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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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| US 07191558 | Conroy 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) | Paul J. Conroy (Churchville, Maryland); Charles S. Leveritt (Jarrettsville, Maryland); John D. Demaree (Baltimore, Maryland); James Hirvonen (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic process for increasing the wear life of ferrous articles subjected to a high-temperature environment created by combustion of a propellant or fuel comprises selecting the propellant or fuel so that its combustion products include relatively large amounts of nitrogen, which nitrogen forms a protective nitride layer on the surface of the ferrous article. Disclosed is a specific embodiment of the invention for prolonging the wear life of gun barrels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985067 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/76.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07191639 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An on-chip coil is provided in a micromachined device for magnetic actuation of a nanoelectromechanical microcantilever. The novel geometry involves a three dimensional solenoid or planar coil carrying high current that generates a large enough magnetic field in its close proximity to a permalloy thin film patch or columnar magnet disposed on the distal end of the piezoresistive microcantilever to effectively interacts with the magnetic thin film deposited on the microcantilever. The device comprises an effective actuators which can be integrated with biofunctionalized cantilever arrays in hybrid semiconductor-microfluidics devices for the analysis and detection of biological analytes. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/815517 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07191694 | Gonzalez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rene' G. Gonzalez (Southfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An edge reinforcement for brittle armor plates is described and claimed herein for improving the ballistic performance of the outer peripheral margins of such plates to incoming threat projectiles. Typically, a transparent armor is positioned within a windowed opening of a security structure. Examples of contemplated security structures protected by my shields are civilian light-armored vehicles, military tactical trucks, and combat vehicles. My reinforced armor system deploys a shield of a hardened material, over and outboard of a brittle armor. Typically, this shield is positioned parallel planar to the brittle armor. If desired, my shield may extend slightly beyond the armor plate and mounting apparatuses. Fortuitously, the reinforced brittle armor plate has more strength than that of the central portion, or even exceeds it. Thereby, said plate will not be defeated merely because threat projectiles impact its weaker margins. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843649 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07191709 | Nechitailo |
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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) | Nicholas V. Nechitailo (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactive composite projectile includes a reactive composite material in a solid shape and an encasement material applied to and surrounding the solid shape for exerting compressive forces thereon. Additionally or alternatively, an elongate structure can be positioned in the solid shape. The elongate structure is made from a material having a mass density that is approximately 2 to 10 times the mass density of the reactive composite material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779555 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07191851 | Kolarczyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome C. Kolarczyk (Crystal Lake, Illinois); Joseph J. Wisniewski (Ringwood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a ground sensor assembly adapted for deployment from air to a selected ground location. The ground sensor assembly comprises an aerially deployable sensor housing which has upper and lower housing ends defining a longitudinally elongated aperture therebetween. A plurality of connected sensor modules are longitudinally inserted into the aperture between the upper and lower housing ends. Furthermore, an aerodynamic module is connected to the sensor modules and is disposed adjacent the upper housing end outside the aperture. This aerodynamic module has a plurality of stabilizers which radially extend outward therefrom and form a generally parallel relationship with the upper housing end. Such stabilizers provide aerodynamic stability during the deployment of the ground sensor assembly from the air to the selected ground location. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/320190 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192480 | Burrows |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee J. Burrows (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating ion exchange waveguides, such as lithium niobate or lithium tantalate waveguides in optical modulators and other optical waveguide devices, utilizes pressurized annealing to further diffuse and limit exchange of the ions and includes ion exchanging the crystalline substrate with a source of ions and annealing the substrate by pressurizing a gas atmosphere containing the lithium niobate or lithium tantalate substrate above normal atmospheric pressure, heating the substrate to a temperature ranging from about 150 degrees Celsius to about 1000 degrees Celsius, maintaining pressure and temperature to effect greater ion diffusion and limit exchange, and cooling the structure to an ambient temperature at an appropriate ramp down rate. In another aspect of the invention a powder of the same chemical composition as the crystalline substrate is introduced into the anneal process chamber to limit the crystalline substrate from outgassing alkaline earth metal oxide during the anneal period. In yet another aspect of the invention an anneal container is provided that allows for crystalline substrates to be annealed in the presence of powder without contaminating the substrate with the powder during the anneal process. Waveguides manufactured in accordance with the method exhibit superior drift performance. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919695 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192491 | Ingvarsson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Snorri T. Ingvarsson (White Plains, New York); Roger H. Koch (Amawalk, New York); Stuart S. Parkin (San Jose, California); Gang Xiao (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | In order to dampen magnetization changes in magnetic devices, such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) used in high speed Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM), a transition metal selected from the 4d transition metals and 5d transition metals is alloyed into the magnetic layer to be dampened. In a preferred form, a magnetic permalloy layer is alloyed with osmium (Os) in an atomic concentration of between 4% and 15% of the alloy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/195178 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192629 | Lammertink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rob G. H. Lammertink (Nijverdal, Netherlands); Todd Thorsen (Watertown, Massachusetts); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices such as capillaries for capillary electrophoresis are formed by contacting a gel precursor with a substrate comprising a permeable material that has higher permeability for organic solvents than water. The gel precursor is made of a water soluble polymer having hydrophobic moieties in a solvent mixture comprising water and an organic solvent, wherein in the absence of the organic solvent, the polymer forms a self-assembled gel. The organic solvent is allowed to permeate through the permeable material resulting in the formation of the self-assembled gel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269475 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/36.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192642 | Veedu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sreekumar T. Veedu (Atlanta, Georgia); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a film comprising greater than 80 wt % single-wall carbon nanotubes wherein the tensile modulus is at least about 6 GPa at 0.2% strain and the conductivity of the film is at least about 70,000 S/m. The tensile modulus is typically about 8 GPa at 0.2% strain. The method for making the film comprises preparing a solution of single-wall carbon nanotubes in a superacid, such as oleum containing approximately 20 to 30% sulfur trioxide, under a dry, oxygen-free atmosphere. The solution is placed on a surface in a moisture-containing atmosphere, wherein the solution absorbs moisture and acid leaches out. The film is washed to further remove acid, dried, and, optionally, subjected to a heat treatment. Besides free-standing films, coatings of single-wall carbon nanotubes can be made on a variety of surfaces including polymers, glass, metals, and ceramics. The surfaces can be flat planes, fibers or contour shapes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386370 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192649 | Jouet 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) | R. Jason Jouet (Washington, District of Columbia); Alfred G. Stern (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); David M. Rosenberg (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective passivation layer is formed on the surface of an aluminum mass, such as bare aluminum particles, creating a protected aluminum mass. Formation of the protective layer onto the aluminum mass may occur from an in-situ process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637090 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192661 | Tauber 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) | Arthur Tauber (Elberon, New Jersey); Robert D. Finnegan (West Long Branch, New Jersey); William D. Wilber (Neptune, New Jersey); Steven C. Tidrow (Silver Springs, Maryland); Donald W. Eckart (Wall, New Jersey); William C. Drach (West Long Branch, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Rare earth metal containing compounds of the formula Sr2LuSbO6 have been prepared with high critical temperature thin film superconductor structures, and can be fabricated into an antenna, as well as being used in other ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and hybrid device structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/785510 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192728 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Quinn Deveraux (San Diego, California); Guy S Salvesen (Encinitas, California); Ryosuke Takahashi (San Diego, California); Natalie Roy (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an action between an inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein and members of the caspase family of cell death proteases, for example, an interaction of the X chromosome linked IAP (XIAP) and caspase-3, caspase-7 or caspase-9, wherein the IAP regulates the activity of the caspases. The invention provides screening assays for identifying agents that alter the specific association of an IAP such as XIAP, c-IAP-1 or c-IAP-2 and a caspase such as caspase-3 or caspase-7. The invention also provides screening assays for identifying agents that alter the specific association of an IAP such as XIAP, c-IAP-1 or c-IAP-2 and a pro-caspase such as pro-caspase-9. In addition, the invention also provides methods for identifying agents that modulate the activity of a caspase in the presence of an IAP and that regulate the activation of a pro-caspase by an IAP. The invention further provides methods of reducing the severity of a pathologic condition in an individual by administering to the individual an agent that alters the caspase inhibitory activity of an IAP. In addition, the invention provides methods of modulating the ability of a population of cells to survive ex vivo by contacting the cells with an agent that alters the caspase inhibitory activity of an IAP in the cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/799994 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192787 | DeBrosse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kenneth DeBrosse (Colchester, Vermont); Yu Lu (Hopewell Junction, New York); Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | MRAMs are provided with cells offering low current leakage for partially selected cells. MRAM cells are made with magnetic tunnel junctions having barriers that meet predetermined low barrier heights and predetermined thicknesses. The barrier heights are preferably about 1.5 eV or less. The predetermined thicknesses are calculated to meet power and speed requirements. The predetermined low barrier heights and predetermined thicknesses modify a nonlinear term relating current through to voltage across the magnetic tunnel