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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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| US 07201876 | Peper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Peper (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yu Qin (Auburn, Alabama); Eric Bakker (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Ion-detecting sensors for detecting a target ion in a sample are provided. The sensor comprises a plasticizer-free copolymer comprised of polymerized units of methacrylate monomers having pendent alkyl groups of different length and a functionalized ionophore of said ion, wherein at least a portion of the functionalized ionophore is grafted into the copolymer through covalent linkages. Sensors may comprise ionophores such as hydrophilic crown ethers or functionalized derivative of 3-oxapentandiaminde-type ionophores. This invention further provides sensors for detecting target ions in a sample, comprising plasticizer-free molecularly imprinted polymers, wherein the polymers comprise polymerized units of methacrylate monomers having pendent alkyl groups of different length and a functionalized ionophore of said ion. In particular, a magnesium ion sensor comprising a functionalized derivative of a 3-oxapentandiaminde-type calcium ion-selective ionophore is provided. Sensors of this invention include carrier-based ion-selective electrodes or optodes such as thin film ion-specific optodes, particle-based optodes, or bulk optodes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384097 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.30 |
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| US 07201898 | Monahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Monahan (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph E. Rabinowitz (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention uses recombinant parvoviruses, and particularly recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) to deliver genes and DNA sequences for gene therapy following manipulation of the therapeutic virus for packaging and transport. The invention delivers therapeutic viral vectors via rAAV affixed to support matrixes (i.e., sutures, surgically implantable materials, grafts, and the like). |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/276501 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07201904 | Lauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georg Lauer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kei Ouchi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bruce D. Walker (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions containing HCV epitopes, which are recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Such polypeptides are used in prophylactic vaccines, immunotherapies, and assays to monitor the progress or success of immune interventions. The compositions are optimized to elicit an immune response in a genetically-diverse population of individuals. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/440390 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/189.100 |
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| US 07201907 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander C. Schmidt (Berlin, Germany); Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Kensington, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Jane E. Bailly (Mountain View, California); Anna P. Durbin (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric human-bovine parainfluenza viruses (PIVs) are infectious and attenuated in humans and other mammals and useful individually or in combination in vaccine formulations for eliciting an anti-PIV immune response or as vectors for introducing heterologous genes into a host. Also provided are isolated polynucleotide molecules and vectors incorporating a chimeric PIV genome or antigenome which includes a partial or complete human or bovine PIV “background” genome or antigenome combined or integrated with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) of a different PIV. Chimeric human-bovine PIV of the invention include a partial or complete “background” PIV genome or antigenome derived from or patterned after a human or bovine PIV virus combined with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) of a different PIV virus to form the human-bovine chimeric PIV genome or antigenome. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/586479 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07201911 | Yanagi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masayuki Yanagi (Rockville, Maryland); Jens Bukh (Bethesda, Maryland); Suzanne U. Emerson (Rockville, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Boyds, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses nucleic acid sequences which encode infectious hepatitis C viruses and the use of these sequences, and polypeptides encoded by all or part of these sequences, in the development of vaccines and diagnostics for HCV and in the development of screening assays for the identification of antiviral agents for HCV. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/662454 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
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| US 07202031 | Bacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery W. Bacher (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Flanagan (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin); Nadine Nassif (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are disclosed for use in the analysis of microsatellite instability in genomic DNA. Methods and kits are also disclosed which can be used to detect microsatellite instability DNA present in biological materials, such as tumors. The methods and kits of the present invention can be used to detect or diagnose diseases associated with microsatellite instability, such as certain types of cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314810 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07202037 | Barton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacqueline K. Barton (San Marino, California); Elizabeth M. Boon (Pasadena, California); Shana O. Kelley (Pasadena, California); Michael G. Hill (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for electrochemical detection and localization of genetic point mutations, common DNA lesions and other base-stacking perturbations within oligonucleotide duplexes adsorbed onto electrodes and their use in biosensing technologies are described. An intercalative, redox-active moiety (such as an intercalator or nucleic acid-binding protein) is adhered and/or crosslinked to immobilized DNA duplexes at different separations from an electrode and probed electrochemically in the presence or absence of a non-intercalative, redox-active moiety. Interruptions in DNA-mediated electron-transfer caused by base-stacking perturbations, such as mutations or binding of a protein to its recognition site are reflected in a difference in electrical current, charge and/or potential. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641884 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07202045 | Hanash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samir M. Hanash (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Franck Brichory (Cruseilles, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer therapies and diagnostics, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention provides tumor antigens associated with specific cancers and diagnostic assays for the detection of such antigens and associated autoantibodies as indicative of the presence of specific cancers. The present invention further provides cancer immunotherapy utilizing the tumor antigens of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244855 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07202052 | Lambeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. David Lambeth (Atlanta, Georgia); Guangjie Cheng (Doraville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new genes encoding for the production of novel nox enzyme proteins involved in generation of reactive oxygen intermediates that affect cell division. The present invention also provides vectors containing these genes, cells transfected with these vectors, antibodies raised against these novel proteins, kits for detection, localization and measurement of these genes and proteins, and methods to determine the activity of drugs to affect the activity of the proteins of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850060 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
