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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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| US 07197804 | Muller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heinrich G. Muller (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal conductor is made of copper and carbon nanotubes powders that are compressed together and then cold rolled into sheets for aligning the carbon nanotubes for providing a composite matrix having a low coefficient of thermal expansion, high thermal conductivity, and high electrical conductivity, for preferred use as a conducting heat sink, such as a laser submount, for heat sinking dissipation and electrical grounding of high-power electrical components and circuits, such as a laser diode. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214204 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/419.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197879 | Buehman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guerry Buehman (Chandler, Arizona); Bruce Anson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a multiple manifold fuel metering system with a separate motor, pump, and shut-off/purge valve for each manifold. The present invention may be used for metering fuel to any engine, especially a gas turbine engine. The fuel metering system of the present invention has the capability of independently controlling fuel flow during transitions in engine operation or allowing fuel to flow simultaneously through all manifolds to prevent blowout, optimizing combustion temperature distributions, or minimizing combustion emissions. Brushless DC variable speed electric motors may be used to drive pumps with highly accurate speed control to accurately control fuel flow rate to each of a plurality of manifolds of a fuel metering system. With brushless DC motors, motor speed may be controlled within a revolution for smoothing fuel delivery to an engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836017 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197899 | Mossadegh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reza Mossadegh (Alexandria, Virginia); Brian Cole (Arlington, Virginia); Pablo Pureza (Burke, Virginia); Jasbinder Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Shyam Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process includes the steps of disposing a solid core glass rod at a point removed from hot temperature that can cause crystallization in the core glass rod, disposing a solid clad glass rod at a point removed from the core glass rod; softening to the flowing condition the solid clad glass rod, transferring the softened clad glass to a lower point, the softened clad glass having a central void therethrough, heating the softened clad glass above its crystallization temperature, cooling the softened clad glass to a draw temperature, transferring the solid core glass rod into the central void in the softened glad glass, softening to the flowing condition the solid core glass rod with the heat from the softened and cooled clad glass, and drawing the core/clad, glass fiber by allowing the clad and core glasses to flow in the form of a fiber. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339255 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198001 | Lewis 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) | William H. Lewis (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Dana C. Lynn (Severna Park, Maryland); Andrew J. Field (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A platform assembly of circular plates are yieldably held positioned by a support mounted on an underwater vehicle propelled under remote control within seawater to a location below an underwater surface such as the bottom of a ship hull, for surface measurement survey of such surface through sensors that are projected upwardly from the positioned platform assembly into contact with the surface under spring bias pressure established during survey measurement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272420 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198112 | Wanner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J Wanner (Stafford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved minesweeper having a two-sided frame adapted to be coupled to and pushed by a tractor and a rake pivoted from each side of the frame by respective pairs of coupling bars of different lengths so that as the rake moves away from the frame to bury itself in the soil, the coupling bars rotate it to a less aggressive digging angle that prevents the rake from stalling the tractor, wherein the improvement comprises apparatus connected to the frame for catching and sifting mines, soil, rocks and other objects buried in the soil passing over the rake without small amounts of vegetation and variances in soil conditions clogging the catching and sifting means. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786139 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth working 172/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198224 | Townsend et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Townsend (Stratford, Connecticut); Bruce Fredric Kay (Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An airframe includes an energy absorbing structure with a frame, a beam mounted to the frame at a rotational joint and a collapsible member. In response to reaching a predetermined threshold load value during a high sink rate impact event, the collapsible member will collapse under an aft section of the upper deck. The rotational joint operates as a virtual hinge such that a forward section of the upper deck deforms in a predictable manner. As the upper deck supports the high mass systems, the high mass components are less likely to separate from their mounting and penetrate into the crew compartment and the main rotor system will tilt aft away from the crew compartment to minimize the likelihood that the rotor blades may penetrate the crew compartment. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064612 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/17.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198620 | Greydanus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominique J. Greydanus (Fort Sam Houston, Texas); John Kennedy (Boeblingen, Germany); John B. Holcomb (San Antonio, Texas); Robert Miller (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a saline lock and intravenous catheter combination that is simple to use. The device preferably includes a hub and a catheter with the hub having a first port and a second port. A further embodiment provides a needle in communication with the device. The invention also includes a method for using the device in combination with a needle. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986810 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198691 | Ludin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R Ludin (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Pierre J Minguet (Wallingford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reinforced structural member having a tubular member and a support structure. The tubular member has a sidewall that defines a hollow interior portion. The support structure is formed from a composite material and bonded to the sidewall in at least two predetermined locations. The support structure is positioned within the tubular member and configured to transmit force between the predetermined locations so as to prevent the tubular member from being crushed in response to the application of a force of a predetermined magnitude to the tubular member. A method for forming a reinforced structural member is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788140 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198771 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Joseph Perrin (Centerville, Virginia); Syed B. Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a chemical composition with the structure shown below. The composition can be polymerized or pyrolyzed, forming transition metal nanoparticles homogeneously dispersed in a thermoset or carbon composition. The size of the nanoparticles can be controlled by manipulating the number and arrangement of functional groups in the composition and by changing the conditions of the polymerization or pyrolysis. The resulting thermosets and carbon compositions have useful magnetic, electric, mechanical, catalytic and/or optical properties. wherein A is selected from the group consisting of H, wherein M is a metal selected independently from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Ru, Co, Ni, Cr and V; wherein Rx is independently selected from the group consisting of an aromatic, a substituted aromatic group and combinations thereof; wherein Ry is independently selected from the group consisting of an aromatic, a substituted aromatic group and combinations thereof; wherein m is ≧0; wherein s is ≧0; wherein z is ≧0; and wherein m and s are independently determined in each repeating unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652082 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198774 | Contag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela R. Contag (San Jose, California); Christopher H. Contag (San Jose, California); David A. Benaron (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for detecting and localizing light originating from a mammal are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for targeting light emission to selected regions, as well as for tracking entities within the mammal. In addition, animal models for disease states are disclosed, as are methods for localizing and tracking the progression of disease or a pathogen within the animal, and for screening putative therapeutic compounds effective to inhibit the disease or pathogen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147978 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198847 | Naasani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Imad Naasani (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions of functionalized, fluorescent nanocrystals comprising fluorescent nanocrystals coated with an imidazole-containing compound; compositions of functionalized, fluorescent nanocrystals comprising fluorescent nanocrystals coated with an imidazole-containing compound and cross-linked with a phosphine cross-linking compound; compositions of functionalized fluorescent nanocrystals operably bound to molecular probe; a process of making functionalized, fluorescent nanocrystals; and a process of using functionalized, fluorescent nanocrystals in a detection system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/952701 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198915 | Tirrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tirrell (Pasadena, California); Kristi Lynn Kiick (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing modified polypeptides containing amino acid analogues are disclosed, as well as compositions comprising purified dihydrofolate reductase polypeptides, produced by the methods of the invention. In certain aspects, methionine residues of the compositions are replaced with homoallyglycine, homoproparglycine, norvaline, norleucine, cis-crotyiglycine, trans-crotylglycine, 2-aminoheptanoic acid, 2-butynyiglycine and allyglycine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612713 |
| 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 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07198970 — Technique for perfecting the active regions of wide bandgap semiconductor nitride devices
| US 07198970 | Peckerar 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) | Martin Peckerar (Silver Spring, Maryland); Richard Henry (Great Falls, Virginia); Daniel Koleske (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alma Wickenden (Woodbine, Maryland); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland); Ronald Holm (Alexandria, Virginia); Mark E. Twigg (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to electronic/optoelectronic devices with reduced extended defects and to a method for making it. The method includes the steps of depositing a dielectric thin film mask material on a semiconductor substrate surface; patterning the mask material to form openings therein extending to the substrate surface; growing active material in the openings; removing the mask material to form the device with reduced extended defect density; and depositing electrical contacts on the device. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768747 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199382 | Rigney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nickolas S. Rigney (Redlands, California); Daniel C. Anderson (Loma Linda, California); David A. Lesyna (Redlands, California); Daniel W. Miller (Oriental, North Carolina); Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California); Chieh C. Cheng (Redlands, California); Michael A. Baumann (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A patient alignment system for a radiation therapy system. The alignment system includes multiple external measurement devices which obtain position measurements of components of the radiation therapy system which are movable and/or are subject to flex or other positional variations. The alignment system employs the external measurements to provide corrective positioning feedback to more precisely register the patient and align them with a radiation beam. The alignment system can be provided as an integral part of a radiation therapy system or can be added as an upgrade to existing radiation therapy systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/917023 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199409 | Anthony |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus for adding or subtracting an amount charge to or from a charge packet in a CCD as the packet traverses the CCD. The apparatus uses a “wire transfer” device structure to perform the addition or subtraction of charge during the charge packets traversal across the device. A pair of electrically interconnected diffusions are incorporated within the charge couple path to provide an amount of charge which can be added or subtracted from packets as the packets traverse the CCD. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926937 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199499 | Langhorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan R. Langhorn (Solana Beach, California); Zbigniew S. Piec (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The wear life of flexible copper fiber brushes when used at a positive pole in a direct current motor or generator is improved by the provision of an effective amount of zinc as a sacrificial anode material. Flame-sprayed zinc is applied as a coating to the exterior surface of such a copper fiber pack to bond the fibers with a surrounding metal wire reinforcing wrap, of cross wound copper wire or fine mesh, woven copper wire screen material, and create an improved brush. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150502 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199501 | Pei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qibing Pei (Fremont, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that conform to the shape of a polymer included in a transducer. The present invention provides methods for fabricating electromechanical devices including one or more electroactive polymers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334983 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199750 | Bourdelais et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Bourdelais (Vienna, Virginia); Ernest Scott Stickels (Lothian, Maryland); William Ray Wright (Springfield, Virginia); David Earl Norris (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Michael Anthony Tiberio (Arlington, Virginia); Gary Dana Butler (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time signal processing engine robustly detects, localizes, tracks and classifies ground targets based on radar signals from a multistatic radar system. The system differentiates between different targets based on an optimized cost function, which can include the total returned normalized pulse energy. The local transmitters/receivers can communicate with each other via the transmitted radar signals. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/112390 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199877 | Kehoe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Resonon Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Kehoe (Bozeman, Montana); Casey W. Smith (Bozeman, Montana); Rand C. Swanson (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A scalable imaging spectrometer, using anamorphic optical elements to form an intermediate focus in only one dimension. Light reflects off an object to form an incident beam. The beam reflects off an anamorphic objective mirror to form a line focus at a slit. At the slit, the beam is focused along the spectral dimension, but remains substantially collimated along the spatial dimension. The beam is then recollimated in the spectral dimension by a second anamorphic mirror, reflects off a diffraction grating, passes through a lens, and is brought to focus on a two dimensional detector, which produces both spectral and spatial information about the object. Because there is no intermediate focus in the spatial dimension, there are no off-axis aberrations from the anamorphic mirrors, and the field of view may be substantially increased over prior art spectrometers in the spatial dimension. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187584 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199924 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aculight Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. W. Brown (Brier, Washington); Eric C. Honea (Seattle, Washington); Thomas H. Loftus (Seattle, Washington); Roy D. Mead (Edmonds, Washington); Charles E. Hamilton (Kenmore, Washington); Anping Liu (Big Flats, New York); Charles A. Lemaire (Apple Valley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for spectral-beam combining light from a plurality of high-power fiber lasers that, in some embodiments, use two substantially identical diffraction gratings in a parallel, mutually compensating configuration to combine a plurality of separate parallel input beams each having a slightly different successively higher wavelength into a single output beam of high quality. In other embodiments, a single diffraction grating is used to combine a plurality of different wavelengths, wherein the input laser beams are obtained from very narrow linewidth sources to reduce chromatic dispersion. In some embodiments, diagnostics and adjustments of wavelengths and/or positions and angles are made dynamically in real time to maintain the combination of the plurality input beams into a single high-quality output beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342336 |
| 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 359/556 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200031 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Liu (Bloomington, Minnesota); Harry Liu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is disclosed for reducing proton and heavy ion SEU sensitivity of a static random access memory (SRAM) cell. A first passive delay element has been inserted in series with an active delay element in a first feedback path of the SRAM cell, and a second passive delay element has been inserted in a second feedback path of the SRAM cell. The passive delay elements reduce the proton SEU sensitivity of the SRAM cell, and the active delay element reduces the heavy ion sensitivity of the SRAM cell. The passive delay elements also protect the SRAM cell against SEUs that may occur when the SRAM cell is in dynamic mode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082161 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200105 | Milliken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Clark Milliken (Dover, New Hampshire); Luis A. Sanchez (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Alex C. Snoeren (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus (520) for archiving signatures associated with packets received at a node in a network includes a first memory (620), a second memory (625), a signature tap (610), a multiplexer (615), and a controller (630). The signature tap (610) receives packets at the node and computes one or more signatures for each of the received packets. The multiplexer (615) aggregates the computed one or more signatures in the first memory (620) to produce one or more signature vectors. The controller (630) archives the one or more signature vectors in the second memory (625). |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044073 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200111 | Garcia-Luna-Aceves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves (San Mateo, California); Christina Parsa (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A protocol for differentiating congestion-related packet loss versus random packet loss in a wireless data connection. The protocol monitors changes in the length of a transmission queue in a wireless data connection over an interval substantially equal to the amount of time it takes to transmit a window of data packets and receive acknowledgements corresponding to all data packets transmitted in the window. If packet loss is preceded by an increase in the queue length over two consecutive intervals, the packet loss is designated as being due to congestion and a congestion avoidance algorithm is initiated. Otherwise, the packet loss is designated as random loss and the transmission window is maintained at its current size. The protocol reduces the transmission rate only when congestion is identified as the cause of lost packets; otherwise wireless losses can simply be quickly retransmitted without a reduction in the data transmission rate. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/945106 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200193 | Poklemba et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Poklemba (Ijamsville, Maryland); Gregory S. Mitchell (Bethesda, Maryland); Ronald F. Smith (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A quadrature vestigial-sideband (QVSB) method and system with correlated noise removal are embodied in a QVSB receiver with a correlated-noise estimator-subtractor configured to obtain I/Q channel correlated noise estimates for receive-filtered I/Q signals in the QVSB receiver, and to subtract the I/Q channel correlated noise estimates from the receive-filtered I/Q signals to whiten noises entering a quadrature-crosstalk, maximum-likelihood-sequence-estimator (QC-MLSE) of the QVSB receiver. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/279569 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200243 | Keenan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Keenan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Robert S. Rand (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method that facilitates identification of features in a scene enables enhanced detail to be displayed. One embodiment incorporates a multi-grid Gibbs-based algorithm to partition sets of endmembers of an image into smaller sets upon which spatial consistency is imposed. At each site within an imaged scene, not necessarily a site entirely within one of the small sets, the parameters of a linear mixture model are estimated based on the small set of endmembers in the partition associated with that site. An, enhanced spectral mixing process (SMP) is then computed. One embodiment employs a simulated annealing method of partitioning hyperspectral imagery, initialized by a supervised classification method to provide spatially smooth class labeling for terrain mapping applications. One estimate of the model is a Gibbs distribution defined over a symmetric spatial neighborhood system that is based on an energy function characterizing spectral disparities in both Euclidean distance and spectral angle. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/603666 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200308 | Hochberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Hochberg (Pasadena, California); Tom Baehr-Jones (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for manipulating light with high index contrast waveguides clad with substances having that exhibit large nonlinear electro-optic constants χ2 and χ3. Waveguides fabricated on SOI wafers and clad with electro-optic polymers are described. Embodiments of waveguides having slots, electrical contacts, and input waveguide couplers are discussed. Waveguides having closed loop structures (such as rings and ovals) as well as linear or serpentine waveguides, are described. Optical signal processing methods, such as optical rectification and optical modulation, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/477207 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200342 | Dafesh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Dafesh (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct-sequence-spread-spectrum (DSSS) optical-frequency-shift-keying (OFSK) code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) communication system is adapted with optical transmitters and receivers for preferred use fiber optical communication systems where modulated data and pseudorandom noise (PRN) codes are encoded in the optical domain and communicated over optical paths for increasing system capacity in wide area optical networks. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165661 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mukund N. Desai (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and techniques for estimating the concentration of one or more agents in a fluid environment employ a plurality of measurements of a sensor attribute that changes in response to an agent. Measurements taken before the agent/reagent combination reaches a steady-state may be used. The plurality of measurements are processed using a nonlinear, parametric model of the interaction between the sensor and the agent to determine the concentration of the agent. The model takes into account the finite capacity of a sensor reagent. The model characterizes the interaction of individual agent/reagent combinations with a set of parameters. These parameters require minimal testing to calculate. The invention enables the response of a sensor to an agent over the entire range of agent concentration levels to be efficiently and accurately characterized. The invention also enables the prediction of collective responses given parameters characterizing a plurality of agent/reagent combinations. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/411860 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200656 | Cousins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Bruce Cousins (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing a communication signal may include computing a number of periodograms from the signal. Each of the periodograms may be generated from a portion of the signal. The number of periodograms may be combined in time sequence to form a spectrogram [510] containing the periodograms. A cepstrogram [520–540] may be generated by performing cepstrum processing on the spectrogram. The cepstrogram may be used to classify [330] the type of communication that produced the signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245089 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200799 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongfeng Wang (San Jose, California); Keshab K. Parhi (Mission Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Turbo decoders may have large decoding latency and low throughput due to iterative decoding. One way to increase the throughput and reduce the latency of turbo decoders is to use high speed decoding schemes. In particular, area-efficient parallel decoding schemes may be used to overcome the decoding latency and throughput associated with turbo decoders. In addition, hybrid parallel decoding schemes may be used in high-level parallelism implementations. Moreover, the area-efficient parallel decoding schemes introduce little or no performance degradation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/134684 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/795 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200830 | Drost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Mountain View, California); Ivan E. Sutherland (Santa Monica, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates capacitive inter-chip communication. During operation, the system first determines an alignment between a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die. Next, electrical signals are selectively routed to at least one interconnect pad in a plurality of interconnect pads based on the alignment thereby facilitating communication between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die. The plurality of interconnect pads can include transmitting pads, receiving pads, and transmitting and receiving pads. The alignment may be determined continuously or at times separated by an interval, where the interval is fixed or variable. Several variations on this embodiment are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879607 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39537 | Cruce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy Clay Cruce (Leander, Texas); William H. Hallidy (Austin, Texas); Robert C. Chin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention additionally comprises a method and apparatus for generating and mixing signals for frequency-domain lifetime and spectral fluorometry. The present invention comprises a plurality of signal generators that generate a plurality of signals where the signal generators modulate the amplitude and/or the frequency of the signals. The present invention uses one of these signals to drive an excitation signal that the present invention then directs and transmits at a target mixture, which absorbs the energy from the excitation signal. The property of fluorescence causes the target mixture to emit an emitted signal that the present invention detects with a signal detector. The present invention uses a plurality of mixers to produce a processor reference signal and a data signal. The present invention then uses a processor to compare the processor reference signal with the data signal by analyzing the differences in the phase and the differences in the amplitude between the two signals. The processor then extracts the fluorescence lifetime and fluorescence spectrum of the emitted signal from the phase and amplitude information using a chemometric analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/035461 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07198774 | Contag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela R. Contag (San Jose, California); Christopher H. Contag (San Jose, California); David A. Benaron (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for detecting and localizing light originating from a mammal are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for targeting light emission to selected regions, as well as for tracking entities within the mammal. In addition, animal models for disease states are disclosed, as are methods for localizing and tracking the progression of disease or a pathogen within the animal, and for screening putative therapeutic compounds effective to inhibit the disease or pathogen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147978 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198798 | Malyankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uriel M. Malyankar (North Branford, Connecticut); Marta Scatena (Seattle, Washington); Cecilia M. Giachelli (Mill Creek, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention provides methods for promoting endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention include the step of providing to one or more endothelial cells an amount of an osteoprotegerin sufficient to promote endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention can be practiced in vivo or in vitro. In another aspect, the present invention provides implantable medical devices that each include: (a) a device body; and (b) a layer attached to a surface of the device body, the layer comprising a molecule selected from the group consisting of osteoprotegerin and a nucleic acid molecule encoding osteoprotegerin, wherein the device is adapted to be completely or partially implanted into an animal body. The implanted medical device thus promotes the growth of blood vessels in the surrounding tissue, thereby reducing or preventing the formation of a collagenous capsule around the implanted medical device. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/142658 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198891 | Branch et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea D. Branch (New York, New York); Jose L. Walewski (Eastchester, New York); Decherd D. Stump (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel hepatitis C virus (HCV) polypeptides are provided which are not encoded by the standard HCV open reading frame. These alternate reading frame polypeptides are useful, inter alia, in vaccine compositions, in diagnosing HCV infection, and as therapeutic targets. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601020 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198894 | Barany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Weiguo Cao (Central, South Carolina); Jianmin Huang (Jackson Heights, New York); Jing Lu (Central, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for detecting DNA sequence differences including single nucleotide mutations or polymorphisms, one or more nucleotide insertions, and one or more nucleotide deletions. Labeled heteroduplex PCR fragments containing base mismatches are prepared. Endonuclease cleaves the heteroduplex PCR fragments both at the position containing the variation (one or more mismatched bases) and to a lesser extent, at non-variant (perfectly matched) positions. Ligation of the cleavage products with a DNA ligase corrects non-variant cleavages and thus substantially reduces background. This is then followed by a detection step in which the reaction products are detected, and the position of the sequence variations are determined. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/998481 |
