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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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| US 07237270 | Crye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LineWeight LLC (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caleb Clark Crye (Brooklyn, New York); Eric Owen Fehlberg (Queens, New York); Gregg M. Thompson (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A garment has a pants leg with a front layer stitched along an outer peripheral seam to the pants leg to form a pocket with an interior cavity. The front layer has a central opening spaced from the outer peripheral seam and defined by an inner periphery. A protective insert, which may be formed of foam, and which is larger than the central opening is removably positionable within the pocket. A stiff cap formed of a material such as SANTOPRENE® thermoplastic elastomer, is stitched to the insert. The cap has a flange which projects outwardly from a central region around a line of attachment. The central region is no larger than the pocket central opening. The insert is removably receivable within the pocket such that the inner periphery of the front layer is engaged between the stiff cap flange and the insert. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887342 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07237353 | Beauchamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Beauchamp (Jamestown, Rhode Island); Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island); William H. Nedderman, Jr. (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A muzzle break for a gun comprising a baffle, a series of slots in the housing of the muzzle break in which the slots exhaust gas of a pressure wave deflected by the baffle during firing of the gun. A membrane seals the slots for underwater use and is separable by the deflected exhaust gas. Another membrane seals a sabot separation chamber of the muzzle break adjacent to the baffle and in a projectile path from the baffle. The membrane for the separation chamber is detachable by a projectile fired from the gun. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911753 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/1.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07237524 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Scott E. Stanford (Mountain View, California); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Seajin Oh (Palo Alto, California); Jon Heim (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustion devices described herein comprise a compliant combustion chamber wall or segment. The compliant segment deforms during combustion in the combustion chamber. Some devices may include a compliant wall configured to stretch responsive to pressure generated by combustion of a fuel in the combustion chamber. A coupling portion translates deformation of the compliant segment or wall into mechanical output. One or more ports are configured to inlet an oxygen source and fuel into the combustion chamber and to outlet exhaust gases from the combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134077 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/195.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238232 | Sunkara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Hari Chandrasekaran (Louisville, Kentucky); Hongwei Li (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A synthesis route to grow textured thin film of gallium nitride on amorphous quartz substrates and on single crystalline substrates such as c-sapphire and polycrystalline substrates such as pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN), alumina and quartz using the dissolution of atomic nitrogen rather than molecular nitrogen to allow for growth at subatmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427747 |
| 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 117/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238336 | Lund et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary K. Lund (Malad, Idaho); Jami M. Hanks (Logan, Utah); Harold E Johnston (Brigham City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming α-alane. The method includes reacting aluminum trichloride and an alkali metal hydride to form an alane-ether complex solution. An aqueous diethyl ether solution is optionally added to the alane-ether complex solution to form a partially hydrolyzed ether/alane-ether complex solution. A solution of a first crystallization additive is added to the alane-ether complex solution or to the aqueous ether/alane-ether complex solution to form a crystallization solution. The first crystallization additive is selected from the group consisting of polystyrene, polybutadiene, polystyrene-co-polybutadiene, polyisoprene, poly-alpha-methylstyrene, polystyrene-co-polyindene, poly-alpha-pinene, and mixtures thereof. Optionally, a second crystallization additive is added to the crystallization solution. The second crystallization additive is selected from the group consisting of squalene, cyclododecatriene, norbornylene, norbornadiene, a phenyl terminated polybutadiene, 2,4-dimethyl anisole, 3,5-dimethyl anisole, 2,6-dimethyl anisole, polydimethyl siloxane, and mixtures thereof. Solvents are removed from the crystallization solution to crystallize the α-alane. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329201 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238409 | Peterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rohr, Inc. (Chula Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Peterson (Huntington Beach, California); John E. Meaney (Bonita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural element for use in aerospace applications such as a structural element suitable as an aircraft component is described. The composite structure comprises: (a) a rib having a first end and a second end; (b) at least one member such as a face sheet having an inner surface and an outer surface; and (c) a rib-receiving member integral to the inner surface of the at least one member, wherein the rib-receiving member comprises at least one rib-receiving element having an opening therein for receiving the first end of the rib and at least one cover sheet having an opening therein for receiving the first end of the rib. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/154207 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238420 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Woo Y. Lee (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Yi-Feng Su (Rutherford, New Jersey); Limin He (Guttenberg, New Jersey); Justin Daniel Meyer (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing an α-Al2O3 nanotemplate of fully crystalline α-Al2O3 directly on the surface of a metal alloy is provided. Also provided is a related apparatus. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870086 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238472 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Yun-Wei Cao (Evanston, Illinois); Rongchao Jin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates composite core/shell nanoparticles and a two-step method for their preparation. The present invention further relates to biomolecule-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates and methods for their preparation. The invention also relates to methods of detection of biomolecules comprising the biomolecule or specific binding substance-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/034451 |
| 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 07238485 | Akeson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Akeson (Santa Cruz, California); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts); David W. Deamer (Santa Cruz, California); Jeffrey R. Sampson (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for analysis of polymers, e.g., polynucleotides, are provided. The systems are capable of analyzing a polymer at a specified rate. One such analysis system includes a structure having a nanopore aperture and a molecular motor, e.g., a polymerase, adjacent the nanopore aperture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088140 |
| 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 07238486 | Pourmand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Pourmand (Mountain View, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the length of a polynucleotide target is provided. With this method, a target is first hybridized to an array of first probes having different, determined lengths, resulting in the formation of duplexes between the polynucleotide target and the first probes. These duplexes have a single stranded section of target if the target is longer than the first probe it is in a duplex with. Next, a second probe having a determined length is hybridized to these duplexes. If the length of the target is greater than the length of the first probe it is displaced during this hybridization step by the process of branch migration. In contrast, if the length of the target is less than or equal to the length of the first probe, it is not displaced. Thus, the length of the polynucleotide target can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/231657 |
| 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 07238541 | Berndt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale F. Berndt (Plymouth, Minnesota); Andrzej Peczalski (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Eric E. Vogt (Minneapolis, Minnesota); William F. Witcraft (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for incorporating magnetic materials in a semiconductor manufacturing process includes manufacturing a semiconductor device including interlayers and dielectric layers, depositing a magnetic layer above a semiconductor device and forming metallized contacts for connecting interlayers of the semiconductor device. With the method of the present invention, the deposition of the magnetic material is integrated with the semiconductor manufacturing process. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182943 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238596 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regenta, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Matthew Bauer (Hillsboro, Oregon); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Candi Cook (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for is provided for synthesizing a compound having the formula E(GeH3)3 wherein E is selected from the group consisting of arsenic (As), antimony (Sb) and phosphorus (P). GeH3Br and [CH3)3Si]3E are combined under conditions whereby E(GeH3)3 is obtained. The E(GeH3)3 is purified by trap-to-trap fractionation. Yields from about 70% to about 76% can be obtained. The E(GeH3)3 can be used as a gaseous precursor for doping a region of a semiconductor material comprising Ge, SnGe, SiGe and SiGeSn in a chemical vapor deposition reaction chamber. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559980 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238729 | Rolison 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) | Debra R. Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Jean M. Wallace (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeremy J. Pietron (Washington, District of Columbia); Jane K. Rice (Fairfax, Virginia); Rhonda M. Stroud (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes the first viable non-enzyme protein encapsulated within an aerogel. In this, a large excess of cyt c is added to a commercial buffered Au sol solution ( ) which results in the formation of a gold˜protein-protein superstructure in the absence of separation techniques which destroy the superstructure. The gold˜protein-protein superstructure is then nanoglued into a silica framework during the sol to gel transition. To form the gel, the Au˜cyt. c superstructure in buffered medium is added to a silica sol and the composite gels are washed with acetone followed by liquid carbon dioxide and then supercritically dried to form the aerogel. The biocomposite aerogels have a multiplicity of applications particularly in the realm of sensing and energy transformation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923151 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/84.