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| US 07202053 | Lambeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. David Lambeth (Atlanta, Georgia); Guangjie Cheng (Doraville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new genes encoding for the production of novel nox enzyme proteins involved in generation of reactive oxygen intermediates that affect cell division. The present invention also provides vectors containing these genes, cells transfected with these vectors, antibodies raised against these novel proteins, kits for detection, localization and measurement of these genes and proteins, and methods to determine the activity of drugs to affect the activity of the proteins of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850102 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
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| US 07202212 | Simons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Simons (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Youhe Gao (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides both a method and means for regulating IκBα degradation, NFκB activity, and NFκB-dependent gene expression within living cells, tissues, and organs in-situ. The selective regulation is performed using native PR-39 peptide or one of its shorter-length homologs, for interaction with such IκBα and proteasomes as are present in the cytoplasm of viable cells. The result of PR-39 peptide interaction with IκBα is a selective alteration in the intracellular proteolytic activity of proteasomes, which in turn, causes a reduction of IκBα, a decrease of NFκB activity, and a down-regulation of NFκB-dependent gene expression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391155 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07202217 | Simons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deacones Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Simons (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Youhe Gao (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides both a method and means for regulating angiogenesis within living cells, tissues, and organs in-situ. The regulation is performed using native PR-39 peptide or one of its shorter-length homologs, for direct interaction with the α7 subunit of such proteasomes as one present in the cytoplasm of viable cells. The result of PR-39 peptide interaction with proteasomes is a decrease in the intracellular degradation of active peptides such as HIF-1α and a consequential stimulation of angiogenesis in-situ. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/276868 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16 |
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| US 07202231 | Hildreth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hildreth (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reducing the risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted pathogen by contacting the pathogen or cells susceptible to infection by the pathogen with a β-cyclodextrin are provided. Methods for reducing the risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted pathogen to or from a subject by contacting the pathogen or cells susceptible to the pathogen in the subject with a pharmaceutical composition containing a β-cyclodextrin also are provided. Accordingly, pharmaceutical compositions, which include 1) a β-cyclodextrin, which is in an amount that blocks passage of the pathogen through lipid rafts in the membrane of a cell susceptible to the pathogen, and 2) a contraceptive, an agent for treating a sexually transmitted disease, a lubricant, or a combination thereof, are provided, as are composition formulated from a solid substrate that contains an amount of β-cyclodextrin useful for reducing the risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted pathogen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025661 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/58 |
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| US 07202279 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Princeton, New Jersey); Alan I. Faden (Washington, District of Columbia); Gian Luca Araldi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides 4-substituted-2-azetidinone compounds, bicyclic 2-5-diketopiperazine compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that are potent, safe and effective neuroprotective agents. Due to their strong central nervous system (CNS) activity, the compounds can be used to enhance memory and to treat a variety of neurological disorders. The compounds are particularly useful for treating neurological disorders caused by, or associated with, CNS trauma. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/246307 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/659 |
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| US 07202332 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paramjit Arora (New York, New York); Ross Chapman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for preparing a peptide having a stable, internally constrained alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region and a method of stabilizing an alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region within a peptide structure. The resulting peptides and methods of using them are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128722 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/333 |
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| US 07202339 | Alekshun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael N. Alekshun (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Stuart B. Levy (Boston, Massachusetts); James F. Head (Newton, Massachusetts); Barbara A. Seaton (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The crystal structure of the product, crystals of the MarR protein, a regulator of multiple antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli, and methods of crystallization of the MarR protein are described. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/196655 |
| 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 |
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| US 07202340 | Stamler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Stamler (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew J. Gow (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitrosylhemoglobin can be produced by introducing gaseous NO into an aqueous solution of hemoglobin. It has been demonstrated that nitrosylhemoglobin in aqueous solution can be converted to SNO-hemoglobin upon introduction of oxygen to the solution, as is postulated to occur in the lungs. Nitrosylhemoglobin can be used in methods to produce the physiological effects of NO, for example, to reduce vasoconstriction and to inhibit platelet aggregation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/638969 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/385 |
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| US 07202348 | Owens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel M. Owens (Little Rock, Arkansas); Frank Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Abraham (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides synthetic immunochemical haptens for the generation of antibodies that are designed to recognize the common molecular features of d-methamphetamine-like abused stimulants with insignificant cross-reactivity to endogenous substrates (e.g. dopamine) or over-the-counter medications (e.g. 1-methamphetamine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine and ephedrine). These monoclonal antibodies and their antigen binding fragments are useful in treatment plans for recovering addicts, in emergency room settings for rapidly reversing a drug overdose, in protection of fetuses from drug-abusing pregnant mothers or in a psychiatric setting to reduce the exacerbation of psychotic disorders caused by stimulant drugs. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/255462 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.900 |
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| US 07202662 | Markl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Markl (Palo Alto, California); Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California); Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Errors in qualitative phase contrast measurements due to gradient field heterogeneities are reduced by using either a generalized reconstruction algorithm or an approximate reconstruction algorithm. True velocities are calculated using measured velocity information and phase differences, first moments of gradients, and gyromagnetic ratio. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463741 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
