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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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| US 07171827 | Autery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Umicore SA (Brussels, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William David Autery (Richardson, Texas); Gregory Stewart Tyber (Allen, Texas); Donald Bryan Christian (Allen, Texas); Allan Leroy Buehler (Garland, Texas); Athanasios John Syllaios (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, a system and method for the automated casting of infrared glass optical components is provided. The system includes a mold for casting infrared glass into lenses, a mold chamber operable to heat the mold to a temperature above the melting temperature of the infrared glass, and a casting chamber operable to fill the mold with molten infrared glass. The method includes heating a mold in a mold chamber to a temperature above the melting temperature of infrared glass, casting molten infrared glass into the mold in a casting chamber; and cooling the mold to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the infrared glass. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417026 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/32.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07171853 | Laughlin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Technology Associates (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren R. Laughlin (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An MHD sensor/actuator is provided for generating torque as well as sensing angular displacements around a sense/torque axis. A column of conductive liquid which rotates within a circumferential channel having an inner circumferential surface and outer circumferential surface provides an inertial proof mass, the relative motion of which within the channel generates a torque or represents a sensed displacement about the common axis of the circumferential channel. According to certain embodiments, a cylindrical column of magnets are located coaxially with the circumferential channel to produce a radially oriented magnetic field which is perpendicular to the common axis. According to other embodiments, a magnetic ring is provided coaxially with the circumferential channel to produce a magnetic field in the direction of the common axis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239283 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172118 | Urken |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold B. Urken (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided overcoming decision-making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices. The invention provides collective outcomes that are resilient to communication and decision making errors, and which are provided with a minimum wait time. The system comprises a user interface engine that provides a channel to the features of the present invention, an agenda manager module for creating and presenting questions, a user manager module that controls interactions with user who request questionnaires, submit response data, and request access to analytical results, and a report manager module that identifies collective outcomes that are resilient to error and/or that weight individual votes to optimize the group's performance in producing one or more correct or optimal collective choices. A common data exchange allows communication between the modules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953514 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172663 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are palladium-containing powders and a method and apparatus for manufacturing the palladium-containing particles of high quality, of a small size and narrow size distribution. An aerosol is generated from liquid feed and sent to a furnace, where liquid in droplets in the aerosol is vaporized to permit formation of the desired particles, which are then collected in a particle collector. The aerosol generation involves preparation of a high quality aerosol, with a narrow droplet size distribution, with close control over droplet size and with a high droplet loading suitable for commercial applications. Powders may have high resistance to oxidation of palladium. Multi-phase particles are provided including a palladium-containing metallic phase and a second phase that is dielectric. Electronic components are provided manufacturable using the powders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790958 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/537 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172834 | Jow 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) | T. Richard Jow (Potomac, Maryland); Shengshui Zhang (Olney, Maryland); Kang Xu (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium battery includes an electrolyte comprised of a non-aqueous solvent, and a salt mixture. The salt mixture includes an alkali metal electrolyte salt and an additive salt having an anion of a mixed anhydride of oxalic acid and boric acid. Specific additive salts include lithium bis(oxalato) borate and lithium oxalyldifluoroborate. Particular electrolyte salts comprise LiPF6 and LiBF4. The additive salt is present in an amount of 0.1–60 mole percent of the total of the additive salt and electrolyte salt content of the electrolyte. Also disclosed is a method for enhancing the performance characteristics of a lithium battery through the use of the electrolyte composition. Also disclosed is the compound lithium oxalyldifluoroborate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/625686 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172869 | June 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); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl H. June (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Thompson B. Craig (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Suil Kim (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for transfecting T cells with a nucleic acid molecule comprising a gene such that the gene is expressed in the T cells is described. The T cells are stimulated and proliferating prior to introduction of the nucleic acid molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828481 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172953 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas Rueckes (Boston, Massachusetts); Ernesto Joselevich (Jerusalem, Israel); Kevin Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanoscopic wires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanoscopic wires can be nanotubes, preferably single-walled carbon nanotubes. They can be arranged in crossbar arrays using chemically patterned surfaces for direction, via chemical vapor deposition. Chemical vapor deposition also can be used to form nanotubes in arrays in the presence of directing electric fields, optionally in combination with self-assembled monolayer patterns. Bistable devices are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/313096 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173156 | Holmes 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) | Brian T Holmes (Arlington, Virginia); Arthur W Snow (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of thioacetate deprotection by providing a compound of the formula R1—S—CO—R2, and reacting the compound with a quaternary ammonium cyanide salt in the presence of a protic solvent in an inert atmosphere to convert the compound to a product of the formula R1—SH. R1 is an organic group in which the bonding to sulfur is through a saturated carbon, and R2 is an aliphatic group. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279153 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173245 | Shakouri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, California); Kenneth Pedrotti (Soquel, California); James Christofferson (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for non-contact thermal measurement which are capable of providing sub micron surface thermal characterization of samples, such as active semiconductor devices. The method obtains thermal image information by reflecting a light from a surface of a device in synchronous with the modulation of the thermal excitation and then acquiring and processing an AC-coupled thermoreflective image. The method may be utilized for making measurements using different positioning techniques, such as point measurements, surface scanning, two-dimensional imaging, and combinations thereof. A superresolution method is also described for increasing the resultant image resolution, based on multiple images with fractional pixel offsets, without the need to increase the resolution of the image detectors being utilized. The thermoreflective method provides a spatial resolution better than current infrared cameras, operates within a wide temperature range, and is capable of a thermal resolution on the order of 10 mK°. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/039290 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173257 | Warrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hach Ultra Analytics, Inc. (Grants Pass, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret R. Warrick (Grants Pass, Oregon); Geoffrey Wilson (Rogue River, Oregon); Richard DeFreez (Azalea, Oregon); Michael M. Carrabba (Rogue River, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated particle detection apparatus for optical detection of particles in an air stream. The particle detection apparatus includes a scalper for removing large panicles from the air stream, a concentrator for separating out small particles and increasing the concentration of particles of interest, and a fluorescence sensor system for detecting the particles present in the air stream. The scalper, concentrator and sensor comprise a single integrated unit, such that the scalper is fluidly contiguous with the concentrator and the concentrator is fluidly contiguous with the sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062227 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173265 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Miller (Oriental, North Carolina); Steve K. McAllaster (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Jerry D. Slater (Redlands, California); Nickolas S. Rigney (Redlands, California); Daniel C. Anderson (Loma Linda, California); Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation treatment system (100) for accurately delivering radiation to a targeted site within a cancer patient (108) that includes a modular patient support system and a patient positioner (114). The modular patient support system includes a modularly expandable patient pod (200) and at least one immobilization device, such as, for example, a rigid moldable foam cradle (350). The patient pod (200) includes a generally hemi-cylindrical support shell (212) that extends longitudinally between proximal edge (214) and distal edge (216), and transversely between two lateral edges (222, 224). In one embodiment, the lateral edges (222, 224) are tapered to minimize edge effects that result when radiation beams traverse the lateral edges (222, 224). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/917022 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173294 | Burke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry E. Burke (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert K. Reich (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The CCD image sensor addresses the problem of noise, due to background charge generated by Compton scattering of gamma rays. In applications, in which an imager must operate in a high-radiation environment, such background noise reduces the video signal/noise. This imager reduces the amount of charge collected from Compton events, while giving up very little sensitivity to photons in the visible/near IR. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005515 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173367 | Sanghera 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) | Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Greenbelt, Maryland); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to phosphor particles and to field emission displays using the particles, each of the particles is coated with an electrically conducting material to impart to the particles environmental stability, stability under use conditions, and reduced charging. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/755375 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173369 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim Hills, California); Paul E. Burrows (Princeton, New Jersey); Vladimir Bulovic (Metuchen, New Jersey); Gong Gu (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic light emitting device structure includes a substrate, a first electrically conductive layer formed over the substrate wherein the first electrically conductive layer has a positive polarity, and a transparent organic light emitting device formed over the first electrically conductive layer. The structure also includes a transparent electrically conductive metal layer formed over the transparent organic light emitting device wherein the metal has a work function less than 4 eV, and a second electrically conductive layer formed over the transparent electrically conductive metal layer, wherein the second electrically conductive layer has a negative polarity, and wherein the second electrically conductive layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of a transparent electrically conductive oxide and a transparent electrically conductive polymer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460024 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173419 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B Johnson (Springfield, Virginia); Michael M Miller (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic field sensors, each generating an electrical output signal in proportion to the local magnetic field, are lithographically fabricated on a semiconductor substrate with a small spatial separation. The lateral dimension of the sensors and the separation length are the order of the minimum lithographic feature size. Comparing the electrical signals of the sensors results in a measurement of the local magnetic field gradient. Large field gradients, that vary on a small spatial scale, may be associated small magnetic structures such as microscopic magnetic particles. Detection of a field gradient can be used to infer the presence of a magnetic particle. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536797 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173560 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Gainesville, Florida); Yijun Sun (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A forwarding looking ground penetrating mine detection apparatus includes a radiation source for irradiating a sample of ground suspected of containing at least one mine with a plurality of frequency swept ground penetrating radar signals. A detector receives target signals backscattered from the ground responsive to the radar signal. The detector includes a time-frequency analyzer which transforms the target signals into a time-frequency image representation (TFR). In a preferred embodiment, the detector can include a wavelet packet transformer (WPT) for extracting time-frequency localized information from the TFR in the form of feature set constructed from a wavelet table. The apparatus can also include a data dimensionality reducer for selecting features to form a feature subset from the feature set, preferably based on reference to a training data set. A multilayer neural network classifier can be based on the feature subset, and be adaptable to the surrounding environment through learning. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/929269 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173571 | Webb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Windmill International, Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire); AntennaSys, Inc. (Pelham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Spencer Webb (Pelham, New Hampshire); David Martin (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the portable antenna positioner described provide a lightweight, collapsible and rugged antenna positioner for use in receiving low earth orbit, geostationary and geosynchronous satellite transmissions. By collapsing the antenna positioner, it may be readily carried by one person or shipped in a compact container. The antenna positioner may be used in remote locations with simple or automated setup and orientation. In order to operate the apparatus, azimuth is adjusted by rotating an antenna in relation to a positioner base and elevation is adjusted by rotating an elevation motor coupled with the antenna. The apparatus may update ephemeris data via satellite, may comprise a built-in receiver and may couple with a second positioner base comprising cryptographic, router or power functionality. The apparatus may comprise storage devices such as a hard drive or flash disk for storing data to and from at least one satellite. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115960 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/766 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173698 | Gerhart 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) | Grant Gerhart (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Roy Matchko (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining and displaying polarization profiles of points in a scene from a single imaging detector array, which utilizes a filter system comprised of a retarder, four linear polarizers, four lenses, a color filter, camera lens and CCD video camera. Light from points in a scene are transmitted through the system and exits with attenuated intensities unique for each wavelength of the light. A narrowband color filter selects the wavelength of interest. The four lenses in the system produce four images of the scene, which are recorded as a single CCD-image. The attenuated intensities in each of the four scene-images are used to calculate the Stokes parameters for selected points in the scene for the selected wavelength. A unique pseudo-color scheme that utilizes the Poincarè sphere is used for encoding and displaying polarization parameters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822355 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07174073 | Olsen |