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238766 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A carborane-siloxane compound is provided having the repeat unit Q contains any of —SiR2—, —SiR2—O—, —C≡C—C≡C—, carboranyl, and U′. Each R and R′ is alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl, or mixtures thereof. Each U′ is derivable from hydrosilation of an alkenyl or alkynyl group. Each T is alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl, mixtures thereof, —(O—SiR′2)xH, or the repeat unit. Each x and x′ is a positive integer. The compounds may be made be reacting a carborane-siloxane precursor having unsaturated end groups with a siloxane crosslinker in the presence of a hydrosilation catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874000 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239064 | Jenkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morgan Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Anthony Jenkins (Madison, Alabama); Michael Scott Kranz (Madison, Alabama); Marty Ray Williams (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The Resettable Latching MEMS Temperature Sensor provides the capability of recording external temperature extremes without consuming electrical power. The device incorporates a thermal bimorph, contacts, latches, and actuators for device reset. The device can be designed, hardwired, or programmed to trigger at various temperature levels. The device can be fabricated in a simple micromachining process that allows its size to be miniaturized for embedded and portable applications. During operation, the device consumes no quiescent power. The device can be configured to close a circuit, switch an interrupt signal, or switch some other electrical trigger signal between devices at the time of a temperature extreme being reached, or it can be configured to latch and be polled at some time after the temperature limit has occurred. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/138108 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239075 | Raina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanwal K. Raina (Boise, Idaho); Benham Moradi (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a resistor layer for use in field emission display devices and the like, and its method of manufacture. The resistor layer is an amorphous silicon layer doped with nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen concentration in the resistor layer is preferably between about 5 and 15 atomic percent. The presence of nitrogen and phosphorus in the silicon prevents diffusion of Si atoms into metal conductive layers such as aluminum, even up to diffusion and packaging temperatures. The nitrogen and phosphorus also prevent defects from forming at the boundary between the resistor layer and metal conductor. This leads to better control over shorting and improved resistivity in the resistor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416338 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239155 | Byington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Impact Technologies LLC (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl S. Byington (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Matthew J. Watson (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan C. Brewer (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method and apparatus for an electrochemical impedance measurement, and in particular circuitry and components employed for such measurements. The system employs an injected broadband AC signal to produce an associated response signal. The subsequent analysis of injected and response signals, considering both magnitude and phase, gives broadband impedance and therefore fluid characteristic information. An embodiment described is relative to a smart oil sensor system suitable for sensing, analyzing and reporting the condition of oil or other liquids used in equipment and machinery. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987069 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/693 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239268 | Albert 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) | Stuart D. Albert (Bricktown, New Jersey); John F. Prorok (Neptune, New Jersey); Joan Skudera, legal representative (Oceanport, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The number of power amplifiers required to amplify a plurality of transmission signals is reduced by using non-linear transmission lines (NTL) circuits. In general, a “combining” NTL circuit is used to combine the plurality of transmission signals to form a soliton pulse. The soliton pulse is then amplified such that each of its component transmission signals are amplified. A “dividing” NTL circuit is then used to divide the amplified soliton pulse into its component amplified transmission signals. The amplified transmission signals can therefore be transmitted over a communications channel without requiring a separate power amplifier for each. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/235215 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239275 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Denny D. Pidhayny (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for tracking signals with diverse polarization properties address both sensitivity and antenna tracking performance issues. In one embodiment, complex weightings for matching a polarization of an incident signal on a data channel are determined, and the complex weightings are applied to a tracking channel such that an antenna system polarization is matched to the polarization of the incident signal. In another embodiment, orthogonally polarized tracking channel components of an incident signal are processed to make a determination as to which of the orthogonally polarized tracking channel components is stronger, and this determination is used to select a polarization of a data channel to reduce a polarization mismatch loss. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807587 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239277 | Fullerton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Time Domain Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry W. Fullerton (Owens Crossroads, Alabama); Mark D. Roberts (Huntsville, Alabama); W. Michael Einhorn, II (Madison, Alabama); Kelly Loum (Athens, Alabama); Irina Dodoukh (Huntsville, Alabama); S. Scott O'Hanian (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for extensible positioning that uses a primary reference node at a known first position and a secondary reference node at a second position, where a range is measured between the secondary reference node and the primary reference node. The second position is determined based upon the first position and the measured range. A second range is measured between the secondary reference node and a non-fixed node. A third position corresponding to the non-fixed node is determined based upon the second position and the second range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103438 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239291 | Walton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Antenna assemblies and corresponding modes of operation are provided where the first antenna assembly of the system is tuned to a first frequency band ν1 and the second antenna assembly of the antenna system is tuned to a second frequency band ν2. The ground plane of the first antenna assembly is configured as a frequency selective surface that is substantially reflective of radiation in the first frequency band and substantially transparent to radiation in the second frequency band. The second ground plane may also be configured as a frequency selective surface and may be reflective of radiation in the second frequency band. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/325365 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239311 | Dunn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Dunn (Hollywood, Maryland); Walter P. Gatewood, Jr. (Lexington Park, Maryland); Wayne Erchak (San Mateo, California); Donald Jackson (Lexington Park, Maryland); Christopher S. Allport (Lexington Park, Maryland); Joseph A. Hamilton (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process that incorporates hardware and software as elements to be combined with procedures and processes to obtain, format, store, combine, control, display, record, and visualize dynamic scenarios by interacting with accurate, realistic models and actual events within, on, and above a three-dimensional surface to be observed or modeled. One application provides a user-manipulated large-scale dynamic display of systems testing in a real world environment for real time visualization by test personnel. The Global Visualization Process (GVP) system is an integrated software solution for high-performance visualization. GVP software and process is capable of displaying extremely high resolution terrain models and imagery in real time over the entire surface of the planet, as well as a large number of moving entities and their associated graphical models. The system can display imagery at 2 cm/pixel, and infinitely detailed terrain in real time over the whole surface of a planet. All displayed data is referenced to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS-84) ellipsoid for true round-earth effects, and can be rendered in correct asymmetric stereo. These features, combined with a network application progamming interface (API), make GVP suitable for flight simulation out-the-window displays, command and control scenarios, and mission review or rehearsal. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/255413 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239439 | Hendrickson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lief M. Hendrickson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system uses a beam of light; a beam expanding lens; a lens for collimating the expanded beam into a column of collimated light; a plurality of acoustic transducers to project acoustic emanations perpendicularly to the column of collimated light, wherein each of the acoustic transducers is placed with respect to the column of collimated light to affect a different region of the column; a lens for collecting the collimated light from the collimating lens and light as affected by the acoustic emanation, wherein the collimating lens focuses the collected collimated light at a focal region; an optical filter at the focal region to separate the light as affected by the transducers from light not so affected; and a detector for detecting the light affected by the acoustic emanations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064666 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/305 |
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| US 07239580 | Intrator et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Intrator (Providence, Rhode Island); Leon N. Cooper (Providence, Rhode Island); Nicola Neretti (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of performing sonar range estimations in a noisy sonar environment. The system includes a sensor, a transmitter, a receiver, a plurality of band-pass filters, a cross correlator, and a data analyzer. The transmitter transmits a pulse through a transmission medium. The pulse travels through the transmission medium until it strikes an object, which returns an echo to the sensor. The sensor provides the echo to the receiver, which provides an indication of the echo to the band-pass filters. The respective band-pass filters provide filtered versions of the echo and pulse to the cross correlator, which performs multiple cross correlation operations on the filtered echo and pulse. The cross correlator provides output data to the data analyzer, which uses the data to estimate the SNR in the environment and to determine a pulse center frequency corresponding to the estimated SNR. By controlling the center frequency of pulses emitted by the transmitter based on information provided by the data analyzer, the system obtains sonar range estimations with increased accuracy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559623 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239717 | Fridrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of SUNY (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Johnson City, New York); Rui Du (Johnson City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Current methods of embedding hidden data in an image inevitably distort the original image by noise. This distortion cannot generally be removed completely because of quantization, bit-replacement, or truncation at the grayscales 0 and 255. The distortion, though often small, may make the original image unacceptable for medical applications, or for military and law enforcement applications where an image must be inspected under unusual viewing conditions (e.g., after filtering or extreme zoom). The present invention provides high-capacity embedding of data that is lossless (or distortion-free) because, after embedded information is extracted from a cover image, we revert to an exact copy of the original image before the embedding took place. This new technique is a powerful tool for a variety of tasks, including lossless robust watermarking, lossless authentication with fragile watermarks, and steganalysis. The technique is applicable to raw, uncompressed formats (e.g., BMP, PCX, PGM, RAS, etc.), lossy image formats (JPEG, JPEG2000, wavelet), and palette formats (GIF, PNG). |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292740 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239765 | Bramson 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) | Michael D Bramson (Ridgecrest, California); Paul R. Ashley (Toney, Alabama); Geoffrey A. Lindsay (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical phase modulator comprising a plurality of polarizing