| 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 07198947 | Goodwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas John Goodwin (Friendswood, Texas); Timothy Grant Hammond (New Orleans, Louisiana); James Howard Kaysen (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for production of functional proteins including hormones by renal cells in a three dimensional co-culture process responsive to shear stress using a rotating wall vessel. Natural mixture of renal cells expresses the enzyme 1-a-hydroxylase which can be used to generate the active form of vitamin D: 1,25-diOH vitamin D3. The fibroblast cultures and co-culture of renal cortical cells express the gene for erythropoietin and secrete erythropoietin into the culture supernatant. Other shear stress response genes are also modulated by shear stress, such as toxin receptors megalin and cubulin (gp280). Also provided is a method of treating in-need individual with the functional proteins produced in a three dimensional co-culture process responsive to shear stress using a rotating wall vessel. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734759 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198948 | Steinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York); Argos Therapeutics, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph M. Steinman (Westport, Connecticut); Nina Bhardwaj (Montclair, New Jersey); Gerold Schuler (Spardorf, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | We describe an improved method for generating sizable numbers of mature dendritic cells from nonproliferating progenitors in human blood. The first step or “priming” phase is a culture of T cell depleted mononuclear cells in medium supplemented with GM-CSF and IL-4 to produce immature dendritic cells. The second step or “differentiation” phase requires the exposure to dendritic cell maturation factor such as monocyte conditioned medium. Using this two-step approach, substantial yields are obtained. The dendritic cells derive from this method have all the features of mature cells. They include a stellate cell shape, nonadherence to plastic, and very strong T cell stimulatory activity. The mature dendritic cells produced according to this invention are useful for activating T cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/047072 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198954 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York); Galina I. Kovalevskaya (New York, New York); Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of predicting pregnancy outcome in a subject by determining the amount of an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of hCG in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated molecular isoforms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated hCG in a sample. The present invention additionally provides an antibody which specifically binds to an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of human chorionic gonadotropin. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting trophoblast or non-trophoblast malignancy in a sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/630215 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199102 | Fogelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M Fogelman (Beverly Hills, California); Gattadahalli M Anantharamaiah (Birmingham, California); Mohamad Navab (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel peptides that ameliorate one or more symptoms of atherosclerosis. The peptides typically range in length up to about 30 amino acids, comprise at least one class A amphipathic helix, and protect a phospholipid against oxidation by an oxidizing agent. The peptides are highly stable and readily administered via an oral route. The peptides are effective to stimulate the formation and cycling of pre-beta high density lipoprotein-like particles and/or to promote lipid transport and detoxification. In addition, the peptides inhibit osteoporosis. When administered with a statin, the peptides enhance the activity of the statin permitting the statin to be used at significantly lower dosages and/or cause the statins to be significantly more anti-inflammatory at any given dose. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423830 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199103 | Bhatnagar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra S. Bhatnagar (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of the invention include composites comprising a biomaterial having compounds thereon with enhanced cell binding with respect to collagen. These composites are useful for soft and hard tissue repair or reconstruction and for in vitro uses. Suitable compounds with enhanced cell binding include synthetic peptides that mimic the conformation necessary for recognition and docking of collagen binding species (such as cell surface receptors for collagen and fibronectin) and have the amino acid residues -Ile-Ala-folded in a β-bend. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927517 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199122 | Ruggeri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Ruggeri (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Margie L. Clapper (Harleysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods for inhibiting angiogenesis and treating diseases associated with angiogenesis are described. The methods may comprise administering to a patient an effective amount of a 1,2-dithiol-3-thione derivative or metabolite thereof. Preferred compounds for use in the methods include 5-(2-pyrazinyl)-4methyl-1,2-dithiol-3-thione (Oltipraz) and its metabolites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/262237 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/249 |
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| US 07199127 | Jeong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Ewha Womans University (Seoul, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lak Shin Jeong (Seoul, South Korea); Kenneth A. Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Hyung Ryong Moon (Seoul, South Korea); Hea Ok Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are purine nucleoside compounds that are selective to A3 adenosine receptors and are useful for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. The compounds are shown by the following general formula (I), including isomers thereof: wherein X is sulfur or oxygen; R1 is hydrogen, alkyl, benzyl, halobenzyl, or phenylalkyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkylthio, or thio; R3 and R3′ are hydrogen, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonyl, or alkylaminocarbonyl, whereas R3 and R3′ do not have identical substituents simultaneously; and R4 is hydrogen or alkyl. Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of formula (I), an isomer, or its pharmacologically acceptable salt as an active ingredient and a method for preventing or treating various diseases, state, or condition, including asthma, inflammation, cerebral ischemia, heart diseases, and cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/530552 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199222 | Shultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Shultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093597 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199285 | Schroeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julian Schroeder (La Jolla, California); Veronique Hugouvieux (St. Egrève, France); June M. Kwak (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of modulating abscisic acid signal transduction in plants. The method comprise introducing into the plant a recombinant expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to an ABH1 polynucleotide. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740084 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200251 | Joshi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarang Joshi (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Edward L. Chaney (Efland, North Carolina); Stephen M. Pizer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); P. Thomas Fletcher (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Thall (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for modeling objects and object image data using medial atoms are disclosed. Objects and object image data can be modeled using medial atoms. Each medial atom includes at least two vectors having a common tail and extending towards an implied boundary of a model. The medial atoms may be aligned along one or more medial axes in the model. The model may include multiple sub-components, referred to as figures. The model and each of its figures may be represented in model-based and figure-based coordinates. The model may be automatically deformed into target image data using a hierarchy of geometric or probabilistic transformations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259039 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rinehart Motion Systems, LLC (Wilsonville, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence E. Rinehart (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Guillermo L. Romero (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling and providing an electric power apparatus. The method uses a heat resistant housing having a structure adapted to accommodate and retain a power circuit card and also including a bracket adapted to accommodate and constrain a rigid conductive member. A power circuit card having an electrical terminal is placed into the housing and a rigid conductive member into the bracket. The rigid conductive member is flow soldered to the electrical terminal, thereby exposing the heat resistant housing to heat and creating a solder bond. Finally, the rigid conductive member is affirmatively connected to the housing. The bracket constrains the rigid conductive member so that the act of affirmatively connecting does not weaken the solder bond. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016602 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/840 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07197880 | Thornton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy Thornton (Morgantown, West Virginia); Douglas L. Straub (Morgantown, West Virginia); Benjamin T. Chorpening (Morgantown, West Virginia); David Huckaby (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for detecting incipient lean blowoff conditions in a lean premixed combustion nozzle of a gas turbine. A sensor near the flame detects the concentration of hydrocarbon ions and/or electrons produced by combustion and the concentration monitored as a function of time are used to indicate incipient lean blowoff conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865037 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/779 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198024 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald N. Coleman (Dunlap, Illinois); Jonathan P. Kilkenny (Peoria, Illinois); Eric C. Fluga (Dunlap, Illinois); Kevin P. Duffy (East Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for operating a compression ignition engine having a cylinder wall, a piston, and a head defining a combustion chamber. The method and apparatus includes delivering fuel substantially uniformly into the combustion chamber, the fuel being dispersed throughout the combustion chamber and spaced from the cylinder wall, delivering an oxidant into the combustion chamber sufficient to support combustion at a first predetermined combustion duration, and delivering a diluent into the combustion chamber sufficient to change the first predetermined combustion duration to a second predetermined combustion duration different from the first predetermined combustion duration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333391 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198118 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); Kline Bradford (Orem, Utah); Michael Rawle (Springville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication adapter is disclosed that provides for removable attachment to a drilling component when the drilling component is not actively drilling and for communication with an integrated transmission system in the drilling component. The communication adapter comprises a data transmission coupler that facilitates communication between the drilling component and the adapter, a mechanical coupler that facilitates removable attachment of the adapter to the drilling component, and a data interface. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/878192 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198750 | Czajkowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Czajkowski (South Jamesport, New York); Barbara Panessa Warren (Port Jefferson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is for a spore collection apparatus and its method of use. The portable spore collection apparatus includes a suction source, a nebulizer, an ionization chamber and a filter canister. The suction source collects the spores from a surface. The spores are activated by heating whereby spore dormancy is broken. Moisture is then applied to the spores to begin germination. The spores are then exposed to alpha particles causing extinction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396091 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198806 | Berndt |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Berndt (Des Moines, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a composition for preventing pruritis or inflammation that includes field pussy-toes plant extract, and methods of using and manufacturing the same. The compositions of this invention have been found to be especially useful in preventing and treating lesions from poison ivy, chicken pox, and cold sores. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217765 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199099 | DiSpirito et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan A. DiSpirito (Ames, Iowa); James A. Zahn (Harbor Beach, Michigan); David W. Graham (Lawrence, Kansas); Hyung J. Kim (St. Paul, Minnesota); Michail Alterman (Lawrence, Kansas); Cynthia Larive (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A means and method for treating bacterial infection, providing antioxidant activity, and chelating copper using a copper binding compound produced by methanotrophic bacteria is described. The compound, known as methanobactin, is the first of a new class of antibiotics having gram-positive activity. Methanobactin has been sequenced, and its structural formula determined. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/741831 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199222 | Shultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Shultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093597 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07200070 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A downhole drilling system is disclosed in one aspect of the present invention as including a drill string and a transmission line integrated into the drill string. Multiple network nodes are installed at selected intervals along the drill string and are adapted to communicate with one another through the transmission line. In order to efficiently allocate the available bandwidth, the network nodes are configured to use any of numerous burst modulation techniques to transmit data. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710769 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07197798 | Wilkie 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) | W. Keats Wilkie (Williamsburg, Virginia); Robert G. Bryant (Lightfoot, Virginia); Robert L. Fox (Hayes, Virginia); Richard F. Hellbaum (Hampton, Virginia); James W. High (Norfolk, Virginia); Rosemary Jalink, legal representative (Surfside, Florida); Bruce D. Little (Yorktown, Virginia); Paul H. Mirick (Grafton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a piezoelectric macro-fiber composite actuator comprises making a piezoelectric fiber sheet by providing a plurality of wafers of piezoelectric material, bonding the wafers together with an adhesive material to form a stack of alternating layers of piezoelectric material and adhesive material, and cutting through the stack in a direction substantially parallel to the thickness of the stack and across the alternating layers of piezoelectric material and adhesive material to provide at least one piezoelectric fiber sheet having two sides comprising a plurality of piezoelectric fibers in juxtaposition to the adhesive material. The method further comprises bonding two electrically conductive films to the two sides of the piezoelectric fiber sheet. At least one conductive film has first and second conductive patterns formed thereon which are electrically isolated from one another and in electrical contact with the piezoelectric fiber sheet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653824 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198225 | Lisoski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerovironment, Inc. (Monrovia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek L. Lisoski (Simi Valley, California); Greg T. Kendall (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar rechargeable, long-duration, span-loaded flying wing, having no fuselage or rudder. Having a two-hundred foot wingspan that mounts photovoltaic cells on most all of the wing's top surface, the aircraft uses only differential thrust of its eight propellers to turn, pitch and yaw. The wing is configured to deform under flight loads to position the propellers such that the control can be