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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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| US 07240493 | Seiner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Mississippi (University, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Seiner (Oxford, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device to reduce the noise produced by jet aircraft engines and/or other supersonic nozzles involves the use of corrugated engine seals (30) for the secondary internal divergent flaps (14) of the nozzle (10). Such corrugated seals (30) serve not only to eliminate shock-generated noise, but also generate a counter-rotating vorticity to force low speed mixing of surrounding ambient air with the high-speed jet exhaust. Lower exhaust velocities, combined with reduced levels of the turbulent Reynolds shear stress, lead to reduction of turbulence-generated noise, including Mach wave emission. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999449 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240495 | Symko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orest G. Symko (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ehab Abdel-Rahman (Cairo, Egypt) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoacoustic refrigerator having a relatively small size which utilizes one or more piezoelectric drivers to generate high frequency sound within a resonator at a frequency of between about 4000 Hz and ultrasonic frequencies. The interaction of the high frequency sound with one or more stacks create a temperature gradient across the stack which is conducted through a pair of heat exchangers located on opposite sides of each stack. The resonator has an asymmetrical, round configuration which enhances the cooling power of the thermoacoustic refrigerator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957076 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240538 | Steere, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Steere, III (Boonton, New Jersey); Michael Spielzinger (Staten Island, New York); Vincent Gonsalves (Nazareth, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for hydrotesting a hollow component includes a generally cylindrical main body having a bore therethrough that defines first and second open ends, the bore including a central axis; first and second end plates fixed to the main body for closing the first and second open ends, the first end plate including a vent port and a pressure port that open into the bore radially distal from the central axis, the second end plate including a vent port and a pressure port; an alignment disc disposed in the bore and fixed atop the second end plate, the alignment disc including a vent port and a pressure port that open into the bore radially proximal the central axis, the vent port and the pressure port of the alignment disc being in fluid communication with the vent port and the pressure port, respectively, of the second end plate; and a movable sealing cap disposed in an opening in the first plate and movable along the central axis of the bore. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161774 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/49.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240655 | 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 | 11/134629 |
| 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 07241111 | Harding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Harding (Ellington, Connecticut); Daniel H. Curtiss (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine disk comprising a disk bore disposed about a centerline, the disk bore comprising a bore width, and a web extending radially away from the disk bore wherein the disk bore comprises in cross-section a contoured shape comprising a contour depth. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/628154 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241371 | Stoffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James O. Stoffer (Rolla, Missouri); Thomas J. O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Eric L. Morris (Irvine, California); Xuan Lin (Northford, Connecticut); Scott A. Hayes (Arnold, Missouri); Pu Yu (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Corrosion resistance of metallic components such as stainless steel components of vehicles, and especially aluminum-based components of aircraft, is enhanced by application of an e-coat paint or primer which is enhanced by incorporation of cerium ions into the e-coat electrolytic bath. The resulting overall coating includes a cerium-based layer under a cerium-enhanced e-coat paint or primer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344655 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241475 | Radhakrishnan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gouri Radhakrishnan (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive halogen-ion plasmas, having for example, generating chloride ions, generated from low-pressure halogen gases using a radio-frequency plasma are employed for producing low-friction carbon coatings, such as a pure carbon film, at or near room temperature on a bulk or thin film of a compound, such as titanium carbide. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/954455 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241504 | Verborgt 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) | Jozef Verborgt (Clearwater, Florida); Arthur Anthony Webb (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyol monomer comprising the formula: R1 is aliphatic or aromatic, R2 is aliphatic, aromatic, ester, ether, or acrylic, and R1 contains a hydroxyl group, R2 contains —O—CH2—CH(OH)—, or both. R1 is not a C4 or larger linear, unsubstituted aliphatic when R2 is a residue of a bisphenol. The polyol monomer may be made by reacting an epoxy and an alcohol. Either the epoxy contains more than one epoxide groups, the alcohol is a polyol, or both. A thermoset made by reacting the polyol monomer with a polyisocyanate. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346099 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/423.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241699 | Van Zeghbroeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsemi Corp. (Bend, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bart J. Van Zeghbroeck (Boulder, Colorado); Ivan Perez (Boulder, Colorado); John T. Torvik (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods for precisely and accurately etching layers of wide bandgap semiconductor material. According to one aspect of the invention, the method includes providing a multi-layer laminate including at least a first and second layer of wide bandgap semiconductor material, measuring a first conductance of the first layer of semiconductor material, partially etching the first layer of semiconductor material a first amount, measuring a second conductance of the first layer of semiconductor material etched the first amount, and utilizing the first and second measured conductance to determine a time required to etch the first layer of semiconductor material a second amount. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630238 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/745 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241992 | Lyuksyutov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei F. Lyuksyutov (Akron, Ohio); Shane Juhl (Dayton, Ohio); Richard A. Vaia (Beavercreek, Ohio); Pavlo B. Paramonov (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of amplitude modulated electrostatic polymer nanolithography providing rapid creation of features in a polymer film is disclosed. The nanolithography method of the present invention generates features by mass transport of polymer within an initially uniform, planar film via localized softening of attoliters (102-105 nm3) of polymer by Joule heating enabling high data densities upon the surface of the polymer. This localized Joule heating is accomplished by current flow between the cantilever AFM tip and a conductive wafer upon which the layer of polymer is grown or mounted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040299 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242000 | Archibald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Archibald (Foster City, California); Marc D. Hornbostel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses methods, materials, and devices for making and screening combinatorial libraries to identify semi-conducting and thermoelectric materials. The disclosed method includes preparing a combinatorial library of materials, and identifying library members that are semiconductors. The method may include determining a thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, for each member of a second combinatorial library of materials. The method determines ZT by applying an oscillatory voltage across the library members, measuring power dissipated by library members, and calculating ZT from the power dissipated. The method may also include isolating single-phase materials of the semiconducting library members. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for discovering thermoelectric materials using combinatorial techniques. The apparatus includes a first combinatorial library of materials comprised of thin films arrayed on a substrate, and a device for identifying semiconducting members of the first combinatorial library. In addition, the apparatus may include a device for measuring ZT—a voltage source for applying an oscillatory electrical potential across members of a second combinatorial library arrayed on a substrate, and a device for measuring the resulting power dissipated by library members. The apparatus may also include a device for isolating single-phase materials of library members that were identified as semiconductors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392238 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242009 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hach Ultra Analytics, Inc. (Grants Pass, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Wilson (Rogue River, Oregon); James Brady (Ashland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for statistically distinguishing between two or more populations, such as between samples containing background and threat particles, is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method for statistically distinguishing is a method for processing a signal in a particle detection system. The method may include characterizing each particle detected by a signal vector. The method may further include calculating a weight of each particle detected using a weighting function of the signal vectors. The weighting function may be a functional of a threat particle probability distribution and a background particle probability distribution. The method may also include summing a total weight of all particles tested and generating an alarm signal if the total weight exceeds an alarm level. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158491 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/461.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242188 | Johnson 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) | Mark B Johnson (Springfield, Virginia); Michael M Miller (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic field sensors, each generating an electrical output signal in proportion to the local magnetic field, are lithographically fabricated on a semiconductor substrate with a small spatial separation. The lateral dimension of the sensors and the separation length are the order of the minimum lithographic feature size. Comparing the electrical signals to the sensors results in a measurement of the local magnetic field gradient. Large field gradients, that vary on a small spatial scale, may be associated small magnetic structures such as microscopic magnetic particles. Detection of a field gradient can be used to infer the presence of a magnetic particle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/470128 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242199 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California); Philip J Kuekes (Menlo Park, California); Frederick A. Perner (Santa Barbara, California); Greg Snider (Mountain View, California); Duncan Stewart (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments of the present invention, tunable resistors are introduced at the interconnect layer of integrated circuits in order to provide a for adjusting internal voltage and/or current levels within the integrated circuit to repair defective components or to configure the integrated circuit following manufacture. For example, when certain internal components, such as transistors, do not have specified electronic characteristics due to manufacturing defects, adjustment of the variable resistances of the tunable resistors included in the interconnect layer of integrated circuits according to embodiments of the present invention can be used to adjust internal voltage and/or levels in order to ameliorate the defective components. In other cases, the tunable resistors may be used as switches to configure integrated circuit components, including individual transistors and logic gates as well as larger, hierarchically structured functional modules and domains. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/112795 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242269 | Perreault et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Perreault (Brookline, Massachusetts); Timothy C. Neugebauer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joshua W. Phinney (Glen Oaks, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical component includes a capacitive impedance and a shunt path inductance cancellation feature provided by coupled windings. A filter having a capacitor with capacitor-path inductance cancellation provides enhanced performance over frequency compared with conventional capacitors. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119659 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242346 | Slutzky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Slutzky (Williams, Indiana); Paul Martis (Bloomington, Indiana); Doug Morgan (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable apparatus and a method for inserting digitized previously recorded or fabricated radio frequency (RF) pulse descriptor word (PDW) data files into an electronic surveillance (ES) system to realistically simulate a complex RF environment. The apparatus includes a personal computer and an electronics unit configured for easy integration into an ES system between the receiver and pulse processor. PDW data files are created on the personal computer and transmitted to the electronics unit as supplied PDW data. In the primary embodiment, real RF pulse data from the receiver is halted in the electronics unit and supplied PDW data and data from the receiver unrelated to PDW data, is passed in a continuous stream to the pulse processor. In a secondary embodiment, an upgrade in the electronics unit multiplexes both real RF pulse data and supplied PDW data for transmission to the pulse processor. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107997 |
