FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07162822 | Heayn 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 Heayn (Wharton, New Jersey); Christopher M. Shaffer (NE Hartville, Ohio); Dean M. Mohamed (Caldwell, New Jersey); Kenneth R. Jones (Wayne, New Jersey); Richard Beckman (Randolph, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A buttstock for a firearm having a buffer recoil mechanism is collapsible and adjustable. The buttstock includes a lower receiver extension having a bore therein that fits over the buffer recoil mechanism, the lower receiver extension being fixed to the buffer recoil mechanism; a buttstock body having a bore therein for receiving the lower receiver extension; a locking lever disposed along the bottom edge of the buttstock body; a locking pin disposed in the buttstock body and in the locking lever; and a compression spring disposed around the locking pin for biasing the locking pin towards the lower receiver extension. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/160368 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162919 | Randolph |
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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) | Rex N. Randolph (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Blast pressure gauges and methods for detecting blast pressure during a blast test. The gauges operate independently of power sources, are portable, and are used in harsh environments including test ranges. Each embodiment is constructed to detect blast pressures as required in the circumstances of a particular blast test. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122207 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162943 | Reitmeyer 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) | Gregory Reitmeyer (Panama City, Florida); Robert Woodall (Panama City, Florida); Felipe Garcia (Panama City, Florida); Christopher Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for neutralizing mines has a vehicle carrying fluid connected to a pump and cavitation pressure vessel that creates high pressure fluid. An actuator valve modifies the flow characteristics of the high pressure fluid to be pulsating at selectively different frequencies, pressures, and flow rate. Nozzles on the vehicle jet high pressure fluid therethrough and a framework on the vehicle orients the nozzles to direct the jetted flow of high pressure fluid downward and into ground under a roadway. An abrasive and/or explosive can be added to the high pressure fluid before it reaches the nozzles. The jetted flow from the nozzles can displace ground and exert pressure to detonate and cut mines and neutralize them on and under the roadway. Cavitation can be created in the jetted flow to increase the dynamic force of the jetted flow. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058714 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163107 | Verosto 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) | Stephan J. Verosto (Knoxville, Maryland); Mario DiValentin (Alexandria, Virginia); David O. Ferchau (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Michael Honan (Gig Harbor, Washington); J. William Citino, III (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); David E. Freshcoln (Pitman, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In-situ cleaning of the bilgewater processing plates of stacks within a treatment tank chamber of a 50-gpm oil/water separator is performed by an injected chemical cleaning agent dispersed by diverted flow of pressurized air introduced into the tank chamber below the plate stacks by emergence of air bubbles from plural branches of an air sparging array system positioned in underlying alignment with crest formations on the processing plates. The air sparging array system consists of an upper and lower tank arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975114 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163138 | Dudt 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) | Philip John Dudt (Rockville, Maryland); David R. Forrest (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jennifer P. Nguyen (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An axially elongated cylindrical tool has a protrusion at a lower end thereof which is inserted into a metallic work piece substrate under pressure during rotation of the tool and displacement thereof in one direction. Mixing of a matrix of metal and particles by the protrusion occurs within a stir zone underlying the substrate surface which is thereby treated by dispersion of the particles therein in response to rotation of the tool. Influx of the hard particles into the work piece substrate is effected during said mixing by the rotating tool. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/126510 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/112.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163205 | Kecskes 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) | Laszlo J. Kecskes (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Lee S. Magness, Jr. (Joppa, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a ballistic testing recovery apparatus and method for allowing post impact analysis of pyrophoric projectile debris wherein the apparatus comprises a containment chamber having an interior volume filled with a solvent-soluble granulated material. The containment chamber is formed with an aperture in a side wall for receiving a launched projectile therethrough. The projectile impacts a target plate disposed in the containment box and projectile debris is thereafter ejected into the surrounding solvent-soluble granulated material. The solvent-soluble granulated material operates to capture and quench the projectile debris before devitrification and/or crystallization erodes the “as-ejected” characteristics of the pyrophoric projectile debris. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672268 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163556 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health System - Oregon (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Xie (Beaverton, Oregon); Lisa A. Buckley (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioprosthetic valve graft comprises a valve frame and valve flaps, the latter acting to open or close a valve aperture to directionally control fluid flow through the bioprosthesis. The bioprosthetic valve graft comprises a biomaterial suturelessly bonded to the valve frame, avoiding sutures and substantially reducing medical complications in implantations. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/104499 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/2.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163584 | Archer, 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) | Harry L. Archer, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for applying liquid liner to the interior of a rocket motor tube includes a horizontal surface; a rail mounted on the horizontal surface; a carriage that is movable along the rail; cartridge saddles and a bearing block mounted on the carriage; a cartridge gun disposed in the cartridge saddles, the cartridge gun including an extended tip that is longer that the rocket motor tube to be lined; a power supply connected to the cartridge gun; a rotary driven linear actuator mounted on the bearing block; a shaft drive mounted on the bearing block in operative association with the rotary driven linear actuator and in contact with a trigger of the cartridge gun; a weighing scale disposed on the horizontal surface; and a V-block disposed on the weighing scale, the V-block for holding the mask mounted rocket motor tube in axial alignment with the extended tip of the cartridge gun. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927647 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/712 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163589 | Kaiser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Argos Associates, Inc. (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kaiser (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrasonic solvent cleaning processes can effectively decontaminate sensitive equipment. The disclosed decontamination liquids meet the following criteria: a. It is compatible with a wide range of sensitive equipment—the performance of electronic and optical equipment is not affected by immersion in decontamination liquid. b. The principal chemical warfare agents of concern are sufficiently soluble in decontamination liquid for it to be an effective decontamination medium. c. The principal chemical warfare agents of concern are quantitatively removed from solution in decontamination liquid by activated carbon. When agent contaminated decontamination liquid is passed through a bed of activated carbon, the agent adsorbs onto the activated carbon, resulting in agent free decontamination liquid that can be recycled and reused. d. It is nonflammable, nontoxic, and environmentally acceptable. Ultrasonic agitation provides effective mass and physical transfer of contaminants from the surfaces of the objects being decontaminated to the bulk of the decontamination liquid. Contaminant removal occurs in three steps: removal of the contaminant from the surface of the part being processed, transfer of the dissolved or suspended contaminant into the bulk of the decontamination liquid in the immersion sump, and then removal of the dissolved contaminant by activated carbon adsorption, or suspended contaminant by filtration. Biological contaminants are also effectively removed or inactivated by immersion and sonication in decontamination fluid or solutions of a soluble surfactant in decontamination fluid. Activated carbon beds and filters that come into contact with contaminated liquid can be contained in commercially available housings that shield the system operator from any contained toxic contents. These sealable containers, and their contents, can be destroyed by standard methods, such as incineration. Spectrographic fluorimetry can detect extremely low levels (of the order of 10 ppt) of fluorescent dyes dissolved in decontamination fluid. Decontamination of sensitive equipment in decontamination fluid can be performed in commercially available ultrasonic vapor degreasers. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154488 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163656 | Gilde 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) | Gary A. Gilde (Northeast, Maryland); Parimal J. Patel (Bel Air, Maryland); Jerry C. Lasalvia (Belcamp, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A dense polycrystalline aluminum oxynitride body is produced. According the method of production, aluminum oxide (alumina) powder and 26 to 40 mole % aluminum nitride powder is mixed to form a very fine powder mixture. The powder mixture is shaped and hot pressed at a moderate temperature, preferably about 1600° C., which is below the temperature of aluminum oxynitride (AlON) formation to produce a dense intermediate body. The dense intermediate body is reacted to produce a highly dense polycrystalline aluminum oxynitride body. The dense body is particularly useful for ballistic armor. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/146945 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/667 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163658 | Bension |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rouvain Bension (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for sequencing at least a fragment of a linear polymer. The device comprises a well for placement of a rotaxane comprising the combination of a cyclic molecule and a linear polymer threaded through said cyclic molecule; a probe having the ability to move the linear polymer relative to the cyclic molecule while producing a signal resulting from the interaction of the cyclic molecule and a unit attached to the polymer; and means for reading said signal. The process comprises formation of the rotaxane, attachment of the probe, movement of the cyclic molecule relative to the linear polymer and the reading of signals. The device and method are especially useful for the sequencing of DNA. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421343 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163794 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Sherman (New York, New York); Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiped, capable of traveling in more than one direction along a molecular path in a nano-robotic system where the steps taken by the feet of the multiped are controlled in a sequence specific fashion, is presented. The feet of the multiped dock to footholds on the molecular path via cohesion with “set” molecules and are released from the footholds through the introduction of “unset” molecules that detach or strip away the “set” molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962995 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163882 | Cole 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) | Melanie W. Cole (Churchville, Maryland); Pooran C. Joshi (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite Pt/Ti/WSi/Ni Ohmic contact has been fabricated by a physical deposition process which uses electron beam evaporation and dc-sputter deposition. The Ni based composite Ohmic contact on n-Sic is rapid thermally annealed (RTA) at 950° C. to 1000° C. for 30 s to provide excellent current-voltage characteristics, an abrupt, void free contact-SiC interface, retention of the as-deposited contact layer width, smooth surface morphology and an absence of residual carbon within the contact layer and/or at the Ohmic contact-SiC interface. The annealed produced Ni2Si interfacial phase is responsible for the superior electrical integrity of the Ohmic contact to n-SiC. The effects of contact delamination due to stress associated with interfacial voiding has been eliminated. Wire bonding failure, non-uniform current flow and SiC polytype alteration due to extreme surface roughness have also been abolished. The Ohmic contact also avoids electrical instability associated with carbon inclusions within the contact metallization and/or at the contact-SiC interface, that occur under prolonged high temperature and power device operations. Overall, this contact is reliable for high temperature and high power operations and the stresses inclusive of use under those conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884580 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164096 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Gordon (Wheeling, West Virginia); Brian E. Joseph (Wheeling, West Virginia); James F. Witzgall (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the fabrication of large metal matrix composite structures comprising the continuous joining by brazing or welding of aluminum matrix tape using an infrared laser to melt the surface of the tape while applying pressure to the tape and simultaneously contacting it with previously applied tape layers on a rotating mandrel. The apparatus utilized to accomplish this fabrication process may include a variety of pre and post-contact heaters and preferably includes instruments for the continuous monitoring and control of the process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231765 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164100 | Petrenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor F. Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles R. Sullivan (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | High-frequency AC voltage with a frequency in a range of from 60 to 100 kHz supplied from a power source at 3 to 15 kV is applied to an electrical conductor within about 30 cm of a cableway. The high-frequency AC voltage generates an alternating electric field. Capacitive AC current associated with the alternating electric field flows through the ice on the cableway and on the electrical conductor, causing dielectric loss heat that melts the ice. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057859 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164146 | Weir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Douglas Weir (Huntington, New York); Donald DiMarzio (Northport, New York); Steven Chu (Ronkonkoma, New York); Robert P. Silberstein (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed which utilizes the substantially steady-state temperature of a coated object, in conjunction with an optical detection system, to selectively view defects and features of the object below the coating without the necessity of transient heating or IR illumination and reflectance imaging. The optical detector, such as an IR camera, may be tailored for the wavelengths at which the coating material is substantially transparent, thereby maximizing the viewing clarity of the defects and features under the coating, and distinguishing them from any spurious features on the top surface of the coating. The present system enables the inspection of small or large areas in real time, without requiring complex image acquisition, storage and image processing equipment and software. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/971217 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/559.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07164203 — Methods and procedures for engineering of composite conductive by atomic layer deposition
