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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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| US 07194889 | Jean 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) | Daniel Jean (Odenton, Maryland); Gabriel Smith (Odenton, Maryland); John Kunstmann (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-directional shock sensor including two masses arranged to move in directions, which are mutually perpendicular to one another. A moveable locking member prevents movement of a slider, which is used in the arming arrangement of a submunition. In response to an acceleration in a plane, one or both masses will move. The masses are operably coupled to the locking member to effect its movement out of its locking engagement with the slider, due to such acceleration. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198410 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/12.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07194961 | 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 form and an encasement material applied to and surrounding the solid form for exerting compressive forces thereon. Additionally or alternatively, an elongate structure can be positioned in the solid form. 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 | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296724 |
| 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 07195133 | Cundiff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microcosm, Inc. (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy S. Cundiff (Long Beach, California); Anthony Mancuso (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure vessel (10) and a process for its fabrication, the vessel (10) having a liner shell (16) formed from composite materials cured out-of-autoclave, and an outer structure (18) formed by winding or laying up additional layers of composite material over the liner shell. The liner shell (16) is formed as two halves, each with an opening into which a boss fitting (20) is installed. The two halves may be separately formed by a lay-up process, or first formed as a whole liner shell by filament winding, the whole liner shell then being cut in half to permit installation of the boss fittings (20). After curing, the halves are assembled and the outer structure (18) is wrapped over the liner shell (16) and also cured out-of-autoclave. The resulting pressure vessel (10) can be used for reliable storage of cryogenic or other materials, yet is light in weight and not costly. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/121737 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195205 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin K. Lee (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A parachute system has a canopy, suspension lines that extend from the canopy skirt to a confluence point, and a center line that is attached to and between the apex of the canopy and the confluence point. A single reefing line cutter is attached to the center line and is activated after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed. A first reefing line extends through a first group of reefing rings wherein one end of the first reefing line is attached to the single reefing line cutter and the opposite end is attached to the canopy skirt at a first predetermined location. A second reefing line extends through a second group of reefing rings that is opposite the first group of reefing rings. The second reefing line has one end attached to the single reefing line cutter and an opposite end attached to the canopy skirt at a second predetermined location that is across from the first predetermined location. The canopy opens to an initial circumference that is determined by the summation of the lengths of the first and second reefing lines. When the reefing line cutter is activated, the reefing line cutter releases the first and second reefing lines so as to allow full inflation of the canopy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243888 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195452 | Allan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian R. Allan (Phoenix, Arizona); James L. Hadder (Scottsdale, Arizona); George E. Zurmehly (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The mounting of low expansion full ring shrouds in a turbine engine requires radial compliance to limit the stresses experienced by the shroud due to thermal growth differences between the shroud and its support. A method provides radial compliance with no looseness in a mounting system. The mounting system also allows for axial motion of the shroud, should such motion be needed or desired. The lack of looseness in the mounting system results in an ability to achieve smaller tip clearances and thus better engine performance. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/950750 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195841 | Tucker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Tucker (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Maria G. Medeiros (Bristol, Rhode Island); Eric G. Dow (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method of storage and dissolution of solid catholyte are provided. The system and the method employ a solid medium having a controlled surface from which solid catholyte particles suspended within a matrix of encapsulating species are dissolved and hydrolyzed producing hydrogen peroxide to be used in semi fuel cells of undersea vehicles. Encapsulating species are also dissolved and hydrolyzed rendering products completely usable in the semi fuel cell. Sodium peroxide is preferably used as the solid catholyte and potassium superoxide and/or sodium hydroxide are preferably used as encapsulating species. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/637081 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195874 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts); Sanjay M. Sonar (Mumbai, India); Jerzy Olejnik (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to agents and conjugates that can be used to detect and isolate target components from complex mixtures such as nucleic acids from biological samples, cells from bodily fluids, and nascent proteins from translation reactions. Agents comprise a detectable moiety bound to a photoreactive moiety. Conjugates comprise agents coupled to substrates by covalent bounds which can be selectively cleaved with the administration of electromagnetic radiation. Targets substances labeled with detectable molecules can be easily identified and separated from a heterologous mixture of substances. Exposure of the conjugate to radiation releases the target in a functional form and completely unaltered. Using photocleavable molecular precursors as the conjugates, label can be incorporated into macromolecules, the nascent macromolecules isolated and the label completely removed. The invention also relates to targets isolated with these conjugates which may be useful as pharmaceutical agents or compositions that can be administered to humans and other mammals. Useful compositions include biological agents such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and cytokines. Conjugates can also be used to monitor the pathway and half-life of pharmaceutical composition in vivo and for diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. The invention also relates to kits comprised of agents and conjugates that can be used for the detection of diseases, disorders and nearly any individual substance in a complex background of substances. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396960 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195945 | Edelstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan S. Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Rockville, Maryland); Michael Pedersen (Ashton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a MEMS device includes forming a magnetic sensor over a SOI wafer which may include an epoxy layer; forming a pair of MEMS flux concentrators sandwiching the magnetic sensor; connecting an electrostatic comb drive to each of the flux concentrators; connecting a spring to the flux concentrators and the comb drive; performing a plurality of DRIE processes on the SOI wafer; and releasing the flux concentrators, the comb drive, and the spring from the SOI wafer. Another embodiment includes forming adhesive bumps and a magnetic sensor on a first wafer; forming a second wafer; forming a pair of MEMS flux concentrators, a pair of electrostatic comb drives, and at least one spring on the second wafer; bonding the second wafer to the adhesive bumps; and compressing the adhesive bumps using non-thermal means such as pressure only. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226403 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195993 | Zheleva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tsvetanka Zheleva (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Darren B. Thomson (Cary, North Carolina); Scott A. Smith (Centerville, Ohio); Kevin J. Linthicum (Angier, North Carolina); Thomas Gehrke (Carrboro, North Carolina); Robert F. Davis (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A gallium nitride layer is laterally grown into a trench in the gallium nitride layer, to thereby form a lateral gallium nitride semiconductor layer. At least one microelectronic device may then be formed in the lateral gallium nitride semiconductor layer. Dislocation defects do not significantly propagate laterally into the lateral gallium nitride semiconductor layer, so that the lateral gallium nitride semiconductor layer is relatively defect free. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915665 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196054 | Drohan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The American National Red Cross (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William N. Drohan (Springfield, Virginia); Martin J. MacPhee (Darnestown, Maryland); Hernan Nunez (Derwood, Maryland); Gene Liau (Wayland, Massachusetts); Thomas Maciag (Portland, Maine); Wilson H. Burgess (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides supplemented and unsupplemented tissue sealants as well as methods for their production and use thereof. Disclosed are tissue sealants supplemented with at least one antimicrobial composition. The composition may be further supplemented with, for example, one or more antibodies, analgesics, anticoagulants, antiproliferatives, anti-inflammatory compounds, cytokines, cytotoxins, drugs, growth factors, interferons, hormones, lipids, demineralized bone or bone morphogenetic proteins, cartilage inducing factors, oligonucleotides polymers, polysaccharides, polypeptides, protease inhibitors, vasoconstrictors or vasodilators, vitamins, minerals, stabilizers and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/485883 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 07196294 | Hofmeister et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ridgetop Group, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Hofmeister (Tucson, Arizona); Philipp S. Spuhler (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bert M. Vermeire (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A solder-joint detection circuit uses a resistive bridge and a differential detector to detect faults in the solder-joint network both inside and outside the digital electronic package during operation. The resistive bridge is preferably coupled to a high supply voltage used to power the package. Resistors R1 and R2 are connected in series at a first junction between the high and low supply voltages and a resistor R3 is coupled to the high supply voltage and connected in series with the resistance of the solder-network at a second junction. The network is held at a low voltage on the die. The detector compares the sensitivity and detection voltages and outputs a Pass/Fail signal for the solder-joint network. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350446 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/499 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196301 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicraj T. Thomas (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Michael L. Rhodes (Richfield, Minnesota); Philip J. Zumsteg (Shorewood, Minnesota); Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for laser source detection. An exemplary embodiment of the system includes a first array of lenses, a second array of opto devices (including light sources and light detectors), and at least one processor. By positioning the array of lenses to determine the lens position at which energy from an incoming laser is greatest on the light detectors, the approximate location of the laser source may be determined. Upon determining the source, responsive action may be taken. If the incoming laser is from a friendly party, a friendly-party notification may be provided. If the incoming laser is from an enemy, reciprocal targeting or false reflections may be employed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/622819 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196349 | Alavi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kambiz Alavi (Grapevine, Texas); Joseph Pellegrino (Woodbridge, Virginia); Patrick G Maloney (Arlington, Virginia); F. Elliott Koch (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-quantum well (MQW) spatial light modulator devices are disclosed that are capable of achieving reasonable quantum efficiencies and high contrast ratios in order to close an optical communication link by resolving the logical on or off state. The device both modulates and detects light through the use of the quantum well design and resonant cavity enhancement. Based on the materials (e.g., InGaAs/InAlAs) and their band structures, this device can be configured to communicate in the eye-safe wavelength range (e.g., 1550±20 nm). The device can be fabricated using standard photolithographic processes such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactive ion etching (RIE). |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060191 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196453 | Izenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Izenson (Hanover, New Hampshire); Wayde H. Affleck (Enfield, New Hampshire); Bruce Pilvelait (Charlestown, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A radial piezoelectric motor comprises a housing, a motor shaft rotatably mounted in the housing and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators inside the housing radially disposed about the axis of the motor shaft. The motor also includes circuitry for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric actuators to expand the actuators repeatedly and in succession and apparatus responsive to the repeated and successive expanding of the actuators for rotating the motor shaft. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134606 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/316.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196590 | In 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) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Yong (Andy) Kho (San Diego, California); Joseph D. Neff (San Diego, California); Brian K. Meadows (San Diego, California); Patrick Longhini (Rancho Bernardo, California); Antonio Palacios (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain spatio-temporal symmetries induce one array of a two-array coupled network of oscillators to oscillate at N times the frequency of the other array, where N is the number of oscillators in each array. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874010 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196649 | Mokhtari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehran Mokhtari (Thousand Oaks, California); Joseph F. Jensen (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An analog to digital converter comprises a plurality of comparators, each comparator for comparing an input electrical signal with a respective, pre-selected reference electrical signal, an encoder coupled to the comparators to receive a detection signal from each comparator indicative of the input signal, and a plurality of reference circuits, each reference circuit coupled to a respective one of the plurality of comparators to supply the respective reference electrical signal to the respective comparator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/772113 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196777 | Atsavapranee 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) | Paisan Atsavapranee (Cabin John, Maryland); Jerry W. Shan (Raritan, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Two light beams from respective light-emitting devices (e.g., lasers or lamps) cross each other and strike a surface (e.g., of a fluid) at respective oblique orientations relative to the surface (e.g., oblique but nearly vertical orientations that are equal and opposite to each other). A camera captures the surface scattering of the beams in a photographic “double-beam” image containing two respective photographic forms corresponding to the two respective surface scattering locations. The measured distance between the two photographic forms is trigonometrically indicative of the height and slope of the surface in the vicinity of the two surface scattering locations. Some inventive embodiments effect “single-beam” images that are trigonometrically indicative of height only. Plural (e.g., numerous) individual or paired light-emitting devices can be arranged so that a camera snaps an instantaneous photograph containing corresponding forms that are mathematically informative of a surface's configuration at plural (e.g., numerous) locations. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932648 |