waveguides having a layered stack including a core between at least one layer of cladding material, wherein the core is constructed of electro-optic material(s), wherein the layers of cladding materials having lower indices of refraction than the core for guided mode, wherein the layers of cladding materials having higher indices of refraction than the core for non-guided mode, at least one electrode coupled to at least one waveguide including a modulating polarizing region, at least one waveguide having a non-modulating region and a modulating region, a substrate dimensioned and configured to integrate a plurality of optical components, wherein the optical components include a plurality of polarizing waveguide(s), a waveguide having a non-modulating region and a modulating region, coupler/splitter(s), electrode(s), and a waveguide configuration including a first polarizing waveguide, a second polarizing waveguide and a third polarizing waveguide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288051 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239776 | Oosterhuis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Moog Inc. (East Aurora, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. Oosterhuis (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jerry T. Perdue (Christiansburg, Virginia); Carlton W. Sutphin (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic rotary joint is provided that is unaffected by variations in the optical properties of a fluid that fills its internal cavity. The rotary joint includes a housing defining the internal cavity, first and second optical collimation arrays on opposite sides of the internal cavity, and a reversion prism between the optical collimation arrays. Further, the rotary joint includes an interface optical element proximate at least one of the first and second optical collimation arrays and the reversion prism. Each interface optical element includes an optically-flat surface adapted to contact the fluid such that optical signals that are oriented normal to the optically-flat surface can be transmitted without refraction, thereby rendering the optical signals immune to variations in the fluid's optical properties. A reversion prism assembly, an optical collimation assembly and a method of aligning an optical collimation array utilizing alignment pins are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/392283 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240338 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Bell (Melbourne, Florida); Alan D. Mollick (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Common data structures associated with procedurally-oriented software, such as Fortran COMMON blocks, are translated into object-oriented (OO) classes. Procedurally-oriented software modules are reduced in complexity by extracting an appropriate number of sub-modules from the original source code so that the original module and each extracted module is below a predetermined complexity level, if possible. The original module and extracted modules are assigned to an object-oriented class based upon a measure of each modules' association to the respective class' data members, where the assigned modules are then translated into object-oriented methods. This approach greatly reduces overall system development time and costs by automatically generating maintainable object-oriented code based upon translated procedurally-oriented source code. Man-hours are further saved by automatically documenting the newly generated object-oriented classes and by automatically generating test suite files for use in verifying and troubleshooting the automatically generated object-oriented classes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446725 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240368 | Roesch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (New York, New York); Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Bloomfield, Colorado); BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin F. Roesch (Eldersburg, Maryland); Ronald J. Gula (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is disclosed for increasing the security of computer networks through the use of an Intrusion and Misuse Deterrence System (IMDS) operating on the network. The IMDS is a system that creates a synthetic network complete with synthetic hosts and routers. It is comprised of a network server with associated application software that appears to be a legitimate portion of a real network to a network intruder. The IMDS consequently invites inquiry and entices the intruder away from the real network. Simulated services are configured to appear to be running on virtual clients with globally unique, class “C” IP addresses. Since there are no legitimate users of the virtual network simulated by the IMDS, all such activity must be inappropriate and can be treated as such. Consequently, the entire set of transactions by an intruder can be collected and identified rather than just those transactions that meet a predefined attack profile. Also, new exploits and attacks are handled just as effectively as known attacks, resulting in better identification of attack methodologies as well as the identification and analysis of new attack types. Since the IMDS only has to be concerned with the traffic going to its simulated hosts it additionally eliminates the bandwidth limitation that plagues a traditional intrusion detection system (IDS). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/548547 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D545721 | Hacker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of Ameica as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt A. Hacker (King George, Virginia); Andrew Czop (Alexandria, Virginia); Todd Zimmerman (Alexandria, Virginia); Mike James (Sterling, Virginia); James Murphy (Fort Wahington, Maryland) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 29/261417 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Transportation D12/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2193 | Lampert 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) | William V. Lampert (Tipp City, Ohio); Christopher J. Eiting (Brandon, Florida); Scott A. Smith (Keene, New Hampshire); Trice W. Haas (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of growing a SiC film within an MBE system is disclosed. The method includes charging a first crucible with a quality of C60, and coating a second crucible with a layer of SiC. The second crucible is charged with a quantity of solid Si. The crucibles are installed into first and second effusion cells which are placed within the MBE growth chamber. A substrate is prepared by cleaning and polishing and loaded into the MBE growth chamber. The substrate and effusion cells are heated and a layer of SiC is grown by MBE onto the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/047323 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2195 | Sisemore |
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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) | Carl L. Sisemore (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The beam method and the “slice” method for ship modeling are melded. The method uses a detailed ship model in the ship section immediately surrounding the system or equipment under study and a beam model for the portions of the ship away from the detailed ship section. This combined method has the advantage of providing a detailed section of the ship in the area of interest which allows for good system and equipment level modeling, and a course beam model of the ship everywhere else, which, in turn, allows for the ships mass and stiffness and hence frequency spectrum to be accurately represented. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/657486 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California); Alexander B. Vankov (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for cutting a material including conducting and non-conducting materials such as biological tissue, cellulose or plastic while the material is submerged in a conductive liquid medium. The apparatus has a cutting electrode with an elongate cutting portion having an aspect ratio (length to width) of 1 or more and a return electrode. The two electrodes are immersed in the conductive medium and a voltage is applied between them to heat the medium, thus producing a vapor cavity around the elongate cutting portion and ionizing a gas inside the vapor cavity to produce a plasma. The voltage applied between the electrodes is modulated in pulses having a modulation format selected to minimize the size of the vapor cavity, its rate of formation and heat diffusion into the material while the latter is cut with an edge of the elongate cutting portion. The modulation format includes pulses ranging in duration from 10 μs to 10 ms, as well as minipulses and micropulses, as necessary. The apparatus and method of invention allow the user to perform efficient thermal ablation and electrosurgical procedures in particular at power levels as low as 10 mW with minimal thermal and cavitation damage. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825716 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238372 | Turkson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Turkson (Tampa, Florida); Richard Jove (Tampa, Florida); Jay W. Palmer (Sun City Center, Florida); Heidi Kay (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Hua Yu (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns methods for inhibition of STAT biological functions using platinum complexes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/918762 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238469 | Bach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fritz H. Bach (Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts); Leo E. Otterbein (New Kensington, Pennsylvania); Miguel P. Soares (Boston, Massachusetts); Jeanne Gose (Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods for transplanting organs, tissues and individual cells. Also featured are methods for maintaining cells in vitro and for enhancing survival and/or function of cells following transplantation. The methods include the administration of carbon monoxide in an amount sufficient to enhance cell survival and/or function. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177930 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238473 | Blackshear et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry J. Blackshear (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Wi S. Lai (Durham, North Carolina); Ester Carballo-Jane (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of regulating the destruction of mRNA molecules containing an AU-rich element (ARE), for example, methods of stimulating the degradation of an mRNA molecule encoding TNF-α, and methods of inhibiting the degradation of an mRNA molecule encoding GM-CSF. Also provided are methods for identifying compounds that regulate the destruction of mRNA molecules containing AREs. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/049586 |
| 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 07238484 | Pinkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California); Anne Kallioniemi (Tampere, Finland); Olli-Pekka Kallioniemi (Tampere, Finland); Frederic Waldman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are new methods comprising the use of in situ hybridization to detect abnormal nucleic acid sequence copy numbers in one or more genomes wherein repetitive sequences that bind to multiple loci in a reference chromosome spread are either substantially removed and/or their hybridization signals suppressed. The invention termed Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) provides for methods of determining the relative number of copies of nucleic acid sequences in one or more subject genomes or portions thereof (for example, a tumor cell) as a function of the location of those sequences in a reference genome (for example, a normal human genome). The intensity(ies) of the signals from each labeled subject nucleic acid and/or the differences in the ratios between different signals from the labeled subject nucleic acid sequences are compared to determine the relative copy numbers of the nucleic acid sequences in the one or more subject genomes as a function of position along the reference chromosome spread. Amplifications, duplications and/or deletions in the subject genome(s) can be detected. Also provided is a method of determining the absolute copy numbers of substantially all RNA or DNA sequences in subject cell(s) or cell population(s). |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017493 |
| 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 07238485 | Akeson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Akeson (Santa Cruz, California); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts); David W. Deamer (Santa Cruz, California); Jeffrey R. Sampson (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for analysis of polymers, e.g., polynucleotides, are provided. The systems are capable of analyzing a polymer at a specified rate. One such analysis system includes a structure having a nanopore aperture and a molecular motor, e.g., a polymerase, adjacent the nanopore aperture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088140 |
