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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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| US 07216436 | Whitworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denver Whitworth (North Richland Hills, Texas); Nicklas Gonzales (Flower Mound, Texas); Vance Cribb (Grapevine, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for precisely locating, aligning, targeting, and marking locations for fastener holes in structures is disclosed. The method and apparatus utilizes laser devices to project laser beams through alignment tools to determine the proper location and orientation of the fastener holes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925380 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07216488 | Howell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen John Howell (West Newbury, Massachusetts); John Carl Jacobson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Barry Francis Barnes (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramy Michael Souri (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ignition device assembly for a gas turbine engine combustor includes a body and a shroud. The body extends from an inlet end to an outlet end, and the shroud extends circumferentially around at least a portion of the body, and axially from a first end to a tip end. The shroud includes a tip portion and a body portion. The body portion includes a plurality of metering openings and a plurality of first outlet openings. The plurality of metering openings are for channeling cooling air to the ignition device body, and the plurality of first outlet openings are for channeling spent cooling air from the ignition device body. The tip portion includes a plurality of discharge openings extending therethrough for channeling cooling from the ignition device body. The plurality of first outlet openings are between the shroud tip portion and the plurality of shroud metering openings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894483 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07216694 | Otero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Otero (Southington, Connecticut); Patrick Strong (Tremonton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A core for casting a metal part having a body with solid portions spaced apart by hollow portions. The body includes at least one support element extending between adjacent solid portions. The support element provides stiffness and strength for the casting core during the casting process. The support element has an optimized shape to prevent the core from fracturing during the casting process and to minimize operating stress in the metal part around the area formed by the support element. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/763611 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/516 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07216695 | Tilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isothermal Systems Research, Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Tilton (Colton, Washington); Chester L. Turner (Clarkston, Washington); William J. Beasley (Moscow, Idaho); Douglas W. Miller (Moscow, Idaho); William C. Gustafson (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A spray cooling system for extreme environments for providing a desired enclosed environment for electronic devices regardless of external environmental conditions. The spray cooling system for extreme environments includes an enclosure that isolates the electronic components from the external environment, a spray unit within the enclosure for thermally managing one or more electronic devices, a pump unit fluidly connected to the spray unit, a heat exchanger unit fluidly connected to the pump, and a control valve fluidly connected between the heat exchanger unit and the pump. An independent chamber preferably houses a heater unit, a first power supply and a control unit, whereby the heater unit initially heats the coolant within the independent chamber to a minimum operating temperature prior to operation of the electronic components. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255457 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07216897 | Hughes |
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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) | Robert Hughes (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method reduce starting torque for initial rotational displacement and assure smoothness of motion for continuing displacement of a rotary joint. A rotary joint (either cylindrical or spherical) has a first annular joint member and a second annular joint member separated by a fluid-filled annulus. The second annular joint member is adapted for rotary motion with respect to the first annular joint member. A module fluidly communicating with the fluid-filled annulus creates vibratory micro motions in the fluid of the fluid-filled annulus which is between a pair of seals extending between the first annular joint member and the second annular joint member. The vibratory micro motions induce micro motions in the seals of the rotary joint. The micro motions in the seals reduce the initial torque for the initial displacement and assure smoothness of continuing displacement of either or both of the joint members. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868453 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217095 | Pietraszkiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Pietraszkiewicz (Southington, Connecticut); Christina Botnick (Stafford Springs, Connecticut); Todd Coons (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade airfoil assembly includes a cooling air passage. The cooling air passage includes a plurality of impingement openings that are isolated from at least one adjacent impingement opening. The cooling air passage is formed and cast within a turbine blade assembly through the use of a single core. The single core forms the features required to fabricate the various separate and isolated impingement openings. The isolation and combination of impingement openings provides for the augmentation of convection and film cooling and provide the flexibility to tailor airflow on an airfoil to optimize thermal performance of an airfoil. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984216 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217321 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods facilitating the growth and analysis of crystallized materials such as proteins. In accordance with one embodiment, a crystal growth architecture is separated by a permeable membrane from an adjacent well having a much larger volume. The well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity and concentration similar to the solvent and crystallizing agent employed in crystal growth, with diffusion across the membrane stabilizing that process. Alternatively, the well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity calculated to affect the crystallization process. In accordance with the still other embodiment, the well may be configured to contain a material such as a cryo-protectant, which is useful in protecting the crystalline material once formed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810350 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217386 | Wan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julin Wan (Clifton Park, New York); Amiya K. Mukherjee (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High-density composites of alumina and titania with nano-sized grains are prepared from aluminum titanate without the need to use nano-sized powder as a starting material. The preparation is achieved by high-energy ball milling of the aluminum titanate followed by sintering at elevated temperature and pressure. The aluminum titanate can be prepared from micron-sized alumina and titania particles through plasma jet processing. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/910556 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217396 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Kee Ryu (Urbana, Illinois); David Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid delivery system including a first substrate having a micro-channel and a well both formed through the first substrate. The fluid delivery system also includes a second substrate and a delivery channel. The second substrate is on the first substrate and the delivery channel is formed between the first and second substrates. The delivery channel provides fluid communication between the micro-channel and the well. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429333 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217404 | Ajayan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pulickel M. Ajayan (Clifton Park, New York); Ramanath Ganapathiraman (Clifton Park, New York); Andres de la Guardia (Panama City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of transforming a carbon single wall nanotube (SWNT) is provided. The method comprises exposing the SWNT to light having a power sufficient to ignite or reconstruct the SWNT such that the SWNT is ignited or reconstructed by the exposure to the light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367971 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217418 | Eckels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth H. Eckels (Rockville, Maryland); Joseph B. Putnak (Silver Spring, Maryland); Doria R. Dubois (Wheaton, Maryland); Bruce L. Innis (Haverford, Pennsylvania); Charles H. Hoke (Columbia, Maryland); Wellington Sun (Rockville, Maryland); Niranjan Kanesa-Thasan (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vaccine compositions of attenuated dengue virus. More specifically, the attenuated virus is produced by serial passage in PDK cells. The invention also provides methods for stimulating the immune system of an individual to induce protection against all four dengue virus serotypes by administration of attenuated dengue-1, dengue-2, dengue-3, and dengue-4 virus. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/626315 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/202.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217510 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of investigational bioinformatics and more particularly to secondary structure defining databases. The present invention further relates to methods for interrogating a database as a source of molecular masses of known bioagents for comparing against the molecular mass of an unknown or selected bioagent to determine either the identity of the selected bioagent, and/or to determine the origin of the selected bioagent. The identification of the bioagent is important for determining a proper course of treatment and/or irradication of the bioagent in such cases as biological warfare. Furthermore, the determination of the geographic origin of a selected bioagent will facilitate the identification of potential criminal identity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/891793 |
| 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 07217513 | Parameswaran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lalitha Parameswaran (Burlington, Massachusetts); Albert Young (Fishkill, New York); Laura T. Bortolin (Concord, Massachusetts); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); James Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Johanna Bobrow (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing a nucleic acid component of a sample for amplification includes contacting the sample with a porous support that deactivates a nucleic acid amplification inhibitor component of the sample and directing a fluid through the porous support, whereby the nucleic acid component of the sample is directed through at least a portion of the porous support and is separated from the support, thereby preparing the nucleic acid component for amplification. The method can be conducted in an apparatus that includes a porous support having a component that deactivates a nucleic acid amplification inhibitor component of a sample contacting the porous support and a housing having an opening and defining an interior, said interior being in fluid communication with the porous support, whereby at least a portion of a fluid directed through the opening is directed through at least a portion of the porous support and separates at least a portion of a nucleic acid component of a sample contacting the porous support from the support, thereby preparing the nucleic acid component for amplification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193742 |
