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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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| US 07204123 | McMahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa E. McMahan (Tampa, Florida); Joseph G. Protola (Clearwater, Florida); Bruce Wayne Castleman (Pinellas Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for enhancing the accuracy of a sensor is provided. The method includes determining a measure of the output of the sensor, determining whether the measure falls outside of an acceptable range for the output of the sensor, and, when the measure falls outside the acceptable range, modifying the measure of the output such that the measure falls within the acceptable range for the sensor. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842063 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204160 | Sadegh 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) | Ali M. Sadegh (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey); Paul V. Cavallaro (Rayhnam, Massachusetts); Claudia J. Quigley (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A testing apparatus having four-bar linkages pivotable to sleeves on opposite vertices with the sleeves of each vertex rotationally attached to each other. Links of each linkage are pivotally attached to loading plate assemblies securing a test specimen. During loading, the assemblies move toward or away from each other; thereby, applying compression or tension to the specimen. A pressure system fluidly impacts opposite faces of a piston of the assembly such that one of the faces is pressurized and impacts arms of the assembly for a sliding motion to move toward or away from the longitudinal axis of the apparatus thereby, applying a compression or tensile load on the specimen or augmenting the loads applied by the movement of the loading plate assemblies. The pressure system includes a controller connected to a reservoir, a pressurized source, a plurality of shutoff valves and pressure-adjustable check valves. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401014 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204165 | Plaga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Plaga (Fairborn, Ohio); Gregory A. Thompson (Beavercreek, Ohio); Glenn Leroy Thomas (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An anthropomorphic dummy head system is provided for measuring forces and moments applied to the back of the head and neck. The system includes a dummy head representing at least a portion of a human head and a force measuring device connected with the dummy head. The system also includes a skull cap attached to the force measuring device. The skull cap, representing a rear portion of a human head, may be free from direct attachment to the dummy head. The skull cap may further include a lower extension or nape extension configured to represent the back of a human neck. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158350 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/866.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204171 | Yeager |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur F. Yeager (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The device performs the function of opening and/or closing lids attached to containers, and more particularly child-proof lids in at least some embodiments. The device preferably includes a base, a post, an arm, a mechanism that converts straight movement to rotation movement, and a plate to engage the lid of a container. The conversion mechanism in at least some embodiments includes a spring. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133444 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools 081/3.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204197 | Beauchamp 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) | Charles H. Beauchamp (Seekonk, Massachusetts); James L. Dick (Saunderstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A mast for use on a submarine is disclosed. The shape of the mast includes a sharp leading edge. The leading edge widens to an angle greater than the maximum angle of angle of attack that the mast will experience during maneuvering. The shape produces a stagnation zone that minimizes flow separations at the bow wave and has a pressure coefficient that approaches zero such that wake signatures of the mast are reduced. The surface of the mast is roughened to be capable of producing a turbulent boundary layer of the mast further reducing wake signatures from the bow wake. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272423 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204868 | Snow, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Snow, Jr. (Fountain Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inert gas generating system for generating inert gas on a vehicle having a fuel tank and a fuel tank vent. The system includes an inlet for receiving a flow of gas having a nitrogen component and an oxygen component from a gas source, a heat exchanger downstream from the inlet and in fluid communication with the inlet for cooling gas received from the inlet, and a gas separation module downstream from the heat exchanger and in fluid communication with the heat exchanger for separating gas received from the heat exchanger into a nitrogen-enriched gas flow and an oxygen-enriched gas flow. The gas separation module is adapted to deliver nitrogen-enriched gas from the nitrogen-enriched gas flow to the fuel tank without delivering the nitrogen-enriched gas through the fuel tank vent. The gas separation module is also adapted to deliver nitrogen-enriched gas from the nitrogen-enriched gas flow to the fuel tank vent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/813217 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205043 | Spero 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) | Arthur C. Spero (Front Royal, Virginia); Carlos M. Godoy (Middletown, Rhode Island); Azriel Harari (Middletown, Rhode Island); James M. Teague (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material containing inclusions of spherical shells in which each spherical shell encapsulates a rubber core with ferrite loading. The inclusions are embedded in a matrix material of syntactic foam. The spherical shells are made from glass and therefore acoustically transparent and in combination with the cores are statically stiffer than the surrounding matrix material. The composite material with the matrix material and inclusions allows the composite material to be acoustically dissipating with a stiffness in which the energy of forces associated with undersea platforms is resisted. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923162 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/292.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205048 | Naasani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Imad Naasani (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions and methods for making these compositions. The compositions are fluorescent nanocrystals coated with at least one material. The coating material has chemical compounds or ligands with functional groups or moieties with conjugated electrons and moieties for imparting solubility to coated fluorescent nanocrystals in aqueous solutions. The coating material provides for functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions which are water soluble, chemically stable, and emit light with a high quantum yield and/or luminescence efficiency when excited with light. The coating material may also have chemical compounds or ligands with moieties for bonding to target molecules and cells as well as moieties for cross-linking the coating. In the presence of reagents suitable for reacting to form capping layers, the compounds in the coating may form a capping layer on the fluorescent nanocrystal with the coating compounds operably bonded to the capping layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409940 |