| 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 07238489 | Schneewind et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Los Angeles, California); Sarkis Mazmanian (Sherman Oaks, California); Gwen Liu (Los Angeles, California); Hung Ton-That (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a substantially purified sortase-transamidase enzyme from Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus. The enzyme having a molecular weight of about 23,539 daltons and catalyzing a reaction that covalently cross-links the carboxyl terminus of a protein having a sorting signal to the peptidoglycan of a Gram-positive bacterium, the sorting signal having: (1) a motif of LPX3X4G (SEQ ID NO: 37) therein; (2) a substantially hydrophobic domain of at least 31 amino acids carboxyl to the motif; and (3) a charged tail region with at least two positively charged residues carboxyl to the substantially hydrophobic domain, at least one of the two positively charged residues being arginine, the two positively charged residues being located at residues 31-33 from the motif, wherein X3 is any of the twenty naturally-occurring L-amino acids and X4 is selected from the group consisting of alanine, serine, and threonine, and wherein sorting occurs by cleavage between the fourth and fifth residues of the LPX3X4G (SEQ ID NO: 37) motif. Variants of the enzyme, methods for cloning the gene encoding the enzyme and expressing the cloned gene, and methods of use of the enzyme, including for screening for antibiotics and for display of proteins or peptides on the surfaces of Gram-positive bacteria, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968317 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07238510 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014402 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238513 | Bulaj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cognetix, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grzegorz Bulaj (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Olga Buczek (Salt Lake City, Utah); James E. Garrett (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ian Goodsell (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Protein disulfide isomerase is a major component of Conus venom ducts. The invention relates to a protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) from Conus snails, a nucleic acid sequence encoding the Conus protein disulfide isomerase, and to methods for folding disulfide-rich peptides using a protein disulfide isomerase. Oxidative folding of conotoxin precursors, catalyzed by a PDI, was more efficient and decreased the number and concentration of transiently accumulated folding species. The PDI-assisted oxidative folding of conotoxins was also influenced by the propeptide relative to the mature peptide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216937 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238524 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Fong Lin (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel human prostate cancer-associated neuroendocrine (NE)-like cell lines are provided that were derived via a process that resembles clinical androgen ablation therapy for advanced prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862256 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238525 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean Y. J. Wang (San Diego, California); Paolo Vigneri (Catania, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The chimeric Bcr-Abl oncoprotein is the molecular hallmark of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). In the cytoplasm, the protein transduces a growth signal that is responsible for overexpansion of cells. In the nucleus, the protein induces apoptosis. The invention is a method of treating cancer/killing Bcr-Abl expressing cells by inducing the translocation of Bcr-Abl to the nucleus to activate the apoptotic pathway in cancer cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/312918 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07238526 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Wilson (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Guangping Gao (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for efficient production of recombinant AAV employ a host cell which comprising AAV rep and cap genes stably integrated within the cell's chromosomes, wherein the AAV rep and cap genes are each operatively linked to regulatory sequences capable of directing the expression of the rep and cap gene products upon infection of the cell with a helper virus, a helper gene, and a helper gene product. A method for producing recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) involves infecting such a host cell with a helper virus, gene or gene product and infecting the infected host cell with a recombinant hybrid virus or plasmid vector containing adenovirus cis-elements necessary for replication and virion encapsidation, AAV sequences comprising the 5′ and 3′ ITRs of an AAV, and a selected gene operatively linked to regulatory sequences directing its expression, which is flanked by the above-mentioned AAV sequences. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/241024 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238659 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhigang He (Boston, Massachusetts); Qiwei Zhai (Boston, Massachusetts); Jing Wang (Boston, Massachusetts); Ryan Watts (Stanford, California); Eric Hoopfer (Stanford, California); Liqun Luo (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reduced degeneration of an axon predetermined to be subject to degenerative neuropathy in a term patient is effected by contacting the axon in situ with an effective amount of a ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) inhibitor sufficient to reduce degeneration of the axon; and detecting a resultant reduction in the degeneration of the axon in situ. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/285528 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238668 | Wayner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth A. Wayner (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting the adhesion of one cell to another comprising interfering with the interaction between the extracellular matrix receptor and its ligand. The invention is based upon the discovery that the α4β1 extracellular matrix receptor promotes adhesion of lymphocytes to endothelial cells via attachment to a defined peptide sequence. Prior to the present invention, the ligand of the α4β1 receptor had not been identified, nor had the function of the α4β1 receptor in lymphocyte attachment been known. By preventing the interaction between the α4β1 receptor and its ligands using antibodies or defined peptide sequences, the present invention enables, for the first time, specific intervention in the migration of lymphocytes through the vascular endothelium and into tissues. The present invention, therefore, has particular clinical utility in suppression of the immune response; in various specific embodiments of the invention, the adherence of lymphocytes to endothelium may be inhibited systemically, or may, alternatively, be localized to particular tissues or circumscribed areas. Accordingly, the present invention provides for treatment of diseases involving autoimmune responses as well as other chronic or relapsing activations of the immune system, including allergy, asthma, and chronic inflammatory skin conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/452098 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
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| US 07238669 | Bishop-Hurley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon L. Bishop-Hurley (Yeppoon, Australia); Francis J. Schmidt (Columbia, Missouri); Arnold L. Smith (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Whole cell phage-display techniques were used to identify several peptides that bound preferentially to a non-typeable strain of Haemophilus influenzae. These peptides were able to inhibit growth of both H. influenzae and Staphylococcal aureus. Thus, methods for treating bacterial infections, alone or in combination with traditional antibiotics, are envisioned. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655562 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
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| US 07238708 | Wright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest M. Wright (Los Angeles, California); Ana Diez-Sampedro (Los Angeles, California); Bruce A. Hirayama (Los Angeles, California); Hermann Koepsell (Höchberg, Germany); Valentin Gorboulev (Höchberg, Germany); Christina Osswald (Würzburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for the modulation of hSGLT3 protein glucosensor activity. The sensor is expressed in cholinergic neurons that regulate muscle activity, and in tissues including the brain and pacreas. The present invention also provides methods of identifying therapeutic compounds that modify the function of these sensors. Such therapeutic compounds have a functional effect on regulators of muscle activity, including gastrointestinal smooth muscles; on regulation of weight and metabolism; regulation of pancreatic function, including glucagons release; and in taste perception. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078934 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/315 |
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| US 07238715 | Tracey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Hong Wang (Havertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a patient suffering from pancreatitis comprising treating said patient with a therapeutically effective amount of a cholinergic agonist selective for an α7 nicotinic receptor in an amount sufficient to decrease the amount of the proinflammatory cytokine that is released from a macrophage wherein said condition is acute pancreatitis. The compounds of the present invention include a quaternary analog of cocaine; (1-aza-bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-3-yl)-carbamic acid 1-(2-fluorophenyl)-ethyl ester; a compound of formula (I), a compound of formula (II), a compound of formula (III), a compound of formula (IV), and an oligonucleotide or mimetic capable of attenuating the symptoms of acute pancreatitis wherein the oligonucleotide or mimetic consists essentially of a sequence greater than 5 nucleotides long that is complementary to an mRNA of an α7 cholinergic receptor. The variables of formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) are described herein |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957426 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/334 |
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| US 07238775 | Rivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Jean Claude Reubi (Berne, Switzerland); Judit Erchegyi (San Diego, California); Roland Riek (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Analogs of SRIF which are selective for SSTR4 in contrast to the other cloned SRIF receptors are useful in determining tissue and cellular expression of the receptor SSTR4 and its biological role in regulating tumor growth. SRIF analog peptides, such as des-AA1,2,4,5,12,13[Ala7]-SRIF; des-AA1,2,4,5,12,13[Aph7]-SRIF, des-AA1,2,4,5,12,13[Aph7]Cbm-SRIF; des-AA1,2,4,5,12,13[Tyr2,Ala7]-Cbm-SRIF, and des-AA1,2,4,5,12,13[Tyr7,CβMe-L-2Nal8]-SRIF, and counterparts incorporating D-Cys3 and/or D-Trp8 and/or Ala11, bind with high affinity to the cloned human receptor SSTR4 and activate the receptor, but they do not bind with significant affinity to human SSTR1, SSTR2, SSTR3 or SSTR5. By incorporating an iodinated tyrosine in position-2 in these SSTR4-selective SRIF analogs, a labeled compound useful in drug-screening methods is provided. Alternatively, for use in therapy, cytotoxins or highly radioactive elements can be N-terminally coupled or complexed thereto. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041676 |
| 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 530/311 |
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| US 07238779 | Cases et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sylvaine Cases (San Francisco, California); Robert V. Farese, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Sandra K. Erickson (San Francisco, California); Sabine Novak (Munich, Germany); Michel Accad (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid compositions encoding novel ACAT proteins, as well as the novel ACAT-2 proteins, (ACAT-2) are provided. Also provided are methods of producing the subject nucleic acid and protein compositions. The subject polypeptide and nucleic acid compositions find use in a variety of applications, including diagnostic and therapeutic agent screening applications, as well as in treatment therapies for disease conditions associated with ACAT-2 activity, e.g., in the treatment of gall stones. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779251 |