| 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 07217541 | Cassels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick J. Cassels (Ellicott City, Maryland); James F. Wood (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for making large amounts of highly pure colonization factors. The methods of the present invention differ from prior art methods in that host cells which express the colonization factor of interest are cultured in media comprising more than about 50 μg/l of an antibiotic, the media is centrifuged and then filtered with a 0.2 μm filter tangential flow cartridge and a 300,000 MW cut-off filter, and a divalent cation is added. As disclosed herein the colonization factors made by the method of the present invention may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating or preventing enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infections. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/370522 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/71.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217562 | Cao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Cao (Blawenburg, New Jersey); Jonas O. Tegenfeldt (Lund, Sweden); Stephen Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert H. Austin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a device for interfacing nanofluidic and microfluidic components suitable for use in performing high throughput macromolecular analysis. Diffraction gradient lithography (DGL) is used to form a gradient interface between a microfluidic area and a nanofluidic area. The gradient interface area reduces the local entropic barrier to nanochannels formed in the nanofluidic area. In one embodiment, the gradient interface area is formed of lateral spatial gradient structures for narrowing the cross section of a value from the micron to the nanometer length scale. In another embodiment, the gradient interface area is formed of a vertical sloped gradient structure. Additionally, the gradient structure can provide both a lateral and vertical gradient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414620 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217601 | Burke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry E. Burke (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vyshnavi Suntharalingam (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, an electrically conducting charge transfer channel is formed in a semiconductor substrate and an electrically insulating layer is formed on a surface of the substrate; a layer of gate electrode material is formed on the insulating layer. On the gate material layer is formed a first patterned masking layer having apertures that expose regions of the underlying gate material layer that are to form gate electrodes, and the first-pattern-exposed regions of the gate material layer are electrically doped. In addition, on the gate material layer is formed a second patterned masking layer having apertures that expose regions of the underlying gate material layer that are to form gaps between gate electrodes, and the second-pattern-exposed regions of the gate material layer are etched. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/691080 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217641 | Gehrke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Gehrke (Carrboro, North Carolina); Kevin J. Linthicum (Angier, North Carolina); Robert F. Davis (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | More specifically, gallium nitride semiconductor layers may be fabricated by etching an underlying gallium nitride layer on a sapphire substrate, to define at least one post in the underlying gallium nitride layer and at least one trench in the underlying gallium nitride layer. The at least one post includes a gallium nitride top and a gallium nitride sidewall. The at least one trench includes a trench floor. The gallium nitride sidewalls are laterally grown into the at least one trench, to thereby form a gallium nitride semiconductor layer. However, prior to performing the laterally growing step, the sapphire substrate and/or the underlying gallium nitride layer is treated to prevent growth of gallium nitride from the trench floor from interfering with the lateral growth of the gallium nitride sidewalls of the at least one post into the at least one trench. Embodiments of gallium nitride semiconductor structures according to the present invention can include a sapphire substrate and an underlying gallium nitride layer on the sapphire substrate. The underlying gallium nitride layer includes therein at least one post and at least one trench. The at least one post each includes a gallium nitride top and a gallium nitride sidewall. The at least one trench includes a sapphire floor. A lateral gallium nitride layer extends laterally from the gallium nitride sidewall of the at least one post into the at least one trench. In a preferred embodiment, the at least one trench extends into the sapphire substrate such that the at least one post each includes a gallium nitride top, a gallium nitride sidewall and a sapphire sidewall and the at least one trench includes a sapphire floor. The sapphire floor preferably is free of a vertical gallium nitride layer thereon and the sapphire sidewall height to sapphire floor width ratio preferably exceeds about 1/4. A mask may be included on the sapphire floor and an aluminum nitride buffer layer also may be included between the sapphire substrate and the underlying gallium nitride layer. A mask also may be included on the gallium nitride top. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/763588 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217812 | Hooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Hooper (New Market, Maryland); Connie S. Schmaljohn (Frederick, Maryland); Max Custer (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described a protective DNA vaccines against infection with HFRS- and HPS-associated hantaviruses. The vaccines were constructed by subcloning cDNA representing the medium (M) (encoding the G1 and G2 glycoproteins) into the DNA expression vector pWRG7077. Animals vaccinated with the M construct developed a neutralizing antibody response. Passive transfer experiments show that serum from vaccinated animals, when injected on days 4 or 5 after challenge, protected animals from lethal disease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/394388 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217851 | Suri 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) | Suresh C. Suri (Lancaster, California); Michael G. Tinnirello (Palmdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for the synthesis of 1,4-dicyclopropyl-1,3-butadiyne from CPA. Such butadiyne is prepared by oxidative coupling of cyclopropyl acetylene (CPA) using catalytic amounts each of copper (I)chloride and tetrametylethylenediamine (TMEDA) in isopropanol under aerobic conditions. The resulting butadiyne can serve as a fuel or a fuel additive for combustion in engines propelling motor vehicles, marine vessels, aircraft, rockets and other vehicles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/817411 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217882 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California); Junqiao Wu (Richmond, California); William J. Schaff (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy having a large band gap range is used in a multijunction solar cell to enhance utilization of the solar energy spectrum. In one embodiment, the alloy is In1−xGaxN having an energy bandgap range of approximately 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV, providing a good match to the solar energy spectrum. Multiple junctions having different bandgaps are stacked to form a solar cell. Each junction may have different bandgaps (realized by varying the alloy composition), and therefore be responsive to different parts of the spectrum. The junctions are stacked in such a manner that some bands of light pass through upper junctions to lower junctions that are responsive to such bands. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445711 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
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| US 07217915 | Bosnyak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Bosnyak (Tacoma, Washington); Robert J. Drost (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting light which is incident to a first semiconductor die. During operation, the system receives light at a photo-detector on the first semiconductor die, wherein associated circuitry converts the received light into a current. In doing so, the associated circuitry biases a gate voltage of an integrating transistor to be close to a threshold voltage of the integrating transistor, and applies the current from the photo-detector to the gate of the integrating transistor so that the current causes a charge to collect at the gate of the integrating transistor. This charge builds up and causes the integrating transistor to switch, thereby indicating that light has been received by the photo-detector. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840865 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.100 |
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| US 07217924 | Mankos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marian Mankos (Palo Alto, California); Eric Munro (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to an apparatus for generating a dual-energy electron beam. A first electron beam source is configured to generate a lower-energy electron beam, and a second electron beam source is configured to generate a higher-energy electron beam. A holey mirror is biased to reflect the lower-energy electron beam. The holey mirror also includes an opening therein through which passes the higher-energy electron beam, thereby forming the dual-energy electron beam. A prism array combiner introduces a first dispersion between the lower-energy electron beam and the higher-energy electron beam within the dual-energy electron beam. A prism array separator is configured to separate the dual-energy electron beam traveling to a substrate from a scattered electron beam traveling away from the substrate. The prism array separator introduces a second dispersion which compensates for the dispersion of the prism array combiner. Other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205367 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
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| US 07217926 | Choi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwong-Kit Choi (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to detection of light (or radiation) at different wavelengths. A voltage-tunable multi-color infrared (IR) detector element receives incident radiation through a substantially-transparent substrate. Side surfaces of the voltage-tunable multi-color IR detector element reflect the incident radiation, thereby redirecting the radiation. The reflected radiation is directed through a voltage-tunable multi-color infrared (IR) detector. Energy proportional to different ranges of wavelengths is detected by supplying different bias voltages across the voltage-tunable multi-color IR detector element. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/798967 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.20 |