junction. The modification of the nonlinear term also modifies the amount of current that flows through a magnetic tunnel junction at various voltages. At low voltages, current through the magnetic tunnel junction will be disproportionately lower than current through a conventional magnetic tunnel junction. This decreases leakage current through partially selected MRAM cells and power. At higher voltages, current through the magnetic tunnel junction is adequate for a wide variety of power and speed applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/316141 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192816 | Fechner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Fechner (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device structure 100 formed using a self-aligned body tie (SABT) process. The SABT process connects the silicon body of a partially depleted (PD) structure to a bias terminal. In addition, the SABT process creates a self-aligned area of silicon around the edge of the active areas, as defined by the standard transistor active area mask, providing an area efficient device layout. By reducing the overall gate area, the speed and yield of the device may be increased. In addition, the process flow minimizes the sensitivity of critical device parameters due to misalignment and critical dimension control. The SABT process also suppresses the parasitic gate capacitance created with standard body tie techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096014 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192993 | Sarangapani 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) | Srinivasan Sarangapani (Walpole, Massachusetts); Ashok Kumar (Champaign, Illinois); Curtis Thies (Henderson, Nevada); Larry D. Stephenson (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid self-healing coating, incorporating microcapsules filled with tailored repair formulations, repairs itself upon physical compromise after curing. In one embodiment, a commercially available paint primer is mixed with a pre-specified amount of these microcapsules. After the coating has cured on the substrate to which it is applied, any physical compromise of the cured coating results in the microcapsules bursting to release a liquid that fills and seals the compromised volume of the coating. In applications where paint is used to provide corrosion protection, the liquid contains anti-corrosion material as well as suitable diluents and film-forming compounds. In another embodiment, the microcapsules may be provided separately to enhance commercially available products. For example, if a paint formulation is known a priori, specifically configured microcapsules packaged separately from the paint and designed for use with the paint formulation, may be added to the commercially available product just prior to application. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/377642 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193037 | Brott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia); New Century Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence L. Brott (West Chester, Ohio); Rajesh R. Naik (Dayton, Ohio); Morley O. Stone (Bellbrook, Ohio); Daniel C. Carter (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for detecting infrared radiation is provided which comprises a temperature-sensing helical coiled-coil protein such as TlpA, CC1, collagen or myosin, incorporated into an electrically conductive film or gel deposited onto an electrically conductive medium such as an electrode, means for recording changes in conductivity or resistance of the conductive film or gel caused by the presence of infrared radiation and the effect of the infrared radiation on the thermal-sensing protein, and means to analyze the changes in conductivity or resistance in the conductive film caused by the infrared radiation so as to determine if infrared radiation is present. By virtue of the present invention, a “biomimetic” infrared sensor is provided which can integrate a recombinantly produced thermally sensitive protein in a conductive polymer matrix, such as a film or gel, so as to provide for the first time a low-cost, lightweight, conformable, and even possibly disposable, infrared detecting device having high sensitivity and excellent dynamic range. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/313010 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193077 | Dellinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Dellinger (Boulder, Colorado); Agnieszka B. Sierzchala (Boulder, Colorado); Marvin H. Caruthers (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Precursors for use in the synthesis of polynucleotides and methods of using the precursors in synthesizing polynucleotides are disclosed. The precursors include a heterocyclic base having an exocyclic amine group and a substituted or unsubstituted triaryl methyl protecting group bound to the exocyclic amine group. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652064 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193098 | Lucey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derrick W. Lucey (Amherst, New York); David J. MacRae (Pendleton, New York); Paras N. Prasad (Buffalo, New York); Orville T. Beachley, Jr. (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing semiconductor nanocrystal cores, core-shell, core-buffer-shell, and multiple layer systems is disclosed. The process involves a non-coordinating solvent and in situ surfactant generation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804629 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193214 | Pittman |
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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) | William C. Pittman (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Parametric processing capability is added to a typical sensor so that a target object can be more clearly distinguished from the background clutter in a given scenery. A polarizer with several segments of different polarization orientations is used to improve the typical sensor. The segments are sequentially advanced to pass therethrough infrared radiation images of pre-selected polarization orientations which are then collected by respective polarized frame grabbers. Image processing circuit processes these images to yield the polarization difference between any given pair of orthogonal polarizations. In a surveillance network, the polarization differences are subsequently used in the control center, to which such sensors are connected, to enhance the distinction of the observed objects against the background clutter suspended in the propagation medium. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109022 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193215 | DiMarzio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don DiMarzio (Northport, New York); Robert Silberstein (New York, New York); John Weir (Huntington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system for imaging the surface of a substrate through a coating on the substrate. The system includes an infrared light source positioned to cast an infrared light upon the substrate to thereby create reflected light. A focal plane array may be positioned to receive the reflected light and generate an image therefrom. At least one optical filter may be disposed between the substrate and the focal plane array so as to pass only coating transparent wavelengths of the reflected light along an optical path between the infrared light source and the focal plane array thereby visually revealing irregular structural features of the substrate as at least one image. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211304 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193350 | Blackburn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Blackburn (Encinitas, California); Selahattin Ozcelik (Corpus Christi, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroactive polymer (EAP) structure. The structure includes at least one EAP strand. An EAP strand includes a plurality of EAP segments and a plurality of insulators. An EAP segment includes an EAP tile and an activator. The activator facilitates activation of the EAP tile. The plurality of EAP segments and the plurality of insulators have a concatenated configuration, wherein adjacent EAP segments are electrically separated by one of the plurality of insulators, and wherein the EAP segments are operatively coupled to the plurality of insulators. A method for the system is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066377 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193352 | Ballato 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) | Arthur Ballato (Oceanport, New Jersey); Richard H. Wittstruck (Howell, New Jersey); Xiaojun Tong (WuXi, China PRC); Yicheng Lu (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin film bulk acoustic wave sensors with coatings of biological and chemical materials, multiple electrode depositions and a piezo-active thin film transducer layer are hosted on a substrate. The thin film bulk acoustic wave sensor suite, or T-BASS, produces a low-voltage, IC-compliant thickness-directed electric field that is substantially uniform over a substantial portion of the active area of the BAW structure. The BAWs produced are essentially extensional plane waves propagating away from the substrate surface and having phase progression substantially oblique to the substrate surface. For BAW applications requiring sensing by an active layer, it would be most desirable to have an electrode structure that is both IC-compliant and can be energized from a low-voltage source of electrical energy. The thin film BAW sensors are compatible with IC fabrication and processing techniques, such as photolithography. Both single channel and multiple channel thin film bulk acoustic wave sensors are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/081894 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193446 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung Cai Ngo (Austin, Texas); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Harmander Singh Deogun (Lincoln, Nebraska); AJ Kleinosowski (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logic circuit incorporating reduced leakage state-retaining devices reduces power consumption of processors and other systems incorporating dynamic circuits. A keeper circuit provides a low leakage retention of the state of the output stage of the dynamic circuit so that an output circuit foot device can be disabled except when required for a transition in the output of the dynamic circuit. The keeper circuit includes a transistor having a smaller area than a corresponding transistor in the output circuit, thus reducing leakage through the gate of the output circuit when the keeper circuit is holding the output and the output circuit foot device is disabled. A self-clocked control of the output circuit foot device can be provided via a delayed version of the dynamic logic gate output, or may be provided by an external control circuit that generates a delayed version of the precharge clock or a multi-cycle signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992486 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193548 | Kaplan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Kaplan (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) error mismatch shaper. The shaper comprises a switching arrangement with a delta-sigma modulator having analog signal processing components. The analog signal processing components allow the spectral behavior of the shaper to be controlled. The switching arrangement comprises a control circuit. The control circuit is a tunable, pipelined control circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824569 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193556 | Pereira 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) | Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for measuring a position and orientation of an object in flight relative to a reference coordinate system is provided. The system including: three or more illuminating sources, each disposed in a predefined position, the three or more illuminating sources together emitting a plurality of distinct polarized radio frequency signals to provide temporally synchronized, pulsed radio frequency signals that illuminate the object; one or more waveguide cavities disposed on the object for receiving the plurality of distinct polarized radio frequency signals from each of the three or more illuminating sources in flight; and a processor for measuring a time for the plurality of distinct polarized radio frequency signals to propagate from each of the three or more illuminating sources to the one or more waveguide cavities and the level of signal received at the waveguide cavities and to determine a position of the object relative to the three or more illuminating sources based on the measured times and the orientation of the object relative to the reference coordinate system based on the measure levels of received signals. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708008 |
