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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 26, 2006
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| US 07152919 | Wurzelbacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Wurzelbacher (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ova E. Johnston (Franklin, Ohio); Stephen D. Hudock (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A wearable kneel-sit support device includes a U-shaped body that is pivotally connected to both a seat member and a base member. A linking member connects the seat member and the base member, such that moving one of the seat member and the base member causes both the seat member and the base member to rotate from a folded position adjacent the leg of the user to an unfolded position. In the unfolded position, the base member can rest on a horizontal surface and the seat member is substantially parallel to the base member, so that the wearer can sit on the seat while kneeling. The device may be worn on the lower leg of a user in a folded position to allow unhindered ambulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/481532 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Chairs and seats 297/4 |
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| US 07153501 | Friedlander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Friedlander (Del Mar, California); Atsushi Otani (San Diego, California); Karen Da Silva (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated, mammalian, bone marrow-derived, lineage negative hematopoietic stem cell populations (Lin− HSC) contain endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) capable of forming retinal blood vessels. At least about 50% of the cells in the isolated Lin− HSC population include cell surface markers for CD31 and c-kit. Up to about 8% of the cells can include the Sca-1 cell marker, and up to about 4% of the cells can include the Flk-1/KDR marker. The isolated Lin− HSC populations of the present invention are useful for treatment of ocular vascular diseases. The isolated Lin− HSC populations that have been transfected with therapeutically useful genes are also provided, which are useful for delivering genes to the eye for cell-based gene therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/628783 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07153505 | Franano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proteon Therapeutics, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Nicholas Franano (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating an obstructed biological conduit that include administering to the conduit an agent that can degrade extracellular matrix of obstructing tissue. Particular methods include delivery of an enzyme or a mixture of several enzymes to the area or region of obstruction wherein the enzyme(s) have the capability to degrade extracellular matrix components within the obstruction thereby restoring the normal flow of transported fluid through the conduit. The invention also includes preventively dilating a section of conduit to minimize the risk of obstruction formation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/603501 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
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| US 07153510 | Rose |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Rose (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides recombinant replicable vesiculoviruses. The invention provides a method which, for the first time, successfully allows the production and recovery of replicable vesiculoviruses, as well as recombinant replicable vesiculoviruses, from cloned DNA, by a method comprising expression of the full-length positive-strand vesiculovirus antigenomic RNA in host cells. The recombinant vesiculoviruses do not cause serious pathology in humans, can be obtained in high titers, and have use as vaccines. The recombinant vesiculoviruses can also be inactivated for use as killed vaccines. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/435032 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07153535 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheyuan Jin (Madison, Wisconsin); John L. Markley (Madison, Wisconsin); Fariba M. Assadi-Porter (Madison, Wisconsin); Bengt G. Hellekant (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are sweet proteins that are variants of Brazzein, and nucleotide sequences capable of expressing them. Through a replacement of a particular amino acid in the naturally occurring Brazzein sequence with Lys or Asn, the taste profile and sweetness strength are improved. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406377 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/548 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153652 | Cox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Regents of the University of California (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Cox (Belmont, California); Malek Faham (Daly City, California); Siamak Baharloo (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Mismatch Repair Detection (MRD), a novel method for DNA-variation detection, utilizes bacteria to detect mismatches by a change in expression of a marker gene. DNA fragments to be screened for variation are cloned into two MRD plasmids, and bacteria are transformed with heteroduplexes of these constructs. Resulting colonies express the marker gene in the absence of a mismatch, and-lack expression in the presence of a mismatch. MRD is capable of detecting a single mismatch within 10 kb of DNA. In addition, MRD can analyze many fragments simultaneously, offering a powerful method for high-throughput genotyping and mutation detection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/081771 |
| 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 |
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| US 07153657 | Reeves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland); National Cancer Center Research Institute (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Harper Reeves (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yoshinori Murakami (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for detecting a cell proliferative disorder associated with TSLC1 by contacting a proliferating cell of a subject suspected of having the disorder with a reagent that detects TSLC1 and detecting the level of TSLC1 in the proliferating cell. TSLC1 is a single gene whose expression is reduced or absent in A549 and some other NSCLC, hepatocellular carcinoma and pancreatic cancer cell lines. It has further been discovered that TSLC1 expression or suppression is perfectly correlated with promoter methylation state. Restoration of TSLC1 expression to normal or higher levels is sufficient by itself to suppress tumor formation. The invention further provides methods of treating such disorders by contacting cells of a patient suffering from the disorder with a therapeutically effective amount of a reagent that modulates TSLC1 level in the proliferating cells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/403107 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153667 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben Shen (Verona, Wisconsin); Yi-Qiang Cheng (Madison, Wisconsin); Gong-Li Tang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic and biochemical characterization of the leinamycin biosynthesis gene cluster from Streptomyces atroolivaceus S-140 revealed two PKS genes, lnmI and lnmJ, that encode six PKS modules, none of which contains a cognate AT domain. The AT activity is provided in trans by a discrete protein, LnmG, which loads the malonyl coenzyme A extender unit onto the ACP domains of all six PKS modules. This finding provides a basis for methods of engineering modular polyketide synthases and polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetases. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314657 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
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| US 07153670 | Hastings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); The American Red Cross (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg A. Hastings (Westlake Village, California); Gene Liau (Darnestown, Maryland); Elena Tsifrina (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to full-length WF-HABP, WF-HABP, OE-HABP, and BM-HABP, members of the hyaluronan receptor family. The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding human to full-length WF-HABP, WF-HABP, OE-HABP, and BM-HABP receptors. Full-length WF-HABP, WF-HABP, OE-HABP, and BM-HABP polypeptides are also provided, as are vectors, host cells and recombinant methods for producing the same. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of full-length WF-HABP, WF-HABP, OE-HABP, and BM-HABP receptor activity. Also provided are diagnostic methods for detecting disease states related to the aberrant expression of full-length WF-HABP, WF-HABP, OE-HABP, and BM-HABP receptors. Further provided are therapeutic methods for treating disease states including, but not limited to, proliferative conditions, metastasis, inflammation, ischemia, host defense dysfunction, immune surveillance dysfunction, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, autoimmunity, immune dysfunction, and allergy. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/960275 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07153676 | Croteau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney B. Croteau (Pullman, Washington); Kevin D. Walker (Pullman, Washington); Anne Schoendorf (Collonges sous Saleve, France); Mark R. Wildung (Colfax, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Transacylase enzymes and the use of such enzymes to produce paclitaxel, related taxoids, as well as intermediates in the paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway are disclosed. Also disclosed are nucleic acid sequences encoding the transacylase enzymes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/415197 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07153677 | 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 recombinantly produced, enzymatically active hyaluronan synthase, wherein the recombinantly produced, enzymatically active hyaluronan synthase is a single protein that is a dual-action catalyst that utilizes UDP-GlcA and UDP-GlcNAc to synthesize HA. The recombinantly produced, enzymatically active hyaluronan synthase may be produced from a hyaluronan synthase gene isolated from a microbial source, such as a streptococcal source. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446881 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07153683 | Cobb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melaine Cobb (Dallas, Texas); Michelle Hutchinson (Dallas, Texas); Zhu Chen (Dallas, Texas); Kevin Berman (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for potentiating the activity of the mitogen-activated protein kinase p38. In particular the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase MEK6, and variants thereof that stimulate phosphorylation of p38 are provided. Such compounds may be used, for example, for therapy of diseases associated with the p38 cascade and to identify antibodies and other agents that inhibit or activate signal transduction via p38. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445735 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07153684 | Hogan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brigid L. M. Hogan (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a non-mouse, including human, pluripotential embryonic stem cell which can: (a) be maintained on feeder layers for at least 20 passages; and (b) give rise to embryoid bodies and multiple differentiated cell phenotypes in monolayer culture. The invention further provides a method of making a pluripotential embryonic stem cell comprising culturing germ cells and germ cell progenitors in a composition comprising a growth enhancing amount of basic fibroblast growth factor, leukemia inhibitory factor, membrane associated steel factor, and soluble steel factor to primordial germ cells under cell growth conditions, thereby making a pluripotential embryonic stem cell. Also provided are compositions useful to produce the pluripotent embryonic stem cells and methods of screening associated with the method of making the embryonic stem cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/813829 |
| 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 |
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| US 07153685 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengjian Mao (Savoy, Illinois); David J. Shapiro (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel tamoxifen inducible and ICI 182,780 repressible expression systems comprising mutant estrogen receptors and mutant estrogen response element are disclosed. Such systems have a wide variety of applications, including gene therapy and in vivo and in vitro expression, as well as their use in transgenic animals. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/095373 |
| 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 07153698 | Voice et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Voice (Okemos, Michigan); Ivan Havezov (Sofia, Bulgaria); Lisveth V. Flores del Pino (East Lansing, Michigan); David T. Long (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and test for field sample arsenic speciation in aqueous solutions, in particular, arsenic speciation in drinking water, is described. In particular, the method and test uses in series three columns wherein the first column removes interfering cations from water, the second column removes dimethylarsenate (DMA) from the water, and the third column removes As(V) (collectively H3AsO4/H2AsO4−/HAsO42−/AsO43−) and monomethylarsinate (MMA) while As(III) (collectively H3AsO3/H2AsO3−/HAsO32−/AsO33−) remains in the water effluent. The bound arsenic species are separately eluted from the columns in a laboratory and then each of the eluants and the effluent are tested for the arsenic species, preferably using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/616138 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/178 |
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| US 07153866 | Mitchell 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) | James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Angelo Russo (Bethesda, Maryland); Murali Krishna Cherukuri (Rockville, Maryland); Anne Marie DeLuca (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of cancer. The method comprises administering to an animal, preferably a mammal, more preferably a human, at risk for developing a cancer or having a cancer a nitroxide or a prodrug thereof, wherein the nitroxide or prodrug thereof preferably is alicyclic or heterocyclic and more preferably is a compound of Formula (I) or Formula (II): in an amount sufficient to prevent or treat said cancer, wherein said cancer is susceptible to prevention or treatment by said nitroxide or prodrug thereof. Also provided is a composition for use in the method |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/424519 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/315 |
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| US 07153882 | Greig 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); The National Institutes of Health and Axonyx, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel H. Greig (Phoenix, Maryland); Karen T. Y. Shaw (St. Laurent, Canada); Qiang-Sheng Yu (Lutherville, Maryland); Harold W. Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Timothy T. Sencrant (Silver Spring, Maryland); Tada Utsuki (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Donald Ingram (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arnold Brossi (Bethesda, Maryland); Anthony Giordano (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); Gordon Powers (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Diane Davidson (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Michael Sturgess (Perkasie, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds and methods of administering compounds to a subject that can reduce βAPP production and that is not toxic in a wide range of dosages. The present invention also provides non-carbamate compounds and methods of administering such compounds to a subject that can reduce βAPP production and that is not tocix in a wide range of dosages. It has been discovered that either the racemic or enantiomerically pure non-carbamate compounds can be used to decrease βAPP production. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/415765 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/411 |
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| US 07153905 | Banerjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pallab Banerjee (Boston, Massachusetts); Wilfried Reichardt (Breigan, Germany); Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Alexei Bogdanov (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Hyperbranched dendron (HD) polymers are synthesized using low molecular weight polyethyleneimine (BPEI-L) as a core and used for gene delivery. The obtained polymers display low toxicity and efficient gene delivery at low nitrogen-to-phosphate (N/P) ratios. Using successive attachment of ethyleneimine moieties to a PEI core, the polymer has a lower relative ratio of linear-to-branched structures than in the core PEI. The more extensive branching enables the polymer to condense plasmid DNA into nanostructure complexes with a size of less than or equal to about 100 nm. The complexes are stable and efficient in transfecting cells in the presence of serum. Bioluminescent imaging of in vivo gene expression using a luciferase reporter gene performed in live mice showed gene expression in the liver and in submandibular lymph nodes. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806025 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/92.B00 |