| US 07164203 | Londergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genus, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana R. Londergan (Campbell, California); Thomas E. Seidel (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite film comprised of three layers is formed by ALD on a substrate with a substrate interface surface. A first layer is coupled to the substrate interface surface. The first layer provides adhesion to the substrate interface surface and initiation of layer by layer ALD growth. A second layer is positioned between the first and third layers and provides a conducting diffusion barrier between the substrate and subsequent overlaying film. A third layer has a surface that is configured to provide adhesion and a texture template in preparation for a subsequent overlaying film. The composite engineered barrier structures are applied to interconnect, capacitor and transistor applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216750 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/751 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164535 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Licensing, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randolph L. Hall (Newbury Park, California); William Southwell (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system employs an optical coating on a substrate positioned relative to an optical collection system. The thickness of the coating is tailored such that light perceived by the collection system over prescribed angles of acceptance has a spectral content that is unchanged, or changed in a prescribed manner, from that entering the system when the sensor is oriented in the “look ahead” direction. The thickness of the coating is varied so that the wavelengths transmitted or reflected correspond to those required by a specific application. The invention is adaptable to system requirements that are centered about a single wavelength, or that require multiple wavelengths. The optical coating can take any of a number of forms, including stacked dielectric layers and rugate filters. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956230 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/581 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164618 | Matthews |
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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) | Anthony Matthews (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater detection system that uses two remote vessels in proximity to an object of interest in order to accurately obtain a 3D image of that object. One of the vessels is stationary and includes a first transceiver and a vertical receiving array. The second vessel moves over a predetermined path and uses a transmitter to simultaneously send signals to both the transceiver of the first vessel and the object of interest. The signals are bounced off of the object of interest to the vertical receiving array. Various signals are convoluted to produce an accurate three-dimensional array and thus a three-dimensional image of the object of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094542 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164622 | Baker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Barry B. Baker (Gales Ferry, Connecticut); Richard D. Haskell (Gales Ferry, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method in which one or more acoustic projectors transmit broad bandwidth waveforms having known characteristics, and one or more acoustic receivers detect the transmitted waveforms, with the measurement of a propagation time from the projectors to the receivers being based on knowledge of the transmitted waveforms. The measurements are performed such that there is a low probability that other third party receivers will detect the transmission. The measurements may also be performed in an environment supporting multiple propagation paths. The system and method may further measure the Doppler shift induced by relative motion between the acoustic projector and the acoustic receiver. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937361 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164699 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Michael Braun (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Joseph H. Abeles (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Martin H. Kwakernaak (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Viktor Borisovitch Khalfin (Hightstown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-jitter optical pulse source including: a monolithic waveguide including a first section substantially perpendicular to a first facet and a second section being curved and substantially non-perpendicular to a second facet; and, an optical circulator coupled to the monolithic waveguide and forming a sigma cavity in combination with the monolithic waveguide, wherein the first facet forms a sole reflector for the sigma cavity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/859553 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/29.22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164702 | Liu 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) | Jony Jiang Liu (Olney, Maryland); George J. Simonis (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Micro-optical elements (MOEs) are designed and fabricated onto transparent laser driver substrates to collimate or focus the beams from vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) in accordance with specific application requirements. One disclosed example teaches the hybrid integration of a top-emitting 850 mm VCSEL array and a transparent sapphire substrate that supports a monolithic MOE with designated optical functionality. A flip-chipping hybridization technique ensures a realistic and reliable process. The VCSEL beams transmit directly through the MOE structure on the transparent sapphire substrate and become well-controlled optical outputs under precise specifications. The optical power loss in such a beam shaping process is minimized compared to configurations based on conventional optical components. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655634 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164787 | Nevis 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) | Andrew J. Nevis (Panama City, Florida); James F. Bryan (Lynn Haven, Florida); Brett W. Cordes (Panama City Beach, Florida); James S. Taylor (Panama City Beach, Florida); Mary C. Hulgan (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional contrast images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. Briefly, the rendered contrast image data is scaled based on a mean intensity value of all pixels of data therein, stretched to a predetermined dynamic range, modified to compensate for jitter and CCD array effects associated with the STIL camera system, normalized using an exponential decay function that describes contrast intensity roll-off associated therewith, and has a histogram clip routine applied thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609899 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164788 | Nevis 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) | Andrew J. Nevis (Panama City, Florida); James F. Bryan (Lynn Haven, Florida); Brett W. Cordes (Panama City Beach, Florida); James S. Taylor (Panama City Beach, Florida); Mary C. Hulgan (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional range images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. Briefly, the rendered range image data is modified to compensate for jitter effects associated with the STIL camera system, has background portions of the resulting data modified to compensate for CCD array effects and range intensity roll-off associated with the STIL camera system, has a “salt and pepper” noise reduction routine applied thereto, and has a histogram clip routine applied thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609900 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