| 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 342/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193558 | Gerlach 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) | Karl R. Gerlach (Chesapeake Beach, Maryland); Shannon D. Blunt (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive radar processing system includes an antenna array for transmitting a radar signal and for receiving a return radar signal, and a signal processor programmed with an enhanced FRACTA algorithm (FRACTA.E). The basic FRACTA algorithm is enhanced to FRACTA.E with (any or all of) five enhancements, versions 1–5. Version 1 is a stopping criterion, for censoring samples, that is adaptive to a radar return data set. The inclusion of a stopping criterion improves the computational speed of FRACTA.E thereby improving its efficiency. Version 2 uses global censoring. Version 3 uses fast reiterative censoring. Version 4 uses segmenting of data vectors for AMF application. Version 5 uses Knowledge-aided covariance estimation (KACE) to reduce the required sample support that may be necessary in non-homogeneous environments, providing substantially the same level of detection performance with considerably less training data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943647 |
| 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 342/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193567 | Ryken, Jr. 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) | Marvin L. Ryken, Jr. (Oxnard, California); Albert F. Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Telemetry antenna which uses microstrip antenna technology to cover the 2200 to 2300 MHz TM frequency band and a GPS microstrip antenna to cover the L1 Band at a frequency of approximately 1575 MHz. The antenna 12 fabricated from high dielectric constant material to reduce the size of the antenna which has a diameter of 1.364 inches. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264333 |
| 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 07193691 | Weber |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Weber (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A focal plane architecture is provided which includes direct reading of an array of infrared detectors, each coupled to its own threshold circuit, the output of which is coupled to one input of a NAND gate, with the other input to the NAND gate being provided with a delayed threshold circuit output, thus to permit discrimination against ground clutter. This architecture results in an ultra fast frame read out, inherent discrimination of compact targets, photon counting at infrared wavelengths, and programmable range gating by exterior selection of array events within an expected return time for a transmitted pulse. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/529982 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193771 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc. (Lousiville, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane D. Smith (Louisville, Colorado); Wayne S. Pelouch (McKinney, Texas); Iain T. McKinnie (Superior, Colorado); Josef R. Unternährer (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Power scalable, rectangular, multi-mode, self-imaging, waveguide technologies are used with various combination of large aperture configurations, 20, 50, 80, 322, 324, 326, 328, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338, Gaussian 360 and super-Gaussian 350 beam profiles, thermal management configurations 100, flared 240 and tapered 161 waveguide shapes, axial or zig-zag light propagation paths, diffractive wall couplers 304, 306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 320 and phase controller 200, flexibility 210, phased arrays 450, 490, beam combiners 530, 530′, and separators 344, 430, and other features to generate, transport, and deliver high power laser beams. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372981 |
| 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 359/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193782 | Menon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Menon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dario Gil (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical manipulation system is disclosed that includes an array of focusing elements, which focuses the energy beamlets from an array of beamlet sources into an array of focal spots in order to individually manipulate a plurality of samples on an adjacent substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748058 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/626 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193892 | Katti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetoresistive apparatus and method of operation with improved switching characteristics is provided. Switching of a magnetic direction of a magnetic layer of a magnetoresistive bit is promoted by parallel rotation of local magnetic direction of ends of the bit toward alignment with a hard-axis of the bit. Thus, an embodiment provides for expanded hard-axis magnetic volume of the bit ends to support hard-axis magnetization through bit shape alteration or doping, for example. A method provides for applying a hard-axis magnetic field to the bit ends for initiating switching and applying an easy-axis magnetic field for completing switching. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914327 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194111 | Schaum 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) | Alan P. Schaum (Alexandria, Virginia); Rulon Mayer (Garret Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for detecting a target or targets in a surrounding background locale based on target signatures obtained by a hyperspectral imaging sensor used the hyperspectral imaging sensor to collect raw target signature data and background locale data during a first data collection mission. The data is processed to generate a database including a plurality of target signatures and background data relating to the background locale. The hyperspectral imaging sensor is later used to collect further background data during a further, current data collecting mission so as to provide continuously updated background data, in real time. A covariance equalization algorithm is implemented with respect to the background data contained in the database and the updated background data collected during the current mission to effect transformation of each target signature of the database into a transformed target signature. A detection algorithm which employs the resultant transformed target signature is used to produce detection information related to the target or targets. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414569 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194114 | Schneiderman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Schneiderman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining a set of sub-classifiers for a detector of an object detection program are presented. According to one embodiment, the system may include a candidate coefficient-subset creation module, a training module in communication with the candidate coefficient-subset creation module, and a sub-classifier selection module in communication with the training module. The candidate coefficient-subset creation module may create a plurality of candidate subsets of coefficients. The coefficients are the result of a transform operation performed on a two-dimensional (2D) digitized image, and represent corresponding visual information from the 2D image that is localized in space, frequency, and orientation. The training module may train a sub-classifier for each of the plurality of candidate subsets of coefficients. The sub-classifier selection module may select certain of the plurality of sub-classifiers. The selected sub-classifiers may comprise the components of the detector. Also presented are systems and methods for detecting instances of an object in a 2D (two-dimensional) image. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/266139 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194132 | Stein |
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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) | David Walter Stein (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting anomalies from multidimensional data comprises: a) receiving multidimensional data; b) estimating background parameters of a normal compositional model from the multidimensional data; c) estimating abundance values of the normal compositional model from the background parameters and the multidimensional data; d) determining an anomaly detection statistic from the multidimensional data, the background parameters, and abundance values; and e) classifying an observation from the multidimensional data as either a background reference or an anomaly from the anomaly detection statistic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454116 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194175 | Rodgers 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) | John Scott Rodgers (San Diego, California); Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI (NC#97719). The structure includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer and a 3D photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332437 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194197 | Wendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Global Solar Energy, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Wendt (Tucson, Arizona); Scott Wiedeman (Tucson, Arizona); Jeffrey S. Britt (Tucson, Arizona); Douglas G. Mason (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/613951 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194385 | Flautner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARM Limited (Cambridge, United Kingdom); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krisztian Flautner (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Trevor Nigel Mudge (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A target processor performance level is calculated from a utilisation history of a processor in performance of a plurality of processing tasks. The method comprises calculating a task work value indicating processor utilisation in performing a given processing task within a predetermined task time-interval and calculating a target processor performance level in dependence upon the task work value. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687928 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194389 | Damron |
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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) | James J. Damron (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A procedure automatically resolves vertical differences commonly found when merging and combining Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from different collection and production systems. These systems may employ technologies used in single pass Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR), and photogrammetry, as well as DEMs derived from contour based elevation data and GPS point data. This procedure employs sophisticated software checking routines for automatically identifying horizontal and vertical datums used by the differing systems as well as any geoid models employed by them. Normally, all of these sources use different vertical datums and may use different horizontal datums. A preferred embodiment of the present invention automatically recognizes the vertical datums, including those that are associated with the geoid models and the 3-D datums that conventional GIS does not support at present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395168 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194390 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Schwartz (San Diego, California); Jeffery C. Allen (San Diego, California); J. William Helton (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A predictor allows the computation of the greatest lower bound of the noise figure pertaining uniformly over the operating band of a wideband amplifier. This computation is done directly from noise-parameter data of the amplifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/459162 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194395 | Genovese |