| 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 07205112 | Paul, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Paul, III (St. Petersburg, Florida); Erica T. Casper (St. Petersburg, Florida); Stacey S. Patterson (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polynucleotides and methods for detecting and quantifying RNA viruses, such as enteroviruses and noroviruses. In one aspect, the invention provides amplification primers and labeled molecular beacons for amplification of viral nucleic acid sequences. In another aspect, the invention provides a synthetic RNA internal control. In another aspect, the invention provides a kit for detecting the presence of enterovirus and/or norovirus in a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/938005 |
| 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 07205497 | Harshbarger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart D. Harshbarger (Woodbine, Maryland); Adam K. Arabian (Louisville, Kentucky); Michael P. McLoughlin (Sykesville, Maryland); Micah A. Carlson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method (FIG. 1) for automated handling and identification of parcels sorted by an automated high-speed mail sorting apparatus that identifies parcels that contain hoax or biological threat material comprising an opener (120) and a particle sampler (170) wherein said sampler analyzes air flow created as the parcels are compressed by pinch rollers (140). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/510434 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/576 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205520 | Busse 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) | Richard J. Busse (Camarillo, California); Raymond J. Blattel (Oxnard, California); Mallory J. Boyd (Ridgecrest, California); Michael D. Barrett (Camarillo, California); William R. Ditzler (Ridgecrest, California); Jason R. Allen (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ground based launch detection system consisting of a sensor grid of electro-optical sensors for detecting the launch of a threat missile which targets commercial aircraft in proximity to a commercial airport or airfield. The electro-optical sensors are configured in a wireless network which broadcast threat lines to neighboring sensors with overlapping field of views. When a threat missile is verified, threat data is sent to a centrally located processing facility which determines which aircraft in the vicinity are targets and send a dispense countermeasure signal to the aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084267 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/203.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205542 | Mankos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marian Mankos (Palo Alto, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a scanning electron beam apparatus having curved electron-optical axes. An electron gun and illumination electron optics are configured to generate a primary electron beam along a first axis. Objective electron optics is configured about a second axis to receive the primary electron beam, to focus the incident electron beam onto the substrate, and to retrieve an emitted beam of scattered electrons from the substrate. Detection electron optics is configured about a third axis to receive the emitted beam and to focus the emitted beam onto a detector. A beam separator is coupled to and interconnecting the illumination electron optics, the objective electron optics, and the detection electron optics in such a way that there is a same angle between the first and second axes as between the second and third axes. A beam deflector is configured to controllably scan the primary electron beam across the substrate and to de-scan the emitted electron beam. Other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/343418 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205585 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Vladimir Bulovic (Metuchen, New Jersey); Peter Peumans (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device having a plurality of cells disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. Each cell includes a photoconductive organic hole transport layer adjacent to a photoconductive organic electron transport layer. A metal or metal substitute is disposed between each of the cells. At least one exciton blocking layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350008 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205835 | Lie 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) | Donald Y. C. Lie (San Diego, California); Jeremy Popp (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An increased power efficient switching mode power amplifier system. The system includes a SMPA and an E/S reactive component. The SMPA includes a transistor, an RF choke and a tank circuit. The transistor has an emitter/source and is capable of receiving an input signal. The RF choke is operatively coupled to the transistor. The tank circuit is operatively coupled to the RF choke and the transistor. The E/S reactive component is operatively coupled to the emitter/source of the transistor of the SMPA. The E/S reactive component has a desired E/S degeneration reactive component value. A method for an increased power efficient switching mode power amplifier system is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064188 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205930 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shu K. Ho (Granada Hills, California); Gordon R. Chalmers (Stockton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multistatic radar has a radar transmitter for illuminating a target with a radar signal. The target reflects the radar signal to three separate radar receivers, each performing a bistatic range measurement to the target. The three bistatic range measurements are combined in a quadratic equation having two solutions (roots). One solution (root) corresponds to a correct three dimensional target position with respect to the radar transmitter while the other is an incorrect three dimensional target position with respect to the radar transmitter. The incorrect three dimensional target position is identified and eliminated by comparing the three dimensional target position to the transmitter location, and the receiver locations. The incorrect three dimensional target position is also identified by the target altitude exceeding a threshold, typically set above 80,000 feet AGL. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144133 |