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| US 07202947 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quan Liu (Madison, Wisconsin); Nirmala Ramanujam (Madison, Wisconsin); Changfang Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorescence instrument illuminates the surface of tissue with light of a selected wavelength and light emanating from the tissue due to fluorescence is collected. The angle of illumination of tissue surface and/or collection of fluorescence is changed to probe at various depths beneath the surface of the tissue for a fluorescence layer. Three embodiments of the instrument are described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986605 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
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| US 07203272 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An image reconstruction method for cone beam x-ray attenuation data acquired over a super-short-scan, short-scan or full-scan includes backproejcting over three adjacent segments of the arc traversed by the x-ray source. Each backprojection consists of a weighted combination of 1D Hilbert filtering of the modified cone-beam data along both horizontal and non-horizontal directions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/286527 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
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| US 07203649 | Linebarger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Unisys Corporation (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia C. Linebarger (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); John F. Romania (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-operated speech therapy system is provided that includes speech input, speech recognition and natural language understanding, and audio and visual outputs to enable an aphasic patient to conduct self-paced speech therapy autonomously. The system of the invention conducts a therapy exercise by displaying a picture; generating a speech prompt asking the patient for information about the picture; receiving the patient's speech response and processing it to determine its semantic content; determining whether the patient's response was correct; and outputting feedback to the patient. Preferably the system includes a touch screen as a graphical input/output device by which the patient controls the therapy exercise. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/060313 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/270 |
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| US 07201217 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Johnson (Torrance, California); David T. Winslow (Culver City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cold plate assembly, which in one embodiment includes a manifold layer comprising one or more input coolant sub-manifold channels and one or more output coolant sub-manifold channels. A metering plate having a plurality of orifices defined there through is disposed adjacent the manifold layer in spaced relation to a cover plate. A core layer is disposed between the metering plate and cover plate, the core layer comprising corrugated fin material. The input sub-manifold channels and output sub-manifold channels are in fluid communication through fluid paths passing through the orifices in the metering plate and the core layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135683 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/170 |
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| US 07201348 | Flammer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Flammer (Boulder Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cruise missile recovery system, for capturing a flying cruise missile and for guiding the cruise missile to a landing spot. The cruise missile recovery system has an intercept device for capturing the flying cruise missile, a radio-controlled parafoil connected to the intercept device for allowing the intercept device and cruise missile to be guided to the landing spot during descent of the intercept device and cruise missile, after capture of the flying cruise missile by the intercept device, and a position-stabilized suspension vehicle for suspending the radio-controlled parafoil device and the intercept device at a stable location above the earth, prior to capture of the flying cruise missile by the intercept device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037771 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/110.C00 |
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| US 07201485 | Agarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Agarwal (Tampa, Florida); Shekhar Bhansali (Tampa, Florida); Shinzo Onishi (Palm Harbor, Florida); Scott Samson (Safety Harbor, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a novel method to fabricate corner cube retroreflectors, CCRs, where a majority of the wafer area acts as CCRs as compared to a maximum of 33% in previous MEMS CCRs. The present invention also allows for the fabrication of moveable cantilevers which operate at one-third the voltage as compared to a conventional planar cantilever. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710983 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/529 |
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| US 07201582 | Sternberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Sternberg (Simi Valley, California); Daniel P. Roman (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microstrip interconnector includes a ground plane layer, a dielectric layer coupled to the ground plane layer and a spring conductor, and provides a solderless connection between circuit boards. The spring conductor has first and second rising arms with a midsection therebetween. The midsection couples to the dielectric layer opposite the ground plane layer, defining a first elevation. First and second contacts proximate distal ends of the first and second arms, respectively, define at least one second elevation. The solderless interconnection is for example provided when the ground plane layer, the dielectric layer and the spring conductor cooperatively interact to provide a matched impedance path from the first contact, proximate a microstrip of a first circuit board, to the second contact, proximate a microstrip of a second circuit board that is separated from the first circuit board by a gap. The microstrip interconnector thus facilitates the transfer of microwave signals between the separated microstrips. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439917 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201878 | Lin 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) | Horn-Bond Lin (Fairfax, Virginia); Steven Clyde Hill (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Aerosol particle analyzer (APA) for measuring an analyte in airborne particle is described. Airborne particles are first given an electrical charge and then drawn in air past an oppositely charged volume of an analysis liquid that exposed to the air at a small hole in a container, such as a capillary, that holds that analysis liquid. Electrostatic forces enhance the rate that the airborne particles collide with the small exposed volume of the analysis liquid in the hole. If the particles that collide with the analysis liquid contain the analyte, an optical property of the analysis liquid, such as the fluorescence, varies according to the amount of the analyte in the particles. This optical property is measured and the amount of analyte in the particles is determined from the measured optical property. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816579 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201879 | Hill 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) | Steven Clyde Hill (Silver Spring, Maryland); Horn-Bond Lin (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerosol-into-liquid collector (ALC) for collecting gas-borne particles from a large volume of gas such as air into a small volume of liquid is described. The ALC uses a linear quadrupole to concentrate particles flowing in a gas and to help direct these concentrated particles toward a small volume of collection liquid so that these particles tend to combine with a small volume of collection liquid that can then be drawn from the ACL for further analysis. The particles in the gas are typically given a charge that is opposite to that of the charge imparted to the volume of collection liquid so that electrostatic forces help draw particles from the flowing gas into the small volume of liquid. The linear quadrupole focuses toward it axis particles that have the charge, mass and mobility to be stable in the linear quadrupole. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997094 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201902 | Ching 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) | Wei-Mei Ching (Bethesda, Maryland); Laura Hendrix (College Station, Texas); Jesus Gonzalez (Segovia, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a recombinant DNA and polypeptide sequence of an immuno-dominant phage particle associated protein from Bartonella bacilliformis. The recombinant protein is easily produced permitting the conduct of more accurate and rapid diagnositic assays for the detection of B. bacilliformis infection with reduced reagent and equipment requirements over that required by currently available methods of diagnosis. The DNA and polypeptide sequence is also useful in vaccine preparations against B. bacilliformis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239444 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202173 | Hantschel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Corporation Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Hantschel (Menlo Park, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California); Christian G. Van De Walle (Santa Barbara, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods may provide electrical contacts to an array of substantially vertically aligned nanorods. The nanorod array may be fabricated on top of a conducting layer that serves as a bottom contact to the nanorods. A top metal contact may be applied to a plurality of nanorods of the nanorod array. The contacts may allow I/V (current/voltage) characteristics of the nanorods to be measured. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/015665 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/694 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202279 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Princeton, New Jersey); Alan I. Faden (Washington, District of Columbia); Gian Luca Araldi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides 4-substituted-2-azetidinone compounds, bicyclic 2-5-diketopiperazine compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that are potent, safe and effective neuroprotective agents. Due to their strong central nervous system (CNS) activity, the compounds can be used to enhance memory and to treat a variety of neurological disorders. The compounds are particularly useful for treating neurological disorders caused by, or associated with, CNS trauma. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/246307 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/659 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202591 | Arbogast et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darin J. Arbogast (Maple Valley, Washington); Frederick T. Calkins (Renton, Washington); Dan J. Clingman (Auburn, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents a system for a compound actuator. The system includes first and second electrode layers each including two electrode sections, an intermediate electrode layer between the first and second electrode layers, and first and second electrostrictive materials that change length in an applied electrical field. The first electrostrictive material is positioned between the first and intermediate electrode layers. The second electrostrictive material is positioned between the intermediate and second electrode layers. The first electrostrictive material has a first length adjoining the first electrode section and a second length adjoining the second electrode section. The second electrostrictive material has a third length adjoining the fourth electrode section and a fourth length adjoining the fifth electrode section. The first and second electrostrictive materials are attached such that differential changes in the first and third lengths, and the second and fourth lengths, respectively, results in a compound lateral motion. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177156 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202705 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung Cai Ngo (Austin, Texas); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Harmander Singh Deogun (Lincoln, Nebraska); AJ Kleinosowski (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logic circuit apparatus and method for reducing leakage power consumption via separate clock and output stage control reduces power consumption of processors and other systems incorporating dynamic circuits. The power control signal may be a delayed version of the logic clock and turns on the output inverter foot device after the dynamic node has had sufficient time to evaluate, providing a fast evaluate time and reducing leakage through the inverter input when the foot device is off. Alternatively, a coarsely timed static power control signal may be used to control the inverter foot devices. The drains of the inverter foot devices can be commonly connected across multiple circuits, reducing the foot device total area. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992488 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202712 | Athas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Athas (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiphase resonant pulse generator (74) has N groups of N−1 switches (44,46,48) which, when activated, form N paths from a power supply (Vdc) to ground or a reference voltage. Here N is a positive integer greater than 2. Each of the paths includes an inductance (38,40,42) and N−1 switches. The signal outputs (X1,X2,X3) from each of the N paths are cross coupled to switches belonging to the other N−1 paths to active or deactivate the groups of switches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420950 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202940 | Lam 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) | Chi-Kin Lam (La Canada Flintridge, California); Thomas Dean Cook (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting a target which uses composition correlation filters with score reaffirmation post processing for acquiring a target. The method and system uses target decision rules that are based on comparing the dot products, or peaks, of three score reaffirmation filters and their registered LADAR image to detect a target. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155926 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203173 | Bonney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corp. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jordan C. Bonney (Bloomington, Minnesota); Benjamin L. Burnett (Prior Lake, Minnesota); Deborah K. Charan (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is described for monitoring and testing enterprise networks that tend to have a number of geographically dispersed devices and interconnected sub-networks. The system includes a plurality of distributed agents to capture packets from a network. The system further includes an aggregation module coupled to the network to receive and aggregate the captured packets. During the aggregation process, the aggregation module identifies duplicate packets that were captured by different agents as an originating packet traverses the network. A display is coupled to the aggregation module, presents the non-duplicate network packets, giving a user a clear illustration of network activity. For the duplicate packets, the aggregation module presents a representative packet, such as the originating packet, that may be expanded by the user to view the details of the duplicate packets. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057576 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203191 | 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); Srinivas Vutukury (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described for routing network traffic based on distance information to provide multiple paths that need not have equal costs. The routing algorithm MPATH of the present method provide loop-free routing at every instant, without the need of internodal synchronization which spans more than a single hop. Paths are computed using shortest distances and predecessor information in the routing computation. The use of multiple-successors allows for load-balancing within the network. The algorithm is both distributed and scalable to large networks due to its use of only one-hop synchronization. A number of procedures are described by way of example, including path computation, main table updating, neighbor table updating, and a multipath (MPATH) algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/975556 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203278 | Wendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Wendt (Middleton, Wisconsin); Walter W. Peppler (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation exposure recording device and radiography method are disclosed, where the radiation exposure recording device includes a radiation exposure recording medium, a housing that at least partly surrounds the radiation exposure recording medium, and a first detector that detects a radiation exposure. An output signal produced in response to the detecting of the radiation exposure can be provided, and the detection of and output of a signal in response to the radiation exposure is entirely automatic and independent of any manual processing of the radiation exposure recording device. Further, the radiography method includes providing a first radiation exposure recording medium, providing a first radiation exposure detector, and sensing an exposure of radiation at the first radiation exposure detector. Also disclosed is a circuit that can be retrofitted to existing radiography cassettes for detecting when the cassettes are exposed to radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/811440 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203339 | Nevis 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) | Andrew J. Nevis (Panama City, Florida); James F. Bryan (Lynn Haven, Florida); Brett W. Cordes (Panama City Beach, Florida); James S. Taylor (Panama City Beach, Florida); Mary C. Hulgan (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional contrast and range images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. A series of sequential steps are provided for each of the rendered contrast image data and rendered range image data. Briefly, the rendered contrast image data is scaled based on a mean intensity value of all pixels of data therein, stretched to a predetermined dynamic range, modified to compensate for jitter and CCD array effects associated with the STIL camera system, normalized using an exponential decay function that describes contrast intensity roll-off associated therewith, and has a histogram clip routine applied thereto. The rendered range image data is modified to compensate for jitter effects associated with the STIL camera system, has background portions of the resulting data modified to compensate for CCD array effects and range intensity roll-off associated with the STIL camera system, has a “salt and pepper” noise reduction routine applied thereto, and has a histogram clip routine applied thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608119 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203407 | Berkey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Edward Berkey (Pine City, New York); Xin Chen (Corning, New York); Joohyun Koh (Painted Post, New York); Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, New York); Daniel Aloysius Nolan (Corning, New York); Donnell Thaddeus Walton (Painted Post, New York); Ji Wang (Painted Post, New York); Luis Alberto Zenteno (Painted Post, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber, comprising: (i) a rare earth doped silica based elongated core with a first refractive index (n1) with an aspect ratio of 1:5 to 1; (ii) a silica based moat abutting and at least substantially surrounding the core, the moat having a refractive index n2, wherein n2<n1; (iii) a silica based inner cladding surrounding the moat, the inner cladding having a third refractive index (n3), wherein n1>n3; and n3>n2; (iv) a silica based outer cladding surrounding said inner cladding, the outer cladding having a fourth refractive index (n4), such that n4<n3; the optical fiber exhibits single polarization at the operating wavelength band. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058309 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203554 | Fuller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Fuller (Amston, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An MPC Control system provides a life extending control that includes life-extending goals in the performance index of the MPC controller and limits in the inequality equations. The MPC controller performs the normal functions of a control system for a physical system, but does so in a manner that extends the life or time-to-next maintenance or reduces the number of parts that need to be replaced. If the life extending functions do not degrade other control functions, they can be always enabled, making the system less expensive to maintain. If the life extending functions degrade some other control functions, they can be adjusted in-the-field or on-the-fly to stretch the time-until-maintenance until it is more convenient, but with some impact on performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801235 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203570 | Karlen |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Karlen (Bethel, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A storage and retrieval system is provided that automates the process of handling a mixed inventory of palletized and containerized items. The invention is particularly useful in handling cargo and weapons within a ship's hold or magazine. When used on a ship, the invention provides for the stowing and unstowing of loads quickly and efficiently, to automatically secure such payloads for sea and to achieve high stowage density, while retaining the capability to select and retrieve any ordered payload, move it to and load it on elevator trays under computer control. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032892 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203639 | Quatieri, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr. (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic signals are analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) processing of the one-dimensional (1-D) speech signal in the time-frequency plane. The short-space 2-D Fourier transform of a frequency-related representation (e.g., spectrogram) of the signal is obtained. The 2-D transformation maps harmonically-related signal components to a concentrated entity in the new 2-D plane (compressed frequency-related representation). The series of operations to produce the compressed frequency-related representation is referred to as the “grating compression transform” (GCT), consistent with sine-wave grating patterns in the frequency-related representation reduced to smeared impulses. The GCT provides for speech pitch estimation. The operations may, for example, determine pitch estimates of voiced speech or provide noise filtering or speaker separation in a multiple speaker acoustic signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244086 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary L. Kesse (Peoria, Illinois); Kevin P. Duffy (Metamora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of mixed mode operation of an internal combustion engine includes the steps of controlling a homogeneous charge combustion event timing in a given engine cycle, and controlling a conventional charge injection event to be at least a predetermined time after the homogeneous charge combustion event. An internal combustion engine is provided, including an electronic controller having a computer readable medium with a combustion timing control algorithm recorded thereon, the control algorithm including means for controlling a homogeneous charge combustion event timing and means for controlling a conventional injection event timing to be at least a predetermined time from the homogeneous charge combustion event. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178738 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201240 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Michael A. Briscoe (Lehi, Utah); Kory K. Garner (Payson, Utah); Tyson J. Wilde (Spanish Fork, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for installing data transmission hardware in downhole tools includes an insert insertable into the box end or pin end of drill tool, such as a section of drill pipe. The insert typically includes a mount portion and a slide portion. A data transmission element is mounted in the slide portion of the insert. A biasing element is installed between the mount portion and the slide portion and is configured to create a bias between the slide portion and the mount portion. This biasing element is configured to compensate for varying tolerances encountered in different types of downhole tools. In selected embodiments, the biasing element is an elastomeric material, a spring, compressed gas, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710639 |
