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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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| US 07229258 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medforte Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Houston G. Wood (Salt Lake City, Utah); Paul E. Allaire (Charlottesville, Virginia); Don B. Olsen (Salt Lake City, Utah); Steven W. Day (Davis, California); Xinwei Song (Richmond, Virginia); Alex Untaroiu (Charlottesville, Virginia); Amy Throckmorton (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A blood pump has an impeller rotatably disposed and magnetically suspended within a cavity of a stator by a plurality of magnetic bearings (passive permanent and active electromagnetic) having impeller magnets on the impeller and stator magnets or coils/poles on the stator. A motor includes impeller magnets on the impeller and coils/poles associated with the stator. A single, annular blood flow path extends axially through the cavity between the impeller and the stator, and between the impeller magnets on the impeller and the stator magnets or the coils/poles on the stator. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/950176 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229500 | Haushalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Parallel Synthesis Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Haushalter (Los Gatos, California); Xiao-Dong Sun (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Crystallization Photoresist (PR) apparatus and methods which allow for fast screening and determination of protein crystallization conditions with small protein quantities and rapid crystallization. The apparatus comprise a first region comprising a first nucleation catalyst material and a second region comprising a second nucleation catalyst material, with the first and second regions positioned adjacent to each other and configured to support at least one crystal, and with the first region having a variation in a nucleation property of the first nucleation catalyst material in the first region. The crystal may be supported at an interface of the adjacent regions. The methods comprise providing a first region of a first nucleation catalyst material and a second region of a second nucleation catalyst material adjacent said first region, with the first region having a variation in a nucleation property of the first nucleation catalyst material, exposing the first and second regions to a solution of a selected molecule, and growing at least one crystal of the molecule in association with the first and second regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/432079 |
| 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 117/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229621 | Cowing |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol O. Cowing (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to a method for enhancing the immunogenicity of an antigen in a mammal by introducing into the mammal an antigen or a portion thereof and administering to the mammal a treatment that increases antigen presentation in a lymphoid organ. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/809158 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229628 | Allison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, Office of Technology Transfer (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Patrick Allison (Berkeley, California); Dana R. Leach (Albany, California); Matthew E. Krummel (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | T cell activation in response to antigen is increased by the administration of binding agents that block CTLA-4 signaling. When CTLA-4 signaling is thus blocked, the T cell response to antigen is released from inhibition. Such an enhanced response is useful for the treatment of tumors, chronic viral infections, and as an adjuvant during immunization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/454851 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229634 | Tirrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tirrell (Pasadena, California); Daniel M. Schwartz (San Francisco, California); Paul J. Nowatzki (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides engineered proteins and biomedical products made from the engineered proteins. The biomedical products include lenses useful for ophthalmic purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040130 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229755 | Kolodner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Kolodner (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Robert A. G. Reenan (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard Fishel (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | We have now discovered that eukaryotes, including mammals, have a DNA mismatch repair pathway analogous to the pathway that exists in bacteria. Defects or alterations in this mismatch repair pathway in a mammal, such as a human, will result in the accumulation of unstable repeated DNA sequences. Such a phenotype has a high correlation to disease state in a number of cancers, such as hereditary colon cancers. Accordingly, discovering a defect or alteration in the pathway can be diagnostic of a predisposition to cancer, and prognostic for a particular cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/448444 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229756 | Small et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kersten M. Small (Cincinnati, Ohio); Stephen B. Liggett (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes polymorphisms in nucleic acids encoding the alpha-2B adrenergic receptor and expressed alpha-2B adrenergic receptor molecule. The invention also pertains to methods and molecules for detecting such polymorphisms. The invention further pertains to the use of such molecules and methods in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases such as cardiovascular and central nervous system diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/692077 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229766 | Pilauri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vepkhia Pilauri (Hershey, Pennsylvania); James E. Hopper (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Gang Peng (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Tamara Vyshkina (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for detecting and analyzing protein-protein interactions and agonists and antagonists thereof, detecting and analyzing protein sequences, and regulatable gene expression in multicellular organisms or cells therefrom. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600389 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229769 | Kozlov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Kozlov (La Jolla, California); Peter Melnyk (La Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of determining activity of a protease. The method can include the steps of (a) providing a protease substrate including a protein moiety attached to a nucleic acid moiety and a ligand moiety; (b) contacting the protease substrate with a protease under conditions wherein the protease catalyzes cleavage of the protein moiety, thereby producing a proteolytic product wherein the nucleic acid moiety is separated from at least a portion of the protein moiety and the ligand moiety; (c) contacting the proteolytic product with a receptor under conditions wherein the ligand moiety binds to the receptor to form a complex; (d) separating the complex from the nucleic acid moiety, thereby forming a separation product including the nucleic acid moiety; (e) contacting the separation product with a probe nucleic acid under conditions wherein the nucleic acid moiety hybridizes to a complementary sequence of the probe; and (f) detecting hybridization of the separation product to the probe, thereby determining activity of the protease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090904 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229770 | Price et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Price (La. Jolla, California); Julia S. Johansen (Frederiksberg, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for detecting cancers and for evaluating the prognosis of cancer patients. In particular, the methods of this invention utilize YKL-40 as a marker for the presence or absence of a cancer and for the prognosis (e.g. likelihood of recurrence) of a cancer. Elevated levels of YKL-40 are indicative of the presence of a cancer in undiagnosed subjects and indicate likely recurrence of the cancer in subjects diagnosed as having a cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/164862 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229774 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arun Sreekumar (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnostics, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention provides gene expression profiles associated with prostate cancers. Genes identified as cancer markers using the methods of the present invention find use in the diagnosis and characterization of prostate cancer. In addition, the genes provide targets for cancer drug screens and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210120 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229781 | Birken 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) | Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey); Yacov Maydelman (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Galina I. Kovalevskaya (New York, New York); John F. O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods to quantitate the hLHβ core fragment in a sample. The present invention now makes it possible to evaluate the metabolism of hLH in premenopausal, perimenopausal and postmenopausal women and to distinguish between normal and abnormal physiological states. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/159354 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229796 | DeAngelis et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma); Paul H. Weigel (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kshama Kumari (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a recombinant Bacillus host cell containing a recombinant vector including a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active hyaluronan synthase (HAS). The recombinant Bacillus host cell is utilized in a method for producing hyaluronic acid (HA). |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474663 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229822 | 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 isolated nucleic acids encoding an Mda-5 polypeptide as shown in SEQ ID NO:1. The invention also provides for isolated nucleic acids comprising derivatives of the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 that encode polypeptides functionally equivalent to Mda-5. The invention further provides for fragments of the isolated nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO:1 that encode polypeptides having Mda-5 biological activity. Vectors comprising these isolated nucleic acids and host cells comprising these vectors are also provided by the instant invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/515363 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229823 | Samulski et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xiao Xiao (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Richard Snyder (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for increasing the production of high titre stocks of recombinant AAV (rAAV) through regulation of expression of the AAV REP and CAP proteins. The methods and compositions of the invention are based on the observation that the low level expression of the AAV REP protein increases the production of AAV viral capsid protein and efficiency of packaging resulting in production of higher titre recombinant viral stocks. The invention encompasses recombinant AAV vectors that direct the expression of AAV REP and CAP proteins and the use of such vectors for the production of novel stable cell lines capable of generating high titre rAAV vectors. The invention provides methods for regulating the expression of the AAV REP gene at the transcriptional and post-translational level. The methods and compositions of the invention can be used to produce high titre stocks of rAAV which can be used in gene therapy for the purpose of transferring genetic information into appropriate host cells for the management and correction of human diseases including inherited and acquired disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/261188 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229826 | Kale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sujata Kale (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael W. Long (Northville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods for the ex vivo formation of mammalian bone and subsequent uses of the bone. A critical and distinguishing feature of the present invention are defined tissue culture conditions and factors resulting in the formation of bone cell spheroids. The invention also provides for methods of implanting into subjects the ex vivo formed bone. Also described are methods for genetically altering the bone cell spheroids to affect bone formation, identification of candidate modulators of bone formation, and identification of genes involved in bone formation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862997 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229963 | Sartorelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of of Health Services, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia); The Salk Institute for Biological Study (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vittorio Sartorelli (Bethesda, Maryland); Pier Lorenzo Puri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing progenitor cell differentiation, including enhancing myogenesis, neurogenesis, and hematopoiesis, by contacting a progenitor cell with an effective amount of a deacetylase inhibitor (DI). The progenitor cell can be part of cell culture, such as a cell culture used for in vitro or in vivo analysis of progenitor cell differentiation, or can be part of an organsism, such as a human or other mammal. Contacting the progenitor cell with a DI can lead to enhancement of expression of terminal cell-type specific genes in the progenitor cell, such as enhancing expression of muscle-specific genes in myoblasts. Administering a DI to a subject also can provide some prophylactic or therapeutic effect for inhibiting, preventing, or treating associated with a degeneration or loss of tissue. The DI can be administered to a subject as part of a pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/492901 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229968 | Castillo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerardo Castillo (Bothell, Washington); Alan D. Snow (Lynnwood, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A pharmaceutical composition comprising peptide AG73 Arg-Lys-Arg-Leu-Gln-Val-Gln-Leu-Ser-Ile-Arg-Thr (SEQ ID NO:1). |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/004053 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229995 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Q. Huang (San Diego, California); Chen Chen (San Diego, California); Yongsheng Chen (San Diego, California); Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Warren Wade (San Diego, California); Martin Rowbottom (San Diego, California); Jaimie K. Rueter (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein n, R1a, R1b, R1c, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5, R6 and X are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264702 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230021 | Romo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Romo (College Station, Texas); Jun Liu (Clarksville, Maryland); Nam Song Choi (College Station, Texas); Zonggao Shi (Secane, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a compound of Formula I, all of its related stereoisomers, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein A—B, K, Q, X, Y, Z, R and R1 are as defined in Claim 1. The present invention also provides processes for the preparation thereof, the use thereof in treating immune mediated disease and conditions, and pharmaceutical compositions for use in such therapy |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388257 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230033 | Dolan 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, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia); State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc C. Dolan (Wellington, Colorado); Nicholas A. Panella (Fort Collins, Colorado); E. B. Gabrielle Dietrich (Fort Collins, Colorado); Joseph J. Karchesy (Corvallis, Oregon); Gary O. Maupin (Cape Coral, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for controlling an arthropod pest population that include an eremophilane sesquiterpene pest control agent (such as, nootkatone or 13-hydroxy-valencene) and a dialkyl-substituted phenol pest control agent (such as, carvacrol) are disclosed. The compounds present in the compositions may be isolated from natural sources, semi-synthesized from naturally occurring compounds, or completely synthesized. The pest control compositions may be applied directly to a pest or the locus of a pest, and function as topical or ingestible pest toxins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115849 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230073 | Hao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhonglin Hao (Charlottesville, Virginia); John C. Herr (Charlottesville, Virginia); Friederike L. Jayes (Cary, North Carolina); Jagathpala Shetty (Charlottesville, Virginia); Michael J. Wolkowicz (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to sperm specific surface proteins, nucleic acid sequences encoding those proteins and antibodies raised against those proteins. Compositions comprising the sperm specific proteins or inhibitors of said proteins can be used in contraceptive applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809654 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07230080 | Matz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Vladimirovitch Matz (Palm Coast, Florida); Naila Omar Khayyam Alieva (Palm Coast, Florida); Karen Ann Konzen (St. Augustine, Florida); Steven Field (Daytona Beach, Florida); Anya Salih (Waterloo, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides new fluorescent and/or colored proteins, and polynucleotide sequences that encode these proteins. The subject invention further provides materials and methods useful for expressing these detectable proteins in biological systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058952 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07230086 | Price et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Price (La Jolla, California); Julia S. Johansen (Frederiksberg, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of identifying the presence of a disease state in a mammal which is associated with degradation of connective tissue in the mammal which contains the protein known as YKL-40. The method is a competitive immunoassay for YKL-40. It can be used, for example, to identify the presence of inflammatory or degenerative joint disease and tumor metastasis (to the extent it can be correlated to serum YKL-40 levels). Serum YKL-40 levels as detected and quantified by the inventive method are also suggestive of the prognosis for the length of survival in breast cancer patients following recurrence and/or metastasis of their cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648811 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230087 | Pier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael J. Preston (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Lisa Cavacini (Natick, Massachusetts); Marshall R. Posner (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that bind specifically to P. aeruginosa mucoid exopolysaccharide. The invention further provides methods for using these peptides in the diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy of P. aeruginosa infection and related disorders (e.g., cystic fibrosis). Some antibodies of the invention enhance opsonophagocytic killing of multiple mucoid strains of P. aeruginosa. Compositions of these peptides, including pharmaceutical compositions, are also provided, as are functionally equivalent variants of such peptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/171085 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.100 |
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| US 07230089 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Roberts (Seattle, Washington); Beth L. Kelly (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for modulating the growth and/or yield of plants. In particular the methods comprise the use of agents which functionally inhibit the expression of plant D-like cyclin inhibitors including isolated polynucleotide sequences which interact with DNA or RNA encoding proteins capable of binding plant D-like cyclins. Further, the present invention provides recombinant polynucleotide sequences, vectors and host cells which encode proteins capable of binding to and inactivating the activity of plant D-like cyclin/cyclin dependent kinase complexes preventing plant cells from exiting the cell cycle. Methods for determining and agents which are inhibitors of the BRO cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor proteins which are capable of modulating plant cell cycle progression are also provided. Methods for the production of transgenic plant cells and plants with increased growth rates and yields when compared to wild-type plants are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/980758 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.600 |