| 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 342/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205937 | Hein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Integrated Systems Company (Greenville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Walton Hein (McKinney, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-multiple delay element values that may be implemented to reduce periodic quantization errors associated with phase shifting devices used in phased array apparatus. The non-multiple delay element values may be implemented so that a magnitude of phase shift imparted by a given delay element of a phase shifting scheme is not a multiple or a factor of the magnitude of the phase shift imparted by any other delay element employed in the same phase shifting scheme. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835274 |
| 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 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206062 | Asbrock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Asbrock (Oceanside, California); George W. Dietrich (Murphy, Texas); Lloyd F. Linder (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a LADAR system and a method for operating same. The LADAR system includes circuitry for generating the electrical signal with an optical signal detector using N discrete samples; a bank of M parallel sample/hold circuit unit cells individual ones of which operate with an associated sample/hold clock, where each sample/hold clock is shifted in time by a fixed or programmable amount Δt relative to a sample/hold clock of an adjacent sample/hold circuit unit cell; and further includes circuitry for sequentially coupling a sampled value of the electrical signal from a first output of individual ones of at least some of the M parallel sample/hold circuit unit cells to an analog to digital converter circuit. Each of the M parallel sample/hold circuit unit cells has a second output for outputting a digital signal for indicating the state (low or high) during a time that the associated sample/hold clock allowing for time of arrival determination. The LADAR system further includes or is coupled to a signal processor for deriving an image of the object and a range to the object based on signals at the first and second outputs. Assuming an effective sample/hold circuit sampling rate of X samples per second, a sampling rate of each of the M parallel sample/hold circuit unit cells can be X/M samples per second. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108921 |
| 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 07206073 | Hajian 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) | Arsen R. Hajian (Washington, District of Columbia); J. Thomas Armstrong (Silver Spring, Maryland); David Mozurkewich (Seabrook, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A dispersing Fourier Transform interferometer (DFTS) includes a Fourier Transform Spectrometer having an input for receiving a source light and an output, and a dispersive element having an input coupled to the Fourier Transform Spectrometer output and an output for providing the resulting multiple narrowband interferogram outputs of different wavelengths representative of the source light input. A processor applies a sparse sampling algorithm for determining the best fit between a set of model interferograms and the set of data interferograms. The model interferogram is inferred as specified at a discrete set of lags, a difference is determined between the model interferogram and the data interferogram, and an optimization method determines the model interferogram best matched to the data interferogram. The DFTS interferometer improves the sensitivity of a standard FTS by including a dispersive element, increasing the SNR by a factor of (Rg)1/2 as compared to the FTS, where Rg is the resolving power of the conventional dispersing spectrometer (i.e. Rg=λ/Δλ). |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750633 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206257 | Meng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. S. Meng (Poulsbo, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed of generating a predetermined field of cavitation around a remote target in an underwater environment. The method includes the steps of identifying a remote target location, generating at least two acoustic beams, each at a high power output, from an underwater acoustic source, and controlling the generated acoustic beams to intersect with each other at the remote target location and thereby create a destructive cavitation field at the intersection of the beams. The acoustic source and target can be located in unconfined underwater space and at a distance of at least 100 m apart. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655632 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206258 | Fisher 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) | Stanley A. Fisher (Boyds, Maryland); Gideon Maidanik (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of pressure sensors and motions sensors is contained in a layered material system that includes an acoustically compliant layer and an acoustically transparent layer. The compliant layer (which vibrates in accordance with acoustical influence thereupon) is the foundation for both sensor types and is the vibratory medium for motion sensing. The transparent layer is the matrix for both sensor types and is the window permitting sound waves to reach the pressure sensors (which sense pressure of the sound waves) and the compliant layer (the vibration of which is sensed by the motion sensors). The compliant layer's exposed surface can be attached to a structure's exterior for passive sonar detection purposes. Since the pressure sensors are effective primarily for low frequency sound waves, and the motion sensors are effective primarily for high frequency sound waves, the invention is aggregately effective for a broad band spanning low and high frequencies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108144 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206359 | Kjeldsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Scientific Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Alan R. Lindsey (Remsen, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik H. Kjeldsen (Marietta, Georgia); Alan R. Lindsey (Remsen, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication network that implements Circular Simplex Turbo Block Coded Modulation (“CSTBCM”) Forward Error Correction (“FEC”), randomization and Wavelet Packet Modulation (“WPM”) is provided. The network includes a transmitter that uses an adaptive tree structure. The tree structure is pruned to avoid known signal impediments by first determining the best uniform level and then tuning in the forward direction and in the reverse direction. The