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| US 07153936 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey S. Goodman (Berkeley, California); Alex L. Kolodkin (Berkeley, California); David Matthes (Berkeley, California); David R. Bentley (Berkeley, California); Timothy O'Connor (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel class of proteins, semaphorins, nucleic acids encoding semaphorins, semaphorin peptides, and methods of using semaphorins and semaphorin-encoding nucleic acids are disclosed. Semaphorin peptides and receptor agonists and antagonists provide potent modulators of nerve cell growth and regeneration. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, methods for screening chemical libraries for regulators of cell growth/differentiation; semaphorin gene-derived nucleic acids for use in genetic mapping, as probes for related genes, and as diagnostic reagents for genetic neurological disease; specific cellular and animal systems for the development of neurological disease therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/067632 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — 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 07153947 | Ribeiro 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 Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | José M. C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland); Jesus G. Valenzuela (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Rosane Charlab (Rockville, Maryland); Thomas N. Mather (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Isac, a novel protein with anticomplement activity is disclosed. Isac can be isolated from the salivary glands of ticks or made by recombinant methods using various DNA expression techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/403182 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07153949 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Soo Kim (Inchon, South Korea); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding chimeric proteins, and methods for their production and use are disclosed. The chimeric proteins comprise a flexible linker between two zinc finger DNA-binding domains, wherein the linker contains eight or more amino acids between the second conserved histidine residue of the carboxy-terminal zinc finger of the first domain and the first conserved cysteine residue of the amino-terminal zinc finger of the second domain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110594 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07153971 | Shi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Ft Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yian Shi (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound and method for producing an enantiomerically enriched epoxide from an olefin using a chiral ketone and an oxidizing agent is disclosed. In particular, the compound is of the formula: I wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are those defined herein |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343302 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/216 |
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| US 07153975 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kannan Muthukumaran (Raleigh, North Carolina); Marcin Ptaszek (Raleigh, North Carolina); H. Z. Syeda Huma (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a metal complex comprises combining a 1-monoacyldipyrromethane with a compound of the formula R1R2MX, wherein M is boron, R1 and R2 are each independently organic substituents; and X is an anion leaving group; to produce a metal complex of the formula DMR1R2 wherein DH is a 1-monoacyldipyrromethane. The methods and complexes are useful for the purification and synthesis of dipyrromethanes and porphyrins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872321 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/405 |
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| US 07154268 | Kellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kellman (Bethesda, Maryland); Elliot McVeigh (Phoenix, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An MRI imaging system includes at least one processor and a plurality of coils to acquire a plurality of k-space samples of a target to image. The system includes a machine-readable media comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in determining a plurality of different regularization matrices for a plurality of different regions of an image of the target. The regularization matrices are applied in the determination of a plurality of unmixing matrices for the regions. The unmixing matrices are applied to produce the image without ghost artifacts, from a plurality of MRI images produced from the plurality of k-space samples and each comprising ghost artifacts. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/492897 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07152375 | Mastro 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) | Stephen A. Mastro (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); John K. Overby (Nottingham, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal integrity verification system scans for changes in impedance in a seal with integral coaxial waveguide, twisted pair wires, parallel ribbon wires or parallel wires. The wires are monitored by a TDR to note changes in impedance. The changes indicate the location where the seal is not under proper compression to ensure a tight fit. This is especially useful in verifying that watertight doors on ships or submarines are sealing properly when shut. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654962 |
| ART UNIT | 3634 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Movable or removable closures 049/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07152411 | McCaffrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Patrick McCaffrey (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Barry Francis Barnes (Milford, Connecticut); Stephen John Howell (West Newbury, Massachusetts); John Carl Jacobson (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor includes an outer wall and an inner liner joined to an inner shell in turn mounted to an inner casing. The casing includes a first rabbet at an end flange in which is mounted a corresponding flange of the inner shell. The inner shell also includes a second rabbet which receives an end flange of the inner liner. The inner shell is trapped in the first rabbet by an inner retainer. And, the inner liner is trapped in the surrounding second rabbet for aft-mounting the liner and shell to the inner casing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608609 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/796 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153023 | Howard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Clarence Howard (Cincinnati, Ohio); Eskedar Abebe (Cincinnati, Ohio); Barton Hunter Snow (Wyoming, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of mounting an instrument probe using an adapter post is provided. The method includes coupling an attachment end of the adapter post to a first wall defined between a cavity and an annulus, coupling an opposite sealing end of the adapter post to a second wall defined between the annulus and the ambient area, sealing the adapter post to compensate for a relative movement between the first wall and the second wall such that the sealing is maintained, and inserting the instrument probe at least partially within the adapter post to monitor a process parameter within the cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/755771 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153475 | Hill 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) | Steven Clyde Hill (Silver Spring, Maryland); Richard Kounai Chang (Hamden, Connecticut); Jean-Pierre Wolf (Lyons, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Aerosol particle analyzer (APA) for measuring the amount of analyte in airborne particle is described. The APA uses an analysis liquid. In most embodiments, this analysis liquid is chosen so that when it is mixed with the particles, an optical property of the analysis liquid (AL) varies according to the amount of the analyte in the particles. Airborne particles are drawn into the instrument, and detected using optical methods such as light scattering or laser-induced fluorescence. When a particle of interest is detected, a charged droplet of the analysis liquid (CDAL) is ejected so that it collides with the detected particle and moves into a horizontally oriented linear quadrupole that is in an airtight container, except for small orifices to let the CDAL enter and exit. The CDAL is levitated in a high humidity environment so that it evaporates slowly, so that there is time for the reaction between the analyte, if any, and the CDAL can take place, and so that the optical property, typically fluorescence, can be measured. The amount of the analyte in the particle is determined from the measured fluorescence or other optical property. The particles collected into the CDAL can be sent on to other instruments for further analysis, especially to instruments that can analyze such small samples. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/126515 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153582 | Houser 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) | Eric J Houser (Nokesville, Virginia); Robert Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a device for selective molecular recognition, the device comprising a sensing portion, wherein said sensing portion includes a substrate having coated thereon a layer comprising a hyperbranched compound having: (1) a polymer backbone portion that is at least partly randomly branched; (2) at least one pendant group extending from the polymer backbone portion; and (3) at least one halogen substituted alcohol or phenol group substituted at the pendant group(s) of the polymer backbone portion. The compound of the invention preferably has the general formula: wherein A is the hyperbranched backbone portion of the polymer; L and M are independently selected pendant groups of said polymer backbone; X and Y are independently selected halogen substituted alcohol or phenol groups; q and r are independently selected and at least 1; and n is at least 3. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672272 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153630 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel photoresists containing at least about 0.2 molar ratio of a base with respect to the concentration of a photoacid generator present and their preparation are described. It has been discovered that inclusion of a sufficient amount of base counteracts the detrimental effects of photoacid generators, thus providing resists having submicron linewidth resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146597 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153749 | Lu 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) | Ryan P. Lu (Carlsbad, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California); Bruce W. Offord (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of tuning threshold voltages of interdiffusible structures. The method includes a step of situating a interdiffusible structure in a path of a laser and a step of illuminating the interdiffusible structure with laser energy until a desired threshold voltage is obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070634 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153921 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A crosslinked polymer and process of making it are disclosed. A copolymer having at least one alkyne group, carborane group, and alkylsiloxane group is reacted with a siloxane crosslinker in a hydrosilation reaction. This produces a crosslinked polymer where the crosslink sites are reacted alkyne groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923153 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154081 | Friedersdorf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fritz Friedersdorf (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas A. Wavering (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Integral fiber optic-based condition sensors detect conditions of a composite structure, e.g., a coated wire assembly so as to detect damage or conditions that may damage the same. Preferably, at least one optical fiber sensor having a plurality of Bragg gratings written into the fiber at spaced-apart locations along its axial length is integrated into the electrical insulator coating of a wire, wire bundle or wiring harness. The fiber optic sensor may thus be employed to measure the environmental loads on the electrical wiring including stresses from bending, axial loading, pinch points, high temperature excursions and chemical damage. The system is capable of detecting and locating transient conditions that might cause damage to a wiring system or permanent changes in state associated with damage events. The residual stress in the electrical insulator coating of a wire, wire bundle, or wiring harness are used to monitor the evolution of damage by wear or chaffing processes. Detected stress relief on one or more Bragg gratings will thus be indicative of damage to the insulator coating on the conductor. As such, the magnitude of such stress relief may be detected and used as an alert that the wire insulation is damaged to an unsafe extent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/720694 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154134 | Anthony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts); Edward J. Kohler (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable charge coupled device (CCD) charge splitter includes a channel control structure and an associated plurality of output channels. Control signals applied to the channel control structure determine an amount of charge, which passes into each one of the plurality of output channels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177153 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154212 | Kosinski |
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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) | John A. Kosinski (Neptune, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An acceleration insensitive piezo-microresonator provides substantially reduced acceleration sensitivity with a plano—plano piezo-microresonator, upper gap and lower gap embedded in a rigid structural supporting member holding major surfaces of the piezo-microresonator firm and steady. The piezo-microresonator has neither electrodes on its surfaces nor contacts with any electrodes. Electrodes are doped regions incorporated into the support member. The upper and lower gaps are adjacent to the major surfaces of the piezo-microresonator, permitting it to vibrate freely. The support member surrounds and supports the plano—plano piezo-microresonator plate, upper gap and lower gap, maintaining a constant upper gap height and lower gap height. The electrodes provide a thickness-directed electrical field exciting the piezo-microresonator. A method of desensitizing a resonant frequency of a piezo-microresonator to acceleration stresses is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031948 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154369 | Dietz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas W. Dietz (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Louis C. Moe (Fountain Valley, California); Leah O. Valmidiano (Carson, California); Mark R. Franklin (Valencia, California); Tony C. Chiang (Oak Park, California); Dominic S. Nuccitelli (Granada Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal switch selectively couples a heat source to a pair of heat sinks. The thermal switch includes a shunt that is thermally coupled to the heat source. The shunt has a pair of posts. End portions of the posts are at least partially radially surrounded by respective cups. The cups in turn are thermally coupled to respective of the heat sinks. The cups are made of a material with a larger coefficient of thermal expansion than the material of the posts. Activation of one of the heat sinks causes the cup corresponding to that heat sink to contract, bringing it into contact with the corresponding post of the shunt. This opens a heat path through the switch from the heat source to the activated heat sink. Thermal isolation of the second cup is facilitated by an axial isolator of high thermal impedance, facilitating isolation of the inactive heat sink. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866224 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrothermally or thermally actuated switches 337/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154400 | Owrutsky 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) | Jeffrey C. Owrutsky (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel A. Steinhurst (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting a fire while discriminating against false alarms in a monitored space containing obstructed and partially obstructed views includes the steps of positioning an infrared camera in a location where the camera has both a direct view of a first portion of the monitored space and an obstructed view of a second portion of the monitored space, the camera including a charge coupled device (CCD) array sensitive to wavelengths in the range of from about 400 to about 1000 nm and a long pass filter for transmitting wavelengths greater than about 700 nm; filtering out radiation wavelengths lower than about 700 nm; converting an electrical current from the CCD array to a signal input to a processor; processing the signal; and generating alarms when predetermined criteria are met to indicate the presence of a fire in one or both of the first portion of the monitored space and the second portion of the monitored space. Indirect radiation, such as radiation scattered and reflected from common building or shipboard materials and components, indicative of a fire can be detected. The method can be implemented with relatively low cost components. A benefit of using the invention in a system in combination with Video Image Detection Systems (VIDS) is that in principle both fire and smoke can be detected for an entire compartment without either kind of source having to be in the direct LOS of the cameras, so that the entire space can be monitored for both kinds of sources with a single system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885528 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/578 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154431 | Pace 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) | Phillip E. Pace (Castroville, California); Robert E. Surratt (White Plains, Maryland); Siew-Yam Yeo (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital synthesizer includes a digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) for storing phase values and corresponding digital signals. The digital synthesizer includes a digital processing circuit receiving input from the DRFM, the circuit including tapped delay lines and a summer summing the output of the tapped delay lines. The digital synthesizer includes a signal modulator independently synthesizing within each tapped delay line a frequency modulated and gain scaled signal, wherein input to the tapped delay lines are phase values from the DRFM. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794543 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154433 | Madewell |