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| US 07230091 | Mallampalli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rama K. Mallampalli (Solon, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a noveal isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule having a nucleotide sequence that in nature directs transcription of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltrransferase (CCT), i.e., is a novel CCT promoter, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/488438 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 07230094 | Chatterjee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Subroto Chatterjee (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subroto B. Chatterjee (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel antisense ribozymes useful for inhibiting the activity of neutral sphingomyelinase. Also provided are methods for reducing the activity of neutral sphingomyelinase, as well as methods for reducing apoptosis and atherosclerosis using the ribozymes of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446519 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 07230125 | Rawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Viresh H. Rawal (Chicago, Illinois); Yong Huang (Pasadena, California); Aditya K. Unni (Chicago, Illinois); Avinash N. Thadani (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of performing cycloadditions are described that include (a) combining a first reactant and a second reactant in a hydrogen bonding solvent to form a reaction mixture; and (b) reacting the first reactant and the second reactant to form a cycloadduct. Methods of performing asymmetric catalytic reactions are also described that include (a) combining a first reactant, a second reactant, and a catalytic amount of a chiral hydrogen-bond donor in a solvent to form a reaction mixture; and (b) reacting the first reactant and the second reactant to form an enantiomeric excess of a reaction product. Reaction mixtures corresponding to these methods are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/629537 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/416 |
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| US 07228779 | Van Dyke-Restifo 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) | Stephen M. Van Dyke-Restifo (Voorheesville, New York); Lisa J. Madigan (Melrose, New York); Douglas F. Olcott (Saratoga Springs, New York); Dominick Scalise (Herkimer, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic primer feed mechanism for use with a carrier assembly of a large caliber artillery piece, which includes mechanical assemblies for automatic primer loading after full breech closure and allows for spent primer cartridges to be extracted before opening of the breech to maximize safety, thereby allowing the gun crew to perform artillery piece misfire, sticker and check fire operations before the breech is opened. The mechanism includes a body member that mounts the automatic feed mechanism to the carrier of the artillery piece so as to interface with the carrier to position the mechanism on one side of the breech of the artillery piece. The body member includes a cam surface member, which provides a path for movement of an injection arm member. The tray member has guide rails for engagement with the body, which slides in relation thereto. A magazine containing a plurality of primer cartridges, which inserts in a receiver channel located in the tray member. The mechanism provides improved safety wherein live primers stored in a magazine are at a distance from the firing chamber hole that prevents flame from reaching a live charge before a fresh primer is injected therein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/501620 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/27.130 |
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| US 07229049 | Ambrose |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Ambrose (Quartz Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for installing a plurality of rotary actuator segments in a device includes a unitary hinge fitting. The unitary hinge fitting includes a first side couplable to a control surface, and a plurality of bays. Each bay is configured to receive at least one of the rotary actuator segments. The unitary hinge fitting reduces the number of components required to install rotary actuators by eliminating the shims, the shear clips, and some of the fasteners required to attach the shims and the shear clips to the hinge fittings. The resulting assembly is typically much simpler and lower in cost and weight than conventional rotary actuator installations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838959 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/213 |
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| US 07229273 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York); Byung-Jin Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Matthew E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Carlton G. Willson (Austin, Texas); John G. Ekerdt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a template comprising a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of recessions with a distance between a zenith of any of the plurality of protrusions and a nadir of any one of the plurality of recessions being less than 250 nm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/755997 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
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| US 07229572 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Klaus Kunze (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Photoluminescent phosphor powders and a method for making phosphor powders. The phosphor powders have a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution and are substantially spherical. The method of the invention advantageously permits the economic production of such powders. The invention also relates to improved devices, such as display devices and lighting elements, incorporating the phosphor powders. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730756 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4R0 |
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| US 07229669 | Youngner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Leonard A. Hilton (Buffalo, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are structures useful in microelectronic or MEMS devices such as atomic clocks, sensors, and RF switches, wherein a first material is deposited onto a substrate to define a first material area of coverage and a second material is deposited over the first material area of coverage to define a second material area of coverage that includes the first material area of coverage and that additionally includes area that surrounds the first material area of coverage, such that the first material is enclosed by the second material over the entire area and past the edges of the first material. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/712444 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.150 |
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| US 07229685 | Full et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Full (Concord, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Cerito, California); Thomas W. Kenny (San Carlos, California); Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655271 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/343 |
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| US 07229745 | Lamarre |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Lamarre (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multilayer resist systems and techniques used for liftoff or planarizing topography wherein the dimensions and thicknesses of the layers are independently controlled. The undercut may also be independently controlled for precision structures. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710023 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/313 |
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| US 07229819 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tu-Chen Cheng (Timonium, Maryland); Joseph J. DeFrank (Bel Air, Maryland); Steven P. Harvey (Fallston, Maryland); Vipin K. Rastogi (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a near-universal non-corrosive, non-toxic, environmentally safe and user friendly decontaminant capable of detoxifying organophosphorus (OP)-based G-type, V-type neurotoxic chemical warfare, sulfur-mustard, and related OP based hazardous industrial materials in a dry powder form. The decontaminant contains OPH enzyme, OPAA enzyme, DFPase enzyme, dehalogenase enzyme, quaternary ammonium salt, a pH control reagent, a fire-fighting agent, and a foaming agent. The decontaminant is mixed with available water for use. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/694206 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/264 |
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| US 07229838 | 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 an actuator divided into two parts to direct a component of interest into one of a plurality of possible exit paths, based on detection of a fluorescent signal emanating from the component of interest. The two-part actuator may include a force-generating portion and a microactuator portion. The microactuator portion may be disposable, whereas the force-generating portion may be reuseable. By bringing the force-generating portion into proximity to the microactuator portion, the microactuator is induced to move, thereby separating the component of interest from the rest of the fluid stream. The force-generating portion and the microactuator portion may be optimized and fabricated separately, thereby leading to faster, more reliable and less expensive particle sorting. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260367 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
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| US 07229848 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Stephen Smith (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for assembling microstructures onto a substrate through fluid transport. The microstructures being shaped blocks self-align into recessed regions located on a substrate such that the microstructure becomes integral with the substrate. The improved method includes a step of transferring the shaped blocks into a fluid to create a slurry. Such slurry is then dispensed evenly or circulated over the top surface of a substrate having recessed regions thereon. The microstructure via the shape and fluid tumbles onto the surface of the substrate, self-aligns, and engages into a recessed region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997076 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/107 |