| 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 342/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242350 | Pozgay |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome H. Pozgay (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Estimating an angle-of-arrival of a signal includes receiving a signal sent from an emitter. The signal is received at a singly polarized antenna system associated with an antenna response model. An autocorrelation matrix having noise-related eigenvectors is generated in response to the signal. Polarization ratios are determined from projections of a noise-related eigenvector onto the antenna response model. A minimum polarization ratio variance is established for the polarization ratios. A polarization vector corresponding to the minimum polarization ratio variance is identified. An angle-of-arrival of the signal is estimated in accordance with the identified polarization vector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970749 |
| 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 342/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242460 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Charles Hsu (East Windsor, New Jersey); Supun Samarasekera (Princeton, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Wen-Yi Zhao (Somerset, New Jersey); Keith J. Hanna (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for high-resolution 3D imaging ladar system which can penetrate foliage and camouflage to sample fragments of concealed surfaces of interest is disclosed. Samples collected while the ladar moves can be integrated into a coherent object shape. In one embodiment, a system and method for automatic data-driven registration of ladar frames, comprises a coarse search stage, a pairwise fine registration stage using an iterated closest points algorithm, and a multi-view registration strategy. After alignment and aggregation, it is often difficult for human observers to find, assess and recognize objects from a point cloud display. Basic display manipulations, surface fitting techniques, and clutter suppression to enhance visual exploitation of 3D imaging ladar data may be utilized. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825946 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242484 | Shirley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Shirley (Boxboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of measuring three-dimensional position information of a onto a surface of an object including two sources of radiation separated by a distance, each source having a spectral distribution, and being coherent with respect to the other of the sources, a control system moving each of the sources relative to the other of the sources, and a detector positioned to receive radiation scattered from the point on the surface of the object. In another embodiment, the two sources of radiation include, an initial source of a beam of radiation having a spectral width, a beam separator in optical communication with the initial source of a beam of radiation generating a first optical beam and a second optical beam, and an imaging system optically connected to the beam separator. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128114 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242527 | Spitzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Microoptical Corporation (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B. Spitzer (Sharon, Massachusetts); Noa M. Rensing (Newton, Massachusetts); Paul M. Zavracky (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system for a head mounted display includes a light pipe having two parallel surfaces along which modes can travel by total internal reflection. An illumination element allows selection of modes so that the desired modes can be transmitted along the light pipe, either axially or by total internal reflection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/386466 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242601 | Dehon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | André Dehon (Pasadena, California); Helia Naeimi (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for constructing and addressing a nanoscale memory with known addresses and for tolerating defects which may arise during manufacture or device operational lifetime. During construction, nanoscale wires with addresses are stochastically assembled. During a programming phase, nanoscale wires are stochastically selected using their stochastic addresses through microscale inputs and a desired address code is associated with the selected nanoscale wires. Memory addresses are associated to the codes and then selected using the known codes during read/write operations from/to the memory. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/853907 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242703 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Vinod Menon (Princeton, New Jersey); Zoltan Soos (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An unipolar organic injection laser in which electrically-stimulated intraband transitions result in lasing. An active region includes at least one organic injector layer and at least one organic emitter layer. Each organic emitter layer has a first energy level and a second energy level on a same side of an energy gap defined by a conduction band and a valance band. Charge carriers are injected through the organic injector layer into the first energy level of the organic emitter layer when a voltage is applied across active region. The difference in energy between the first and second energy levels produces radiative emissions when charge carriers transition from the first energy level to the second energy level. Population inversion is maintained between the first and second energy levels, producing stimulated emission and lasing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016740 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242705 | Kneissl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Kneissl (Mountain View, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); David K. Biegelsen (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A grating-outcoupled microcavity disk resonator has whispering gallery modes existing in a nearly circular resonator. Light is outcoupled by providing a grating region in the plane of the grating-outcoupled microcavity disk resonator. The grating region provides an outcoupling or loss mechanism that symmetrically interacts with the clockwise and counterclockwise whispering gallery modes, thereby making the resonator capable of surface emission. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/736602 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242706 | Schroeder |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brady M. Schroeder (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing molecular oxygen in the excited singlet delta oxygen electronic state for use as an excited species reactant in a chemical laser. Flowtubes defined by permeable membranes are used to mix the gas and liquid phase reactants to generate singlet delta oxygen and also to separate the generated singlet delta oxygen from the liquid phase products and reactants thereby eliminating liquid reactant carryover. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970099 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242774 | Elliott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts); John D. Schlafer (Wayland, Massachusetts); David Spencer Pearson (Bennington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum cryptography system [100] may include a transmitter [110] configured to generate entangled first and second photons, modulate and detect the first photon, and transmit detection information and the second photon. The system [100] may also include a receiver [160] configured to modulate the second photon. The receiver [160] may also be configured to detect the second photon based on the detection information. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462400 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242803 | Miller |
