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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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| US 07181811 | Tomanek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Tomanek (East Lansing, Michigan); Richard Enbody (East Lansing, Michigan); Young-Kyun Kwon (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to a micro-fastening system and, more particularly, to a mechanical micro-fastening system employing a plurality of mating nanoscale fastening elements (16, 18) and a method of manufacturing a micro-fastening system. The mating nanoscale fastening elements (16, 18) are formed by functionalizing nanotubes having an ordered array of hexagons with pentagons and heptagons at particular heterojunctions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/601540 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc. 024/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07181834 | Tebbe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Tebbe (Melbourne, Florida); Thomas Smyth (Palm Bay, Florida); Terry Provo (Indialantic, Florida); Dara Ruggiero (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for fabricating a textured dielectric substrate (400) for an RF circuit. The method can include the step (104) of selecting a plurality of dielectric substrate materials, each having a distinct combination or set of electrical properties that is different from the combination of electrical properties of every other one of dielectric substrate materials. Selecting a textured substrate pattern (106) which is comprised of at least two types of distinct areas respectively having the distinct sets of electrical properties, with each distinct area dimensioned much smaller than a wavelength at a frequency of interest. Cutting the dielectric substrate materials (202, 204) into a size and shape consistent with the distinct areas of the selected pattern so as to form a plurality of dielectric pieces (206, 208). Arranging the dielectric pieces on a base plate (302) in accordance with the selected pattern to form the textured dielectric substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/694468 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182013 | Hardo |
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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) | Peter J. Hardo (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An umbilical cord retractor assembly and method is provided for retracting an umbilical cord from a torpedo or other vehicle prior to launching the vehicle. A guide arm is utilized to guide a slide member along a predetermined path within the guide arm. The slide is connected through a link to the umbilical cord such that the umbilical cord is pulled to a predetermined position within the launch tube out of the way of the fins, shroud, and propeller of the vehicle. Prior to activation of the retractor assembly, the slide is affixed in position within the guide arm by a lock. A spring under tension applies a force to the slide. A release cord pulls a pin from the slide to release the cord at a desired time, thereby retracting the umbilical cord to the predetermined position within the launch tube. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794541 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.811 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182465 | Fuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Fuchs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daniel Cotting (Zurich, Switzerland); Martin Naef (Glasgow, United Kingdom); Markus Gross (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for imperceptibly embedding structured light patterns in projected color images for display on planar and non-planar surfaces are disclosed. According to one method, an image exposure period for detecting an embedded structured light patterns in a projected image is selected based on analysis of pixel polarities for different pixel intensities of a pixel color. Pixel intensities for the color are varied in the user image so that pixel polarities encode the structured light patterns during image exposure period. The user image is projected with the structured light patterns onto the surface. Depth information is continuously acquired and used to adjust display of the user image. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066629 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182519 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Pal Singh (Cincinnati, Ohio); Larry Jay Sexton (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting bearing failure, wherein the bearing includes an inner race, an outer race, and a plurality of rolling elements between the inner and outer race. The method includes coupling a sensor assembly to the outer race, the sensor assembly including at least one temperature sensor and at least one acoustic sensor, generating a bearing performance model based on an initial signal received from the sensor assembly, receiving a second signal from the sensor assembly, and comparing the second signal to the bearing performance model to predict a bearing failure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/876084 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Bearings 384/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182576 | Bunker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Scott Bunker (Niskayuna, New York); Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A component includes at least one wall having an inner portion and an outer portion. A number of pins extend between the inner and outer portions. The pins define a mesh cooling arrangement with a number of flow channels. The inner portion of the wall defines a number of dimples. A method for forming a number of cooling holes in a component is described. The component has at least one wall with inner and outer portions. The inner portion defines a number of dimples. The method includes centering a drilling tool on a dimple, drilling at least one impingement cooling hole through the inner portion of the wall at the dimple using the drilling tool, and repeating the centering and drilling steps for a number of dimples to drill a number of impingement cooling holes in the inner portion of the wall. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/881506 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/96.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182599 | Stone 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 E. Stone (Wilmette, Illinois); Jeffrey M. Gullett (Louisville, Kentucky); John C. Kuehne (Bisbee, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An inline filter assembly to be used in conjunction with surgical or other procedures, near the patient or chairside in dental operations, that is capable of removing, by filtration, particulate matter from waste-water. The filter assembly is configured to permit easy and rapid changing of filters. The filter assembly also contains a series of stopcocks to permit easy and quick changing of filters while maintaining suction to the patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152340 |
| ART UNIT | 3732 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry 433/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182875 | Joseph et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Jayachandran Joseph (Atlanta, Georgia); Paul A. Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructures and methods of fabricating microstructures are disclosed. One exemplary microstructure, among others, includes a substrate, an overcoat layer disposed upon the substrate, an air-region within at least a portion of the overcoat layer, and a framing material layer engaging at least a portion of the air-region on the inside of the framing material layer and engaging the overcoat layer on the outside of the framing material layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695591 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182929 | Singhal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEI, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Singhal (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ganesh Skandan (Piscataway, New Jersey); Mohit Jain (Sayreville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing nanostructured multi-component or doped oxide particles and the particles produced therein. The process includes the steps of (i) dissolving salts of cations, which are either dopants or components of the final oxide, in an organic solvent; (ii) adding a dispersion of nanoparticles of a single component oxide to the liquid solution; (iii) heating the liquid solution to facilitate diffusion of cations into the nanoparticles; (iv) separating the solids from the liquid solution; and (v) heat treating the solids either to form the desired crystal structure in case of multi-component oxide or to render the homogeneous distribution of dopant cation in the host oxide structure. The process produces nanocrystalline multi-component or doped oxide nanoparticles with a particle size of 5–500 nm, more preferably 20–100 nm; the collection of particles have an average secondary (or aggregate) particle size is in the range of 25–2000 nm, preferably of less than 500 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920898 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183042 | Katti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Paul S. Fechner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Gordon A. Shaw (Plymouth, Minnesota); Daniel S. Reed (Maple Plain, Minnesota); David W. Zou (Minnetonka, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a process of making a magnetoresistive memory device, a mask layout is produced by use of any suitable design tool. The mask layout is laid out in grids having a central grid forming a central section and grids forming bit end sections, and the grids of the bit end sections are rectangles. A mask is made by use of the mask layout, and the mask has stepped bit ends. The mask is used to make a magnetic storage layer having tapered bit ends, to make a magnetic sense layer having tapered bit ends, and to make a non-magnetic layer having tapered bit ends. The non-magnetic layer is between the magnetic sense layer and the magnetic storage layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706067 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183055 | van der Weide et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. van der Weide (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin); John R. Peck (Madison, Wisconsin); Wei Cai (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Radio-frequency (RF) excitation is used for direct detection of hybridization events at microelectrodes with surface-attached DNA oligomers. A homodyne reflectometer operates on a high frequency carrier to detect the presence of a low-frequency modulation signal. Without non-linearities in an interface, the modulation signal is not impressed upon the carrier signal. As such, the reflectometer can sensitively measure changes in dielectric properties without interference from other sources of capacitance/resistance unrelated to the reaction at the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/694028 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183089 | Keasling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Jack D. Newman (Berkeley, California); Douglas J. Pitera (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of producing an isoprenoid or an isoprenoid precursor in a genetically modified host cell. The methods generally involve modulating the level of hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) in the cell, such that the level of HMG-CoA is not toxic to the cell and/or does not substantially inhibit cell growth, but is maintained at a level that provides for high-level production of mevalonate, IPP, and other downstream products of an isoprenoid or isoprenoid pathway, e.g., polyprenyl diphosphates and isoprenoid compounds. The present invention further provides genetically modified host cells that are suitable for use in a subject method. The present invention further provides recombinant nucleic acid constructs for use in generating a subject genetically modified host cell, including recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising nucleotide sequences encoding one or more mevalonate pathway enzymes, and recombinant vectors (e.g., recombinant expression vectors) comprising same. The present invention further provides methods for identifying nucleic acids that encode HMG-CoA reductase (HMGR) variants that provide for relief of HMG-CoA accumulation-induced toxicity. The present invention further provides methods for identifying agents that reduce intracellular accumulation of HMG-CoA. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134705 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183099 | Taga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michiko E. Taga (Princeton, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Douglas T. McKenzie (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of the lsr operon, the genes therein, and the polypeptides encoded by these genes. The present invention also includes strains with altered expression levels of the polypeptides encoded by the genes and the lsr operon relative to wild type cells. In some embodiments, the strains express a transporter that transports an autoinducer into the cell at a level higher than that of wild type cells. The present invention also includes methods for identifying compounds that modulate the transport of the autoinducer into cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284084 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183120 | Berg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lonny Berg (Elk River, Minnesota); Daniel Baseman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Wei (David) DZ Zou (Minnetonka, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a magnetoresistive device having at least one active region, which may be formed into a magnetic memory bit, sensor element and/or other device, is provided. In forming the magnetoresistive device, a magnetoresistive stack, such as a giant magnetoresistive stack, is formed over a substrate. In addition, a substantially antireflective cap layer formed from titanium nitride, aluminum nitride, and/or other substantially antireflective material, as opposed to the materials commonly used to form a cap layer, is formed over the magnetoresistive stack. The substantially antireflective cap layer is usable as an etch stop for later processing in forming the magnetic memory bit, sensor element and/or other device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284922 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183376 | Punnonen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxygen, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juha Punnonen (Belmont, California); Alexandra Lazetic (San Jose, California); Steven R. Leong (Berkeley, California); Chia-Chun Chang (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded therefrom having advantageous properties, including an ability of the polypeptides to preferentially bind a CD28 or CTLA-4 receptor at a level greater or less than the ability of human B7-1 to bind CD28 or CTLA-4, or to induce or inhibit altered level of T cell proliferation response greater compared to that generated by human B7-1. The polypeptides and polynucleotides of the invention are useful in therapeutic and prophylactic treatment methods, gene therapy applications, and vaccines. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032214 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183649 | Londergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genus, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana R. Londergan (Campbell, California); Thomas E. Seidel (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite film comprised of three layers is formed by ALD on a substrate with a substrate interface surface. A first layer is coupled to the substrate interface surface. The first layer provides adhesion to the substrate interface surface and initiation of layer by layer ALD growth. A second layer is positioned between the first and third layers and provides a conducting diffusion barrier between the substrate and subsequent overlaying film. A third layer has a surface that is configured to provide adhesion and a texture template in preparation for a subsequent overlaying film. The composite engineered barrier structures are applied to interconnect, capacitor and transistor applications. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/122643 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/753 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183965 | Cho |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang M. Cho (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A moving radar generates a search mode synthetic aperture image of a patch from a sequence of periodic pulse returns having one or more missing pulses. An azimuth and range interpolation generates an interpolated sequence having samples oriented in range and azimuth frequency with uniform spacing. Range compression is performed using an IFFT. Azimuth deskew, an autofocus and pulse restore generates a focused and restored sequence. Azimuth reskew, and gain phase equalization generates an equalized sequence. A first linear phase is summed to the equalized sequence for applying a fractional sample shift in range frequency. A range FFT and Along Track IFFT is further applied to obtain a domain changed sequence. A second linear phase is summed to the domain changed sequence. A CT FFT of the result generates an image of the patch. The azimuth interpolation and range interpolation also include a Stolt interpolation after a matched filter function. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294084 |
| 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 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183970 | Houlberg 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) | Christian L. Houlberg (Ventura, California); Gary Glazner (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Computer software for testing the performance a Joint Advanced Missile Instrumentation Time-Space-Position Information Unit (JTU). The computer software is utilized for Functional, Acceptance and Qualification test of the JTU. The software has the capability of bench test the JTU and field testing the JTU to verify and document functionality of the JTU prior to use of the JTU in an operational environment. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053757 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183991 | Bhattacharyya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun K. Bhattacharyya (El Segundo, California); James Sor (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna horn having multiple flared sections with their slopes and lengths selected to enhance desirable electromagnetic modes and to suppress undesirable modes at the horn aperture, thereby increasing the aperture efficiency and antenna gain. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/003901 |
| 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 343/786 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184300 | Korkin, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoli Korkin, legal representative (Gilbert, Arizona); Bradley N. Engel (Chandler, Arizona); Nicholas D. Rizzo (Gilbert, Arizona); Mark F. Deherrera (Tempe, Arizona); Jason Allen Janesky (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to switch a scalable magnetoresistive memory cell including the steps of providing a magnetoresistive memory device sandwiched between a word line and a digit line so that current waveforms can be applied to the word and digit lines at various times to cause a magnetic field flux to rotate the effective magnetic moment vector of the device by approximately 180°. The magnetoresistive memory device includes N ferromagnetic layers that are anti-ferromagnetically coupled. N can be adjusted to change the magnetic switching volume of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339378 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184413 | Beyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nokia Inc. (Espoo, Finland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Beyer (Los Altos, California); J. Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves (San Mateo, California); Chane L. Fullmer (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication protocol that provides link-level and media access control (MAC) level functions for wireless (e.g., ad-hoc) networks and is robust to mobility or other dynamics, and for scaling to dense networks. In a mobile or otherwise dynamic network, any control-packet collisions will be only temporary and fair. In a dense network, the network performance degrades gracefully, ensuring that only a certain percentage of the common channel is consumed with control packets. The integrated protocol allows packets (e.g., data scheduling control packets) to be scheduled in a collision-free and predictable manner (known to all neighbors), multicast packets can be reliably scheduled, as well as streams of delay- or delay-jitter-sensitive traffic. Further, using an optional network code, the scheduling of control packets can appear to observers to be randomized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 10, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/248738 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184461 | Mehrnia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRI Research and Development Corp. (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alireza Mehrnia (Los Angeles, California); Kaveh Shakeri (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention includes a control circuit, an increment register, and an accumulator. The control circuit generates a channel enable signal based on control information from a processor at a first clock signal having a first clock frequency. The channel enable signal selects a channel for a satellite in a global positioning system (GPS). The channel operates at a coarse/acquisition (C/A) clock signal having a second clock frequency. The increment register stores an increment value for the selected channel at the first clock signal. The accumulator generates a pseudo-random noise (PN) clock signal to a PN generator using the increment value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/805535 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184493 | Pringle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Charles Pringle (Van Nuys, California); Joanna S. Quan (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a real-time pulse sorting apparatus of a preprocessor in a pulsed radiation detection system. The apparatus, responsive to digital signals generated by a system receiver, uses the instantaneous frequency as the address input to store discrete data groups in main memory. Each data group, comprising the digital data corresponding to a single analog-to-digital converter sample point, includes the RF signal amplitude, inter-channel phase difference, instantaneous frequency as well as a unique pulse number generated by the pulse sorting apparatus. The present invention further includes a TOA memory for storing the time-of-arrival of each pulse at an address given by the pulse number. The main memory, organized in the form of a frequency-based histogram, together with the TOA memory, linked to the main memory by means of the pulse number pointer, sorts and records RF signal data with minimal processor control and intervention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270864 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184937 | Su 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) | Wei Su (Englishtown, New Jersey); John A. Kosinski (Wall Township, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Proportional-delayed zero-crossing frequency-drift estimator devices are provided. Given N-number of time samples, the current zero-crossing time estimation technique uses only two zero-crossing time samples for repetition-rate estimation. The term “zero-crossing point” refers to the point where a sinusoidal waveform varies from a positive to a negative value and crosses the zero value in the process. The proportional-delayed zero-crossing frequency-drift estimator devices employ four zero-crossing time samples by utilizing both proportional zero-crossing points for current information and delayed zero-crossing points for past information so that the noises in the time samples will be smoothed out making a less noisy estimation. The proportional-delayed zero-crossing frequency-drift estimators are composed of a hysteretic nonlinear converter, a zero-crossing time-difference counter, a group of shift registers and adders, a repetition-rate algorithm, a reciprocal operator and a means for differentiation operation. A number of different embodiments are provided, but all embodiments include a hysteretic nonlinear converter which enhances the zero-crossing features and blocks the signal random noise so that the zero-crossing point is measured more accurately. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183219 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce R. Stevens (Gainesville, Florida); James P. Cuda (Gainesville, Florida); Lewis S. Long (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides materials and methods for pest control. The subject invention provides pesticidal compositions that contain one or more compounds that interact with organic solute transporter/ligand-gated ion channel multifunction polypeptides in the pest, and/or alter amino acid metabolic pathways, and/or alter ionic homeostasis in the pest. Upon exposure to a target pest, these compositions either compromise pest growth and/or cause the death of the pest. In a preferred embodiment, the compositions of the subject invention contain one or more amino acids and/or amino acid analogs. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the methods of the subject invention involve exposing a pest to a composition that comprises methionine or leucine, or an analog thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/298974 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/132.100 |
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| US 07182933 | Goetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tennessee Research Corporation (Knoxville, Tennessee); The Board of Trustess of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Goetz (Athens, Ohio); Mohammad F. Kiani (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a biomolecular carrier of pharmaceuticals, comprising: a biomolecule carrier bearing molecules that bind to a cellular adhesion molecule expressed on endothelial cell; and a pharmaceutical. The present invention also provides a method of treating a pathophysiological state in an individual in need of such treatment, comprising the steps of: irradiating a target tissue or organ in said individual; and administering to said individual the biomolecular carrier disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975899 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krys Bankiewicz (Piedmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of increasing the volume of distribution of a nucleic acid encoding a therapeutic agent in a tissue in a subject during localized delivery, comprising administering to the tissue in the subject a nucleic acid encoding a therapeutic agent and a facilitating agent, whereby the inclusion of the facilitating agent increases the volume of distribution of the nucleic acid encoding a therapeutic agent in the tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/132681 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07183049 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annie Yang (Boston, Massachusetts); Frank McKeon (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes the cloning of p63, a gene at chromosome 3q27-29, that bears homology to the tumor suppressor p53. The p63 gene encodes at least six different isotypes. p63 was detected in a variety of human and mouse tissue and demonstrates remarkably divergent activities, such as the ability to transactivate p53 reporter genes and induce apoptosis. Isotopes of p63 lacking a transactivation domain act as dominant negatives towards the transactivation by p53 and p63. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/174493 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07183054 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Jacob R. LaPorte (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chengguo Xing (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and systems for the identification of a biological target of a chemical compound, such as saframycin A, known to bind a polynucleotide. The invention also provides methods of screening chemical compounds for those which act in a similar method and may be more potent than known compounds. The inventive methods are particularly useful in the high-throughput screening of chemical compounds that target GAPDH. The invention also provides kits useful in the practice of the inventive method. Compounds identified by inventive methods are also included in the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453243 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07183065 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Braun (Tarzana, California); Offer Cohavy (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microbial UC pANCA antigens. The invention provides methods of diagnosing ulcerative colitis (UC) and methods of inducing tolerance in a pANCA-positive patient with UC using a histone H1-like antigen. The invention further provides methods of diagnosing UC and methods of inducing tolerance in a pANCA-positive patient with UC using a porin antigen. Methods of diagnosing UC and methods of inducing tolerance in a pANCA-positive patient with UC using a Bacteroides antigen also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229567 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
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| US 07183071 | Duesbery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Duesbery (Grand Rapids, Michigan); Craig Webb (Rockford, Michigan); Stephen Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); George Vande Woude (Ada, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro and ex vivo methods of screening for modulators, homologues, and mimetics of lethal factor mitogen activated protein kinase kinase (MAPKK) protease activity, as well as methods of treating cancer by administering LF to transformed cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326985 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 07183075 | Mount et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Mount (Brentwood, Tennessee); Eric Delpire (Nashville, Tennessee); Gerardo Gamba (Mexico City, Mexico); Alfred L. George, Jr. (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | KCC2, KCC3 and KCC4 potassium-chloride cotransporter proteins, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. Recombinant host cells, recombinant nucleic acids and recombinant proteins are also disclosed, along with methods of producing each. Isolated and purified antibodies to KCC2, KCC3 and KCC4 homologs, and methods of producing the same, are also disclosed. KCC2, KCC3 and KCC4 gene products have biological activity in potassium-chloride cotransport. Thus, therapeutic methods involving this activity are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/835976 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07183082 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093798 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07183116 | Aebersold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute For Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); Applera Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolf H. Aebersold (Mercer Island, Washington); Huilin Zhou (San Diego, California); Beate Rist (Giesen, Germany); George J. Vella (Medway, Massachusetts); Subhasish Purkayastha (Acton, Massachusetts); Sasi Pillai (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for labeling a molecule by contacting a sample molecule with a solid support coupled to a chemical group comprising a cleavable functional group, one or more functional groups, and a reactive group for the sample molecule, under conditions allowing the sample molecule to covalently bind to the reactive group; and cleaving the cleavable functional group, thereby releasing the sample molecule comprising the one or more functional groups, which can be a tag. The invention also provides a solid support covalently coupled to a chemical group comprising a cleavable functional group, a mass spectrometry tag and a reactive group for covalently attaching a sample molecule, wherein the cleavable functional group, the tag and the reactive group are positioned relative to each other to allow transfer of the tag to the sample molecule upon cleavage of the cleavable functional group. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/858198 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07183235 | Lovell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Stanley Lovell (Arvada, Colorado); Thomas E. Broderick (Arvada, Colorado); Craig S. Turchi (Lakewood, Colorado); Amanda K. Kimball (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a sorbent comprising a disordered polyvalent metal oxide on the surface of an inert substrate. The substrate can be a layered silicate, such as vermiculite, an aluminosilicate such as montmorillonite, or a nonlayered silicate such as a zeolite. The sorbent removes ionic contaminants, such as arsenic, from process streams. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600117 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/410 |