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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) | Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic signals of high bandwidth are input into a winding of optical fiber. The winding of fiber has winds of fiber that are adjacently disposed and that form a substantially linear outer surface of the winding. A series of optical taps are defined in the optical fiber along this surface. The fiber includes an inner core surrounded by an outer layer. The taps comprise a diminished outer layer section of the fiber. It is from these taps that optical energy is released from the fiber. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919054 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07174255 | Giurgiutiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, South Carolina); Buli Xu (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A small, lightweight, portable, and inexpensive self-processing integrated damage assessment sensor (SPIDAS) that may be temporarily or permanently attached to a structure for structural health monitoring is provided. The SPIDAS device employs an electromechanical impedance measuring method to directly measure the high-frequency local impedance spectrum of the structure, process the electromechanical impedance data, and issue structural health reports that the device may transmit over a wireless connection. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987765 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2178 | Rivera 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) | Rafael Rivera (Magnolia, New Jersey); Christopher Clemmer (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Containers are transported by movement of upper and lower trolleys along vertically spaced travel paths established by laterally spaced rails formed in a boom supported in a horizontal position by suspension cables attached to a frame assembly through which the boom extends horizontally between container receiving and delivery locations. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650678 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Traversing hoists 212/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2179 | Egan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Egan (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is disclosed for compression and reconstruction of digital images taking advantage of information entropy properties to reconstruct image data from minimal information. The algorithm yields the possibility of achieving image compression factors of 10,000 to 100,000, thus decreasing the necessity of high bandwidth transmission modes for image data. The algorithm also has cryptographic properties which offer secure transmission of image data over non-secure data lines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/230441 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07172739 | Maughan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Maughan (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for physically separating polypeptide constituents of a sample fluid by (a) providing a sample fluid comprising a mixture of polypeptides of differing physical and/or chemical properties; (b) contacting the fluid with at least two individual polymer matrix units, each polymer matrix unit preferentially accepting a different set of polypeptides on the basis of one or more physical and/or chemical properties; and (c) extracting the set of polypeptides from each polymer matrix unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154443 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — 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 422/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172862 | Gale, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Gale, Jr. (Dallas, Texas); Michael S. Brown (Dallas, Texas); Joseph L. Goldstein (Dallas, Texas); Chunfu Wang (Dallas, Texas); Jin Ye (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Agents that modulate an interaction of an FBL2 protein with an NS5A or NS5B Flaviviridae protein in a mixture are identified by contacting the mixture with a candidate agent under conditions wherein but for the presence of the agent, the FBL2 protein and the Flaviviridae protein engage in a reference interaction; and detecting an agent-biased interaction. Flaviviridae replication is inhibited by contacting a Flaviviridae-infected cell with an FBL2-specific reagent; and detecting a resultant Flaviviridae replication inhibition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122373 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172865 | Heyduk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensors and methods to determine the activity of any and all nucleic acid binding factors, proteins, cellular events, nucleic acid binding protein coregulators, or fragments thereof, based upon the stabilization of the interaction of two nucleic acid components, which together comprise a complete nucleic acid binding element, by the binding of a nucleic acid binding factor are provided. Preferably, a fluorescence donor is attached to a nucleic acid comprising one portion or component of a complete nucleic acid binding element and a fluorescence acceptor is attached to a nucleic acid comprising the other portion or component of the same complete binding element. Alternatively, a solid substrate is attached to a nucleic acid comprising one portion of a binding element and a detectable label is attached to a nucleic acid comprising the other portion of the same binding element. Binding of a nucleic acid binding factor to the nucleic acid components affects a change in luminescence or the association of the detectable label with the solid substrate. These biosensors and methods may also be used to detect mediating nucleic acid binding factor coregulators, post-translational modifications and cellular events, to diagnose diseases and/or screen for drugs or other ligands that mediate the activity of nucleic acid binding factors. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/062064 |
| 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 |
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| US 07172874 | Hollyfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio); Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe G. Hollyfield (Beachwood, Ohio); Robert G. Salomon (Cleveland, Ohio); John W. Crabb (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Xiaorong Gu (Lyndhurst, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic methods for identifying a test subject who has or is at risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or an analogous disease associated with oxidation of DHA-containing lipids are provided. In one aspect, the methods comprise: assaying for the presence of elevated levels of 2-(ω-carboxyethyl) pyrrole (CEP) adducts in a bodily fluid which has been obtained from the test subject. In a preferred embodiment, such methods comprise providing an antibody that is immunospecific for CEP, contacting a bodily fluid from the subject with the anti-CEP antibody, and assaying for the formation of a complex between the antibody and an antigen in the sample. In another aspect, the methods comprise assaying for the presence of elevated levels of an antibody that binds to or is immunospecific for a CEP adduct in the bodily fluid of the test subject. The present invention also relates to CEP protein and peptide adducts, an antibody reactive with a CEP adduct and a diagnostic kit comprising such antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/135196 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07172875 | Kuret et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff Kuret (Dublin, Ohio); Carmen N. Chirita (Dublin, Ohio); Mihaela Necula (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for identifying and characterizing inhibitors of protein filament formation are provided. These methods are particularly useful for identifying those agents which inhibit or prevent protein filament formation within neurons of mammalian subjects, particularly human subjects, such as the formation of tau filaments in Alzheimer's patients, and α-synuclein filaments in Parkinson's patients. According to the methods, protein monomers which are associated with formation of intra- or extra-cellular aggregates are combined under physiological conditions with a fibrillization inducer and the formation of protein aggregates is assessed in the absence and the presence of a test agent. The absence or a reduction in the size or stability of proteinaceous polymeric filaments as compared to a control indicates that the test agent is an inhibitor of proteinaceous polymeric filament formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783795 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07172877 | Ting |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods of use thereof for labeling peptide and proteins in vitro or in vivo. The methods described herein employ biotin ligase mutants and biotin analogs recognized by such mutants. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754911 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — 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 435/7.720 |
