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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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| US 07160449 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tingyu Li (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A general chiral column with a multipleproline-based chiral stationary phase. Embodiments include chiral stationary phases of the following formula: wherein n is any integer of 2 or greater, and analogs and isomers thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987238 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
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| US 07160464 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey R. Morgan (Sharon, Massachusetts); Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based on the discovery that certain membranes, which include side chains or molecular “brushes” having, for example, tertiary amino functional groups, can be used as highly effective filters to capture viruses/virus particles from liquids without removal of proteins. New methods based on this discovery include removing viruses from liquids such as blood or plasma, removing viruses from pharmaceuticals, concentrating and/or purifying viruses, e.g., for use in gene therapy, and producing recombinant viruses in new bioreactors. The invention also includes new methods of therapy or adjunct therapy for viral infections, in which a patient's blood or plasma is filtered through the membranes to remove viruses to reduce the viral load. The invention also includes new bioreactors and viral filters containing the membranes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/018939 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/651 |
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| US 07160539 | Munn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Georgia (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Munn (Augusta, Georgia); Andrew Mellor (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism of macrophage-induced T cell suppression is the selective elimination of tryptophan and/or increase in one or more tryptophan metabolites within the local macrophage microenvironment Studies demonstrate that expression of IDO can serve as a marker of suppression of T cell activation, and may play a significant role in allogeneic pregnancy and therefore other types of transplantation, and that inhibitors of IDO can be used to activate T cells and therefore enhance T cell activation when the T cells are suppressed by pregnancy, malignancy or a virus such as HIV. Inhibiting tryptophan degradation (and thereby increasing tryptophan concentration while decreasing tryptophan metabolite concentration), or supplementing tryptophan concentration, can therefore be used in addition to, or in place of, inhibitors of IDO. Similarly, increasing tryptophan degradation (thereby , decreasing tryptophan concentration and increasing tryptophan metabolite concentration), for example, by increasing IDO concentration or IDO activity, can suppress T cells. Although described particularly with reference to IDO regulation, one can instead manipulate local tryptophan concentrations, and/or modulate the activity of the high affinity tryptophan transporter, and/or administer other tryptophan degrading enzymes. Regulation can be further manipulated using cytokines such as macrophage colony stimulating factor, interferon gamma, alone or in combination with antigen or other cytokines. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/112362 |
| 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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07160541 — Modified polypeptides stabilized in a desired conformation and methods for producing same
| US 07160541 | Springer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Center for Blood Research, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Springer (Newton, Massachusetts); Motomu Shimaoka (Brookline, Massachusetts); Chafen Lu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for stabilizing a protein in a desired conformation by introducing at least one disulfide bond into the polypeptide. Computational design is used to identify positions where cysteine residues can be introduced to form a disulfide bond in only one protein conformation, and therefore lock the protein in a given conformation. Accordingly, antibody and small molecule therapeutics are selected that are specific for the desired protein conformation. Modified integrin I-domain polypeptides that are stabilized in a desired conformation are also provided. Finally, screening assays and therapeutic methods utilizing the modified integrin I-domains of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/945265 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
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| US 07160547 | Dale |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Corporation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B Dale (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are streptolysin S (SLS) polypeptides, peptides, and variants thereof, antibodies directed thereto, and isolated nucleic acids encoding such proteins. In one embodiment, a method is provided wherein a synthetic peptide of SLS is used to elicit an immune response specific for SLS in a subject to treat or prevent a streptococcal infection. In other embodiments, antibodies that neutralize the hemolytic activity of the SLS toxin may be used as a vaccinating agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268336 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07160681 | Gelfand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin W. Gelfand (Englewood, Colorado); Joseph J. Lucas (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for assessing tumor cell growth in a patient for the diagnosis, monitoring and/or staging of tumor development. The method include the identification of reduced cdk6 expression or biological activity as an indicator of increased cell growth in a cell sample. The methods further include the identification of compounds which regulate cdk6 and the use of such compounds in a method for the regulation of inappropriate cell growth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154272 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07160682 | Hackett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry B. Hackett (Shoreview, Minnesota); Karl J. Clark (Ramsey, Minnesota); Zoltan Ivics (Berlin, Germany); Zsuzsanna Izsvak (Berlin, Germany); Scott C. Fahrenkrug (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for transposon vectors encoding expression control region-traps and gene-traps. Also provided are dicistronic vectors. Certain embodiments of the invention contain internal ribosome entry sites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/191698 |
| 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 435/6 |
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| US 07160685 | Diamond |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don Diamond (Glendora, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a plurality of peptides (and immunologically functional variants thereof) which are immunogenic epitopes recognized by CD8+ class I MHC restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocytes of patients harboring latent human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection. The peptides are capable of activating CTLs and CTLps in the absence of active viral replication, and thus are useful for eliciting a cellular immune response against HCMV by normal and immunodeficient subjects. Peptide and lipopeptide vaccines, with and without adjuvants, also are disclosed. Cellular vaccines comprising the peptides form a further embodiment of this invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/736640 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07160692 | Kastan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Kastan (Cordova, Tennessee); Christopher Bakkenist (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for detecting activation of ATM kinase, DNA damage, and DNA damaging agents. Further provided are antibodies which specifically recognize the phosphorylation state of Ataxia Telangiectasia-Mutated (ATM) kinase. Methods of identifying agents which modulate the activation and activity of ATM kinase are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076405 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
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| US 07160698 | Matz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Vladimirovitch Matz (Palm Coast, Florida); Ilya Vladimirovitch Kelmanson (Moscow, Russian Federation); Ella A. Meleshkevitch (Palm Coast, Florida); Anya Salih (Sydney, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides new fluorescent and/or colored proteins, and polynucleotide sequences that encode these proteins. The subject invention further provides materials and methods useful for expressing these detectable proteins in biological systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851636 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07160719 | Nyberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott L. Nyberg (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioartificial liver system is described that incorporates a cell reservoir and hepatocyte spheroids to both increase the number of and longevity of cells in the system. Additional methods are also described for forming spheroid aggregates from isolated hepatocytes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/164817 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/289.100 |
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| US 07160720 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Zhi-Ping Liu (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new polypeptide and the gene encoding therefore, said gene being regulated in cardiac tissue by the transcription factor MEF2C. This polypeptide, CHAMP (cardiac helicase activated by MEF2 protein), bears striking resemblance to a number of other helicase proteins and appears to play a role in RNA processing and transcriptional control in heart muscle. For example, CHAMP has been demonstrated to inhibit both hypertrophy of primary cardiomyocytes and proliferation of non-cardiac cells. Also disclosed are methods of using the gene and protein in drug screening and therapy, including, for example, use of the gene in gene therapy to treat cardiovascular disease. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/077583 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07160722 | de Crombrugghe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benoit de Crombrugghe (Houston, Texas); Kazuhisa Nakashima (Houston, Texas); Xin Zhou (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene expressed selectively by osteoblast lines is provided. Expression of the gene is highly restricted to cells of osteoblast lineage, including precursor cells. Also provided is a method for promoting bone formation by providing agents that bind to the novel gene within osteoblast cells to stimulate bone formation. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/734329 |
| 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 435/354 |
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| US 07160727 | McCray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. McCray, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Colleen Stein (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel pseudotyped retroviral vectors that can transduce human and other cells. Vectors are provided that are packaged efficiently in packaging cells and cell lines to generate high titer recombinant virus stocks expressing novel envelope glycoproteins. The present invention further relates to compositions for gene therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993319 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/456 |