network also includes a receiver that implements a maximum likelihood decision directed (“MLDD”) synchronization scheme. The synchronization scheme is pulse shape independent and non-data aided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400834 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206470 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lixia Li (Madison, Alabama); Gregory P. Nordin (Huntsville, Alabama); Jianhua Jiang (Madison, Alabama); Jennifer M. English (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar lightwave circuit has a waveguide having a bend and plurality of multiple trenches with parallel front and back interfaces. The trench and waveguide refractive indexes are different such that a refractive interface is defined between the waveguide and the trench. The trench may include a material of higher refractive index than the waveguide, such as silicon, or alternatively a material having a lower refractive index than the waveguide, such as an air void. The trench is disposed on the waveguide bend such that the front and back planar interfaces have an angle of incidence to a direction of the lightwave propagation from the waveguide. The invention also includes beamsplitters that include trenches that reflect a portion of a lightwave in a first direction and a portion of a lightwave in a second direction. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973068 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206517 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (LA) (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qian Yu (Cupertino, California); Lianshan Yan (Los Angeles, California); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-wavelength optical signal copropagates through a fiber-optic communication link with a continuous-wave ancillary wavelength having an unknown state of polarization (SOP), which is scrambled periodically in time. The instantaneous value of polarization dependent loss (PDL) in the ancillary wavelength is monitored in real time, and is used as an error signal to adjust at least one polarization controller. Polarization scrambling is performed by periodically changing the SOP with time, such that the polarization-scrambled optical signal covers approximately an entire Poincaré sphere surface, preferably uniformly, during each time period. At an optical node between fibers, an adjustable PDL compensator contains two ordered pairs each consisting of one polarization controller and one optical element introducing fixed PDL. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099875 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206709 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry H. Griffin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Drew M. Feiner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An extended version of a reduced order model called the Fundamental Mistuning Model (FMM) accurately predicts vibratory response and damping in a bladed disk system. The extended FMM software may describe the normal modes and natural frequencies of a mistuned bladed disk as well as damping in the disk using complex-valued inputs of its tuned system frequencies and the frequency mistuning of each blade/disk sector (i.e., the sector frequencies). The extended FMM system identification methods—basic and advanced extended FMM ID methods—also use complex mistuned modes and complex frequencies of the mistuned bladed disk as inputs. As a result, in extended FMM ID calculations, the tuned system frequencies and the mistuning frequency ratios are complex numbers. The real parts of frequencies relate to sector frequencies as well as tuned system frequencies. However, the imaginary part can be related to system damping. Thus, extended FMM ID methodology may be used to identify not only the frequencies of the individual sectors of the bladed disk, but also to identify damping in the bladed disk system. The extended FMM may predict how much the bladed disk will vibrate under the operating (rotating) conditions. Field calibration and testing of the blades may be performed using traveling wave analysis and extended FMM ID methods. The extended FMM model can be generated completely from experimental data. Because of extended FMM's simplicity, no special interfaces are required for extended FMM to be compatible with a finite element model. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064893 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07207041 | Elson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tranzeo Wireless Technologies, Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Elson (Culver City, California); Lewis D. Girod (Culver City, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); Josef Kriegl (San Diego, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California); Guillaume Francois Rava (Culver City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An open platform architecture and methods for shared resource access management are provided. A redirection module in kernel space receives requests for access to resources from applications in user space. The redirection module routes signals representative of the received requests to a device driver interface in user space. Components of the device driver interface include resource management modules and device drivers that correspond to available resources. The resource management modules generate queries to the device drivers regarding availability of the requested resources. Upon receipt of resource status information from the device drivers, components of the device driver interface generate schedules for granting access to the requested resources. Further, the device driver interface components control access to the resources in accordance with the generated schedules including issuing responses to the requesting applications and the device drivers of the requested resources. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/184527 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI, International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel F. Jensen (Redwood City, California); Philip S. Green (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a system and method for releasably holding a surgical instrument (14), such as an endoscopic instrument configured for delivery through a small percutaneous penetration in a patient. The instrument comprises an elongate shaft (100) with a pair of mounting pins (116) laterally extending from the shaft between its proximal and distal ends. An instrument holder comprises a support having a central bore (202) and an axially extending slot (204) for receiving the instrument shaft and the mounting pins. A pair of locking slots (206) are cut into the support transversely to and in communication with the axial slot so that the mounting pins can be rotated within the locking slots. The instrument support further includes a latch assembly for automatically locking the mounting pins within the locking slots to releasably couple the instrument to the instrument holder. With this twist-lock motion, the surgeon can rapidly engage and disengage various instruments from the holder during a surgical procedure, such as open surgery, laparoscopy or thoracoscopy. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/265285 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204992 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clayton Foundation for Research (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jere W. McBride (League City, Texas); David H. Walker (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Sequences encoding two immunoreactive glycoproteins were cloned from Ehrlichia canis (p153 gene) and Ehrlichia chaffeensis (p156 gene). These two glycoproteins are species-specific immunoreactive orthologs that are useful as subunit vaccines and for serologic and molecular diagnostics for E. canis and E. chaffeensis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701038 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205002 | Sieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fritz Sieber (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Wolfgang H. H. Günther (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Jean-Pierre Daziano (Marseilles, France); Marianne Krieg-Kowald (Barrington, Rhode Island); Jamal Bousbaa (Durham, United Kingdom); Raymond J. Bula (Cross Plains, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions containing elemental selenium (Se(0)), Se(0)-carrier conjugates, a chromophore photoproduct, fluorescent conjugates of the chromophore photoproduct and carrier molecules, or a mixture thereof are disclosed. Methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions such as inducing cell death are also disclosed. Further disclosed are methods of making the pharmaceutical compositions and components thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701870 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205102 | Montagnier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institut Pasteur (Paris, France); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luc Montagnier (Le Plessis-Robinson, France); Solange Chamaret (Paris, France); Claudine Axler-Blin (Paris, France); Francoise Rey (Marseilles, France); Marie-Therese Nugeyre (Issy les Moulineaux, France); Jacques Gruest, legal representative (L'Hay les Roses, France); Charles Dauguet (Paris, France); Willy Rozenbaum (Chennnevières-sur-Marne, France); Christine Rouzioux (Paris, France); Francois Brun-Vezinet (Paris, France); Jean-Claude Chermann (Cassis, France); Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (Issy les Moulineaux, France); Robert C. Gallo (Bethesda, Maryland); Mikulas Popovic (Bethesda, Maryland); Mangalasseril G. Sarngadharan (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is in the field of lymphadenopathy virus which has been designated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1). This invention relates to a diagnostic means and method to detect the presence of DNA, RNA or antibodies of the lymphadenopathy retrovirus associated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome or of the lymphadenopathy syndrome by the use of DNA fragments or the peptides encoded by said DNA fragments. The invention further relates to the DNA fragments, vectors comprising them and the proteins expressed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/475822 |
| 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 07205103 | Emerson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverly M. Emerson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compounds for altering remodeling of chromatin in a cell. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/781592 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205121 | Palka-Hamblin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helena L. Palka-Hamblin (Chicago, Illinois); Nicholas K. Tonks (Huntington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Proteins are identified from human breast tumor cell lines (MDA-MB-231, T-47D and T-47D/Met) that interact specifically with the substrate-trapping mutant form of Density Enhanced Phosphatase-1 (DEP-1). These proteins include the functional component p120 catenin (p120ctn), the adaptor protein Gab 1, and the HGF/SF receptor Met. The invention relates to isolated complexes comprising DEP-1 polypeptides in specific association with Met, Gab 1, or p120ctn, identified herein as DEP-1 substrate polypeptides. Screening assays for agents that alter DEP-1 interaction with DEP-1 substrate polypeptides are also disclosed, as are methods for altering biological signals in cells that are transduced via DEP-1 pathways. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723606 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205126 | Qiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loyola University Chicago (Maywood, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Qiao (Maywood, Illinois); Wei Shi (Maywood, Illinois); Yujun Huang (Maywood, Illinois); Jianzhong Liu (Maywood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves a papilloma pseudovirus that can induce immune response after oral intake as well as its preparation. It is characterized in that HPV or BPV pseudovirus are made by disrupting HPV-VLP or BPV-VLP, mixing them with plasmids (plasmids or DNA vaccine), and reassembling them into the pseudoviruses (VLPs with plasmids inside). Oral administration of the pseudoviruses will result in delivery to mucosal and systemic lymphoid tissues and induce immune responses for disease prevention and treatment. The pseudovirus induces stronger immune response than DNA vaccines. Additionally, the pseudovirus can be applied in gene therapy by bringing the therapeutic genes into lymphoid tissues in the human body. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060034 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205142 | Lloyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth O. Lloyd (Bronx, New York); Beatrice W. T. Yin (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising sequences encoding the CA125 protein or a portion thereof. This invention also provides a method to detect ovarian cancer in a subject. Furthermore, this invention provides a method for the diagnosis of a cancer which expresses CA125 by detecting CA125-expressing cells in the blood or other fluids of patients. This invention also provides a method of producing CA125 protein. This invention also provides a method of silencing CA125 protein production. Finally, this invention provides a method to treat or prevent cancer using a vaccine comprising CA125 nucleic acid or protein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243243 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205278 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (LaJolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Griffin (Del Mar, California); Andrew J. Gale (San Diego, California); Elizabeth D. Getzoff (San Diego, California); Jean-Luc Pellequer (Cedex, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of introducing one or more cysteine residues into a polypeptide which permit the stabilization of the polypeptide by formation of at least one bond, preferably a disulfide bond, between different domains of the polypeptide. The invention also relates to polypeptides containing such introduced cysteine residue(s), nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such polypeptides or nucleic acids. The invention also relates to vectors, viral particles and host cells containing such nucleic acids, and methods of using them to produce the polypeptides of the invention. Exemplified polypeptides include plasma proteins, including hepatocyte growth factor activator and plasma hyaluronin binding protein, as well as blood coagulation factors, such as Factor VIII, Factor V, Factor XII and prothrombin. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172712 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205280 | Laskowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cognosci, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. Laskowitz (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); William D. Matthew (Durham, North Carolina); Michael McMillian (Rareton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of suppressing the activation of microglial cells in the Central Nervous System (CNS), methods of ameliorating or treating the neurological effects of cerebral ischemia or cerebral inflammation, and methods of combating specific diseases that affect the CNS by administering a compound that binds to microglial receptors and prevents or reduces microglial activation are described. Also described are methods of screening compounds for the ability to suppress or reduce microglial activation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/957909 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205334 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama); Kirk R. Gustafson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially purified compound of the formula: a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound of the formula, alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and methods of preventing or treating cancer and a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521930 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205437 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Yali He (Germantown, Tennessee); Donghua Yin (Pawcatuck, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA) which demonstrate androgenic and anabolic activity, which are nonsteroidal ligands for the androgen receptor. The selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM) are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of chronic muscular wasting; e) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer; f) oral androgen relacement and/or other clinical therpauetic and/or diagnostic areas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125159 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206375 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc. (East Greenbush, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zewu Chen (Schenectady, New York); Walter Gibson (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compact, low-power-consuming systems and methods for exposing samples to high-energy radiation, for example, for exposing samples to x-rays for implementing x-ray absorption near edge analysis (XANES). The systems and methods include a low-power-consuming radiation source, such as an x-ray tube; one or more tunable crystal optics for directing and varying the energy of the radiation onto a sample under analysis; and a radiation detecting device, such as an x-ray detector, for detecting radiation emitted by the sample. The one or more tunable crystal optics may be doubly-curved crystal optics. The components of the system may be arranged in a collinear fashion. The disclosed systems and methods are particularly applicable to XANES analysis, for example, XANES analysis of the chemical state of chromium or another transition metal in biological processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/291349 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices, Inc (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew David Tarler (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless electrode patch and system for measuring the physiological condition of a subject, more particularly to an electrode patch for ECG monitoring, and a method of sensing, analyzing and/or transmitting or relaying a physiological signal. The wireless electrode patch and system is lightweight, compact and reusable. The wireless electrode patch provides a low, power system for extended battery life and use. The wireless electrode patch and system allows for good reliable measurement of physiological signals from the subject. The wireless electrode is simple enough to apply as a single patch but versatile enough to be reconfigured as more than one patch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879666 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206701 | Tuchman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald P. Tuchman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Donald H. Lemmon (Verona, Pennsylvania); Brian C. Smith (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A variety of methods and systems related to automated quantitative analyses via digital spectroscopy techniques can be used to determine the quantity of one or more analytes in a sample. A parameter file can be used to control automated analysis. Suspect conditions related to parameters can be identified and-appropriate advisories provided. Suspect conditions related to analysis can be identified and appropriate warnings provided. Various algorithmic techniques are supported and can be selected by a user by modifying parameters via a parameter-editing user interface presented by software. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/499443 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206718 | Cavanagh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DIApedic, L.L.C. (State College, Pennsylvania); Peter R. Cavanagh (Bratenahl, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter R. Cavanagh (Bratenahl, Ohio); Jan S. Ulbrecht (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Timothy B. Hurley (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Huixiong Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the design and production of improved pressure reducing therapeutic shoe insoles for a person. The method includes the steps of measuring a three dimensional image of a foot and the distribution of plantar pressures applied by a person's foot being measured for a pressure reducing insole. Selecting a shoe insole outline or template which best fits or corresponds to the shape of a foot being measured. A foot display is generated which combines and aligns the three dimensional foot shape and the plantar pressure distribution. A three dimensional insole display is generated which combines and aligns the foot shape and plantar pressure distribution, and includes modifications based upon selected pressure contour lines identified within the foot display which are above predetermined pressure thresholds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/232204 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Waters