| 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 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196790 | Cole |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barrett E. Cole (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple wavelength spectrometers can be tuned to particular wavelengths. A dual wavelength spectrometer can include a spectrometer configured to detect at least some wavelengths that fall within the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum and a spectrometer configured to detect at least some wavelengths that fall within the visible spectrum. In some embodiments, a UV light spectrometer and a visible light spectrometer are disposed adjacent one another on a single substrate. A dual wavelength spectrometer can be used for analyzing bioaerosols, as well as for numerous other applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748397 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196794 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pengfei Wu (Malden, Massachusetts); Reji Philip (Bangalore, India); Devulapalli V. G. L. N. Rao (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed at limiting power and controlling an output intensity of an optical system using photo-induced anisotropic materials. In a preferred embodiment, an azobenzene polymer film is used. The embodiments in accordance with the present invention include a cross-polarization system to provide clamping of the output intensity. A system for limiting power in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, includes a light source that provides an input light beam along a first optical path, a first polarizing element having a first polarization state positioned in the first optical path, a second polarizing element positioned in the first optical path having a second polarization state substantially orthogonal to the first polarization state, a sample having a photo-induced anisotropic material positioned in the first optical path, and a polarizer positioned in a second optical path at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to that of the input beam wherein an excitation beam provided in the second optical path spatially overlaps the input beam on the sample, and an output beam that is generated has a limited transmission value at high intensity. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877777 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197143 | Duerr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Duerr (Ellicott City, Maryland); Nicholas D. Beser (Owings Mills, Maryland); James H. Higbie (Catonsville, Maryland); Donna C. Paulhamus (Ellicott City, Maryland); Michael A. Karls (Muncie, Indiana); Cash J. Costello (Columbia, Maryland); George R. Barrett (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Digital Video Authenticator (DVA) addresses law enforcement concerns for a means to authenticate digital video (DV) so that it will be admissible and trusted as evidence in court. The DVA is a peripheral device attached to a commercial digital video recording device whose purpose is to generate and record authentication data simultaneously as DV is recorded by the video recording device. Verification of the authenticity of a DV sample will be accomplished using non-real-time software tools. The DVA system and method reads digital video (DV) data from a digital video recording device; parses the DV data into elements representing video, audio, control and timing data; and creates digital signatures that can be used to validate the original DV tape. The combination of secure digital signatures and repeatability of the DV data stored on tape provides the basis for proving the original video has not been modified. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/345919 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197197 | Gauthier, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo R. Gauthier, Jr. (Ellicott City, Maryland); David G. Drewry, Jr. (Middletown, Maryland); Leroy Brunner (Savage, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the path of a projectile comprises detecting multiple time of arrivals of the projectile in multiple intersecting planes and determining the path and speed of the projectile based on the multiple times of arrivals. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/156754 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197248 | Vorontsov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail A. Vorontsov (Laurel, Maryland); Gary W. Carhart (Elkton, Maryland); John W. Gowens, II (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jennifer C. Ricklin (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive free-space laser communication system and a method of communication between laser communication transceivers of the system. Communication channel condition information communicated via laser beams transmitted between a first laser communication transceiver and a second laser communication transceiver is monitored and the information is shared between the transceivers. A wave-front phase of the laser beams is shaped with wave-front correctors of the first and second laser communication transceivers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/206347 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197485 | Fuller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Fuller (Amston, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An efficient method for solving a model predictive control problem is described. A large sparse matrix equation is formed based upon the model predictive control problem. The square root of H, Hr, is then formed directly, without first forming H. A square root (LSMroot) of a large sparse matrix of the large sparse matrix equation is then formed using Hr in each of a plurality of iterations of a quadratic programming solver, without first forming the large sparse matrix and without recalculating Hr in each of the plurality of iterations. The solution of the large sparse matrix equation is completed based upon LSMroot. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620569 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07195036 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Pal (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The movement and mixing of microdroplets through microchannels is described employing silicon-based microscale devices, comprising microdroplet transport channels, reaction regions, electrophoresis modules, and radiation detectors. The discrete droplets are differentially heated and propelled through etched channels. Electronic components are fabricated on the same substrate material, allowing sensors and controlling circuitry to be incorporated in the same device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696889 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
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| US 07195670 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High throughput screening of crystallization of a target material is accomplished by simultaneously introducing a solution of the target material into a plurality of chambers of a microfabricated fluidic device. The microfabricated fluidic device is then manipulated to vary the solution condition in the chambers, thereby simultaneously providing a large number of crystallization environments. Control over changed solution conditions may result from a variety of techniques, including but not limited to metering volumes of crystallizing agent into the chamber by volume exclusion, by entrapment of volumes of crystallizing agent determined by the dimensions of the microfabricated structure, or by cross-channel injection of sample and crystallizing agent into an array of junctions defined by intersecting orthogonal flow channels. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/117978 |
| 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 117/68 |
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| US 07195756 | Maupin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary O. Maupin (Cape Coral, Florida); Marc C. Dolan (Wellington, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for controlling ectoparasites of small rodents, thereby preventing the transmission of diseases by arthropod vectors. The invention further provides an enclosure having openings for entry of rodents, and having arranged therein one or more applicators which are configured to contact rodents entering the chamber and having an ectoparasiticide on the applicator for application to the rodents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894545 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/84 |