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| US 07160855 | Theil |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Theil (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of enhancing the rate of iron release from ferritin. By increasing the amount of iron available for chelation, the invention also provides methods of treating conditions associated with iron overload. The invention also provides in one embodiment agents which are useful for treating iron overload. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/389424 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/6 |
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| US 07160856 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Dalibor Sames (New York, New York); Samuel Hintermann (Basel, Switzerland); Xiao Tao Chen (Newark, Delaware); Jacob B. Schwarz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Glunz (Wilmington, Delaware); Govindaswami Ragupathi (New York, New York); Philip O. Livingston (New York, New York); Scott Kuduk (Harleyville, Pennsylvania); Lawrence Williams (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel α-O-linked glycoconjugates such as α-O-linked glycopeptides, as well convergent methods for synthesis thereof. The general preparative approach is exemplified by the synthesis of the mucin motif commonly found on epithelial tumor cell surfaces. The present invention further provides compositions and methods of treating cancer using the α-O-linked glycoconjugates. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/205021 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
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| US 07160859 | Vatner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Vatner (New York, New York); Junichi Sadoshima (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and agents for treatment, amelioration and prevention of cardiac disease, including cardiac myopathy, chronic heart failure and for management and reduction of cardiac myocyte death which may occur in response to ischemia/reperfusion or following myocardial infarction or other injury to the heart. The invention relates to methods for screening cardiotherapeutic compounds, including compounds which modulate cardiac myocyte apoptosis, particularly targeting Mst1 and the Mst1 pathway. The present invention further encompasses compounds identified by such screening methods and compositions comprising these compounds. The invention also provides methods for treatment, amelioration and prevention of cardiac disease comprising administering compounds or agents which modulate, particularly inhibit, Mst1 or the Mst1 kinase pathway, including administering a nucleic acid encoding an altered form of Mst1, particularly a dominant negative Mst1, which acts as an antagonist of Mst1. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683576 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07160864 | Toback et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Gary Toback (Chicago, Illinois); Margaret M. Walsh-Reitz (River Forest, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel growth peptides derived from protein factors having molecular weights of about 22 and 45 kDa stimulate mitogenic activity of epithelial, but not fibroblastic cells, in particular, kidney epithelial cells. A source of the factors is scrape-wounded kidney epithelial cells in culture. Synthetic peptides having sixteen amino acids or less, in particular a hexapeptide, YPQGNH (SEQ ID NO: 2) maintain the mitogenic activity. The peptide AQPYPQGNHEASYG (14-Ser) (SEQ ID NO: 15) is effective in reversing acute renal failure in animals. The growth-promoting characteristics of the 22 and 45 kDa proteins and the peptides are useful in treating and diagnosing patients with kidney disease. Nucleotide sequences that encode the factor are useful to develop probes to locate similar factors, to identify genetic disorders involving the factor, and to produce the factor by genetic recombinant methods. The nucleotide sequences and fragments thereof, are also useful for diagnosis and treatment of kidney disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892617 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17 |
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| US 07160865 | Lampidis et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore J. Lampidis (Miami, Florida); Waldemore Priebe (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Glycolytic inhibitors are useful in the treatment of solid tumors by attacking anaerobic cells at the center on the tumor. 2-deoxyglucose, oxamate and various analogs thereof are identified as having a natural selective toxicity toward anaerobic cells, and will significantly increase the efficacy of standard cancer chemotherapeutic and radiation regiments as well as new protocols emerging with anti-angiogenic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/401457 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/23 |
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| US 07160910 | Safo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xechem International, Inc. (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin K. Safo (Richmond, Virginia); Richmond Danso-Danquah (Richmond, Virginia); Samuel Nokuri (Richmond, Virginia); Faik N. Musayev (Glen Allen, Virginia); Gajanan S. Joshi (Glen Allen, Virginia); James C. Burnett (Richmond, Virginia); Donald J. Abraham (Midlothian, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The provides compounds for the treatment of sickle-cell disease. In particular, the invention provides 5-membered heterocyclic anti-sickling agents that are highly effective and non-toxic, and methods for their use. The compounds include analogues and derivatives of naturally occurring occurring 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfuraldehyde, 5-Ethyl-2-furfuraldehyde, 5-Methyl-2-furfuraldehyde, and 2-furfuraldehyde, and prodrug forms of the compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725935 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
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| US 07160914 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. David Wilson (Atlanta, Georgia); David W. Boykin (Atlanta, Georgia); Richard R. Tidwell (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetric derivatives of furamidines with one of the phenyl rings of furamidine replaced with a benzimidazole have been found by quantitative footprinting analyses to bind GC containing sites on DNA more strongly than to pure AT sequences. These compounds have been shown to bind in the minor groove at specific GC containing sequences of DNA in a highly cooperative manner as a stacked dimer. Compounds of the present invention find use in selectively binding mixed sequence DNA, and may also be used in methods of regulating gene expression, methods of treating opportunistic infections and cancer, as well as in methods of detecting certain sequences of DNA. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/035627 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/393 |
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| US 07160986 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Feng Yang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Georg F. Weber (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Harvey Cantor (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to BCL-xγ, a novel isoform of the BCL-x family of proteins which is predominantly expressed in T-lymphocytes and is associated with resistance to apoptosis. Both compositions of matter and methods are described which are useful in the treatment or prevention of immune system disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/208155 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07160989 | Logan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan K. Logan (New York, New York); Michael J. Garabedian (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A phosphorylation site-specific antibody that recognizes phosphorylated serine 213 within the N-terminus of the androgen receptor was obtained which can be used in methods for determining the presence of activated androgen receptors in cells or tissue of human androgen responsive tissue and for screening for an androgen inhibitor or an androgen agonist. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/849545 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.220 |
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| US 07160999 | Liotta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis C. Liotta (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Raymond F. Schinazi (Decatur, Georgia); Woo-Baeg Choi (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the resolution of a racemic mixture of nucleoside enantiomers that includes the step of exposing the racemic mixture to an enzyme that preferentially catalyzes a reaction in one of the enantiomers. The nucleoside enantiomer (−)-2-hydroxymethyl-5-(5-fluorocytosin-1-yl)-1,3-oxathiolane is an effective antiviral agent against HIV, HBV, and other viruses replicating in a similar manner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644293 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/127 |
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| US 07161058 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Liu (Columbus, Ohio); Pan Zheng (Columbus, Ohio); Ping Lu (Columbus, Ohio); Bedrich Mosinger (Columbus, Ohio); Ken May (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a non-human transgenic animal, particularly a knock in mouse, whose genome comprises a heterologous, chimeric CTLA4 gene. The chimeric CTLA4 gene comprises exon 2 of the human CTLA4 gene, exon 1 and exon 4 of the non-human animal, and exon 3 of the CTLA4 gene of the non-human animal, or preferably, exon 3 of the human CTLA4 gene. The invention also relates to methods by which the transgenic mice are used to screen for monoclonal antibodies or other molecules that enhance immunity to tumors and infectious agents by interacting with the human CTLA4 receptor. The transgenic mice of the present invention are also useful for screening for monoclonal antibodies or other molecules that inhibit autoimmunity and transplant rejection. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052559 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
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| US 07161060 | Duff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (Menands, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Duff (New York, New York); Peter Davies (Rye, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides transgenic mice comprising tau transgenes, and methods of preparing and using the transgenic mice. For example, the invention provides a transgenic mouse, the genome of the cells of which stably comprise a DNA molecule which comprises a human genomic DNA sequence comprising a human tau promoter and which DNA sequence encodes human tau. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620840 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
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| US 07161727 | Callies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memphis Eye and Cataract Associates Ambulatory Surgery Center (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Callies (Cordova, Tennessee); Roy E. Williams (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A UV-transmissable window assembly for a DMD device includes a UV-transmissable glass window provided in a frame. The window and frame are bonded together to preferably effect a hermetic seal therebetween. Optical coatings specific to the intended wavelength of light transmission are applied to the inner and outer surfaces of the glass window to reduce reflection and increase light transmission therethrough. The window assembly, and DMD provided with the same, is adapted for excellent transmission of ultraviolet light, even at the deep ultraviolet portion of the spectrum. The DMD window assembly has application in the medical arts, both surgery and device manufacture, in the production of integrated circuits (IC), and in other optical lithography applications, among other fields. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395661 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/291 |
