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| US 07220345 | Bohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Bohn (Champaign, Illinois); Jonathan V. Sweedler (Urbana, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois); Tzu-chi Kuo (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid circuit includes a membrane having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a pore extending from the first side to the second side. The circuit also includes a first channel containing fluid extending along the first side of the membrane and a second channel containing fluid extending along the second side of the membrane and crossing the first channel. The circuit also includes an electrical source in electrical communication with at least one of the first fluid and second fluid for selectively developing an electrical potential between fluid in the first channel and fluid in the second channel. This causes at least one component of fluid to pass through the pore in the membrane from one of the first channel and the second channel to the other of the first channel and the second channel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273935 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
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| US 07220402 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ordway Research Institute, Inc. (Clifton Park, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); Fassil B. Mesfin (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides diagnostic procedures wherein the presence or absence of a cell-proliferating disorder, e.g., a breast cancer, may be determined. The imaging agents of the invention include alpha-fetoprotein hydrophilic analogs which have been determined to target cancers, e.g., breast cancer, and are also anti-cell proliferating in nature. These modulators contain amino acid structures which are arranged as a hydrophilic analog of an alpha-fetoprotein. The modulator may be a peptide; a peptidomimetic; or may be in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable scaffold, such as a polycyclic hydrocarbon to which is attached the necessary amino acid structures. The imaging agents of the invention further comprise an imaging moiety that allows for the imaging of the area targeted by the imaging agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/300531 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.341 |
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| US 07220419 | Lowy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Lowy (Washington, District of Columbia); John T. Schiller (Silver Spring, Maryland); Reinhard Kirnbauer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant papillomavirus capsid proteins that are capable of self assembly into capsomer structures and viral capsids that comprise conformational antigenic epitopes are provided. The capsomer structures and viral capsids, consisting of the capsid proteins that are expression products of a bovine, monkey or human papillomavirus L1 conformational coding sequence proteins, can be prepared as vaccines to induce a high titer neutralizing antibody response in vertebrate animals. The self assembling capsid proteins can also be used as elements of diagnostic immunoassay procedures for papillomavirus infection. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371846 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
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| US 07220420 | Chisari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis V. Chisari (Del Mar, California); Andreas Cerny (Berne, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a molecule comprising a polypeptide having substantial homology with a CTL epitope selected from the group consisting of ADLMGYIPLV (Core131-140; SEQ ID NO:1), LLALLSCLTV (Core178-187; SEQ ID NO:2), QLRRHIDLLV (SEQ ID NO:55), LLCPAGHAV (NS31169-1177; SEQ ID NO:26), KLVALGINAV (NS31406-1415; SEQ ID NO:28), SLMAFTAAV (NS41789-1797; SEQ ID NO:34), LLFNILGGWV (NS41807-1816; SEQ ID NO:35), and ILDSFDPLV (NS52252-2260; SEQ ID NO:42). Such molecules are used for the treatment and prevention of acute or chronic HCV hepatitis; suitable pharmaceutical compositions and methods using such compositions are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/854825 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/228.100 |
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| US 07220539 | Du et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keyong Du (San Diego, California); Stephan Herzig (Del Mar, California); Marc Montminy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes modulator of protein kinase B (PKB)/Akt proteins, exemplified by the Tribbles (TRB) family. An exemplary member of the TRB family, TRB-3, binds to Akt and inhibits its catalytic activity, in turn causing altered regulation of glucose metabolism pathways. TRB-3 expression is strongly induced in the fasting state, and upregulated in mouse models of type II, causing disruptions in insulin signaling. Accordingly, the present invention further provides compositions and methods for disrupting the interaction between such a modulator and PKB/Akt protein kinases. Also provided are methods of determining if a subject has a predisposition to impaired glucose regulation and methods for treating diabetes mellitus using invention compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462072 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07220552 | Crabtree et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald R. Crabtree (Woodside, California); Kryn Stankunas (Menlo Park, California); Roger Briesewitz (Mountain View, California); Thomas J. Wandless (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bifunctional inhibitor molecules and methods for their use in the inhibition of protein—protein interactions are provided. The subject bifunctional inhibitor molecules are conjugates of a target protein ligand and a blocking protein ligand, where these two moieties are optionally joined by a linking group. In the subject methods, an effective amount of the bifunctional inhibitor molecule is administered to a host in which the inhibition of a protein—protein interaction is desired. The bifunctional inhibitor molecule simultaneously binds to its corresponding target and blocking proteins to produce a tripartite complex that inhibits the target protein—protein interaction. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of applications, including therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/716054 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07220554 | Kabat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Kabat (Portland, Oregon); Mariana Marin (Portland, Oregon); Susan L. Kozak (Portland, Oregon); Kristine M. Rose (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Vif binds to APOBEC3G and induces its rapid degradation, thus eliminating it from cells and preventing its incorporation into HIV-1 virions. Vif contains two domains, one that binds APOBEC3G and another with a conserved SLQ(Y/F)LA motif that mediates APOBEC3G degradation by a proteasome-dependent pathway. Provided herein are methods of exploiting these discoveries to develop compounds useful to inhibit Vif degradation of APOBEC3G, and thereby inhibit viral infection and/or replication. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838770 |