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| US 07195757 | Curtiss, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Curtiss, III (St. Louis, Missouri); Ho Young Kang (Pusan, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to immunogenic compositions comprising a live attenuated derivative of a pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. The attenuated derivative of a pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae bacteria comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a foreign antigen. The attenuated derivative of the pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae bacteria has increased expression of Type 1 fimbriae relative to the pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae bacteria from which the attenuated derivative was derived. The present invention also relates to immunogenic compositions that elicit an enhanced Th2 immune response in an individual. The present invention further provides a method of modulating the immune response of an individual comprising administering to said individual the immunogenic compositions of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414533 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.480 |
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| US 07195758 | Schultze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joachim L. Schultze (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gordon J. Freeman (Brookline, Massachusetts); John G. Gribben (Brookline, Massachusetts); Lee M. Nadler (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We teach a strategy to obtain large quantities of desired APCs, activated B cells, which are superior in their capacity to present tumor protein antigen in a multiadministration protocol. Human B cells can be obtained from peripheral blood in large numbers. These cells can be activated in vitro by coculture with CD40L (CD40-B cells) and an immunosuppressive agent such as cyclosporin A. They can expanded up to 1×103 to 1×104 fold in 2 weeks or 1×105 to 1×106 fold in 2 months. We demonstrate these cells are most efficient APCs comparable to DCs in stimulating allogeneic CD4+ CD45RA+, CD4+ CD45RO+, and CD8+ T cells. In contrast to DCs, CD40-B cells are fully functional even in the presence of immunosuppressive cytokines such as IL-10 and TGFβ. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/186416 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
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| US 07195789 | Nakamura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasushi Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan); Brad L. Upham (East Lansing, Michigan); James E. Trosko (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising a non-fiber organic extract of psyllium which is anti-tumorigenic is described. The composition both restores gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) and inhibits anchorage independent growth of mammalian cells which have been transformed with the ras oncogene. The composition is a useful chemotherapy and chemopreventative agent. The composition was identified using a novel method for determining the anti-tumorigenic potential of a compound or composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375401 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/738 |
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| US 07195874 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts); Sanjay M. Sonar (Mumbai, India); Jerzy Olejnik (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to agents and conjugates that can be used to detect and isolate target components from complex mixtures such as nucleic acids from biological samples, cells from bodily fluids, and nascent proteins from translation reactions. Agents comprise a detectable moiety bound to a photoreactive moiety. Conjugates comprise agents coupled to substrates by covalent bounds which can be selectively cleaved with the administration of electromagnetic radiation. Targets substances labeled with detectable molecules can be easily identified and separated from a heterologous mixture of substances. Exposure of the conjugate to radiation releases the target in a functional form and completely unaltered. Using photocleavable molecular precursors as the conjugates, label can be incorporated into macromolecules, the nascent macromolecules isolated and the label completely removed. The invention also relates to targets isolated with these conjugates which may be useful as pharmaceutical agents or compositions that can be administered to humans and other mammals. Useful compositions include biological agents such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and cytokines. Conjugates can also be used to monitor the pathway and half-life of pharmaceutical composition in vivo and for diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. The invention also relates to kits comprised of agents and conjugates that can be used for the detection of diseases, disorders and nearly any individual substance in a complex background of substances. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396960 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07195888 | Gross |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Gross (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for evaluating a compound to determine the relative or absolute therapeutic capability of a compound to pharmacologically inhibit ischemia induced activation of iPLA2β in an intact myocardium which comprises treating intact myocardium with a compound, inducing ischemia in the myocardium tissue and determining if there has been a change in expression of iPLA2β, its activity or in the iPLA2β regulating network and determining if there has been a change then that the compound is an anti-arrhythmia or myocardial salvage drug. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/737167 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorraine Iacovitti (Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania); Mark Alexander Kessler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated, purified and characterized human tyrosine hydroxylase (hTH) promoter nucleic acid sequence. The invention further provides a method of selecting TH positive (TH+) cells by preparing a construct comprising a hTH promoter operably linked to a heterologous nucleic acid sequence, for example, green fluorescent protein encoding sequence, and transfecting cells, particularly stem cells, with the construct. The invention also provides a hTH promoter, useful in gene therapeutic applications in driving therapeutic genes or other nucleic acid sequences operably linked to the hTH promoter. Additionally, the invention provides cell lines and transgenic animals expressing a transgene comprising the hTH promoter operably linked to a heterologous sequence, which cell lines and transgenic animals are useful for isolating TH+ cells for transplantation or for screening of therapeutic agents that affect TH+ function. Methods of producing cell lines and transgenic animals also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/215647 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
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| US 07195911 | Cech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Cech (Potomac, Maryland); Joachim Lingner (Epalinges, Switzerland); Toru Nakamura (San Diego, California); Karen B. Chapman (Southborough, Massachusetts); Gregg B. Morin (Oakville, Canada); Calvin B. Harley (Palo Alto, California); William H. Andrews (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to cells comprising a recombinant polynucleotide sequence that encodes a telomerase reverse transcriptase protein, variant, or fragment having telomerase catalytic activity when complexed with a telomerase RNA. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044539 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07195916 | Qin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Feng Qin (Pasadena, California); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods and compositions for the expression of small RNA molecules within a cell using a retroviral vector. The methods can be used to express double stranded RNA complexes. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be expressed using the methods of the invention within a cell, that interfere with a viral life cycle by down regulating either the viral genome, a viral genome transcript, or a host cell that. In another aspect the invention provides methods for treating patients having suffering from infection, particularly infection with HIV. In a further aspect, the invention provides methods for producing siRNA encoding lentivirus where the siRNA activity may interfere with the lentiviral life cycle. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319341 |
| 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 435/465 |