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| US 07218067 | Marioni |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel A. Marioni (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic actuator is provided including a magnetic field-actuated material and a plurality of interconnected electrically conducting coils, each coil including a number of wire turns arranged relative to at least one other coil to produce at the magnetic field-actuated material, by superposition, a magnetic field that is substantially oriented in one of a plurality of selectable discrete directions. An actuator drive circuit is connected to the coils in a circuit configuration that reverses a direction of electrical current flow through at least one of the coils to reorient the magnetic field from a first selected direction to a second selected direction of the plurality of selectable discrete directions. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098753 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218090 | Nalbandian 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) | Vahakn Nalbandian (Tinton Falls, New Jersey); Ernest Potenziani, II (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrum analyzer includes a resonator board that in turn has a substrate and a plurality of resonators. Each resonator may include a first segment that includes a first segment discontinuity and that may also define a boundary and a second segment that has a second segment discontinuity. The second segment may be spaced from the first segment and wherein the second segment is disposed within the boundary defined by the first segment. The resonator board may also include a plurality of wires each of which may be generally parallel to each other and each having a resonator interposed therebetween. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417299 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218151 | Kursun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volkan Kursun (Rochester, New York); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable threshold voltage keeper circuit technique is proposed for simultaneous power reduction and speed enhancement of domino logic circuits. The threshold voltage of the keeper transistor is dynamically modified during circuit operation to reduce the contention current without sacrificing noise immunity. The threshold voltage of the keeper transistor is controlled by a body bias generator which switches between two voltages in accordance with the clock signal. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608421 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218191 | Bozler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); Shaun R. Berry (Allston, Massachusetts); Jeremy Muldavin (Westford, Massachusetts); Craig L. Keast (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitive RF switch and DC RF switch include a fixed electrode having a thin layer of metal and at least one pull-down electrode. A moving plate has a plurality of corrugations and a selective finger design. The capacitive switch includes a selective finger that comes into contact with the fixed electrode so as to minimize the stiction between the moving plate and the fixed electrode when the switch is closed. The DC switch comprises a plurality of dimples that are formed on the selective portion of the moving plate and are positioned to come into contact with the fixed electrode when the switch is closed so as to increase the contact force and lower the resistance between the moving plate and fixed electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092462 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218240 | Tillotson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Tillotson (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems and apparatus to allow a user to perceive the relative spatial location or present position of other elements of interest in a control space, such as the location of a speaker participating in a telephone conference or that of an aircraft carrier to a remotely piloted vehicle on final approach. The system inserts synthetic sound cues into the communication to the user that represent the relative postion(s). In one embodiment, the user will perceive the communication as though it were communicated through free space to the user from the relative position of the represented source, so that, for example, the squad leader will perceive his wingman to be at his immediate left. Methods of conveying relative position sound cues are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915309 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/692 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218270 | Tamburino |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Tamburino (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A-Track is a tracking process that is driven by automatic target recognition techniques (ATR), mobility analysis using digital maps and exploitation of other constraining information. It is structured as an optimization problem amenable to the formalism from classical relaxation labeling algorithm. The novel combination of techniques in A-Track provides a new approach to the temporal problem of establishing and extending target tracks through a sliding time window involving a sequence of multiple data frames. A data frame is a collection of sensor reports taken from one scan of a predetermined surveillance area that is being systematically and repeatedly scanned over time. The relative time differences between reports within a frame are generally much smaller than the time difference between different frames. A-Track is especially designed to handle cases having relatively large time intervals between frames that cause problems for conventional tracking algorithms based on predictive models. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947787 |
| 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 342/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218285 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Davis (Bellevue, Washington); Robert B. Greegor (Auburn, Washington); Kin Li (Bellevue, Washington); Jean A. Nielsen (Kent, Washington); Claudio G. Parazzoli (Seattle, Washington); Minas H. Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to systems and methods for radiating radar signals, communication signals, or other similar signals. In one embodiment, a system includes a controller that generates a control signal and an antenna coupled to the controller. The antenna includes a first component that generates at least one wave based on the generated control signal and a metamaterial lens positioned at some predefined focal length from the first component. The metamaterial lens directs the generated at least one wave. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913109 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218448 | Cathey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado); Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for increasing the depth of field and decreasing the wavelength sensitivity of an incoherent optical system incorporates a special purpose optical mask into the incoherent system. The optical mask has been designed to cause the optical transfer function to remain essentially constant within some range from the in-focus position. Signal processing of the resulting intermediate image undoes the optical transfer modifying effects of the mask, resulting in an in-focus image over an increased depth of field. Generally the mask is placed at or near an aperture stop or image of the aperture stop of the optical system. Preferably, the mask modifies only phase and not amplitude of light, though amplitude may be changed by associated filters or the like. The mask may be used to increase the useful range of passive ranging systems. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/070969 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218571 | Raleigh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Raleigh (Alexandria, Virginia); Yeshayahu Goldstein (Gaithersburg, Maryland); James Galambos (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for magnetically generating an underwater high pressure pulse of sufficient strength to destroy underwater threats utilizes a pair of electrically conductive elements. The electrically conductive elements are arranged substantially parallel with each other and are separated by a gap. A pulse generator supplies an electrical pulse to at least one of the electrically conductive elements, which causes the generation of a magnetic repulsion force between the elements. The magnetic repulsion force causes one the electrically conductive elements to be displaced, thereby inducing a high pressure pulse in the liquid in which the pair of electrically conductive elements is submerged. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/929952 |
| 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 367/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218766 | Eberhard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard (Albany, New York); Abdalmajeid Musa Alyassin (Niskayuna, New York); Ajay Kapur (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method of analyzing a plurality of views of an object, the object including an edge portion partially extending from a surface of the object into an internal volume of the object, comprising the step of analyzing each acquired view. The step of analyzing each acquired view includes analysis of the edge portion. Preferably, the object comprises breast tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/121866 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218892 | Beierle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Beierle (Bar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive terminator between a plurality of nodes includes a first voltage divider configured to passively set a differential voltage level between a first voltage level and a second voltage level. The first voltage divider has a Thevenin resistance and is electrically connectable to a first node. At least a second voltage divider is configured to passively set the differential voltage level between the first voltage level and the second voltage level. The second voltage divider has the Thevenin resistance and is electrically connectable to at least a second node. A transformer is electrically connected between the first voltage divider and the at least second voltage divider. The transformer has a reactance that is substantially greater than the Thevenin resistance of the first voltage divider and the at least second voltage divider. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607792 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/13.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218906 | Sayeed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar Muhammad Sayeed (Madison, Wisconsin); Ke Liu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing extended space-time processing. An improved symbol decision is generated of a desired sub-channel of the signal vector by first generating a baseline decision for the sub-channel. A contribution of a strongest sub-channel is subtracted from the signal vector to generate a modified signal vector. The modified signal vector is multiplied by a unitary matrix generated from a QR decomposition of another channel matrix. Channel interference of the remaining sub-channels of the modified signal vector is cancelled from a remaining sub-channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/971071 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218959 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of City University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Alfano (Bronx, New York); Wei Cai (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconstruction technique for reducing computation burden in the 3D image processes, wherein the reconstruction procedure comprises an inverse and a forward model. The inverse model uses a hybrid dual Fourier algorithm that combines a 2D Fourier inversion with a 1D matrix inversion to thereby provide high-speed inverse computations. The inverse algorithm uses a hybrid transfer to provide fast Fourier inversion for data of multiple sources and multiple detectors. The forward model is based on an analytical cumulant solution of a radiative transfer equation. The accurate analytical form of the solution to the radiative transfer equation provides an efficient formalism for fast computation of the forward model. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456264 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218973 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (McDonough, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Norman Johnson (Atlanta, Georgia); Anthony J. Calise (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes an adaptive control system used to control a plant. The adaptive control system includes a hedge unit that receives at least one control signal and a plant state signal. The hedge unit generates a hedge signal based on the control signal, the plant state signal, and a hedge model including a first model having one or more characteristics to which the adaptive control system is not to adapt, and a second model not having the characteristic(s) to which the adaptive control system is not to adapt. The hedge signal is used in the adaptive control system to remove the effect of the characteristic from a signal supplied to an adaptation law unit of the adaptive control system so that the adaptive control system does not adapt to the characteristic in controlling the plant. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602458 |