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| US 07229959 | Drohan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The American National Red Cross (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William N. Drohan (Springfield, Virginia); Martin J. MacPhee (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Hernan Nunez (Derwood, Maryland); Gene Liau (Darnestown, Maryland); Wilson H. Burgess (Clifton, Virginia); Thomas Maciag (Freeport, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides supplemented and unsupplemented tissue sealants as well as methods for their production and use thereof. Disclosed are tissue sealants supplemented with at least one antibody. The composition may be further supplemented with, for example, one or more analgesics, antimicrobial compositions, anticoagulants, antiproliferatives, anti-inflammatory compounds, cytokines, cytotoxins, drugs, growth factors, interferons, hormones, lipids, demineralized bone or bone morphogenetic proteins, cartilage inducing factors, oligonucleotides polymers, polysaccharides, polypeptides, protease inhibitors, vasoconstrictors or vasodilators, vitamins, minerals, stabilizers and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/479038 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07230040 | Carlo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Carlo (Chesapeake, Virginia); Eva M. Maya (Moralzarzal, Spain); Arthur W. Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Richard Gork Sim Pong (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | High concentrations of dye may be prepared in combination with thermoplastic polymers and used in optical polymers as monomeric and dimeric molecular solutions. The method of preparing high concentration levels allows the control over the aggregation of dye molecules that is required to maintain effective nonlinear operation. The present invention is applicable to many systems and is essential to the successful production of working optical limiting devices and other optically transparent polymeric devices, as well as other photonic applications, such as nonlinear optics. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836625 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/135 |
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| US 07230071 | Bruno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for polymerizing electronic and photonic polymers, wherein an aromatic monomer is combined with a hematin catalyst derivatized with at least one non-proteinaceous amphipathic group, and a peroxide initiator, and employing a template, wherein the aromatic monomer aligns along the template and polymerizes to form a complex comprising the polymerized monomer and the template. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775580 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/424 |
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| US 07230221 | Busse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Busse (Camarillo, California); Raymond J. Blattel (Oxnard, California); Mallory J. Boyd (Ridgecrest, California); Michael D. Barrett (Camarillo, California); William R. Ditzler (Ridgecrest, California); Jason R. Allen (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ground based launch detection system consisting of a sensor grid of electro-optical sensors for detecting the launch of a threat missile which targets commercial aircraft in proximity to a commercial airport or airfield. The electro-optical sensors are configured in a wireless network which broadcast threat lines to neighboring sensors with overlapping field of views. When a threat missile is verified, threat data is sent to a centrally located processing facility which determines which aircraft in the vicinity are targets and send a dispense countermeasure signal to the aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084264 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/203.600 |
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| US 07230228 | Stone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for utilizing optical systems in order to introduce digitally tunable amounts of temporal dispersion into optical signals and methods and systems for providing angular dispersion compensated output from optical switching/routing systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717414 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/216 |
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| US 07230265 | Kaiser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Kaiser (San Jose, California); Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunnel barrier in proximity with a layer of a rare earth element-transition metal (RE—TM) alloy forms a device that passes negatively spin-polarized current. The rare earth element includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb. The RE and TM have respective sub-network moments such that the absolute magnitude of the RE sub-network moment is greater than the absolute magnitude of the TM sub-network moment. An additional layer of magnetic material may be used in combination with the tunnel barrier and the RE—TM alloy layer to form a magnetic tunnel junction. Still other layers of tunnel barrier and magnetic material may be used in combination with the foregoing to form a flux-closed double tunnel junction device. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908530 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/30 |
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| US 07230268 | Bocian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F Bocian (Riverside, California); Jonathan S Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhiming Liu (Riverside, California); Amir A Yasseri (Riverside, California); Robert S Loewe (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a new procedure for attaching molecules to semiconductor surfaces, in particular silicon. The molecules, which include, but are not limited to porphyrins and ferrocenes, have been previously shown to be attractive candidates for molecular-based information storage. The new attachment procedure is simple, can be completed in short times, requires minimal amounts of material, is compatible with diverse molecular functional groups, and in some instances affords unprecedented attachment motifs. These features greatly enhance the integration of the molecular materials into the processing steps that are needed to create hybrid molecular/semiconductor information storage devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140011 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 07230274 | O'Loughlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John O'Loughlin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph John Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Single crystal silicon carbide epitaxial layer on an off-axis substrate are manufactured by placing the substrate in an epitaxial growth reactor, growing a first layer of epitaxial silicon carbide on the substrate, interrupting the growth of the first layer of epitaxial silicon carbide, etching the first layer of epitaxial silicon carbide to reduce the thickness of the first layer, and regrowing a second layer of epitaxial silicon carbide on the first layer of epitaxial silicon carbide. Carrot defects may be terminated by the process of interrupting the epitaxial growth process, etching the grown layer and regrowing a second layer of epitaxial silicon carbide. The growth interruption/etching/regrowth may be repeated multiple times. A silicon carbide epitaxial layer has at least one carrot defect that is terminated within the epitaxial layer. A semiconductor structure includes an epitaxial layer of silicon carbide on an off-axis silicon carbide substrate, and a carrot defect having a nucleation point in the vicinity of an interface between the substrate and the epitaxial layer and is terminated within the epitaxial layer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790406 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
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| US 07230284 | Parikh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Santa Barbara, California); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are disclosed having a thin AlGaN layer to reduce trapping and also having additional layers to reduce gate leakage and increase the maximum drive current. One HEMT according to the present invention comprises a high resistivity semiconductor layer with a barrier semiconductor layer on it. The barrier layer has a wider bandgap than the high resistivity layer and a 2DEG forms between the layers. Source and drain contacts contact the barrier layer, with part of the surface of the barrier layer uncovered by the contacts. An insulating layer is included on the uncovered surface of the barrier layer and a gate contact is included on the insulating layer. The insulating layer forms a barrier to gate leakage current and also helps to increase the HEMT's maximum current drive. The invention also includes methods for fabricating HEMTs according to the present invention. In one method, the HEMT and its insulating layer are fabricated using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). In another method the insulating layer is sputtered onto the top surface of the HEMT in a sputtering chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/201345 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
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| US 07230421 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts); Volker Weiss (Syracuse, New York); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Reference standards or articles having prescribed levels of damage are fabricated by monitoring an electrical property of the article material, mechanically loading the article, and removing the load when a change in electrical properties indicates a prescribed level of damage. The electrical property is measured with an electromagnetic sensor, such as a flexible eddy current sensor, attached to a material surface, which may be between layers of the article material. The damage may be in the form of a fatigue crack or a change in the mechanical stress underneath the sensor. The shape of the article material may be adjusted to concentrate the stress so that the damage initiates under the sensor. Examples adjustments to the article shape include the use of dogbone geometries with thin center sections, reinforcement ribs on the edges of the article, and radius cut-outs in the vicinity of the thin section. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071051 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