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| US 07172880 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute for Medical Research (LaJolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qihong Huang (San Diego, California); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Quinn L. Deveraux (San Diego, California); Hiroko Maeda, legal representative (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polypeptides comprising inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family members, such as BmIAP initially derived from Bombyx mori BmN cells, and nucleic acids encoding them, and methods for making and using these compositions, including their use for inhibiting apoptosis. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/041859 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07172893 | Rabinowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Rabinowitz (Carrboro, North Carolina); Richard Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Weidong Xiao (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides genetically-engineered parvovirus capsids and viruses designed to introduce a heterologous gene into a target cell. The parvoviruses of the invention provide a repertoire of vectors with altered antigenic properties, packaging capabilities, and/or cellular tropisms as compared with current AAV vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/205942 |
| 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 435/235.100 |
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| US 07173000 | Ruf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfram Ruf (San Diego, California); Ramona J. Petrovan (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified factor VIIa is provided. The modified factor has increased amidolytic activity in the absence of T.F. and a higher affinity for T.F. when compared to the native factor VIIa but does not have substantially altered proteolytic activity when bound to T.F. Nucleic acid molecules that encode the factor, expression vectors that contain the nucleic acid molecules, cells that contain the nucleic acid molecules, and cells transformed with the expression vector are also provided. In a preferred embodiment, the modified factor is a human factor VIIa. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/415963 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07173007 | Zaiou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (California, None); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed Zaiou (Saulxures-les-Nancy, France); Richard L. Gallo (San Diego, California); Victor Nizet (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a novel class of cationic cathelin-like peptides and polypeptides that have antimicrobial activity. These peptides are useful for inhibiting microbial infection or growth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/815562 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07173020 | Borch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Borch (Lafayette, Indiana); Hugo Garrido-Hernandez (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sandra C. Tobias (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel phosphoramidate derivatives of hydroxy functional or amino functional compounds, including amino acids, peptides, peptidomimetics and nucleotide analogs, are described. The compounds enable enhanced intracellular delivery of drugs as their corresponding phosphate esters or amides. Described phosphoramidate compounds exhibit antiproliferative activity. Pharmaceutical formulations are provided for treatment of cancers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053024 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/137 |
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| US 07173063 | Lamb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Lamb (Shoreline, Washington); Julian Simon (Seattle, Washington); Heather Dunstan (San Diego, California); Stephen H. Friend (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the treatment of a proliferative disorder are provided in which a subject in need of such treatment is administered an effective amount of a compound selected from: compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein X1 and X2 are independently H, Cl, F, Br, I, CN, CF3 or NO2, and Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl; and compounds of formula (II) wherein X3 and X4 are each independently H, Cl, F, Br, I, CN, CF3 or NO2; Y is (C2–C6)alkylene or (C2–C6)heteroalkylene; and Z is Cl, F, Br, I, CN, CF3 or NO2. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/129936 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/615 |
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| US 07173113 | Lustbader et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce Lustbader (Tenafly, New Jersey); Leslie Lobel (Riverdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides VEGF-FSH compounds having increased serum half-lives relative to either native VEGF or FSH, in which both VEGF and FSH are biologically active. This invention also provides related compositions and methods for increasing fertility, egg production and spermatogenesis in a subject, as well as methods for increasing vascularization in a tissue, particularly in ovarian tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/119427 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399 |
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| US 07173119 | She et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Georgia Research Institute (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Xiong She (Martinez, Georgia); Cong-Yi Wang (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel nucleic acids associated with Type 1 diabetes. Also provided are polypeptides encoded by the nucleic acids associated with T1D. The invention also provides methods for facilitating the diagnosis or pre-diagnosis of T1D through the use of such nucleic acids and polypeptides. This invention further provides compositions for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090906 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07173130 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Jesus E. Gonzalez, III (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for detecting changes in membrane potential in membranes biological systems. In one aspect, the method comprises; a) providing a living cell with a first reagent comprising a charged hydrophobic molecule which is typically a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) acceptor or donor, or is a quencher and is capable of redistributing within the membrane of a biological membrane in response to changes in the potential across the membrane; b) providing the cell with a second reagent that can label the first face or the second face of a biological membrane within the cell; c) detecting light emission from the first reagent or the second reagent. One aspect of this method involves monitoring membrane potential changes in subcellular organelle membranes in a living cells. Another aspect of the invention is the use of certain embodiments of the method for the screening of test chemicals for activity to modulate the activity of a target ion channel. Another aspect of the present invention is a transgenic organism comprising a first reagent that comprises a charged hydrophobic fluorescent molecule, and a second reagent comprising a bioluminescent or naturally fluorescent protein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/967772 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/296 |
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| US 07173137 | Nicolaou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyriacos C. Nicolaou (La Jolla, California); Yun He (San Diego, California); Sacha Ninkovic (Carlsbad, California); Joaquin Pastor (Cobisa, Spain); Frank Roschangar (Glen Allen, Virginia); Francisco Sarabia (Torre de Benagalbon, Spain); Hans Vallberg (Huddinge, Sweden); Dionisios Vourloumis (San Diego, California); Nicolas Winssinger (Strasbourg, France); Zhen Yang (Boston, Massachusetts); Nigel Paul King (Hitchen, United Kingdom); Maurice Raymond Verschoyle Finlay (Macclesfield, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Epothilone A, epothilone B, analogs of epothilone and libraries of epothilone analogs are synthesized. Epothilone A and B are known anticancers agents that derive their anticancer activity by the prevention of mitosis through the induction and stabilization of microtubulin assembly. The analogs of epothilone are novel. Several of the analogs are demonstrated to have a superior cytotoxic activity as compared to epothilone A or epothilone B as demonstrated by their enhanced ability to induce the polymerization and stabilization of microtubules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/732698 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/209 |