Investments Ltd. (New Castle, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Crocker (Fremont, California); Pamela F. Caton (Berkely, California); Geoff C. Gerhardt (Milbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A freeze-thaw valve and a method of micro-machining the freeze-thaw valve is provided and includes a valve housing, wherein the valve housing defines a housing cavity and includes a housing inlet, a housing vent, a capillary tubing inlet and a capillary tubing outlet. A valve body is provided, at least a portion of which is lithographically constructed, wherein the valve body includes a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet and an expansion chamber. The expansion chamber is disposed to communicate the refrigerant inlet with the refrigerant outlet and includes a restriction region having a flow restriction. Additionally, the valve body is disposed within the housing cavity to form an insulating channel between the valve housing and the valve body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941216 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204923 | Cummings |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous-flow filter/concentrator for separating and/or concentrating particles in a fluid is disclosed. The filter is a three-port device an inlet port, an filter port and a concentrate port. The filter separates particles into two streams by the ratio of their dielectrophoretic mobility to their electrokinetic, advective, or diffusive mobility if the dominant transport mechanism is electrokinesis, advection, or diffusion, respectively. Also disclosed is a device for separating and/or concentrating particles by dielectrophoretic trapping of the particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/176322 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07204940 | McDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Biotechnology Institute (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. McDonald (Utica, Ohio); Amy B. Koren (Lansing, Michigan); Sunil K. Dourado (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Joel I. Dulebohn (Lansing, Michigan); Robert J. Hanchar (Charlotte, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are polymer-based coatings and materials comprising (i) a polymeric composition including a polymer having side chains along a backbone forming the polymer, at least two of the side chains being substituted with a heteroatom selected from oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus and combinations thereof; and (ii) a plurality of metal species distributed within the polymer. At least a portion of the heteroatoms may form part of a chelation complex with some or all of the metal species. In many embodiments, the metal species are present in a sufficient concentration to provide a conductive material, e.g., as a conductive coating on a substrate. The conductive materials may be useful as the thin film conducting or semi-conducting layers in organic electronic devices such as organic electroluminescent devices and organic thin film transistors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392347 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205072 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of materials with the composition Li1+xNiαMnβCoγM′δO2−zFz (M′=Mg,Zn,Al,Ga,B,Zr,Ti) for use with rechargeable batteries, wherein x is between about 0 and 0.3, α is between about 0.2 and 0.6, β is between about 0.2 and 0.6, γ is between about 0 and 0.3, δ is between about 0 and 0.15, and z is between about 0 and 0.2. Adding the above metal and fluorine dopants affects capacity, impedance, and stability of the layered oxide structure during electrochemical cycling. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699484 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.950 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205450 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Institut National de la Recherche Argronomique (INR) (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Cook (Davis, California); Ramachandra V. Penmetsa (Sacramento, California); Gyorgy B. Kiss (Szeged, Hungary); Jean-Michel Ane (Davis, California); Jean Denarie (Castanet-Tolosan, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated DMI11 genes from Medicago truncatula which play a major role both in the early steps of Nod factor signaling that trigger several key developmental responses in the host plant and in the establishment of mycorrhizal symbiosis. The invention also relates to transgenic plants and plant cells expressing the DMI1 protein for increased root nodulation, and methods for transforming plants with a M. truncatula DMI1 gene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739736 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07205665 | Chung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neah Power Systems, Inc. (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinh Chung (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Jonathan Chan Mallari (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed invention relates to masked silicon structures and methods for making porous silicon in selected areas of a silicon substrate via anodic etching. The masked silicon structures comprise: (1) a frontside barrier layer; and (2) a backside opaque ohmic contact layer. The frontside barrier layer includes a plurality of discrete barrier openings bounded by a contiguous frontside portion of the barrier layer, thereby defining a first aperture having a first shape and a first center point. The backside opaque ohmic contact layer includes a second aperture bounded by a contiguous backside portion of the ohmic contact layer, thereby defining a second aperture having a second shape and a second center point. The first and second center points share a perpendicular axis. The first shape is substantially the same as the second shape but slightly larger, and is trans-concentrically positioned relative to the second shape about the shared axis. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242237 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07205692 | Abdel-Hady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faissal Abdel-Hady (Auburn, Alabama); Yehia Elmoghazy (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A ring-spinning system for making yarn characterized in part by the replacement of the ring traveler configuration with only one rotating, floating ring that has an eye on its inner middle surface. This rotating, floating ring with the eye thereon performs the functions previously performed by the ring traveler configuration of twisting the fibers into yarn. The ring is kept suspended in space by the magnetic levitation system of the present invention. The floating ring is elevated by a well-controlled magnetic field generated by two sets of electromagnetic coils and a set of cylindrical rare earth permanent magnets. The floating ring is rotated around its center by the effect of winding the formed yarns over a rotating spindle at the center of the ring. Sensors and a feedback system are used to control the magnetic fields produced by the electromagnetic coils to maintain the ring in its central position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/528483 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/90.