achieved. Each of five segments of the wing has one or more motors and photovoltaic arrays, and produces its own lift independent of the other segments, to avoid loading them. Five two-sided photovoltaic arrays, in all, are mounted on the wing, and receive photovoltaic energy both incident on top of the wing, and which is incident also from below, through a bottom, transparent surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/310415 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198839 | Zinn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred A. Zinn (Huntington Beach, California); Ryan Jeffrey Tarkanian (Westminster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invented insulation is a ceramic fiber insulation wherein the ceramic fibers are treated with a coating which contains transition metal oxides. The invented process for coating the insulation is a process of applying the transition metal oxide coating to the fibers of the insulation after the fibers have been formed into a tile or other porous body. The coating of transition metal oxide lowers the transmittance of radiation through the insulation thereby lowering the temperature of the backface of the insulation and better protecting the structure that underlies the insulation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222503 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/293.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198947 | Goodwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas John Goodwin (Friendswood, Texas); Timothy Grant Hammond (New Orleans, Louisiana); James Howard Kaysen (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for production of functional proteins including hormones by renal cells in a three dimensional co-culture process responsive to shear stress using a rotating wall vessel. Natural mixture of renal cells expresses the enzyme 1-a-hydroxylase which can be used to generate the active form of vitamin D: 1,25-diOH vitamin D3. The fibroblast cultures and co-culture of renal cortical cells express the gene for erythropoietin and secrete erythropoietin into the culture supernatant. Other shear stress response genes are also modulated by shear stress, such as toxin receptors megalin and cubulin (gp280). Also provided is a method of treating in-need individual with the functional proteins produced in a three dimensional co-culture process responsive to shear stress using a rotating wall vessel. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734759 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199997 | Lipka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Nanocorp, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Lipka (Parkland, Florida); John R. Miller (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); David E. Reisner (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetric supercapacitor has a positive electrode having a current collector an active material selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, silver oxide, iron sulfide and mixtures thereof, a negative electrode having a carbonaceous active material carbon and optional current collector, an electrolyte, and a separator plate. In a preferred embodiment at least one of the electrodes has nanostructured/nanofibrous material and in a more preferred embodiment, both electrodes have nanostructured/nanfibrous material. The electrolyte can be liquid or solid although liquid electrolytes are preferred. The asymmetric supercapacitor has improved energy density by electrically coupling an electrode of high faradaic capacity such as one having manganese oxide (MnO2) with an electrode such as carbon that stores charge through charge separation at the electric double-layer. The asymmetric supercapacitor also improves power density by using high surface area nanostructured/nanofibrous electrode materials. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/590496 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39537 | Cruce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy Clay Cruce (Leander, Texas); William H. Hallidy (Austin, Texas); Robert C. Chin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention additionally comprises a method and apparatus for generating and mixing signals for frequency-domain lifetime and spectral fluorometry. The present invention comprises a plurality of signal generators that generate a plurality of signals where the signal generators modulate the amplitude and/or the frequency of the signals. The present invention uses one of these signals to drive an excitation signal that the present invention then directs and transmits at a target mixture, which absorbs the energy from the excitation signal. The property of fluorescence causes the target mixture to emit an emitted signal that the present invention detects with a signal detector. The present invention uses a plurality of mixers to produce a processor reference signal and a data signal. The present invention then uses a processor to compare the processor reference signal with the data signal by analyzing the differences in the phase and the differences in the amplitude between the two signals. The processor then extracts the fluorescence lifetime and fluorescence spectrum of the emitted signal from the phase and amplitude information using a chemometric analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/035461 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07198777 | Boppart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois); Kenneth S. Suslick (Champaign, Illinois); Farah Jean-Jacques Toublan (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing the contrast of an image of a sample, comprises forming an image of a mixture, by exposing the mixture to electromagnetic radiation. The mixture comprises the sample and microparticles. The enhancement is particularly suitable for optical coherence tomography. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463835 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198798 | Malyankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uriel M. Malyankar (North Branford, Connecticut); Marta Scatena (Seattle, Washington); Cecilia M. Giachelli (Mill Creek, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention provides methods for promoting endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention include the step of providing to one or more endothelial cells an amount of an osteoprotegerin sufficient to promote endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention can be practiced in vivo or in vitro. In another aspect, the present invention provides implantable medical devices that each include: (a) a device body; and (b) a layer attached to a surface of the device body, the layer comprising a molecule selected from the group consisting of osteoprotegerin and a nucleic acid molecule encoding osteoprotegerin, wherein the device is adapted to be completely or partially implanted into an animal body. The implanted medical device thus promotes the growth of blood vessels in the surrounding tissue, thereby reducing or preventing the formation of a collagenous capsule around the implanted medical device. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/142658 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198915 | Tirrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tirrell (Pasadena, California); Kristi Lynn Kiick (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing modified polypeptides containing amino acid analogues are disclosed, as well as compositions comprising purified dihydrofolate reductase polypeptides, produced by the methods of the invention. In certain aspects, methionine residues of the compositions are replaced with homoallyglycine, homoproparglycine, norvaline, norleucine, cis-crotyiglycine, trans-crotylglycine, 2-aminoheptanoic acid, 2-butynyiglycine and allyglycine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612713 |