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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) | J. Michael Madewell (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for discriminating and tracking a target in a clutter cloud includes transmitting a radar signal at a signal bandwidth to: identify a range extent of a clutter cloud; determine a centroid and a velocity growth rate of the clutter cloud; and identify a direction of movement of the centroid of the clutter cloud. The method may also include locking a another radar signal having a greater signal bandwidth onto the centroid of the clutter cloud whereby the centroid is tracked within one radar range resolution bin; providing a delay line that includes at least two Doppler filters and is configured to cover a Doppler frequency range corresponding to a velocity growth rate of the clutter cloud; and processing a reflected radar signal corresponding to the greater signal bandwidth. The processing of the reflected radar signal may comprise passing the reflected radar signal through the delay line to mitigate a portion of the reflected signal that is reflected by the clutter cloud. A system and apparatus for performing the method is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830805 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155101 | Shah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jagdish Shah (Wallingford, Connecticut); Rogerio T. Ramos (Chandler's Ford, United Kingdom); Olivier Sindt (Cheltenham, United Kingdom); Philip Dryden (Danbury, Connecticut); Cliff Evans (Newtown, Connecticut); Mark Dalton (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a fiber optic accelerometer includes (a) drawing an optical fiber through a resin; (b) winding the resin coated fiber onto a disc mounted on an assembly having a central shaft; and (c) curing the resin-coated fiber. The optical fiber may be drawn through a resin by providing a container filled with a resin having an orifice therethrough and drawing the fiber through the orifice. The resin may be cured such that the fiber is bonded to the disc by curing the resin to the fiber and the disc at the same time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843097 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155158 | Iuppa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Altsim, Inc. (Hollywood, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas V. Iuppa (Belmont, California); Andrew S. Gordon (Marina Del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus advanced leadership training simulation wherein the simulation teaches skills in leadership and related topics through an Internet-based distance-learning architecture. The distance-learning features link trainees at remote locations into a single collaborative experience via computer networks. Instructional storylines are created and programmed into a computer and then delivered as a simulated but realistic story to one or more participants. The participants' reactions are monitored and compared with expected results. The storyline may be altered in response to the participants' responses and synthetic characters may be generated to act as automated participants or coaches. Constructive feedback is provided to the participants during or after the simulation. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356462 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155363 | Rosenthal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MKS Instruments, Inc. (Wilmington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Rosenthal (West Simsbury, Connecticut); Jiazhan Xu (Vernon, Connecticut); Sylvie Charpenay (Vernon, Connecticut); Joseph E. Cosgrove (Columbia, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The method measures the temperature, emissivity, and other properties of relatively smooth surfaces radiating thermal energy, and is especially adapted for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes. Temperature is determined by relating measured radiance to the predictions of the Planck radiation law, using knowledge of the emissivity determined from an analysis of the polarization of the thermally emitted radiance. Additional information regarding the properties of thin films, such as thickness and composition, can be computed from the emissivity or the ratio of the emissivities measured at two independent polarizations. Because the data are obtained from the intrinsic thermal radiance, rather than from an extrinsic light source, the measurement can be performed when it is inconvenient or impossible to provide a light source for reflectance measurements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/199677 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155389 | 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 speech to touch translator assembly and method for converting spoken words directed to an operator into tactile sensations caused by combinations of pressure point exertions on the body of the operator, each combination of pressure points exerted signifying a phoneme of one of the spoken words, and sound characteristics superimposed on the spoken words, permitting comprehension of spoken words, and the speaker thereof, by persons that are deaf and blind. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/292953 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155423 | Josephson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Josephson (Worthington, Ohio); Balakrishran Chandrasekaran (Columbus, Ohio); Mark Carroll (Columbus, Ohio); Naresh Sundaram Iyer (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An architecture is disclosed for assistance with exploration of design and other decision spaces and for making decisions. These decision spaces may be very large. The architecture consists of three main components: A Seeker acquires candidates by generating or retrieving them, along with their scores according to one or more criteria. A Filter locates a relatively small number of promising candidates that are retained for further analysis. Various filters may be used to locate the promising candidates. A Viewer allows a user to examine trade-off diagrams, and other linked displays, that present the filtered candidates for evaluation, analysis, further exploration, and narrowing the choice set. The computational load of the Seeker may be distributed among a large number of clients in a client-server computing environment. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/717332 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155698 | Gennari |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank E. Gennari (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Images such as mask layouts, signatures, and photographs are compared to identify similarities or dissimilarities in the images. Descriptions of the images use geometric shapes including lines, rectangles, and triangles to facilitate the comparisons and decrease comparison time and decrease stored data describing the shapes. Data for pixels in the shapes are pre-integrated to reduce arithmetic operations in the comparisons. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/716266 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07152448 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuntian T. Zhu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Terry C. Lowe (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Ruslan Z. Valiev (Ufa, Russian Federation); Georgy J. Raab (Ufa, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus that continuously processes a metal workpiece without substantially altering its cross section includes a wheel member having an endless circumferential groove, and a stationary constraint die that surrounds the wheel member, covers most of the length of the groove, and forms a passageway with the groove. The passageway has a rectangular shaped cross section. An abutment member projects from the die into the groove and blocks one end of the passageway. The wheel member rotates relative to the die in the direction toward the abutment member. An output channel in the die adjacent the abutment member has substantially the same cross section as the passageway. A metal workpiece is fed through an input channel into the passageway and carried in the groove by frictional drag in the direction towards the abutment member, and is extruded through the output channel without any substantial change in cross section. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014072 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153061 | Nickelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reva A. Nickelson (Shelley, Idaho); Stephanie Walsh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John R. Dick (Rigby, Idaho); Paul A. Sloan (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes and methods relating to treating contaminants and collecting desired substances from a zone of interest using subterranean collection and containment barriers. Tubular casings having interlock structures are used to create subterranean barriers for containing and treating buried waste and its effluents. The subterranean barrier includes an effluent collection system. Treatment solutions provided to the zone of interest pass therethrough and are collected by the barrier and treated or recovered, allowing on-site remediation. Barrier components may be used to in the treatment by collecting or removing contaminants or other materials from the zone of interest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088650 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/128.650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153345 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); David L. King (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | High capacity sulfur oxide absorbents utilizing manganese-based octahedral molecular sieve (Mn—OMS) materials are disclosed. An emissions reduction system for a combustion exhaust includes a scrubber 24 containing these high capacity sulfur oxide absorbents located upstream from a NOX filter 26 or particulate trap. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771866 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153373 | Maziasz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Maziasz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tim McGreevy (Morton, Illinois); Michael James Pollard (East Peoria, Illinois); Chad W. Siebenaler (Peoria, Illinois); Robert W. Swindeman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A CF8C type stainless steel alloy and articles formed therefrom containing about 18.0 weight percent to about 22.0 weight percent chromium and 11.0 weight percent to about 14.0 weight percent nickel; from about 0.05 weight percent to about 0.15 weight percent carbon; from about 2.0 weight percent to about 10.0 weight percent manganese; and from about 0.3 weight percent to about 1.5 weight percent niobium. The present alloys further include less than 0.15 weight percent sulfur which provides high temperature strength both in the matrix and at the grain boundaries without reducing ductility due to cracking along boundaries with continuous or nearly-continuous carbides. The disclosed alloys also have increased nitrogen solubility thereby enhancing strength at all temperatures because nitride precipitates or nitrogen porosity during casting are not observed. The solubility of nitrogen is dramatically enhanced by the presence of manganese, which also retains or improves the solubility of carbon thereby providing additional solid solution strengthening due to the presence of manganese and nitrogen, and combined carbon. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/195724 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153401 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis Peter Martin (Castro Valley, California); Ai Quoc Pham (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nitrogen oxide sensor system for measuring the amount of nitrogen oxide in a gas. A first electrode is exposed to the gas. An electrolyte is positioned in contact with the first electrode. A second electrode is positioned in contact with the electrolyte. A means for applying a fixed current between the first electrode and the second electrode and monitoring the voltage required to maintain the fixed current provides a measurement of the amount of nitrogen oxide in the gas. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378578 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153435 | Prenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Coyne Prenger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dallas D. Hill (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for removing heavy metals from water is provided. The process includes the steps of introducing magnetite to a quantity of water containing heavy metal. The magnetite is mixed with the water such that at least a portion of, and preferably the majority of, the heavy metal in the water is bound to the magnetite. Once this occurs the magnetite and absorbed metal is removed from the water by application of a magnetic field. In most applications the process is achieved by flowing the water through a solid magnetized matrix, such as steel wool, such that the magnetite magnetically binds to the solid matrix. The magnetized matrix preferably has remnant magnetism, but may also be subject to an externally applied magnetic field. Once the magnetite and associated heavy metal is bound to the matrix, it can be removed and disposed of, such as by reverse water or air and water flow through the matrix. The magnetite may be formed in-situ by the addition of the necessary quantities of Fe(II) and Fe(III) ions, or pre-formed magnetite may be added, or a combination of seed and in-situ formation may be used. The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the removal of heavy metals from water using the process outlined above. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/625763 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153489 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William T. Zollinger (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing hydrogen is disclosed and which includes providing a first composition; providing a second composition; reacting the first and second compositions together to produce a chemical hydride; providing a liquid and reacting the chemical hydride with the liquid in a manner to produce a high pressure hydrogen gas and a byproduct which includes the first composition; and reusing the first composition formed as a byproduct in a subsequent chemical reaction to form additional chemical hydride. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/778788 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153541 | Elsetinow et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alicia Elsetinow (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Borda (Saint James, New York); Martin A. Schoonen (Miller Place, New York); Daniel R. Strongin (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides means for inhibiting the oxidation of a metal sulfide-containing material, such as ore mine waste rock or metal sulfide taiulings, by coating the metal sulfide-containing material with an oxidation-inhibiting two-tail lipid coating (12) thereon, thereby inhibiting oxidation of the metal sulfide-containing material in acid mine drainage conditions. The lipids may be selected from phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/497769 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153656 | Nolan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Nolan (Santa Fe, New Mexico); P. Scott White (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for rapidly detecting single or multiple sequence alleles in a sample nucleic acid are described. Provided are all of the oligonucleotide pairs capable of annealing specifically to a target allele and discriminating among possible sequences thereof, and ligating to each other to form an oligonucleotide complex when a particular sequence feature is present (or, alternatively, absent) in the sample nucleic acid. The design of each oligonucleotide pair permits the subsequent high-level PCR amplification of a specific amplicon when the oligonucleotide complex is formed, but not when the oligonucleotide complex is not formed. The presence or absence of the specific amplicon is used to detect the allele. Detection of the specific amplicon may be achieved using a variety of methods well known in the art, including without limitation, oligonucleotide capture onto DNA chips or microarrays, oligonucleotide capture onto beads or microspheres, electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry. Various labels and address-capture tags may be employed in the amplicon detection step of multiplexed assays, as further described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336266 |
| 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 07153761 | Nastasi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Nastasi (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Lin Shao (Los Alamos, New Mexico); N. David Theodore (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for transferring a thin semiconductor layer from one substrate to another substrate involves depositing a thin epitaxial monocrystalline semiconductor layer on a substrate having surface contaminants. An interface that includes the contaminants is formed in between the deposited layer and the substrate. Hydrogen atoms are introduced into the structure and allowed to diffuse to the interface. Afterward, the thin semiconductor layer is bonded to a second substrate and the thin layer is separated away at the interface, which results in transferring the thin epitaxial semiconductor layer from one substrate to the other substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243010 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153810 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Worn Park (Peoria, Illinois); Carrie L. Boyer (Shiloh, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an exhaust treatment catalyst includes dispersing a metal-based material in a first solvent to form a first slurry and allowing polymerization of the first slurry to occur. Polymerization of the first slurry may be quenched and the first slurry may be allowed to harden into a solid. This solid may be redistributed in a second solvent to form a second slurry. The second slurry may be loaded with a silver-based material, and a silver-loaded powder may be formed from the second slurry. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874209 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154022 | Howe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg A. Howe (East Lansing, Michigan); Aya Itoh (Tsuruoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to divinyl ether synthase genes, proteins, and methods of their use. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of the synthase, as well as mutants and variant forms, some of which possess altered characteristics relative to the wild-type synthase. The present invention also relates to methods of using divinyl ether synthase genes and proteins, including in their expression in transgenic organisms and in the production of divinyl ether fatty acids, and to methods of suing divinyl ether fatty acids, including in the protection of plants from pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381870 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154088 | Blain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew G. Blain (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James G. Fleming (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated ion trap array, comprising a plurality of ion traps having an inner radius of order one micron, can be fabricated using surface micromachining techniques and materials known to the integrated circuits manufacturing and microelectromechanical systems industries. Micromachining methods enable batch fabrication, reduced manufacturing costs, dimensional and positional precision, and monolithic integration of massive arrays of ion traps with microscale ion generation and detection devices. Massive arraying enables the microscale ion traps to retain the resolution, sensitivity, and mass range advantages necessary for high chemical selectivity. The reduced electrode voltage enables integration of the microfabricated ion trap array with on-chip circuit-based rf operation and detection electronics (i.e., cell phone electronics). Therefore, the full performance advantages of the microfabricated ion trap array can be realized in truly field portable, handheld microanalysis systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089318 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154291 | Turner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Richard Turner (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for measuring current, and particularly bi-directional current, in a field-effect transistor (FET) using drain-to-source voltage measurements. The drain-to-source voltage of the FET is measured and amplified. This signal is then compensated for variations in the temperature of the FET, which affects the impedance of the FET when it is switched on. The output is a signal representative of the direction of the flow of current through the field-effect transistor and the level of the current through the field-effect transistor. Preferably, the measurement only occurs when the FET is switched on. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925025 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/769 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155076 | Letant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonia E. Letant (Livermore, California); Anthony Van Buuren (Livermore, California); Louis Terminello (Danville, California); Bradley R. Hart (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a porous silicon filter capable of binding and detecting biological and chemical target molecules in liquid or gas samples. A photonic waveguiding silicon filter with chemical and/or biological anchors covalently attached to the pore walls bind target molecules. The system uses transmission curve engineering principles to allow measurements to be made in situ and in real time to detect the presence of various target molecules and calculate the concentration of bound target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833573 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07155172 | Scott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Wayne Scott (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An RFID backscatter interrogator for transmitting data to an RFID tag, generating a carrier for the tag, and receiving data from the tag modulated onto the carrier, the interrogator including a single grounded-coplanar wave-guide circuit board and at least one surface mount integrated circuit supported by the circuit board. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269756 |
| ART UNIT | 3685 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07152474 | Deb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nilmoni Deb (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ronald DeShawn Blanton (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for producing and comparing signals from various points in a MEMS device. By producing signals which should be of substantial identical characteristics, deviations from the situation where the signals are of identical characteristics can be used to identify various types of asymmetry which are otherwise difficult to detect. In one embodiment, the MEMS device is comprised of a plurality of fixed beams arranged symmetrically and a plurality of movable beams arranged symmetrically. A first sensor is formed by certain of the fixed and movable beams while a second sensor, electrically isolated from said first sensor, is formed by at least certain other of the fixed and movable beams. The first and second sensors are located within the MEMS device so as to produce signals of substantially identical characteristics. A circuit is responsive to the first and second sensors for comparing the signals produced by the first and second sensors. In addition to the apparatus, methods of performing a self test are also disclosed, which may be performed in real time. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666147 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153454 | Khoshnevis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-nozzle assembly may include a first nozzle configured to extrude material through a first outlet; a second nozzle configured to extrude material through a second outlet; and a third nozzle configured to extrude material through a third outlet, the third outlet being between the first and second outlets. Related construction processes and wall structures are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760963 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153667 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben Shen (Verona, Wisconsin); Yi-Qiang Cheng (Madison, Wisconsin); Gong-Li Tang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic and biochemical characterization of the leinamycin biosynthesis gene cluster from Streptomyces atroolivaceus S-140 revealed two PKS genes, lnmI and lnmJ, that encode six PKS modules, none of which contains a cognate AT domain. The AT activity is provided in trans by a discrete protein, LnmG, which loads the malonyl coenzyme A extender unit onto the ACP domains of all six PKS modules. This finding provides a basis for methods of engineering modular polyketide synthases and polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetases. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314657 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07153949 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Soo Kim (Inchon, South Korea); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding chimeric proteins, and methods for their production and use are disclosed. The chimeric proteins comprise a flexible linker between two zinc finger DNA-binding domains, wherein the linker contains eight or more amino acids between the second conserved histidine residue of the carboxy-terminal zinc finger of the first domain and the first conserved cysteine residue of the amino-terminal zinc finger of the second domain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110594 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154004 | Stahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shannon S. Stahl (Madison, Wisconsin); Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Sarah E. Eldred (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of manipulating the carboxamide functionality in a catalytic manner. The method includes the steps of reacting amides with or without amines in the presence of various types of metal catalysts, at a temperature of about 250° C. or less. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/785301 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154023 | Grotewold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erich Grotewold (Columbus, Ohio); Anusha P. Dias (Columbus, Ohio); Edward L. Braun (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for altering levels in plants of one or more phenolic compounds that are intermediates or final products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway are provided. One method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a transactivator protein comprising the myb domain of the maize “ZmMyb-IF35” protein and an activation domain. Another method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a transgene which encodes an antisense ZmMyb-IF35 RNA. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and vectors used in the present methods. transformed plant cells and transgenic plants prepared according to the present methods, and the seeds of such transgenic plants. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/093837 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154091 | Zewail et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Zewail (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Lobastov (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrafast system (and methods) for characterizing one or more samples. The system includes a stage assembly, which has a sample to be characterized. The system has a laser source that is capable of emitting an optical pulse of less than 1 ps in duration. The system has a cathode coupled to the laser source. In a specific embodiment, the cathode is capable of emitting an electron pulse less than 1 ps in duration. The system has an electron lens assembly adapted to focus the electron pulse onto the sample disposed on the stage. The system has a detector adapted to capture one or more electrons passing through the sample. The one or more electrons passing through the sample is representative of the structure of the sample. The detector provides a signal (e.g., data signal) associated with the one or more electrons passing through the sample that represents the structure of the sample. The system has a processor coupled to the detector. The processor is adapted to process the data signal associated with the one or more electrons passing through the sample to output information associated with the structure of the sample. The system has an output device coupled to the processor. The output device is adapted to output the information associated with the structure of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097837 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07154022 | Howe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg A. Howe (East Lansing, Michigan); Aya Itoh (Tsuruoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to divinyl ether synthase genes, proteins, and methods of their use. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of the synthase, as well as mutants and variant forms, some of which possess altered characteristics relative to the wild-type synthase. The present invention also relates to methods of using divinyl ether synthase genes and proteins, including in their expression in transgenic organisms and in the production of divinyl ether fatty acids, and to methods of suing divinyl ether fatty acids, including in the protection of plants from pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/381870 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154023 | Grotewold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erich Grotewold (Columbus, Ohio); Anusha P. Dias (Columbus, Ohio); Edward L. Braun (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for altering levels in plants of one or more phenolic compounds that are intermediates or final products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway are provided. One method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a transactivator protein comprising the myb domain of the maize “ZmMyb-IF35” protein and an activation domain. Another method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a transgene which encodes an antisense ZmMyb-IF35 RNA. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and vectors used in the present methods. transformed plant cells and transgenic plants prepared according to the present methods, and the seeds of such transgenic plants. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/093837 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP17300 | NeSmith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott NeSmith (Griffin, Georgia); Arlen D. Draper (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Vaccinium ashei Reade ‘Ochlockonee’ is a Rabbiteye blueberry is distinguished by distinguished by its late bloom period, high and consistent productivity, large berry size, moderate chill requirement, late ripening, small berry scar, and high-quality fruit suitable for mechanical harvesting for the fresh market. The fruit of the plant is primarily used as fresh fruit for shipping, but is also suitable for customer-pick and processing markets. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/646660 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07153630 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel photoresists containing at least about 0.2 molar ratio of a base with respect to the concentration of a photoacid generator present and their preparation are described. It has been discovered that inclusion of a sufficient amount of base counteracts the detrimental effects of photoacid generators, thus providing resists having submicron linewidth resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146597 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154134 | Anthony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts); Edward J. Kohler (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable charge coupled device (CCD) charge splitter includes a channel control structure and an associated plurality of output channels. Control signals applied to the channel control structure determine an amount of charge, which passes into each one of the plurality of output channels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177153 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07155732 | Rausch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Rausch (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Ibrahim Kursat Sendur (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Albert Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Christophe Daniel Mihalcea (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Keith Mountfield (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic recording head comprises a write pole having a pole tip adjacent to an air bearing surface, a return pole, a near field transducer positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface for producing near field radiation for heating a portion of a magnetic storage medium, wherein a thermal profile of the portion of the magnetic storage medium has a maximum gradient at a location subject to a magnetic write field produced by the write pole. A disc drive that includes the magnetic recording head and a method of recording using the magnetic recording head are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655994 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic optical information storage or retrieval 720/659 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07154264 | Burkhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Burkhardt (Adkins, Texas); Alfred E. Crouch (San Antonio, Texas); Jay L. Fisher (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method provides a means for inspecting pipelines that have obstructions which prevent conventional inspection pigs from passing the obstructions. The invention uses remote-field eddy current inspection techniques and a uniquely configured excitation coil for inline inspection of pipelines having valves and other fittings that severely restrict or prevent the use of conventional inspection pigs. A unique collapsible excitation coil and a collapsible sensor array enables an inspection pig using these features to pass pipeline obstructions that prevent passage by conventional inspection pigs. The collapsible coil and sensor array provide means for reducing the diameter of an inspection pig to enable it to pass obstructions in the pipeline. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709106 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07153428 | Chynoweth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Chynoweth (Gainesville, Florida); Arthur A. Teixeira (Gainesville, Florida); John M. Owens (High Springs, Florida); Patrick J. Haley (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides improved systems and processes for performing sequential batch anaerobic composting (SEBAC) on high solids content wastes. In particular, the present invention provides improved flooded SEBAC systems that function more efficiently (i.e., higher conversion kinetics) at lower temperatures than conventional SEBAC systems. Further, the improved flooded SEBAC systems and processes of the subject invention enable efficient anaerobic digestion operation at a smaller reactor volume ratio as compared to conventional SEBAC systems, without the displacement of leachate and clogging as a result of entrapped biogas or an increased pressure drop (hydraulic). Further, the improved flooded SEBAC systems of the invention overcome concerns associated with leachate displacement as well as excessive pressure drops. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/117269 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07155107 | Helffrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome A. Helffrich (Boerne, Texas); Glenn M. Light (San Antonio, Texas); Clinton J. Thwing (Bulverde, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method provides means for detecting fiber optic cable embedded within a structure such as a wall of a building. It relies upon detecting an electrical field generated by movement of static and induced electrical charged fiber optic cable contained within the building wall. The invention is particularly useful when only one side of a wall structure is accessible and there is no access to the fiber optic cable. The process comprises the steps of locating wall studs, making a small hole in the wall material between the wall studs at approximately mid height, inserting a field emitter in the small hole for generating an electrical charge on a fiber cable, inserting an air nozzle in the small hole to create fiber cable movement, and detecting an electric field generated by the movement of an electrically charged fiber cable. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/160275 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07153951 | Gardella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J Gardella (Needham, Massachusetts); Henry M Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts); John T Potts, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Harald Jüppner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel parathyroid hormone peptide (PTH) and parathyroid hormone related peptide (PTHrP) or derivatives thereof which are biologically active are disclosed, as are pharmaceutical compositions containing such peptides, and synthetic and recombinant methods for producing such peptides. Also disclosed are methods for treating mammalian conditions characterized by decreases in bone mass using therapeutically effective pharmaceutical compositions containing such peptides. Also disclosed are methods for screening candidate compounds of the invention for antagonistic or agonistic effects on parathyroid hormone receptor action. Also disclosed are diagnostic and therapeutic methods of such compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/192673 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07154435 | Morgan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas P. Morgan (Auburn, Washington); James D. Doty (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods enable numerically creating a flat field in a compact radar range with a curved reflector, and without use of a separate phased array of elements, at frequencies lower than those that are possible with currently known, reflector-only compact radar ranges. A compact radar range is calibrated to enable weighting factors to be computed. The weighting factors may be computed by performing an optimization algorithm. The weighting factors are used to weight separate target signals sequentially returned from a target zone such that, when combined, a numerically composite measurement has a substantially constant magnitude across the target zone. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098862 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/165 |
| 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 26, 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
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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
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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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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