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| US 07196062 | Kaufman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Kaufman (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Geiger (Rehovot, Israel); Alexander Bershadsky (Rehovot, Israel); Teresa Borras (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing intraocular pressure and increasing outflow facility from an eye of a subject having glaucoma includes the step of providing in the trabecular meshwork of the eye an amount of caldesmon effective to reduce intraocular pressure and increase outflow facility. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060914 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saraswati Vaidyanathan Sukumar (Columbia, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides prophylactic and therapeutic methods of treating the ductal epithelium of an exocrine gland, in particular a mammary gland, for disease, in particular cancer. The methods comprise contacting the ductal epithelium of the exocrine gland with an epithelium-destroying gent, preferably by ductal cannulation, so as to realize a prophylactic or therapeutic effect. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179322 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07196074 | Blye 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) | Richard P. Blye (Highland, Maryland); Hyun K. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland); Pemmaraju Narasimha Rao (San Antonio, Texas); Carmie Kirk Acosta (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using 7α,11β-dimethyl-17β-hydroxyestra-4,14-dien-3-one (III) and 17 esters thereof for various hormonal therapies, oral and parenteral dosage forms comprising these actives, and processes for their preparation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/281794 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/178 |
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| US 07196182 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (San Diego, California); Frederick F. Pio (Vancouver, Canada); Adam Godzik (San Diego, California); Christian Stehlik (San Diego, California); Jason S. Damiano (San Diego, California); Sug Hyung Lee (San Diego, California); Vasco A. Oliveira (San Diego, California); Hideki Hayashi (Nagasaki, Japan); Krzysztof Pawlowski (Malmo, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides caspase recruitment domain (CARD)-containing polypeptides, CARD, NB-ARC, ANGIO-R, LRR and SAM domains therefrom, as well as encoding nucleic acid molecules and specific antibodies. The invention also provides related screening, diagnostic and therapeutic methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/864921 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07196188 | de la Torre |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Carlos de la Torre (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Human Borna disease virus (BDV) nucleic acids and polypeptides are described from three psychiatric patients. The human BDV-derived nucleic acids and polypeptides are useful in both DNA- and protein-based assays to detect human BDV in a subject, particularly the detection of BDV nucleic acids, BDV polypeptides and BDV antibodies generated in response to BDV infection. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627141 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
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| US 07196191 | Fuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Fuchs (West Lafayette, Indiana); Seongmin Lee (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a catalytic, chemospecific and stereospecific method of oxidizing a wide variety of substrates without unwanted side reactions. Essentially, the method of the instant invention, under relatively mild reaction conditions, catalytically, stereospecifically and chemospecifically inserts oxygen into a hydrocarbon C—H bond. Oxidation (oxygen insertion) at a tertiary C—H bond to form an alcohol (and in some cases a hemiacetal) at the tertiary carbon is favored. The stereochemistry of an oxidized tertiary carbon is preserved. Ketones are formed by oxidizing a secondary C—H bond and ring-cleaved diones are formed by oxidizing cis tertiary CH bonds. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/636129 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/19 |
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| US 07196242 | Rothman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel H. Rothman (Santa Barbara, California); William Brent Derry (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies a p53 homolog gene, cep-1, and mutations thereof in the nematode C. elegans which allows for the application of molecular genetic methods to identify new components of the p53 pathway as well as genes that act in parallel to the p53 pathway. cep-1 mutants show elevated physiological germ cell death during normal development. The present invention also provides a simple system with which to perform high-throughput screens for pharmacological agents that suppress the effects of eliminating the cep-1 gene or that enhance its effectiveness when in a mutant state. This strategy should identify agents that selectively kill p53-deficient cells that are resistant to traditional chemotherapeutic regimens and thus block the formation of human tumors that arise when p53 function is compromised. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/860113 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
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| US 07197193 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creatv MicroTech, Inc. (Potomac, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuhong Li (North Potomac, Maryland); Cha-Min Tang (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Cha-Mei Tang (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument to acquire and methods to obtain three-dimensional (3D) images from a series of two-dimensional (2D) images which are obtained without moving the relative positions of the target, the detector, or the focusing lens is disclosed. The 2D images consist of one centered image obtained with the aperture at the center of optical system, and at least two directional images obtained with apertures at off-axis locations. The images can be obtained simultaneously or sequentially. The blurred 2D images are sectioned by computational method using point spread function of the optical system resulting in a set of decoupled 2D layers of the 3D object. The layered images are then sharpened by deconvolution using point spread function. The 3D reconstructed image is displayed. This technique provides fast data acquisition and fast image reconstruction and eliminates problems associated with motion, phototoxicity and photobleaching. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429258 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/285 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scot S. Olivier (Livermore, California); Charles A. Thompson (Livermore, California); Brian J. Bauman (Fremont, California); Steve M. Jones (Livermore, California); Don T. Gavel (Santa Cruz, California); Abdul A. S. Awwal (Pleasanton, California); Stephen K. Eisenbies (Pleasanton, California); Steven J. Haney (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for improving vision that can diagnose monochromatic aberrations within a subject's eyes, apply the wavefront correction, and then enable the patient to view the results of the correction. The system utilizes a laser for producing a beam of light; a corrector; a wavefront sensor; a testing unit; an optic device for directing the beam of light to the corrector, to the retina, from the retina to the wavefront sensor, and to the testing unit; and a computer operatively connected to the wavefront sensor and the corrector. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674891 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195733 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, devices and device components for fabricating patterns on substrate surfaces, particularly patterns comprising structures having microsized and/or nanosized features of selected lengths in one, two or three dimensions. The present invention provides composite patterning devices comprising a plurality of polymer layers each having selected mechanical properties, such as Young's Modulus and flexural rigidity, selected physical dimensions, such as thickness, surface area and relief pattern dimensions, and selected thermal properties, such as coefficients of thermal expansion, to provide high resolution patterning on a variety of substrate surfaces and surface morphologies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115954 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/496 |
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| US 07195768 | Haynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barton F. Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Bette T. Korber (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert M. De Lorimier (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, generally, to a polyvalent immunogen and, more particularly, to a method of inducing neutralizing antibodies against HIV and to a polyvalent immunogen suitable for use in such a method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373592 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