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07161736 — Solid immersion lens structures and methods for producing solid immersion lens structures
| US 07161736 | Legrand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivier Legrand (Paris, France); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microlens structure such as a solid immersion lens structure is a radiation transmissive pliant elastomer cast to a desired shape and smoothness. A method for construction of a solid immersion lens structure includes providing a mold defining a lens shaped cavity in which a solid immersion lens is cast, casting a translucent liquid elastomeric material into the lens cavity, permitting the elastomeric material to set to form the solid immersion lens portion and removing the solid immersion lens portion from the mold. A specific material for use as the solid immersion lens is a translucent silicone elastomer of a refractive index greater than n=1.4, such as General Electric RTV 615. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933156 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
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| US 07162008 | Earl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matt A. Earl (Columbia, Maryland); David M. Shepard (Severn, Maryland); Xinsheng Yu (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A new optimization method for generating treatment plans for radiation oncology is described and claimed. This new method works for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), intensity modulated arc therapy (IMAT), and hybrid IMRT. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308090 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07159414 | Tilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isothermal Systems Research Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L Tilton (Colton, Washington); Thomas D Weir (Pullman, Washington); Paul A Knight (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a coldplate hotspot spray cooling system that cools an electronic component creating a varying amount of heat across its surfaces. Liquid coolant is dispensed upon a spray pin protruding from a base wherein the liquid creates a very high heat absorbing evaporative thin film. The spray pin is located over an area of the chip that produces a large heat flux, typically referred to as a hotspot. The small size and isolation of the spray pin provides the ability to generate very large heat fluxes. Multiple spray pins are possible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786243 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/304 |
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| US 07159420 | Autery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Umicore SA (Brussels, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William David Autery (Richardson, Texas); Gregory Stewart Tyber (Allen, Texas); Donald Bryan Christian (Allen, Texas); Marissa Marie Barnard (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for forming infrared glass optical components are provided. The system includes first and second mold halves having first and second respective faces. The first and second mold halves are configured to be removably coupled such that the first face and the second face form an interface that defines a lens-shaped cavity. A tapered surface of the first face cooperates with a tapered surface of the second face to enhance centering of the first face with respect to the second face. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414895 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07159442 | Jean |
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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) | Daniel J. Jean (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-directional shock sensor having a central post surrounded by an omnidirectionally moveable toroidal mass. A plurality of anchor members surrounds the mass and carries one arm of a latching arm assembly. The other arm of each latching arm assembly is carried by, and radially extends from the mass to oppose a respective first arm. A shock event will cause the mass to move in a certain direction to an extent where one or more of the arm assemblies will latch. The latching may be determined by an electrical circuit connected to contact pads on the central post and on the anchor members. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040300 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/12.10 |
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| US 07159470 | Saguto |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Saguto (St. Charles, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of measuring residual stress are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of measuring residual stress in a material under test includes directing radiation onto a stressed material and detecting the resulting diffraction peaks to measure known residual stress of a control specimen, inducing and sensing magnetoelastic interactions onto the control specimen, developing an empirical database of the diffraction and magnetoelastic interaction measurements of the control specimen, inducing and measuring magnetoelastic interactions on a material under test, and correlating the empirical database to the magnetoelastic interaction outputs from the material under test. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134170 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/779 |
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| US 07159474 | Arabian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam K. Arabian (Louisville, Kentucky); Charles K. Kerechanin, II (Burtonsville, Maryland); Stuart D. Harshbarger (Woodbine, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A sampling device is disclosed. The sampling device is portable and capable of taking two samples in parallel. The sampling device can include two filter locations that are subjected to similar environmental conditions. The sampling device design facilitates easy assembly and disassembly, and can be designed so that a single filter holder design can be used in both filter locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941573 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07159501 | Ansay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Ansay (Johnston, Rhode Island); Harry Zervas (Lincoln, Rhode Island); Michael J. Wroblewski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); James T. Broadmeadow (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater missile launch system includes one or more missile loading modules for supporting a plurality of missiles in a stackable, in-line configuration within a pressure vessel. The missiles are arranged inside the modules, which may be stacked in groups inside a single pressure vessel, or payload bay. Each module is preferably substantially identical including a common size, shape, and payload of missiles in common with the module above and below it. A one-way positioning latch is provided that prevents the upper missiles from dropping down on top of the lower missiles, while allowing the lower missiles to later pass up through the same launch tube as the upper missiles, after the upper missiles have been ejected. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985084 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160052 | Weiss, Jr. 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) | Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Joe G. Tom (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward J. Fransen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous covered area, such as a sidewalk or patio, is formed by vertically interlocking tessellated components. One embodiment, termed PORTAPAVE™, achieves this interlocking via an array of uniquely configured two-sectioned pavers. Each paver has a first section of a first shape and a second section of a second shape impressed upon the first section and bonded together. In one embodiment, first sections of pavers in an installed bottom layer form a cavity between them having the same shape as the second section of a paver that is inverted onto the pavers of the bottom layer, thus providing a top layer. Each inverted paver in this top layer is fitted to interlock in that cavity formed between the un-inverted pavers in the bottom layer. Also provided is a method of making the components, e.g., pavers, and a method of installing them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923889 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/34 |
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| US 07160465 | Kirts 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) | Richard Eugene Kirts (Oxnard, California); Mark Erik Foreman (Santa Barbara, California); Gary Daniel Anguiano (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A treatment facility for removing toxic metals from storm water runoff to provide clean water. The treatment facility includes a pretreatment chamber for removing large toxic particles from the storm water runoff and absorbent chamber for removing fine particles of toxic metals from the storm water runoff. The absorption chamber has an absorption bed of three absorptive materials for removing the fine particles of toxic metals from the storm water runoff. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155925 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/681 |
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| US 07160575 | Pinto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas J. Pinto (Humacao, Puerto Rico); Fouad M. Aliev (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Measurement in the frequency range 3 mHz–106 Hz of the dielectric characteristics of emeraldine base polyaniline dissolved in 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) and cast into bulk free-standing polymer films shows features similar to those reported by others and which are a result of microphase separation into reduced and oxidized repeat units. However, upon confinement into the cylindrical pores, of average diameter 20 nm, of a porous membrane such features of microphase separation do not occur. The microphase separation observed in the bulk polymer is suppressed by strong pinning of the charge carriers due to interactions of the polymer with pore walls together with constrained chain packing and a non-uniform rate of evaporation of the NMP solvent from the pores. This enhances the bulk conductivity after doping by reducing the internal intra-chain disorder introduced by microphase separation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771752 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160613 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Sungjee Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal associated with a polydentate ligand. The polydentate ligand stabilizes the nanocrystal. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641292 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