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| US 07183254 | DePaoli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amgen, Inc. (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander M. DePaoli (Santa Barbara, California); Simeon I. Taylor (Skillman, New Jersey); Elif A. Oral (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Abhimanyu Garg (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Leptin, leptin analogs, and leptin derivatives are used to treat patients with lipoatrophy. Leptin is effective against conditions of lipoatrophy for both genetic and acquired forms of the disease. A therapeutically effective amount of leptin can be administered in a variety of ways, including subcutaneously and using gene therapy methods. Methods of the present invention contemplate administration of leptin, leptin analogs, and leptin derivatives to patients having a leptin level of approximately 4 ng/ml or less before treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/623189 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bela Anand-Apte (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides or proteins comprising tissue inhibitor of mettaloproteinases-3 (TIMP3) or variants of TIMP3 can be used to substantially inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) binding to VEGF recptor-2 (VEGFR2/KDR/Flk-1)) without substantially inhibiting VEGF binding to VEGF receptor 1 (VEGFR1/Flt-1). |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804937 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07183262 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan-Yuan Li (Durham, North Carolina); Qian Huang (Shanghai, China PRC); Mark W. Dewhirst (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling in vivo heat-inducible gene expression for provision of therapeutic polypeptide. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding a therapeutic polypeptide, wherein the polynucleotide is operatively linked to a heat-inducible promoter; (b) administering the construct to a warm-blooded vertebrate at a site at or near the tumor; and (c) applying heat to the site at or near the tumor to express the therapeutic polypeptide, whereby anti-tumor activity is observed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172399 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07183268 | Zemlicka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiri Zemlicka (Warren, Michigan); John C. Drach (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xinchao Chen (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds which are active against viruses have the following Formulas: wherein B is 2-aminopurine-9-yl, which may be unsubstituted or substituted in the 6 position with NHR1, OR2, or SR3; R1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, and C4-18 cycloalkyl, any of which may be optionally substituted with one or more members of the group consisting of hydroxy, halo, amino, acyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl and aryl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of C2-18 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, and cycloalkyl, any of which may be branched or unbranched and optionally substituted with one or more members of the group consisting of hydroxy, halo, amino, acyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl, and aryl; and R3 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, and cycloalkyl, any of which may be branched or unbranched and optionally substituted with one or more members of the group consisting of hydroxy, halo, amino, acyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl and aryl. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942314 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/81 |
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| US 07183286 | Dykstra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama); Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine C. Dykstra (Auburn, Alabama); Maurice Daniel Givens (Auburn, Alabama); David A. Stringfellow (Auburn, Alabama); Kenny Brock (Auburn, Alabama); David W. Boykin (Atlanta, Georgia); Arvid Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); W. David Wilson (Atlanta, Georgia); Richard R. Tidwell (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Chad F. Stephens (Villa Roca, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds and methods that are useful in treating members of the Flaviviridae family of viruses. Compounds of the present invention will have a structure according to Formulas (I)–(VI) as recited throughout the application. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796657 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/269 |
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| US 07183313 | Makriyannis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Makriyannis (Mystic, Connecticut); Dai Lu (Storrs, Connecticut); Xin-Zhong Lai (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel tricyclic cannabinoid compounds are presented. Some of these compounds exhibit fluorescence properties. The fluorescent cannabinoid compounds are typically endogenously fluorescent. Some of these compounds, when administered in a therapeutically effective amount to an individual or animal, result in a sufficiently high level of that compound in the individual or animal to cause a physiological response. The physiological response useful to treat a number of physiological conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647544 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/455 |
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| US 07183377 | Rubin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Rubin (Rockville, Maryland); Paul Finch (Croton, New York); Stuart Aaronson (New York, New York); Xi He (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel, secreted protein that contains a region homologous to ligand binding domain of a cytokine receptor. This protein, called Frizzled-related protein (FRP), antagonizes the signaling of the Wnt family of cytokines. Extracellular signaling molecules such as the Wnt family members have essential roles as inducers of cellular proliferation, migration, differentiation, and tissue morphogenesis. As Wnt molecules are known to participate in the aberrant growth associated with neoplasia, Wnt antagonists such as FRP are valuable tools which both for understanding oncogenesis and for the design of new cancer therapies. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138434 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07183383 | Schnellmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricky Gene Schnellmann (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); Paul A. Nony (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of recovering cellular functions in cells following injury, comprising the step of contacting said cells with collagen IV or a natural or mutated fragment thereof. Further provided is a pharmaceutical composition, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of collagen IV or a natural or mutated fragment thereof and a topically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393193 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/356 |
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| US 07183388 | Denardo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sally Joan Denardo (El Macero, California); Michelle Denise Winthrop (Woodland, California); Gerald Louis Denardo (El Macero, California); Cheng-Yi Xiong (Elk Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel antibodies that specifically bind to the cancer antigen MUC-1. The antibodies are useful targeting moieties for specifically directing imaging agents and various therapeutic moieties to a cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435614 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 07183393 | Saunders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Saunders (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Merton Bernfield (Boston, Massachusetts); Masato Kato (Hawthorne, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified mammalian proteoglycan, and genetic information encoding such proteoglycans, having a core polypetide molecular weight of about 30 kD to about 35 kD, and comprising a hydrophilic amino terminal extracellular region, a hydrophilic carboxy terminal cytoplasmic region, a transmembrane hydrophobic region between said cytoplasmic and extracellular regions, a protease susceptible cleavage sequence extracellularly adjacent the transmembrane region of the peptide, and at least one glycosylation site for attachment of a heparan sulfate chain to said extracellular region, said glycosylation site comprising a heparan sulfate attachment sequence represented by a formula Xac-Z-Ser-Gly-Ser-Gly (SEQ ID NO: 44), where Xac represents an amino acid residue having an acidic sidechain, and Z represents from 1 to 10 amino acid residues. Additional peptides having this glycosylation site and genetic information useful for preparing a number of variations based on this glycosylation site are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/776989 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/395 |
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| US 07183401 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yinhua Yu (Pearland, Texas); Fengji Xu (Houston, Texas); Robert C. Bast, Jr. (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods comprising a novel tumor suppressor gene, designated NOEY2, that is expressed in normal ovarian and breast surface epithelial cells but consistently absent or down-regulated in ovarian and breast cancer cells. Disclosed are polynucleotide compositions comprising a NOEY2 gene from mammalian sources, and polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acid sequences. Also disclosed are methods for preparing NOEY2 polypeptides, transformed host cells, and antibodies reactive with NOEY2 polypeptides. In certain embodiments, the invention describes methods for diagnosing and treating cancers, as well as methods for identifying NOEY2-related polynucleotide and polypeptide compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 10/166325 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07183432 | Kraus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Jaehoon Bae (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing diacetylenic amides is described. The key steps of the invention include the reaction of an aldehyde with the monoanion of a diacetylene and the reductive removal of a propargylic alcohol. The invention offers the first known method of synthesizing diacetylenic amides that are naturally isolated from Echinacea through a direct and flexible route. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092333 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/204 |