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| US 07195835 | Colombo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Colombo (Altamont, New York); Michael Krumpelt (Naperville, Illinois); Deborah J. Myers (Lisle, Illinois); John P. Kopasz (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion conducting membrane comprising dendrimeric polymers covalently linked into a network structure. The dendrimeric polymers have acid functional terminal groups and may be covalently linked via linking compounds, cross-coupling reactions, or copolymerization reactions. The ion conducting membranes may be produced by various methods and used in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/291254 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/33 |
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| US 07195840 | Kaun |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Kaun (New Lenox, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical device comprising alternating layers of positive and negative electrodes separated from each other by separator layers. The electrode layers extend beyond the periphery of the separator layers providing superior contact between the electrodes and battery terminals, eliminating the need for welding the electrode to the terminal. Electrical resistance within the battery is decreased and thermal conductivity of the cell is increased allowing for superior heat removal from the battery and increased efficiency. Increased internal pressure within the battery can be alleviated without damaging or removing the battery from service while keeping the contents of the battery sealed off from the atmosphere by a pressure release system. Nonoperative cells within a battery assembly can also be removed from service by shorting the nonoperative cell thus decreasing battery life. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/192818 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/94 |
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| US 07196210 | Yaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mohamed Eddaoudi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hailian Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jaheon Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nathaniel Rosi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The ability to design and construct solid-state materials with pre-determined structures is a grand challenge in chemistry. An inventive strategy based on reticulating metal ions and organic carboxylate links into extended networks has been advanced to a point that has allowed the design of porous structures in which pore size and functionality can be varied systematically. MOF-5, a prototype of a new class of porous materials and one that is constructed from octahedral Zn—O—C clusters and benzene links, was used to demonstrate that its 3-D porous system can be functionalized with the organic groups, —Br, —NH2, —OC3H7, —OC5H11, —H4C2, and —H4C4, and its pore size expanded with the long molecular struts biphenyl, tetrahydropyrene, pyrene, and terphenyl. The ability to direct the formation of the octahedral clusters in the presence of a desired carboxylate link is an essential feature of this strategy, which resulted in the design of an isoreticular (having the same framework topology) series of sixteen well-defined materials whose crystals have open space representing up to 91.1% of the crystal volume, and homogeneous periodic pores that can be incrementally varied from 3.8 to 28.8 angstroms. Unlike the unpredictable nature of zeolite and other molecular sieve syntheses, the deliberate control exercised at the molecular level in the design of these crystals is expected to have tremendous implications on materials properties and future technologies. Indeed, data indicate that members of this series represent the first monocrystalline mesoporous organic/inorganic frameworks, and exhibit the highest capacity for methane storage (155 cm3/cm3 at 36 atm) and the lowest densities (0.41 to 0.21 g/cm3) attained to date for any crystalline material at room temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119563 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196218 | Gaddy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Celanese International Corporation (Dallas, Texas); Bioengineering Resources, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Gaddy (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Edgar C. Clausen (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ching-Whan Ko (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Leslie E. Wade (Corpus Christi, Texas); Carl V. Wikstrom (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified water-immiscible solvent useful in the extraction of acetic acid from aqueous streams is a substantially pure mixture of isomers of highly branched di-alkyl amines. Solvent mixtures formed of such a modified solvent with a desired co-solvent, preferably a low boiling hydrocarbon, are useful in the extraction of acetic acid from aqueous gaseous streams. An anaerobic microbial fermentation process for the production of acetic acid employs such solvents, under conditions which limit amide formation by the solvent and thus increase the efficiency of acetic acid recovery. Methods for the direct extraction of acetic acid and the extractive fermentation of acetic acid also employ the modified solvents and increase efficiency of acetic acid production. Such increases in efficiency are also obtained where the energy source for the microbial fermentation contains carbon dioxide and the method includes a carbon dioxide stripping step prior to extraction of acetic acid in solvent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/839663 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/608 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196366 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Jiangeng Xue (Piscataway, New Jersey); Soichi Uchida (Yokohama, Japan); Barry P. Rand (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is provided having a first electrode, a second electrode, a first photoactive region having a characteristic absorption wavelength λ1 and a second photoactive region having a characteristic absorption wavelength λ2. The photoactive regions are disposed between the first and second electrodes, and further positioned on the same side of a reflective layer, such that the first photoactive region is closer to the reflective layer than the second photoactive region. The materials comprising the photoactive regions may be selected such that λ1 is at least about 10% different from λ2. The device may further comprise an exciton blocking layer disposed adjacent to and in direct contact with the organic acceptor material of each photoactive region, wherein the LUMO of each exciton blocking layer other than that closest to the cathode is not more than about 0.3 eV greater than the LUMO of the acceptor material. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911559 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196771 | Berger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt W. Berger (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector to measure EUV intensity employs a linear array of photodiodes. The detector is particularly suited for photolithography systems that includes: (i) a ringfield camera; (ii) a source of radiation; (iii) a condenser for processing radiation from the source of radiation to produce a ringfield illumination field for illuminating a mask; (iv) a reticle that is positioned at the ringfield camera's object plane and from which a reticle image in the form of an intensity profile is reflected into the entrance pupil of the ringfield camera, wherein the reticle moves in a direction that is transverse to the length of the ringfield illumination field that illuminates the reticle; (v) detector for measuring the entire intensity along the length of the ringfield illumination field that is projected onto the reticle; and (vi) a wafer onto which the reticle imaged is projected from the ringfield camera. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087996 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196839 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Thomas Sanders (Madison, Wisconsin); Joachim Werner Walewski (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultraviolet super-continuum source with a fiber-optic may be provided with direct stimulation by a laser having a relatively narrow bandwidth, for example, less than the typical Raman shift in the material of the optical fiber to provide a super-continuum source extending for wavelengths below 400 nanometers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/275995 |