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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) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing hazardous incident decision support and training includes a user interface component that receives situation definition data, a hazard assessment component and a decision aid. Decision support advice and decision prompts are presented by the system in response to the situation definition interface and hazard assessment. The hazard assessment and expert advice of the system are updated with elapsed time. In another embodiment of the present invention, graphical user interfaces are provided to display a set of menu entries wherein individual menu entries represent a hazardous incident characteristic. The user may select one or more of the menu entries to create a situation definition. Such definitions may be used, for example, to identify a hazardous agent based upon user-inputted signs and symptoms data. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/781512 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194463 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhao (Campbell, California); Horst W. Haussecker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes methods and systems for tasking nodes in a distributed ad hoc network. A node is selected to participate in a data gathering or a routing task based on its potential contribution to information gain and the cost associated with performing the task such as communication bandwidth usage. This invention describes methods and systems for implementing various selection strategies at each node, using local knowledge about the network. For resource-limited sensor networks, the information-driven data gathering and routing strategies significantly improve the scalability and quality of sensing systems, while minimizing resource cost. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446115 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194769 | Lippmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Lippmann (Wayland, Massachusetts); Chris Scott (Newton, Massachusetts); Kendra Kratkiewicz (Shirley, Massachusetts); Michael Artz (Catonsville, Maryland); Kyle W. Ingols (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used for assessing the security of a network. Pruned attack trees are generated using a forward chaining, breadth-first technique representing the attack paths of a possible attacker in the network. A vulnerability score is determined for each network and attacker starting point using attack loss values assigned to each host and information extracted from the attack tree(s) concerning compromised hosts. Different hypothetical alternatives may be evaluated to improve security of the network and each alternative may be evaluated by recomputing the network vulnerability score and comparing the recomputed score to the original network vulnerability score. Also disclosed is a method for determining end-to-end connectivity of a network. The resulting end-to-end connectivity information is used in generating the pruned attack tree. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734083 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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07192579 — Methods of gene therapy using nucleic acid sequences for ATP-binding cassette transporter
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); United States of America, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, c/o National Institute of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rando Allikmets (Frederick, Maryland); Kent L. Anderson (Houston, Texas); Michael Dean (Frederick, Maryland); Mark Leppert (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard A. Lewis (Houston, Texas); Yixin Li (Houston, Texas); James R. Lupski (Houston, Texas); Jeremy Nathans (Baltimore, Maryland); Amir Rattner (Baltimore, Maryland); Noah F. Shroyer (Houston, Texas); Nanda Singh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Philip Smallwood (Woodbine, Maryland); Hui Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of an ATP binding cassette transporter and mutated sequences thereof associated with macular degeneration. Methods of detecting agents that modify ATP-binding cassette transporter comprising combining purified ATP binding cassette transporter and at least one agent suspected of modifying the ATP binding cassette transporter an observing a change in at least one characteristic associated with ATP binding cassette transporter. Methods of detecting macular degeneration is also embodied by the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336219 |
| 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 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192593 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Silver Spring, Maryland); Alexander C. Schmidt (Washington, District of Columbia); Anna P. Durbin (Takoma Park, Maryland); Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Tao Tao (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric parainfluenza viruses (PIVs) incorporate a PIV vector genome or antigenome and one or more antigenic determinant(s) of a heterologous PIV or non-PIV pathogen. These chimeric viruses are infectious and attenuated in humans and other mammals and are useful in vaccine formulations for eliciting an immune responses against one or more PIVs, or against a PIV and non-PIV pathogen. Also provided are isolated polynucleotide molecules and vectors incorporating a chimeric Ply genome or antigenome which includes a partial or complete PIV vector genome or antigenome combined or integrated with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) encoding antigenic determinant(s) of a heterologous PIV or non-PIV pathogen. |
| FILED | Friday, December 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/733692 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192693 | Bryant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephanie J. Bryant (Shoreline, Washington); Kip D. Hauch (Lynnwood, Washington); Buddy D. Ratner (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods for forming a photopatterned hydrogel. In some embodiments, the methods comprise the step of exposing a solution comprising a monomer, a crosslinking agent, and a photoinitiator to a pattern of light comprising a first and a second light intensity for a period of time and under suitable conditions for the first light intensity to induce essentially complete conversion of polymerizable groups on the monomer and the crosslinking agent to form a patterned hydrogel, and for the second light intensity to induce partial conversion of the polymerizable groups on the monomer and the crosslinking agent to form partially polymerized polymers that remain soluble. In some embodiments, the first light intensity is lower than the second light intensity. In another aspect, the invention provides methods for forming porous, photopatterned hydrogels. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/067480 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192705 | Griffith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Griffith (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Kiyoto Kurima (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Edward Wilcox (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Friedman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting hearing loss or a predisposition to hearing loss in an animal, which comprises detecting at least one mutation in a gene encoding transduction-1 (TDC1) in a test sample obtained from the animal. The invention also provides a method of determining the level of nucleic acid comprising a wild-type TDC1 gene and/or a mutant TDC1 gene in a test sample obtained from an animal. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/487887 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192708 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Jing Li (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting the presence of an ion includes contacting a nucleic acid enzyme with a sample suspected of containing the ion, where the enzyme contains a ribonucleotide and is dependent on the ion to produce a product from a substrate, and measuring an amount of the product produced. The ion is Pb2+, and is in the presence of other ions. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/702676 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192711 | Olopade |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arch Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olufunmilayo I. Olopade (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel nucleic acid and peptide compositions comprising methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) and methods of use for MTAP amino acid sequences and DNA segments comprising MTAP in the diagnosis of human cancers and development of MTAP-specific antibodies. Also disclosed are methods for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors and other proliferative cell disorders, and identification of tumor suppressor genes and gene products from the human 9p21-p22 chromosome region. Such methods are useful in the diagnosis of multiple tumor types such as bladder cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, lymphomas, gliomas, melanomas, and leukemias. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087072 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192713 | Verdine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory L. Verdine (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian E. Schafmeister (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel stabilized crosslinked compounds having secondary structure motifs, libraries of these novel compounds, and methods for the synthesis of these compounds libraries thereof. The synthesis of these novel stabilized compounds involves (1) synthesizing a peptide from a selected number of natural or non-natural amino acids, wherein said peptide comprises at least two moieties capable of undergoing reaction to promote carbon-carbon bond formation; and (2) contacting said peptide with a reagent to generate at least one crosslinker and to effect stabilization of a secondary structure motif. The present invention, in a preferred embodiment, provides stabilized p53 donor helical peptides. Additionally, the present invention provides methods for disrupting the p53/MDM2 binding interaction comprising (1) providing a crosslinked stabilized α-helical structure; and (2) contacting said crosslinked stabilized α-helical structure with MDM2. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/574086 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07192714 | Herz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joachim Herz (Dallas, Texas); Petra May (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for modeling and detecting LDL receptor transmembrane signaling by detecting proteolysis of an LDL receptor transmembrane domain. The method comprises the steps of: a) providing a sample comprising a cell membrane comprising (i) a polypeptide comprising an LDL receptor transmembrane domain fused to a C-terminal tail, and (ii) a protease which specifically cleaves the domain and thereby releases the tail from the membrane; b) incubating the sample under conditions wherein the protease cleaves the domain and thereby releases the tail from the membrane; and c) detecting a resultant released tail. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/977155 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07192715 | Harley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Harley (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Judith A. James (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Data consistent with autoimmune disease being caused by Epstein-Barr virus are shown. Based on this evidence, an effective vaccine would prevent the autoimmune disease in those vaccinated, modified or administered so that the vaccine is not itself capable of inducing autoimmune disease. In the case of anti-Sm, structures to be avoided in an Epstein-Barr virus-derived vaccine have been identified. Differences have been identified in the immune responses to Epstein-Barr infection between individuals who develop a specific autoimmune disease and those who do not. These differences are used to distinguish those who are at greater risk for developing specific autoimmune diseases from those who are a lesser risk. Assuming Epstein-Barr virus causes autoimmune disease and that Epstein-Barr virus remains latent in the patient for life, reactivation of the virus from the latent state is important in generating or maintaining the autoimmune response that culminates in autoimmune disease. Cells infected with latent virus may also encourage autoimmunity. Based on the understanding that reactivation or latency are important to produce or sustain autoimmunity, then therapies directed against Epstein-Barr virus will also be effective therapies for the autoimmune manifestations of disease for which Epstein-Barr virus is responsible. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/012756 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 07192728 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Quinn Deveraux (San Diego, California); Guy S Salvesen (Encinitas, California); Ryosuke Takahashi (San Diego, California); Natalie Roy (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an action between an inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein and members of the caspase family of cell death proteases, for example, an interaction of the X chromosome linked IAP (XIAP) and caspase-3, caspase-7 or caspase-9, wherein the IAP regulates the activity of the caspases. The invention provides screening assays for identifying agents that alter the specific association of an IAP such as XIAP, c-IAP-1 or c-IAP-2 and a caspase such as caspase-3 or caspase-7. The invention also provides screening assays for identifying agents that alter the specific association of an IAP such as XIAP, c-IAP-1 or c-IAP-2 and a pro-caspase such as pro-caspase-9. In addition, the invention also provides methods for identifying agents that modulate the activity of a caspase in the presence of an IAP and that regulate the activation of a pro-caspase by an IAP. The invention further provides methods of reducing the severity of a pathologic condition in an individual by administering to the individual an agent that alters the caspase inhibitory activity of an IAP. In addition, the invention provides methods of modulating the ability of a population of cells to survive ex vivo by contacting the cells with an agent that alters the caspase inhibitory activity of an IAP in the cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/799994 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192735 | Lambalot et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph H. Lambalot (Wrentham, Massachusetts); Amy M. Gehring (Beulah, Michigan); Ralph Reid (San Francisco, California); Christopher T. Walsh (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to isolated phosphopantetheinyl transferases, such as the E. coli acyl carrier protein synthase, which transfer a phosphopantetheinyl group onto a substrate. The enzyme can be purified from a natural source, produced recombinantly, or synthetically. Accordingly, the invention provides compositions and kits including phosphopantetheinyl transferases and host cells expressing phosphopantetheinyl transferases. The invention also provides nucleic acids encoding phosphopantetheinyl transferases and vectors comprising such nucleic acids. The invention further provides methods for phosphopantetheinylating a substrate in vitro or in vivo and methods for producing antibiotics in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/261049 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192739 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Allen R. Buskirk (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Ligand-dependent inteins allow for modulation of a protein's activity in vivo. Upon binding of the ligand to the ligand-dependent intein inserted into the protein of interest, the hybrid protein undergoes protein splicing removing the intein. The activity of the spliced protein is then restored. A 4-hydroxytamoxifen-dependent intein based on the M. tuberculosis RecA intein is prepared and demonstrated in a variety of exteins contexts. The invention provides a system for engineering other ligand-dependent inteins and using them, including the ligand-dependent inteins themselves, hybrid proteins with the inserted ligand-dependent inteins, polynucleotides encoding inteins and hybrid proteins, and engineered cells. Kits with the materials and reagents necessary for preparing and using ligand-dependent inteins are also included. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093808 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192779 | Shackleton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cedric Shackleton (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a non-invasive assay for the detection of a SLOS affected individual by determining the ratio of at least one of the specific SLOS steroid analytes, dehydro-estriol (8-DHE3) and a dehydro-pregnanetriol (7-DHPT) to their normal steroid counterparts estriol (E3) and pregnanetriol (PT), respectively. 8-DHE3 and 7-DHPT represent metabolites which accumulate in the blood and urine of an individual with SLOS or an individual carrying a SLOS affected fetus. The invention provides for a reliable and reproducible method of screening women for SLOS affected fetuses early on in pregnancy. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/949490 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192914 | Marth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamey D. Marth (San Diego, California); Lesley G. Ellies (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for treating and preventing atherosclerosis other undesired blood clotting. The methods for treating and preventing atherosclerosis and related conditions involve administering to a mammal an agent that reduces activity of an ST3Gal IV sialyltransferase, which results in enhanced clearance of von Willebrand Factor (vWF) from the mammal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/089525 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 07192916 | Jessell 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) | Thomas M. Jessell (New York, New York); Yasuto Tanabe (Kyoto, Japan); Christopher William (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides isolated nucleic acids encoding a motor neuron restricted MNR2 protein, and a homeobox HB9 protein. Also provided are purified MNR2 and HB9 proteins, antibodies recognizing these proteins, transgenic animals expressing these proteins, and functionally equivalent analogs of these proteins. Finally, methods are disclosed for inducing differentiation of somatic motor neurons, and for treating diseases related to the lack of normally functioning motor neurons, neurodegenerative diseases, acute nervous system injury, and neuromuscular disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/820598 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192921 | Laakkonen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pirjo Laakkonen (Helsinki, Finland); Kimmo Porkka (Helsinki, Finland); Jason A. Hoffman (La Jolla, California); Erkki Ruoslahti (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature. The invention also provides a method of directing a moiety to tumor lymphatic vasculature in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/290385 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192930 | Hefeneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven H. Hefeneider (Portland, Oregon); Sharon L. McCoy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and peptide for regulating cellular activity includes a panel of synthesized peptides that have biological effects on inhibiting or enhancing cellular activity. Selected peptides can be used as therapy to reduce and/or inhibit, or initiate and/or enhance, an inflammatory response in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178316 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192934 | Kaslow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Kaslow (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Takafumi Tsuboi (Shigenobu-cho, Japan); Motomi Torii (Tobe-cho, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel methods and compositions for blocking transmission of Plasmodium vivax which cause malaria. In particular, Pvs25 and Pvs28 polypeptides, variants, including deglycosylated forms, and fusion proteins thereof, are disclosed which, when administered to a susceptible organism, induce an immune response against a 25 kD and 28 kD protein, respectively, on the surface of Plasmodium vivax zygotes and ookinetes. This immune response in the susceptible organism can block transmission of malaria. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/554960 |
| 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 07192939 | Strobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Eugene Ford (Tok, Alaska); James K. Harper (Spanish Fork, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the novel isolated 12–30 strain of Pestalotiopsis microspora capable of producing novel antioxidant and antimycotic agents. The present invention also relates to the novel isolated 3,5,7 trisubstituted isobenzofuranone and derivatives thereof, methods of isolating the novel isobenzofuranone from cultures P. microspora 12–30, and to novel uses of the compound as an antioxidant and antimycotic agent. The present invention further relates to a novel 1,5,7 trisubstituted 1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran and derivatives thereof, methods of isolating this novel compound from cultures of Pestalotiopsis microspora 12–30, and to uses thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356320 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193053 | Huang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Eric Huang (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to unique variant forms of HIF-1 alpha polypeptide that are stable under hypoxic and nonhypoxic conditions and their use in the treatment of disorders involving oxygen homeostasis. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/831380 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193125 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Moore (Bellaire, Texas); Ping Wei (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 compounds that modulate CAR receptor activity, compounds likely to have CAR-mediated toxicity, and analogs of these compounds with less potential toxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/219590 |
| 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 8/3 |
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| US 07193126 | Bier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ethan Bier (San Diego, California); Annabel Guichard (La Jolla, California); Shaila Srinivasan (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating and using novel overexpression activity alleles of a gene in any organism, especially Drosophilia, are provided. Such alleles may be utilized in screening assays, and used to generate dominant-negative forms of bacterial toxins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263367 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/21 |
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| US 07194117 | Kaufman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Zhengrong Liang (Stony Brook, New York); Mark R. Wax (Greenlawn, New York); Ming Wan (Stony Brook, New York); Dongqing Chen (Lake Ronkonkoma, New York); Bin Li (Lake Grove, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating a three-dimensional visualization image of an object, such as an internal organ, using volume visualization techniques are provided. The techniques include a multi-scan imaging method; a multi-resolution imaging method; and a method for generating a skeleton of a complex three dimension object. The applications include virtual cystoscopy, virtual laryngoscopy, virtual angiography, among others. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/777120 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 07194124 | Soll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Soll (Iowa City, Iowa); Edward R. Voss (Iowa City, Iowa); Paul J. Heid (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of optical sections of different parts of an embryo over time along a Z-axis through differential interference contrast microscopy. The method also includes outlining a perimeter of the number of parts of the embryo within the number of optical sections. Additionally, the method includes generating a three-dimensional faceted image of the number of parts based on the outlined perimeter. The method includes reconstructing, separately, a four-dimensional image of a growth of the different parts of the embryo over time based on the three-dimensional facet image of the number of parts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409838 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07191602 | Berry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene David Berry (Mountain View, California); Salvador Martin Aceves (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | For the first time, a hydrogen storage method, apparatus and system having a fluid mixture is provided. At predetermined pressures and/or temperatures within a contained substantially fixed volume, the fluid mixture can store a high density of hydrogen molecules, wherein a predetermined phase of the fluid mixture is capable of being withdrawn from the substantially fixed volume for use as a vehicle fuel or energy storage having reduced and/or eliminated evaporative losses, especially where storage weight, vessel cost, vessel shape, safety, and energy efficiency are beneficial. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/869562 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/46.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07191605 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Curtis W. Ayers (Kingston, Tennessee); Chester Coomer (Knoxville, Tennessee); Laura D. Marlino (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for cooling vehicle components using the vehicle air conditioning system comprising the steps of: tapping the hot liquid refrigerant of said air conditioning system, flooding a heat exchanger in the vehicle component with said hot liquid refrigerant, evaporating said hot liquid refrigerant into hot vapor refrigerant using the heat from said vehicle component, and returning said hot vapor refrigerant to the hot vapor refrigerant line in said vehicle air conditioning system. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/164375 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/117 |
