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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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| US 07185485 | Lewis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Lewis (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for providing a backup fuel metering system for the gas generator section (24) of a gas turbine engine (10) is disclosed that includes a gas generator (24) and an augmentor (40). The apparatus includes a gas generator fuel metering system (52) providing fuel to the gas generator nozzles (32) and an augmentor fuel metering system (54) providing fuel to an augmentor (40). The augmentor fuel system (54) includes a diverter valve (88) which selectably directs fuel to the augmentor (40) during augmentation operation or to the gas generator nozzles (32) during a gas generator metering system failure or critical engine operation. The system allows the gas generator nozzles (32) to be supplied with fuel flow from the gas generator metering system (52), the augmentor metering (54) system or both. When the gas generator nozzles (32) are being supplied with flow from both metering systems the system is capable of improved fault accommodation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802368 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185541 | Edelstein |
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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) | Alan S. Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS device and method of manufacturing comprises a magnetic sensor attached to a frame; at least one magnet adjacent to the magnetic sensor; a proof mass attached to the magnet; a cantilever beam attached to the proof mass; and a rod attached to the cantilever beam and the frame, wherein the magnet is adapted to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the rod. The proof mass comprises a portion of a SOI wafer. An acceleration of the frame causes the magnet to move relative to the frame and the magnetic sensor. An acceleration of the frame causes the connecting member to bend. The motion of the magnet causes a change in a magnetic field at a position of the magnetic sensor, wherein the change in the magnetic field is detected by the magnetic sensor, and wherein a sensitivity of detection of the acceleration of the device is approximately 0.0001 g. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345541 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185575 | Collier 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) | Ronald F. Collier (Decatur, Alabama); John T. Dillon (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for remote tracking of a tactical missile assembly orientation during targeting and leading to launch from a platform, including a weapon station frame rotatably attached to the platform and a command launch unit attached to the weapon station frame. A launch tube assembly is pivotably attached thereon, including a launch tube in which a tactical missile is positioned prior to launch. The launch tube is replaceable with a like-configured launch tube and tactical missile. A launch tube position recognition unit is disposed proximal of the launch tube and adjacent of the weapon station frame. The position recognition unit includes a tracking and encoder device enclosed by a protective encoder member rotatably attachable between the launch tube and weapon station frame. The tracking and encoder device identifies launch tube positions and remotely relays position coordinates to the command launch unit during targeting of the missile leading to missile launch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251532 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185695 | Santeler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith A. Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one feed core and at least one wall cooling core are assembled with a number of elements of a die for forming a cooled turbine engine element investment casting pattern. A sacrificial material is molded in the die. The sacrificial material is removed from the die. The removing includes extracting a first of the die elements from a compartment in a second of the die elements before disengaging the second die element from the sacrificial material. The first element includes a compartment receiving an outlet end portion of a first of the wall cooling cores in the assembly and disengages therefrom in the extraction. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/219156 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185697 | Goodson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Goodson (Belmont, California); Chuan-Hua Chen (Stanford, California); David E. Huber (Mountain View, California); Linan Jiang (Menlo Park, California); Thomas W. Kenny (San Carlos, California); Jae-Mo Koo (Stanford, California); Daniel J. Laser (San Francisco, California); James C. Mikkelsen (Los Altos, California); Juan G. Santiago (Fremont, California); Evelyn Ning-Yi Wang (Stanford, California); Shulin Zeng (Sunnyvale, California); Lian Zhang (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods according to the present invention preferably utilize electroosmotic pumps that are capable of generating high pressure and flow without moving mechanical parts and the associated generation of unacceptable electrical and acoustic noise, as well as the associated reduction in reliability. These electroosmotic pumps are preferably fabricated with materials and structures that improve performance, efficiency, and reduce weight and manufacturing cost relative to presently available micropumps. These electroosmotic pumps also preferably allow for recapture of evolved gases and deposited materials, which may provide for long-term closed-loop operation. Apparatus and methods according to the present invention also allow active regulation of the temperature of the device through electrical control of the flow through the pump and can utilize multiple cooling loops to allow independent regulation of the special and temporal characteristics of the device temperature profiles. Novel microchannel structures are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933068 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185846 | Bittle 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) | David A. Bittle (Somerville, Alabama); Gary T. Jimmerson (Athens, Alabama); Julian L. Cothran (Arab, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetrical Control Surface System for Tube-Launched Air Vehicles places one control surface, such as a wing or a horizontal tail, above horizontal midplane axis of an air vehicle, such as a tube-launched missile, and the opposing control surface below the midplane axis. Such asymmetrical arrangement of the control surfaces increases the lift and maneuverability of the air vehicle during flight. For stowage inside the tube prior to launch, each control surface slides into its corresponding slot in the body of the vehicle, making the entire control system compact. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370390 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185852 | Kannapell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Rop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Trouy Kannapell (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an actuator assembly for actuating a door or aerodynamic surface of an aircraft. In detail, the invention includes a housing having first and second ends and a longitudinal axis. The housing center portion further includes first and second helical slots extending along the longitudinal axis. A cam follower, having first and second ends, is movably mounted in the center portion, the cam follower movable along the longitudinal axis of the housing. An actuator is provided for actuating the cam follower in first and second directions along the longitudinal axis. A bolt assembly, having first and second ends, is mounted through the cam follower with the first and second ends thereof extending into the first and second helical slots. First and second bearings are mounted to the first and second ends of bolt assembly such that the first and second bearings are movably mounted in the first and second helical slots. An actuation rod has its first end in the form of a clevis with first and second lugs movably connected to the first and second ends of the bolt assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953230 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/129.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186070 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Morris (Phoenix, Arizona); Thomas E. Strangman (Prescott, Arizona); Craig A. Wilson (Mesa, Arizona); George W. Wolfmeyer (Tempe, Arizona); Steve H. Halfmann (Chandler, Arizona); David K. Jan (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of modifying a turbine nozzle area comprises depositing a thermal barrier coating (TBC) on the nozzle endwalls to provide a minimum nozzle area, evaluating an airflow through the nozzle, and machining the TBC to increase the nozzle area. Adjacent segment area variation may be minimized, improving engine reliability by reducing the aerodynamic excitation to the down stream blade. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963185 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186084 | Bunker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Scott Bunker (Niskayuna, New York); Jeremy Clyde Bailey (Middle Grove, 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 of the wall. The pins define a mesh cooling arrangement having a number of flow channels. A number of dimples are located in at least one of the inner and outer portions of the wall. The component may also include a number of turbulators disposed on at least one of the inner and outer portions of the wall. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/720045 |