| 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 175/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201937 | Zhu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroSurfaces, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoyang Zhu (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides unique methods of coating and novel coatings for MEMS devices. In general a two step process includes the coating of a first silane onto a substrate surface followed by a second treatment with or without a second silane and elevated temperatures. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641547 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201985 | Yuh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chao-Yi Yuh (New Milford, Connecticut); Mohammad Farooque (Danbury, Connecticut); Richard Johnsen (New Fairfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for storing electrolyte in a carbonate fuel cell is provided. The combination of a soft, compliant and resilient cathode current collector and an inactive anode part including a foam anode in each assembly mitigates electrical contact loss during operation of the fuel cell stack. In addition, an electrode reservoir in the positive end assembly and an electrode sink in the negative end assembly are provided, by which ribbed and flat cathode members inhibit electrolyte migration in the fuel cell stack. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/407544 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202036 | Cai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong Cai (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Peter M Goodwin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Richard A. Keller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rhiannon L. Nolan (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Background luminescence is reduced from a solution containing unbound luminescent probes, each having a first molecule that attaches to a target molecule and having an attached luminescent moiety, and luminescent probe/target adducts. Quenching capture reagent molecules are formed that are capable of forming an adduct with the unbound luminescent probes and having an attached quencher material effective to quench luminescence of the luminescent moiety. The quencher material of the capture reagent molecules is added to a solution of the luminescent probe/target adducts and binds in a proximity to the luminescent moiety of the unbound luminescent probes to quench luminescence from the luminescent moiety when the luminescent moiety is exposed to exciting illumination. The quencher capture reagent does not bind to probe molecules that are bound to target molecules and the probe/target adduct emission is not quenched. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460451 |
| 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 07202143 | Naseem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hameed A. Naseem (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Marwan Albarghouti (Loudonville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An oxide or nitride layer is provided on an amorphous semiconductor layer prior to performing metal-induced crystallization of the semiconductor layer. The oxide or nitride layer facilitates conversion of the amorphous material into large grain polycrystalline material. Hence, a native silicon dioxide layer provided on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), followed by deposited Al permits induced crystallization at temperatures far below the solid phase crystallization temperature of a-Si. Solar cells and thin film transistors can be prepared using this method. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/972760 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202411 | Wernsman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard R. Wernsman (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic or thermophotovoltaic device includes a diode formed by p-type material and n-type material joined at a p-n junction and including a depletion region adjacent to said p-n junction, and a quantum barrier disposed near or in the depletion region of the p-n junction so as to decrease device reverse saturation current density while maintaining device short circuit current density. In one embodiment, the quantum barrier is disposed on the n-type material side of the p-n junction and decreases the reverse saturation current density due to electrons while in another, the barrier is disposed on the p-type material side of the p-n junction and decreases the reverse saturation current density due to holes. In another embodiment, both types of quantum barriers are used. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426802 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202638 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihong Ye (Schenectady, New York); Pengwei Du (Troy, New York); John Keith Nelson (Niskayuna, New York); Nicholas Wright Miller (Delmar, New York); Reigh Allen Walling (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing anti-islanding protection of a synchronous machine based distributed generator includes a frequency sensor configured to generate a generator frequency signal, a bandpass filter configured for filtering the generator frequency signal, a governor controller configured for using the filtered frequency signal to generate a power feedback signal, and a governor summation element configured for summing the filtered frequency signal, the power feedback signal, and a reference power to provide an electrical torque signal. Another system includes a voltage sensor configured to generate a generator terminal voltage signal, a feedback power calculator configured for generating a reactive feedback power signal, a bandpass filter configured for filtering the terminal voltage signal, and a PI controller summation element configured for summing the filtered terminal voltage signal, the reactive power feedback signal, and a reference reactive power to provide an error signal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966665 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203462 | Kuwahara et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mikio Kuwahara (Chlyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8220, Japan); Nobukazu Doi (Chlyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8220, Japan); Toshiro Suzuki (Chlyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8220, Japan); Yuji Ishida (Chlyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8220, Japan); Takashi Inoue (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-8003, Japan); Sumaru Niida (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-8003, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase and amplitude deviations, which are generated, for example, by cables connecting an array antenna of a CDMA base station and the base station, are calibrated in the baseband. The base station comprises: an antenna apparatus 1; couplers 2; an RF unit 3 that converts a receive signal to a baseband signal, converts a transmit signal to a radio frequency, and performs power control; an A/D converter 4 for converting a receive signal to a digital signal; a receive beam form unit 6 that multiplies the receive signal by semi-fixed weight; a despreader 7 for this signal input; a time-space demodulator 8 for demodulating user data; a despreader 9 for probe signal; a space modulator 14 for user data; a spreader 13 for user signal; a channel combiner 12; a Tx calibrater 11 for controlling calibration of a signal; a D/A converter 10; a unit 16 for calculation of correlation matrix for generating a probe signal used for controlling an Rx calibration system and a TX calibration system; a spreader 17 for probe signal; a power control unit 18; a D/A converter 19; an RF unit 20 for probe signal; an A/D converter 21 for signal from the couplers 2; and a despreader 22. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674455 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/67.