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| US 07191698 | Bond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard J. Bond (Richland, Washington); Aaron A. Diaz (W. Richland, Washington); Kayte M. Judd (Richland, Washington); Richard A. Pappas (Richland, Washington); William C. Cliff (Richland, Washington); David M. Pfund (Richland, Washington); Gerald P. Morgen (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are described for determining the doneness of food during a cooking process. Ultrasonic signal are passed through the food during cooking. The change in transmission characteristics of the ultrasonic signal during the cooking process is measured to determine the point at which the food has been cooked to the proper level. In one aspect, a heated fluid cooks the food, and the transmission characteristics along a fluid-only ultrasonic path provides a reference for comparison with the transmission characteristics for a food-fluid ultrasonic path. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406993 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods and beverages: Apparatus 099/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07191706 | Chase et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay B. Chase (Alameda, California); Philip A. Pincosy (Oakland, California); Donna M. Chato (Tracy, California); Hugh Kirbie (Los Alamos, California); Glen F. James (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a system having a plurality of capacitor discharge units (CDUs) that includes electrical bridge type detonators operatively coupled to respective explosives. A pulse charging circuit is adapted to provide a voltage for each respective capacitor in each CDU. Such capacitors are discharged through the electrical bridge type detonators upon receiving an optical signal to detonate respective operatively coupled explosives at substantially the same time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676704 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192567 | Reilly |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. A. Reilly (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for the synthesis of fullerenes and/or nanotubes from precursor soot without the formation of carbonaceous soot. The method comprises the pyrolysis of a hydrocarbon fuel source by heating the fuel source at a sufficient temperature to transform the fuel source to a condensed hydrocarbon. The condensed hydrocarbon is a reaction medium comprising precursor soot wherein hydrogen exchange occurs within the reaction medium to form reactive radicals which cause continuous rearrangement of the carbon skeletal structure of the condensed hydrocarbon. Then, inducing dehydrogenation of the precursor soot to form fullerenes and/or nanotubes free from the formation of carbonaceous soot by continued heating at the sufficient temperature and by regulating the carbon to hydrogen ratio within the reaction medium. The dehydrogenation process produces hydrogen gas as a by-product. The method of the present invention in another embodiment is also a continuous synthesis process having a continuous supply of the fuel source. The method of the present invention can also be a continuous cyclic synthesis process wherein the reaction medium is fed back into the system as a fuel source after extraction of the fullerenes and/or nanotube products. The method of the present invention is also a method for producing precursor soot in bulk quantity, then forming fullerenes and/or nanotubes from the precursor bulk. |
| FILED | Monday, March 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/105518 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192711 | Olopade |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arch Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olufunmilayo I. Olopade (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel nucleic acid and peptide compositions comprising methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) and methods of use for MTAP amino acid sequences and DNA segments comprising MTAP in the diagnosis of human cancers and development of MTAP-specific antibodies. Also disclosed are methods for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors and other proliferative cell disorders, and identification of tumor suppressor genes and gene products from the human 9p21-p22 chromosome region. Such methods are useful in the diagnosis of multiple tumor types such as bladder cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, lymphomas, gliomas, melanomas, and leukemias. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087072 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192772 | Ingram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Florida Research Foundations, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lonnie O. Ingram (Gainesville, Florida); Kazuyoshi Ohta (Gainesville, Florida); Brent E. Wood (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant host cells are obtained that comprise (A) a heterologous, polypeptide-encoding polynucleotide segment, stably integrated into a chromosome, which is under transcriptional control of an endogenous promoter and (B) a mutation that effects increased expression of the heterologous segment, resulting in enhanced production by the host cells of each polypeptide encoded by that segment, relative to production of each polypeptide by the host cells in the absence of the mutation. The increased expression thus achieved is retained in the absence of conditions that select for cells displaying such increased expression. When the integrated segment comprises, for example, ethanol-production genes from an efficient ethanol producer like Zymomonas mobilis, recombinant Escherichia coli and other enteric bacterial cells within the present invention are capable of converting a wide range of biomass-derived sugars efficiently to ethanol. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/620060 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192785 | Nie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuming Nie (Bloomington, Indiana); Warren C. W. Chan (Bloomington, Indiana); Stephen Emory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a water-soluble luminescent quantum dot, a biomolecular conjugate thereof and a composition comprising such a quantum dot or conjugate. Additionally, the present invention provides a method of obtaining a luminescent quantum dot, a method of making a biomolecular conjugate thereof, and methods of using a biomolecular conjugate for ultrasensitive nonisotopic detection in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/228716 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193128 | Copenhaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois); University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of doing business and providing services. For example, methods of increasing the revenue of crops are provided. To this end, the method includes the use of a nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and mini chromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170944 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193175 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim J. Chang (San Ramon, California); Herbert W. Friedman (Oakland, California); Brian J. Comaskey (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system produces a first laser beam for rapidly removing the bulk of material in an area to form a ragged hole. The laser system produces a second laser beam for accurately cleaning up the ragged hole so that the final hole has dimensions of high precision. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040588 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193187 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling electrical heating of an element to maintain a constant electrical resistance, by adjusting electrical power supplied to such element according to an adaptive feedback control algorithm, in which all the parameters are (1) arbitrarily selected; (2) pre-determined by the physical properties of the controlled element; or (3) measured in real time. Unlike the conventional proportion-integral-derivative (PID) control mechanism, the system and method of the present invention do not require re-tuning of proportionality constants when used in connection with a different controlled element or under different operating conditions, and are therefore adaptive to changes in the controlled element and the operating conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775473 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193526 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Andrei Muradov (Houston, Texas); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Scott Steven Dahlgren (Alpine, Utah); Michael A. Briscoe (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A double shouldered downhole tool connection comprises box and pin connections having mating threads intermediate mating primary and secondary shoulders. The connection further comprises a secondary shoulder component retained in the box connection intermediate a floating component and the primary shoulders. The secondary shoulder component and the pin connection cooperate to transfer a portion of makeup load to the box connection. The downhole tool may be selected from the group consisting of drill pipe, drill collars, production pipe, and reamers. The floating component may be selected from the group consisting of electronics modules, generators, gyroscopes, power sources, and stators. The secondary shoulder component may comprises an interface to the box connection selected from the group consisting of radial grooves, axial grooves, tapered grooves, radial protrusions, axial protrusions, tapered protrusions, shoulders, and threads. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/905894 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/853.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193527 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah); Kline Bradford (Orem, Utah); Michael Rawle (Springville, Utah); David B. Bartholomew (Springville, Utah); James McPherson (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A swivel assembly for a downhole tool string comprises a first and second coaxial housing cooperatively arranged. The first housing comprises a first transmission element in communication with surface equipment. The second housing comprises a second transmission element in communication with the first transmission element. The second housing further comprises a third transmission element adapted for communication with a network integrated into the downhole tool string. The second housing may be rotational and adapted to transmit a signal between the downhole network and the first housing. Electronic circuitry is in communication with at least one of the transmission elements. The electronic circuitry may be externally mounted to the first or second housing. Further, the electronic circuitry may be internally mounted in the second housing. The electronic circuitry may be disposed in a recess in either first or second housing of the swivel. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710825 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194019 | Dowla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farid U. Dowla (Castro Valley, California); Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new modulation scheme in UWB communications is introduced. This modulation technique utilizes multiple orthogonal transmitted-reference pulses for UWB channelization. The proposed UWB receiver samples the second order statistical function at both zero and non-zero lags and matches the samples to stored second order statistical functions, thus sampling and matching the shape of second order statistical functions rather than just the shape of the received pulses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631560 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194063 | Dilmanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Avraham Dilmanian (Yaphank, New York); Gerard M. Morris (Oxford, United Kingdom); James F. Hainfeld (Shoreham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of performing radiation therapy includes delivering a therapeutic dose such as X-ray only to a target (e.g., tumor) with continuous broad beam (or in-effect continuous) using arrays of parallel planes of radiation (microbeams/microplanar beams). Microbeams spare normal tissues, and when interlaced at a tumor, form a broad-beam for tumor ablation. Bidirectional interlaced microbeam radiation therapy (BIMRT) uses two orthogonal arrays with inter-beam spacing equal to beam thickness. Multidirectional interlaced MRT (MIMRT) includes irradiations of arrays from several angles, which interleave at the target. Contrast agents, such as tungsten and gold, are administered to preferentially increase the target dose relative to the dose in normal tissue. Lighter elements, such as iodine and gadolinium, are used as scattering agents in conjunction with non-interleaving geometries of array(s) (e.g., unidirectional or cross-fired (intersecting) to generate a broad beam effect only within the target by preferentially increasing the valley dose within the tumor. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054001 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194161 | Deri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Deri (Pleasanton, California); Rajesh R. Patel (Pleasanton, California); Steven W. Bond (Livermore, California); Cory V. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength router to be used for fiber optical networking router is based on a diffraction grating which utilizes only N wavelengths to interconnect N inputs to N outputs. The basic approach is to augment the grating with additional couplers or wavelength selective elements so than N−1 of the 2N−1 outputs are combined with other N outputs (leaving only N outputs). One embodiment uses directional couplers as combiners. Another embodiment uses wavelength-selective couplers. Another embodiment uses a pair of diffraction gratings to maintain parallel propagation of all optical beams. Also, beam combining can be implemented either by using retroflection back through the grating pair or by using couplers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/609178 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07191643 | Rasmussen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado); The Board of Regents of the University and Community College Systems of Nevada on behalf of Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Martin Rasmussen (Longmont, Colorado); John Hallett (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, and circuitry. The first sensor collects non-frozen liquid with a first collection efficiency, but does not collect frozen liquid. The second sensor collects non-frozen liquid with a second collection efficiency and also collects frozen liquid. The first collection efficiency and the second collection efficiency are substantially equivalent. The circuitry maintains the first sensor and the second sensor at a substantially constant temperature. The circuitry determines a measurement of the frozen liquid based on maintaining the first sensor and the second sensor at the substantially constant temperature. In some examples, multiple sensor systems can be used in combination to improve the accuracy of the measurement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025214 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192001 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Technology Transfer (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Joseph A. Potkay (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A microvalve device includes a semiconductor-based valve housing that defines a flow passage, and a valve face disposed within the valve housing and in fluid communication with the flow passage. The microvalve device further includes a thermal expansion actuator that drives movement of the valve face from a first position to a second position relative to the flow passage, and a capacitor that holds the valve face in the second position. The microvalve may also include an insulating layer disposed on portions of the semiconductor-based valve housing, and a capacitance sensor for monitoring a capacitance level to determine when the valve face reaches the second position. Once the sensor indicates that the second position has been reached, power is no longer applied to the thermal expansion actuator such that power is only substantially consumed during the transition from the first position to the second position. The thermal expansion actuator may include a heating element and a thermal expansion substance for thermopneumatic displacement of the valve face. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842665 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192629 | Lammertink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rob G. H. Lammertink (Nijverdal, Netherlands); Todd Thorsen (Watertown, Massachusetts); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices such as capillaries for capillary electrophoresis are formed by contacting a gel precursor with a substrate comprising a permeable material that has higher permeability for organic solvents than water. The gel precursor is made of a water soluble polymer having hydrophobic moieties in a solvent mixture comprising water and an organic solvent, wherein in the absence of the organic solvent, the polymer forms a self-assembled gel. The organic solvent is allowed to permeate through the permeable material resulting in the formation of the self-assembled gel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269475 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/36.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192644 | Paine, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Paine, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous route and process for preparation of boron nitride utilizing aerosol assisted vapor phase synthesis (AAVS) wherein boron precursors are nitrided in one or two heating steps, and wherein a boron oxide nitride carbide intermediary composition is formed after the first heating step and may be further nitrided to form resultant spheroidal boron nitride powders including dense or hollow spheroidal particles that are smooth, bladed, dense or hollow, have protruding whiskers, and are of turbostratic or hexagonal crystalline structure, specifically wherein the boron precursor is dissolved in a non-aqueous solution prior to aerosolization. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/186787 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192761 | Zeikus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gregory Zeikus (Okemos, Michigan); Maris Laivenieks (East Lansing, Michigan); Claire Vieille (Lansing, Michigan); Pil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | An Actinobacillus succinogenes plasmid vector which provides a means to overexpress proteins in A. succinogenes. The plasmid can be transformed efficiently by electroporation, and replicates in a stable manner in A. succinogenes. The plasmid comprises at least one marker gene, operably linked to a first promoter functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, an origin of replication functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, a second promoter isolated from Actinobacillus succinogenes, and a cloning site downstream from the second promoter. Plasmids pLGZ901, pLGZ920, pLGZ921, and pLGZ922 are disclosed. The pckA gene polypeptide sequence and nucleic acid sequence of Actinobacillus succinogenes, including the promoter and ribosome binding site, is disclosed. Furthermore, a method for producing a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described, including a method of transformation. Additionally, a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is disclosed and a method for producing succinate utilizing this recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042407 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192773 | Nitabach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael N. Nitabach (New York, New York); Justin Blau (New York, New York); Todd C. Holmes (New York, New York); Steven A. N. Goldstein (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reducing the excitability of an excitable cell by transforming an excitable cell with a nucleic acid construct encoding an open rectifier K+ channel (dORK) (SEQ ID NO:2) or a modified open rectifier K+ channel (dORKΔ) (SEQ ID NO:4), and expressing the open rectifier K+ channel in the excitable cell, wherein the excitability of the transformed cell is reduced. Also featured are transgenic animals expressing dORK or dORKΔ. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438753 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192785 | Nie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuming Nie (Bloomington, Indiana); Warren C. W. Chan (Bloomington, Indiana); Stephen Emory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a water-soluble luminescent quantum dot, a biomolecular conjugate thereof and a composition comprising such a quantum dot or conjugate. Additionally, the present invention provides a method of obtaining a luminescent quantum dot, a method of making a biomolecular conjugate thereof, and methods of using a biomolecular conjugate for ultrasensitive nonisotopic detection in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/228716 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193034 | Bertozzi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions useful for making synthetic peptide conjugates. In one embodiment, the invention provides compositions comprising the structure: wherein R is selected from lower substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, O, NH and S and P is an amine protection group. In more particular embodiments, the compositions comprise α-amine protected 4,5-dehydroleucine or α-amine protected (2S)-aminolevulinic acid and/or P is F-moc. These compounds may be incorporated into peptides, for example, peptides comprising a substituted or unsubstituted (2S)-aminolevulinic acid residue, such as (2S)-aminolevulinic acid residue is substituted with an O- or N-linked glycoconjugate, or a detectable label. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221199 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193126 | Bier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ethan Bier (San Diego, California); Annabel Guichard (La Jolla, California); Shaila Srinivasan (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating and using novel overexpression activity alleles of a gene in any organism, especially Drosophilia, are provided. Such alleles may be utilized in screening assays, and used to generate dominant-negative forms of bacterial toxins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263367 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193128 | Copenhaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois); University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of doing business and providing services. For example, methods of increasing the revenue of crops are provided. To this end, the method includes the use of a nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and mini chromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170944 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193415 | Barbic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mladen Barbic (San Gabriel, California); Axel Sherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferromagnetic lens in the presence of a DC magnetic field and a smaller AC magnetic field creates a localized minimum of the magnitude of the magnetic field vector of the combined magnetic field in a volume defined in free space away from the lens referred to as the focus volume. The localized minimum can be nonzero, and can create conditions for spin resonance in the focus volume. The focus volume defined in free space away from the lens can be very small, providing excellent resolution for magnetic resonance imaging, for example. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/321377 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194120 | Wicker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan B. Wicker (El Paso, Texas); Buzuayehu Tedla (El Paso, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and computer systems for determining the placement of an implant in a patient in need thereof comprising the step of analyzing intensity-based medical imaging data obtained from a patient, isolating an anatomic site of interest from the imaging data, determining anatomic spatial relationships with the use of an algorithm, wherein the algorithm is optionally automated. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/448263 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07192761 | Zeikus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gregory Zeikus (Okemos, Michigan); Maris Laivenieks (East Lansing, Michigan); Claire Vieille (Lansing, Michigan); Pil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | An Actinobacillus succinogenes plasmid vector which provides a means to overexpress proteins in A. succinogenes. The plasmid can be transformed efficiently by electroporation, and replicates in a stable manner in A. succinogenes. The plasmid comprises at least one marker gene, operably linked to a first promoter functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, an origin of replication functional in Actinobacillus succinogenes, a second promoter isolated from Actinobacillus succinogenes, and a cloning site downstream from the second promoter. Plasmids pLGZ901, pLGZ920, pLGZ921, and pLGZ922 are disclosed. The pckA gene polypeptide sequence and nucleic acid sequence of Actinobacillus succinogenes, including the promoter and ribosome binding site, is disclosed. Furthermore, a method for producing a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described, including a method of transformation. Additionally, a recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is disclosed and a method for producing succinate utilizing this recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes is described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042407 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192772 | Ingram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Florida Research Foundations, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lonnie O. Ingram (Gainesville, Florida); Kazuyoshi Ohta (Gainesville, Florida); Brent E. Wood (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant host cells are obtained that comprise (A) a heterologous, polypeptide-encoding polynucleotide segment, stably integrated into a chromosome, which is under transcriptional control of an endogenous promoter and (B) a mutation that effects increased expression of the heterologous segment, resulting in enhanced production by the host cells of each polypeptide encoded by that segment, relative to production of each polypeptide by the host cells in the absence of the mutation. The increased expression thus achieved is retained in the absence of conditions that select for cells displaying such increased expression. When the integrated segment comprises, for example, ethanol-production genes from an efficient ethanol producer like Zymomonas mobilis, recombinant Escherichia coli and other enteric bacterial cells within the present invention are capable of converting a wide range of biomass-derived sugars efficiently to ethanol. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/620060 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192905 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Y. Li (Kerrville, Texas); John Allen Miller (Kerrville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Combination of a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase inducer with an organophosphate pesticide (insecticide or acaracide) provides effective control of ticks and flies, particularly against organophosphate-resistant strains of the ticks and flies. In use, a pesticidally effective amount of a composition of the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase inducer and organophosphate pesticide is applied to the locus of the targeted tick or fly. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600360 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant protecting and regulating compositions 54/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193072 | Bosworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation (Peoria, Illinois); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad T. Bosworth (Littleton, North Carolina); Peter Vögeli (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides non-invasive methods and compositions to differentiate, with a high level of sensitivity and specificity, swine that are genetically susceptible to diseases associated with F18 E. coli infection, from resistant swine. DNA polymorphisms in the swine alpha (1,2) fucosyltransferase 1 (FUT1) gene were used to differentiate resistant from susceptible swine. The invention includes a polypeptide with amino acid substitutions, encoded by the nucleotide polymorphisms, a molecular diagnostic assay, and a kit for the differentiation, of E. coli F18-adhesion resistant, heterozygous (carrier) and homozygous susceptible pigs. The molecular test identifies susceptibility to oedema disease and postweaning diarrhea with high sensitivity and specificity, therefore, is useful to swine breeder in their effort to enhance for resistance. Information on the polymorphisms of the present invention provides insight into causation and treatment of E. coli associated intestinal disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/844268 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193128 | Copenhaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois); University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of doing business and providing services. For example, methods of increasing the revenue of crops are provided. To this end, the method includes the use of a nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and mini chromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170944 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07192930 | Hefeneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven H. Hefeneider (Portland, Oregon); Sharon L. McCoy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and peptide for regulating cellular activity includes a panel of synthesized peptides that have biological effects on inhibiting or enhancing cellular activity. Selected peptides can be used as therapy to reduce and/or inhibit, or initiate and/or enhance, an inflammatory response in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178316 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193128 | Copenhaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois); University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kevin Keith (Chicago, Illinois); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of doing business and providing services. For example, methods of increasing the revenue of crops are provided. To this end, the method includes the use of a nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and mini chromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170944 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07193100 | Sangokoya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albemarle Corporation (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel A. Sangokoya (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Lubin Luo (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Steven P. Diefenbach (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Jamie R. Strickler (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Christopher G. Bauch (Prairieville, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel haloaluminoxane compositions have been formed. The halogen is fluorine, chlorine, and/or bromine, and the amount of halogen atoms present in said composition is in the range of about 0.5 mole % to about 15 mole % relative to aluminum atoms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/751144 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07191643 | Rasmussen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado); The Board of Regents of the University and Community College Systems of Nevada on behalf of Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Martin Rasmussen (Longmont, Colorado); John Hallett (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, and circuitry. The first sensor collects non-frozen liquid with a first collection efficiency, but does not collect frozen liquid. The second sensor collects non-frozen liquid with a second collection efficiency and also collects frozen liquid. The first collection efficiency and the second collection efficiency are substantially equivalent. The circuitry maintains the first sensor and the second sensor at a substantially constant temperature. The circuitry determines a measurement of the frozen liquid based on maintaining the first sensor and the second sensor at the substantially constant temperature. In some examples, multiple sensor systems can be used in combination to improve the accuracy of the measurement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025214 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07192930 | Hefeneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven H. Hefeneider (Portland, Oregon); Sharon L. McCoy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and peptide for regulating cellular activity includes a panel of synthesized peptides that have biological effects on inhibiting or enhancing cellular activity. Selected peptides can be used as therapy to reduce and/or inhibit, or initiate and/or enhance, an inflammatory response in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178316 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07192217 | Hanna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie J. Hanna (Arvada, Colorado); Brent W. Mefford (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A baffle apparatus and method for directing fluid flow to reduce damage to an energy dissipating basin that includes an inlet, an outlet, a floor, a sidewall that extends upward from an edge of the floor, and an opposing sidewall that extends upward from an opposing edge of the floor defining a basin interior with a basin span between the sidewall and the opposing sidewall. The baffle apparatus includes a deflector structure that is generally planar and is fixedly or adjustably positioned substantially transverse to a downstream direction flow in the basin, the deflector structure spanning between the sidewall and the opposing sidewall above the floor. Also included, is a retaining structure for fixedly or adjustably positioning and securing the deflector structure to the sidewall. The deflector structure directs flow in the basin to flow in a downstream direction from a reverse upstream direction adjacent to the basin floor. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/248919 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07193774 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Cheng (Tucson, Arizona); Weinong Chen (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for visualizing sub-micron size particles employs a polarizing microscope wherein a focused beam of polarized light is projected onto a target, and a portion of the illuminating light is blocked from reaching the specimen, whereby to produce a shadow region, and projecting diffracted light from the target onto the shadow region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001104 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07194769 | Lippmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Lippmann (Wayland, Massachusetts); Chris Scott (Newton, Massachusetts); Kendra Kratkiewicz (Shirley, Massachusetts); Michael Artz (Catonsville, Maryland); Kyle W. Ingols (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used for assessing the security of a network. Pruned attack trees are generated using a forward chaining, breadth-first technique representing the attack paths of a possible attacker in the network. A vulnerability score is determined for each network and attacker starting point using attack loss values assigned to each host and information extracted from the attack tree(s) concerning compromised hosts. Different hypothetical alternatives may be evaluated to improve security of the network and each alternative may be evaluated by recomputing the network vulnerability score and comparing the recomputed score to the original network vulnerability score. Also disclosed is a method for determining end-to-end connectivity of a network. The resulting end-to-end connectivity information is used in generating the pruned attack tree. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734083 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D538537 | Osborn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Osborn (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 29/203990 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Travel goods and personal belongings D3/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07192698 | Kinch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Kinch (Lafayette, Indiana); Nicole D. Zantek (Silver Springs, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and kits are provided for the detection and diagnosis of metastatic disease. More particularly, the methods and kits employ compounds that can detect EphA2, a specific epithelial cell tyrosine kinase that is overexpressed in metastatic tumor cells. In one embodiment the compound is an antibody capable of binding to an epitope of EphA2. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/640952 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07192702 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Zhan (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Takehito Uruno (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for screening compounds for their ability to modulate actin polymerization. The invention is also related to compounds which modulate actin polymerization. More specifically, the invention is related to methods of screening compounds which modulate the interaction of cortactin or HS-1 with Arp2/3. The invention is also related to compounds which modulate the interaction of cortactin of HS1 with Arp2/3. Also provided are mutants of cortactin with decreased ability to interact with Arp2/3. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/362827 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07193578 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockhead Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Harris (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Joseph W. Hahn (Clementon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a horn antenna array includes the steps of making first and second equal-size printed-circuit half-horn-elements, and offset-juxtaposing element pairs to make horn elements having a dielectric lip or step. A ground plane defining mutually intersecting crossed slot sets is loaded with horn elements with their lips interlocking near the slot crossings, to define the horn antenna array. The horn elements can be fed by pins extending through portions of the ground plane and into an aperture adjacent the feed elements of the horn elements. Electrical connections are made by fusion joining after the array is assembled. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245831 |
| 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 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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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