| 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 07219244 | Kuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-stage level shifting circuit is used to interface control signals across the boundary between voltage domains with differing positive or ground voltage potentials Asserted states are determined by the difference between the positive voltages potentials and the ground potentials. A lower positive power supply potential is not used to turn OFF PFET coupled to a higher positive power supply potential. Likewise a higher ground power supply potential is not used to turn OF NFETs coupled to a power domain where is significant ground shift. The single stage level shifting circuit has keeper devices that hold asserted states using voltages within the power gated domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211954 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219249 | Ghose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanad Ghose (Vestal, New York); Dmitry V. Ponomarev (Binghamton, New York); Gurhan Kucuk (Binghamton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a system and methods for segmenting datapath resources such as reorder buffers, physical registers, instruction queues and load-store queues, etc. in a microprocessor so that their size may be dynamically expanded and contracted. This is accomplished by allocating and deallocating individual resource units to each resource based on sampled estimates of the instantaneous resource needs of the program running on the microprocessor. By keeping unused datapath resources to a minimum, power and energy savings are achieved by shutting off resource units that are not needed for sustaining the performance requirements of the running program. Leakage energy and switching energy and power are reduced using the described methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/727105 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219328 | Schloegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk A. Schloegel (Independence, Minnesota); David V. Oglesby (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Eric Engstrom (Shoreview, Minnesota); Devesh Bhatt (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A framework is provided for generating code for the model-based development of a system. According to the framework, the model-based system is modeled using graphical modeling entities. A modular code generator routine is attached directly to at least one of the graphical modeling entities or to a meta-entity or to a collection of entities. The graphical modeling entities are traversed in order to access specified code generator routines. Each of the accessed code generator routines is executed so as to build up code portion by portion for the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229827 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Todd Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen Quake (San Marino, California); Markus Enzelberger (Pasadena, California); Mark Adams (Pasadena, California); Carl Hansen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056451 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/833 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217321 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods facilitating the growth and analysis of crystallized materials such as proteins. In accordance with one embodiment, a crystal growth architecture is separated by a permeable membrane from an adjacent well having a much larger volume. The well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity and concentration similar to the solvent and crystallizing agent employed in crystal growth, with diffusion across the membrane stabilizing that process. Alternatively, the well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity calculated to affect the crystallization process. In accordance with the still other embodiment, the well may be configured to contain a material such as a cryo-protectant, which is useful in protecting the crystalline material once formed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810350 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217411 | Horvitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Robert Horvitz (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Rajesh Ranganathan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features substantially pure nucleic acid sequences encoding wild-type or mutant serotonin reuptake transporter (SERT) polypeptides, as well as the polypeptides themselves. The invention also features methods for identifying modulators of the biological activity of a SERT and for identifying if such a modulator has a secondary target. In addition, the invention features methods for treating a condition in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/033003 |
| 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 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217427 | Discher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bohdana M. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); You-Yeon Won (West Lafayette, Indiana); James C-M Lee (Columbia, Missouri); Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Frank Bates (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides biocompatible vesicles comprising semi-permeable, thin-walled encapsulating membranes which are formed in an aqueous solution, and which comprise one or more synthetic super-amphiphilic molecules. When at least one super-amphiphile molecule is a block copolymer, the resulting synthetic vesicle is termed a “polymersome.” The synthetic, reactive nature of the amphiphilic composition enables extensive, covalent cross-linking of the membrane, while maintaining semi-permeability. Cross-linking of the polymer building-block components provides mechanical control and long-term stability to the vesicle, thereby also providing a means of controlling the encapsulation or release of materials from the vesicle by modifying the composition of the membrane. Thus, the encapsulating membranes of the present invention are particularly suited for the reliable, durable and controlled transport, delivery and storage of materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/882816 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217508 | Wain-Hobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institut Pasteur (Paris, France); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon Wain-Hobson (Montigny le Bretonneux, 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 (Chennneviéres-sur-Marne, France); Christine Rouzioux (Paris, France); Francois Brun-Vezinet (Paris, France); Luc Montagnier (Le Plessis-Robinson, France); Jean-Claude Chermann (Cassis, France); Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (Issy les Moulineaux, France); Pierre Tiollais (Paris, France); Marc Alizon (Paris, France); Pierre Sonigo (Paris, France); Stewart Cole (Clahart, France); Oliver Danos (Fontainebleau, 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 | Monday, February 22, 1988 |
| APPL NO | 07/158652 |
| 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 07217523 | Wagner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carston R. Wagner (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides having nucleoside phosphoramidase activity, and methods of screening for nucleoside phosphoramidate compounds that are cleaved by a phosphoramidase or for phosphoramidases that are able to cleave phosphoramidate compounds. The invention also provides methods of delivering a nucleoside monophosphate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174121 |
| 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 07217525 | Worley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Worley (Baltimore, Maryland); Richard O'Brien (Baltimore, Maryland); DeSheng Xu (Towson, Maryland); Richard L. Huganir (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for identifying a compound which affects the formation of AMPA receptors into aggregates. The method also provides for a compound, for example, a long pentraxin polypeptide or fragment thereof, having a pentraxin binding domain and affecting AMPA receptor aggregation. The method provided herein affects AMPA receptor aggregation of GluR1, GluR2 and GluR3 receptor subunits. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/299957 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217526 | Terajima et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masanori Terajima (Holden, Massachusetts); John Cruz (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Francis A. Ennis (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of gene sequences and proteins involved in vaccinia virus dominant T cell epitopes. Two vaccinia virus CD8+ T cell epitopes restricted by the most common human MHC class I allele, HLA-A0201 have been identified. Both epitopes are highly conserved in vaccinia and variola viruses. The induction of the T cell responses following primary vaccination is demonstrated by the kinetics of epitope specific CD8+ T cells in 3 HLA-A0201 individuals. This information will be useful for the design and analyses of the immunogenicity of experimental vaccinia vaccines, and for basic studies of human T cell memory. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/764985 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07217527 | Corbin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie D. Corbin (Nashville, Tennessee); Sharron H. Francis (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides filter-based assays for measuring binding of compounds to phosphodiesterases (PDEs). The assay permits stoichiometric binding of compounds to PDEs, thereby providing a highly sensitive measure of a PDE binding and inhibition. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824771 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217532 | Halazonetis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thanos Halazonetis (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Linda B. Schultz (Suwanee, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting DNA damage in a tissue sample involves contacting an immobilized biological sample with a labeled ligand which binds to human 53Bp1, and examining the immobilized sample for the presence of a label generated-detectable signal concentrated in foci in said sample. The presence of concentrated foci is indicative of DNA damage and the presence of diffuse signal is indicative of a normal sample. Diagnostic reagents contain a ligand that binds to human 53Bp1 associated with a detectable label. Diagnostic kits for detecting DNA damage in a biological sample contain such diagnostic reagents and signal detection components. Compositions that inhibit or antagonize the biological activity of 53Bp1 are identified by suitable assays, and are employed in methods of retarding the growth of a cancer cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/276312 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217533 | Osborne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Kent Osborne (Houston, Texas); Rachel Schiff (Bellaire, Texas); Jiang Shou (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Acquired and de novo endocrine resistance are major clinical problems in the management of breast cancer patients. Though the antiestrogen tamoxifen prolongs disease-free and overall survival in the adjuvant setting, and induces remissions in over half of the patients with estrogen receptor positive metastatic disease, all patients eventually acquire tamoxifen resistance. Furthermore, many of the resistant tumors actually appear to be stimulated by tamoxifen just as they are by estrogens. The present invention provides methods of predicting endocrine resistance comprising detecting the biological activity and/or expression of p38 MAPK and/or AIB1. The invention further provides methods of reducing, reversing, or preventing endocrine resistance comprising contacting a breast or prostate tumor with a p38 MAPK pathway inhibitor. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177296 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217538 | Hanes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Incorporated (Reusselger, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D Hanes (Albany, New York); Gina Devasahayam (Madras, India); Vishnu Chaturvedi (Slingerlands, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed is the CaESS1 gene, portions thereof such as primers or probes, expression products therefrom, and methods for using the gene, and expression products; for instance, for diagnostic, therapeutic or preventive compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342555 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07217551 | Abraham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Abraham (San Diego, California); Diane M. Otterness (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule having substantially the same nucleotide sequence as SEQ ID NO:1. Also provided is an isolated oligonucleotide having at least 15 contiguous nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence referenced as SEQ ID NO:11. An isolated polypeptide having substantially the same amino acid sequence as SEQ ID NO:2 is further provided as well as an antibody, or antigen binding fragment thereof, which specifically binds to an ATX polypeptide and has an amino acid sequence as referenced in SEQ ID NO:2. A method for identifying an ATX-modulatory compound is additionally provided. The method consists of measuring the level of an ATX polypeptide in the presence of a test compound, wherein a difference in the level of said ATX polypeptide in the presence of said test compound compared to in the absence of said test compound indicating that said test compound is an ATX-modulatory compound, and wherein said ATX-modulatory compound is not caffeine or wortmannin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/643551 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217568 | Jamieson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catriona Helen M. Jamieson (Palo Alto, California); Laurie Elizabeth Ailles (Stanford, California); Tannishtha Reya (Mountain View, California); Irving L. Weissman (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for the identification of stem cells and cancer stem cells. β-catenin is also identified as a target for the development of therapeutic moieties against hematopoietic tumors, i.e. leukemia and lymphoma cells, which may include screening assays directed at β-catenin, or members of the β-catenin signaling pathway. Cellular proliferation in hematopoietic cells can be altered by introducing stabilized β-catenin into a hematopoietic cell that is altered in its ability to undergo apoptosis but which is not fully transformed. The immortalized cells are useful in screening assays, and in the analysis of pathways by which hematopoietic cells undergo transformation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449795 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217570 | Herlyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meenhard Herlyn (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jiri Kalabis (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An organotypic culture comprises an artificial stroma overlayed with epithelial cells isolated from a human colon or intestine. The stroma comprises a mixture of collagen and human fibroblasts isolated from a human colon or intestine. The culture contains a factor that binds the IGF-1 receptor, a factor that binds the EGF receptor, and a factor that binds the LIF receptor. These factors may be added exogenously to the culture via medium or may be expressed by various recombinantly engineered cell types in the culture. The organotypic culture can result in growth that is in situ-like or emphasizes other physiological or morphological states, depending on the balance of factors in the growth media. The organotypic culture may be used in methods for screening of therapeutic, carcinogenic, or growth enhancement factors, or for treating intestinal injuries by applying to the site of an injury the intact culture or the components thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/485283 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217688 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California); Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Richard A. Houghten (Solana Beach, California); Adel Nefzi (San Diego, California); John M. Ostresh (Encinitas, California); Clemencia Pinilla (Cardiff, California); Kate Welsh (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated agents having novel chemical structures and possessing superior activity as derepressors of IAP inhibited caspase. The invention further provides a method of derepressing an IAP-inhibited caspase. The invention further provides assay methods employing labeled compounds of the invention, especially fluorescent labeled compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/186629 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217704 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Gabor Tigyi (Memphis, Tennessee); Gangadhar G. Durgam (Memphis, Tennessee); Tamas Virag (Chicago, Illinois); Michelle D. Walker (Memphis, Tennessee); Ryoko Tsukahara (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds according to formula (I) as disclosed herein as well as pharmaceutical compositions which include those compounds. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds, which have activity as agonists or as antagonists of LPA receptors; such methods including inhibiting LPA activity on an LPA receptor, modulating LPA receptor activity, treating cancer, enhancing cell proliferation, treating a wound, treating apoptosis or preserving or restoring function in a cell, tissue, or organ, culturing cells, preserving organ or tissue function, and treating a dermatological condition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963085 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/144 |
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| US 07217709 | Jagtap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash Jagtap (Beverly, Massachusetts); Csaba Szabo (Gloucester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Tetracyclic Benzamide Derivatives; compositions comprising a Tetracyclic Benzamide Derivative; and methods for treating or preventing an inflammatory disease, a reperfusion disease, an ischemic condition, renal failure, diabetes, a diabetic complication, a vascular disease, or cancer, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a Tetracyclic Benzamide Derivative. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788228 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/232.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217785 | Bielicki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Bielicki (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The term “homology” or “homologous” means an amino acid similarity measured by the program, BLAST (Altschul et al (1997), “Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs”, Nucleic Acids Res. 25:33 89–3402), and expressed as —(% identity n/n). In measuring homology between a peptide and a protein of greater size, homology is measured only in the corresponding region; that is, the protein is regarded as only having the same general length as the peptide, allowing for gaps and insertions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/142238 |
| 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 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217809 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094677 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
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| US 07217811 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence M. Nelson (Burke, Virginia); Zhi-Bin Tong (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel nucleic acid and protein sequences that are essential to fertility. In particular, human Mater cDNA and protein sequences are provided. Functional MATER is required for female fertility; zygotes that arise from Mater null oocytes do not progress beyond the two-cell stage. Methods are described for using Mater molecules in diagnoses, prognosis, and treatment of infertility and reduced fertility. Also provided are methods for using MATER as a contraceptive agent. The disclosure also describes compounds involved in such methods, and the identification of such compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/399443 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07218395 | Kaye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optopo Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen T. Kaye (Raleigh, North Carolina); Prasant Potuluri (Raleigh, North Carolina); David J. Brady (Durham, North Carolina); Michael Fuller (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Michael E. Sullivan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A prescription verification system includes a database that contains a plurality of spectral signatures corresponding to identified pharmaceuticals. A multimodal multiplex sampling (MMS) spectrometer obtains a spectra of a pharmaceutical to be identified and verified. The pharmaceutical can be inside or out of a vial. The prescription verification system includes algorithms for matching spectra of pharmaceuticals to be verified obtaining using the MMS spectrometer to spectral signatures contained in the database corresponding to identified pharmaceuticals. The prescription verification system further includes algorithms for identifying such pharmaceuticals to be verified. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454923 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
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| US 07218702 | Mistretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Anthony Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Howard Andrew Rowley (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Scott VanLysel (Madison, Wisconsin); Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray system for use with image-guided medical procedures is programmed to move in a first scan path to acquire cone beam attenuation data from which a three-dimensional digital subtraction angiogram of selected vasculature is reconstructed. The x-ray system is also programmed to move in a second scan path to acquire a series of tomosynthesis images during the inflow of a contrast agent into the selected vasculature. Parametric images are produced from information in the tomosynthesis images which indicate blood perfusion physiology of the tissues served by the vasculature. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842181 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/21 |
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| US 07219016 | Rimm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Rimm (Branford, Connecticut); Robert L. Camp (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/062308 |
| 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 | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
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| US 07219038 | Tracy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene R Tracy (Williamsburg, Virginia); Haijian Chen (Williamsburg, Virginia); William E Cooke (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein details a protocol to improve analysis and peak identification in spectroscopic data. Bayesian methods are used to automatically identify peaks in data sets. After identifying peak shapes, the method tests the hypothesis that a given number of peaks is found within any given data window. If a peak is identified within a given window, then the likelihood function is maximized in order to estimate peak position and amplitude. This process yields a spectrum with high resolution and minimal artifacts. The method described herein is particularly useful for identifying peaks in data sets obtained from spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/386437 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyou Han (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaogang Jian (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hanbing Xu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas T. Meek (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a material includes the steps of: vibrating a molten material at an ultrasonic frequency while cooling the material to a semi-solid state to form non-dendritic grains therein; forming the semi-solid material into a desired shape; and cooling the material to a solid state. The method makes semi-solid castings directly from molten materials (usually a metal), produces grain size usually in the range of smaller than 50 μm, and can be easily retrofitted into existing conventional forming machine. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/871180 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07216821 | Reece et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Reece (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gerald A. Knorovsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Danny O. MacCallum (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressurized fluid handling nozzle has a body with a first end and a second end, a fluid conduit and a recess at the second end. The first end is configured for connection to a pressurized fluid source. The fluid conduit has an inlet at the first end and an outlet at the recess. The nozzle uses the Bernoulli effect for lifting a part. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/859179 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/533.100 |