| 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 07220558 | Luyten 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) | Frank P. Luyten (Rockville, Maryland); Malcolm Moos, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven Chao-Huan Chang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleotide and amino acid sequences of cartilage-derived morphogenetic proteins (CDMP-1 and CDMP-2) from human and bovine cartilage extracts. These proteins exhibit chondrogenic activity and can be used to repair cartilage defects in a mammal. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/379830 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07220575 | Fisher et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. Fisher (Scarsdale, New York); Dong-Chul Kang (Rutherford, New Jersey); Rahul V. Gopalkrishnan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for an isolated nucleic acid encoding Mda-5 (melanoma differentiation associated gene-5) and an isolated Mda-5 polypeptide. The invention further provides a vector comprising the nucleic acid encoding Mda-5, as well as a host cell comprising the vector. The invention provides an antibody which specifically binds to an Mda-5 polypeptide. The invention further provides a method for determining whether a compound is an inducer of Mda-5 gene expression and assays to determine whether a compound modifies the enzymatic activity of the Mda-5 polypeptide. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/228897 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07220577 | Zolotukhin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei Zolotukhin (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Libraries of modified AAV cap genes are generated by synthesizing modified cap genes using degenerate oligonucleotides. Combinatorial libraries of virions composed of modified (e.g., chimeric), replication-competent AAV vectors and modified Cap proteins are also produced. Helper vectors are described that encode AAV Rep protein, modified Cap proteins, and Ad proteins. The helper vectors are used to produce stocks of virions composed of modified (e.g., chimeric) capsids and rAAV vectors. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651828 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07220582 | Epstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal D. Epstein (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Thiru V. Gopal (North Potomac, Maryland); Steve O. Winitsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Shahin Hassanzadeh (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a novel isolated population of stem cells, called spoc cells, that can be induced, either in vivo or in vitro, to differentiate into cardiomyocytes. Methods are disclosed herein to differentiate the spoc cells, and to utilize these spoc cells for screening agents that affect cardiomyocytes. Methods are also provided herein to utilize spoc cells in therapeutic applications for the treatment of myocardial defects, such as areas of ischemic or traumatic damage. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863004 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07220584 | Thomson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Vivienne S. Marshall (Madison, Wisconsin); Jennifer J. Swiergiel (Roscoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Primate embryoid bodies are formed from primate ES cells. The ES cells form clumps. One then removes the clumps, as clumps, and permits incubation under non-adherent conditions. The development of embryoid bodies from primate ES cells is dependent on maintaining the aggregation of cells, as individualized cells will rapidly die. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632399 |
| 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 435/377 |
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| US 07220718 | Alpan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Alpan (Rockville, Maryland); Tirumalai Kamala (Rockville, Maryland); Polly Matzinger (Bethesda, Maryland); William Hugold Velander (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a simple method for the treatment of antigen-deficiency diseases, by orally administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of the deficient antigen, wherein the antigen is not present in a liposome. In one embodiment, the method increases hemostasis in a subject having hemophilia A or B, by orally administering to the hemophiliac a therapeutically effective amount of the appropriate clotting factor other than in a liposome, sufficient to induce oral tolerance and supply exogenous clotting factor to the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/485696 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07220723 | Tracey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Huan Yang (Douglaston, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features a method of treating an inflammatory condition in an individual, comprising administering an agent that inhibits the interaction between a Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and a high mobility group B (HMGB) polypeptide to the individual. The invention also features methods for identifying agents that inhibit the interaction between TLR2 and HMGB. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456947 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07220764 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Pennsylvania State University Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles D. Smith (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Kevin J. French (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Jong K. Yun (Hummelston, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for inhibiting sphingosine kinase and for treating hyperproliferative disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462954 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
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| US 07220834 | Croce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Frances Kay Huebner (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences of FHIT genes and amino acid sequences of their encoded proteins, as well as derivatives and analogs thereof, and antibodies thereto. The FHIT gene sequence is mutated in diseases involving cell overproliferation, particularly malignancies of the digestive tract. The present invention further relates to the use of FHIT genes and their encoded proteins as diagnostic and therapeutic reagents for the detection and treatment of disease states associated with cell overproliferation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913228 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07220837 | Nelsestuen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vitamin K-dependent polypeptides with enhanced membrane binding affinity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate clot formation in mammals. Methods of modulating clot formation in mammals are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/031005 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/384 |
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| US 07220844 | Farnham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peggy J. Farnham (Madison, Wisconsin); Carrie R. Graveel (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel polypeptides and nucleic acids that encode the polypeptides are disclosed. The polypeptides and nucleic acids are differentially expressed in liver tumors relative to expression in normal liver tissues. In humans, the nucleic acid sequence maps to a region of chromosome 9p. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017410 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07220849 | High et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine A. High (Merion, Pennsylvania); Rodney M. Camire (Voorhees, New Jersey); Peter J. Larson (Oakland, California); Darrel W. Stafford (Canboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of optimizing gamma carboxylation of a vitamin K-dependent protein, methods of generating fully gamma carboxylated vitamin K-dependent protein, and compositions comprising chimeric nucleic acids and proteins for use in treatment of vitamin K-dependent disease states. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/349858 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
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| US 07220852 | Rota et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Rota (Decatur, Georgia); Larry J. Anderson (Atlanta, Georgia); William J. Bellini (Lilburn, Georgia); Cara Carthel Burns (Avondale Estates, Georgia); Raymond Campagnoli (Decatur, Georgia); Qi Chen (Marietta, Georgia); James A. Comer (Decatur, Georgia); Shannon L. Emery (Lusaka, Zambia); Dean D. Erdman (Decatur, Georgia); Cynthia S. Goldsmith (Lilburn, Georgia); Charles D. Humphrey (Lilburn, Georgia); Joseph P. Icenogle (Atlanta, Georgia); Thomas G. Ksiazek (Lilburn, Georgia); Stephan S. Monroe (Decatur, Georgia); William Allan Nix (Bethlehem, Georgia); M. Steven Oberste (Lilburn, Georgia); Teresa C. T. Peret (Atlanta, Georgia); Pierre E. Rollin (Lilburn, Georgia); Mark A. Pallansch (Lilburn, Georgia); Anthony Sanchez (Lilburn, Georgia); Suxiang Tong (Alpharetta, Georgia); Sherif R. Zaki (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a newly isolated human coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Also provided are the nucleic acid sequence of the SARS-CoV genome and the amino acid sequences of the SARS-CoV open reading frames, as well as methods of using these molecules to detect a SARS-CoV and detect infections therewith. Immune stimulatory compositions are also provided, along with methods of their use. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822904 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