| 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 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07198933 | 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); Dinlaka Sriprapundh (Sausalito, California); Claire Vieille (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel isolated polynucleotides encoding a novel xylose isomerases capable of catalyzing the conversion of glucose to fructose and nucleic acids encoding for such isomerase. The present invention also provides a method of producing the xylose isomerase enzymes employing DNA encoding for the enzymes, plasmids containing the DNA, and bacteria into which the plasmids have been inserted and which produce the enzymes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/348552 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199282 | Amasino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Amasino (Madison, Wisconsin); Fritz M. Schomburg (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott D. Michaels (Madison, Wisconsin); David Patton (Basel, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an FPA polynucleotide sequence which is involved in controlling the flowering time of plants. The present invention also provides a vector incorporating the protein coding sequence, or a portion or homolog thereof, as well as a genetically modified plant. Also disclosed are methods of producing a genetically modified plant in which the flowering time of the plant has been selectively altered, and methods for reducing the activity of FLC mRNA in plants containing the FLC gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/920705 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199285 | Schroeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julian Schroeder (La Jolla, California); Veronique Hugouvieux (St. Egrève, France); June M. Kwak (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of modulating abscisic acid signal transduction in plants. The method comprise introducing into the plant a recombinant expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to an ABH1 polynucleotide. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740084 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07198839 | Zinn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred A. Zinn (Huntington Beach, California); Ryan Jeffrey Tarkanian (Westminster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invented insulation is a ceramic fiber insulation wherein the ceramic fibers are treated with a coating which contains transition metal oxides. The invented process for coating the insulation is a process of applying the transition metal oxide coating to the fibers of the insulation after the fibers have been formed into a tile or other porous body. The coating of transition metal oxide lowers the transmittance of radiation through the insulation thereby lowering the temperature of the backface of the insulation and better protecting the structure that underlies the insulation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222503 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/293.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07199997 | Lipka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Nanocorp, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Lipka (Parkland, Florida); John R. Miller (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); David E. Reisner (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetric supercapacitor has a positive electrode having a current collector an active material selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, silver oxide, iron sulfide and mixtures thereof, a negative electrode having a carbonaceous active material carbon and optional current collector, an electrolyte, and a separator plate. In a preferred embodiment at least one of the electrodes has nanostructured/nanofibrous material and in a more preferred embodiment, both electrodes have nanostructured/nanfibrous material. The electrolyte can be liquid or solid although liquid electrolytes are preferred. The asymmetric supercapacitor has improved energy density by electrically coupling an electrode of high faradaic capacity such as one having manganese oxide (MnO2) with an electrode such as carbon that stores charge through charge separation at the electric double-layer. The asymmetric supercapacitor also improves power density by using high surface area nanostructured/nanofibrous electrode materials. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/590496 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07197993 | Chellemi 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) | Daniel O. Chellemi (Vero Beach, Florida); John Mirusso (Delray Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Plastic mulched raised beds are fumigated using a fumigation system containing two opposing armatures affixed to a mounting arm at about a 15° angle and a blunt-ended knife with a blade attached at about a 90° angle to the knife. The system allows fumigant to be applied to the interior of the raised, plastic mulched beds without disturbing the mulch. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263107 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Planting 111/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07198490 | Olsen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale E. Olsen (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based training tool and method that emulates human behavior using a computer-simulated person in a realistic scenario. It provides an interactive experience in detecting deception during interviews and acceptance of statements during interpersonal conversations. The simulated person provides verbal responses in combination with an animated video display reflecting the body language of the simulated person in response to questions asked and during and after responses to the questions. The questions and responses are pre-programmed and interrelated groups of questions and responses are maintained in dynamic tables which are constantly adjusted as a function of questions asked and responses generated. The system provides a critique and numerical score for each training session. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/448617 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07199409 | Anthony |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus for adding or subtracting an amount charge to or from a charge packet in a CCD as the packet traverses the CCD. The apparatus uses a “wire transfer” device structure to perform the addition or subtraction of charge during the charge packets traversal across the device. A pair of electrically interconnected diffusions are incorporated within the charge couple path to provide an amount of charge which can be added or subtracted from packets as the packets traverse the CCD. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926937 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US D539739 | Stahl |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of New Mexico, as represented by the Office of the Governor (Santa Fe, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Anthony Stahl (Huntsville, Alabama) |
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| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 29/198122 |
| ART UNIT | 2912 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for production, distribution, or transformation of energy D13/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07198749 | Avant |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Springs, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A decontamination bag is positioned in the interior space of a public mailbox. The decontamination bag receives mail that is deposited in the mailbox. A postal worker; upon retrieving mail from the mailbox, closes the decontamination bag. The decontamination bag is equipped with an exit valve and an intake valve. Air from the interior of the bag may be sampled for contaminants that may be carried by letters or mailpieces through an exit valve. A decontaminating agent may be introduced to the interior of the decontamination bag through the intake valve. The contents of the decontamination bag are thereby purified within the bag. After decontamination, the contents of the decontamination bag may be purged and fresh air may be reintroduced into the bag. The decontamination bag may then be opened in order to retrieve its contents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796431 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07200305 | Dion et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dion (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Mark A. Carlson (Amherst, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optical cable (38) which includes an optical element (48) having an elongated glass fiber core (50), a medial cushioning layer (54) concentrically surrounding the glass fiber core, and an outer hard shell (56) material surrounding the medial cushioning layer. The cable also includes at least one electrically conductive element (40) comprising an elongated conductive core (42) and a dielectric layer (44) concentrically surrounding the electrically conductive element. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/535565 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| 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, April 03, 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-20070403.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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