| 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 530/350 |
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07238782 — Compositions and methods for regulating RNA stability using polypyrimidine tract proteins
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. C. Rigby (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for regulating CD154 gene expression are provided that rely on the interaction of polypyrimidine tract proteins with the 3′-untranslated region of CD154. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389947 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238783 | Höök et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Magnus Höök (Houston, Texas); Slawomir Lukomski (Morgantown, West Virginia); Yi Xu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant triple helical proteins or collagen-like proteins comprising a prokaryotic protein or one or more domains of a prokaryotic protein comprising a collagen-like peptide sequence of repeated Gly-Xaa-Yaa triplets and, optionally, one or more domains from a mammalian collagen. Also provided are expression vectors and host cells containing the expression vectors to produce these recombinant proteins and methods of production for the same. Additionally, antibodies are provided that are directed against a recombinant collagen-like protein that, preferably, binds an integrin. Furthermore, a method of screening for potential therapeutic compounds that inhibit the integrin-binding or -interacting activities of recombinant collagen-like proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245689 |
| 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 530/356 |
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| US 07238784 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherie L. Morrison (Los Angeles, California); Ramon Montaño (Miranda, Venezuela) |
| ABSTRACT | Rh antibody hybrids for use in testing red blood cells for the presence of one or more Rh factors. The Rh hybrid antibody may also be used in therapeutic procedures which require the use of Rh antisera. The hybrid antibody includes an IgG anti-Rh antibody which has a polymeric tailpiece attached to the carboxy terminal end of each of the IgG antibody heavy chains. A hemagglutinin method is provided for Rh phenotyping in which agglutination of Rh-positive red blood cells is achieved in a one-step process involving addition of the hybrid Rh antisera to the red blood cells being tested. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194801 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 07238786 | Gold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey); Hans J. Hansen (Picayune, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to monovalent and multivalent, monospecific antibodies and to monovalent and multivalent, multispecific antibodies. One embodiment of these antibodies has one or more identical binding sites where each binding site binds with a target antigen or an epitope on a target antigen. Another embodiment of these antibodies has two or more binding sites where these binding sites have affinity towards different epitopes on a target antigen or different target antigens, or have affinity towards a target antigen and a hapten. The present invention further relates to recombinant vectors useful for the expression of these functional antibodies in a host. More specifically, the present invention relates to the tumor-associated antibody designated PAM4. The invention further relates to chimeric PAM4 antibodies, and the use of such antibodies in diagnosis and therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/461878 |
| 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 530/387.300 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gloria Lee (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are antibodies to phosphorylated tau, methods of making and methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060831 |
| 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 |
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| US 07238792 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander D. Q. Li (Pullman, Washington); Wei Wang (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel probes, which can be used to detect and identify target molecules of interest in a sample. The disclosed probes can be used to monitor conformational changes induced by molecular recognition events in addition to providing signaling the presence and/or identity of a target molecule. Methods, including solid phase synthesis techniques, for making probe molecules that exhibit changes in their optical properties upon target molecule binding are described in the disclosure. Also disclosed herein are novel chromophore moieties, which have tailored fluorescent emission spectra. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803564 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
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| US 07238793 | McDonnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald P. McDonnell (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John D. Norris (Raleigh, North Carolina); Daju Fan (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an estrogen receptor co-regulator and to antibodies specific therefor. The invention further relates to methods of screening test compounds for their suitability as estrogen receptor modulators and to methods of using same in disease treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/108992 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07238800 | Galgiani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John N. Galgiani (Tucson, Arizona); Kris Orsborn (Tucson, Arizona); Tao Peng (Tucson, Arizona); Lisa Shubitz (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions of peptides and polynucleotides encoding the peptides, which peptides are useful for generating an immunological response in an individual and in therapeutic and diagnostic applications of infections due to pathogenic Coccidioides spp. fungi, such as C. immitis or C. posadasii. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405756 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07238831 | Wellinghoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen T. Wellinghoff (San Antonio, Texas); Douglas P. Hanson (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel platform mesogens, intermediates, and polymerizable mesogens made therefrom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056121 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/86 |
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| US 07238943 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wai-Hoi Wong (Houston, Texas); Jorge Uribe (Houston, Texas); Hossain Baghaei (Sugarland, Texas); Hongdi Li (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for asymmetrically placed cross-coupled scintillation crystals. A method includes coupling a plurality of photomultiplier tubes to a scintillation crystal array, the scintillation crystal array defining a plurality of corner edges, wherein a first corner edge of the plurality of corner edges is aligned with a first center of a first photomultiplier tube of the plurality of photomultiplier tubes and a second corner edge of the plurality of corner edges is not aligned with a second center of a second photomultiplier tube of the plurality of photomultiplier tubes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356679 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/367 |
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| US 07239908 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene J. Alexander (Palo Alto, California); Thomas P. Andriacchi (Los Altos Hills, California); Philipp Lang (Redwood City, California); Daniel Steines (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/662224 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/427 |
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| US 07238268 | Ramsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael Ramsey (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stephen C. Jacobson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for conducting a broad range of biochemical analyses or manipulations on a series of nano- to subnanoliter reaction volumes and an apparatus for carrying out the same are disclosed. The invention is implemented on a fluidic microchip to provide high serial throughput. In particular, the disclosed device is a microfabricated channel device that can manipulate nanoliter or subnanoliter reaction volumes in a controlled manner to produce results at rates of 1 to 10 Hz per channel. The reaction volumes are manipulated in serial fashion analogous to a digital shift register. The invention has application to such problems as screening molecular or cellular targets using single beads from split-synthesis combinatorial libraries, screening single cells for RNA or protein expression, genetic diagnostic screening at the single cell level, or performing single cell signal transduction studies. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373129 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
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| US 07238288 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huizhen Gao (Carlsbad, New Mexico); Yifeng Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles R. Bryan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for absorbing an ion from a fluid by using dispersing an organic acid into an anion surfactant solution, mixing in a divalent-metal containing compound and a trivalent-metal containing compound and calcining the resulting solid layered double hydroxide product to form an absorbent material and then contacting the absorbent material with an aqueous solution of cations or anions to be absorbed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/918157 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/688 |
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| US 07238316 | Trajkovska-Petkoska et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anka Trajkovska-Petkoska (Rochester, New York); Stephen D. Jacobs (Pittsford, New York); Tanya Z. Kosc (Rochester, New York); Kenneth L. Marshall (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Precisely configured, especially of geometric shape, flakes of liquid crystal material are made using a mechanically flexible polymer mold with wells having shapes which are precisely configured by making the mold with a photolithographically manufactured or laser printed master. The polymer liquid crystal is poured into the wells in the flexible mold. When the liquid crystal material has solidified, the flexible mold is bent and the flakes are released and collected for use in making an electrooptical cell utilizing the liquid crystal flakes as the active element therein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383603 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/482 |
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| US 07238429 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Allan Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Yun Tian (Ames, Iowa); Joel Lee Harringa (Ames, Iowa); Alan Paul Constant (Ames, Iowa); Alan Mark Russell (Ames, Iowa); Palaniappa A. Molian (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Performance and reliability of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) components enhanced dramatically through the incorporation of protective thin film coatings. Current-generation MEMS devices prepared by the LIGA technique employ transition metals such as Ni, Cu, Fe, or alloys thereof, and hence lack stability in oxidizing, corrosive, and/or high temperature environments. Fabrication of a superhard, self-lubricating coating based on a ternary boride compound AlMgB14 is described in this letter as a potential breakthrough in protective coating technology for LIGA microdevices. Nanoindentation tests show that hardness of AlMgB14 films prepared by pulsed laser deposition ranges from 45 GPa to 51 GPa, when deposited at room temperature and 573 K, respectively. Extremely low friction coefficients of 0.04-0.05, which are thought to result from a self-lubricating effect, have also been confirmed by nanoscratch tests on the AlMgB14 films. Transmission electron microscopy studies show that the as-deposited films are amorphous, regardless of substrate temperature; however, analysis of FTIR spectra suggests that the higher substrate temperature facilitates formation of the B12 icosahedral framework, therefore leading to the higher hardness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946051 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/650 |