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206964 | Moser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Availigent, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise E. Moser (Santa Barbara, California); Peter M. Melliar-Smith (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and mechanisms for checkpointing objects, processes and other components of a multithreaded application program, based on the leader-follower strategy of semi-active or passive replication, where it is not possible to stop and checkpoint all of the threads of the object, process or other component simultaneously. Separate checkpoints are generated for the local state of each thread and for the data that are shared between threads and are protected by mutexes. The invention enables different threads to be checkpointed at different times in such a way that the checkpoints restore a consistent state of the threads between the existing replicas and a new or recovering replica, even though the threads operate concurrently and asynchronously. The checkpoint of the shared data is piggybacked onto regular messages along with ordering information that determines the order in which the mutexes are granted to the threads. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651757 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07206575 | Fielhauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl B. Fielhauer (Clarksville, Maryland); James R. Jensen (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a remote station and a local station having a receiver. The receiver operates in an unlocked state corresponding to its best lock frequency (BLF). The local station derives data indicative of a ratio of the BLF to a reference frequency of the receiver, and telemeters the data to the remote station. The remote station estimates the BLF based on (i) the telemetered data, and (ii) a predetermined estimate of the reference frequency. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735580 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206674 | Statler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving C. Statler (Mountain View, California); Thomas A. Ferryman (Richland, Washington); Brett G. Amidan (Kennewick, Washington); Paul D. Whitney (Richland, Washington); Amanda M. White (Kennewick, Washington); Alan R. Willse (Richland, Washington); Scott K. Cooley (Kennewick, Washington); Joseph Griffith Jay (Corvallis, Oregon); Robert E. Lawrence (Los Altos, California); Chris J. Mosbrucker (Corvallis, Oregon); Loren J. Rosenthal (Los Gatos, California); Robert E. Lynch (San Carlos, California); Thomas R. Chidester (Mountain View, California); Gary L. Prothero (Corvallis, Oregon); Adi Andrei (Corvallis, Oregon); Timothy P. Romanowski (Corvallis, Oregon); Daniel E. Robin (Philomath, Oregon); Jason W. Prothero (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for displaying information on one or more aircraft flights, where at least one flight is determined to have at least one atypical flight phase according to specified criteria. A flight parameter trace for an atypical phase is displayed and compared graphically with a group of traces, for the corresponding flight phase and corresponding flight parameter, for flights that do not manifest atypicality in that phase. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923156 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07205585 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Vladimir Bulovic (Metuchen, New Jersey); Peter Peumans (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device having a plurality of cells disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. Each cell includes a photoconductive organic hole transport layer adjacent to a photoconductive organic electron transport layer. A metal or metal substitute is disposed between each of the cells. At least one exciton blocking layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350008 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07206470 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lixia Li (Madison, Alabama); Gregory P. Nordin (Huntsville, Alabama); Jianhua Jiang (Madison, Alabama); Jennifer M. English (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar lightwave circuit has a waveguide having a bend and plurality of multiple trenches with parallel front and back interfaces. The trench and waveguide refractive indexes are different such that a refractive interface is defined between the waveguide and the trench. The trench may include a material of higher refractive index than the waveguide, such as silicon, or alternatively a material having a lower refractive index than the waveguide, such as an air void. The trench is disposed on the waveguide bend such that the front and back planar interfaces have an angle of incidence to a direction of the lightwave propagation from the waveguide. The invention also includes beamsplitters that include trenches that reflect a portion of a lightwave in a first direction and a portion of a lightwave in a second direction. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973068 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07204993 | Evans 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) | Joyce J. Evans (Chestertown, Maryland); Phillip H. Klesius (Auburn, Alabama); Craig A. Shoemaker (Notasulga, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition prepared from intact killed cells of isolated β-hemolytic Streptococcus agalactiae and a concentrated extract of a culture of β-hemolytic Streptococcus agalactiae, is effective for the protection of fish against infection by the same and other virulent strains Streptococcus agalactiae. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807575 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07204415 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Payne (Collierville, Tennessee); Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee); James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods maintain a database of recipient names and addresses where the delivery point addresses contain secondary address. Data that is stored in the database may be arrayed in secure data tables. The structure of the secure data tables ensures that the data is secure and prevents an unauthorized user from learning address information improperly. A delivery service provider may create secure data tables using 20-byte Secure Hash Algorithm. A software searches secure data tables for the matching recipient name and address. If the match is found, a business sender may receive valid secondary address information for that recipient. If, however, a database does not contain a matching recipient name and address, a business sender may not receive any further information about that recipient's address. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953358 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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