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| US 07173152 | Bhattacharya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Apurba Bhattacharya (Corpus Christi, Texas); Victor Suarez (Kingsville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for the reductive acetamidation of an aryl nitro compound by reacting a substituted acid with an aryl nitro compound and adding a catalytic amount of a base with the substituted acid and the aryl nitro compound to form an acetamidation aryl nitro compound. The acetamidation aryl nitro compound is then purified. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208474 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/223 |
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| US 07173247 | Shah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanai S. Shah (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns very fast scintillator materials comprising lutetium iodide doped with Cerium (Lu1-xI3:Cex; LuI3:Ce). The LuI3 scintillator material has surprisingly good characteristics including high light output, high gamma ray stopping efficiency, fast response, low cost, good proportionality, and minimal afterglow that the material is useful for gamma ray spectroscopy, medical imaging, nuclear and high energy physics research, diffraction, non-destructive testing, nuclear treaty verification and safeguards, and geological exploration. The timing resolution of the scintillators of the present invention provide compositions capable of resolving the position of an annihilation event within a portion of a human body cross-section. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/948914 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.30 |
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| US 07174200 | Salerno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Salerno (Palo Alto, California); John P. Mugler, III (Charlottesville, Virginia); James R. Brookeman (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for using hyperpolarized noble gases together with an appropriately designed and optimized magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence to rapidly acquire static or dynamic magnetic resonance images. The strong magnetic resonance signal from hyperpolarized gases, combined with the present magnetic resonance imaging technique, presents the opportunity for the imaging of gases with both high spatial and high temporal resolution. One potential application for such a method is the direct, dynamic visualization of gas flow, which would be extremely useful for characterizing a variety of fluid systems. In the medical field, one such system of substantial importance is the lung. The system and method provides for visualizing regional ventilatory patterns throughout the respiratory cycle with high temporal and high spatial resolution. The low sensitivity to susceptibility artifacts permits good image quality to be obtained in various orientations. Depending on the application, temporal resolution can be traded for anatomical coverage. Such application of dynamic imaging of the lung using hyperpolarized gases will provide unique information on the physiology and pathophysiology of the lung, and has the potential for many clinically-relevant applications. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474571 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/420 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Xu (Darien, Illinois); Michael P. Zach (Darien, Illinois); Zhili Xiao (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of making same. The device or hydrogen detector has a non-conducting substrate with a metal film capable of absorbing hydrogen to form a stable metal hydride. The metal film is being on the threshold of percolation and is connected to mechanism for sensing a change in electrical resistance in response to the presence of hydrogen in contact with the metal film which causes an increase in conductivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001193 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.200 |
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| US 07172371 | Nickelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reva A. Nickelson (Shelley, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin M. Kostelnik (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Paul A. Sloan (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, components, and methods relating to subterranean containment barriers. Laterally adjacent tubular casings having male interlock structures and multiple female interlock structures defining recesses for receiving a male interlock structure are used to create subterranean barriers for containing and treating buried waste and its effluents. The multiple female interlock structures enable the barriers to be varied around subsurface objects and to form barrier sidewalls. The barrier may be used for treating and monitoring a zone of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273962 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/279 |
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| US 07172641 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Allan Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Alan Mark Russell (Ames, Iowa); Joel Lee Harringa (Ames, Iowa); S. Bulent Biner (Clive, Iowa); Iver Anderson (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite of M/AlMgB14 or M alloy/AlMgB14 is synthesized, where M=Al, Ti, W, or Cu. Small particles and/or fibers of AlMgB14 are distributed throughout a metal matrix to strengthen the resulting composite. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/871933 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/244 |
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| US 07172861 | Keener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William K. Keener (Falling Waters, West Virginia); Thomas E. Ward (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting N-glycosylase activity in a sample involves incubating an oligodeoxyribonucleotide substrate containing a deoxyadenosine or deoxyuridine residue with the sample to be tested such that the N-glycosylase, if present, hydrolyzes the deoxyadenosine or deoxyuridine residue to result in an N-glycosylase product having an abasic site. A primer is annealed to the N-glycosylase product, and the primer is extended with a DNA polymerase, such as Taq DNA polymerase, that pauses at abasic sites. The resulting extension products are melted from the N-glycosylase product, allowed to form hairpins due to self-complementarity, and further extended in the presence of labeled precursors to result in labeled products. Extension products synthesized from undigested substrate as template do not result in labeled products. Thus, detection of labeled products results in detection of N-glycosylase activity. Oligodeoxyribonucleotide substrates, primer, and positive controls and a kit for N-glycosylase assay are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944259 |
| 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 435/4 |
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| US 07172868 | McCready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula M. McCready (Tracy, California); Lyndsay Radnedge (San Mateo, California); Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Linda L. Ott (Livermore, California); Thomas R. Slezak (Livermore, California); Thomas A. Kuczmarski (Livermore, California); Elizabeth A Vitalis (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the identification of nucleotide sequences specific to Francisella tularensis that serves as a marker or signature for identification of this bacterium. In addition, forward and reverse primers and hybridization probes derived from these nucleotide sequences that are used in nucleotide detection methods to detect the presence of the bacterium are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630154 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07173247 | Shah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanai S. Shah (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns very fast scintillator materials comprising lutetium iodide doped with Cerium (Lu1-xI3:Cex; LuI3:Ce). The LuI3 scintillator material has surprisingly good characteristics including high light output, high gamma ray stopping efficiency, fast response, low cost, good proportionality, and minimal afterglow that the material is useful for gamma ray spectroscopy, medical imaging, nuclear and high energy physics research, diffraction, non-destructive testing, nuclear treaty verification and safeguards, and geological exploration. The timing resolution of the scintillators of the present invention provide compositions capable of resolving the position of an annihilation event within a portion of a human body cross-section. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/948914 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.30 |