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| US 07160637 | Chiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mu Chiao (Beaverton, Oregon); Liwei Lin (Castro Valley, California); Kien-Bang Lam (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniaturized microbial fuel cell is described deriving electrical power from the biological activity of microbes, typically the metabolism of glucose by baker's yeast. Microfabrication techniques are used to miniaturize the components as well as the overall fuel cell and are capable of integration with other biomedical and implantable devices. Substantial reductions in both the size and the cost of implantable systems are thereby achievable. Electrode structures are used that facilitate electron transfer and power production giving favorable power densities in a miniature fuel cell. In addition, the microbial fuel cell of the present invention extracts glucose or other metabolite(s) from the ambient body fluids as its fuel, thus achieving a renewable, long-term power source for implantable biomedical devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445736 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
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| US 07160673 | Menon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Menon (Boston, Massachusetts); Dario Gil (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David J. Carter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for forming an array of focusing elements for use in a lithography system. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing a master element that includes at least one diffractive pattern at a first location with respect to a target surface, illuminating the master element to produce a first diffractive pattern on the target surface at the first location, moving the master element with respect to the target surface to a second location with respect to the target surface, and illuminating the master element to produce a second diffractive pattern on the target surface at the second location. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677804 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/321 |
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| US 07160687 | Kapur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cellomics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi Kapur (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Kenneth Giuliano (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods and cassettes for cell-based toxin detection and organ localization. The cassettes includes an array containing cells and a matrix of openings or depressions, wherein each region of the substrate enclosed by the opening or depression in the matrix forms a domain individually addressable by microfluidic channels in the device. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/624131 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| US 07160929 | Tan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wrigt Materials Research Co (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seng Tan (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | U.S. Pat. No. 6,232,354 issued May 15, 2001 describes an environmentally friendly and commercially practicable process for the production of microcellular polymer foams from amorphous, semi-crystalline and crystalline polymers which involves consolidating the polymer, saturating the polymer with an inert gas at elevated temperature and under elevated pressure, and controllably cooling, i.e. quenching the saturated polymer under a variety of temperature and pressure conditions to produce either a closed or open celled microcellular foam or a high density microcellular foam. It has now been discovered that a process similar to that described in this patent can be used for the production of nanocomposite and molecular-composite foams that exhibit exceptional physical properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/075528 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/73 |
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| US 07161015 | Passaro |
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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) | Linda Passaro (New Fairfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a compound by: providing a furyl compound being 2-furoyl chloride or corresponding carboxylic acid, amide, ester, anhydride, or lactone; reacting the furyl compound with CH3O(CH3)NH.HCl to form an amide; reacting the amide with an alkane Grignard reagent or alkyllithium to form a chelated intermediate; and reacting the chelated intermediate with an aqueous acid to form a (2-furyl)-alkylketone. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/223244 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/483 |
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| US 07161162 | Maldonado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Ramon Maldonado (Palo Alto, California); Steven T. Coyle (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron beam pattern generator comprises a laser beam generator to generate a laser beam. A photocathode receives the laser beam and generates one or more electron beams. The photocathode comprises cesium halide material, such as for example, cesium bromide or iodide. The cesium halide material may have a decreased workfunction that allows efficient operation at a wavelength of the laser beam of at least about 200 nm. Electron optics are provided to focus the electron beams onto a substrate that is supported on a substrate support. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/282324 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.240 |
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| US 07161168 | Heath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Pierre M. Petroff (Santa Barbara, California); Nicholas A. Melosh (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fabrication of metallic or non-metallic wires with nanometer widths and nanometer separation distances without the use of lithography. Wires are created in a two-step process involving forming the wires at the desired dimensions and transferring them to a planar substrate. The dimensions and separation of the wires are determined by the thicknesses of alternating layers of different materials that are in the form of a superlattice. Wires are created by evaporating the desired material onto the superlattice that has been selectively etched to provide height contrast between layers. The wires thus formed upon one set of superlattice layers are then transferred to a substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521714 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
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| US 07161201 | Katti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Joel A. Drewes (Boise, Idaho); Timothy J. Vogt (Elk River, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to improving the switching reliability of a magnetic memory cell in a magnetic random access memory (MRAM). Embodiments of the invention add an antiferromagnet to a magnetic memory cell. An antiferromagnetic layer can be formed adjacent to a soft layer in the MRAM on a side of the soft layer that is opposite to a hard layer of the MRAM. One embodiment further includes an additional interlayer of non-antiferromagnetic material between the antiferromagnetic layer and the soft layer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103347 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
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| US 07161350 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jentek Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); David C. Clark (Arlington, Massachusetts); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts); Volker Weiss (Syracuse, New York); William M. Chepolis (Viero, Florida); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Material condition monitoring may be performed by electromagnetic sensors and sensor arrays mounted to the material surface. The sensors typically have a periodic winding or electrode structure that creates a periodic sensing field when driven by an electrical signal. The sensors can be thin and flexible so that they conform to the surface of the test material. They can also be mounted such that they do not significantly modify the environmental exposure conditions for the test material, such as by creating stand-off gaps between the sensor and material surface or by perforating the sensor substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633905 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161452 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Augmented magic sphere rotator permanent magnetic structures are provided by augmenting a magic sphere augmented with an interior magnet that attains significant decreases in mass, bulk and length of the optically active element. Also provided is a multiple augmented magic sphere rotator permanent magnetic structure with two augmented magic spheres positioned in tandem that provides an advantageously significant reduction in mass. The augmented magic sphere rotator permanent magnetic structures of the present invention provide the desirable advantages of specifically decreased mass and bulk of the structure and decreased total length of the optically active elements. The augmented magic sphere rotator permanent magnetic structure and multiple augmented magic sphere rotator permanent magnetic structure can be used as Faraday rotator structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076457 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/306 |
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| US 07161529 | Smith, Jr. |
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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) | Jerry Rosson Smith, Jr. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Analysis of electromagnetic (or acoustic) multipath propagation inventively focuses upon the transmitter-to-target propagation (transmitted propagation reaching target via both direct pathway and forward scattered pathway) and the target-to-receiver propagation (re-transmitted propagation reaching receiver via both direct pathway and forward scattered pathway). Transmitter-to-target propagation is calculated using conventional multipath modeling technique. The target's overall scattered field is calculated using the calculated transmitter-to-target propagation in conjunction with qualitative electromagnetic/acoustic target information. Target-to-receiver propagation is calculated using conventional multipath modeling technique and/or the reciprocity principle as applied to the calculated transmitter-to-target propagation. Jointly disclosed (practicable therewith or thereapart) is inventive confinement of the assessment of multipath propagation to a “surface interactive region” (“SIR”), intermediate the target and transmitter and/or the target and receiver. The down range time of the propagation, translatable to range distance, is related to error associated with such restriction. A SIR scope is selected commensurately with acceptable error. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856359 |
| 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 342/159 |
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| US 07161530 | Christian 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) | Michael R. Christian (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Ralph H. Halladay (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method for radar calibration using antenna leakage is a simplified means of calibrating the channels in amplitude and phase using natural signal leakage between antennas. It utilizes as calibration signal a wideband sinusoidal Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) waveform with a modulation index and modulation frequency chosen to generate spectral components (or discrete signal frequencies) that fall within the receiver Doppler passband of the radar. The calibration signal is radiated out of the transmitting antenna and enters the radar receiver front-end through the transmit-to-receive antenna leakage which occurs naturally. This technique provides a low-complexity (simpler hardware realization) means for achieving a wideband calibration rapidly and is a practical alternative to the conventional calibration approach that relies on generating offset Doppler signals that are coupled into the radar receiver front-end through the use of couplers and cabling within the radar. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066652 |