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| US 07165030 | Yi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon Rong-Wei Yi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Robert Glass (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Irvine Lee Hetherington (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for concatenative speech synthesis includes a processing stage that selects segments based on their symbolic labeling in an efficient graph-based search, which uses a finite-state transducer formalism. This graph-based search uses a representation of concatenation constraints and costs that does not necessarily grow with the size of the source corpus thereby limiting the increase in computation required for the search as the size of the source corpus increases. In one application of this method, multiple alternative segment sequences are generated and a best segment sequence is then be selected using characteristics that depend on specific signal characteristics of the segments. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/954979 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07163610 | Kern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Faster Better Media LLC (Hunt Valley, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott E. Kern (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Jonathan R. Brody (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of low molarity conductive media based on non-buffering univalent cations, such as sodium chloride-sodium acetate (SCA), sodium boric acid (SB), lithium boric acid, and lithium acetate mitigate the “runaway” positive feedback heating loop produced by conventional media containing biological amine buffers and permit improved DNA electrophoresis under the conditions of low salt concentration. These media serve well in ultra-fast DNA electrophoresis and in high-resolution separations of RNA and DNA fragments. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/980826 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163685 | Diamond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don Jeffrey Diamond (Glendora, California); Zhongde Wang (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA and protein constructs useful in producing vaccines against human cytomegalovirus contain optionally N-end modified and N-terminal ubiquitinated human cytomegalovirus antigenic proteins, including pp65, pp150, IE1, gB and antigenic fragments thereof. Vaccine viruses, in particular poxviruses such as vaccinia and Modified Vaccinia Ankara, that express the constructs may be used as vaccines to augment the immune response to human cytomegalovirus, both prophylatically and in patients already carrying human cytomegalovirus, as well as to create and expand cytomegalovirus-reactive T cells for transfer of adoptive immunity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825629 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163695 | Mixson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | A. James Mixson (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a pharmaceutical agent delivery composition comprising: (i) a transport polymer comprising a linear or branched peptide having from about 10 to about 300 amino acid residues, having from about 5 to 100% histidine residues, and optionally having from 0 to about 95% non-histidine amino acid residues; (ii) at least one pharmaceutical agent; and optionally (iii) one or more intracellular delivery components in association with the transport polymer. The invention also provides methods for using such composition to deliver the pharmaceutical agent to the interior of cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/018103 |
| 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 424/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163794 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Sherman (New York, New York); Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiped, capable of traveling in more than one direction along a molecular path in a nano-robotic system where the steps taken by the feet of the multiped are controlled in a sequence specific fashion, is presented. The feet of the multiped dock to footholds on the molecular path via cohesion with “set” molecules and are released from the footholds through the introduction of “unset” molecules that detach or strip away the “set” molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962995 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163798 | Prusiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley B. Prusiner (San Francisco, California); Jiri G. Safar (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay method is disclosed which isolates and detects the presence of a disease related conformation of a protein (e.g., PrPSc) present in a sample also containing the non-disease related conformation of the protein (e.g., PrPC). The sample is treated (e.g., contacted with protease) in a manner which hydrolyzes the disease related conformation and not the non-disease related conformation. The treated sample is contacted with a binding partner (e.g., a labeled antibody which binds PrPSc) and the occurrence of binding provides and indication that PrPSc is present. Alternatively the PrPSc of the treated sample is denatured (e.g., contacted with guanadine) or unfolded. The unfolded PrPSc is contacted with a binding partner and the occurrence of binding indicates the presence of PrPSc in the sample. In another embodiment, PrPSc and PrPC are reacted with a labeled antibody that binds both conformations and a conformation that binds only the disease related conformation, and the presence of the disease related conformation is determined by comparing the two. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/367873 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163801 | Reed |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for determining a prognosis for survival for a cancer patient. One method involves (a) measuring a level of a TUCAN in a neoplastic cell-containing sample from the cancer patient, and (b) comparing the level of TUCAN in the sample to a reference level of TUCAN, wherein a low level of TUCAN in the sample correlates with increased survival of the patient. Another method involves (a) measuring a level of TUCAN in a neoplastic cell-containing sample from the cancer patient, and (b) classifying the patient as belonging to either a first or second group of patients, wherein the first group of patients having low levels of TUCAN is classified as having an increased likelihood of survival compared to the second group of patients having high levels of TUCAN. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/141618 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163806 | Prusiner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley B. Prusiner (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a method for producing mammalian therapeutics free from prion contamination and cells for use in such methods. Such therapeutics are produced in somatic cells having a genome with an artificially altered PrP gene. The PrP gene in these cells may be ablated, or replaced by an exogenous inducible form of the PrP gene. The endogenous gene in the host cells may be disrupted, or disrupted and replaced by an exogenous PrP gene. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773795 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163808 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Anderson (Altadena, California); Guillermo Garcia-Cardena (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr. (Plain, Massachusetts); Hai U. Wang (Eldorado Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Arterial and venous smooth muscle cells are molecularly distinct from the earliest stages of angiogenesis through to adulthood. This distinction is revealed by expression on arterial cells (e.g., arterial endothelial cells, arterial smooth muscle cells) of a transmembrane ligand, called EphrinB2 whose receptor EphB4 is expressed on venous cells. Targeted disruption of the EphrinB2 gene prevents the remodeling of veins from a capillary plexus into properly branched structures. Moreover, it also disrupts the remodeling of arteries, suggesting that reciprocal interactions between pre-specified arterial and venous cells are necessary for angiogenesis. Expression of EphrinB2 in arterial cells (e.g., arterial endothelial cells, arterial smooth muscle cells) can be used to advantage in methods for targeting agents and/or encoded polypeptides to arterial smooth muscle cells, altering angiogenesis, assessing the effect of agents on arterial smooth muscle cells, identifying arterial smooth muscle cells, isolating arterial smooth muscle cells and production of artificial vessels, for example. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/988496 |
