation matrix via the estimation of individual data frames. The receiver will continue this estimation process until: 1) the message validates, or 2) a preset “confidence threshold” is reached whereby frames within the observation matrix are no longer “trusted”. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922630 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151787 | Kulp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Jan Kulp (Livermore, California); Dahv A. V. Kliner (San Ramon, California); Ricky Sommers (Oakley, California); Uta-Barbara Goers (Campbell, New York); Karla M. Armstrong (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The location of gases that are not visible to the unaided human eye can be determined using tuned light sources that spectroscopically probe the gases and cameras that can provide images corresponding to the absorption of the gases. The present invention is a light source for a backscatter absorption gas imaging (BAGI) system, and a light source incorporating the light source, that can be used to remotely detect and produce images of “invisible” gases. The inventive light source has a light producing element, an optical amplifier, and an optical parametric oscillator to generate wavelength tunable light in the IR. By using a multi-mode light source and an amplifier that operates using 915 nm pump sources, the power consumption of the light source is reduced to a level that can be operated by batteries for long periods of time. In addition, the light source is tunable over the absorption bands of many hydrocarbons, making it useful for detecting hazardous gases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658906 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07152070 | Musick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Musick (Castro Valley, California); Terence Critchlow (Livermore, California); Madhaven Ganesh (San Jose, California); Tom Slezak (Livermore, California); Krzysztof Fidelis (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is disclosed for integrating and accessing multiple data sources within a data warehouse architecture. The metadata formed by the present method provide a way to declaratively present domain specific knowledge, obtained by analyzing data sources, in a consistent and useable way. Four types of information are represented by the metadata: abstract concepts, databases, transformations and mappings. A mediator generator automatically generates data management computer code based on the metadata. The resulting code defines a translation library and a mediator class. The translation library provides a data representation for domain specific knowledge represented in a data warehouse, including “get” and “set” methods for attributes that call transformation methods and derive a value of an attribute if it is missing. The mediator class defines methods that take “distinguished” high-level objects as input and traverse their data structures and enter information into the data warehouse. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/479432 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07150967 | Laskin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Rutgers, the State University (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Christine Martey (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Ned Heindel (Easton, Pennsylvania); Marilyn Whittemore (Germantown, Tennessee); Diane Heck (Rumson, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits for labeling and detecting thiol containing species and nucleic acids using mercurimethyl-dihydropsoralen compounds and derivatives thereof which intercalate nucleic acids and are highly reactive with thiol containing species are provided. Fluorescent reactions products of the mercurimethyl-dihydropsoralen compounds or derivatives thereof attached to a thiol containing species and nucleic acids fluorescently labeled with these reaction products are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408170 |
| 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 07150971 | Rothman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel H. Rothman (Santa Barbara, California); Erin Newman-Smith (Santa Barbara, California); Gina Broitman-Maduro (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to the discovery that DPR-1 encodes a putative nuclear hormone receptor (NHR) that, based on gene reporter studies, is expressed in the endoderm throughout the life of the worm. NHR family members are transcriptional regulators that are activated when bound to their small lipophilic ligands such as steroids. While some NHRs are localized to the nucleus, others are cytoplasmic in the absence of ligand and translocate to the nucleus upon ligand binding. Once in the nucleus, they bind target sequences and regulate gene expression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/153398 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150984 | Hoshino 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) | Yasutaka Hoshino (Wheaton, Maryland); Albert Z. Kapikian (Rockville, Maryland); Robert M. Chanock (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vaccine compositions of attenuated human rotavirus. More particularly, the attenuated human rotavirus is produced by cold passage and thus contains attenuating mutations which produce virus having a cold-adapted (ca) and temperature sensitive (ts) phenotype. The attenuated strains are used in methods for stimulating the immune system of an individual to induce protection against human rotavirus by administration of the ca attenuated rotavirus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/500564 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07150989 | Goldman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (South Salem, New York); Neeta Singh Roy (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of immortalizing progenitor cells by providing a population of progenitor cells (e.g, neural progenitor cells) and immortalizing the progenitor cells either before or after they are enriched or purified. The present invention is also directed to an enriched or purified population of immortalized progenitor cells (e.g., neural progenitor cells). |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217252 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151000 | Prusiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley B. Prusiner (San Francisco, California); Jiri G. Safar (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample is prepared from blood in a manner which makes it possible to further analyze proteins in the sample, e.g. to detect prions in the sample. Blood is extracted, allowed to clot and subjected to separation processing (e.g. centrifugation) to obtain serum. The serum is treated with a complexing agent which agent binds prions in the sample forming an agent/protein complex which makes it possible to concentrate the complex. Concentration of the complex results in a sample which can be successfully analyzed, e.g. assayed using a range of different types of assay methodologies for detecting prions. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425129 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/539 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151087 | Combadiere et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Resources (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christophe Combadiere (Paris, France); Yu Feng (San Diego, California); Ghalib Alkhatib (Carmel, Indiana); Edward A. Berger (Rockville, Maryland); Philip M. Murphy (Rockville, Maryland); Christopher C. Broder (Rockville, Maryland); Paul E. Kennedy (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The susceptibility of human macrophages to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection depends on cell surface expression of the human CD4 molecule and CC cytokine receptor 5. CCR5 is a member of the 7-transmembrane segment superfamily of G-protein-coupled cell surface molecules. CCR5 plays an essential role in the membrane fusion step of infection by some HIV isolates. The establishment of stable, nonhuman cell lines and transgenic mammals having cells that coexpress human CD4 and CCR5 provides valuable tools for the continuing research of HIV infection. In addition, antibodies which bind to CCR5, CCR5 variants, and CCR5-binding agents, capable of blocking membrane fusion between HIV and target cells represent potential anti-HIV therapeutics for macrophage-tropic strains of HIV. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/700313 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151091 | Scheele et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); La Jolla Biosciences LLC (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Scheele (La Jolla, California); James E. Hildreth (Woodstock, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to cholesterol-sequestering agents and methods of using cholesterol-sequestering agents to prevent infection. The compositions of the invention can be used to reduce or prevent maternal to fetal transmission of a microorganism and/or to reduce or eliminate a microorganism present in a blood sample or a blood product. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/667727 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151116 | Wender et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Wender (Menlo Park, California); Orion D. Jankowski (Burlingame, California); Elie A. Tabet (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel apoptosis-inducing compounds that include isolated, purified isoapoptolidin, and selectively functionalized isoapoptolidin derivatives and stereoisomers thereof; selectively functionalized apoptolidin derivatives and stereoisomers thereof; and deglycosylated isoapoptolidin and selectively functionalized derivatives and stereoisomers thereof. The isoapoptolidin, apoptolidin, and deglycosylated isoapoptolidin derivatives may be functionalized by substituting any or all of the methoxyl or hydroxyl groups of the parent molecule. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for using the compounds are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/757810 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151139 | Tiller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joerg C. Tiller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chun-Jen Liao (Taipei, Taiwan); Kim Lewis (Newton, Massachusetts); Alexander M. Klibanov (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Bactericidal compositions are disclosed that comprise a polymeric compound immobilized on a material. Medical devices are also disclosed which comprise such a bactericidal composition. Methods are disclosed for covalently derivatizing the surfaces of common materials with an antibacterial polycation, e.g., poly(vinyl-N-pyridinium bromide); the first step of the methods involves coating the surface with a nanolayer of silica. Various commercial synthetic polymers derivatized in this manner are bactericidal, i.e., they kill on contact up to 99% of deposited Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, whether deposited through air or water. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/123860 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151172 | Ayyavoo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Velpandi Ayyavoo (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Thanadavarayan Nagashunmugam (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); David B. Weiner (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to nucleic acid molecules encoding attenuated, non-functional virion infectivity factor (vif) proteins. The nucleic acid molecules of the invention are inserted into recombinant expression vectors and administered to mammals in order to induce a cellular and humoral immune response to the encoded protein product. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/486625 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151201 | Barbas, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La jolla, California); Syngenta Participations AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos F. Barbas, III (Solana Beach, California); Justin T. Stege (San Diego, California); Xueni Guan (San Diego, California); Bipin Dalmia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the field of plant and agricultural technology. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of zinc finger proteins and fusions of said proteins to regulate gene expression and metabolic pathways in plants. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/765555 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151370 | Hargreaves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Hargreaves (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | MRI signals from two species such as water and fat are separated by using two SSFP acquisitions (S1, S2) with the two species signals having two different phase differences (e.g., 180°, 90°) and binomial quadratic expansion in which the species are determined based on magnitude and sign of S1 and the magnitude of S2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/321770 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07151330 | Rose |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiance Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Millard Franklin Rose (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A vector inversion generator utilizes closed-path ferrites to modify the characteristics of the generator. The closed-path ferrites increase an inductance within a portion of the generator and additionally provide a protective shield for associated electronic circuits. By increasing the inductance, the closed-path ferrites increase the voltage efficiency and the energy efficiency of the generator. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393325 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151506 | Knowles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QorTek, Inc. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Knowles (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Eli Hughes (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to reconfigurable, solid-state matrix arrays comprising multiple rows and columns of reconfigurable secondary mechanisms that are independently tuned. Specifically, the invention relates to reconfigurable devices comprising multiple, solid-state mechanisms characterized by at least one voltage-varied parameter disposed within a flexible, multi-laminate film, which are suitable for use as magnetic conductors, ground surfaces, antennas, varactors, ferrotunable substrates, or other active or passive electronic mechanisms. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/823237 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151876 | Taghavi-Larigani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shervin Taghavi-Larigani (Pasadena, California); Jakob J. Vanzyl (Pasadena, California); Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses a semi-ring Fabry-Perot (SRFP) optical resonator structure comprising a medium including an edge forming a reflective facet and a waveguide within the medium, the waveguide having opposing ends formed by the reflective facet. The performance of the SRFP resonator can be further enhanced by including a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the waveguide on one side of the gain medium. The optical resonator can be employed in a variety of optical devices. Laser structures using at least one SRFP resonator are disclosed where the resonators are disposed on opposite sides of a gain medium. Other laser structures employing one or more resonators on one side of a gain region are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225832 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07150910 | Eisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans J. Eisler (Weingarten/Baden, Germany); Vikram C. Sundar (Hoboken, New Jersey); Michael E. Walsh (Everett, Massachusetts); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure including a grating and a semiconductor nanocrystal layer on the grating, can be a laser. The semiconductor nanocrystal layer can include a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals including a Group II–VI compound, the nanocrystals being distributed in a metal oxide matrix. The grating can have a periodicity from 200 nm to 500 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294742 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151139 | Tiller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joerg C. Tiller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chun-Jen Liao (Taipei, Taiwan); Kim Lewis (Newton, Massachusetts); Alexander M. Klibanov (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Bactericidal compositions are disclosed that comprise a polymeric compound immobilized on a material. Medical devices are also disclosed which comprise such a bactericidal composition. Methods are disclosed for covalently derivatizing the surfaces of common materials with an antibacterial polycation, e.g., poly(vinyl-N-pyridinium bromide); the first step of the methods involves coating the surface with a nanolayer of silica. Various commercial synthetic polymers derivatized in this manner are bactericidal, i.e., they kill on contact up to 99% of deposited Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, whether deposited through air or water. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/123860 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151801 | Grossberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Grossberg (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The quality (e.g., resolution) of image data, video data, and sound data representing a scene or signal is enhanced by a quality enhancement function trained on high quality and low quality representations of a portion of the same scene or signal. The enhancement function is thus optimized to the most relevant input. A training algorithm uses low quality image of a scene or scene portion, along with a high quality image of the same scene or scene portion, to optimize the parameters of a quality enhancement function. The optimized enhancement function is then used to enhance other low quality images of the scene or scene portion. Sound data is enhanced by using a low resolution sample of a portion of a signal, and a high resolution sample of the same signal portion, to train a quality enhancement function which is then used to enhance the remainder of the signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/508820 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07151738 | Peng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chubing Peng (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical waveguide comprises a core guiding layer; a cladding layer positioned adjacent to the core guiding layer; a reflective layer positioned adjacent to the cladding layer; and a grating for coupling light into the core guiding layer; wherein the cladding layer has a thickness such that a ray reflected from the reflective layer is phase matched to an incident ray at the grating. A method of coupling electromagnetic radiation into the optical waveguide is also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718162 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/112.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151785 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Finisar Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yue Liu (Plymouth, Minnesota); Klein L. Johnson (St. Paul, Minnesota); Steven M. Baier (Minnetonka, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes both devices and methods of production. A device in accordance with the invention includes a top surface and a bottom surface, a through wafer via extending from the top surface to the bottom surface, an optoelectronic structure and an ion implanted isolation moat, wherein the optoelectronic structure and the through wafer via are enclosed within the isolation moat. A method in accordance with the invention is a method of producing a device that includes the steps of forming an optoelectronic structure, forming a through wafer via, extending from a top surface to a bottom surface of the device and forming an ion implanted isolation moat, wherein the through wafer via and the optoelectronic structure are enclosed by the isolation moat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669220 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/44.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07150972 | Lan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Que Lan (Madison, Wisconsin); Kendall C. Krebs (Waterloo, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides AeSCP-2 polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding AeSCP-2 polypeptides, and methods for producing such materials by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing AeSCP-2 polypeptides to screen for compounds exhibiting antagonist or agonist activity toward AeSCP-2 biological activity, in particular, cholesterol transport. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/823203 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07151124 | Kovar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Kovar (Wrentham, Massachusetts); Nese Orbey (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides degradable curable resin compositions containing no or essentially no volatile organic components. Oligomers for forming the coating compositions of the present invention are vinyl dioxolane end-capped oligomers having an enzyme degradable segment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/912258 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07151946 | Maggenti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Qualcomm Inc (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Maggenti (San Diego, California); Douglas M. Crockett (San Diego, California); Eric Rosen (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reducing perceived latency in a group communication network provides for receiving a request from a user of a communication device wishing to initiate a group call, receiving media from the user before completely processing the request, and buffering the received media for later transmission. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/036038 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07150871 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaozhu Huang (Daly City, California); Dean Sheppard (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions comprising antagonists of αvβ6 are provided for the treatment of acute lung injury fibrosis. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754435 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/155.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151203 | Scorza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculure (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Scorza (Sheperdstown, West Virginia); Dennis J. Gray (Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for producing grape plants having resistance to bunch rot disease or Botrytis or both. Also disclosed are grape plants having resistance to bunch rot disease or Botrytis or both, wherein the plants express a cecropin B peptide Shiva-1. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441669 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07151260 | Markham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Markham (Middlefield, Connecticut); Peter J. Bonzani, Jr. (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Stand-alone multiple gas analysis apparatus, of relatively small physical size, integrates one or more supplemental sensors, such as a self-heating, amperometric, limiting current-type oxygen sensor and/or a titania nanotube-type hydrogen sensor, into the sampling cell gas flow components of an FT-IR gas analyzer. The apparatus enables simultaneous quantitative concentration measurements of infrared-active gases and of infrared-inactive atomic species and homonuclear diatomic molecules, such as of oxygen and hydrogen. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789651 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, December 19, 2006.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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