| 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 07186092 | Bruce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert William Bruce (Loveland, Ohio); Jerry Donald Schell (Evendale, Ohio); Mark Daniel Gorman (Wester Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil having an improved impact and erosion resistance. The airfoil comprises: (a) a base segment having an impact resistant leading edge section proximate to the leading edge comprising a material having having a yield strength of least about 250 ksi and an elongation percentage of about 12% or less; and (b) an erosion resistant coating overlaying the base segment at least in the leading and trailing edge portions of the pressure side, the erosion resistant coating comprising at least one ceramic layer having at least one of the following properties: (1) an erosion value of at least about 200 g. of erodent to cause a thickness loss of about 15–20 microns; (2) an erosion volume loss value (V) of about 1.9 or less as defined by the equation V=H−0.18×E0.75×F−1.65 where H is hardness, E is elastic modulus and F is fracture toughness; and (3) an F value of at least about 1.5 MPa*m1/2. The erosion resistant coating can comprise alternating ceramic and metallic layers and is typically formed by a method involving the step of forming on the pressure side of the base segment of the airfoil in alternating fashion at least one ceramic layer and at least one metallic layer. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898755 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/241.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186102 | Laver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Strandex Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry C. Laver (Oregon, Wisconsin); Brian Keller (Oregon, Wisconsin); Alfred B. England (Cincinnati, Ohio); David F. Dostal (Cambridge, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-pressure CO2 tank or an air compressor with a refrigerated air dryer is attached either at or after the vent zone of a standard twin-screw extruder. During or after extrusion, the gas is dissolved in the wood-plastic melt. The CO2 expands which foams the wood-plastic material. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699599 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/4.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186168 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dapeng Wang (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a deformable pad useful for chemical mechanical polishing (“CMP”), a CMP apparatus incorporating the deformable pad of the present invention, and methods for using the deformable pad and CMP apparatus of the present invention. The deformable pad of the present invention includes a plurality of solid supports which substantially eliminate the nonuniform polishing rates in known CMP processes and may be tailored to optimize a wide array of CMP processes. The CMP apparatus of the present invention incorporates a deformable pad of the present invention and may include several other known features, such as a polishing pad, a substrate carrier, mechanical assemblies for agitating the polishing pad or substrate carrier, etc. The methods falling within the scope of the present invention include providing a CMP polishing apparatus, providing a deformable pad of the present invention, providing a polishing pad attached to the deformable pad of the present invention, and bringing a substrate having a material layer to be polished in contact with the polishing pad. As will be appreciated by one of skill in the art, the CMP apparatus and the methods of the present invention may be easily adapted for use in virtually all CMP processes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/729112 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186304 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert A. Chin (Portland, Connecticut); William P. Ogden (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David A. Haluck (Stuart, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbo-nitriding process for forming a martensitic stainless steel, which is case hardened and superior corrosion resistance over carburized process, is provided. A process for forming a martensitic stainless steel which is case hardened is provided. The process comprises the steps of providing a material consisting essentially of from 8.0 to 18 wt % chromium, cobalt up to 16 wt %, vanadium up to 5.0 wt %, molybdenum up to 8.0 wt %, nickel up to 8.0 wt %, manganese up to 4.0 wt %, silicon up to 2.0 wt %, tungsten up to 6.0 wt %, titanium up to 2.0 wt %, niobium up to 4.0 wt % and the balance iron, and carbo-nitriding to prescribed levels of C+N, to form a hard, corrosion resistance case in a fracture tough stainless steel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/859371 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186369 | Hardro 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) | Peter J. Hardro (Seekonk, Massachusetts); Brent Stucker (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of forming a part made of a molybdenum-copper composite material. The composite material is formed by forming a mixture of molybdenum, phenolic, and wax, laser sintering the mixture to form a green form, placing the green form and oxygen free copper into a furnace, and subjecting the green form and oxygen free copper to a furnace heating cycle. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076459 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186443 | Scribner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cliff J. Scribner (San Antonio, Texas); Geronimo I. Elias, Jr. (Lytle, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for dispensing an anti-traction, mobility denial material on a target surface. In various exemplary embodiments, a method of dispensing an anti-traction material on a target surface includes providing a polymer particle powder to a first section of a dispensing nozzle, providing a water stream to a second section of a dispensing nozzle, and mixing the polymer particle powder with the water stream upon exit of the streams out of the first and second sections of the dispensing nozzle to form the anti-traction material on the target surface, the formed anti-traction material being a gel. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845166 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/421.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186483 | Sreenivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Matthew E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method of aligning a substrate and a template spaced-apart from the substrate with an activating light curable liquid disposed therebetween, the substrate having substrate alignment marks and the template having template alignment marks, the method including, reducing a distance between the substrate and the template to cause a spreading of the activating light curable liquid; and varying an overlay placement of the template with respect to the substrate such that the template alignment marks are substantially aligned with the substrate alignment marks before the spreading causes the activating light curable liquid to cover an area between the substrate alignment marks and the template alignment marks. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/805916 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186624 | Welser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kopin Corporation (Taunton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger E. Welser (Providence, Rhode Island); Paul M. Deluca (Providence, Rhode Island); Noren Pan (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration and is composed of gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen is disclosed. The material is useful in forming the base layer of gallium arsenide based heterojunction bipolar transistors because it can be lattice matched to gallium arsenide by controlling the concentration of indium and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentration obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824697 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186791 | Bruno 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) | Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for polymerizing electronic and photonic polymers, wherein an aromatic monomer is combined with a hematin catalyst derivatized with at least one non-proteinaceous amphipathic group, and a peroxide initiator, and employing a template, wherein the aromatic monomer aligns along the template and polymerizes to form a complex comprising the polymerized monomer and the template. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120031 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186792 | Bruno 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) | Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for polymerizing electronic and photonic polymers, wherein an aromatic monomer is combined with a hematin catalyst derivatized with at least one non-proteinaceous amphipathic group, and a peroxide initiator, and employing a template, wherein the aromatic monomer aligns along the template and polymerizes to form a complex comprising the polymerized monomer and the template. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120032 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186877 | Morrissey 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) | Kevin M. Morrissey (Stevensville, Maryland); H. Dupont Durst (Bel Air, Maryland); Lucille P. Forrest (Edgewood, Maryland); Mary P. Weiss (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for processing vesicants as well as other irritants are described. In some methods a vesicant, for example, a Lewisite such as the L1 form, the L2 form, L3 form, or combination thereof, is combined with permanganate, for example, as an aqueous solution of sodium permanganate. The methods can include releasing the vesicants or irritants from a munition, for example, by explosively rupturing the munition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/240782 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186948 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Gordon (Wheeling, West Virginia); Brian E. Joseph (Wheeling, West Virginia); James F. Witzgall (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the fabrication of metal matrix composite structures comprising the continuous joining by brazing, soldering or welding of aluminum matrix tape using a laser to melt the surface of the tape while applying pressure to the tape and simultaneously contacting it with previously applied tape layers on a surface. The apparatus utilized to accomplish this fabrication process may include a variety of pre and post-contact heaters and preferably includes instruments for the continuous monitoring and control of the process. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/247185 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.850 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186978 | Bevan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Millennium Enginerring and Integration Company (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward James Bevan (Cambria, California); Max Michael Briggs (Palo Alto, California); John DiDomenico (Tuscon, Arizona); Robert W. Gedridge, Jr. (Lusby, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held, fleet deployable infrared camera with integrated hardware and software providing real time processing of infrared images. The camera senses variable temperature images over a selected object of interest and senses variable emissivities over the object. The camera also measures and corrects for reflected environmental radiation as well as corrections for the atmospheric path through which the object is viewed. A calibrated reference patch having known emissivity and reflectance is attached to an object of interest and viewed through the camera. The calibrated patch is used to provide correction for the environmental radiation reflected off the object. Once the environmental radiation correction is known, it can be used to correct measurements taken from the rest of the object of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967010 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186989 | Farmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Farmer (St. Petersburg, Florida); David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida); Bill Flanery (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides core technologies necessary for a portable, low cost, thermal-regulating LED-based handheld fluorometer. The regulated fluorometer is based on a low thermal mass infrared heater, and an orthogonal geometry LED based filter fluorometer. Power is supplied through an external power supply and data is collected in real-time through standard serial interfaces of personal computers or personal digital assistants. Thermal regulation is automatically maintained using temperature sensor feedback control. Optical excitation relies on LED light source(s) and optical detection is through an adjustable integrating photodetector. Such a handheld system can allow applications requiring temperature sensitive photometric measurements for real time analyte detection to be performed in the field. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908994 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187045 | Braddock |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OSEMI, Inc. (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter David Braddock (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-aligned enhancement mode metal-oxide-compound semiconductor field effect transistor includes a gate insulating structure comprised of a first conducting oxide layer comprised of indium oxide compounds positioned immediately on top of the compound semiconductor structure, and a second insulating layer comprised of either gallium oxygen and rare earth elements or gallium sulphur and rare earth elements positioned immediately on top of said first layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198705 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187123 | MacPherson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DuPont Displays, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Douglas MacPherson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device is provided that includes an organic panel, including a platform made of an electrically nonconductive material; a first electrode on the platform; an organic active layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the organic active layer; and a first alignment structure, in addition, a driver panel is provided and includes a substrate; a driver circuit formed on the substrate; and a second alignment structure for coupling with the first alignment structure to position the organic panel and driver panel in substantial alignment, and to electrically couple the driver circuit to the organic active layer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134168 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187342 | Heisen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T Heisen (Kent, Washington); Julio A Navarro (Kent, Washington); Ming Chen (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A phased array antenna module for use in the gigahertz bandwidth. The module includes a metallic core with a pair of chip carrier assemblies secured to opposite sides of the core. The core has an internal waveguide with a signal splitter for directing electromagnetic wave energy evenly to the two chip carrier assemblies. A flexible, cylindrical connector assembly electrically couples the chip carrier assemblies to an aperture board. The aperture board includes a plurality of dipole antenna radiating elements. The module core is coupled directly to a cold plate. A direct thermal path is created between the chip carrier assemblies, the module core and the cold plate for highly efficient cooling of the electronic components on the chip carrier assemblies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140758 |
| 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 343/853 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187492 | Shay |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Shay (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A coherent laser beam combining system wherein the output of a single master oscillator is split into a plurality of signals, the signals are electronically modulated at unique frequencies. One signal is designated a reference signal while the remaining signals are passed through phase adjusters. All signals are optically amplified, aligned and passed through a beam splitter to split off a small sample that is imaged onto a photodetector. The photodetector output is fed to a signal processor that produces phase error signals that drive the phase adjusters resulting in a high-powered optically coherent output signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215055 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/349 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187497 | Kralik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Kralik (Devon, Pennsylvania); Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Polarization converter assemblies are utilized to provide switching and routing systems with effective coupling between a first and second router assemblies, and to provide polarization insensitive switching and routing systems. An improved optical switching/routing system of this invention includes a first router assembly, a second router assembly and a polarization converter assembly, each assembly optically aligned with one another, the polarization converter assembly being optically interposed between the first router assembly and the second router assembly. Embodiments of the polarization converter include, but are not limited to, liquid crystal spatial light modulators or half-wave retarders. A polarization insensitive switching and routing system of this invention includes a polarization separating sub-system, a selectable switching/routing sub-system, and a polarization combining sub-system. In one embodiment, the polarization separating sub-system includes a polarization splitter and a patterned polarization converter and the polarization combining sub-system includes a patterned polarization converter and a polarization combiner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668975 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187578 | Hong et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Yang-Ki Hong (Pullman, Washington); Mun-Hyoun Park (Moscow, Idaho); Sung-Hoon Gee (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic elements having unique shapes. In one example, the magnetic element defines an outer peripheral profile and a center point, wherein the outer peripheral profile includes a substantially curviform section and a notch section. The notch section may be configured to radially extend to at least the center point. In another example, a substantially circular or oval-shaped magnetic element defines an outer periphery and a gap void having an open end facing the outer periphery so as to form a gap along the outer periphery. The magnetic element optionally may not include an annular void that is spatially isolated from the gap void. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/344947 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187809 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenyi Zhao (Somerset, New Jersey); David Nister (Lexington, Kentucky); Stephen Charles Hsu (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for performing two-dimensional video alignment onto three-dimensional point clouds. The system recovers camera pose from camera video, determines a depth map, converts the depth map to a Euclidean video point cloud, and registers two-dimensional video to the three-dimensional point clouds. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/149956 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187870 | Ilchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OEwaves, Inc. (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Ilchenko (Arcadia, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and techniques for achieving signal filtering in RF or microwave frequencies by optical filtering via two optical resonators in two separate optical paths. One optical resonator is tunable to tune the filtering in RF or microwave frequencies. Tunable opto-electronic oscillators may be constructed based on described filters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963755 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187871 | Kaushik |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massaschusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sumanth Kaushik (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | High bandwidth angle modulated communications may be obtained using an incoherent/broadband “white light” source. The light is passed through interferometer arms before and after a communication link. The light is modulated in a transmitter signal optical angle modulator and in a reference optical angle modulator. By locating an interferometer and light source at a receiver, the light passes through the interferometer both before and after the optical link to the transmitter. A balanced detector implements subtraction of non-interfering light. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/121947 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187968 | Wolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick D. Wolf (Durham, North Carolina); Miguel A. L. Nicolelis (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James C. Morizio (Durham, North Carolina); John K. Chapin (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Neurochip for Neuroprosthetic Control. According to one embodiment, a neural spike detection system is provided. The neural spike detection system can include a signal receiver operable to receive a plurality of neural signals including neural spikes. The system can also include a neural spike detector adapted to communicate with the signal receiver and detect neural spikes in the plurality of neural signals. Further, the system can include a transmitter connected to the neural spike detector and operable to transmit an information signal when a neural spike is detected. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/692235 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07188042 | Havens |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Havens (Stockbridge, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for correlating raw transducer data in a system of transducers communicates transducer data in a common format. Transducer data and relationships between transducers are characterized in a common format, and interdependencies of transducers are defined for modeling a system. The data is time correlated from the various transducers. Data is archived, updated and exchanged without being corrupted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674828 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2183 | Wood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry A. Wood (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An environmentally sealable plastic shipping container is provided that includes a main container cover and body portion fabricated of a set of plastic extrusions and end caps, connected by tenon-type joints facilitating construction using commercially available adhesives and optional aluminum extrusions with commercially available mechanical fasteners where desirable for rapid opening or closing. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318668 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Circuit makers and breakers 2/1.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrel Henry Meffert (Sparland, Illinois); Roger Leroy Urven, Jr. (Colona, Illinois); Cory Andrew Brown (Pekin, Illinois); Mark Harold Runge (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A piston for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston has a piston crown with a face having an interior annular edge. The piston also has first piston bowl recessed within the face of the piston crown. The first piston bowl has a bottom surface and an outer wall. A line extending from the interior annular edge of the face and tangent with the outer wall forms an interior angle greater than 90 degrees with the face of the piston. The piston also has a second piston bowl that is centrally located and has an upper edge located below a face of the piston crown. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975101 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/41.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185616 | Roozenboom |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan D Roozenboom (Washington, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An internal combustion engine has a cylinder block defining a cylinder. A piston is disposed in the cylinder. The internal combustion engine has a connecting rod connected to the piston and a crankshaft connected to the connecting rod. The internal combustion engine has a vcr mechanism connected to the crankshaft. A first gear is connected to the crankshaft, and a second gear is in mesh with the first gear. The second gear is connected to the vcr mechanism. The internal combustion engine has a third gear in mesh with the second gear. The third gear has a fixed center of rotation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/659536 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/48.B00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07185642 | 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 body for an internal combustion engine. The manifold body includes an EGR cooler cavity adapted to receive an EGR cooler, an oil cooler cavity adapted to receive an oil cooler, and an air intake manifold configured to provide a gas mixture to the internal combustion engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209842 |
| 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 07186352 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Klint A Rose (Boston, Massachusetts); Mariam Maghribi (Livermore, California); William Benett (Livermore, California); Peter Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Julie Hamilton (Tracy, California); Robert T. Graff (Modesto, California); Alan Jankowski (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a process for fabricating microfluidic systems with embedded components in which micron-scale features are molded into the polymeric material polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Micromachining is used to create a mold master and the liquid precursors for PDMS are poured over the mold and allowed to cure. The PDMS is then removed form the mold and bonded to another material such as PDMS, glass, or silicon after a simple surface preparation step to form sealed microchannels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/853859 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186379 | Rosentreter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey J. Rosentreter (Pocatello, Idaho); Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method and system capable of the continuous, real-time measurement of low concentrations of aqueous free cyanide (CN) using an on-line, flow through system. The system is based on the selective reactivity of cyanide anions and the characteristically nonreactive nature of metallic gold films, wherein this selective reactivity is exploited as an indirect measurement for aqueous cyanide. In the present invention the dissolution of gold, due to the solubilization reaction with the analyte cyanide anion, is monitored using a piezoelectric microbalance contained within a flow cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071017 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186668 | Werpy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battele Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Werpy (West Richland, Washington); John G. Frye, Jr. (Richland, Washington); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Alan H. Zacher (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A textured catalyst having a hydrothermally-stable support, a metal oxide and a catalyst component is described. Methods of conducting aqueous phase reactions that are catalyzed by a textured catalyst are also described. The invention also provides methods of making textured catalysts and methods of making chemical products using a textured catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672333 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186987 | Doty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Patrick Doty (Livermore, California); Douglas A. Chinn (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A π-conjugated organic material for detecting ionizing radiation, and particularly for detecting low energy fission neutrons. The π-conjugated materials comprise a class of organic materials whose members are intrinsic semiconducting materials. Included in this class are π-conjugated polymers, polyaromatic hydrocarbon molecules, and quinolates. Because of their high resistivities (≧109 ohm·cm), these π-conjugated organic materials exhibit very low leakage currents. A device for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation can be made by applying an electric field to a layer of the π-conjugated polymer material to measure electron/hole pair formation. A layer of the π-conjugated polymer material can be made by conventional polymer fabrication methods and can be cast into sheets capable of covering large areas. These sheets of polymer radiation detector material can be deposited between flexible electrodes and rolled up to form a radiation detector occupying a small volume but having a large surface area. The semiconducting polymer material can be easily fabricated in layers about 10 μm to 100 μm thick. These thin polymer layers and their associated electrodes can be stacked to form unique multi-layer detector arrangements that occupy small volume. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/863128 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187169 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Clarke (Berkeley, California); Nathan Kelso (Albany, California); SeungKyun Lee (Berkeley, California); Michael Moessle (Berkeley, California); Whittier Myers (Berkeley, California); Robert McDermott (Santa Barbara, California); Bernard ten Haken (Enschede, Netherlands); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California); Andreas Trabesinger (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals are detected in microtesla fields. Prepolarization in millitesla fields is followed by detection with an untuned dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. Because the sensitivity of the SQUID is frequency independent, both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spectral resolution are enhanced by detecting the NMR signal in extremely low magnetic fields, where the NMR lines become very narrow even for grossly inhomogeneous measurement fields. Additional signal to noise benefits are obtained by use of a low noise polarization coil, comprising litz wire or superconducting materials. MRI in ultralow magnetic field is based on the NMR at ultralow fields. Gradient magnetic fields are applied, and images are constructed from the detected NMR signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/980984 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187236 | Britton, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Lanier Britton, Jr. (Alcoa, Tennessee); Stephen Fulton Smith (Loudon, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An operational amplifier input stage provides a symmetrical rail-to-rail input common-mode voltage without turning off either pair of complementary differential input transistors. Secondary, or surrogate, transistor pairs assume the function of the complementary differential transistors. The circuit also maintains essentially constant transconductance, constant slew rate, and constant signal-path supply current as it provides rail-to-rail operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/935525 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187299 | Kunerth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis C. Kunerth (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John M. Svoboda (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James T. Johnson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring a parameter of a landfill including a cap, without passing wires through the cap, includes burying a sensor apparatus in the landfill prior to closing the landfill with the cap; providing a reader capable of communicating with the sensor apparatus via radio frequency (RF); placing an antenna above the barrier, spaced apart from the sensor apparatus; coupling the antenna to the reader either before or after placing the antenna above the barrier; providing power to the sensor apparatus, via the antenna, by generating a field using the reader; accumulating and storing power in the sensor apparatus; sensing a parameter of the landfill using the sensor apparatus while using power; and transmitting the sensed parameter to the reader via a wireless response signal. A system for measuring a parameter of a landfill is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974917 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/870.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187316 | DeGeronimo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gianluigi DeGeronimo (Syosset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for analog-to-digital conversion and peak detection includes at least one stage, which includes a first switch, second switch, current source or capacitor, and discriminator. The discriminator changes state in response to a current or charge associated with the input signal exceeding a threshold, thereby indicating whether the current or charge associated with the input signal is greater than the threshold. The input signal includes a peak or a charge, and the converter includes a peak or charge detect mode in which a state of the switch is retained in response to a decrease in the current or charge associated with the input signal. The state of the switch represents at least a portion of a value of the peak or of the charge. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346831 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187548 | Meyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas A. Meyer (Richmond Heights, Ohio); Lawrence D. Radosevich (Muskego, Wisconsin); Bruce C. Beihoff (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Dennis L. Kehl (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Daniel G. Kannenberg (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal support may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support, which may be controlled in a closed-loop manner. Interfacing between circuits, circuit mounting structure, and the support provide for greatly enhanced cooling. The support may form a shield from both external EMI/RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as improved terminal configurations. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/252318 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187568 | Radosevich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence D. Radosevich (Muskego, Wisconsin); Daniel G. Kannenberg (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Mark G. Phillips (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Steven C. Kaishian (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A terminal structure for power electronics circuits reduces the need for a DC bus and thereby the incidence of parasitic inductance. The structure is secured to a support that may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support may form a shield from both external EMI/RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as by direct contact between the terminal assembly and AC and DC circuit components. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/252457 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187688 | Garmire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derrick L. Garmire (Kingston, New York); Jay R. Herring (Poughkeepsie, New York); Craig B. Stunkel (Bethel, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for selecting a data source for transmission on one of several logical (virtual) lanes embodied in a single physical connection. Lanes are assigned to either a high priority class or to a low priority class. One of six conditions is employed to determine when re-arbitration of lane priorities is desired. When this occurs a next source for transmission is selected based on a the specification of the maximum number of high priority packets that can be sent after a lower priority transmission has been interrupted. Alternatively, a next source for transmission is selected based on a the specification of the maximum number of high priority packets that can be sent while a lower priority packet is waiting. If initialized correctly, the arbiter keeps all of the packets of a high priority packet contiguous, while allowing lower priority packets to be interrupted by the higher priority packets, but not to the point of starvation of the lower priority packets. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/185028 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187815 | Sweatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); G. Allen Vawter (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavefront rely devices samples an incoming optical wavefront at different locations, optically relays the samples while maintaining the relative position of the samples and the relative phase between the samples. The wavefront is reconstructed due to interference of the samples. Devices can be designed for many different wavelengths, including for example the ultraviolet, visible, infrared and even longer wavelengths such as millimeter waves. In one application, the device function as a telescope but with negligible length. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956733 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187831 | DeSanto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard DeSanto (Dunkirk, Maryland); James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical panel system including stackable waveguides is provided. The optical panel system displays a projected light image and comprises a plurality of planar optical waveguides in a stacked state. The optical panel system further comprises a support system that aligns and supports the waveguides in the stacked state. In one embodiment, the support system comprises at least one rod, wherein each waveguide contains at least one hole, and wherein each rod is positioned through a corresponding hole in each waveguide. In another embodiment, the support system comprises at least two opposing edge structures having the waveguides positioned therebetween, wherein each opposing edge structure contains a mating surface, wherein opposite edges of each waveguide contain mating surfaces which are complementary to the mating surfaces of the opposing edge structures, and wherein each mating surface of the opposing edge structures engages a corresponding complementary mating surface of the opposite edges of each waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/831924 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07186409 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (Rootstown, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan Y. Snyder (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Xandra O. Breakefield (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Karen S. Aboody (Needham, Massachusetts); Ulrich Herrlinger (Tuebingen, Germany); William P. Lynch (Ravenna, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based upon a surprising finding that stem cells, more particularly neural stem cells, can migrate throughout a brain tumor and track metastatic brain tumor cells. The invention provides a method for treating brain tumors by administering genetically engineered neural stem cells in an individual affected by brain tumors. The invention also provides a method of preparing genetically engineered neural stem cells and a composition comprising genetically engineered neural stem cells in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/795675 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186507 | Bacallao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Bacallao (Indianapolis, Indiana); Rajesh Kher (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes an in situ reverse transcriptase PCR method in which the background fluorescence is greatly reduced as compared to traditional in situ PCR. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/149461 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186515 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pramod K. Srivastava (Avon, Connecticut); Robert J. Binder (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of alpha (2) macroglobulin (“α2M”) receptor as a heat shock protein receptor, cells that express the α2M receptor bound to an HSP, and antibodies and other molecules that bind the α2M receptor-HSP complex. The invention also relates to screening assays to identify compounds that modulate the interaction of an HSP with the α2M receptor, and methods for using compositions comprising α2M-receptor sequences for the diagnosis and treatment of immune disorders, proliferative disorders, and infectious diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/625137 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186516 | Nixon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Nixon (San Francisco, California); Adrian B. McDermott (Leyburn, United Kingdom); Scott Furlan (San Francisco, California); Martin Bigos (San Francisco, California); Megan Sheehy (Syracuse, New York); Paul Klenerman (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of detecting specific lysis of a cell by a lytic agent. The methods generally involve contacting a labeled target cell with a lytic agent; and detecting fluorescence in the target cell. The target cells are labeled with two fluorescent labels: a first fluorescent label that labels the plasma membrane; and a second fluorescent label that labels the cytosol. Release of the cytosolic label from the target cell indicates that the target cell has been lysed. The invention further provides methods of detecting the presence in a sample of a cell that specifically lyses a target cell. The invention further provides methods of detecting the presence in a sample of an antibody that specifically lyses a target cell. The methods are useful in a variety of applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697737 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186519 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ta-Yuan Chang (Hanover, New Hampshire); Shigeki Sugii (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of detecting intracellular cholesterol. The method provides contacting a permeabilized cell with labeled Cθ complex. Methods of using this detection method to identify agents which modulate cholesterol accumulation in a cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/293788 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186534 | Blaner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Blaner (New York, New York); Roseann Piantedosi Zott (River Edge, New Jersey); Mary V. Gamble (New York, New York); James R. Mertz (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The cDNA sequence of the human 9-cis-retinol dehydrogenase enzyme is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/539984 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186552 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Wilson (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Weidong Xiao (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The nucleic acid sequences of adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotype 1 are provided, as are vectors and host cells containing these sequences and functional fragments thereof. Also provided are methods of delivering genes via AAV-1 derived vectors. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696900 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186681 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fu-Tong Liu (San Diego, California); Hideki Sano (San Diego, California); Daniel K. Hsu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of modulating cell migration, particularly, monocyte, neutrophil or macrophage migration, using galectin-3, galectin-3 binding polypeptide, or galectin-3 receptor binding polypeptide. Specifically provided are methods for increasing cell migration to sites of inflammation, infection or a tumor. Also provided are methods for identifying agents that modulate galectin-3 mediated migration, compositions containing galectin-3 or a functional subsequence thereof, and microfabricated devices that deliver galectin-3 or functional galectin-3 subsequences. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/805449 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186698 | Moonen |
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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) | Chrit Moonen (Bordeaux, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for using local heat to control gene expression. The heat shock protein (hsp) gene promoter is recombined with a selected therapeutic gene and expressed in selected cells. Local controlled heating is used to activate the hsp promoter, for example by using focused ultrasound controlled by MRI. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096549 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186709 | Schreiber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert A. Stavenger (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts); Zoltan Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel dihydropyrancarboxamide compounds of formula (I): and collections of these compounds, and provides methods for the synthesis of these compounds; wherein R1–R6 are as defined herein. Additionally, the present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating disorders such as proliferative diseases, and cancer, to name a few. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649532 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186879 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Moore (Bellaire, Texas); Ping Wei (San Diego, California); Steven S. Chua (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides mice having reduced CAR receptor activity and mice expressing a human CAR receptor. These mice are useful in screening methods to identify CAR ligands, including compounds that modulate CAR receptor activity, compounds likely to have CAR-mediated toxicity, and analogs of these compounds with less potential toxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/268822 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186985 | Iwanczyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DxRay, Inc. (Northridge, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan S. Iwanczyk (Los Angeles, California); Bradley E. Patt (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for fabricating in a thermal evaporation system a polycrystalline film capable of directly detecting radiation. Source material is placed in a container, and the container is evacuated to create vacuum within the container. The source material is heated to evaporate the source material for depositing on a substrate. The polycrystalline film is used in as deposited form to detect the radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/158494 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187170 | Hargreaves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univeristy (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California); Neal K. Bangerter (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | MRI signals from two species such as fat and water are separated by repeatedly applying a steady state free precession (SSFP) sequence to an object with the phase of each RF excitation pulse in a sequence being increased by 2πn/N radians on each repetition, where acquisition number n ranges from 1 to N. Alternatively, center frequency for each scan is incremented compared with the first scan center frequency. Images are reconstructed from the acquired signals and summed. Slowing varying phase due to sources other than chemical shift can be removed. Species signals are separated based on phase (sign) of the summed image signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225920 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187441 | Sevick-Muraca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva Sevick-Muraca (Lafayette, Indiana); Joseph Pierce (Appleton, Wisconsin); Steven Richter (Brunswick, Georgia); Rajesh Shinde (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ganesh Balgi (Lebanon, Indiana); Jeffrey Kao (Lake Jackson, Texas); Huabei Jiang (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (20) and method are disclosed for the self-calibrating, on-line determination of size distribution f(x) and volume fraction φ of a number of particles (P) dispersed in a medium (M) by detecting one or more propagation characteristics of multiply scattered light from the particles (P). The multiply scattered light is re-emitted in response to exposure to a light source (21) configured to provide light at selected wavelengths. The determination includes calculating the isotropic scattering and absorption coefficients for the particles (P) by comparing the incident and detected light to determine a measurement corresponding to the propagation