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07201817 | Srinivasan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gopalan Srinivasan (Rochester, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetoelectric multilayer composites comprising alternate layers of a bimetal ferrite wherein one of the metals is zinc and a piezoelectric material for facilitating conversion of an electric field into a magnetic field or vice versa. The preferred composites include cobalt, nickel, or lithium zinc ferrite and PZT films which are arranged in a bilayer or in alternating layers, laminated, and sintered at high temperature. The composites are useful in sensors for detection of magnetic fields (10); sensors for measuring rotation speed, linear speed, or acceleration; read-heads in storage devices by converting bits in magnetic storage devices to electrical signals; magnetoelectric media for storing information; and high frequency devices for electric field control of magnetic devices or magnetic field control of electric devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/940139 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202216 | Sollid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ludvig M. Sollid (Palo Alto, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Hanne Quarsten (Rikshospitalet, Norway); Chu-Young Kim (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Celiac Sprue and/or dermatitis herpetiformis are treated by interfering with HLA binding of immunogenic gluten peptides. The antigenicity of gluten oligopeptides and the ill effects caused by an immune response thereto are decreased by administration of an HLA-binding peptide inhibitor. Such inhibitors are analogs of immunogenic gluten peptides and (i) retain the to bind tightly to HLA molecules; (ii) retain the protcolytic stability of these peptides; but (iii) are unable to T cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/514005 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202282 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donn M. Dennis (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy E. Morey (Gainesville, Florida); Richard E. Partch (Hannawa Falls, New York); Dinesh O. Shah (Gainesville, Florida); Manoj Varshney (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides microemulsions having, as one component thereof, electron-deficient aromatic rings, e.g.. di(trifluoromethyi) benzene, for efficient separation and/or isolation of target molecules, e.g., bupivacaine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420608 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203202 | Chao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung-Hsiang Jonathan Chao (Holmdel, New Jersey); Yihan Li (Elmhurst, New York); Shivendra S. Panwar (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaustive service dual round-robin matching (EDRRM) arbitration process amortizes the cost of a match over multiple time slots. It achieves high throughput under nonuniform traffic. Its delay performance is not sensitive to traffic burstiness, switch size and packet length. Since cells belonging to the same packet are transferred to the output continuously, packet delay performance is improved and packet reassembly is simplified. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285332 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07203718 | Fu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pentomics, Inc. (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dengwei Fu (Santa Clara, California); Arthur Torosyan (Glendale, California); Alan N. Willson, Jr. (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An angle rotator uses a coarse stage rotation and a fine stage rotation to rotate an input complex signal in the complex plane according to an angle θ. The coarse stage rotation includes a memory device storing pre-computed cosine θM and sine θM values for fast retrieval, where θM is a radian angle that corresponds to a most significant word (MSW) of the input angle θ. The fine stage rotation uses one or more error values that compensate for approximations and quantization errors associated with the coarse stage rotation. The rotator consolidates operations into a small number of reduced-size multipliers, enabling efficient multiplier implementations such as Booth encoding, yielding a smaller and faster overall circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/698246 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/622 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07201778 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Brent Smith (Raleigh, North Carolina); Mustafa Bilgen (Raleigh, North Carolina); Peter J. Hauser (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing an ionic crosslinked fibrous material, such as a cellulosic fabric, paper, or other substrate, wherein the ionic crosslinked fiber exhibits an increased wrinkle resistance angle. A process for producing a cationized chitosan, wherein the cationized chitosan exhibits cationization at the C6 and ring hydroxyl sites and the reactivity of the ring NH2 sites is preserved. A process for applying a polycation to an anionic fibrous material to form an ionic crosslinked fibrous material. A process for producing a cationized fibrous material, wherein the process is performed as a pad-batch process, an exhaust fixation process, a pad-steam process, or a pad-dry-cure process. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045225 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification of textiles and fibers 08/115.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202063 | Gunther et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nereus W. Gunther (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Daniel K. Y. Solaiman (Dresher, Pennsylvania); William F. Fett (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing rhamnolipids involving culturing Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain NRRL B-30761 in a first aqueous culture medium containing about 0.3% NH4H2PO4, about 0.2% K2HPO4, about 0.2% carbon source, about 0.5 mg/L FeSO4, and about 0.1% MgSO4 for about 24–about 48 hours at about 25°–about 30° C. with orbital shaking, and then culturing Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain NRRL B-30761 in a static second aqueous culture medium containing per liter about 2% carbon source, about 0.7 g KH2PO4, about 0.9 g Na2HPO4, about 2 g NaNO3, about 0.4 g MgSO4.7H2O, and about 0.1 g CaCl2.2H2O for at least about 72 hours at about 20°–about 23° C., wherein the first and second aqueous culture medium contains only one source of carbon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/195956 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07202084 | Rathinasabapathi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bala Rathinasabapathi (Gainesville, Florida); Suresh Badu Raman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A β-alanine NMTase was isolated from Lumonium latifolium. The purified enzyme catalyzes the N-methylation of β-alanine betaine, has an isoelectric point of about 5.15 and an apparent molecular weight of about 43 kilodaltons. A full-length cDNA encoding the NMTase was cloned by screening a L. latifolium cDNA library and was sequenced. Expression of the cDNA in transgenic, non-L. latifolium plants resulted in modulation of resistance to stress in the plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/213473 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. DenBaars (Goleta, California); Eric J. Tarsa (Goleta, California); Michael Mack (Santa Barbara, California); Bernd Keller (Goleta, California); Brian Thibeault (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting diode (LED) grown on a substrate doped with one or more rare earth or transition element. The dopant ions absorb some or all of the light from the LED's active layer, pumping the electrons on the dopant ion to a higher energy state. The electrons are naturally drawn to their equilibrium state and they emit light at a wavelength that depends on the type of dopant ion. The invention is particularly applicable to nitride based LEDs emitting UV light and grown on a sapphire substrate doped with chromium. The chromium ions absorb the UV light, exciting the electrons on ions to a higher energy state. When they return to their equilibrium state they emit red light and some of the red light will emit from the LED's surface. The LED can also have active layers that emit green and blue and UV light, such that the LED emits green, blue, red light and UV light which combines to create white light. Alternatively, it can have one active layer and grown on a sapphire substrate doped with Cr, Ti, and Co such that the substrate absorbs the UV light and emits blue, green, and red light. The invention is also capable of providing a tunable LED over a variety of color shades. The invention is also applicable to solid state laser having one or more active layers emitting UV light with the laser grown on a sapphire substrate doped with one or more rare earth or transition elements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/528262 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07202030 | Dordick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Dordick (Schenectady, New York); Lakshmi Santhanam (Troy, New York); Michael G. Hogg (Delmar, New York); James A. Holland (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the enzymatic synthesis of oligophenols on solid support by sequential enzymatic addition of reaction solutions containing phenols. The oligomers are then selectively built up on the solid surface. When used in a specific format, the oligomers can be generated in a spatially addressable array, which can then be screened for some type of biological interaction. The synthetic compounds of the present invention are synthesized in a combinatorial manner on solid support using peroxidase or other related enzymatic catalysis, and the products are generated in spatially addressable microarrays. Oligophenols of the present invention have shown significance as potential inhibitors of NADPH oxidase assembly, an enzyme that has been implicated in a wide range of diseases stemming from vascular hyperpermeability. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/287434 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — 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 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07203274 | Charles, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry K. Charles, Jr. (Laurel, Maryland); Thomas J. Beck (Baltimore, Maryland); Howard S. Feldmesser (Columbia, Maryland); Thomas C. Magee (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for advanced, multiple-projection, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scanning systems include combinations of a conical collimator; a high-resolution two-dimensional detector; a portable, power-capped, variable-exposure-time power supply; an exposure-time control element; calibration monitoring; a three-dimensional anti-scatter-grid; and a gantry-gantry base assembly that permits up to seven projection angles for overlapping beams. Such systems are capable of high precision bone structure measurements that can support three dimensional bone modeling and derivations of bone strength, risk of injury, and efficacy of countermeasures among other properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/399617 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr. (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic signals are analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) processing of the one-dimensional (1-D) speech signal in the time-frequency plane. The short-space 2-D Fourier transform of a frequency-related representation (e.g., spectrogram) of the signal is obtained. The 2-D transformation maps harmonically-related signal components to a concentrated entity in the new 2-D plane (compressed frequency-related representation). The series of operations to produce the compressed frequency-related representation is referred to as the “grating compression transform” (GCT), consistent with sine-wave grating patterns in the frequency-related representation reduced to smeared impulses. The GCT provides for speech pitch estimation. The operations may, for example, determine pitch estimates of voiced speech or provide noise filtering or speaker separation in a multiple speaker acoustic signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244086 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07201410 | Lassen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lassen (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A reusable tamper-evident security device for use on a door or container includes a pair of base members, a pair of first leg members, a pair of second leg members, a pair of U-shaped upper members, and a pair of removable security label blanks. A base member, a first leg member, a second leg member, and a U-shaped upper member are abutted, form an inner cavity between the base member and the U-shaped upper member. At least one mounting hole is provided to affix the base member to the door or container. A first guide and a parallel second guide extent perpendicularly from the top surface of the base member, allowing the removable security label blank to be slidably inserted. The U-shaped upper member abutting each base member is oriented to form an oblong shape when the two base members are adjacent the other. An optional security label may be applied to the removable security label blank. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046342 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Closure fasteners 292/307.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07202031 | Bacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery W. Bacher (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Flanagan (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin); Nadine Nassif (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are disclosed for use in the analysis of microsatellite instability in genomic DNA. Methods and kits are also disclosed which can be used to detect microsatellite instability DNA present in biological materials, such as tumors. The methods and kits of the present invention can be used to detect or diagnose diseases associated with microsatellite instability, such as certain types of cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/314810 |
| 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 |
U.S. State Government
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the Oregon State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dicle Özis (Seattle, Washington); Kartikeya Mayaram (Corvallis, Oregon); Terri Fiez (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for substrate modeling are disclosed. In one disclosed method, for example, the substrate modeling comprises determining scalable Z parameters associated with at least two substrate contacts, constructing a matrix of the scalable Z parameters for the at least two substrate contacts, and calculating an inverse of the matrix to determine resistance values associated with the at least two substrate contacts. Computer-readable media containing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system to perform any of the described methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683575 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne C. Parsons (Huntsville, Alabama); Tracy A. Conklin (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A swashplate seal assembly sized for rotor shaft rotation therein, including an outer cover encircling the rotor shaft and covering a sealing ring having an inner circumference on which a resilient sealing wiper is inwardly disposed. The outer cover, sealing ring and resilient sealing wiper are sectioned in respective like-configured curved segments for disassembly without removing adjacent segments during inspections. Inboard of the sealing ring is a flanged seal ring having an outer surface diameter limited in size to allow positioning the seal ring within the sealing wiper. The seal ring is fitted on an outer perimeter of a bearing retainer positionable within the sealing ring, thereby positioning the seal ring outer surface in sliding engagement with the sealing wiper during rotor shaft rotation. The outer cover positioning and the engaging relationship between seal ring and sealing wiper operate to minimize contaminants intrusion along the rotor shaft during rotation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134596 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/174.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07201984 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Brighton, New York); Trevor T. Grover (Rushville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated system for air-cooling a main air blower drive motor and electronic control module in a fuel cell plant support module (PSM) disposed in an enclosure. Process air is drawn by a main blower fan into the enclosure through a filter and then is drawn from the enclosure into the blower via a first shroud surrounding the electronics process control module (ECM) and a second shroud surrounding the blower motor. The air cools these components and is thereby desirably warmed before being directed to the fuel cell assembly via an air distribution system. Thus, the PSM is constantly cooled and purged through the downstream processes, and the incoming air is constantly warmed by recovered heat from the PSM. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606849 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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