| 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 07197403 | Morrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas); Gas Research Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas B. Morrow (San Antonio, Texas); Kendricks A. Behring, II (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inferentially determining various properties of a gas mixture, when the speed of sound in the gas is known at an arbitrary temperature and pressure. The method can be applied to natural gas mixtures, where the known parameters are the sound speed, temperature, pressure, and concentrations of any dilute components of the gas. The method uses a set of reference gases and their calculated density and speed of sound values to estimate the density of the subject gas. Additional calculations can be made to estimate the molecular weight of the subject gas, which can then be used as the basis for heating value calculations. The method may also be applied to inferentially determine density and molecular weight for gas mixtures other than natural gases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006243 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07194891 | Tuller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry L. Tuller (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Huankiat Seh (Boston, Massachusetts); Takeo Hyodo (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of sensing the amount of a gas in a fluid flow includes operating an acoustic wave (AW) sensor at a first resonant frequency. The AW sensor includes a high temperature stable piezoelectric plate coupled to a first gas-absorbing layer. Also included is combining a fluid flow having a gas component with the first gas-absorbing layer at a temperature of at least about 500° C. At least one resonant frequency of the AW sensor is sensed. The amount of gas in the fluid flow is sensed by correlating the resonant frequency with the amount of gas absorbed in the first gas-absorbing layer. A sensor for sensing the amount of a gas in a fluid flow includes a first gas-absorbing layer, a high-temperature-stable piezoelectric plate coupled to the first gas-absorbing layer, and a controller coupled to the high-temperature-stable piezoelectric plate. The controller is coupled to the high-temperature stable piezoelectric plate to measure a resonant frequency in the high temperature stable piezoelectric plate correlated with an amount of gas absorbed by the first gas absorbing layer, whereby the amount of a gas in a fluid flow is sensed. The high-temperature-stable piezoelectric plate is formed of at least one material selected from the group consisting of AlN, GaN, Al1-xGaxN (0≦x≦1), GaPO4, AlPO4, and materials having the crystal structure of Ca2Ga2Ge4SiO14, e.g., Ca2Ga2Ge4SiO14, La3Ga5SiO14, La3Ga5.5Nb0.5O14, La3Ga5.5Ta0.5O14, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828096 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195780 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donn M. Dennis (Gainesville, Florida); Charles R. Martin (Gainesville, Florida); Richard J. Rogers (Gainesville, Florida); Jon D. Stewart (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the nanotubes of various sizes and composed of a wide variety of materials, or combination of materials. The invention also describes the use of such nanotubes for the delivery of various payloads and, in particular, for the in vivo delivery of bioactive substances. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/274829 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195918 | 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 | 11/042977 |
| 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 435/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196142 | Kennedy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Zheng Fang (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Various novel block cationomers comprising polyisobutylene (PIB) and poly(2-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) segments have been synthesized and characterized. The specific targets were various molecular weight diblocks (PDMAEMA+) and triblocks (PDMAEMA+-b-PIB-b-PDMAEMA+) with the PIB blocks in the DPn=50–200−(Mn=3,000–9,000 g/mol) range connected to blocks of PDMAEMA+ cations in the DPn=5–20 range. The overall synthetic strategy for the preparation of these block cationomers comprised four steps: 1) Synthesis by living cationic polymerization of mono- and di-allyltelechelic polyisobutylenes, 2) End group transformation to obtain PIBs fitted with termini capable of mediating the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of DMAEMA, 3) ATRP of DMAEMA and 4) Quaternization of PDMAEMA to PDMAEMA+I− by CH3I. Kinetic and model experiments provided guidance to develop convenient synthesis methods. The microarchitecture of PIB-PDMAEMA di- and triblock and the corresponding block cationomers were confirmed by 1H NMR and FTIR spectroscopy and solubility studies. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406369 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196210 | Yaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mohamed Eddaoudi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hailian Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jaheon Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nathaniel Rosi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The ability to design and construct solid-state materials with pre-determined structures is a grand challenge in chemistry. An inventive strategy based on reticulating metal ions and organic carboxylate links into extended networks has been advanced to a point that has allowed the design of porous structures in which pore size and functionality can be varied systematically. MOF-5, a prototype of a new class of porous materials and one that is constructed from octahedral Zn—O—C clusters and benzene links, was used to demonstrate that its 3-D porous system can be functionalized with the organic groups, —Br, —NH2, —OC3H7, —OC5H11, —H4C2, and —H4C4, and its pore size expanded with the long molecular struts biphenyl, tetrahydropyrene, pyrene, and terphenyl. The ability to direct the formation of the octahedral clusters in the presence of a desired carboxylate link is an essential feature of this strategy, which resulted in the design of an isoreticular (having the same framework topology) series of sixteen well-defined materials whose crystals have open space representing up to 91.1% of the crystal volume, and homogeneous periodic pores that can be incrementally varied from 3.8 to 28.8 angstroms. Unlike the unpredictable nature of zeolite and other molecular sieve syntheses, the deliberate control exercised at the molecular level in the design of these crystals is expected to have tremendous implications on materials properties and future technologies. Indeed, data indicate that members of this series represent the first monocrystalline mesoporous organic/inorganic frameworks, and exhibit the highest capacity for methane storage (155 cm3/cm3 at 36 atm) and the lowest densities (0.41 to 0.21 g/cm3) attained to date for any crystalline material at room temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119563 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197691 | Beerel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Beerel (Westminister, California); Keith M. Chugg (Burbank, California); Georgios D. Dimou (San Diego, California); Phunsak Thiennviboon (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Decoding an encoded signal (for example, a turbo encoded signal, a block encoded signal or the like) is performed by demodulating the received encoded signal to produce soft information, and iteratively processing the soft information with one or more soft-in/soft-output (SISO) modules. At least one of the SISO modules uses a tree structure to compute forward and backward state metrics. More generally, iterative detection is performed by receiving an input signal corresponding to one or more outputs of a module whose soft-inverse can be computed by running the forward-backward algorithm on a trellis representation of the module, and determining the soft inverse of the module by computing forward and backward state metrics of the received input signal using a tree structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875979 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/795 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
07194979 — Method and device for scrubbing ammonia from air exhausted from animal rearing facilities
| US 07194979 | Moore, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Moore, Jr. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Ammonia in the air exhausted from animal containment facilities may be removed by scrubbing the air with a solution of a suitable salt of an acidic proton donor such as alum. Ammonia may be removed from the air within any enclosed animal building which includes at least one air inlet and at least one outlet, a ventilation system having an air mover effective to draw fresh air into the building through the inlet and exhaust contaminated air through the outlet, and an air scrubber in communication with the outlet. Prior to exhausting the air into the environment, the air is passed through the scrubber where it is contacted with a solution of the salt of an acidic proton donor effective for flocculating ammonia therein. The flocculated ammonia may then be removed from the solution, which may then be recycled to the scrubber. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/003540 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195901 | McKeon 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) | Thomas A. McKeon (Richmond, California); Xiaohua He (Albany, California); Jiann-Tsyh Lin (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The gene for the diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) from Ricinus communis L., the castor plant, has been isolated, cloned, and used to transform other plants and micro-organisms. When the gene is expressed in a heterologous system, the corresponding DGAT protein is active and shows unusual and selective action for hydroxylated fatty acyl glycerides. DGAT carries out the final step in castor oil biosynthesis, and is believed to be largely responsible for many of the attributes of castor oil, making it an excellent candidate for industrial uses. This invention makes it possible to enhance the oil-producing capacity of other plants and micro-organisms. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861616 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195918 | 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 | 11/042977 |