| 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 342/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161926 | Elson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensoria Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Elson (Culver City, California); Lewis D. Girod (Culver City, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); William Merrill (Culver City, California); Lars Fredric Newberg (Marina Del Rey, California); Brian Schiffer (Culver City, California); Katayoun Sohrabi (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-radio sensor node is provided that includes two or more communication devices. The communication devices include radio frequency (RF) devices like radios. Each communication device supports simultaneous communications among multi-radio sensor nodes of respective independent network clusters. A network structure is provided that includes two or more local network clusters. Each local network cluster includes numerous multi-radio sensor nodes. Each communication device of a multi-radio sensor node supports communication among the multi-radio sensor nodes of a different one of the local network clusters so that simultaneous communications are supported among the multi-radio sensor nodes of the local network clusters. The multi-radio sensor nodes of the local network clusters determine their locations relative to the other multi-radio sensor nodes of the independent network clusters with which they communicate. The location determination includes performing timing synchronization via synchronization signals communicated among the local network clusters, and acoustic signaling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/188514 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07162384 — System and method for temperature compensation of eddy current sensor waveform parameters
| US 07162384 | Browning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Browning (Denville, New Jersey); Victor G. Mishkevich (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Richard T. Gieske (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention generally pertains to a method of compensating for temperature variations in an eddy current sensor signal. The method may include the steps of receiving an initial signal from an eddy current sensor (ECS) in response to a conductive element passing the ECS and sensing an ECS temperature and an ECS board temperature. The method may also include determining a subset of correction coefficients based on the ECS temperature and the ECS board temperature and determining a temperature correction factor from the subset of correction coefficients. The method may then compute a temperature corrected signal from the initial signal and the temperature correction factor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230928 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162528 | Simonoff 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) | Adam J. Simonoff (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Julian B. Hebert, Jr. (Warsaw, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A Collaborator computer collaborative environment (CCE) instantiated by a computer network includes N Collaborator CCE clients and a Collaborator CCE server. Each of the N Collaborator CCE clients generates message objects each including a nested group identifier and an associated privilege level; the Collaborator CCE server filters the generated message objects and routes only those message objects to an Nth Collaborator CCE client that is a member of the respective group having the group identifier and that has a privilege greater than or equal to the associated privilege level. Corresponding software is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/260716 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162695 | Zemore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Zemore (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Robert C. Heflin, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Kenneth B. Johnson (Waldorf, Maryland); T. Glenn Moore (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Joseph T. Janney (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Peggy L. Rogers (King George, Virginia); Kevin G. Stottlar (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Lawrence E. Eskey, Jr. (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multimedia safety analysis system used for system safety training and as an information repository is disclosed. The training device may be web based and may be simultaneously accessed from a computer server by numerous users or executed by an individual user. The system allows a user to investigate a system safety process and aides in the establishment of their own system safety program. The flow of a comprehensive system safety process is illustrated. Each data element in the process has numerous associated data items (information) that define how to accomplish the task associated with the Data Element including references, definitions, examples, acronyms, and specifications given to illustrate more fully what is needed to accomplish the task. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172252 |
| ART UNIT | 2179 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162741 | Eskin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods of monitoring sequences of operations in a process running on a computer system. A probabilistic detection model is defined which is configured to determine a predictive probability of an occurrence of a final operation in the sequence of operations that is conditional on a calculated number of previous operations in the sequence of operations. The probabilistic detection model is trained from a plurality of predetermined sequences of operations to calculate the number of previous operations evaluated in the probabilistic detection model. The predictive probability for the final operation in the sequence of operations is determined by using the probabilistic detection model. If the predictive probability is below a predetermined threshold, the sequence of operations is identified as an intrusion. The probabilistic detection model may use sparse distribution trees to generate a model which determines the optimal number of previous operations to be evaluated (i.e., the window size) and position of wildcards. The system and methods may be used to monitor sequences of system calls, application function calls, and machine code instructions, for example. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/208402 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07159397 | Fleming |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Fleming (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) apparatus is disclosed which includes a pair of tensile-stressed actuators suspending a platform above a substrate to tilt the platform relative to the substrate. A tensile stress built into the actuators initially tilts the platform when a sacrificial material used in fabrication of the MEM apparatus is removed. Further tilting of the platform can occur with a change in the ambient temperature about the MEM apparatus, or by applying a voltage to one or both of the tensile-stressed actuators. The MEM apparatus can be used to form a tiltable micromirror or an array of such devices, and also has applications for thermal management within satellites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146811 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/528 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07159841 | Gemmen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Gemmen (Morgantown, West Virginia); Jimmy Thornton (Morgantown, West Virginia); Jeffrey S. Vipperman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William W. Clark (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to a fuel cell operable with a quantity of fuel and a quantity of an oxidizer to produce electrical power, the fuel cell including a fuel cell body including a labyrinth system structured to permit the fuel and the oxidizer to flow therethrough; at least a first catalyst in fluid communication with the labyrinth; and at least a first microvalve operably disposed within at least a portion of the labyrinth. The microvalve utilizes a deflectable member operable upon the application of a voltage from a voltage source. The microvalve includes an elongated flow channel formed therein and extending substantially longitudinally between the first and second ends to permit substantially longitudinal flow of the fluid therethrough and between the first and second ends; and the deflectable member disposed on the valve body, the deflectable member including at least a first piezoelectric portion that is piezoelectrically operable to deflect the deflectable member between an open position and a closed position upon the application of a voltage, the deflectable member in the closed position being operable to resist the flow of the fluid through the flow channel. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706477 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160061 | Nickelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reva A. Nickelson (Shelley, Idaho); Paul A. Sloan (Rigby, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Stephanie Walsh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin M. Kostelnik (Idaho, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A subterranean barrier and method for forming same are disclosed, the barrier including a plurality of casing strings wherein at least one casing string of the plurality of casing strings may be affixed to at least another adjacent casing string of the plurality of casing strings through at least one weld, at least one adhesive joint, or both. A method and system for nondestructively inspecting a subterranean barrier is disclosed. For instance, a radiographic signal may be emitted from within a casing string toward an adjacent casing string and the radiographic signal may be detected from within the adjacent casing string. A method of repairing a barrier including removing at least a portion of a casing string and welding a repair element within the casing string is disclosed. A method of selectively heating at least one casing string forming at least a portion of a subterranean barrier is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982506 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160383 | Wagh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun S. Wagh (Naperville, Illinois); James W. Paul, Jr. (Mechanicsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A dry mix particulate composition of a calcined oxide of Mg and/or Ca, an acid phosphate, and fly ash or equivalent, wherein the calcined oxide is present in the range of from about 17% to about 40% by weight and the acid phosphate is present in the range of from about 29% to about 52% by weight and the fly ash or equivalent is present in the range of from about 24% to about 39% by weight when sand is added to the dry mix, it is present in the range of from about 39% to about 61% by weight of the combined dry mix and sand. A method of forming a structural member is also disclosed wherein an aqueous slurry of about 8–12 pounds of water is added to dry mix and sand. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868062 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160471 | Looney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Savannah River Company, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian B. Looney (Aiken, South Carolina); Miles E. Denham (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for remediation of contaminants in soil and groundwater is disclosed. The method generates oxygen releasing solids in groundwater or soil by injecting an aqueous energetic oxidant solution containing free radicals, oxidative conditions can be created within or ahead of a contaminant plume. Some contaminants may be remediated directly by reaction with the free radicals. Additionally and more importantly, the free radicals create an oxidative condition whereby native or injected materials, especially metals, are converted to peroxides. These peroxides provide a long-term oxygen reservoir, releasing oxygen relatively slowly over time. The oxygen can enhance microbial metabolism to remediate contaminants, can react with contaminant metals either to form immobile precipitants or to mobilize other metals to permit remediation through leaching techniques. Various injection strategies for injecting the energetic oxidant solution are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976089 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/747 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160530 | Dillon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne C. Dillon (Boulder, Colorado); Michael J. Heben (Denver, Colorado); Thomas Gennett (Pittsford, New York); Philip A. Parilla (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes and production thereof. The metal-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes may be produced according to one embodiment of the invention by combining single-walled carbon nanotube precursor material and metal in a solution, and mixing the solution to incorporate at least a portion of the metal with the single-walled carbon nanotube precursor material. Other embodiments may comprise sputter deposition, evaporation, and other mixing techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/416218 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160715 | Fliermans |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Savannah River Company LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl B. Fliermans (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated and purified bacterium is provided which was isolated from a high-level radioactive waste site of mixed waste. The isolate has the ability to degrade a wide variety of organic contaminants while demonstrating high tolerance to ionizing radiation. The organism is uniquely suited to bioremediation of a variety or organic contaminants while in the presence of ionizing radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427075 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160942 | Chaiko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Chaiko (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer-phyllosilicate nanocomposites that exhibit superior properties compared to the polymer alone, and methods-for producing these polymer-phyllosilicate nanocomposites, are provided. Polymeric surfactant compatabilizers are adsorbed onto the surface of hydrophilic or natural phyllosilicates to facilitate the dispersal and exfoliation of the phyllosilicate in a polymer matrix. Utilizing polymeric glycol based surfactants, polymeric dicarboxylic acids, polymeric diammonium surfactants, and polymeric diamine surfactants as compatabilizers facilitates natural phyllosilicate and hydrophilic organoclay dispersal in a polymer matrix to produce nanocomposites. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609907 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160965 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Lubin Luo (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sung Cheol Yoon (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst system useful to polymerize and co-polymerize polar and non-polar olefin monomers is formed by in situ reduction with a reducing agent of a catalyst precursor comprising {Cp*MRR′n}+{A}− wherein Cp* is a cyclopentadienyl or substituted cyclopentadienyl moiety; M is an early transition metal; R is a C1–C20 hydrocarbyl; R′ are independently selected from hydride, C1–C20 hydrocarbyl, SiR″3, NR″2, OR″, SR″, GeR″3, SnR″3, and C═C-containing groups (R″=C1–C10 hydrocarbyl); n is an integer selected to balance the oxidation state of M; and A is a suitable non-coordinating anionic cocatalyst or precursor. This catalyst system may form stereoregular olefin polymers including syndiotactic polymers of styrene and methylmethacrylate and isotactic copolymers of polar and nonpolar olefin monomers such as methylmethacrylate and styrene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121775 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160971 | Mallapragada et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surya K. Mallapragada (Ames, Iowa); Brian C. Anderson (Lake Bluff, Illinois); Paul D. Bloom (Decatur, Illinois); Valerie V. Sheares Ashby (Ankeny, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel multi-functional methacrylic copolymers that exhibit cationic pH-sensitive behavior as well as good water solubility under acidic conditions. The copolymers are constructed from tertiary amine methacrylates and poly(ethylene glycol) containing methacrylates. The copolymers are useful as gene vectors, pharmaceutical carriers, and in protein separation applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/284502 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/307.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161124 | Kisner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger A. Kisner (Knoxville, Tennessee); John B. Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger A. Jaramillo (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gail Mackiewicz-Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for altering characteristics, such as can include structural, magnetic, electrical, optical or acoustical characteristics, of an electrically-conductive workpiece utilizes a magnetic field within which the workpiece is positionable and schemes for thermally treating the workpiece by heating or cooling techniques in conjunction with the generated magnetic field so that the characteristics of the workpiece are effected by both the generated magnetic field and the thermal treatment of the workpiece. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109376 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161126 | Ripley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BWXT Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for heat treating manufactured components using microwave energy and microwave susceptor material. Heat treating medium such as eutectic salts may be employed. A fluidized bed introduces process gases which may include carburizing or nitriding gases. The process may be operated in a batch mode or continuous process mode. A microwave heating probe may be used to restart a frozen eutectic salt bath. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269236 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/775 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161150 | Frankle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christen M. Frankle (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John A. Becker (Alameda, California); Christopher P. Cork (Pleasant Hill, California); Norman W. Madden (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable radiation detector using a high-purity germanium crystal as the sensing device. The crystal is fabricated such that it exhibits a length to width ratio greater than 1:1 and is oriented within the detector to receive radiation along the width of said crystal. The crystal is located within a container pressurized with ultra-pure nitrogen, and the container is located within a cryostat under vacuum. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052176 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161334 | Stamps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Stamps (Livermore, California); Daniel D. Yee (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high voltage power supply for use in a system such as a microfluidics system, uses a DC—DC converter in parallel with a voltage-controlled resistor. A feedback circuit provides a control signal for the DC—DC converter and voltage-controlled resistor so as to regulate the output voltage of the high voltage power supply, as well as, to sink or source current from the high voltage supply. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414979 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161672 | Gornushkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainsville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ignor B. Gornushkin (Gainesville, Florida); James D. Winefordner (Gainesville, Florida); Benjamin W. Smith (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-ordered spectral data is obtained from various known substances and is stored in a spectral library. The identification of an unknown material is accomplished by correlating the sample's multi-ordered spectrum against all or a portion of the spectrum in the library, and finding the closest match. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/798838 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162415 | Holzrichter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California); Lawrence C. Ng (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of removing excess information from a human speech signal and coding the remaining signal information, transmitting the coded signal, and reconstructing the coded signal. The system uses one or more EM wave sensors and one or more acoustic microphones to determine at least one characteristic of the human speech signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288992 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07160464 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey R. Morgan (Sharon, Massachusetts); Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based on the discovery that certain membranes, which include side chains or molecular “brushes” having, for example, tertiary amino functional groups, can be used as highly effective filters to capture viruses/virus particles from liquids without removal of proteins. New methods based on this discovery include removing viruses from liquids such as blood or plasma, removing viruses from pharmaceuticals, concentrating and/or purifying viruses, e.g., for use in gene therapy, and producing recombinant viruses in new bioreactors. The invention also includes new methods of therapy or adjunct therapy for viral infections, in which a patient's blood or plasma is filtered through the membranes to remove viruses to reduce the viral load. The invention also includes new bioreactors and viral filters containing the membranes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/018939 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160489 | Didenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri T. Didenko (Savoy, Illinois); Kenneth S. Suslick (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing nanometer-sized particles, the method including the steps of forming of mixture by mixing a first precursor reactant, a second precursor reactant, a surface-stabilizing surfactant, and a high boiling point liquid to form a mixture, forming a mist of droplets of the mixture, heating the droplets to cause a reaction between species of the first and second precursor reactants within the heated droplets, and collecting the nanometer-sized products. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683948 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160531 | Jacques et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Jacques (Lexington, Kentucky); Rodney J. Andrews (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods and apparati for continuous production of aligned carbon nanotubes are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises dispersion of a metal catalyst in a liquid hydrocarbon to form a feed solution, and volatilizing the feed solution in a reactor through which a substrate is continuously passed to allow growth of nanotubes thereon. In another aspect, the apparatus comprises a reactor, a tube-within-a-tube injector, and a conveyor belt for passing a substrate through the reactor. The present invention further discloses a method for restricting the external diameter of carbon nanotubes produced thereby comprising passing the feed solution through injector tubing of a specified diameter, followed by passing the feed solution through an inert, porous medium. The method and apparati of this invention provide a means for producing aligned carbon nanotubes of a particular external diameter which is suitable for large scale production in an industrial setting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/141423 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160551 | McHugh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. McHugh (Urbana, Illinois); Jessica R. DesNoyer (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An injectable composition for delivery of a bioactive agent contains a biocompatible solvent, a hydrophobic polymer, and an amphiphilic block copolymer. The hydrophobic polymer may be a biodegradable polymer, and the block copolymer may contain a segment of poly(ethylene oxide). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/191789 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160575 | Pinto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas J. Pinto (Humacao, Puerto Rico); Fouad M. Aliev (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Measurement in the frequency range 3 mHz–106 Hz of the dielectric characteristics of emeraldine base polyaniline dissolved in 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) and cast into bulk free-standing polymer films shows features similar to those reported by others and which are a result of microphase separation into reduced and oxidized repeat units. However, upon confinement into the cylindrical pores, of average diameter 20 nm, of a porous membrane such features of microphase separation do not occur. The microphase separation observed in the bulk polymer is suppressed by strong pinning of the charge carriers due to interactions of the polymer with pore walls together with constrained chain packing and a non-uniform rate of evaporation of the NMP solvent from the pores. This enhances the bulk conductivity after doping by reducing the internal intra-chain disorder introduced by microphase separation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771752 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161040 | Franken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada on Behalf of the University of Nevada Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Franken (Boulder, Colorado); Benjamin T. King (Reno, Nevada); Josef Michl (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an improved method for making unsubstituted carborane anions and monosubstituted carborane anions of formula: (R—CBn—Hm′)− where n is an integer ranging from 5 to about 11 and m′ is an integer ranging from 5 to 16 where the relative values of n and m′ depend upon the exact structure of the carborane and the presence of a non-hydrogen substituent. m as used herein is an integer ranging from 5 to 16. When R is hydrogen the anion is unsubstituted. When R is a halogen, a phenyl, a substituted phenyl group, such as fluorophenyl group, or any other substituent, the carborane is substituted. The method is particularly useful for preparation of twelve-vertex carborane anions R—CB11H11−, where R is a defined above, and is specifically useful for preparation of the unsubstituted carborane CB11H12-??, where R is H. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472329 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07161736 — Solid immersion lens structures and methods for producing solid immersion lens structures
| US 07161736 | Legrand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivier Legrand (Paris, France); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microlens structure such as a solid immersion lens structure is a radiation transmissive pliant elastomer cast to a desired shape and smoothness. A method for construction of a solid immersion lens structure includes providing a mold defining a lens shaped cavity in which a solid immersion lens is cast, casting a translucent liquid elastomeric material into the lens cavity, permitting the elastomeric material to set to form the solid immersion lens portion and removing the solid immersion lens portion from the mold. A specific material for use as the solid immersion lens is a translucent silicone elastomer of a refractive index greater than n=1.4, such as General Electric RTV 615. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933156 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162699 | Peña-Mora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feniosky Peña-Mora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chang Kuang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A collaboration system including a coordinated distributed design process and which allows individuals to hold interactions over a network and work together in a coordinated fashion on shared problems, wherein a controlling participant in control of the floor of a collaboration interaction and in control of certain aspects of the user interfaces of one or more collaboration participants is described. Furthermore, a user interface is described that can minimize confusion that can otherwise result from collaboration participants having user interfaces with different sizes and resolutions. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/125761 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/751 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07159441 | Challoner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Roman C. Gutierrez (La Crescenta, California); Tony K. Tang (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-gyroscope (10) having closed loop output operation by a control voltage (Vty), that is demodulated by a drive axis (x-axis) signal Vthx of the sense electrodes (S1, S2), providing Coriolis torque rebalance to prevent displacement of the micro-gyroscope (10) on the output axis (y-axis) Vthy˜0. Closed loop drive axis torque, Vtx maintains a constant drive axis amplitude signal, Vthx. The present invention provides independent alignment and tuning of the micro-gyroscope by using separate electrodes and electrostatic bias voltages to adjust alignment and tuning. A quadrature amplitude signal, or cross-axis transfer function peak amplitude is used to detect misalignment that is corrected to zero by an electrostatic bias voltage adjustment. The cross-axis transfer function is either Vthy/Vty or Vtnx/Vtx. A quadrature signal noise level, or difference in natural frequencies estimated from measurements of the transfer functions is used to detect residual mistuning, that is corrected to zero by a second electrostatic bias voltage adjustment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843139 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07159774 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic field response sensors designed as passive inductor-capacitor circuits produce magnetic field responses whose harmonic frequencies correspond to states of physical properties for which the sensors measure. Power to the sensing element is acquired using Faraday induction. A radio frequency antenna produces the time varying magnetic field used for powering the sensor, as well as receiving the magnetic field response of the sensor. An interrogation architecture for discerning changes in sensor's response frequency, resistance and amplitude is integral to the method thus enabling a variety of measurements. Multiple sensors can be interrogated using this method, thus eliminating the need to have a data acquisition channel dedicated to each sensor. The method does not require the sensors to be in proximity to any form of acquisition hardware. A vast array of sensors can be used as interchangeable parts in an overall sensing system. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305854 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07159986 | Bremer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Swales and Associates, Inc. (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Bremer (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bert A. Pasquale (Laurel, Maryland); Tmitri J. Zukowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Barbara J. Zukowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Shahriar Etemad (Alexandria, Virginia); Robert E. Prince (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A collimator is compact and uses power efficient light emitting diodes as the illumination source to generate a test image in collimated space. The collimator provides a test image across a wide field of view, which is useful for calibration of optical devices that have a wide field of regard. An optical projection system in the collimator utilizes an array of light emitting diodes, whose light is converged by a Fresnel lens, through a holographic diffuser plate, onto a target plate bearing the test pattern to be projected out into collimated space through a converging lens. An alignment structure provides translation of the target plate along the main axis of the collimator and provides rotational freedom about two axes (vertical and horizontal) via a gimbal structure mounted on the translation mechanism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441915 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161501 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Lynch (San Carlos, California); Robert E. Lawrence (Los Altos, California); Thomas R. Chidester (Mountain View, California); Brett G. Amidan (Kennewick, Washington); Gary L. Prothero (Corvallis, Oregon); Timothy P. Romanowski (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for analyzing and displaying one or more present flight parameter values FP(t) of an aircraft in motion at a measurement time tn, and for comparing the present flight parameter value with a selected percentage band, containing historical flight parameter data for similar conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066650 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/971 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07160580 | Hettiarachchy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees for the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Navam S. Hettiarachchy (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Eswaranandam Satchithanandam (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an edible film and film solution comprising incorporated organic acids; protein and glycerol useful for coating raw whole fruit, fresh cut fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, cereals, nuts, etc. Moreover, the edible films of the present invention can inhibit pathogen growth including Listeria monocytogens, Salmonella gaminara and E. coli 0157:H7. In a preferred embodiment, the edible film comprises 0.9% glycerol; 10% soy protein; and 2.6% malic acid. The present invention also provides a method for coating comestible products with edible films without masking the color but increasing the shelf-life. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/657692 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/430.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160706 | Tisserat |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Biotechnology Research and Development Corp. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent H. Tisserat (Metamora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant material enriched in secondary metabolites is produced in tissue culture under conditions that organogenically produce a proliferation of shoots and leafy material, and harvesting the leafy material and shoots while in a green, actively-growing, non-senescent stage. Of particular interest is plant material that produces alkaloids, especially material from poppy (Papaver sp.) that will yield economically attractive levels of morphinane alkaloids, particularly thebaine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430591 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162328 | Hornbaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hornbaker (Champaign, Illinois); Volodymyr Kindratenko (Savoy, Illinois); David Pointer (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A tracking device for transported grain. A tracking device for grain comprises a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag dimensioned to have a size approximating surrounding grain. The tag comprises a memory and an RF communication channel. Data is stored in the memory, comprising at least a time when the RFID tag was handled with surrounding grain and information sufficient to determine a location of handling at the time when the RFID tag was handled with the surrounding grain. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299309 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07160708 | Eirich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cognis Corporation (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Dudley Eirich (Milford, Ohio); David L. Craft (Fort Thomas, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides fatty alcohol oxidase (FAO) proteins and nucleic acid molecules encoding the FAO proteins. Also provided are analogs, derivatives, and enzymatically active fragments of the FAO proteins. Vectors and host cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules encoding the FAO proteins, analogs, derivatives and enzymatically active fragments thereof are also provided. In addition, FAO signature peptides and isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the signature peptides are provided by the present invention. Methods of producing or increasing production of a subject FAO protein, methods for increasing aldehyde production during the second step of the ω-oxidation pathway of fatty acids, methods for increasing production of a ketone from an alcohol during the second step of the ω-oxidation pathway of fatty acids, and methods for increasing production of a dicarboxylic acid are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/418819 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160754 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Evert-Jan Borkent (Groningen, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an organic field-effect transistor (OFET) and a method of fabricating the OFET. The OFET, configured to function as a p-type semiconductor, includes a substrate having a top surface and a semiconductor layer located over the top surface. The semiconductor layer comprises organic semiconductor molecules. Each of the organic semiconductor molecules includes a core having conjugated pi bonds, a fluorinated alkyl group, and an alkyl spacer group having a chain of two or more carbon atoms. One end of the chain is bonded to the fluorinated alkyl group and another end of the chain is bonded to the core. Substituents coupled to the carbon atoms have an electronegativity of less than about 4. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337897 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07161220 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy Moshe Cohen (Mohegan Lake, New York); Qiqing C. Ouyang (Elmsford, New York); Jeremy Daniel Schaub (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure (and method for forming the structure) includes a photodetector, a substrate formed under the photodetector, and a barrier layer formed over the substrate. The buried barrier layer preferably includes a single or dual p-n junction, or a bubble layer for blocking or eliminating the slow photon-generated carriers in the region where the drift field is low. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329185 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Corporation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B Dale (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are streptolysin S (SLS) polypeptides, peptides, and variants thereof, antibodies directed thereto, and isolated nucleic acids encoding such proteins. In one embodiment, a method is provided wherein a synthetic peptide of SLS is used to elicit an immune response specific for SLS in a subject to treat or prevent a streptococcal infection. In other embodiments, antibodies that neutralize the hemolytic activity of the SLS toxin may be used as a vaccinating agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268336 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07160999 | Liotta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis C. Liotta (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Raymond F. Schinazi (Decatur, Georgia); Woo-Baeg Choi (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the resolution of a racemic mixture of nucleoside enantiomers that includes the step of exposing the racemic mixture to an enzyme that preferentially catalyzes a reaction in one of the enantiomers. The nucleoside enantiomer (−)-2-hydroxymethyl-5-(5-fluorocytosin-1-yl)-1,3-oxathiolane is an effective antiviral agent against HIV, HBV, and other viruses replicating in a similar manner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644293 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07162372 | Wang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Ning Xue (Knoxville, Tennessee); John D. Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Mark Rader (Knoxville, Tennessee); John Flaherty (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Least Square Deconvolution (LSD) uses quantitative allele peak data derived obtained from a sample containing the DNA of more than one contributor to resolve the best-fit genotype profile of each contributor. The resolution is based on finding the least square fit of the mass ratio coefficients at each locus to come closest to the quantitative allele peak data. Consistent top-ranked mass ratio combinations from each locus can be pooled to form at least one composite DNA profile at a subset of the available loci. The top-ranked DNA profiles can be used to check against the profile of a suspect or be used to search for a matching profile in a DNA database. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/265908 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07161350 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jentek Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); David C. Clark (Arlington, Massachusetts); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts); Volker Weiss (Syracuse, New York); William M. Chepolis (Viero, Florida); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Material condition monitoring may be performed by electromagnetic sensors and sensor arrays mounted to the material surface. The sensors typically have a periodic winding or electrode structure that creates a periodic sensing field when driven by an electrical signal. The sensors can be thin and flexible so that they conform to the surface of the test material. They can also be mounted such that they do not significantly modify the environmental exposure conditions for the test material, such as by creating stand-off gaps between the sensor and material surface or by perforating the sensor substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633905 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07161064 | Stomp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne-Marie Stomp (Raleigh, North Carolina); Nirmala Rajbhandari (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the efficient transformation of duckweed are provided. The methods involve transformation by ballistic bombardment. In this manner, any gene or nucleic acid of interest can be introduced and expressed in duckweed plants. Transformed duckweed plants, cells, tissues are also provided. Transformed duckweed plant tissue culture and methods of producing recombinant proteins and peptides from transformed duckweed plants are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273974 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07160673 | Menon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Menon (Boston, Massachusetts); Dario Gil (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David J. Carter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for forming an array of focusing elements for use in a lithography system. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing a master element that includes at least one diffractive pattern at a first location with respect to a target surface, illuminating the master element to produce a first diffractive pattern on the target surface at the first location, moving the master element with respect to the target surface to a second location with respect to the target surface, and illuminating the master element to produce a second diffractive pattern on the target surface at the second location. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677804 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07159915 | Corey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Corey (Chantilly, Virginia); Bradley J. Suchy (Germantown, Maryland); Han T. Dinh (Falls Church, Virginia); Jacqueline R. Johnson (Alexandria, Virginia); Jacquelynn Estes (Warrenton, Virginia); Gail A. Murphy (Vienna, Virginia); Aaron M. Mooney (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor vehicle for transporting and delivering mail having vehicle controls (steering, brakes and throttle) that interface with the operator be able to be adjustably located in a position that is comfortable to the operator. The operator seat is of a size and shape that it is comfortable to the 5th percentile female through the 95th percentile male. The operator seat is also adjustable and the brake and throttle are adjustable with respect to the operator seat. Moreover, the seat is pivotable from a driving configuration facing ahead of the vehicle to a laterally facing position where mail operations can be comfortably conducted from the drivers seat. In addition, the door into the cargo compartment includes a window that lines up with a window in the left side of the cargo compartment such that visibility to the left of the vehicle is enhanced. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/952845 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07159851 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry H. Ross (Waveland, Mississippi); Eugene C. Hayes (Diamondhead, Mississippi); James C. Jelinski (Diamondhead, Mississippi); Joseph N. Greulich, II (Picayune, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a bi-directional DC motor; a gear reducer connected to the DC motor; a pulley mounted on an output of the gear reducer; an anti-back drive brake mounted on the output of the gear reducer; a reel wound with cable; a second pulley attached to the reel wound with cable; a belt for connecting the pulley and the second pulley; a water measuring device attached to an end of the cable wound on the reel; at least one shaft encoder attached to the motor for measuring the speed and direction of the motor; a DC power source connected to the DC motor; a microprocessor control electronics module connected to the at least one shaft encoder and the DC motor; and a remote control in communication with the microprocessor control electronics module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985065 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force 254/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, January 09, 2007.
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.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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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
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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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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