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| US 07217300 | Haltiner, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Gary F. Reisdorf (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a solid-oxide fuel cell assembly comprising a plurality of components having electrically-conductive mating surfaces therebetween, the surfaces are sealed by gasket elements that include first and second silver braze alloy layers and a dielectric layer, formed preferably of yttrium-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), disposed between the alloy layers. The alloy is capable of bonding to many ceramics, including YSZ, and is readily brazed to the oxide layer formed on many metals at elevated temperatures. Because the braze alloy is electrically conductive, a dielectric layer must be included to break conductivity in bonding applications where electrical insulation is required. YSZ functions as a reliable insulator and will not crystallize or fracture as do prior art glass insulators. The assembly is useful as an auxiliary power unit in a vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607609 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/623.200 |
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| US 07217354 | Mahurin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shannon Mark Mahurin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Josip Caja (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a gas detector and method for using the gas detector for detecting and identifying volatile organic and/or volatile inorganic substances present in unknown vapors in an environment. The gas detector comprises a sensing means and a detecting means for detecting electrical capacitance variance of the sensing means and for further identifying the volatile organic and volatile inorganic substances. The sensing means comprises at least one sensing unit and a sensing material allocated therein the sensing unit. The sensing material is an ionic liquid which is exposed to the environment and is capable of dissolving a quantity of said volatile substance upon exposure thereto. The sensing means constitutes an electrochemical capacitor and the detecting means is in electrical communication with the sensing means. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652452 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/775 |
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| US 07217402 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Miller (Naperville, Illinois); Zygmunt Tomczuk (Homer Glen, Illinois); Michael K. Richmann (Carlsbad, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing metal chlorides is disclosed in which chlorine gas is introduced into liquid Cd. CdCl2 salt is floating on the liquid Cd and as more liquid CdCl2 is formed it separates from the liquid Cd metal and dissolves in the salt. The salt with the CdCl2 dissolved therein contacts a metal which reacts with CdCl2 to form a metal chloride, forming a mixture of metal chloride and CdCl2. After separation of bulk Cd from the salt, by gravitational means, the metal chloride is obtained by distillation which removes CdCl2 and any Cd dissolved in the metal chloride. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217844 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/249 |
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| US 07217582 | Potter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Potter (Churchville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for injecting charge includes providing a first material on a second material and injecting charge into the first material to trap charge at an interface between the first and second materials. The thickness of the first material is greater than a penetration depth of the injected charge in the first material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/924611 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/19 |
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| US 07217755 | Harrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Frederick F. Stewart (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocomposite materials having a composition including an inorganic constituent, a preformed organic polymer constituent, and a metal ion sequestration constituent are disclosed. The nanocomposites are characterized by being single phase, substantially homogeneous materials wherein the preformed polymer constituent and the inorganic constituent form an interpenetrating network with each other. The inorganic constituent may be an inorganic oxide, such as silicon dioxide, formed by the in situ catalyzed condensation of an inorganic precursor in the presence of the solvated polymer and metal ion sequestration constituent. The polymer constituent may be any hydrophilic polymer capable of forming a type I nanocomposite such as, polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyethyleneoxide (PEO), polyethylene glycol (PEG), polyvinyl acetate (PVAc), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and combinations thereof. Nanocomposite materials of the present invention may be used as permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) to remediate contaminated groundwater. Methods for making nanocomposite materials, PRB systems, and methods of treating groundwater are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/732863 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/430 |
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| US 07217776 | Mallapragada et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surya K. Mallapragada (Ames, Iowa); Brian C. Anderson (Lake Bluff, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel gel forming methacrylic blocking copolymers that exhibit cationic pH-sensitive behavior as well as good water solubility. The copolymers are constructed by polymerization of a tertiary amine methacrylate with either a (poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) polymer, such as the commercially available Pluronic® polymers, or a poly(ethylene glycol)methyl ether polymer. The polymers may be used for drug and gene delivery, protein separation, as structural supplements, and more. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/366864 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217785 | Bielicki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Bielicki (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The term “homology” or “homologous” means an amino acid similarity measured by the program, BLAST (Altschul et al (1997), “Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs”, Nucleic Acids Res. 25:33 89–3402), and expressed as —(% identity n/n). In measuring homology between a peptide and a protein of greater size, homology is measured only in the corresponding region; that is, the protein is regarded as only having the same general length as the peptide, allowing for gaps and insertions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/142238 |
| 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 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217809 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094677 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217882 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California); Junqiao Wu (Richmond, California); William J. Schaff (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy having a large band gap range is used in a multijunction solar cell to enhance utilization of the solar energy spectrum. In one embodiment, the alloy is In1−xGaxN having an energy bandgap range of approximately 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV, providing a good match to the solar energy spectrum. Multiple junctions having different bandgaps are stacked to form a solar cell. Each junction may have different bandgaps (realized by varying the alloy composition), and therefore be responsive to different parts of the spectrum. The junctions are stacked in such a manner that some bands of light pass through upper junctions to lower junctions that are responsive to such bands. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445711 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217918 | Funsten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert O. Funsten (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Eric E. Dors (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ronnie W. Harper (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel B. Reisenfeld (Stevensville, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector element for mass spectrometry of a flux of heavy and light ions, that includes: a first detector to detect light ions that transit through a foil operatively placed in front of the first detector, and a second detector that detects the flux of heavy and light ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354354 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218104 | Clarke et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Clarke (Berkeley, California); Robert McDermott (Louisville, Colorado); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California); Andreas Heinz Trabesinger (CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals are detected in microtesla fields. Prepolarization in millitesla fields is followed by detection with an untuned dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. Because the sensitivity of the SQUID is frequency independent, both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spectral resolution are enhanced by detecting the NMR signal in extremely low magnetic fields, where the NMR lines become very narrow even for grossly inhomogeneous measurement fields. MRI in ultralow magnetic field is based on the NMR at ultralow fields. Gradient magnetic fields are applied, and images are constructed from the detected NMR signals. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534757 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218388 | Keeler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Keeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darwin K. Serkland (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for locating a fault within an optical fiber is disclosed. The apparatus, which can be formed as a part of a fiber-optic transmitter or as a stand-alone instrument, utilizes a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) to generate a test pulse of light which is coupled into an optical fiber under test. The VCSEL is subsequently reconfigured by changing a bias voltage thereto and is used as a resonant-cavity photodetector (RCPD) to detect a portion of the test light pulse which is reflected or scattered from any fault within the optical fiber. A time interval Δt between an instant in time when the test light pulse is generated and the time the reflected or scattered portion is detected can then be used to determine the location of the fault within the optical fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001235 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218696 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Smith (London, Tennessee); James A. Moore (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for carrier-frequency synchronization for improved AM and TV broadcast reception. A method includes synchronizing a carrier frequency of a broadcast signal with a remote reference frequency. An apparatus includes a reference signal receiver; a phase comparator coupled to the reference signal receiver; a voltage controlled oscillator coupled to the phase comparator; and a radio frequency output coupled to the voltage controlled oscillator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/304338 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/356 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218772 | Gleason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaun S. Gleason (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hamed Sari-Sarraf (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identification of anomalous structures, such as defects, includes the steps of providing a digital image and applying fractal encoding to identify a location of at least one anomalous portion of the image. The method does not require a reference image to identify the location of the anomalous portion. The method can further include the step of initializing an active contour based on the location information obtained from the fractal encoding step and deforming an active contour to enhance the boundary delineation of the anomalous portion. |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166296 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219039 | Shepherd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Shepherd (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Scott A. Mitchell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. Jankovich (Anaheim, California); Steven E. Benzley (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a meshing method, called grafting, that lifts the prior art constraint on abutting surfaces, including surfaces that are linking, source/target, or other types of surfaces of the trunk volume. The grafting method locally modifies the structured mesh of the linking surfaces allowing the mesh to conform to additional surface features. Thus, the grafting method can provide a transition between multiple sweep directions extending sweeping algorithms to 2¾-D solids. The method is also suitable for use with non-sweepable volumes; the method provides a transition between meshes generated by methods other than sweeping as well. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/788053 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP17724 | Abrahamson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State Univsersity of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence P. Abrahamson (Marcellus, New York); Richard F. Kopp (Marietta, New York); Lawrence B. Smart (Geneva, New York); Timothy A. Volk (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A distinct male cultivar of Salix sachalinensis×S. miyabeana named ‘Canastota’, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 2.7-fold more woody biomass than its female parent (Salix sachalinensis ‘SX61’), 28% greater woody biomass yield than its male parent (Salix miyabeana ‘SX64’), and 20% greater woody biomass yield than a standard production cultivar, Salix dasyclados ‘SV1’ when grown in the same field for the same length of time (two growing seasons after coppice) in Tully, N.Y. ‘Canastota’ can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. ‘Canastota’ displays a low incidence of rust disease or damage by willow sawfly. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244986 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods facilitating the growth and analysis of crystallized materials such as proteins. In accordance with one embodiment, a crystal growth architecture is separated by a permeable membrane from an adjacent well having a much larger volume. The well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity and concentration similar to the solvent and crystallizing agent employed in crystal growth, with diffusion across the membrane stabilizing that process. Alternatively, the well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity calculated to affect the crystallization process. In accordance with the still other embodiment, the well may be configured to contain a material such as a cryo-protectant, which is useful in protecting the crystalline material once formed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810350 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217348 | Colón et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wilfredo Colón (Cohoes, New York); Marta Manning (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a fast and efficient means for identifying kinetically stable proteins. As used herein the term “kinetically stable protein” means a protein that is trapped in a specific conformation due to an unusually high unfolding barrier that results in very slow unfolding rates. The present inventors are the first to discover the existence of a correlation between kinetic stability and SDS-induced denaturation. Thus, the invention provides methods for identifying kinetically stable proteins comprising the step of testing the proteins for resistance to denaturation by SDS. In one embodiment, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is one simple method for quickly identifying and selecting kinetically stable proteins. In another embodiment a two-dimensional SDS-PAGE provides a high throughput method for quickly identifying kinetically stable proteins in a sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226072 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217410 | Suslick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Universtiy of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth S. Suslick (Champaign, Illinois); Farah Jean-Jacques Toublan (Urbana, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microparticle contains a cross-linked protein shell, and a surface coating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463833 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217427 | Discher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bohdana M. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); You-Yeon Won (West Lafayette, Indiana); James C-M Lee (Columbia, Missouri); Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Frank Bates (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides biocompatible vesicles comprising semi-permeable, thin-walled encapsulating membranes which are formed in an aqueous solution, and which comprise one or more synthetic super-amphiphilic molecules. When at least one super-amphiphile molecule is a block copolymer, the resulting synthetic vesicle is termed a “polymersome.” The synthetic, reactive nature of the amphiphilic composition enables extensive, covalent cross-linking of the membrane, while maintaining semi-permeability. Cross-linking of the polymer building-block components provides mechanical control and long-term stability to the vesicle, thereby also providing a means of controlling the encapsulation or release of materials from the vesicle by modifying the composition of the membrane. Thus, the encapsulating membranes of the present invention are particularly suited for the reliable, durable and controlled transport, delivery and storage of materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/882816 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217557 | Noel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Jean-Luc Ferrer (Ville Fontaine, France); Joseph Jez (La Jolla, California); Mike Austin (La Jolla, California); Marianne Bowman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises crystalline polyketide synthases, isolated non-native polyketide synthases having the structural coordinates of said crystalline polyketide synthases, and nucleic acids encoding such non-native polyketide synthases. Also disclosed are methods of predicting the activity and/or substrate specificity of putative polyketide synthase, methods of identifying potential polyketide synthase substrates, and methods of identifying potential polyketide synthase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/031918 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07217882 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California); Junqiao Wu (Richmond, California); William J. Schaff (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy having a large band gap range is used in a multijunction solar cell to enhance utilization of the solar energy spectrum. In one embodiment, the alloy is In1−xGaxN having an energy bandgap range of approximately 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV, providing a good match to the solar energy spectrum. Multiple junctions having different bandgaps are stacked to form a solar cell. Each junction may have different bandgaps (realized by varying the alloy composition), and therefore be responsive to different parts of the spectrum. The junctions are stacked in such a manner that some bands of light pass through upper junctions to lower junctions that are responsive to such bands. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445711 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218448 | Cathey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado); Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for increasing the depth of field and decreasing the wavelength sensitivity of an incoherent optical system incorporates a special purpose optical mask into the incoherent system. The optical mask has been designed to cause the optical transfer function to remain essentially constant within some range from the in-focus position. Signal processing of the resulting intermediate image undoes the optical transfer modifying effects of the mask, resulting in an in-focus image over an increased depth of field. Generally the mask is placed at or near an aperture stop or image of the aperture stop of the optical system. Preferably, the mask modifies only phase and not amplitude of light, though amplitude may be changed by associated filters or the like. The mask may be used to increase the useful range of passive ranging systems. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/070969 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218817 | Magnusson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Magnusson (Storrs Mansfield, Connecticut); Theresa A. Maldonado (College Station, Texas); Purnomo Priambodo (Arlington, Texas); Ming Zhou (Arlington, Texas); Georgeanne Purvinis (Worthington, Ohio); Martin Pomerantz (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Nonlinear optical filters and associated methods. In a representative embodiment, a nonlinear optical filter includes a grating and a dye-doped polymer layer coupled to the grating. The dye-doped polymer layer may include ionic self-assembled layers. An associated method includes: providing a nonlinear filter comprising a grating and a dye-doped polymer layer coupled to the grating, directing an input broadband optical wave upon the filter, and backward diffracting the broadband optical wave from the grating as an output narrowband optical wave. The output narrowband optical wave may include a second harmonic beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/858889 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218906 | Sayeed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar Muhammad Sayeed (Madison, Wisconsin); Ke Liu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing extended space-time processing. An improved symbol decision is generated of a desired sub-channel of the signal vector by first generating a baseline decision for the sub-channel. A contribution of a strongest sub-channel is subtracted from the signal vector to generate a modified signal vector. The modified signal vector is multiplied by a unitary matrix generated from a QR decomposition of another channel matrix. Channel interference of the remaining sub-channels of the modified signal vector is cancelled from a remaining sub-channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/971071 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218933 | Mark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Mark (Fairfax, Virginia); Alexe E. Leu (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a cellular network handoff decision mechanism which comprising the steps of: determining a sampling interval using a carrier wavelength; determining a local averaging interval that is larger than the sampling interval; determining a handoff decision interval that is larger than the local averaging interval; selecting at least two base stations from a multitude of base stations having a pilot signal from a reference cellular network using a selection criterion; determining a received signal strength from the pilot signal strength for each of the selected base stations once during every sampling interval; calculating a local average signal strength value using each of the received signal strengths once during every local averaging interval; determining an assignment region in which the local average signal strength value lies using a hysteresis range; and calculating a handoff decision once during every handoff decision interval using a handoff calculation. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/075983 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219122 | Peña-Mora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feniosky Peña-Mora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sanjeev Vadhavkar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wei Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chang Kuang (Foster City, California); Gyanesh Dwivedi (Attleboro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A collaborative client-server system having performance reliability improvement (PRIM) includes collaboration techniques for sharing server data among two or more servers, each server coupled to one or more client computers. A communication link between a client computer and a server is handed off to another respective one of the two or more servers under a variety of conditions. Hand off conditions include, congestion of the server processing load, congestion of the communication link between the client computer and the server, and loss of data signal integrity between the client computer and the server. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/128155 |