time through the scattering medium (M), and iteratively estimating the size distribution f(x) and volume fraction φ as a function of the coefficients for each of the wavelengths. An estimation approach based on an expected form of the distribution and the mass of the particles is also disclosed. Furthermore, techniques to determine a particle structure factor indicative of particle-to-particle interactions which vary with particle concentration and influence light scattering at high concentrations is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 09/297895 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187442 | Chinnock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optimum Technologies, Inc. (Southbridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randal B. Chinnock (Sturbridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey S. Melanson (Sturbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A variably-polarizing optical probe assembly. The assembly includes an optical probe having one or more optical light delivery channels that emit incident light from the sample end of the probe toward a sample being investigated, and one or more optical light-receiving channels that receive incident light from the sample. A variably-polarizing substrate assembly is coupled to the sample end of the probe. The substrate assembly includes an optically transmitting substrate and one or more discrete polarizer areas on a face of the substrate, each such polarizer area defining a polarization orientation, with the polarizer areas together defining one or more different polarization orientations. The substrate assembly is arranged relative to the probe such that one polarizer area covers at least one light delivery channel and one polarizer area covers at least one light-receiving channel. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835747 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07188053 | Nikitin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C. (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei V. Nikitin (Lawrence, Kansas); Mark G. Frei (Lawrence, Kansas); Naresh C. Bhavaraju (Lenexa, Kansas); Ivan Osorio (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer program, and system for real-time signal analysis providing characterization of temporally-evolving densities and distributions of signal features of arbitrary-type signals in a moving time window by tracking output of order statistic filters (also known as percentile, quantile, or rank-order filters). Given a raw input signal of arbitrary type, origin, or scale, the present invention enables automated quantification and detection of changes in the distribution of any set of quantifiable features of that signal as they occur in time. Furthermore, the present invention's ability to rapidly and accurately detect changes in certain features of an input signal can also enable prediction in cases where the detected changes associated with an increased likelihood of future signal changes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911031 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07186381 | Penner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald Mark Penner (Laguna Beach, California); Erich C. Walter (Irvine, California); Fred Favier (Saint Clemente de Riviere, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen gas sensor and/or switch fabricated from arrays nanowires composed of metal or metal alloys that have stable metal hydride phases. The sensor and/or switch response times make it quite suitable for measuring the concentration of hydrogen in a flowing gas stream. The sensor and/or switch preferably operates by measuring the resistance of several metal nanowires arrayed in parallel in the presence of hydrogen gas. The nanowires preferably comprise gaps or break junctions that can function as a switch that closes in the presence of hydrogen gas. Consequently, the conductivity of the nanowires of the sensor and/or switch increases in the presence of hydrogen |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/160926 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186512 | Martienssen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Eric J. Richards (St. Louis, Missouri); Zachary Lippmann (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Vincent Colot (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for determining the methylation profile of individuals and using the profiles to identify clones with desired traits. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606502 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186563 | Bressan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray A. Bressan (West Lafayette, Indiana); Paul M. Hasegawa (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to improving stress tolerance in plants including cold tolerance. HOS9 is a homeobox transcription factor that controls stress tolerance in plants by modulating the activity of a number of cold-responsive genes. Transgenic plant, cell, seed and expression vectors that include a molecule having a nucleic acid sequence derived from HOS9 confer or improve cold tolerance. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091100 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187173 | Raftery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Raftery (West Lafayette, Indiana); Robert E. Santini (West Lafayette, Indiana); Megan A. Macnaughtan (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-coil NMR probe using nonmagnetic diodes as switches located in close proximity to the radio-frequency circuit of the sample coils within the probe. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825856 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187330 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnna Dawn Powell (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anantha Chandrakasan (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna element includes a radiating antenna element having an elliptical shape disposed on a first surface of a substrate. A dielectric clearance region having an elliptical shape is disposed about the radiating antenna element to space the radiating antenna element from a ground plane. The clearance region is shaped such that a portion of the radiating element in which an antenna feed is disposed is proximate the ground plane. The antenna can also be provided having an elliptically shaped tuning region disposed within the radiating antenna element. The antenna is suitable for use in single-ended or differential ultra wide band (UWB) transmitting and/or receiving systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158905 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187441 | Sevick-Muraca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva Sevick-Muraca (Lafayette, Indiana); Joseph Pierce (Appleton, Wisconsin); Steven Richter (Brunswick, Georgia); Rajesh Shinde (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ganesh Balgi (Lebanon, Indiana); Jeffrey Kao (Lake Jackson, Texas); Huabei Jiang (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (20) and method are disclosed for the self-calibrating, on-line determination of size distribution f(x) and volume fraction φ of a number of particles (P) dispersed in a medium (M) by detecting one or more propagation characteristics of multiply scattered light from the particles (P). The multiply scattered light is re-emitted in response to exposure to a light source (21) configured to provide light at selected wavelengths. The determination includes calculating the isotropic scattering and absorption coefficients for the particles (P) by comparing the incident and detected light to determine a measurement corresponding to the propagation time through the scattering medium (M), and iteratively estimating the size distribution f(x) and volume fraction φ as a function of the coefficients for each of the wavelengths. An estimation approach based on an expected form of the distribution and the mass of the particles is also disclosed. Furthermore, techniques to determine a particle structure factor indicative of particle-to-particle interactions which vary with particle concentration and influence light scattering at high concentrations is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 09/297895 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187832 | Lidorikis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elefterios Lidorikis (Arlington, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mihai Ibanescu (Piatra Neamt, Romania); Yoel Fink (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A gap-soliton structure is provided. The gap-soliton structure includes a cladding structure having alternating layers of different index values. A core region is interposed between the alternating layers of index values. The core or the cladding structure includes one or more nonlinear materials so as to achieve gap-soliton bistability. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/671652 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07186367 | Hou 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) | Tan-Hung Hou (Poquoson, Virginia); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A double vacuum bag molding assembly with improved void management and laminate net shape control which provides a double vacuum environment for use in fabricating composites from prepregs containing air and/or volatiles such as reactive resin matrix composites or composites from solvent containing prepregs with non-reactive resins matrices. By using two vacuum environments during the curing process, a vacuum can be drawn during a B-stage of a two-step cycle without placing the composite under significant relative pressure. During the final cure stage, a significant pressure can be applied by releasing the vacuum in one of the two environments. Inner and outer bags are useful for creating the two vacuum environments with a perforated tool intermediate the two. The composite is placed intermediate a tool plate and a caul plate in the first environment with the inner bag and tool plate defining the first environment. The second environment is characterized by the outer bag which is placed over the inner bag and the tool plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110996 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/571 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186466 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio Aerospace Institute (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongming Zhu (Westlake, Ohio); Robert A. Miller (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal barrier coating composition is provided. The composition has a base oxide, a primary stabilizer, and at least two additional cationic oxide dopants. Preferably, a pair of group A and group B defect cluster-promoting oxides is used in conjunction with the base and primary stabilizer oxides. The new thermal barrier coating is found to have significantly lower thermal conductivity and better sintering resistance. In preferred embodiments, the base oxide is selected from zirconia and hafnia. The group A and group B cluster-promoting oxide dopants preferably are selected such that the group A dopant has a smaller cationic radius than the primary stabilizer oxide, and so that the primary stabilizer oxide has a small cationic radius than that of the group B dopant. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282859 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07187835 | Tuma 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) | Margaret Tuma (Strongsville, Ohio); Thomas G. Brown (Rochester, New York); Russell Gruhlke (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical filter includes a dielectric waveguide layer, supporting waveguide modes at specific wavelengths and receiving incident light, a corrugated film layer, composed of one of a metal and a semiconductor and positioned adjacent to a second surface of the waveguide layer and a sensor layer, wherein the sensor layer is capable of absorbing optical energy and generating a corresponding electrical signal. The metal film layer supports a plurality of plasmons, the plurality of plasmons producing a first field and is excited by a transverse mode of the waveguide modes at a wavelength interval. The first field penetrates the sensor layer and the sensor layer generates an electrical signal corresponding to an intensity of received incident light within the wavelength interval. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/044063 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07186624 | Welser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kopin Corporation (Taunton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger E. Welser (Providence, Rhode Island); Paul M. Deluca (Providence, Rhode Island); Noren Pan (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration and is composed of gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen is disclosed. The material is useful in forming the base layer of gallium arsenide based heterojunction bipolar transistors because it can be lattice matched to gallium arsenide by controlling the concentration of indium and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentration obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824697 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186978 | Bevan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Millennium Enginerring and Integration Company (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward James Bevan (Cambria, California); Max Michael Briggs (Palo Alto, California); John DiDomenico (Tuscon, Arizona); Robert W. Gedridge, Jr. (Lusby, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held, fleet deployable infrared camera with integrated hardware and software providing real time processing of infrared images. The camera senses variable temperature images over a selected object of interest and senses variable emissivities over the object. The camera also measures and corrects for reflected environmental radiation as well as corrections for the atmospheric path through which the object is viewed. A calibrated reference patch having known emissivity and reflectance is attached to an object of interest and viewed through the camera. The calibrated patch is used to provide correction for the environmental radiation reflected off the object. Once the environmental radiation correction is known, it can be used to correct measurements taken from the rest of the object of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967010 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07188354 | Lyons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leitch Incorporated (Chesapeke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Lyons (New Egypt, New Jersey); Alfonse A. Acampora (Staten Island, New York); John P. Beltz (Willingboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for seamlessly splicing a local commercial segment into an existing network time slot, without decoder buffer overflow or underflow. The vbv_delay of the commercial segment is manipulated (e.g., for a minimum delay or a maximum delay). The pictures from the commercial segment are output for at least a portion of the associated network time slot duration. A determination is made regarding the number of pictures remaining in a stored portion of the incoming network feed or the commercial segment and the output rate is adjusted as required. The vbv_delay of the stored network feed or the vbv_delay of the local commercial segment is adjusted to match the vbv_delay of the incoming network feed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/912433 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Interactive video distribution systems 725/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07186339 | Roos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Fredrich Roos (Dumfries, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ambient anaerobic digester system for anaerobic digestion of animal waste with biogas production and recovery is provided. The anaerobic digester system includes a substantially flexible bladder for anaerobically digesting the animal waste with biogas production and transmitting the biogas to at least one biogas storage container, biogas use device or a combination thereof. In a preferred form, the substantially flexible bladder has a waste inlet, a digester effluent outlet, one or more sludge access ports and a biogas outlet in a top surface thereof. The anaerobic digester system may inexpensively, simply, reliably, and effectively be used to treat animal waste without energy expenditure and little capital expense, thus minimizing pollution typically caused by animal waste. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/381967 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07187326 | Beadle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward R. Beadle (Melbourne, Florida); John F. Dishman (Palm Bay, Florida); Richard H. Anderson (Melbourne, Florida); Paul D. Anderson (Melbourne, Florida); Gayle Patrick Martin (Merritt Island, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmitted signal's higher order statistics of temporally dependent waveforms are exploited to geolocate low power signals. The geolocation is independent of the characteristics or encoded data of the transmitted waveform. The method uses spatial fourth order cumulants or spatial second order moments in a Blind Source Separation and generalized eigenvalue decomposition to determine unique matrix pencil eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The eigenvectors provide are orthogonal to the steering vector of the transmitted signal save one, which represents the steering vector. This property is used to determine Steering vectors, AoA or geolocation. The receiver includes a multi-element array and does not need a priori knowledge of the transmitted signal source to geolocate the target transmitter. The methods and apparatus for geolocation does not require typical demodulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714673 |
| 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 342/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07186521 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Lynch (Irvine, California); Xiaoning Bi (Irvine, California); Christine M. Gall (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides brain cells, such as normal brain cells, apolipoprotein E deficient brain cells, or apoE4 containing brain cells, that are treated with a compound which can modulate integrins and/or integrin receptors to produce increased sequestration of and/or accumulation of and/or uptake of Aβ, and/or changes in cathepsin D content and/or lysosomal dysfunction, and/or microglia activation in the brain cells. The present invention also provides methods for producing such cells and methods for using the cells for screening an agent or substance that modulates the sequestration of and/or accumulation of and/or uptake of Aβ, and/or lysosomal dysfunction, and/or changes in cathepsin D content and/or microglia activation in the brain cells. The method further provides a new therapeutic target, antagonism of glutamate receptors, for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases which are characterized by inter alia, abnormal amyloid uptake and/or accumulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/961381 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07186551 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenhua Xu (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated PAPSS2 nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as PAPSS2 allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to joint disease or cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294397 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 06, 2007.
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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