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| US 07238475 | Rubin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Rubin (Berkeley, California); Len A. Pennacchio (Sebastopol, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and materials for studying the effects of a newly identified human gene, APOAV, and the corresponding mouse gene apoAV. The sequences of the genes are given, and transgenic animals which either contain the gene or have the endogenous gene knocked out are described. In addition, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene are described and characterized. It is demonstrated that certain SNPs are associated with diseases involving lipids and triglycerides and other metabolic diseases. These SNPs may be used alone or with SNPs from other genes to study individual risk factors. Methods for intervention in lipid diseases, including the screening of drugs to treat lipid-related or diabetic diseases are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229834 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07238510 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014402 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07238622 | Atwater, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry A. Atwater, Jr. (So. Pasadena, California); James M. Zahler (Pasadena, California); Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a virtual substrate comprised of an optoelectronic device substrate and handle substrate comprises the steps of initiating bonding of the device substrate to the handle substrate, improving or increasing the mechanical strength of the device and handle substrates, and thinning the device substrate to leave a single-crystal film on the virtual substrate such as by exfoliation of a device film from the device substrate. The handle substrate is typically Si or other inexpensive common substrate material, while the optoelectronic device substrate is formed of more expensive and specialized electro-optic material. Using the methodology of the invention a wide variety of thin film electro-optic materials of high quality can be bonded to inexpensive substrates which serve as the mechanical support for an optoelectronic device layer fabricated in the thin film electro-optic material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761918 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238792 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander D. Q. Li (Pullman, Washington); Wei Wang (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel probes, which can be used to detect and identify target molecules of interest in a sample. The disclosed probes can be used to monitor conformational changes induced by molecular recognition events in addition to providing signaling the presence and/or identity of a target molecule. Methods, including solid phase synthesis techniques, for making probe molecules that exhibit changes in their optical properties upon target molecule binding are described in the disclosure. Also disclosed herein are novel chromophore moieties, which have tailored fluorescent emission spectra. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803564 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238878 | Gonsiorawski |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald C. Gonsiorawski (Danvers, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic module comprises electrically interconnected and mutually spaced photovoltaic cells that are encapsulated by a light-transmitting encapsulant between a light-transparent front cover and a back cover, with the back cover sheet being an ionomer/nylon alloy embossed with V-shaped grooves running in at least two directions and coated with a light reflecting medium so as to provide light-reflecting facets that are aligned with the spaces between adjacent cells and oriented so as to reflect light falling in those spaces back toward said transparent front cover for further internal reflection onto the solar cells, whereby substantially all of the reflected light will be internally reflected from said cover sheet back to the photovoltaic cells, thereby increasing the current output of the module. The internal reflector improves power output by as much as 67%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/458616 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238912 | Sopori |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhushan L. Sopori (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary system includes a measuring device to acquire non-contact thickness measurements of a wafer and a laser beam to cut the wafer at a rate based at least in part on one or more thicknesses measurements. An exemplary method includes illuminating a substrate with radiation, measuring at least some radiation reflected from the substrate, determining one or more cutting parameters based at least in part on the measured radiation and cutting the substrate using the one or more cutting parameters. Various other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/547579 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238940 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Davidson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Judy K. Partin (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert J. Sawyers (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for imaging a concealed object is described and which includes a step of providing a heat radiating body, and wherein an object to be detected is concealed on the heat radiating body; imaging the heat radiating body to provide a visibly discernible infrared image of the heat radiating body; and determining if the visibly discernible infrared image of the heat radiating body is masked by the presence of the concealed object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100789 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239044 | Atcitty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Atcitty (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nancy H. Clark (Corrales, New Mexico); John D. Boyes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Satishkumar J. Ranade (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A power transmission system including a direct current power source electrically connected to a conversion device for converting direct current into alternating current, a conversion device connected to a power distribution system through a junction, an energy storage device capable of producing direct current connected to a converter, where the converter, such as an insulated gate bipolar transistor, converts direct current from an energy storage device into alternating current and supplies the current to the junction and subsequently to the power distribution system. A microprocessor controller, connected to a sampling and feedback module and the converter, determines when the current load is higher than a set threshold value, requiring triggering of the converter to supply supplemental current to the power transmission system. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008035 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239113 | Johnson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Johnson (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical power generation system is provided, and a method of reducing undesired currents therein. The method includes the steps of delivering current via at least one variable frequency switching means, and adjusting a switching frequency of the at least one variable frequency switching means based on the power output of the system. The system may further include an electronic controller having a control algorithm recorded thereon, the control algorithm including means for adjusting the variable frequency switching means based on a power output of the system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121245 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239386 | Chrisp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Chrisp (Danville, California); Scott A. Lerner (Corvallis, Oregon); Paul J. Kuzmenko (Livermore, California); Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact imaging spectrometer with an immersive diffraction grating that compensates optical distortions. The imaging spectrometer comprises an entrance slit for transmitting light, means for receiving the light and directing the light, an immersion grating, and a detector array. The entrance slit, the means for receiving the light, the immersion grating, and the detector array are positioned wherein the entrance slit transmits light to the means for receiving the light and the means for receiving the light directs the light to the immersion grating and the immersion grating receives the light and directs the light to the means for receiving the light, and the means for receiving the light directs the light to the detector array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920880 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239443 | Tichenor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Tichenor (Castro Valley, California); Glenn D. Kubiak (Livermore, California); Sung Hun Lee (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Employing collector optics that has a sacrificial reflective surface can significantly prolong the useful life of the collector optics and the overall performance of the condenser in which the collector optics are incorporated. The collector optics is normally subject to erosion by debris from laser plasma source of radiation. The presence of an upper sacrificial reflective surface over the underlying reflective surface effectively increases the life of the optics while relaxing the constraints on the radiation source. Spatial and temporally varying reflectivity that results from the use of the sacrificial reflective surface can be accommodated by proper condenser design. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/479340 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239674 | Dimsdle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey William Dimsdle (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facilitate data recovery; amplitude scale tracking to track-out rapid and severe scale variations and facilitate successful demodulation and data retrieval; 2N power carrier recovery; incoherent demodulation where coherent carrier recovery is not possible or practical due to signal degradation; coherent demodulation; multipath equalization to equalize frequency dependent multipath; and demodulation filtering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454805 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239676 | Dimsdle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey William Dimsdle (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facilitate data recovery; amplitude scale tracking to track-out rapid and severe scale variations and facilitate successful demodulation and data retrieval; 2N power carrier recovery; incoherent demodulation where coherent carrier recovery is not possible or practical due to signal degradation; coherent demodulation; multipath equalization to equalize frequency dependent multipath; and demodulation filtering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454804 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239766 | Mechery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelly John Mechery (Mississippi State, Mississippi); Jagdish P. Singh (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensing element, a method of making a sensing element, and a fiber optic sensor incorporating the sensing element are described. The sensor can be used for the quantitative detection of NO2 in a mixture of gases. The sensing element can be made by incorporating a diazotizing reagent which reacts with nitrous ions to produce a diazo compound and a coupling reagent which couples with the diazo compound to produce an azo dye into a sol and allowing the sol to form an optically transparent gel. The sensing element changes color in the presence of NO2 gas. The temporal response of the absorption spectrum at various NO2 concentrations has also been recorded and analyzed. Sensors having different design configurations are described. The sensing element can detect NO2 gas at levels of parts per billion. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693519 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP17845 | Abrahamson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence P. Abrahamson (Marcellus, New York); Richard F. Kopp (Marietta, New York); Lawrence B. Smart (Geneva, New York); Timothy A. Volk (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A distinct female cultivar of Salix viminalis×Salix miyabeana named ‘Owasco’, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 49% more woody biomass than one of its parents (‘SX64’) and 39% more biomass than a current production cultivar (‘SV1’). ‘Otisco’ produced greater than 2.7-fold more stem biomass than two other current production cultivars, ‘SX67’ and ‘SX61’. ‘Owasco’ can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. ‘Owasco’ displays a low incidence of rust disease and is not damaged by potato leafhoppers. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244842 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Hari Chandrasekaran (Louisville, Kentucky); Hongwei Li (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A synthesis route to grow textured thin film of gallium nitride on amorphous quartz substrates and on single crystalline substrates such as c-sapphire and polycrystalline substrates such as pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN), alumina and quartz using the dissolution of atomic nitrogen rather than molecular nitrogen to allow for growth at subatmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427747 |