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| US 07220860 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Bom David (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas G. Burke (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound has the formula in racemic form, enantiomerically enriched form or enantiomerically pure form. R6 is preferably —Si(R8R9R10) or —(R7)Si(R8R9R10), wherein R7 is an alkylene group, an alkenylene group, or an alkynylene group; and R8, R9 and R10 are independently a C1-10 alkyl group, a C2-10 alkenyl group, a C2-10 alkynyl group, an aryl group or a —(CH2)NR11 group, wherein N is an integer within the range of 1 through 10 and R11 is a hydroxy group, alkoxy group, an amino group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, a halogen atom, a cyano group, —SRc or a nitro group. R1–R4 can be broadly substituted. R5 is preferably a C1-10 alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or a benzyl group. R13 is preferably H, F or —CH3. R16 is R16 is —C(O)Rf or H. The E-ring (the lactone ring) may be opened. A method of synthesis of compound (1) and intermediates in the synthesis thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919068 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/115 |
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| US 07220870 | Jacobsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Jacobsen (Boston, Massachusetts); Makoto Tokunaga (Wako, Japan); Jay F. Larrow (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a process for stereoselective or regioselective chemical synthesis which generally comprises reacting a nucleophile and a chiral or prochiral cyclic substrate in the presence of a non-racemic, chiral catalyst to produce a stereoisomerically- and/or regioisomerically-enriched product. The present invention also relates to hydrolytic kinetic resolutions of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of epoxides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029887 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/90 |
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| US 07221437 | Schaefer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip R. Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for measuring a distance to an object with light determines the distance by measuring the relative intensity of light reflected from the object and traveling over two or more paths of differing optical length. Light is emitted by one or more light sources; reflected from a surface of the object; and the reflected light is detected by one or more light detectors. The light detector(s) generate signals based on the intensity of reflected light detected and the signals are utilized to calculate the distance from the device to the object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641850 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.70 |
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07220328 | Koppes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Koppes (Adelphi, Maryland); Michael E. Sitzmann (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-smoke gas generating compositions for producing a low order pressure pulse use a salt or complex of a triazolyl-tetrazinyl-triazine compound. The general chemical structure of the triazolyl-tetrazinyl-triazine is: wherein Z+, when present, is H+ or a cation; R1 is an electron donating group and wherein m=1, 2 or 3; t=0 or 1, and n=0, 1, 2 or 3; and when present, R is a complexing component and x=1, 2 or 3; wherein either Z or R may be absent. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781955 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/46 |
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| US 07220345 | Bohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Bohn (Champaign, Illinois); Jonathan V. Sweedler (Urbana, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois); Tzu-chi Kuo (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid circuit includes a membrane having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a pore extending from the first side to the second side. The circuit also includes a first channel containing fluid extending along the first side of the membrane and a second channel containing fluid extending along the second side of the membrane and crossing the first channel. The circuit also includes an electrical source in electrical communication with at least one of the first fluid and second fluid for selectively developing an electrical potential between fluid in the first channel and fluid in the second channel. This causes at least one component of fluid to pass through the pore in the membrane from one of the first channel and the second channel to the other of the first channel and the second channel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273935 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220402 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ordway Research Institute, Inc. (Clifton Park, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); Fassil B. Mesfin (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides diagnostic procedures wherein the presence or absence of a cell-proliferating disorder, e.g., a breast cancer, may be determined. The imaging agents of the invention include alpha-fetoprotein hydrophilic analogs which have been determined to target cancers, e.g., breast cancer, and are also anti-cell proliferating in nature. These modulators contain amino acid structures which are arranged as a hydrophilic analog of an alpha-fetoprotein. The modulator may be a peptide; a peptidomimetic; or may be in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable scaffold, such as a polycyclic hydrocarbon to which is attached the necessary amino acid structures. The imaging agents of the invention further comprise an imaging moiety that allows for the imaging of the area targeted by the imaging agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/300531 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220452 | Hammond Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula T. Hammond Cunningham (Newton, Massachusetts); Juhyun Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for transferring a patterned polyelectrolyte multilayer from a first surface, e.g., a PDMS stamp, to a second surface, e.g. fabric or a non-woven material, wherein the patterned polyelectrolyte multilayer on the first surface is brought into contact with the second surface in order to transfer the polyelectrolyte multilayer from the first surface to the second surface. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a stamp comprising a surface coated with a polyelectrolyte multilayer suitable for transfer to a substrate using the aforementioned method of transferring patterned multilayers. |
| FILED | Sunday, May 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441898 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220492 | Fick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Fick (Maplewood, Minnesota); James P. Sorensen (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Mold components comprising soluble cores, metal matrix composite articles, and methods of making metal matrix composite articles. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740299 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220506 | Cochran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe K. Cochran (Marietta, Georgia); Kon Jiun Lee (Norcross, Georgia); Meilin Liu (Norcross, Georgia); William L. Rauch (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to hybrid monolithic fuel cells. In one embodiment, the fuel cells comprise a monolithic substrate composed of a metal material and an electrolyte material, the substrate defining a fuel channel and an oxidant channel that are separated by the electrolyte material. The disclosure also relates to methods for manufacturing hybrid monolithic fuel cells. In one embodiment, the methods comprise preparing a metal material, preparing an electrolyte material, and forming a hybrid monolithic fuel cell substrate comprising the metal and electrolyte materials in a one-step fabrication process. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/250466 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220540 | O'Connell 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) | Kevin P. O'Connell (Abingdon, Maryland); Akbar S. Khan (Joppa, Maryland); Cheng J. Cao (Glen Army, Maryland); Jennifer R. Bucher (Joppa, Maryland); Mark V. Gostomski (Bel Air, Maryland); James J. Valdes (Churchville, Maryland); Patricia E. Anderson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and assays for detecting bacteriophage MS2 in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, November 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001614 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220594 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Micro Technology (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Foster (Santa Barbara, California); John C. Harley (Santa Barbara, California); Steven H. Hovey (Goleta, California); Richard T. Martin (Goleta, California); Hung D. Nguyen (Los Angeles, California); Paul J. Rubel (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical particle sorting chip uses laser light directed through at least one of a reflective and refractive surface to come to a focus in an optically transparent layer. The laser light impinges on a particle of interest, causing it to fluoresce. Upon detecting the fluorescence, a micromemchanical actuator is activated, which directs the particle of interest into one of a plurality of possible exit paths. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196291 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220660 | Im et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York); Robert S. Sposili (New York, New York); Mark A. Crowder (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reducing a surface roughness of a polycrystalline or single crystal thin film produced by the sequential lateral solidification process are disclosed. In one arrangement, the system includes an excimer laser (110) for generating a plurality of excimer laser pulses of a predetermined fluence, an energy density modulator (120) for controllably modulating the fluence of the excimer laser pulses such that the fluence is below that which is required to completely melt the thin film, a beam homoginizer (144) for homoginizing modulated laser pulses in a predetermined plane, a sample stage (170) for receiving homoginized laser pulses to effect melting of portions of the polycrystalline or single crystal thin film corresponding to the laser pulses, translating means for controllably translating a relative position of the sample stage (170) with respect to the laser pulses, and a computer (110) for coordinating the excimer pulse generation and fluence modulation with the relative positions of the sample stage (170) to thereby process the polycrystalline or single crystal thin film by sequential translation of the sample stage (170) relative to the laser pulses. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/939271 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220730 | Baranowska-Kortylewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janina Baranowska-Kortylewicz (Omaha, Nebraska); Zbigniew Kortylewicz (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Radiolabeled conjugates are disclosed which have a component that is effective to target tumor cells, which cells selectively take up and degrade the conjugate, thereby delivering to the tumor cell nucleus a radioisotope capable of being incorporated into the nuclear material, so as to produce a cytotoxic effect and/or to render the cell detectable by radioimaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/671376 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220818 | Stoddart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Fraser Stoddart (Los Angeles, California); Alexander Star (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Liu (San Diego, California); Ludek Ridvan (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotubes are treated with poly{(5-alkoxy-m-phenylenevinylene)-co-[(2,5-dioctyloxy-p-phenylene)vinylene]} (PAmPV) polymers and derivatives thereof to provide noncovalent functionalization of the nanotubes which increases solubility and enhances other properties. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919659 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220934 | Paauwe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corneil Paauwe (Manchester, Connecticut); Matthew Devore (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An EDM electrode curved in both the the Z and the Y planes permits the formation of film cooling holes in a highly contoured article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146737 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/69.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221010 | Ryu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) may include an n-type silicon carbide drift layer, a first p-type silicon carbide region adjacent the drift layer and having a first n-type silicon carbide region therein, an oxide layer on the drift layer, and an n-type silicon carbide limiting region disposed between the drift layer and a portion of the first p-type region. The limiting region may have a carrier concentration that is greater than the carrier concentration of the drift layer. Methods of fabricating silicon carbide MOSFET devices are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/698170 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221044 | Fan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AC LED Lighting, L.L.C. (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhaoyang Fan (Manhattan, Kansas); Hongxing Jiang (Manhattan, Kansas); Jingyu Lin (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-chip integrated LED particularly adapted for direct use with a high voltage DC or AC power sources comprises a plurality of electrically isolated LEDs on a generally transparent substrate and bonded to electrically conductive elements on a thermally conductive mount. A reflective coating may be applied to the area between LEDs. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040445 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/676 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221088 | Kafafi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zakya H. Kafafi (Alexandria, Virginia); Lisa C. Picciolo (Silver Spring, Maryland); Hideyuki Murata (Sutton, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes the use of red, green and, if necessary, blue dopants dispersed in a universal host material as the active emitting layer in OLEDs. The universal host is transparent in the visible region, and may be emissive in the blue region when used as the blue emitting species or possesses carrier transport properties. By dispersing the dopants in the universal host, efficient energy transfer from host to guest and/or direct carrier recombination on the dopant takes place resulting in bright red, green or blue emission, depending on the dopant. The resulting spectra are characteristic of the guest molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/995736 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221231 | Camparo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Camparo (Redondo Beach, California); Charles M. Klimcak (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF-discharge lamp stabilization system for preferred use in a Rubidium atomic clock, senses acoustic oscillations of plasma ions in the 20.0 kHz range to assess the performance of the lamp for determining radio frequency parameters of the lamp while the lamp is in operation and while the performance of an atomic clock is influenced by the plasma character, with lamp spectral outputs being actively stabilized for improved vapor-cell clock performance. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179442 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221445 | Earthman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MetroLaser, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Earthman (Irvine, California); Vladimir B. Markov (Irvine, California); James D. Trolinger (Costa Mesa, California); Derek Dunn-Rankin (Irvine, California); Benjamin D. Buckner (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for quantifying surface characteristics detects and quantifies characteristics of a surface of an object. For example, the system may quantify changes in surface roughness without contacting the specimen and without requiring precise temporal or spatial stability. The system may also quantify the evolution or progression of a particular characteristic of a surface, such as a defect, a slipband, a crack, a microcrack, a pit, a damage feature, corrosion, a contour change, an impact crater, a change in residual stress, and so on. The system may include an energy source, a detector section, and a process section. The energy source transmits a source signal to the surface of the object. The source signal is specularly reflected and/or scattered by the surface to yield one or more received signals. The detector section receives the received signal and, in turn, provides a detector signal indicative of the received signal. The processor applies an algorithm to the detector signal to quantify an evolution in one or more characteristics of the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/823385 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39640 | Kanatzidis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Okemos, Michigan); Duck-Young Chung (Haslett, Michigan); Stephane DeNardi (L'Isle-En-Dodon, France); Sandrine Sportouch (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of isostructural compounds have been prepared having the general formula AnPbmBinO2n+m. These compounds possess a NaCl lattice type structure as well as low thermal conductivity and controlled electrical conductivity. Furthermore, the electrical properties can be controlled by varying the values for n and m. These isostructural compounds can be used for semiconductor applications such as detectors, lasers and photovoltaic cells. These compounds also have enhanced thermoelectric properties making them excellent semiconductor materials for fabrication of thermoelectric devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703026 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.3T0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael G. McKellar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry D. Turner (Ammon, Idaho); Kevin T. Raterman (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gary L. Palmer (Shelley, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John J. Vranicar (Concord, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for producing liquefied natural gas. A liquefaction plant may be coupled to a source of unpurified natural gas, such as a natural gas pipeline at a pressure letdown station. A portion of the gas is drawn off and split into a process stream and a cooling stream. The cooling stream passes through a turbo expander creating work output. A compressor is driven by the work output and compresses the process stream. The compressed process stream is cooled, such as by the expanded cooling stream. The cooled, compressed process stream is divided into first and second portions with the first portion being expanded to liquefy the natural gas. A gas-liquid separator separates the vapor from the liquid natural gas. The second portion of the cooled, compressed process stream is also expanded and used to cool the compressed process stream. Additional features and techniques may be integrated with the liquefaction process including a water clean-up cycle and a carbon dioxide (CO2) clean-up cycle. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124589 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/617 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219588 | Pastrnak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Pastrnak (Livermore, California); Rocky Hollaway (Modesto, California); Carl D. Henning (Livermore, California); Steve Deteresa (Livermore, California); Walter Grundler (Hayward, California); Lisle B. Hagler (Berkeley, California); Edwin Kokko (Dublin, California); Vernon A Switzer (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapidly deployable portable convertible blast effects shield/ballistic shield includes a set two or more telescoping cylindrical rings operably connected to each other to convert between a telescopically-collapsed configuration for storage and transport, and a telescopically-extended upright configuration forming an expanded inner volume. In a first embodiment, the upright configuration provides blast effects shielding, such as against blast pressures, shrapnel, and/or fire balls. And in a second embodiment, the upright configuration provides ballistic shielding, such as against incoming weapons fire, shrapnel, etc. Each ring has a high-strength material construction, such as a composite fiber and matrix material, capable of substantially inhibiting blast effects and impinging projectiles from passing through the shield. And the set of rings are releasably securable to each other in the telescopically-extended upright configuration, such as by click locks. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/817107 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosive-charge making 086/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219649 | Duffy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Duffy (Metamora, Illinois); Roger L. Urven, Jr. (Colona, Illinois); Cory A. Brown (Pekin, Illinois); Mary L. Kesse (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating an engine system should produce relatively low concentrations of various emissions without compromising a desired power output of the system. In order to operate an engine system of the present disclosure, a predetermined total amount of fuel injected into at least one combustion chamber is apportioned into at least a first amount and a second amount of fuel. The first amount of fuel is injected into the at least one combustion chamber during non-auto ignition conditions. The second amount of fuel is injected into the at least one combustion chamber during auto-ignition conditions. When the engine system is in a mid-low engine load range, the second amount of fuel is one of equal to or less than 15% of the predetermined total amount of fuel. When the engine system is in a high engine load range, the second amount of fuel is greater than 15% of the predetermined total amount of fuel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201238 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219712 | Qiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinia Corporation (Kennewick, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Songgang Qiu (Richland, Washington); John E. Augenblick (Richland, Washington); Raymond M. Erbeznik (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A reduced shedding regenerator and method are disclosed with regenerator surfaces to minimize shedding of particles from the regenerator thereby alleviating a source of potential damage and malfunction of a thermal regenerative machine using the regenerator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007628 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07219752 | Wassell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APS Technologies, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ellsworth Wassell (Kingwood, Texas); William Evans Turner (Durham, Connecticut); Daniel E. Burgess (Middletown, Connecticut); Carl Allison Perry (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for damping vibration in a drill string can include a valve assembly having a supply of a fluid, a first member, and a second member capable of moving in relation to first member in response to vibration of the drill bit. The first and second members define a first and a second chamber for holding the fluid. Fluid can flow between the first and second chambers in response to the movement of the second member in relation to the first member. The valve assembly can also include a coil or a valve for varying a resistance of the fluid to flow between the first and second chambers. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/983486 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220321 | Barth et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt L. Barth (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Robert A. Enzenroth (Fort Collins, Colorado); Walajabad S. Sampath (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and processes for large scale inline manufacturing of CdTe photovoltaic modules in which all steps, including rapid substrate heating, deposition of CdS, deposition of CdTe, CdCl2 treatment, and ohmic contact formation, are performed within a single vacuum boundary at modest vacuum pressures. A p+ ohmic contact region is formed by subliming a metal salt onto the CdTe layer. A back electrode is formed by way of a low cost spray process, and module scribing is performed by means of abrasive blasting or mechanical brushing through a mask. The vacuum process apparatus facilitates selective heating of substrates and films, exposure of substrates and films to vapor with minimal vapor leakage, deposition of thin films onto a substrate, and stripping thin films from a substrate. A substrate transport apparatus permits the movement of substrates into and out of vacuum during the thin film deposition processes, while preventing the collection of coatings on the substrate transport apparatus itself. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808050 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/729 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220345 | Bohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Bohn (Champaign, Illinois); Jonathan V. Sweedler (Urbana, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois); Tzu-chi Kuo (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid circuit includes a membrane having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a pore extending from the first side to the second side. The circuit also includes a first channel containing fluid extending along the first side of the membrane and a second channel containing fluid extending along the second side of the membrane and crossing the first channel. The circuit also includes an electrical source in electrical communication with at least one of the first fluid and second fluid for selectively developing an electrical potential between fluid in the first channel and fluid in the second channel. This causes at least one component of fluid to pass through the pore in the membrane from one of the first channel and the second channel to the other of the first channel and the second channel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273935 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220458 | Hollis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kendall Hollis (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Brian Bartram (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for applying a protective coating on an article, comprising the following steps: selecting an article with a surface for applying a coating thickness; creating undercut grooves on the article, where the grooves depend beneath the surface to a bottom portion with the grooves having an upper width on the surface and a lower width on the bottom portion connected by side walls, where at least one of the side walls connects the upper width and the lower width to form an undercut angle with the surface less than 90°; and, applying the protective coating onto the article to fill the undercut grooves and cover the surface, thereby forming weak paths within the protective coating. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140661 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220565 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly Brown (Elk Grove, California); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Alfredo Lopez De Leon (Davis, California); Sandra Merino (West Sacremento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327821 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220587 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California); Ramlah Nehring (La Jolla, California); Robert B. McGrath (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid and polypeptide sequences are described which relate to an EIN6 gene, a gene involved in the plant ethylene response. Plant transformation vectors and transgenic plants are described which display an altered ethylene-dependent phenotype due to altered expression of EIN6 in transformed plants. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152569 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220692 | Marshall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Marshall (Naperville, Illinois); Michael K. Neylon (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A two phase catalyst is disclosed with one or more transition metals such as Cu, Co, Fe, Ag and Mo supported on a molecular sieve having a pore size not greater than 8 Å along with a stabilizing oxide of one or more of the oxides of Zr, Mo, V, Nb or the rare earths coating the molecular sieve. A method of preparing the two phase catalyst and using same to remediate NOx in combustion gases is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384344 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220936 | Ott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald D. Ott (Knoxville, Tennessee); Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nancy J. Dudney (Knoxville, Tennessee); David C. Harper (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of thermally processing a material includes exposing the material to at least one pulse of infrared light emitted from a directed plasma arc to thermally process the material, the pulse having a duration of no more than 10 s. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/903071 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07220310 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Pu X. Gao (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale junction array includes an elongated nanowire and a plurality of elongated nanobelts. Each nanobelt has a proximal end and an opposite distal end. The proximal end of each nanobelt is attached to a different location on the nanowire. Each nanobelt extends radially away from the nanowire. A type of nanoscale junction array, a nanopropeller, includes an elongated nanowire and a plurality of elongated nanoblades. The nanoscale junction array is formed from Zinc Oxide using a metal vaporization process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/726016 |
| 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 07220321 | Barth et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt L. Barth (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Robert A. Enzenroth (Fort Collins, Colorado); Walajabad S. Sampath (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and processes for large scale inline manufacturing of CdTe photovoltaic modules in which all steps, including rapid substrate heating, deposition of CdS, deposition of CdTe, CdCl2 treatment, and ohmic contact formation, are performed within a single vacuum boundary at modest vacuum pressures. A p+ ohmic contact region is formed by subliming a metal salt onto the CdTe layer. A back electrode is formed by way of a low cost spray process, and module scribing is performed by means of abrasive blasting or mechanical brushing through a mask. The vacuum process apparatus facilitates selective heating of substrates and films, exposure of substrates and films to vapor with minimal vapor leakage, deposition of thin films onto a substrate, and stripping thin films from a substrate. A substrate transport apparatus permits the movement of substrates into and out of vacuum during the thin film deposition processes, while preventing the collection of coatings on the substrate transport apparatus itself. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808050 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/729 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220346 | Penner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald Mark Penner (Laguna Beach, California); Michael Paul Zach (Irvine, California); Fred Favier (Saint Clemente de Riviere, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the preparation of long, dimensionally uniform, metallic nanowires that are removable from the surface on which they are synthesized. The methods include the selective electrodeposition of metal nanowires at step edges present on a stepped surface, such as graphite, from an aqueous solution containing a metal or metal oxide. Where a metal oxide is first deposited, the metal oxide nanowires are reduced via a gas phase reduction at elevated temperatures to metal nanowires. Alternatively, beaded or hybrid nanowires comprising a metal A into which nanoparticles of a metal B have been inserted may be prepared by first electrodepositing nanoparticles of metal B selectively along step edges of a stepped surface, capping these nanoparticles with a molecular layer of an organic ligand, selectivley electrodepositing nanowire segments of metal A between nanoparticles of metal B and then heating the surface of the hybrid nanowire under reducing conditions to remove the ligand layer. In all three methods, the nanowires may be removed from the stepped surface by embedding the wires in a polymer film, and then peeling this film containing the embedded wires off of the stepped surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861821 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220452 | Hammond Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula T. Hammond Cunningham (Newton, Massachusetts); Juhyun Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for transferring a patterned polyelectrolyte multilayer from a first surface, e.g., a PDMS stamp, to a second surface, e.g. fabric or a non-woven material, wherein the patterned polyelectrolyte multilayer on the first surface is brought into contact with the second surface in order to transfer the polyelectrolyte multilayer from the first surface to the second surface. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a stamp comprising a surface coated with a polyelectrolyte multilayer suitable for transfer to a substrate using the aforementioned method of transferring patterned multilayers. |
| FILED | Sunday, May 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441898 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220454 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew R. Barron (Houston, Texas); Kimberly A. DeFriend (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making hollow spheres of alumina or aluminate comprises: coating polymeric beads with an aqueous solution of an alumoxane, drying the beads so as to form an alumoxane coating on the beads; heating the beads to a first temperature that is sufficient to convert the alumoxane coating to an amorphous alumina or aluminate coating and is not sufficient to decompose the polymeric beads; dissolving the polymeric bead in a solvent; removing the dissolved polymer from the amorphous alumina or aluminate coating; and heating the amorphous alumina or aluminate coating to a second temperature that is sufficient to form a hollow ceramic sphere of desired porosity and strength. The hollow spheres can be used as proppants or can be incorporated in porous membranes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774319 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/372.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220583 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Alfano (Lincoln, Nebraska); Alan Collmer (Ithaca, New York); Samuel W. Cartinhour (Ithaca, New York); David J. Schneider (Trumansburg, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding avirulence proteins or polypeptides of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae DC 3000, or nucleic acid molecules which are complementary thereto. Expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants which include the DNA molecules of the present invention are also disclosed. Another aspect relates to the isolated proteins or polypeptides and compositions containing the same. The various nucleic acid molecules and proteins of the present invention can be used to impart disease resistance to a plant, make a plant hypersusceptible to colonization by nonpathogenic bacteria, modify a metabolic pathway in a cell, cause eukaryotic cell death and treat a cancerous condition, as well as inhibit programmed cell death. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/365742 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220587 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California); Ramlah Nehring (La Jolla, California); Robert B. McGrath (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid and polypeptide sequences are described which relate to an EIN6 gene, a gene involved in the plant ethylene response. Plant transformation vectors and transgenic plants are described which display an altered ethylene-dependent phenotype due to altered expression of EIN6 in transformed plants. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152569 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220818 | Stoddart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Fraser Stoddart (Los Angeles, California); Alexander Star (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Liu (San Diego, California); Ludek Ridvan (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotubes are treated with poly{(5-alkoxy-m-phenylenevinylene)-co-[(2,5-dioctyloxy-p-phenylene)vinylene]} (PAmPV) polymers and derivatives thereof to provide noncovalent functionalization of the nanotubes which increases solubility and enhances other properties. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919659 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221287 | Gueziec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Triangle Software LLC (Campbell, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Gueziec (Campbell, California); Paul Levy (Campbell, California); Glenn Waldron (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be pre-selected by the traveler. The system ensures consistent and quality data are produced and issued to the traveler. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/302418 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/905 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221454 | Hampton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Containerless Research, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott Hampton (Mundelein, Illinois); Shankar Krishnan (Santa Clara, California); James Rix (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In a device for measuring the complete polarization state of light over a spectral bandwidth, an optical input signal (41) with wavelengths of light within a spectral band is incident on two or more diffraction gratings (42, 44, 46, 48), or incident from at least two directions on one or more diffraction gratings (72, 74), and the intensity is measured as a function of wavelength for at least four of the diffraction spectra produced by the grating(s). The polarization state of light is then calculated as a function of wavelength over the spectral bandwidth from the intensity measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/504796 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221455 | Chediak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Unversity of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Alex Chediak (Eagan, Minnesota); Zhongsheng Luo (Albany, California); Timothy D. Sands (West Lafayette, Indiana); Nathan W. Cheung (Albany, California); Luke P. Lee (Orinda, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a functionally integrated microanalytical system for performing fluorescence spectroscopy. A source of fluorescence-exciting radiation, typically a LED, is integrated onto a substrate along with a photodetector and, in some embodiments, an optical filter. A pixel-to-point laser lift-off process is used to effect this component integration. For those cases in which a filter is required, a thin film bandgap filter is typically used, such as CdS or CdSxSe1-x (0<x<1). A disposable microchannel containing the sample and its fluorescent tag is mounted onto the integrated assembly of LED, photodetector and (optionally) filter. This configuration of components allows the microchannel and sample to be readily removed and replaced, facilitating rapid analysis of multiple samples. Multiple LEDS, detectors and filters (if present) can also be integrated onto the same substrate, permitting multiple wavelength analysis of the sample to be performed concurrently. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/903477 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07219858 | Sharer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Sharer (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for deploying multiple spacecraft is disclosed. The method can be used in a situation where a first celestial body is being orbited by a second celestial body. The spacecraft are loaded onto a single spaceship that contains the multiple spacecraft and the spacecraft is launched from the second celestial body towards a third celestial body. The spacecraft are separated from each other while in route to the third celestial body. Each of the spacecraft is then subjected to the gravitational field of the third celestial body and each of the spacecraft assumes a different, independent orbit about the first celestial body. In those situations where the spacecraft are launched from Earth, the Sun can act as the first celestial body, the Earth can act as the second celestial body and the Moon can act as the third celestial body. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884901 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/158.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07220100 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Anna Tam (Clifton Park, New York); Kevin Richard Kirtley (Scotia, New York); Scott Henry Lamson (Menands, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine stage includes a row of airfoils joined to corresponding platforms to define flow passages therebetween. Each airfoil includes opposite pressure and suction sides and extends in chord between opposite leading and trailing edges. Each platform includes a crescentic ramp increasing in height from the leading and trailing edges toward the midchord of the airfoil along the pressure side thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106198 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07222115 | Knopf |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Knopf (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A telemetry dictionary database includes a component for receiving spreadsheet workbooks of telemetry data over a web-based interface from other computer devices. Another component routes the spreadsheet workbooks to a specified directory on the host processing device. A process then checks the received spreadsheet workbooks for errors, and if no errors are detected the spreadsheet workbooks are routed to another directory to await initiation of a remote database loading process. The loading process first converts the spreadsheet workbooks to comma separated value (CSV) files. Next, a network connection with the computer system that hosts the telemetry dictionary database is established and the CSV files are ported to the computer system that hosts the telemetry dictionary database. This is followed by a remote initiation of a database loading program. Upon completion of loading a flatfile generation program is manually initiated to generate a flatfile to be used in a mission operations environment by the core ground system. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641463 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07221454 | Hampton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Containerless Research, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott Hampton (Mundelein, Illinois); Shankar Krishnan (Santa Clara, California); James Rix (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In a device for measuring the complete polarization state of light over a spectral bandwidth, an optical input signal (41) with wavelengths of light within a spectral band is incident on two or more diffraction gratings (42, 44, 46, 48), or incident from at least two directions on one or more diffraction gratings (72, 74), and the intensity is measured as a function of wavelength for at least four of the diffraction spectra produced by the grating(s). The polarization state of light is then calculated as a function of wavelength over the spectral bandwidth from the intensity measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/504796 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07221621 | Patterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Robert Patterson (Gloucester Point, Virginia); Daniel Foster Doolittle (Miami, Florida); Roger Leslie Mann (Dutton, Virginia); Zia-ur Rahman (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for identifying and quantifying targets within a liquid medium. A raw sidescan sonar image is collected. A region of interest is separated from the image. An image transformation is performed using an extraction algorithm. Salient image characteristics are calculated. Spurious pixels are removed from the image to obtain an extracted region of interest. Particle analysis is performed on the extracted region of interest to generate a feature vector which is presented to a neural network for classification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099689 |
| 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 367/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07220583 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Alfano (Lincoln, Nebraska); Alan Collmer (Ithaca, New York); Samuel W. Cartinhour (Ithaca, New York); David J. Schneider (Trumansburg, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding avirulence proteins or polypeptides of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae DC 3000, or nucleic acid molecules which are complementary thereto. Expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants which include the DNA molecules of the present invention are also disclosed. Another aspect relates to the isolated proteins or polypeptides and compositions containing the same. The various nucleic acid molecules and proteins of the present invention can be used to impart disease resistance to a plant, make a plant hypersusceptible to colonization by nonpathogenic bacteria, modify a metabolic pathway in a cell, cause eukaryotic cell death and treat a cancerous condition, as well as inhibit programmed cell death. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/365742 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07220395 | Cooper, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EC and C Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clarita, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Douglas Cooper, legal representative (Temple City, California); Herbert W. Spencer, III (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This patent describes technology for generating ammonia from urea. The method is based on the hydrolysis of an aqueous solution of urea and/or biuret by heating under pressure to form a mixture of ammonia, carbon dioxide and water. The gas mixtures produced are useful for supplying ammonia at controlled pressure and rate of flow for many industrial applications without the risks and hazards associated with the transportation and on-site storage of ammonia, thereby providing a significant safety advantage over present industrial practice. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662762 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07221437 | Schaefer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip R. Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for measuring a distance to an object with light determines the distance by measuring the relative intensity of light reflected from the object and traveling over two or more paths of differing optical length. Light is emitted by one or more light sources; reflected from a surface of the object; and the reflected light is detected by one or more light detectors. The light detector(s) generate signals based on the intensity of reflected light detected and the signals are utilized to calculate the distance from the device to the object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641850 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07221454 | Hampton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Containerless Research, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott Hampton (Mundelein, Illinois); Shankar Krishnan (Santa Clara, California); James Rix (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In a device for measuring the complete polarization state of light over a spectral bandwidth, an optical input signal (41) with wavelengths of light within a spectral band is incident on two or more diffraction gratings (42, 44, 46, 48), or incident from at least two directions on one or more diffraction gratings (72, 74), and the intensity is measured as a function of wavelength for at least four of the diffraction spectra produced by the grating(s). The polarization state of light is then calculated as a function of wavelength over the spectral bandwidth from the intensity measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/504796 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 22, 2007.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2007/fedinvent-patents-20070522.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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