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| US 07173295 | Mar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Mar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Fred J. Zutavern (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Guillermo Loubriel (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved photoconductive semiconductor switch comprises multiple-line optical triggering of multiple, high-current parallel filaments between the switch electrodes. The switch can also have a multi-gap, interdigitated electrode for the generation of additional parallel filaments. Multi-line triggering can increase the switch lifetime at high currents by increasing the number of current filaments and reducing the current density at the contact electrodes in a controlled manner. Furthermore, the improved switch can mitigate the degradation of switching conditions with increased number of firings of the switch. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463058 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/233 |
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| US 07173385 | Caporaso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Caporaso (Livermore, California); Stephen E. Sampayan (Manteca, California); Hugh C. Kirbie (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact linear accelerator having at least one strip-shaped Blumlein module which guides a propagating wavefront between first and second ends and controls the output pulse at the second end. Each Blumlein module has first, second, and third planar conductor strips, with a first dielectric strip between the first and second conductor strips, and a second dielectric strip between the second and third conductor strips. Additionally, the compact linear accelerator includes a high voltage power supply connected to charge the second conductor strip to a high potential, and a switch for switching the high potential in the second conductor strip to at least one of the first and third conductor strips so as to initiate a propagating reverse polarity wavefront(s) in the corresponding dielectric strip(s). |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/036431 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
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| US 07173713 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juncheng Xu (Blacksburg, Virginia); Anbo Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A diaphragm optic sensor comprises a ferrule including a bore having an optical fiber disposed therein and a diaphragm attached to the ferrule, the diaphragm being spaced apart from the ferrule to form a Fabry-Perot cavity. The cavity is formed by creating a pit in the ferrule or in the diaphragm. The components of the sensor are preferably welded together, preferably by laser welding. In some embodiments, the entire ferrule is bonded to the fiber along the entire length of the fiber within the ferrule; in other embodiments, only a portion of the ferrule is welded to the fiber. A partial vacuum is preferably formed in the pit. A small piece of optical fiber with a coefficient of thermal expansion chosen to compensate for mismatches between the main fiber and ferrule may be spliced to the end of the fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/791842 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/480 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173823 | Rinehart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rinehart Motion Systems, LLC (Wilsonville, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence E. Rinehart (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Guillermo L. Romero (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat producing, fluid cooled assembly that includes a housing made of liquid-impermeable material, which defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and an opening. Also included is an electrical package having a set of semiconductor electrical devices supported on a substrate and the second major surface is a heat sink adapted to express heat generated from the electrical apparatus and wherein the second major surface defines a rim that is fit to the opening. Further, the housing is constructed so that as fluid travels from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet it is constrained to flow past the opening thereby placing the fluid in contact with the heat sink. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016603 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07174272 | Blackwood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry G. Blackwood (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Edward L. Reber (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kenneth W. Rohde (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting an element is disclosed and which includes the steps of providing a gamma-ray spectrum which depicts, at least in part, a test region having boundaries, and which has a small amount of the element to be detected; providing a calculation which detects the small amount of the element to be detected; and providing a moving window and performing the calculation within the moving window, and over a range of possible window boundaries within the test region to determine the location of the optimal test region within the gamma-ray spectrum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/304850 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07174434 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Dirk Hoenicke (Ossining, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Brewster, New York); Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow (Mount Kisco, New York); Todd E. Takken (Mount Kisco, New York); Pavlos M. Vranas (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A low latency memory system access is provided in association with a weakly-ordered multiprocessor system. Each processor in the multiprocessor shares resources, and each shared resource has an associated lock within a locking device that provides support for synchronization between the multiple processors in the multiprocessor and the orderly sharing of the resources. A processor only has permission to access a resource when it owns the lock associated with that resource, and an attempt by a processor to own a lock requires only a single load operation, rather than a traditional atomic load followed by store, such that the processor only performs a read operation and the hardware locking device performs a subsequent write operation rather than the processor. A simple prefetching for non-contiguous data structures is also disclosed. A memory line is redefined so that in addition to the normal physical memory data, every line includes a pointer that is large enough to point to any other line in the memory, wherein the pointers to determine which memory line to prefetch rather than some other predictive algorithm. This enables hardware to effectively prefetch memory access patterns that are non-contiguous, but repetitive. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468994 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07172676 | DeMeter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Corporation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward C. DeMeter (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method by which workpieces are bonded to and debond from a manufacturing fixture using a radiation responsive adhesive as a bonding agent. The system includes curing the adhesive agent during loading within seconds, and structurally weakens the adhesive bond during unloading within seconds. During the workpiece loading cycle, an adhesive dispenser deposits radiation responsive adhesive on to a load bearing, light transmittive surface, known as gripper pins. The workpiece is subsequently pushed against the locators, and towards the gripper pins causing the adhesive to interpose between workpiece and gripper pins, curing radiant energy is transmitted through the gripper pins and on to the adhesive to cure adhesive and bond the workpiece to the fixture. Therefore, the bond is structurally weakened or debonded in order to remove the workpiece from the fixture after manufacturing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/635791 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/379.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172682 | Dordick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Dordick (Schenectady, New York); Moo-Yeal Lee (Troy, New York); Aravind Srinivasan (Troy, New York); Bosung Ku (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus of immobilizing a biocatalyst on a microfluidic biochip for conducting reactions in the presence of electroosmotic flow. The biochip includes a polymer on its microfluidic flow surfaces, wherein the polymer includes a first substituent selected from ionic groups of the same polarity or precursors thereof, a second substituent that is a hydrophobic group, and a third substituent comprising an immobilized biocatalyst-or precursor thereof. The biochip can be used to conduct multiple sequential biocatalyzed reactions in the presence of electroosmotic flow. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351976 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172684 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microfabrica Inc. (Van Nuys, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam L. Cohen (Los Angeles, California); Gang Zhang (Monterey Park, California); Qui T. Le (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the invention provide techniques for forming structures (e.g. HARMS-type structures) via an electrochemical extrusion process. Preferred embodiments perform the extrusion processes via depositions through anodeless conformable contact masks that are initially pressed against substrates that are then progressively pulled away or separated as the depositions thicken. A pattern of deposition may vary over the course of deposition by including more complex relative motion between the mask and the substrate elements. Such complex motion may include rotational components or translational motions having components that are not parallel to an axis of separation. More complex structures may be formed by combining the electrochemical extrusion process with the selective deposition, blanket deposition, planarization, etching, and multi-layer operations of a multi-layer electrochemical fabrication process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272254 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172755 | Wagener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth B. Wagener (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy E. Hopkins (Gainesville, Florida); James H. Pawlow (Gainesville, Florida); Fernando J. Gomez (Gainsesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers containing amino acid and/or polypeptide moieties in their backbones or pendant to their backbones are made by metathesis. A method of making an amino acid or polypeptide containing polymer includes the steps of: providing a amino acid, amino alcohol, or polypeptide-containing monomer; forming a reaction mixture by contacting the monomer with an agent capable of catalyzing the polymerization of the monomer into a polymer; and placing the reaction mixture under conditions that result in the formation of the polymer in reaction mixture. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314612 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07172905 | Mrksich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milan Mrksich (Chicago, Illinois); Christian Hodneland (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate comprises a surface, and a plurality of moieties, on at least a portion of the surface. The moieties are moieties of formula: Surf-L—Q—T, where —T comprises a reactant ligand, and Surf- designates where the moiety attaches to the surface. The substrate can be made into a protein chip by the reaction of a reactant ligand and a fusion polypeptide, where the fusion polypeptide includes a capture polypeptide moiety which corresponds to the reactant ligand. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/923760 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173102 | DeGrado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. DeGrado (Moylan, Pennsylvania); Gregory N. Tew (Amherst, Massachusetts); Michael L. Klein (Ocean City, New Jersey); Dahui Liu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jing Yuan (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Facially amphiphilic polymers and articles made therefrom having biocidal surfaces are disclosed. The polymers can inhibit the growth of microorganisms in contact with the surface or in areas adjacent to said biocidal surface. There is also disclosed a method to identify and optimize the facial amphiphilicity of polyamide, polyester, polyurea, polyurethane, polycarbonate and polyphenylene polymers. Utility as a contact disinfectant is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/471028 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173165 | Hannah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida); Joanna Marie-France Cross (Golm, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns chimeric AGP subunit proteins and polynucleotides that encode the chimeric proteins. The subject invention provides for mutant AGP enzymes comprising a chimeric subunit of the invention that are less sensitive to inorganic phosphate than wild type AGP enzymes. In one embodiment, the AGP subunit is a small subunit of a plant AGP enzyme. The subject invention also concerns plants comprising a polynucleotide encoding a chimeric AGP subunit protein of the invention. The subject invention also concerns methods for producing a plant comprising a polynucleotide of the present invention. Plants produced according to the invention comprise AGP enzymes that are less sensitive to inorganic phosphate than wild type AGP enzyme. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/309398 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173245 | Shakouri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, California); Kenneth Pedrotti (Soquel, California); James Christofferson (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for non-contact thermal measurement which are capable of providing sub micron surface thermal characterization of samples, such as active semiconductor devices. The method obtains thermal image information by reflecting a light from a surface of a device in synchronous with the modulation of the thermal excitation and then acquiring and processing an AC-coupled thermoreflective image. The method may be utilized for making measurements using different positioning techniques, such as point measurements, surface scanning, two-dimensional imaging, and combinations thereof. A superresolution method is also described for increasing the resultant image resolution, based on multiple images with fractional pixel offsets, without the need to increase the resolution of the image detectors being utilized. The thermoreflective method provides a spatial resolution better than current infrared cameras, operates within a wide temperature range, and is capable of a thermal resolution on the order of 10 mK°. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/039290 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07173697 | Moosmüller et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Moosmüller (Reno, Nevada); Patrick W. Arnott (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-reciprocal nephelometer is disclosed herein that uses an integrating sphere with attached truncation-reduction tubes to contain the sample volume and to integrate the scattered light. The disclosed nephelometer improves on the imperfect angular response by using an integrating sphere design with forward (backward) truncation angles of ≈1° (≈179°), it reduces sampling losses by employing a substantially straight vertical flow path. In one disclosed embodiment, an illumination assembly consisting of one or multiple diffuse light sources is provided for homogenously illuminating the integrating sphere. An illumination aperture admits light from the light sources, a sensing aperture admits scattered light to an optical detector, and a dark aperture provides a dark background viewing area for the optical detector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259934 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07173749 | Maleki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes use of an opto-electronic feedback in oscillators to suppress phase noise based on the high Q factor of the opto-electronic feedback. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911401 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07174077 | Howard |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard T. Howard (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber for evenly illuminating a target. The optical fiber is coupled to a laser emitting diode and receives laser light. The laser light travels through the fiber optic and exits at an exit end. The exit end has a diffractive optical pattern formed thereon via etching, molding or cutting, to reduce the Gaussian profile present in conventional fiber optic cables. The reduction of the Gaussian provides an even illumination from the fiber optic cable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631220 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07172880 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute for Medical Research (LaJolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qihong Huang (San Diego, California); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Quinn L. Deveraux (San Diego, California); Hiroko Maeda, legal representative (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polypeptides comprising inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family members, such as BmIAP initially derived from Bombyx mori BmN cells, and nucleic acids encoding them, and methods for making and using these compositions, including their use for inhibiting apoptosis. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/041859 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07172896 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanogen, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Cheng (Bejing, China PRC); Lei Wu (San Diego, California); Michael J. Heller (Encinitas, California); Ed Sheldon (Arcadia, California); Jonathan Diver (San Diego, California); James P. O'Connell (Solana Beach, California); Dan Smolko (Jamul, California); Shila Jalali (San Diego, California); David Willoughby (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We have performed separation of bacterial and cancer cells from peripheral human blood in microfabricated electronic chips by dielectrophoresis. The isolated cells were examined by staining the nuclei with fluorescent dye followed by laser induced fluorescence imaging. We have also released DNA and RNA from the isolated cells electronically and detected specific marker sequences by DNA amplification followed by electronic hybridization to immobilized capture probes. Efforts towards the construction of a “laboratory-on-a-chip” system are presented which involves the selection of DNA probes, dyes, reagents and prototyping of the fully integrated portable instrument. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/163835 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07172641 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Allan Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Alan Mark Russell (Ames, Iowa); Joel Lee Harringa (Ames, Iowa); S. Bulent Biner (Clive, Iowa); Iver Anderson (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite of M/AlMgB14 or M alloy/AlMgB14 is synthesized, where M=Al, Ti, W, or Cu. Small particles and/or fibers of AlMgB14 are distributed throughout a metal matrix to strengthen the resulting composite. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/871933 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07173007 | Zaiou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (California, None); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed Zaiou (Saulxures-les-Nancy, France); Richard L. Gallo (San Diego, California); Victor Nizet (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a novel class of cationic cathelin-like peptides and polypeptides that have antimicrobial activity. These peptides are useful for inhibiting microbial infection or growth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/815562 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07174536 | Kothari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suraj C. Kothari (Ames, Iowa); Aravind Krishnaswamy (Redwood City, California); Yogy Namara (Ames, Iowa); Yunbo Deng (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, apparatus, and program product for displaying a program slice diagram, which represents source code. The program slice diagram includes a directed graph that has multiple nodes and arcs connecting the nodes. Nodes can correspond to statements within a selected subroutine of the source code, variable references outside the subroutine, or calls made to other subroutines that are considered part of the program slice. Arcs represent data flow dependencies between the nodes. In another aspect, the invention encompasses a software environment for visualizing source code that includes a code browser, a block-level abstract syntax tree viewer, a program slice browser, and a template viewer. This software visualization environment is integrated, allows cross-referencing between its components, and is coupled with a performance visualization environment. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/781638 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07173571 | Webb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Windmill International, Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire); AntennaSys, Inc. (Pelham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Spencer Webb (Pelham, New Hampshire); David Martin (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the portable antenna positioner described provide a lightweight, collapsible and rugged antenna positioner for use in receiving low earth orbit, geostationary and geosynchronous satellite transmissions. By collapsing the antenna positioner, it may be readily carried by one person or shipped in a compact container. The antenna positioner may be used in remote locations with simple or automated setup and orientation. In order to operate the apparatus, azimuth is adjusted by rotating an antenna in relation to a positioner base and elevation is adjusted by rotating an elevation motor coupled with the antenna. The apparatus may update ephemeris data via satellite, may comprise a built-in receiver and may couple with a second positioner base comprising cryptographic, router or power functionality. The apparatus may comprise storage devices such as a hard drive or flash disk for storing data to and from at least one satellite. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115960 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/766 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07172684 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microfabrica Inc. (Van Nuys, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam L. Cohen (Los Angeles, California); Gang Zhang (Monterey Park, California); Qui T. Le (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the invention provide techniques for forming structures (e.g. HARMS-type structures) via an electrochemical extrusion process. Preferred embodiments perform the extrusion processes via depositions through anodeless conformable contact masks that are initially pressed against substrates that are then progressively pulled away or separated as the depositions thicken. A pattern of deposition may vary over the course of deposition by including more complex relative motion between the mask and the substrate elements. Such complex motion may include rotational components or translational motions having components that are not parallel to an axis of separation. More complex structures may be formed by combining the electrochemical extrusion process with the selective deposition, blanket deposition, planarization, etching, and multi-layer operations of a multi-layer electrochemical fabrication process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272254 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07174015 | Koç et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Çetin K. Koç (Corvallis, Oregon); Alexandre F. Tenca (Corvallis, Oregon); Georgi Todorov (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for Montgomery multiplication process a multiplier operand in k-bit radix-digits, wherein k corresponds to a radix r=2k. A multiplicand operand and a modulus are processed word by word, and then additional bits of the multiplier operand are selected for processing. In a radix r=8 example, the multiplier operand is processed in 3 bit radix-8 digits. A processing kernel is configured to preprocess the modulus and/or the multiplier operand so that at least some values can be obtained from lookup tables. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/134045 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D536375 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Potter (Oak Hill, Virginia); Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia); Hernan A. Borja (Merrifield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 29/214217 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Office supplies; artists and teachers materials D19/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07174230 | Arackaparambil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Arackaparambil (San Carlos, California); Tom Chi (San Jose, California); Billy Chow (Menlo Park, California); Patrick M. D'Souza (Mountain View, California); Parris Hawkins (Pleasanton, California); Charles Huang (Union City, California); Jett Jensen (Campbell, California); Badri N. Krishnamurthy (Mountain View, California); Pradeep M. Kulkarni (Sunnyvale, California); Prakash M. Kulkarni (Sunnyvale, California); Wen Fong Lin (San Jose, California); Shantha Mohan (Palo Alto, California); Bishnu Nandy (Union City, California); Huey-Shin Yuan (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel distributed factory system framework including a novel factory automation lifecycle (200) having lifecycle activities for SW developing and integrating (210), installing and administrating (220), factory modeling (230), manufacturing planning (240), manufacturing controlling, monitoring and tracking (250) and analyzing of manufacturing results (260). The factory lifecycle comprises framework components. The distributed factory system framework also includes application components and building blocks. The framework components are adapted to for managing the application components, while the application components are utilized to provide instructions for managing a process such as a wafer fab. The building blocks are adapted for forming or modifying framework and application components. The distributed factory system framework provides computer implemented methods for integrating processing systems and facilitates process and equipment changes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/084092 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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