| 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 117/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238429 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Allan Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Yun Tian (Ames, Iowa); Joel Lee Harringa (Ames, Iowa); Alan Paul Constant (Ames, Iowa); Alan Mark Russell (Ames, Iowa); Palaniappa A. Molian (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Performance and reliability of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) components enhanced dramatically through the incorporation of protective thin film coatings. Current-generation MEMS devices prepared by the LIGA technique employ transition metals such as Ni, Cu, Fe, or alloys thereof, and hence lack stability in oxidizing, corrosive, and/or high temperature environments. Fabrication of a superhard, self-lubricating coating based on a ternary boride compound AlMgB14 is described in this letter as a potential breakthrough in protective coating technology for LIGA microdevices. Nanoindentation tests show that hardness of AlMgB14 films prepared by pulsed laser deposition ranges from 45 GPa to 51 GPa, when deposited at room temperature and 573 K, respectively. Extremely low friction coefficients of 0.04-0.05, which are thought to result from a self-lubricating effect, have also been confirmed by nanoscratch tests on the AlMgB14 films. Transmission electron microscopy studies show that the as-deposited films are amorphous, regardless of substrate temperature; however, analysis of FTIR spectra suggests that the higher substrate temperature facilitates formation of the B12 icosahedral framework, therefore leading to the higher hardness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946051 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238451 | Frech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger E. Frech (Norman, Oklahoma); Daniel T. Glatzhofer (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a polymer electrolyte comprising amine groups dispersed throughout the polymer backbone, including various poly(ethylenimine)-based polymers, which enable ionic movement for use in various applications, including for example batteries, fuel cells, sensors, supercapacitors and electrochromic devices. The present invention is further directed to a method for preparing such polymer electrolytes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/038782 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238472 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Yun-Wei Cao (Evanston, Illinois); Rongchao Jin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates composite core/shell nanoparticles and a two-step method for their preparation. The present invention further relates to biomolecule-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates and methods for their preparation. The invention also relates to methods of detection of biomolecules comprising the biomolecule or specific binding substance-core/shell nanoparticle conjugates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/034451 |
| 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 07238536 | Schlenoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane comprising two or more macromolecules that interact via multiple reversible physical interaction points (MRIPM). The membrane further comprises a chemical species A, which interacts selectively or nonselectively with the MRIPM; and a chemical species B, which interacts selectively with the MRIPM whereby the passage of species A across the MRIPM is moderated by species B. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085926 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238596 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regenta, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Matthew Bauer (Hillsboro, Oregon); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Candi Cook (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for is provided for synthesizing a compound having the formula E(GeH3)3 wherein E is selected from the group consisting of arsenic (As), antimony (Sb) and phosphorus (P). GeH3Br and [CH3)3Si]3E are combined under conditions whereby E(GeH3)3 is obtained. The E(GeH3)3 is purified by trap-to-trap fractionation. Yields from about 70% to about 76% can be obtained. The E(GeH3)3 can be used as a gaseous precursor for doping a region of a semiconductor material comprising Ge, SnGe, SiGe and SiGeSn in a chemical vapor deposition reaction chamber. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559980 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238941 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Matthieu Liger (Pasadena, California); Scott Miserendino (Pasadena, California); Satoshi Konishi (Shiga, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and resulting structure) for fabricating a sensing device. The method includes providing a substrate comprising a surface region and forming an insulating material overlying the surface region. The method also includes forming a film of carbon based material overlying the insulating material and treating to the film of carbon based material to pyrolyzed the carbon based material to cause formation of a film of substantially carbon based material having a resistivity ranging within a predetermined range. The method also provides at least a portion of the pyrolyzed carbon based material in a sensor application and uses the portion of the pyrolyzed carbon based material in the sensing application. In a specific embodiment, the sensing application is selected from chemical, humidity, piezoelectric, radiation, mechanical strain or temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973938 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239107 | Ferreira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Placid M. Ferreira (Champaign, Illinois); Qing Yao (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a flexure stage comprises a base, a stage, a positioning mechanism, and a control device. The base and stage have first and second portions that are spaced apart from each other. The positioning mechanism is coupled between the base and the stage. The positioning mechanism includes an actuator and a flexure structure engaged by the actuator. The flexure structure includes base links coupled to the first base portion, stage links coupled to the first stage portion, and an intermediate link coupled to both the base and stage links. All structures are coupled by flexure hinge connections. The control device generates a control signal to change position of the stage by sending a control signal to the actuator which provides a force to elastically deform the flexure structure and correspondingly move the stage. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/362605 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239752 | Neumann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Neumann (Manhattan Beach, California); Bolan Jiang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for tracking camera pose using dynamically calibrated line features for augmented reality applications are disclosed. The dynamic calibration of the line features affords an expanded tracking range within the real environment and into adjacent, un-calibrated areas. Line features within a real environment are modeled with a minimal representation, such that they can be efficiently dynamically calibrated as a camera pose changes within the environment. A known camera pose is used to initialize line feature calibration within the real environment. Parameters of dynamically calibrated line features are also used to calculate camera pose. The tracking of camera pose through a real environment allows insertion of virtual objects into the real environment without dependencies on pre-calibrated landmarks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/278349 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239769 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Hannes Kind (Emeryville, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Matthew Law (San Jose, California); Benjamin Messer (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanowire switching device and method. The device has a nanowire structure comprising an elongated member having a cross-sectional area ranging from about 1 nanometers but less than about 500 nanometers, but can also be at other dimensions, which vary or are substantially constant or any combination of these. The device also has a first terminal coupled to a first portion of the nanowire structure; and a second terminal coupled to a second portion of the nanowire structure. The second portion of the nanowire structure is disposed spatially from the first portion of the nanowire structure. An active surface structure is coupled to the nanowire structure. The active surface structure extends from the first portion to the second portion along the elongated member. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/026576 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239775 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingzhou Xu (Troy, New York); Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical delay line for use with an optical source including input/output optics optically coupled to the optical source and a curved mirror with a reflective surface that is centered about an evolute curve of the delay line to retro-reflect light traveling along a delay line beam path tangent to the edge of the evolute curve. The input/output optics direct light from the optical source along the delay line beam path and direct delayed light from the delay line beam path out of the optical delay line along an output beam path. The input/output optics and/or the curved mirror rotate about the evolute curve at a selected angular speed. The reflective surface has a curvature based on a parametric curve that is calculated from the evolute curve such that the delay of the delay line varies according to a predetermined function as the input/output optics and/or the curved mirror rotate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/537626 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07238622 | Atwater, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry A. Atwater, Jr. (So. Pasadena, California); James M. Zahler (Pasadena, California); Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a virtual substrate comprised of an optoelectronic device substrate and handle substrate comprises the steps of initiating bonding of the device substrate to the handle substrate, improving or increasing the mechanical strength of the device and handle substrates, and thinning the device substrate to leave a single-crystal film on the virtual substrate such as by exfoliation of a device film from the device substrate. The handle substrate is typically Si or other inexpensive common substrate material, while the optoelectronic device substrate is formed of more expensive and specialized electro-optic material. Using the methodology of the invention a wide variety of thin film electro-optic materials of high quality can be bonded to inexpensive substrates which serve as the mechanical support for an optoelectronic device layer fabricated in the thin film electro-optic material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761918 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07238941 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Matthieu Liger (Pasadena, California); Scott Miserendino (Pasadena, California); Satoshi Konishi (Shiga, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and resulting structure) for fabricating a sensing device. The method includes providing a substrate comprising a surface region and forming an insulating material overlying the surface region. The method also includes forming a film of carbon based material overlying the insulating material and treating to the film of carbon based material to pyrolyzed the carbon based material to cause formation of a film of substantially carbon based material having a resistivity ranging within a predetermined range. The method also provides at least a portion of the pyrolyzed carbon based material in a sensor application and uses the portion of the pyrolyzed carbon based material in the sensing application. In a specific embodiment, the sensing application is selected from chemical, humidity, piezoelectric, radiation, mechanical strain or temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973938 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239751 | Amador |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose J Amador (Cocoa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of mid-level pattern recognition provides for a pose invariant Hough Transform by parametrizing pairs of points in a pattern with respect to at least two reference points, thereby providing a parameter table that is scale- or rotation-invariant. A corresponding inverse transform may be applied to test hypothesized matches in an image and a distance transform utilized to quantify the level of match. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750629 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240208 | Oakley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest C. Oakley (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital video camera includes an image sensor capable of producing a frame of video data representing an image viewed by the sensor, an image memory for storing video data such as previously recorded frame data in a video frame location of the image memory, a read circuit for fetching the previously recorded frame data, an encryption circuit having an encryption key input connected to receive the previously recorded frame data from the read circuit as an encryption key, an un-encrypted data input connected to receive the frame of video data from the image sensor and an encrypted data output port, and a write circuit for writing a frame of encrypted video data received from the encrypted data output port of the encryption circuit to the memory and overwriting the video frame location storing the previously recorded frame data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/424287 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07238479 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Smith (Hastings, Nebraska); Eduardo Casas (Hastings, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene encoding micromolar calcium activated neutral protease (mu-calpain) effect meat tenderness in bovine. These SNPs correspond to position 18 of exon 9 of Seq. ID No. 3, position 17 of exon 14 of Seq. ID No. 4, and position 185 on intron 19 of Seq. ID No. 4, of the CAPN1 gene encoding mu-calpain. Alleles wherein the SNP at position 18 of exon 9 encodes alanine at amino acid 316 of bovine mu-calpain, the SNP at position 17 on exon 14 encodes valine at amino acid 530 of bovine mu-calpain, and the SNP at position 185 on intron 19 is an cytosine, are all indicative of increased meat tenderness. Any one or all of these SNPs may be used as markers for selecting bovines having superior meat tenderness, and selecting animals for breeding purposes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739904 |
| 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 07238496 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanbin Li (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Liju Yang (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Chuanmin Ruan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for in situ detection of viable pathogenic bacteria in a selective medium by measuring cathodic peak current of oxygen on cyclic voltammograms during bacterial proliferation with an electrochemical voltammetric analyzer. The rapid oxygen consumption at a time during the growth of bacteria resulted in a sharp decline of the cathodic peak current curves. The detection times (threshold values) obtained from the cathodic peak current curve were inversely related to the concentrations of the pathogenic bacteria in the medium. This method for detection of pathogenic bacteria is more sensitive than nucleic acid-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods and any of antibody-based methods such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technology, electrochemical immunoassays, immunosensors, and it has a sensitivity similar to conventional culture methods and impedimetric methods but is more rapid than both of them. A calibration curve was obtained by plotting initial cell concentrations (CFU/ml) determined by conventional plate counting, as a function of the detection time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/635164 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07239076 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Ung Lee (Niskayuna, New York); Reed Roeder Corderman (Niskayuna, New York); William Hullinger Huber (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-aligned gated field emission device and an associated method of fabrication are described. The device includes a substrate and a porous layer disposed adjacent to the surface of the substrate, wherein the porous layer defines a plurality of substantially cylindrical channels, each of the plurality of substantially cylindrical channels aligned substantially parallel to one another and substantially perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The device also includes a plurality of substantially rod-shaped structures disposed within at least a portion of the plurality of substantially cylindrical channels defined by the porous layer and adjacent to the surface of the substrate, wherein a portion of each of the plurality of substantially rod-shaped structures protrudes above the surface of the porous layer. The device further includes a gate dielectric layer disposed on the surface of the porous layer, wherein the gate dielectric layer is disposed between the plurality of substantially rod-shaped structures. The device still further includes a conductive layer selectively disposed on the surface of the gate dielectric layer, wherein the conductive layer is selectively disposed between the plurality of substantially rod-shaped structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670487 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239275 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Denny D. Pidhayny (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for tracking signals with diverse polarization properties address both sensitivity and antenna tracking performance issues. In one embodiment, complex weightings for matching a polarization of an incident signal on a data channel are determined, and the complex weightings are applied to a tracking channel such that an antenna system polarization is matched to the polarization of the incident signal. In another embodiment, orthogonally polarized tracking channel components of an incident signal are processed to make a determination as to which of the orthogonally polarized tracking channel components is stronger, and this determination is used to select a polarization of a data channel to reduce a polarization mismatch loss. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807587 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07239155 | Byington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Impact Technologies LLC (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl S. Byington (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Matthew J. Watson (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan C. Brewer (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method and apparatus for an electrochemical impedance measurement, and in particular circuitry and components employed for such measurements. The system employs an injected broadband AC signal to produce an associated response signal. The subsequent analysis of injected and response signals, considering both magnitude and phase, gives broadband impedance and therefore fluid characteristic information. An embodiment described is relative to a smart oil sensor system suitable for sensing, analyzing and reporting the condition of oil or other liquids used in equipment and machinery. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987069 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/693 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07239291 | Walton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Antenna assemblies and corresponding modes of operation are provided where the first antenna assembly of the system is tuned to a first frequency band ν1 and the second antenna assembly of the antenna system is tuned to a second frequency band ν2. The ground plane of the first antenna assembly is configured as a frequency selective surface that is substantially reflective of radiation in the first frequency band and substantially transparent to radiation in the second frequency band. The second ground plane may also be configured as a frequency selective surface and may be reflective of radiation in the second frequency band. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/325365 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07238596 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regenta, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Matthew Bauer (Hillsboro, Oregon); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Candi Cook (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for is provided for synthesizing a compound having the formula E(GeH3)3 wherein E is selected from the group consisting of arsenic (As), antimony (Sb) and phosphorus (P). GeH3Br and [CH3)3Si]3E are combined under conditions whereby E(GeH3)3 is obtained. The E(GeH3)3 is purified by trap-to-trap fractionation. Yields from about 70% to about 76% can be obtained. The E(GeH3)3 can be used as a gaseous precursor for doping a region of a semiconductor material comprising Ge, SnGe, SiGe and SiGeSn in a chemical vapor deposition reaction chamber. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559980 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240204 | Koç et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Çetin K. Koç (Corvallis, Oregon); Erkay Savas (Corvallis, Oregon); Alexandre F. Tenca (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Scalable and unified multipliers for multiplication of cryptographic parameters represented as elements of either of the prime field (GF(p)) and the binary extension field (GF(2m)) include processing elements arranged to execute in pipeline stages. The processing elements are configurable to perform operations corresponding to either the prime field or the binary extension field. In an example, the processing elements include a dual-field adder having a field-select input that permits selection of a field arithmetic. In a representative example, multipliers are implemented as integrated circuits having processing units that each receive a single bit of one operand and partial words of the remaining operand. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/637229 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07237532 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A multicylinder homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine with a control system designed to maintain stable HCCI combustion during engine speed/load transitions by: (1) determining “combustion parameter” values such as the maximum rate of pressure rise for each cycle of each cylinder, (2) adjusting engine operating parameters (such as charge-air intake temperature, intake pressure (boost), or charge-air oxygen concentration) to effect a change in the combustion parameter value, (3) thereafter adjusting an engine “control parameter” (e.g., commanded fuel quantity) to each cylinder to maintain a desired target for the combustion parameter value (such as 10 bar/crank angle degree, or a smaller value, such as 6 bar/crank angle degree), and (4) individually adjusting cooling, heating and/or fuel command to deviating cylinders to achieve uniform combustion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398086 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07239332 | Krafft et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The U.S. Government as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Krafft (Owings, Maryland); John B. Dottellis (Damascus, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a device for and method of viewing a magnetic pattern recorded on magnetic media. The device includes a base. The base has an opening and includes registration marks for aligning the magnetic media as desired. The base is attachable to a viewer. A guide is connected to the base so that it slides within the opening in the base. The guide also has an opening. An inflatable bladder is attached to, and under, the guide. The inflatable bladder fills the opening in the guide. A holder is attached to the base so that it can slide along the base and be closed onto the guide. The holder also includes an opening. A magnetic garnet film is set within the opening in the holder. A magnetic media is placed on the guide. The holder is closed onto the magnetic media and the guide. The inflatable bladder is inflated so that the magnetic media is brought into physical contact with the magnetic garnet film. The pattern on the magnetic media is transferred onto the magnetic garnet film. The viewer is used to view the magnetic pattern transferred to the magnetic garnet film. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017538 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Recorders 346/74.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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