| ART UNIT | 2153 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07217650 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hou Tee Ng (Mountain View, California); Jun Li (Sunnyvale, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating an electrical interconnect between two or more electrical components. A conductive layer is provided on a substarte and a thin, patterned catalyst array is deposited on an exposed surface of the conductive layer. A gas or vapor of a metallic precursor of a metal nanowire (MeNW) is provided around the catalyst array, and MeNWs grow between the conductive layer and the catalyst array. The catalyst array and a portion of each of the MeNWs are removed to provide exposed ends of the MeNWs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816576 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/622 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218959 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of City University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Alfano (Bronx, New York); Wei Cai (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconstruction technique for reducing computation burden in the 3D image processes, wherein the reconstruction procedure comprises an inverse and a forward model. The inverse model uses a hybrid dual Fourier algorithm that combines a 2D Fourier inversion with a 1D matrix inversion to thereby provide high-speed inverse computations. The inverse algorithm uses a hybrid transfer to provide fast Fourier inversion for data of multiple sources and multiple detectors. The forward model is based on an analytical cumulant solution of a radiative transfer equation. The accurate analytical form of the solution to the radiative transfer equation provides an efficient formalism for fast computation of the forward model. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456264 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218973 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (McDonough, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Norman Johnson (Atlanta, Georgia); Anthony J. Calise (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes an adaptive control system used to control a plant. The adaptive control system includes a hedge unit that receives at least one control signal and a plant state signal. The hedge unit generates a hedge signal based on the control signal, the plant state signal, and a hedge model including a first model having one or more characteristics to which the adaptive control system is not to adapt, and a second model not having the characteristic(s) to which the adaptive control system is not to adapt. The hedge signal is used in the adaptive control system to remove the effect of the characteristic from a signal supplied to an adaptation law unit of the adaptive control system so that the adaptive control system does not adapt to the characteristic in controlling the plant. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602458 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07217513 | Parameswaran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lalitha Parameswaran (Burlington, Massachusetts); Albert Young (Fishkill, New York); Laura T. Bortolin (Concord, Massachusetts); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); James Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Johanna Bobrow (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing a nucleic acid component of a sample for amplification includes contacting the sample with a porous support that deactivates a nucleic acid amplification inhibitor component of the sample and directing a fluid through the porous support, whereby the nucleic acid component of the sample is directed through at least a portion of the porous support and is separated from the support, thereby preparing the nucleic acid component for amplification. The method can be conducted in an apparatus that includes a porous support having a component that deactivates a nucleic acid amplification inhibitor component of a sample contacting the porous support and a housing having an opening and defining an interior, said interior being in fluid communication with the porous support, whereby at least a portion of a fluid directed through the opening is directed through at least a portion of the porous support and separates at least a portion of a nucleic acid component of a sample contacting the porous support from the support, thereby preparing the nucleic acid component for amplification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193742 |
| 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 07217601 | Burke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry E. Burke (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vyshnavi Suntharalingam (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, an electrically conducting charge transfer channel is formed in a semiconductor substrate and an electrically insulating layer is formed on a surface of the substrate; a layer of gate electrode material is formed on the insulating layer. On the gate material layer is formed a first patterned masking layer having apertures that expose regions of the underlying gate material layer that are to form gate electrodes, and the first-pattern-exposed regions of the gate material layer are electrically doped. In addition, on the gate material layer is formed a second patterned masking layer having apertures that expose regions of the underlying gate material layer that are to form gaps between gate electrodes, and the second-pattern-exposed regions of the gate material layer are etched. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/691080 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07218191 | Bozler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); Shaun R. Berry (Allston, Massachusetts); Jeremy Muldavin (Westford, Massachusetts); Craig L. Keast (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitive RF switch and DC RF switch include a fixed electrode having a thin layer of metal and at least one pull-down electrode. A moving plate has a plurality of corrugations and a selective finger design. The capacitive switch includes a selective finger that comes into contact with the fixed electrode so as to minimize the stiction between the moving plate and the fixed electrode when the switch is closed. The DC switch comprises a plurality of dimples that are formed on the selective portion of the moving plate and are positioned to come into contact with the fixed electrode when the switch is closed so as to increase the contact force and lower the resistance between the moving plate and fixed electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092462 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07217859 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Grayson Clark (Gainesville, Florida); Harry John Klee (Gainesville, Florida); Kenichi Shibuya (Gainesville, Florida); Holly Marie Loucas (Newberry, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant promoters that drive tissue-specific expression, and transgenes comprising such recombinant promoters. Specifically, the invention provides transgenes comprising a recombinant promoter that drives tissue-specific expression of a heterologous nucleic acid molecule in a floral organ. The invention also provides methods for using such transgenes to produce a protein in a plant host cell or transgenic plant. The invention further provides methods for producing a transgenic plant that produces, for example, longer-lasting flowers, better fragrance, or better or longer-lasting color as compared to a wild type plant. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889684 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07217453 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ebert Compoistes Corporation (Chula Visa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W Johnson (San Diego, California); Scott A. Garrett (San Diego, California); Stephen G. Moyers (Jamul, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for forming an improved pultruded and clinched Z-axis fiber reinforced composite laminate structure. The upper and lower skins and the core are pulled automatically through tooling where the skin material is wetted-out with resin and the entire composite laminate is preformed in nearly its final thickness. The preformed composite laminate continues to be pulled into an automatic 3-dimensional Z-axis fiber deposition machine that deposits “groupings of fiber filaments” at multiple locations normal to the plane of the composite laminate structure and cuts each individual grouping such that an extension of each “grouping of fiber filaments” remains above the upper skin and below the lower skin. The preformed composite laminate then continues to be pulled into a secondary wet-out station. Next the preformed composite laminate travels into a pultrusion die where the extended “groupings of fiber filaments” are all bent over above the top skin and below the bottom skin producing a superior clinched Z-axis fiber reinforcement as the composite laminate continues to be pulled, catalyzed, and cured at the back section of the pultrusion die. The composite laminate continues to be pulled by grippers that then feed it into a gantry CNC machine that is synchronous with the pull speed of the grippers and where computerized machining, drilling, and cutting operations take place. This entire method is accomplished automatically without the need for human operators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/744630 |
| 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 |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07218102 | Nestleroth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Nestleroth (Westerville, Ohio); Richard J. Davis, III (Columbus, Ohio); Ronnie D. Gallliher (Baltimore, Ohio); George N. Brand (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A apparatus for pipeline integrity monitoring comprising a magnetically permeable backing bar and at least three magnets comprising a relatively medium-strength magnet positioned at one end of the backing bar, a relatively low-strength magnet positioned at the other end of the backing bar, and a relative high-strength magnet positioned between the medium-strength and the low-strength magnet. The at least three magnets are adapted and positioned to induce a plurality of resultant fields within the pipeline wall comprising a first resultant field suitable for detecting a reduced metal-related anomaly and a second resultant field suitable for detecting a mechanically worked-related anomaly. Preferably, the first resultant field has a strength greater than 120 Oersted and the second resultant field has a strength between 40 and 80 Oersted. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/960739 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07217519 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton H. Johnson (Little Rock, Arkansas); Joan E. McEwen (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes Histoplasmosis capsulatum chitin synthase nucleic acid and protein sequences as reagents for the detection of H. capsulatum infection. Specifically, the invention describes intron sequences from the H. capsulatum chitin synthase gene which can be used for hybridization-based and PCR-based detection of H. capsulatum infection. In another embodiment, assays for H. capsulatum chitin synthase 2 polypeptide and/or mRNA used as a diagnostic test for H. capsulatum infection and/or histoplasmosis. Also described is the differentiation of H. capsulatum from Blastomyces dermititidis based on detection of intron 1 sequences specific to H. capsulatum chitin synthase 2. The present invention also comprises the production of H. capsulatum strains lacking functional chitin synthase 2 as a means to produce H. capsulatum having reduced pathogenicity. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718955 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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