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| US 07184814 | Lang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint and assessing cartilage loss, particularly in a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. The amount of cartilage tissue that has been lost, for example as a result of arthritis, can be estimated. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/953373 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/416 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Fuchs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daniel Cotting (Zurich, Switzerland); Martin Naef (Glasgow, United Kingdom); Markus Gross (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for imperceptibly embedding structured light patterns in projected color images for display on planar and non-planar surfaces are disclosed. According to one method, an image exposure period for detecting an embedded structured light patterns in a projected image is selected based on analysis of pixel polarities for different pixel intensities of a pixel color. Pixel intensities for the color are varied in the user image so that pixel polarities encode the structured light patterns during image exposure period. The user image is projected with the structured light patterns onto the surface. Depth information is continuously acquired and used to adjust display of the user image. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066629 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182602 | Lakin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Lakin (Johnson, Vermont); Paul L. Penar (Shelburne, Vermont); Scott A. Stevens (Erie, Pennsylvania); Bruce I. Tranmer (S. Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A whole-body mathematical model (10) for simulating intracranial pressure dynamics. In one embodiment, model (10) includes 17 interacting compartments, of which nine lie entirely outside of intracranial vault (14). Compartments (F) and (T) are defined to distinguish ventricular from extraventricular CSF. The vasculature of the intracranial system within cranial vault (14) is also subdivided into five compartments (A, C, P, V, and S, respectively) representing the intracranial arteries, capillaries, choroid plexus, veins, and venous sinus. The body's extracranial systemic vasculature is divided into six compartments (I, J, O, Z, D, and X, respectively) representing the arteries, capillaries, and veins of the central body and the lower body. Compartments (G) and (B) include tissue and the associated interstitial fluid in the intracranial and lower regions. Compartment (Y) is a composite involving the tissues, organs, and pulmonary circulation of the central body and compartment (M) represents the external environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658638 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182812 | Sunkara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Shashank Sharma (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The bulk synthesis of highly crystalline noncatalytic low melting metals such as β-gallium oxide tubes, nanowires, and nanopaintbrushes is accomplished using molten gallium and microwave plasma containing a mixture of monoatomic oxygen and hydrogen. Gallium oxide nanowires were 20–100 nm thick and tens to hundreds of microns long. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed the nanowires to be highly crystalline and devoid of any structural defects. Results showed that multiple nucleation and growth of gallium oxide nanostructures can occur directly out of molten gallium exposed to appropriate composition of hydrogen and oxygen in the gas phase. These gallium oxide nanostructures are of particular interest for opto-electronic devices and catalytic applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/664072 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182875 | Joseph et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Jayachandran Joseph (Atlanta, Georgia); Paul A. Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructures and methods of fabricating microstructures are disclosed. One exemplary microstructure, among others, includes a substrate, an overcoat layer disposed upon the substrate, an air-region within at least a portion of the overcoat layer, and a framing material layer engaging at least a portion of the air-region on the inside of the framing material layer and engaging the overcoat layer on the outside of the framing material layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695591 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182982 | Furtak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Furtak (Golden, Colorado); Youngwoo Yi (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device that acts as an optical switch to control the intensity of a light beam through the action of a second control beam. This behavior is achieved through photoinduced anisotropy that develops in a monomolecular layer coating the inside surfaces of a liquid crystal cell. One of the surfaces is permanently aligned prior to assembly by illuminating the surface with polarized light in the presence of oxygen. The other surface retains reversible behavior, adapting anisotropy according to the orientation of the polarization of the control beam. Accordingly, an optically controlled liquid crystal light valve is provided that does not require contact-rubbing methods in order to permanently align one of the layers coating an inside surface of the cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225918 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183017 | Taft, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hoku Scientific, Inc. - A Delaware Corp. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Milton Taft, III (Honolulu, Hawaii); Matthew Robert Kurano (Honolulu, Hawaii); Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin films of inexpensive composite polymer electrolyte membranes containing inorganic cation exchange materials including various clay based fillers are fabricated by solution casting. The membranes exhibit higher ion exchange capacity, proton conductivity and/or lower gas crossover. In general, the composite membranes exhibit excellent physicochemical properties and superior fuel cell performance in hydrogen oxygen fuel cells. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103925 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183089 | Keasling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Jack D. Newman (Berkeley, California); Douglas J. Pitera (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of producing an isoprenoid or an isoprenoid precursor in a genetically modified host cell. The methods generally involve modulating the level of hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) in the cell, such that the level of HMG-CoA is not toxic to the cell and/or does not substantially inhibit cell growth, but is maintained at a level that provides for high-level production of mevalonate, IPP, and other downstream products of an isoprenoid or isoprenoid pathway, e.g., polyprenyl diphosphates and isoprenoid compounds. The present invention further provides genetically modified host cells that are suitable for use in a subject method. The present invention further provides recombinant nucleic acid constructs for use in generating a subject genetically modified host cell, including recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising nucleotide sequences encoding one or more mevalonate pathway enzymes, and recombinant vectors (e.g., recombinant expression vectors) comprising same. The present invention further provides methods for identifying nucleic acids that encode HMG-CoA reductase (HMGR) variants that provide for relief of HMG-CoA accumulation-induced toxicity. The present invention further provides methods for identifying agents that reduce intracellular accumulation of HMG-CoA. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134705 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183098 | Schardl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Schardl (Lexington, Kentucky); Heather H. Wilkinson (College Station, Texas); Martin J. Spiering (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Loline alkaloids (LA), which are 1-aminopyrrolizidines with an oxygen bridge, are produced by Epichloë (anamorph=Neotyphodium) species, endophytes of grasses. LA are insecticidal, thus helping protect host plants from insect herbivory. Suppression subtractive hybridization PCR was used to isolate transcripts up-regulated during loline alkaloid production in cultures of Neotyphodium uncinatum. Subtracted cDNAs were cloned, and a λ-phage cDNA library from an LA-expressing N. uncinatum culture was screened with subtracted cDNA. In BLAST searches, several cDNAs identified had sequence similarities to aspartate kinases, and another with O-acetylhomoserine-(thiol)lyase. Differential expression of these two genes in LA-producing cultures of N. uncinatum was confirmed, and in a survey of 23 isolates from 21 Neotyphodium and Epichloë species these two genes strictly correlated with LA production. Two nucleic acid molecules encoding two loline alkaloid gene clusters have been identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601700 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183099 | Taga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michiko E. Taga (Princeton, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Douglas T. McKenzie (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of the lsr operon, the genes therein, and the polypeptides encoded by these genes. The present invention also includes strains with altered expression levels of the polypeptides encoded by the genes and the lsr operon relative to wild type cells. In some embodiments, the strains express a transporter that transports an autoinducer into the cell at a level higher than that of wild type cells. The present invention also includes methods for identifying compounds that modulate the transport of the autoinducer into cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284084 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183228 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Nathan R. Franklin (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Patterned growth of arrays of SWNTs is achieved at the full-wafer scale. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, the chemistry of CH4 CVD has been discovered to be sensitive to the concentration of H2, leading to three regimes of growth conditions. The three regimes are identified for particular growth conditions and a regime that facilitates carbon nanotube growth while inhibiting pyrolysis is identified and used during CVD growth of the nanotubes. This approach is also useful for CVD synthesis of other nanomaterials. In this manner, patterned growth of carbon nanotubes is facilitated while inhibiting undesirable conditions, making nanotube orientation control and device integration possible on a large scale. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285311 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence R. Sita (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of producing a polyolefin composition comprising contacting a metallocene pre-catalyst with a substoichiometric amount of a co-catalyst; adding a first olefin monomer; and polymerizing the first monomer for a time sufficient to form the polyolefin. The method allows for the use of a minimum amount of activating co-catalyst, and allows for the production of stereoregular and non-stereoregular polyolefins. The use of configurationally stable metallocene pre-catalysts allows for the production of monomodal isotactic polyolefins having narrow polydispersity. The use of configurationally unstable metallocene pre-catalysts allows for the production of monomodal atactic polyolefins having narrow polydispersity. The method of the present invention optionally further comprises contacting the polyolefin with a second amount of said co-catalyst; adding a second olefin monomer; polymerizing said second olefin monomer to form a block-polyolefin composition. Also disclosed are monomodal diblock copolymer compositions made according to the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740826 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183395 | Mauro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent P. Mauro (San Diego, California); Gerald M. Edelman (La Jolla, California); Stephen A. Chappell (Del Mar, California); Frederick S. Jones (Cardiff, California); Geoffrey Owens (San Diego, California); Robyn Meech (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of identifying oligonucleotides having transcriptional or translational activity by integrating the oligonucleotide into a eukaryotic cell genome such that the oligonucleotide is operatively linked to an expressible polynucleotide, and detecting a change in expression of the expressible polynucleotide due to the operatively linked oligonucleotide. Also provided are vectors useful for identifying an oligonucleotide having transcriptional or translational regulatory activity according to a method of the invention. In addition, isolated synthetic transcriptional or translational regulatory elements identified according to a method of the invention are provided, as are kits, which contain a vector useful for identifying a transcriptional or translational regulatory element, or an isolated synthetic transcriptional or translational regulatory element or plurality of such elements. Also provided are isolated transcriptional regulatory elements. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/182329 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184071 | Chellappa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramalingam Chellappa (Potomac, Maryland); Amit K. Roy Chowdhury (College Park, Maryland); Sridhar Srinivasan (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In a novel method of 3D modeling of an object from a video sequence using an SfM algorithm and a generic object model, the generic model is incorporated after the SfM algorithm generates a 3D estimate of the object model purely and directly from the input video sequence. An optimization framework provides for comparison of the local trends of the 3D estimate and the generic model so that the errors in the 3D estimate are corrected. The 3D estimate is obtained by fusing intermediate 3D reconstructions of pairs of frames of the video sequence after computing the uncertainty of the two frame solutions. The quality of the fusion algorithm is tracked using a rate-distortion function. In order to combine the generic model with the 3D estimate, an energy function minimization procedure is applied to the 3D estimate. The optimization is performed using a Metropolis-Hasting sampling strategy. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644817 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184641 | Karalis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aristeidis Karalis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kerwyn C. Huang (Princeton, New Jersey); Mihai Ibanescu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Elefterios Lidorikis (Arlington, Massachusetts); Evan Reed (Pine Island, Minnesota); Marin Soljacic (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of surface plasmon waveguides is presented. The basis of these structures is the presence of surface plasmon modes, supported on the interfaces between the dielectric regions and the flat unpatterned surface of a bulk metallic substrate. The waveguides discussed here are promising to have significant applications in the field of nanophotonics by being able to simultaneously shrink length, time and energy scales, allowing for easy coupling over their entire bandwidth of operation, and exhibiting minimal absorption losses limited only by the intrinsic loss of the metallic substrate. These principles can be used for many frequency regimes (from GHz and lower, all the way to optical). |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123424 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07182074 | Redon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Detroit Diesel Corporation (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabien Georges Redon (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Jared Jobey Keyes (Madison Heights, Michigan); Michael A. Balnaves (Canton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A manifold assembly for an internal combustion engine. The manifold assembly includes a manifold body and first and second housings. The manifold body includes an EGR cooler cavity, an oil cooler cavity, and an air intake manifold. The first housing is adapted to provide a fluid to the EGR and oil cooler cavities. The second housings is adapted to receive the fluid from the EGR and the oil cooler cavities. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209071 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/568.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182170 | Brett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seismic Recovery, LLC (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Ford Brett (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Robert Victor Westermark (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Joey Earl Turner, Jr. (Claremore, Oklahoma); Samuel Scott Lovin (Beggs, Oklahoma); Jack Howard Cole (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Will Myers (Rogers, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gerotor and bearing apparatus for a whirling mass orbital vibrator which generates vibration in a borehole. The apparatus includes a gerotor with an inner gear rotated by a shaft having one less lobe than an outer gear. A whirling mass is attached to the shaft. At least one bearing is attached to the shaft so that the bearing engages at least one sleeve. A mechanism is provided to rotate the inner gear, the mass and the bearing in a selected rotational direction in order to cause the mass, the inner gear, and the bearing to backwards whirl in an opposite rotational direction. The backwards whirling mass creates seismic vibrations. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697398 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182371 | Renzi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald F. Renzi (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A manifold for connecting external capillaries to the inlet and/or outlet ports of a microfluidic device for high pressure applications is provided. The fluid connector for coupling at least one fluid conduit to a corresponding port of a substrate that includes: (i) a manifold comprising one or more channels extending therethrough wherein each channel is at least partially threaded, (ii) one or more threaded ferrules each defining a bore extending therethrough with each ferrule supporting a fluid conduit wherein each ferrule is threaded into a channel of the manifold, (iii) a substrate having one or more ports on its upper surface wherein the substrate is positioned below the manifold so that the one or more ports is aligned with the one or more channels of the manifold, and (iv) device to apply an axial compressive force to the substrate to couple the one or more ports of the substrate to a corresponding proximal end of a fluid conduit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999828 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/124.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183082 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093798 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183106 | Huberman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eliezer Huberman (Chicago, Illinois); Mekhine J. Baccam (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence and its corresponding protein sequence useful as a dominant selectable marker in eukaryotes. More specifically the invention relates to a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial IMPDH gene that has been engineered into a eukaryotic expression vectors, thereby permitting bacterial IMPDH expression in mammalian cells. Bacterial IMPDH expression confers resistance to MPA which can be used as dominant selectable marker in eukaryotes including mammals. The invention also relates to expression vectors and cells that express the bacterial IMPDH gene as well as gene therapies and protein synthesis. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856409 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183369 | Mallapragada et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surya K. Mallapragada (Ames, Iowa); Brian C. Anderson (Lake Bluff, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel block copolymers as structural supplements for injectible bodily prosthetics employed in medical or cosmetic procedures. The invention also includes the use of such block copolymers as nucleus pulposus replacement materials for the treatment of degenerative disc disorders and spinal injuries. The copolymers are constructed by polymerization of a tertiary amine methacrylate with either a (poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) polymer, such as the commercially available Pluronic® polymers, or a poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367414 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183665 | Bywaters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Power Systems, Inc. (Waitsfield, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garrett Bywaters (Waitsfield, Vermont); William Danforth (Rochester, Vermont); Christopher Bevington (Waitsfield, Vermont); Stowell Jesse (Warren, Vermont); Daniel Costin (Chelsea, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind turbine is provided that minimizes the size of the drive train and nacelle while maintaining the power electronics and transformer at the top of the tower. The turbine includes a direct drive generator having an integrated disk brake positioned radially inside the stator while minimizing the potential for contamination. The turbine further includes a means for mounting a transformer below the nacelle within the tower. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276912 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183765 | McElfresh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael McElfresh (Livermore, California); Matthew Lucas (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Joseph P. Silveira (Tracy, California); Scott E. Groves (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-position sensor and sensing system using the Faraday Effect. The sensor uses a permanent magnet to provide a magnetic field, and a magneto-optic material positioned in the magnetic field for rotating the plane of polarization of polarized light transmitted through the magneto-optic material. The magnet is independently movable relative to the magneto-optic material so as to rotate the plane of polarization of the polarized light as a function of the relative position of the magnet. In this manner, the position of the magnet relative to the magneto-optic material may be determined from the rotated polarized light. The sensing system also includes a light source, such as a laser or LED, for producing polarized light, and an optical fiber which is connected to the light source and to the magneto-optic material at a sensing end of the optical fiber. Processing electronics, such as a polarimeter, are also provided for determining the Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization of the back-reflected polarized light to determine the position of the magnet relative to the sensing end of the optical fiber. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879222 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183868 | Wessendorf |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt O. Wessendorf (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An oscillator circuit is disclosed which can be formed using discrete field-effect transistors (FETs), or as a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit. The oscillator circuit utilizes a Pierce oscillator design with three inverter stages connected in series. A feedback resistor provided in a feedback loop about a second inverter stage provides an almost ideal inverting transconductance thereby allowing high-Q operation at the resonator-controlled frequency while suppressing a parasitic oscillation frequency that is inherent in a Pierce configuration using a “standard” triple inverter for the sustaining amplifier. The oscillator circuit, which operates in a range of 10–50 MHz, has applications for use as a clock in a microprocessor and can also be used for sensor applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937163 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185226 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Todd E. Takken (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiprocessor, parallel computer is made tolerant to hardware failures by providing extra groups of redundant standby processors and by designing the system so that these extra groups of processors can be swapped with any group which experiences a hardware failure. This swapping can be under software control, thereby permitting the entire computer to sustain a hardware failure but, after swapping in the standby processors, to still appear to software as a pristine, fully functioning system. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469002 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07181942 | Yost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); K. Elliott Cramer (Yorktown, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasonic device and method obtains desirable crimp connections between a crimp connector and a wire, or bundle of wires, by assessing the desirability of connections made in a wire-to-wire connection and in other situations where two materials with good acoustic propagation characteristics are joined together via deformation. An embodiment of the device as a crimping tool comprises a compressing means, pulse-generating circuitry, at least one ultrasonic transmitting transducer, at least one ultrasonic receiving transducer, receiving circuitry, and a display. The user may return to a previously crimped connection and assess the desirability of the connection by compressing the device about the connection, sending an acoustic signal through the crimp, and comparing the received signal to a signal obtained from known desirable connections. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943649 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/17.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182602 | Lakin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Lakin (Johnson, Vermont); Paul L. Penar (Shelburne, Vermont); Scott A. Stevens (Erie, Pennsylvania); Bruce I. Tranmer (S. Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A whole-body mathematical model (10) for simulating intracranial pressure dynamics. In one embodiment, model (10) includes 17 interacting compartments, of which nine lie entirely outside of intracranial vault (14). Compartments (F) and (T) are defined to distinguish ventricular from extraventricular CSF. The vasculature of the intracranial system within cranial vault (14) is also subdivided into five compartments (A, C, P, V, and S, respectively) representing the intracranial arteries, capillaries, choroid plexus, veins, and venous sinus. The body's extracranial systemic vasculature is divided into six compartments (I, J, O, Z, D, and X, respectively) representing the arteries, capillaries, and veins of the central body and the lower body. Compartments (G) and (B) include tissue and the associated interstitial fluid in the intracranial and lower regions. Compartment (Y) is a composite involving the tissues, organs, and pulmonary circulation of the central body and compartment (M) represents the external environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658638 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182872 | Barak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip W. Barak (Madison, Wisconsin); Menachem E. Tabanpour (Brooklyn, New York); Mauricio Avila-Segura (Lahaina, Hawaii); Juliane M. Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for removing phosphorus from phosphorus containing waste. In one embodiment, the method is preferably carried out by contacting the phosphorus containing waste with a non-cellular membrane and precipitating phosphorus from the waste as struvite. Another aspect of the invention includes a method of removing phosphorus from phosphorus containing sewage comprising filtrates and biosolids. The removal of phosphorus as struvite occurs in two stages as primary and secondary removal. In the primary removal process, the sewage from a dewatering unit is contacted with a first polymeric membrane reactor and the phosphorus is removed as primary struvite. Subsequently Mg is added so as promote struvite formation and the secondary removal process of struvite. In the secondary removal process, the sewage from GBT Filtrate well or Centrifuge Liquor well is contacted with a second monomolecular membrane and the phosphorus is removed as secondary struvite. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710686 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182996 | Hong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seunghun Hong (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for depositing nanowires on a substrate and nanowire-based devices that can be formed using these processes are described. In one embodiment, a process includes forming an organic layer on an electrically conductive layer formed on the substrate. The organic layer includes a first region and a second region. The first region has an affinity for the nanowires and is electrically conductive. The process also includes contacting the organic layer with a composition including the nanowires dispersed in a compatible solvent for a time sufficient to selectively deposit at least one of the nanowires on the first region of the organic layer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718999 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184624 | Matsko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Anatoliy A. Savchenkov (Glendale, California); Lute Maleki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertically-coupled whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator optical waveguide, a method of reducing a group velocity of light, and a method of making a waveguide are provided. The vertically-coupled WGM waveguide comprises a cylindrical rod portion having a round cross-section and an outer surface. First and second ring-shaped resonators are formed on the outer surface of the cylindrical rod portion and are spaced from each other along a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical rod. The first and second ring-shaped resonators are capable of being coupled to each other by way an evanescent field formed in an interior of the cylindrical rod portion. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422147 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184859 | Hood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InTime, Inc. (Cleveland, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Brown Hood (Gunnison, Mississippi); Michael R. Seal (Picayune, Mississippi); Mark David Lewis (Long Beach, Mississippi); James William Johnson (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Remotely sensed spectral image data are used to develop a Vegetation Index file which represents spatial variations of actual crop vigor throughout a field that is under cultivation. The latter information is processed to place it in a format that can be used by farm personnel to correlate and calibrate it with actually observed crop conditions existing at control points within the field. Based on the results, farm personnel formulate a prescription request, which is forwarded via email or FTP to a central processing site, where the prescription is prepared. The latter is returned via email or FTP to on-side farm personnel, who can load it into a controller on a spray rig that directly applies inputs to the field at a spatially variable rate. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888932 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07184943 | Stoica et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Stoica (Pasadena, California); Carlos Harold Salazar-Lazaro (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An evolvable circuit includes a plurality of reconfigurable switches, a plurality of transistors within a region of the circuit, the plurality of transistors having terminals, the plurality of transistors being coupled between a power source terminal and a power sink terminal so as to be capable of admitting power between the power source terminal and the power sink terminal, the plurality of transistors being coupled so that every transistor to transistor terminal coupling within the region of the circuit comprises a reconfigurable switch. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768754 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07182872 | Barak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip W. Barak (Madison, Wisconsin); Menachem E. Tabanpour (Brooklyn, New York); Mauricio Avila-Segura (Lahaina, Hawaii); Juliane M. Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for removing phosphorus from phosphorus containing waste. In one embodiment, the method is preferably carried out by contacting the phosphorus containing waste with a non-cellular membrane and precipitating phosphorus from the waste as struvite. Another aspect of the invention includes a method of removing phosphorus from phosphorus containing sewage comprising filtrates and biosolids. The removal of phosphorus as struvite occurs in two stages as primary and secondary removal. In the primary removal process, the sewage from a dewatering unit is contacted with a first polymeric membrane reactor and the phosphorus is removed as primary struvite. Subsequently Mg is added so as promote struvite formation and the secondary removal process of struvite. In the secondary removal process, the sewage from GBT Filtrate well or Centrifuge Liquor well is contacted with a second monomolecular membrane and the phosphorus is removed as secondary struvite. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710686 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182952 | Rojas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guadalupe M. Rojas (Metairie, Louisiana); Juan A. Morales-Ramos (Metairie, Louisiana); David R. Nimocks, III (Fayetteville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitrogen containing compounds are effective as subterranean termite feeding stimulants/aggregants and as masking agents for concealing the presence of other compounds which are repellents to termites, when they are used in low concentrations, less than or equal to about 1000 ppm (0.1%, by weight). The nitrogen containing compounds may be formulated alone, or optionally in a bait or in combination with other compounds effective for controlling or marking subterranean termites. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/939871 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07182954 | Cote et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Board of Trustees of Western Illinois Univ. (Macomb, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois); Scott M. Holt (Macomb, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Oligosaccharides produced by an alternansucrase enzyme catalyzed reaction of sucrose with an acceptor oligosaccharide are effective as prebiotics for controlling enteric bacterial pathogens. Populations of enteropathogenic bacteria may be substantially reduced or inhibited by treatment of an animal with a composition comprising one or more of these oligosaccharides in an amount effective to promote the growth of beneficial bacteria. The method is particularly effective for the control of Salmonella species, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, and Clostridia perfringens. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/407668 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183098 | Schardl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Schardl (Lexington, Kentucky); Heather H. Wilkinson (College Station, Texas); Martin J. Spiering (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Loline alkaloids (LA), which are 1-aminopyrrolizidines with an oxygen bridge, are produced by Epichloë (anamorph=Neotyphodium) species, endophytes of grasses. LA are insecticidal, thus helping protect host plants from insect herbivory. Suppression subtractive hybridization PCR was used to isolate transcripts up-regulated during loline alkaloid production in cultures of Neotyphodium uncinatum. Subtracted cDNAs were cloned, and a λ-phage cDNA library from an LA-expressing N. uncinatum culture was screened with subtracted cDNA. In BLAST searches, several cDNAs identified had sequence similarities to aspartate kinases, and another with O-acetylhomoserine-(thiol)lyase. Differential expression of these two genes in LA-producing cultures of N. uncinatum was confirmed, and in a survey of 23 isolates from 21 Neotyphodium and Epichloë species these two genes strictly correlated with LA production. Two nucleic acid molecules encoding two loline alkaloid gene clusters have been identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601700 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07182929 | Singhal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEI, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Singhal (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ganesh Skandan (Piscataway, New Jersey); Mohit Jain (Sayreville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing nanostructured multi-component or doped oxide particles and the particles produced therein. The process includes the steps of (i) dissolving salts of cations, which are either dopants or components of the final oxide, in an organic solvent; (ii) adding a dispersion of nanoparticles of a single component oxide to the liquid solution; (iii) heating the liquid solution to facilitate diffusion of cations into the nanoparticles; (iv) separating the solids from the liquid solution; and (v) heat treating the solids either to form the desired crystal structure in case of multi-component oxide or to render the homogeneous distribution of dopant cation in the host oxide structure. The process produces nanocrystalline multi-component or doped oxide nanoparticles with a particle size of 5–500 nm, more preferably 20–100 nm; the collection of particles have an average secondary (or aggregate) particle size is in the range of 25–2000 nm, preferably of less than 500 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920898 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07183649 | Londergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genus, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana R. Londergan (Campbell, California); Thomas E. Seidel (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite film comprised of three layers is formed by ALD on a substrate with a substrate interface surface. A first layer is coupled to the substrate interface surface. The first layer provides adhesion to the substrate interface surface and initiation of layer by layer ALD growth. A second layer is positioned between the first and third layers and provides a conducting diffusion barrier between the substrate and subsequent overlaying film. A third layer has a surface that is configured to provide adhesion and a texture template in preparation for a subsequent overlaying film. The composite engineered barrier structures are applied to interconnect, capacitor and transistor applications. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/122643 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/753 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07185236 | Moser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eternal Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise E. Moser (Santa Barbara, California); Peter M. Melliar-Smith (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention defines a method and mechanisms for maintaining a consistent group membership, based on the leader-follower strategy of Semi-Active or Passive replication. Each member of the group is assigned a rank, and a precedence, determined by the order in which it is added to the group. The Primary maintains the membership of the group, while each Backup monitors the behavior of the Primary. When a Backup detects that the Primary is faulty, the Backup announces that it is the new Primary and removes the faulty Primary from the membership of the group. The group membership algorithm disclosed here does not require a consensus decision to reconfigure the membership and effects a membership change more quickly in the common case where the Backup of lowest rank takes control as the new Primary when it determines that the existing Primary failed. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651755 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07183235 | Lovell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Stanley Lovell (Arvada, Colorado); Thomas E. Broderick (Arvada, Colorado); Craig S. Turchi (Lakewood, Colorado); Amanda K. Kimball (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a sorbent comprising a disordered polyvalent metal oxide on the surface of an inert substrate. The substrate can be a layered silicate, such as vermiculite, an aluminosilicate such as montmorillonite, or a nonlayered silicate such as a zeolite. The sorbent removes ionic contaminants, such as arsenic, from process streams. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600117 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang M. Cho (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A moving radar generates a search mode synthetic aperture image of a patch from a sequence of periodic pulse returns having one or more missing pulses. An azimuth and range interpolation generates an interpolated sequence having samples oriented in range and azimuth frequency with uniform spacing. Range compression is performed using an IFFT. Azimuth deskew, an autofocus and pulse restore generates a focused and restored sequence. Azimuth reskew, and gain phase equalization generates an equalized sequence. A first linear phase is summed to the equalized sequence for applying a fractional sample shift in range frequency. A range FFT and Along Track IFFT is further applied to obtain a domain changed sequence. A second linear phase is summed to the domain changed sequence. A CT FFT of the result generates an image of the patch. The azimuth interpolation and range interpolation also include a Stolt interpolation after a matched filter function. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294084 |
| 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 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07183123 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrence Harold Brown (Harwood, Maryland); Larry Gene Ferguson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of surface preparation and imaging for integrated circuits. First, a substrate is selected and an opening is cut in the substrate of a sufficient size to fit an integrated circuit to be analyzed. A second substrate is then selected. An adhesive film is applied to the top surface of the first substrate, the adhesive film having adhesive on both sides and covering the opening on the first substrate. An integrated circuit is then inserted into the opening and attached to the bottom side of the adhesive film. Next, the first substrate and integrated circuit are bonded to the second substrate using the adhesive film. The bottom side of the first substrate and the integrated circuit are then thinned until the substrate wafer of the integrated circuit is completely removed. Finally, an analytical imaging technique is performed on the integrated circuit from the bottom side of the first substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943826 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07183388 | Denardo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sally Joan Denardo (El Macero, California); Michelle Denise Winthrop (Woodland, California); Gerald Louis Denardo (El Macero, California); Cheng-Yi Xiong (Elk Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel antibodies that specifically bind to the cancer antigen MUC-1. The antibodies are useful targeting moieties for specifically directing imaging agents and various therapeutic moieties to a cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435614 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07183921 | Bonnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton Bonnell (Fairfax, Virginia); Himesh A. Patel (Centereville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An item tracking system for tracking an item within a structure having at least one aperture through which the item is passed is provided. The item tracking system comprises a radio frequency tag attached to the item, a reader operably connected to a reader antenna, a processor operably connected to the reader, and a vertically suspended movable support for the reader antenna. The tag has item information stored therein and the reader is capable of reading the item information from the tag. The processor receives and stores the item information from the reader and the movable support is suspended from a location adjacent the top of the aperture. The support and reader antenna can move around the item to permit the item to pass through the aperture and the reader reads the item information from the tag when the item passes through the aperture using the reader antenna. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953524 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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