| 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 435/70.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163818 | Merril et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl R. Merril (Rockville, Maryland); Sankar Adhya (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Dean Scholl (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses compositions and methods for the prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial infections by the use of polyvalent bacteriophage having multiple host range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/350256 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163824 | Cox, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sangamo Biosciences, Inc. (Richmond, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Norbert Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado); Casey Christopher Case (San Mateo, California); Stephen P. Eisenberg (Boulder, Colorado); Eric Edward Jarvis (Boulder, Colorado); Sharon Kaye Spratt (Vacaville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for modulating expression of endogenous cellular genes using recombinant zinc finger proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222614 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163925 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaomei Jin (Houston, Texas); Jack A. Roth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A variety of genetic constructs are disclosed that will find both in vitro and in vivo use in the area of tumor biology and cancer therapy. In particular, expression constructs are provided that contain a p16 encoding region and other regulatory elements necessary for the expression of a p16 transcript. One version of the expression construct is a replication-deficient adenoviral vector. Also provided are methods for the transformation of cell lines and the inhibition of cancer cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/080935 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163935 | Brechbiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin W. Brechbiel (Annandale, Virginia); Hyun-Soon Chong (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted 1,4,7-triazacyclononane-N,N′,N″-triacetic acid compounds with a pendant donor amino group, metal complexes thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of use in diagnostic imaging and treatment of a cellular disorder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/516047 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163955 | Dykstra 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); Auburn University (Auburn, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine C. Dykstra (Auburn, Alabama); Maurice Daniel Givens (Auburn, Alabama); David A. Stringfellow (Auburn, Alabama); Kenny Brock (Auburn, Alabama); David Boykin (Atlanta, Georgia); Arvid Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); W. David Wilson (Atlanta, Georgia); Richard R. Tidwell (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Chad F. Stephens (Villa Roca, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds and methods that are useful in treating members of the Flaviviridae family of viruses. Compounds of the present invention will have a structure according to Formulas (I)–(VI) as recited throughout the application. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262427 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164008 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerrold P. Weiss (Coralville, Iowa); Theresa L. Gioannini (Coralville, Iowa); Athamane Teghanemt (Coralville, Iowa); Ramaswamy Subramanian (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Applicants have produced and isolated water soluble complexes of endotoxin and MD-2. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/715876 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164012 | Hunter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institue for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Hunter (Del Mar, California); Kun Ping Lu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel class of NIMA interacting proteins (PIN), exemplified by Pin1, is provided. Pin1 induces a G2 arrest and delays NIMA-induced mitosis when overexpressed, and triggers mitotic arrest and DNA fragmentation when depleted. Methods of identifying other Pin proteins and Pin-interacting proteins and identifying compositions which affect Pin activity or expression are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/616410 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164268 | Mugler, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Mugler, III (Charlottesville, Virginia); James R. Brookeman (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance imaging “MRI” method and apparatus for lengthening the usable echo-train duration and reducing the power deposition for imaging is provided. The method explicitly considers the t1 and t2 relaxation times for the tissues of interest, and permits the desired image contrast to be incorporated into the tissue signal evolutions corresponding to the long echo train. The method provides a means to shorten image acquisition times and/or increase spatial resolution for widely-used spin-echo train magnetic resonance techniques, and enables high-field imaging within the safety guidelines established by the Food and Drug Administration for power deposition in human MRI. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/451124 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164993 | Likness et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Plowshare Technologies, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Likness (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert M. Wessel (Millersville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring topographical information to provide smoking topographical information including providing a portable smoking topography measurement unit having a smoking material holder; inserting a smoking material into the smoking material holder of the portable smoking topography measurement unit; detecting each puff of the smoking material; measuring flow rate of smoking from a smoking material into a subject during each puff; computing puff information; eliminating false puffs from the puff information; computing smoking material information; and storing puff information and smoking material information in a memory. The puff information and smoking material information is transferred from the memory of the portable smoking topography measurement unit to a workstation, and the puff information and smoking material information is displayed on a display unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/214330 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Schefer (Alamo, California); Jay O Keller (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling NOx emission from combustors. The method involves the controlled addition of a diluent such as nitrogen or water vapor, to a base fuel to reduce the flame temperature, thereby reducing NOx production. At the same time, a gas capable of enhancing flame stability and improving low temperature combustion characteristics, such as hydrogen, is added to the fuel mixture. The base fuel can be natural gas for use in industrial and power generation gas turbines and other burners. However, the method described herein is equally applicable to other common fuels such as coal gas, biomass-derived fuels and other common hydrocarbon fuels. The unique combustion characteristics associated with the use of hydrogen, particularly faster flame speed, higher reaction rates, and increased resistance to fluid-mechanical strain, alter the burner combustion characteristics sufficiently to allow operation at the desired lower temperature conditions resulting from diluent addition, without the onset of unstable combustion that can arise at lower combustor operating temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701763 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162888 | Shu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deming Shu (Darien, Illinois); Andrzej Joachimiak (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Curt A. Preissner (Rosemont, Illinois); Daniel Nocher (Elwood, Illinois); Yufeng Han (Chicago, Illinois); Juan Barraza, Jr. (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Peter Lee (Wheaton, Illinois); Wah-Keat Lee (Oak Park, Illinois); Zhonghou Cai (Naperville, Illinois); Stephan Ginell (Naperville, Illinois); Randy Alkire (Romeoville, Illinois); Robert G. Schuessler (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and robot-based automation system are provided for cryogenic crystal sample mounting, for example, for use for cryogenic crystal sample mounting in the x-ray crystallography station at an x-ray source. The system includes a robot arm carrying a handset. The handset includes a pair of elongated fingers for sample mounting, and each finger carrying a set of strain gauge arrays for providing force sensing. A slim finger design allows a sample mounting process with no interference with the beam stop, cryostreem and x-ray detectors. The handset can detect the contact force intensity and direction; provide a precise gripping action; and feel the results of the gripping. The finger design incorporates a mechanism to maintain the sample temperature well below the cryogenic safety margin for the crystal viability. A Dewar container is provided with an ice control system and liquid nitrogen flow control. A triangular sample magazine maximizes the Dewar space usage. A miniature kinematical mounting sample holder provides near micron positioning repeatability. These capabilities make the robot-arm more powerful, flexible, and reliable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807599 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/378 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07162993 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mechanology, Inc. (Attleboro, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Sterling Bailey (Los Gatos, California); Stephen M. Chomyszak (Attleboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a toroidal intersecting vane machine incorporating intersecting rotors to form primary and secondary chambers whose porting configurations minimize friction and maximize efficiency. Specifically, it is an object of the invention to provide a toroidal intersecting vane machine that greatly reduces the frictional losses through meshing surfaces without the need for external gearing by modifying the function of one or the other of the rotors from that of “fluid moving” to that of “valving” thereby reducing the pressure loads and associated inefficiencies at the interface of the meshing surfaces. The inventions described herein relate to these improvements. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/744230 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163670 | Ackerman, legal representative |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ackerman, legal representative (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane for hydrogen recovery from streams containing hydrogen sulfide is provided. The membrane comprises a substrate, a hydrogen permeable first membrane layer deposited on the substrate, and a second membrane layer deposited on the first layer. The second layer contains sulfides of transition metals and positioned on the on a feed side of the hydrogen sulfide stream. The present invention also includes a method for the direct decomposition of hydrogen sulfide to hydrogen and sulfur. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002612 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/573.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163713 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig P. Jacobson (Lafayette, California); Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Lutgard C. De Jonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The process described herein provides a simple and cost effective method for making crack free, high density thin ceramic film. The steps involve depositing a layer of a ceramic material on a porous or dense substrate. The deposited layer is compacted and then the resultant laminate is sintered to achieve a higher density than would have been possible without the pre-firing compaction step. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/162511 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163761 | Debe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Kevitt Debe (Stillwater, Minnesota); Larry Allan Schleif (Monticello, Minnesota); Thomas Herdtle (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Andrew James Steinbach (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell stack is provided comprising fuel cell modules least compression plates; and at least one plurality of mechanical linkages connecting a pair of compression plates located on either side of at least one fuel cell module, which may be engaged to maintain a predetermined gap distance between the pair of compression plates. The present invention additionally provides a fuel cell stack comprising: fuel cell modules stacked alternately with compression plates; mechanical linkages connecting a first pair of compression plates directly adjacent to a first fuel cell module; mechanical linkages connecting a second pair of compression plates directly adjacent to a second fuel cell module; where a) the first and second fuel cell modules may be maintained under compression, and b) the compression on each fuel cell module may be adjusted essentially independently of the compression on the other. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294224 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163972 | Chaiko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Chaiko (Naperville, Illinois); Suhas G. Niyogi (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provide methods for producing a low moisture organophyllosilicate composition using monomers, oligomers, or polymers to displace water associated with the organophyllosilicates in an aqueous organophyllosilicate slurry or filter cake. The invention additionally provides methods for producing organophyllosilicate nanocomposites from the concentrated organophyllosilicate compositions by dispersing the compositions in a polymer matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/428348 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164006 | Durfee 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) | Tim Durfee (Madison, Wisconsin); Heidi Feiler (Albany, California); Wilhelm Gruissem (Forch, Switzerland); Susan Jenkins (Martinez, California); Judith Roe (Manhattan, Kansas); Patricia Zambryski (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for altering the growth, organization, and differentiation of plant tissues. The invention is based on the discovery that, in plants, genetically altering the levels of Retinoblastoma-related gene (RRB) activity produces dramatic effects on the growth, proliferation, organization, and differentiation of plant meristem. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748912 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164138 | McGregor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. McGregor (Riley, Kansas); Raymond Klann (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Neutron detectors, advanced detector process techniques and advanced compound film designs have greatly increased neutron-detection efficiency. One embodiment of the detectors utilizes a semiconductor wafer with a matrix of spaced cavities filled with one or more types of neutron reactive material such as 10B or 6LiF. The cavities are etched into both the front and back surfaces of the device such that the cavities from one side surround the cavities from the other side. The cavities may be etched via holes or etched slots or trenches. In another embodiment, the cavities are different-sized and the smaller cavities extend into the wafer from the lower surfaces of the larger cavities. In a third embodiment, multiple layers of different neutron-responsive material are formed on one or more sides of the wafer. The new devices operate at room temperature, are compact, rugged, and reliable in design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695019 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164252 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt S. Myers (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Teddy R. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically powered hand tool is described and which includes a three phase electrical motor having a plurality of poles; an electrical motor drive electrically coupled with the three phase electrical motor; and a source of electrical power which is converted to greater than about 208 volts three-phase and which is electrically coupled with the electrical motor drive. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193732 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164263 | Yakymyshyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FieldMetrics, Inc. (Seminole, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Paul Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida); Michael Allen Brubaker (Loveland, Colorado); Pamela Jane Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A current sensor is described that uses a plurality of magnetic field sensors positioned around a current carrying conductor. The sensor can be hinged to allow clamping to a conductor. The current sensor provides high measurement accuracy for both DC and AC currents, and is substantially immune to the effects of temperature, conductor position, nearby current carrying conductors and aging. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/905509 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/117.