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| US 07230700 | Gerhart 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) | Grant R. Gerhart (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Roy M. Matchko (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining and displaying polarization profiles of points in a scene from a single imaging detector array, which utilizes a filter system comprised of a retarder, four linear polarizers, four lenses, a color filter, camera lens and CCD video camera. Light from points in a scene are transmitted through the system and exits with attenuated intensities unique for each wavelength of the light. A narrowband color filter selects the wavelength of interest. The four lenses in the system produce four images of the scene, which are recorded as a single CCD-image. The attenuated intensities in each of the four scene-images are used to calculate the Stokes parameters for selected points in the scene for the selected wavelength. A computer program separates the four scene-images in the CCD-image, crops, registers them and calculates the Stokes parameters for each point in the cropped scene. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527655 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230952 | Beshai |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Ontario, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of interleaving time-critical data packets and delay-tolerant data packets on a shared channel emanating from a control port of a switching node permits a strict time requirement for transmission of time-critical data packets to be met. A control circuit of the switching node stores a local time, an indication of a time required to transfer a delay-tolerant data packet waiting to be transferred, a comparator and a selector to control transfer of the time-critical and delay tolerant data packets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409702 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230963 | Menon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinod M. Menon (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Shubhashish R. Datta (New Haven, Connecticut); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic wavelength stabilized system comprises a laser monolithically formed with a waveguide splitter having at least two branches. Non-identical resonators having different wavelengths are operatively coupled to each branch of the splitter and a photodiode is communicatively coupled to receive the output from each non-identical resonator. A control unit receives the photocurrent outputs from the photodiodes, determines based on the photocurrents whether the wavelength of the laser signal is at a desired value, and transmits a feedback signal to the laser to move the laser output toward the desired wavelength. The laser, splitter, resonators, and photodiodes are monolithically formed in a single chip using asymmetric waveguides. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108039 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231271 | Gopalan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaliappan Gopalan (Munster, Indiana); Stanley J. Wenndt (Rome, New York); Darren Haddad (Frankfort, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for embedding a covert message within a digital audio signal. The existence of the covert message is undetectable and the information content of the covert message can be further rendered unascertainable. Covert message data is embedded within a digital audio signal on an audio frame-by-audio frame basis. Covert message data is embedded either at a rate of one bit per frame or two bits per frame. The invention has uses including but not limited to watermarking digital audio signals, hiding data within a digital audio signal, increasing the channel capacity of a communications channel by placing multiple messages within each other, and generally increasing message robustness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768753 |
| ART UNIT | 2615 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231356 | Ward 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) | Glenn G. Ward (Wallingford, Pennsylvania); Donald J. Collins (Voorhees, New Jersey); Richard A. Stutchfield (Mickleton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A methodology for engineering or re-engineering workflow management strategy, in furtherance of business excellence, is especially suitable for an organization whose business operations involve machinery. The methodology includes the identification of internal and/or external core functions, the preparation of individual written reports each pertaining to a different core function, the assimilation of such reports into a manual for use by the entire organization, the formation of such organization into internal and/or external core function units (which, typically, are at least substantially in accordance with the previously identified core functions), and the creation of one or more modes of systematic communication among the core function units. Suggested internal core functions include facilities, budget and contracts. Suggested external core functions include life cycle management, acquisition, research and development, test and evaluation, in-service engineering, integrating logistic support, program management and platform management. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/671871 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231509 | Gheith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Gheith (Round Rock, Texas); James Lyle Peterson (Austin, Texas); Richard Ormond Simpson (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An extended register processor includes a register file having a legacy register set and an extended register set. The extended register set includes a plurality of extended registers accessible only to extended register instructions. The processor maps extended register references to physical extended registers at run time. The processor includes a configurable extended register mapping unit to support this functionality. The mapping unit is accessible to an instruction decoder, which detects extended register references and forwards them to the mapping unit. The mapping unit returns a physical extended register corresponding to the extended register reference in the instruction. The mapping unit is configurable so that, for example, the mapping is specific to a code block. An extended register allocation instruction causes the processor to allocate a portion of the extended register set to the code block in which the declaration is located and to configure the mapping unit to reflect the allocation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/034559 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07228724 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Jeffrey F. Roeder (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas detector for detecting a fluoro gas species in a gaseous environment containing same, e.g., an effluent from a semiconductor processing tool that employs corrosive fluoro species such as HF, NF3, etc. for etch cleaning. The gas detector preferably employs an elongated nickel-containing gas sensor element that can be vertically mounted on a fluoro-resistant support structure. Since the nickel-containing gas sensor element is sensitive to the fluoro species and is also electrically conductive, it can function both as a sensing component and a heat source when elevated temperature sensing is required. Vertical mounting of such elongated gas sensor element on the support structure significantly improves the signal strength, reduces the response time, minimizes the footprint of the gas detector, and provides structural flexibility for accommodating thermal expansion/contraction of the elongated gas sensor element. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758825 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07228740 | Sinha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for noninvasively monitoring the flow and/or the composition of a flowing liquid using ultrasound is described. The position of the resonance peaks for a fluid excited by a swept-frequency ultrasonic signal have been found to change frequency both in response to a change in composition and in response to a change in the flow velocity thereof. Additionally, the distance between successive resonance peaks does not change as a function of flow, but rather in response to a change in composition. Thus, a measurement of both parameters (resonance position and resonance spacing), once calibrated, permits the simultaneous determination of flow rate and composition using the apparatus and method of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/105098 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229178 | Headley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Headley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marc Ramsey (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jens Schwarz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable focal length deformable mirror has an inner ring and an outer ring that simply support and push axially on opposite sides of a mirror plate. The resulting variable clamping force deforms the mirror plate to provide a parabolic mirror shape. The rings are parallel planar sections of a single paraboloid and can provide an on-axis focus, if the rings are circular, or an off-axis focus, if the rings are elliptical. The focal length of the deformable mirror can be varied by changing the variable clamping force. The deformable mirror can generally be used in any application requiring the focusing or defocusing of light, including with both coherent and incoherent light sources. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017337 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/847 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229498 | Norman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Norman (Evergreen, Colorado); Jerry M. Olson (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures (18) and methods for production thereof by phase separation during metal organic vapor-phase epitaxy (MOVPE). An embodiment of one of the methods may comprise providing a growth surface in a reaction chamber and introducing a first mixture of precursor materials into the reaction chamber to form a buffer layer (12) thereon. A second mixture of precursor materials may be provided into the reaction chamber to form an active region (14) on the buffer layer (12), wherein the nanostructure (18) is embedded in a matrix (16) in the active region (14). Additional steps are also disclosed for preparing the nanostructure (18) product for various applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/532540 |
| 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 117/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229537 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); BP Corporation North America, Inc. (Warrenville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack C. Chen (Getzville, New York); Charles J. Besecker (Batavia, Illinois); Hancun Chen (Williamsville, New York); Earil T. Robinson (Mentor, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite oxygen ion transport element that has a layered structure formed by a dense layer to transport oxygen ions and electrons and a porous support layer to provide mechanical support. The dense layer can be formed of a mixture of a mixed conductor, an ionic conductor, and a metal. The porous support layer can be fabricated from an oxide dispersion strengthened metal, a metal-reinforced intermetallic alloy, a boron-doped Mo5Si3-based intermetallic alloy or combinations thereof. The support layer can be provided with a network of non-interconnected pores and each of said pores communicates between opposite surfaces of said support layer. Such a support layer can be advantageously employed to reduce diffusion resistance in any type of element, including those using a different material makeup than that outlined above. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864577 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229593 | Ho |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford K. Ho (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for measuring the effective vapor diffusion coefficient of a test vapor diffusing through a sample of porous media contained within a test chamber. A chemical sensor measures the time-varying concentration of vapor that has diffused a known distance through the porous media. A data processor contained within the apparatus compares the measured sensor data with analytical predictions of the response curve based on the transient diffusion equation using Fick's Law, iterating on the choice of an effective vapor diffusion coefficient until the difference between the predicted and measured curves is minimized. Optionally, a purge fluid can forced through the porous media, permitting the apparatus to also measure a gas-phase permeability. The apparatus can be made lightweight, self-powered, and portable for use in the field. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280231 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229692 | Melechko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Ithaca, New York); Bojan Ilic (Ithaca, New York); Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mitchel J. Doktycz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, manufactures, machines and compositions are described for nanotransfer and nanoreplication using deterministically grown sacrificial nanotemplates. An apparatus includes a substrate and a nanoconduit material coupled to a surface of the substrate, where the substrate defines an aperture and the nanoconduit material defines a nanoconduit that is i) contiguous with the aperture and ii) aligned substantially non-parallel to a plane defined by the surface of the substrate. An apparatus includes a substrate and a nanoreplicant structure coupled to a surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774699 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229785 | Seibert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Seibert (Lakewood, Colorado); Valeriya Makarova (Golden, Colorado); Anatoly A. Tsygankov (Pushchino, Russian Federation); Andrew B. Rubin (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | In situ fluorescence method to monitor state of sulfur-deprived algal culture's ability to produce H2 under sulfur depletion, comprising: a) providing sulfur-deprived algal culture; b) illuminating culture; c) measuring onset of H2 percentage in produced gas phase at multiple times to ascertain point immediately after anerobiosis to obtain H2 data as function of time; and d) determining any abrupt change in three in situ fluorescence parameters; i) increase in Ft (steady-state level of chlorophyll fluorescence in light adapted cells); ii) decrease in Fm′, (maximal saturating light induced fluorescence level in light adapted cells); and iii) decrease in ΔF/Fm′=(Fm′−Ft)/Fm′ (calculated photochemical activity of photosystem II (PSII) signaling full reduction of plastoquinone pool between PSII and PSI, which indicates start of anaerobic conditions that induces synthesis of hydrogenase enzyme for subsequent H2 production that signal oxidation of plastoquinone pool asmain factor to regulate H2 under sulfur depletion. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/511929 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229837 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liaohai Chen (Darien, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A particulate fluorescent conjugated polymer surfactant complex and method of making and using same. The particles are between about 15 and about 50 nm and when formed from a lipsome surfactant have a charge density similar to DNA and are strongly absorbed by cancer cells. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449287 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230157 | Zuo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianru Zuo (New York, New York); Nam-Hai Chua (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a chemically inducible promoter for transforming plants or plant cells with genes which are regulatable by adding the plants or cells to a medium containing an inducer or by removing them from such medium. The promoter is inducible by a glucocorticoid, estrogen or inducer not endogenous to plants. Such promoters may be used with any plant genes that can promote shoot regeneration and development to induce shoot formation in the presence of a glucocorticoid, estrogen or inducer. The promoter may be used with antibiotic or herbicide resistance genes or other genes which are regulatable by the presence or absence of a given inducer. Also presented are organisms or cells comprising a gene wherein the natural promoter of the gene is disrupted and the gene is placed under the control of a transgenic inducible promoter. These organisms and cells and their progeny are useful for screening for conditional gain of function and loss of function mutations. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/129849 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230250 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Kaplan (Stony Brook, New York); James Lemley (Miller Place, New York); Thomas Y. Tsang (Holbrook, New York); Laurence W. Milian (East Patchogue, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is for a radiation detector apparatus for detecting radiation sources present in cargo shipments. The invention includes the features of integrating a bubble detector sensitive to neutrons and a GPS system into a miniaturized package that can wirelessly signal the presence of radioactive material in shipping containers. The bubble density would be read out if such indicated a harmful source. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/918795 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230269 | Rand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry P. Rand (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photosensitive cell includes an anode and a cathode; a donor-type organic material and an acceptor-type organic material forming a donor-acceptor junction connected between the anode and the cathode; and an exciton blocking layer connected between the acceptor-type organic material of the donor-acceptor junction and the cathode, the blocking layer consisting essentially of a material that has a hole mobility of at least 10−7 cm2/V-sec or higher, where a HOMO of the blocking layer is higher than or equal to a HOMO of the acceptor-type material. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150143 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret D. Cannon (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | One system of the present invention includes a modulated light source subsystem to provide a first light signal with a first modulation index, and a second light signal with a second modulation index. The system also includes a region to receive an analyte for evaluation and direct the first light signal thereto, and a detector responsive to the second light signal and a third light signal from the region to provide an output representative of spectroscopic information. The third light signal further includes noise induced by residual amplitude modulation that is reduced at the detector by the second light signal in accordance with a difference between the first modulation index and the second modulation index. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/700161 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231011 | Akers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas W. Akers (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-destructive testing apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention comprises a photon source. The photon source produces photons having predetermined energies and directs the photons toward a specimen being tested. The photons from the photon source result in the creation of positrons within the specimen being tested. A detector positioned adjacent the specimen being tested detects gamma rays produced by annihilation of positrons with electrons. A data processing system operatively associated with the detector produces output data indicative of a lattice characteristic of the specimen being tested. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/932531 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231128 | Muhs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Muhs (Lenoir City, Tennessee); Dennis D. Earl (Knoxville, Tennessee); David L. Beshears (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lonnie C. Maxey (Powell, Tennessee); John K. Jordan (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Randall F. Lind (Lenoir City, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid solar lighting system and components having at least one hybrid solar concentrator, at least one fiber receiver, at least one hybrid luminaire, and a light distribution system operably connected to each hybrid solar concentrator and each hybrid luminaire. A controller operates each component. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633027 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan E. Stott (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Brian K. H. Yen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A population of nanocrystals having a narrow and controllable size distribution and can be prepared by a continuous flow method. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/921306 |
| 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 07229634 | Tirrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tirrell (Pasadena, California); Daniel M. Schwartz (San Francisco, California); Paul J. Nowatzki (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides engineered proteins and biomedical products made from the engineered proteins. The biomedical products include lenses useful for ophthalmic purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040130 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229685 | Full et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Full (Concord, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Cerito, California); Thomas W. Kenny (San Carlos, California); Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655271 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229690 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YinThai Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microparticle can include a central region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region can include a nanoparticle, such as a metal nanoparticle, a metal oxide nanoparticle, or a semiconductor nanocrystal. The microparticle can be a member of a monodisperse population of particles. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898554 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229786 | Eggink |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Eggink (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a carotenoid in solid form includes culturing a strain of Chlorophyta algae cells in a minimal inorganic medium and separating the algae comprising a solid form of carotenoid. In one embodiment f the invention, the strain of Chlorophyta algae cells includes a strain f Chlamydomonas algae cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/169117 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229829 | Dinesh Kumar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Savithramma P. Dinesh Kumar (New Haven, Connecticut); Yule Liu (New Haven, Connecticut); Michael Schiff (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The application provides, in part, vectors based on novel tobacco rattle virus replicons, as well as methods for using such vectors and transgenic plants. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388848 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229901 | Savage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Savage (Madison, Wisconsin); Michelle M. Roberts (Madison, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Growth of multilayer films is carried out in a manner which allows close control of the strain in the grown layers and complete release of the grown films to allow mounting of the released multilayer structures on selected substrates. A layer of material, such as silicon-germanium, is grown onto a template layer, such as silicon, of a substrate having a sacrificial layer on which the template layer is formed. The grown layer has a lattice mismatch with the template layer so that it is strained as deposited. A top layer of crystalline material, such as silicon, is grown on the alloy layer to form a multilayer structure with the grown layer and the template layer. The sacrificial layer is preferentially etched away to release the multilayer structure from the sacrificial layer, relaxing the grown layer and straining the crystalline layers interfaced with it. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014574 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230161 | Gallie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Des Moines, Iowa); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Gallie (Riverside, California); Robert Meeley (Des Moines, Iowa); Todd Young (Palm Springs, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases are provided along with knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875127 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230245 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Tao Yuan (Troy, New York); Jingzhou Xu (Troy, New York); Haewook Han (Pohang, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for use with a source of radiation to provide a THz emission image representing a sample. The device comprises a substrate, a metallic probe having a tip adjacent to the substrate surface and a source of AC bias coupled between the probe tip and substrate. Radiation generated by the source of radiation is incident on the substrate surface in the vicinity of the probe tip and generates THz emission based at least on the AC bias coupled between the probe tip and substrate. A method for providing a THz emission image representing a sample is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121385 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230415 | Chamon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudio Chamon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ian Affleck (Vancouver, Canada); Masaki Oshikawa (Kawasaki, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum junction device having three or more wires connected to a loop surrounding a magnetic flux is used to act as a switch responsive to magnetic flux and therefore useable for mass storage devices or as a flux detector by sensing current direction, conductance tensor, in response to a magnetic field under test. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988927 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230984 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Martin (Ithaca, New York); Jaiganesh Balakrishnan (Dallas, Texas); Wonzoo Chung (Ithaca, New York); C. Richard Johnson, Jr. (Newfield, New York); William A. Sethares (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for equalizing data and systems utilizing the method. The method of this invention for equalizing (by shortening the channel response) data includes minimizing a function of the data and a number of equalizer characteristic parameters, where the function utilizes cyclic differences of equalized data. Updated equalizer characteristic parameters are then obtained from the minimization and an initial set of equalizer characteristic parameters. Finally, the received data is processed utilizing the equalizer defined by the minimization. The method of this invention can be implemented in an equalizer and the equalizer of this invention may be included in a system for receiving data. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390390 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231328 | Desjarlais |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Desjarlais (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methodology for the automated design of proteins is disclosed. Various methods executed by a computer for generating probability matrices, protein sequences, combinatorial libraries of proteins, and optimization of various parameters related to protein design are disclosed. Methodology is applicable to the design and analysis of protein structures and protein sequences. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/877695 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07228724 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Jeffrey F. Roeder (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas detector for detecting a fluoro gas species in a gaseous environment containing same, e.g., an effluent from a semiconductor processing tool that employs corrosive fluoro species such as HF, NF3, etc. for etch cleaning. The gas detector preferably employs an elongated nickel-containing gas sensor element that can be vertically mounted on a fluoro-resistant support structure. Since the nickel-containing gas sensor element is sensitive to the fluoro species and is also electrically conductive, it can function both as a sensing component and a heat source when elevated temperature sensing is required. Vertical mounting of such elongated gas sensor element on the support structure significantly improves the signal strength, reduces the response time, minimizes the footprint of the gas detector, and provides structural flexibility for accommodating thermal expansion/contraction of the elongated gas sensor element. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758825 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229712 | Eshraghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microcell Corporation (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray R. Eshraghi (Cary, North Carolina); Michael W. Riley (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfibrous fuel cell sub-bundle structures, fuel cell bundles and fuel cell assemblies formed by such fuel cell sub-bundles and bundles. Specifically, a fuel cell sub-bundle is provided, which comprises multiple microfibrous fuel cells. Each microfibrous fuel cell comprises: (a) a hollow microfibrous membrane separator comprising an electrolyte medium, (b) an inner electrocatalyst layer in contact with an inner surface of such membrane separator, (c) an outer electrocatalyst layer in contact with an outer surface of such membrane separator, and (d) an individual current collector in electrical contact with the inner surface of such membrane separator. Each of such multiple microfibrous fuel cells is in electrical contact with a common current collector at the outer surface of its membrane separator. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794687 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229795 | Dartois et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California); E.P.I. Liquidation Co. (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Veronique A. Dartois (San Diego, California); James A. Hoch (La Jolla, California); Fernando Valle (Burlingame, California); Manoj Kumar (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides having 2,5-DKG permease activity, and oligonucleotides therefrom. The isolated nucleic acid molecules can be expressed in appropriate bacterial cells to enhance the production of 2-KLG, which can subsequently be converted to ascorbic acid. Further provided are isolated polypeptides having 2,5-DKG permease activity, immunogenic peptides therefrom, and antibodies specific therefor. The invention also provides methods of identifying novel 2,5-DKG permeases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/787267 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229811 | Kumar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California); E.P.I. Liquidation Co. (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manoj Kumar (Fremont, California); Fernando Valle (Burlingame, California); Veronique A. Dartois (San Diego, California); James A. Hoch (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides having 2,5-DKG permease activity, and oligonucleotides therefrom. The isolated nucleic acid molecules can be expressed in appropriate bacterial cells to enhance the production of 2-KLG, which can subsequently be converted to ascorbic acid. Further provided are isolated polypeptides having 2,5-DKG permease acitivity, immunogenic peptides therefrom, and antibodies specific therefor. The invention also provides methods of identifying novel 2,5-DKG permeases. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343369 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229832 | Nayar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Nayar (Chicago, Illinois); Renxuan Liu (Chicago, Illinois); Richard R. Willis (Des Plaines, Illinois); Eugene R. Smotkin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and apparatus for rapidly screening materials using, for example, mass spectrometry has been developed. More specifically, an array of materials on a fluid permeable support contained within a reaction cell having a semipermeable membrane can be rapidly screened for characteristics such as catalytic activity, selectivity, and adsorption and desorption properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/664730 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230235 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Goldberg (Palo Alto, California); Marshall W. Bern (San Carlos, California); John R. Yates, III (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides systems and/or methods for accessing a portion of a mass-fragment spectrum, constructing a vector that is responsive to an intensity-balance of the spectrum, and selecting the spectrum responsive to the vector. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122364 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230711 | Hovde |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Christian Hovde (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer and spectrometry method comprising modulating a light source with a carrier waveform multiplied by an envelope function, directing light from the light source through a sample region and to a photodetector, and demodulating current from the photodetector at a reference frequency. Also a method for computing a modulation waveform comprising specifying a target detection efficiency in a Fourier space, computing a response of a waveform that comprises a carrier wave multiplied by an envelope function, and modifying the envelope function using nonlinear optimization means to minimize a difference between the computed response and a predetermined target detection efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133803 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231554 | Moser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Availigent, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise E. Moser (Santa Barbara, California); Peter M. Melliar-Smith (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for transparent consistent active replication of multithreaded application programs is described. At each replica, control messages that contain mutex ordering information indicating the order in which threads in the replicas claim mutexes are multicast, and the control messages are delivered using a multicast group communication protocol that delivers the messages in an order that determines the order in which the operating system's thread library grants the claims of mutexes to the threads in the replicas. Because the replicas receive the same messages in the same source order, the corresponding threads in the different replicas are granted their corresponding claims to the corresponding mutexes in the same order, maintaining strong replica consistency. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397038 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07228683 | Henry |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenecady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Leslie Henry (Westchester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for generating thrust from a gas turbine engine using a pulse detonation system is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a fan assembly, and a bypass duct channeling air to a core engine and the pulse detonation system. The method includes injecting a charge of fuel into a pulse detonation tube that is coupled radially outward from the core engine, and controlling a supply of air from the fan into the pulse detonation tube through an opening in the inlet end of the pulse detonation tube using a rotary valve that is positioned radially outward from the core engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895585 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07229786 | Eggink |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Eggink (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a carotenoid in solid form includes culturing a strain of Chlorophyta algae cells in a minimal inorganic medium and separating the algae comprising a solid form of carotenoid. In one embodiment f the invention, the strain of Chlorophyta algae cells includes a strain f Chlamydomonas algae cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/169117 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07231329 | Kaul |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upender K. Kaul (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating an elliptic grid in generalized coordinates in two or three dimensions, where one or more decay parameters near a boundary segment of a grid are determined as part of the grid solution, rather than being prescribed initially by a user. The decay parameters may vary with one or more generalized coordinates and determine the rate(s) at which separation distances between adjacent grid lines change as one moves toward or away from a grid boundary segment. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706478 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07228793 | Ling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fizzy Fruit, LLC (Portland, Oregon); Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyue Ling (Beaverton, Oregon); Galen D. Kaufman (Galveston, Texas); John Henry Wells (Portland, Oregon); Bryce L. Hesterman (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbonation system is disclosed that effectively controls the treatment of fruits and vegetables with CO2 gas, providing enhanced flavor to fruits and vegetables. One embodiment of the invention uses a microprocessor to preferably monitor and control the pressure, temperature and gas flow within a sealable enclosure to effectively control the carbonation of fruits and vegetables. Another embodiment consists of a combination carbonation system and cooler that effectively controls the carbonation of fruits and vegetables by including pressure relief devices and an insulation cover. The insulation cover has apertures that provide for the distribution of CO2. A third embodiment is disclosed that also consists of a combination carbonation system and cooler. This third embodiment controls carbonation by including, among other features, feedback mechanisms and a pressure relief device. A method of using the first embodiment is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/304197 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods and beverages: Apparatus 099/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07230161 | Gallie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Des Moines, Iowa); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Gallie (Riverside, California); Robert Meeley (Des Moines, Iowa); Todd Young (Palm Springs, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases are provided along with knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875127 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07230421 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts); Volker Weiss (Syracuse, New York); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Reference standards or articles having prescribed levels of damage are fabricated by monitoring an electrical property of the article material, mechanically loading the article, and removing the load when a change in electrical properties indicates a prescribed level of damage. The electrical property is measured with an electromagnetic sensor, such as a flexible eddy current sensor, attached to a material surface, which may be between layers of the article material. The damage may be in the form of a fatigue crack or a change in the mechanical stress underneath the sensor. The shape of the article material may be adjusted to concentrate the stress so that the damage initiates under the sensor. Examples adjustments to the article shape include the use of dogbone geometries with thin center sections, reinforcement ribs on the edges of the article, and radius cut-outs in the vicinity of the thin section. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071051 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07230711 | Hovde |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Christian Hovde (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer and spectrometry method comprising modulating a light source with a carrier waveform multiplied by an envelope function, directing light from the light source through a sample region and to a photodetector, and demodulating current from the photodetector at a reference frequency. Also a method for computing a modulation waveform comprising specifying a target detection efficiency in a Fourier space, computing a response of a waveform that comprises a carrier wave multiplied by an envelope function, and modifying the envelope function using nonlinear optimization means to minimize a difference between the computed response and a predetermined target detection efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133803 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07230284 | Parikh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Santa Barbara, California); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are disclosed having a thin AlGaN layer to reduce trapping and also having additional layers to reduce gate leakage and increase the maximum drive current. One HEMT according to the present invention comprises a high resistivity semiconductor layer with a barrier semiconductor layer on it. The barrier layer has a wider bandgap than the high resistivity layer and a 2DEG forms between the layers. Source and drain contacts contact the barrier layer, with part of the surface of the barrier layer uncovered by the contacts. An insulating layer is included on the uncovered surface of the barrier layer and a gate contact is included on the insulating layer. The insulating layer forms a barrier to gate leakage current and also helps to increase the HEMT's maximum current drive. The invention also includes methods for fabricating HEMTs according to the present invention. In one method, the HEMT and its insulating layer are fabricated using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). In another method the insulating layer is sputtered onto the top surface of the HEMT in a sputtering chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/201345 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
| US 07230837 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); Tennessee Valley Authority (Knoxville, Tennessee); Electrical Power Research Institute, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qin Huang (Cary, North Carolina); Abdel-Aty Edris (Sunnyvale, California); Michael R. Ingram (Harrison, Tennessee); Siriroj Sirisukprasert (Bangkok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of balancing the voltage of DC links in a cascaded multi-level converter (CMC) semiconductor circuit, including the steps of providing a plurality of H-bridge converters per phase in the CMC circuit and utilizing a three phase duty cycle value from the main controller to determine a normalized duty cycle value, a ceiling duty cycle value and a floor duty cycle value. The normalized duty cycle value and an output current of the CMC is used to determine the direction and polarity of a capacitor current, and utilizing the capacitor current to determine a plurality of output capacitor voltages. A voltage summation result and direction is obtained from a ceiling index pointer and a floor index pointer and the voltage summation result, direction from the ceiling index pointer and a floor index pointer are used to create a combined switching table for the H-bridge converters. A pulse width modulator is utilized to balance the voltage of the DC links and thereby eliminate DC-capacitor voltage imbalance. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277594 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07230033 | Dolan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia); State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc C. Dolan (Wellington, Colorado); Nicholas A. Panella (Fort Collins, Colorado); E. B. Gabrielle Dietrich (Fort Collins, Colorado); Joseph J. Karchesy (Corvallis, Oregon); Gary O. Maupin (Cape Coral, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for controlling an arthropod pest population that include an eremophilane sesquiterpene pest control agent (such as, nootkatone or 13-hydroxy-valencene) and a dialkyl-substituted phenol pest control agent (such as, carvacrol) are disclosed. The compounds present in the compositions may be isolated from natural sources, semi-synthesized from naturally occurring compounds, or completely synthesized. The pest control compositions may be applied directly to a pest or the locus of a pest, and function as topical or ingestible pest toxins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115849 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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FILED
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APPL NO
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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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)
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