| 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 435/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07194912 | Jordan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Jordan (Williamsburg, Virginia); Anthony Neal Watkins (Hampton, Virginia); Donald M. Oglesby (Virginia Beach, Virginia); JoAnne L. Ingram (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor has a plurality of carbon nanotube (CNT)-based conductors operatively positioned on a substrate. The conductors are arranged side-by-side, such as in a substantially parallel relationship to one another. At least one pair of spaced-apart electrodes is coupled to opposing ends of the conductors. A portion of each of the conductors spanning between each pair of electrodes comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes arranged end-to-end and substantially aligned along an axis. Because a direct correlation exists between resistance of a carbon nanotube and carbon nanotube strain, changes experienced by the portion of the structure to which the sensor is coupled induce a change in electrical properties of the conductors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890843 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195446 | Seda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge Francisco Seda (Cincinnati, Ohio); Thomas Ory Moniz (Loveland, Ohio); Lawrence Butler (Eydon, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a gas turbine engine that includes providing a low-pressure turbine inner rotor configured to rotate in a first direction, providing a low-pressure turbine outer rotor configured to rotate in a second direction that is opposite the first rotational direction, and coupling at least one foil bearing to at least one of the inner and outer rotors to facilitate improving clearance control between a first rotating component and at least one of a second rotating component and a non-rotating component. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976496 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07195823 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Sanders (Sturgis, Mississippi); Terry L. Amburgey (Sturgis, Mississippi); H. Michael Barnes (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a porous pad impregnated with wood preservative(s) and/or metal corrosion inhibitor(s) to which future maintenance treatments can be applied. These pads are designed to be placed within joints of wood, metal or combinations thereof for protection against biotic and/or abiotic deterioration. The pad can be placed between joints of wood and/or metal members. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465882 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07195840 | Kaun |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Kaun (New Lenox, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical device comprising alternating layers of positive and negative electrodes separated from each other by separator layers. The electrode layers extend beyond the periphery of the separator layers providing superior contact between the electrodes and battery terminals, eliminating the need for welding the electrode to the terminal. Electrical resistance within the battery is decreased and thermal conductivity of the cell is increased allowing for superior heat removal from the battery and increased efficiency. Increased internal pressure within the battery can be alleviated without damaging or removing the battery from service while keeping the contents of the battery sealed off from the atmosphere by a pressure release system. Nonoperative cells within a battery assembly can also be removed from service by shorting the nonoperative cell thus decreasing battery life. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/192818 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07195456 | Aggarwala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew S. Aggarwala (East Hartford, Connecticut); Richard E. Gacek (South Windsor, Connecticut); Joel H. Wagner (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Jeff S. Noall (South Windsor, Connecticut); Timothy S. Snyder (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An exit guide vane array for a turbine engine includes a set of guide vanes 28 having a solidity and defining fluid flow passages 74 with a chordwisely converging forward portion 80. The high solidity and convergent passage portion 80 resist fluid separation. The vanes may also cooperate with each other to restrict an observer's line of sight to planes upstream of the vane array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/019870 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/208.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07195740 | Bunn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Bunn (Simi Valley, California); Stephen C. Hurlock (Simi Valley, California); Alan Z. Ullman (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for removing BHP contaminants (alkali hydroxide and H2O2) from a recycled aqueous alkali chloride solution stream before the stream is fed to a chloralkali cell so that the contaminants do not impair the operation of a chloralkali cell. Unwanted alkali hydroxide within the recycled alkali chloride brine solution is reacted with chlorine gas and converted into an alkali chloride, which is useful in the operation of the chloralkali cell, and oxygen gas, which is outgassed from the system. Any H2O2 remaining in the recycled stream after elimination of the alkali hydroxide is reacted with chlorine to form HCl and oxygen gas. The HCl raises the pH of the brine solution, after which the pH may be adjusted by the addition of supplemental alkali hydroxide. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/812048 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07196119 | Scanlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Scanlan (San Francisco, California); Martin J. Kelly (Portland, Oregon); Jian Qiu (Portland, Oregon); Sandra Tobias (San Francisco, California); Oline K. Ronnekleiv (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns a new class of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs). The disclosure also includes the identification of a previously unknown membrane associated estrogen receptor. Methods for making and using the disclosed SERMs are disclosed, including pharmaceutical formulations of the disclosed novel compounds in useful compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970242 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197090 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey L. Berger (Redondo Beach, California); Samuel J. Friedberg (Torrance, California); James C. Becker (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved decoding technique useful for hard decision decoding, such as quadrature phase shift keying (PSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), as well as soft-decision techniques, such as Viterbi decoding and trellis decoding. The system in accordance with the present invention provides adaptive decision regions for hard-decision decoding techniques and adaptive metrics for soft-decision detection techniques in which the decision boundaries and reference constellations, respectively are optimized in order to minimize the bit error rate (BER). In particular, the decision boundaries and metrics are optimized based on the locations of the received constellation points. By adaptively adjusting the decision boundaries and metrics, the BER can be greatly improved with the need for nonlinear predistortion at the transmitter thus reducing the hardware complexity and weight of the transmitter which provides additional benefits in applications, such as satellite communication systems, where the transmitter is located on the satellite. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/240275 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 27, 2007.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2007/fedinvent-patents-20070327.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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