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07163794 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Sherman (New York, New York); Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiped, capable of traveling in more than one direction along a molecular path in a nano-robotic system where the steps taken by the feet of the multiped are controlled in a sequence specific fashion, is presented. The feet of the multiped dock to footholds on the molecular path via cohesion with “set” molecules and are released from the footholds through the introduction of “unset” molecules that detach or strip away the “set” molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962995 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163812 | Zeikus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gregory Zeikus (Okemos, Michigan); Maris Laivenieks (East Lansing, Michigan); Claire Vieille (Lansing, Michigan); Pil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | An Actinobacillus succinogenes plasmid vector which provides a means to overexpress proteins in A. succinogenes. The plasmid can be transformed efficiently by electroporation, and replicates in a stable manner in A. succinogenes. The plasmid comprises at least one marker gene, operably linked to a first promoter functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, an origin of replication functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, a second promoter isolated from Actinobacillus succinogenes, and a cloning site downstream from the second promoter. Plasmids pLGZ901, pLGZ920, pLGZ921, and pLGZ922 are disclosed. The pckA gene polypeptide sequence and nucleic acid sequence of Actinobacillus succinogenes, including the promoter and ribosome binding site, is disclosed. Furthermore, a method for producing a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described, including a method of transformation. Additionally, a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is disclosed and a method for producing succinate utilizing this recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911961 |
| 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 435/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164006 | Durfee 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) | Tim Durfee (Madison, Wisconsin); Heidi Feiler (Albany, California); Wilhelm Gruissem (Forch, Switzerland); Susan Jenkins (Martinez, California); Judith Roe (Manhattan, Kansas); Patricia Zambryski (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for altering the growth, organization, and differentiation of plant tissues. The invention is based on the discovery that, in plants, genetically altering the levels of Retinoblastoma-related gene (RRB) activity produces dramatic effects on the growth, proliferation, organization, and differentiation of plant meristem. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748912 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164100 | Petrenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor F. Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles R. Sullivan (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | High-frequency AC voltage with a frequency in a range of from 60 to 100 kHz supplied from a power source at 3 to 15 kV is applied to an electrical conductor within about 30 cm of a cableway. The high-frequency AC voltage generates an alternating electric field. Capacitive AC current associated with the alternating electric field flows through the ice on the cableway and on the electrical conductor, causing dielectric loss heat that melts the ice. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057859 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164967 | Etienne-Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iguana Robotics, Inc. (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Etienne-Cummings (Baltimore, Maryland); M. Anthony Lewis (Mahomet, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial Central Pattern Generator (CPG) based on the naturally-occuring central pattern generator locomotor controller for walking, running, swimming, and flying animals may be constructed to be self-adaptive, by providing for the artificial CPG, which may be a chip, to tune its behavior based on sensory feedback. It is believed that this is the first instance of an adaptive CPG chip. Such a sensory feedback-using system with an artificial CPG may be used in mechanical applications such as a running robotic leg, in walking, flying and swimming machines, and in miniature and larger robots, and also in biological systems, such as a surrogate neural system for patients with spinal damage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/009799 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07163673 | Compton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Compton (Peoria, Illinois); Terry A. Isbell (Elmwood, Illinois); Rogers E. Harry-O'kuru (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A class of UVA- and UVB-absorbing esters has been derived by modifying hydroxy triglycerides and other acyltriglycerides with any of a variety of cinnamic acids. The esterification reactions are preferably conducted at elevated temperatures without a catalyst. The resultant agents have the advantage of being synthesized from natural materials, while providing a value-added use for the oil. They are readily formulated into standard UV-absorbing daily-wear cosmetic, hair and skin care, and sunscreen formulations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462882 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163812 | Zeikus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gregory Zeikus (Okemos, Michigan); Maris Laivenieks (East Lansing, Michigan); Claire Vieille (Lansing, Michigan); Pil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | An Actinobacillus succinogenes plasmid vector which provides a means to overexpress proteins in A. succinogenes. The plasmid can be transformed efficiently by electroporation, and replicates in a stable manner in A. succinogenes. The plasmid comprises at least one marker gene, operably linked to a first promoter functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, an origin of replication functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, a second promoter isolated from Actinobacillus succinogenes, and a cloning site downstream from the second promoter. Plasmids pLGZ901, pLGZ920, pLGZ921, and pLGZ922 are disclosed. The pckA gene polypeptide sequence and nucleic acid sequence of Actinobacillus succinogenes, including the promoter and ribosome binding site, is disclosed. Furthermore, a method for producing a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described, including a method of transformation. Additionally, a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is disclosed and a method for producing succinate utilizing this recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911961 |
| 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 435/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164058 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maureen Hanson (Ithaca, New York); Stephane Bentolila (Ithaca, New York); Antonio A. Alfonso (Nueva Ecija, Philippines) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules which restore fertility to cytoplasmic male sterile plants and modify expression of toxic mitochondria proteins by the plant. The present invention also relates to methods of identifying a candidate plant suitable for breeding with a cytoplasmic male sterile plant and methods of identifying a candidate gene restoring fertility in plants by analyzing for the candidate plant and candidate gene, respectively, for the presence of the nucleic acid molecule of the present invention. Also disclosed are methods of producing hybrid plant seed, methods of directing gene expression to plant mitochondria, and method of expressing a gene preferentially in roots of a plant. Promoters and terminators from plant genes which restore fertility to cytoplasmic male sterile plants and modify expression of toxic mitochondria proteins are also disclosed. Finally, methods of producing plants with a cytoplasmic male sterile plant restoration system are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341200 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07163649 | Burnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Burnett (Washington, District of Columbia); Zachary H. Levine (Rockville, Maryland); Eric L. Shirley (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition formed from Group II fluorides in which the composition has little or no intrinsic birefringence at a selected wavelength. The composition is a mixed solid solution of CaF2 with a second crystal of SrF2 or BaF2. The resulting composition is in the form of Ca1−xSrxF2 or Ca1−xBaxF2, or a combination of SrF2 and BaF2, in the form of Ca1−x−ySrxBayF2. The specific form of the composition that effectively nulls out the intrinsic birefringence at a selected wavelength within the UV range is determined in one preferred method from the magnitudes of the intrinsic birefringences of the components, CaF2, SrF2, and BaF2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190625 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164107 | Bedingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and methods for processing sample materials. The sample materials may be located in a plurality of process chambers in the device, which is rotated during heating of the sample materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/287074 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07162929 | Tandon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Tandon (El Paso, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are disclosed for evaluating an adhesive layer such as a tack coat. In one embodiment, a portable apparatus is provided to test a tack coat layer prior to applying an overlay. The portable apparatus includes a tripod configuration placed on a surface, a plate conformed to the surface by a load and a torque wrench-applying a pull-off force to test the strength of the surface. In other embodiments, a portable apparatus is provided to test a tack coat layer prior to applying an overlay, where the portable apparatus does not include support members. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937102 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/827 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164383 | Fagan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Fagan (Norman, Oklahoma); Hengquin Wen (Norman, Oklahoma); Rick Pendergraft (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A local area augmentation navigation system for determining the location of an object using differential GPS. The system does not require any significant power or communication infrastructure. The system includes at least three reference stations, a master station and a LAAS receiver. The at least three reference stations are located in close proximity to each other and at known locations. Each of the reference stations receive a GPS signal from a GPS constellation and collect and output via a wireless transceiver the pseudo-range data from the GPS signal. The master station is positioned in close proximity to the reference stations and receives the pseudo-range data from the reference stations. The master station forms a correction message from the pseudo-range data and the known locations of the reference stations. The master station broadcasts the correction message within a specified area. The LAAS receiver is positioned within the specified area and receives the correction message broadcast by the master station as well as a GPS signal from the GPS constellation. The LAAS receiver calculates the location of the LAAS receiver with the correction message and the GPS signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669614 |
| 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 342/357.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07163808 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Anderson (Altadena, California); Guillermo Garcia-Cardena (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr. (Plain, Massachusetts); Hai U. Wang (Eldorado Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Arterial and venous smooth muscle cells are molecularly distinct from the earliest stages of angiogenesis through to adulthood. This distinction is revealed by expression on arterial cells (e.g., arterial endothelial cells, arterial smooth muscle cells) of a transmembrane ligand, called EphrinB2 whose receptor EphB4 is expressed on venous cells. Targeted disruption of the EphrinB2 gene prevents the remodeling of veins from a capillary plexus into properly branched structures. Moreover, it also disrupts the remodeling of arteries, suggesting that reciprocal interactions between pre-specified arterial and venous cells are necessary for angiogenesis. Expression of EphrinB2 in arterial cells (e.g., arterial endothelial cells, arterial smooth muscle cells) can be used to advantage in methods for targeting agents and/or encoded polypeptides to arterial smooth muscle cells, altering angiogenesis, assessing the effect of agents on arterial smooth muscle cells, identifying arterial smooth muscle cells, isolating arterial smooth muscle cells and production of artificial vessels, for example. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/988496 |
| 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 435/70.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
07164203 — Methods and procedures for engineering of composite conductive by atomic layer deposition
| US 07164203 | Londergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genus, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana R. Londergan (Campbell, California); Thomas E. Seidel (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite film comprised of three layers is formed by ALD on a substrate with a substrate interface surface. A first layer is coupled to the substrate interface surface. The first layer provides adhesion to the substrate interface surface and initiation of layer by layer ALD growth. A second layer is positioned between the first and third layers and provides a conducting diffusion barrier between the substrate and subsequent overlaying film. A third layer has a surface that is configured to provide adhesion and a texture template in preparation for a subsequent overlaying film. The composite engineered barrier structures are applied to interconnect, capacitor and transistor applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216750 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/751 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07162929 | Tandon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Tandon (El Paso, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are disclosed for evaluating an adhesive layer such as a tack coat. In one embodiment, a portable apparatus is provided to test a tack coat layer prior to applying an overlay. The portable apparatus includes a tripod configuration placed on a surface, a plate conformed to the surface by a load and a torque wrench-applying a pull-off force to test the strength of the surface. In other embodiments, a portable apparatus is provided to test a tack coat layer prior to applying an overlay, where the portable apparatus does not include support members. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937102 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/827 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07162923 | Masoner 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) | Jason Robert Masoner (Tecumseh, Oklahoma); Scott Clemens Christenson (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved evaporation pan assembly having at least three float assemblies attached to the outer side wall of a circular shaped evaporation pan located in 120 degrees increments. An anchor assembly is included having a steel pole driven into the bed sediment. An open ring guide or a hollow, open-ended tube is attached to one of the three float assemblies and is intended to slip over the driven pole extending out of the water. Using this design, the floating evaporation pan may move freely around the anchor assembly due to wind, changes in stage, currents, etc., but still will maintain the pan in a level position upon the water body surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122202 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/290.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07163682 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Forsyth Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Smith (Natick, Massachusetts); Martin A. Taubman (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic compositions and subunit vaccines for dental caries are described which comprise peptide subunits of glucan binding protein-B and peptide subunits of glucan binding protein-B in combination with peptide subunits of glucosyltransferase. Methods of provoking an immune response to S. mutans glucan binding protein-B or glucosyltransferase. Methods of immunizing a mammal against dental caries are also described, along with antibodies which bind particular epitopes of glucan binding protein-B or glucosyltransferase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797821 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07164122 | Fuhrer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ionwerks, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katrin Fuhrer (Bern, Switzerland); Marc Gonin (Bern, Switzerland); J. Albert Schultz (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an improved ion mobility spectrometer and method for the analysis of chemical samples. The improvements are realized in the optimization of resolution and sensitivity. Increases in sensitivity are realized by preserving a narrow spatial distribution of migrating ions through the use of periodic/hyperbolic field focusing. Use of a plurality of drift cells and a new RF field focusing interface are discussed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/061158 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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