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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) | Steven D. Miller (Salinas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new processing capability for desert dust enhancement using imager data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been developed for Naval meteorology/oceanography (MetOc) operations support. The data are captured via direct broadcast high-resolution picture transmission (HRPT) at Navy Regional Centers in Rota, Bahrain, and Yokosuka, and processed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey. The raw data are calibrated, corrected for missing lines and clutter, corrected for molecular scatter contamination, and enhanced through multispectral combination to yield value added products. The processing has been automated completely such that products, generated upon receipt of data, are hosted upon a password protected website typically 60 to 90 minutes from time of initial capture. This invention summarizes the SeaWiFS instrument capabilities, the protocol followed for automated near real-time processing, a physical basis for the NRL enhancements, and specific examples of the products with extension to over-land dust enhancement as enabled by MODIS. It closes with a glimpse of the potential utility of these products from the perspective of the warfighter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/713908 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242827 | Bochove |
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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) | Erik J. Bochove (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A bridge for weakly coupling optical cores in a multicore fiber. An inner cladding surrounds each of the cores. A plurality of bridges laterally connects each of the cores to adjacent cores. The bridges run the length of the fiber. Each bridge enhances the weak evanescent coupling between the cores for frequencies of the light being transmitted by the fiber that are smaller than a cut-off frequency. This permits increased spacing of the cores. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, and is intended to allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264348 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242835 | Busse 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) | Lynda Busse (Alexandria, Virginia); Frederic H. Kung (Alexandria, Virginia); Jasbinder Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to fiber termination combination which includes an optical fiber having a fiber core for transmitting a highly energetic optical signal that can damage the fiber and a structured region around the core for directing the optical signal into the core, the structured region being characterized by multiple channels of smaller internal diameter than the core defined by thin walls disposed around said core; a ferrule, with an opening therein for locating said fiber, at the end of said fiber enveloping said fiber extremity which cooperates with said blocking structure to block the optical signal from impinging on said microstructured region of said fiber; and a blocking structure disposed over the end of said fiber with an opening mating with said fiber core, said blocking structure blocking the optical signal from impinging on said microstructured region of said fiber. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185082 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07243063 | Ramakrishnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhiksha Ramakrishnan (Watertown, Massachusetts); Rita Singh (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method segments an audio signal including frames into non-speech and speech segments. First, high-dimensional spectral features are extracted from the audio signal. The high-dimensional features are then projected non-linearly to low-dimensional features that are subsequently averaged using a sliding window and weighted averages. A linear discriminant is applied to the averaged low-dimensional features to determine a threshold separating the low-dimensional features. The linear discriminant can be determined from a Gaussian mixture or a polynomial applied to a bi-model histogram distribution of the low-dimensional features. Then, the threshold can be used to classify the frames into either non-speech or speech segments. Speech segments having a very short duration can be discarded, and the longer speech segments can be further extended. In batch-mode or real-time the threshold can be updated continuously. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/196768 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Zymequest, Inc. (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Stossel (Belmont, Massachusetts); John H. Hartwig (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Karin M. Hoffmeister (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Henrik Clausen (Holte, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides modified platelets having a reduced platelet clearance and methods for reducing platelet clearance. Also provided are compositions for the preservation of platelets. The invention also provides methods for making a pharmaceutical composition containing the modified platelets and for administering the pharmaceutical composition to a mammal to mediate hemostasis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704377 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241442 | D'Azzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandra D'Azzo (Memphis, Tennessee); Erik Jacobus Bonten (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the discovery that proteins produced in insect cell cultures are glycosylated in a unique manner that causes them to be selectively imported by cells that express mannose receptors on their membranes, particularly macrophages. Proteins that are selectively imported into cells containing mannose receptors are provided, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing such proteins and methods for producing such proteins. Application of the present invention to produce proteins useful for treating lysosomal storage disorders is also disclosed. Engineering of cells to express mannose receptors so that they will selectively import proteins produced in insect cells is also taught, as well as a protein targeting system using such cells and proteins. Finally, an improved elution buffer for the purification of proteins produced in insect cells from a Concanavalin A column is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/733501 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241446 | Mulligan-Kehoe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Jo Mulligan-Kehoe (Enfield, New Hampshire); Richard J. Powell (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) isoforms which lack the reactive center loop and contain the complete heparin-binding domain or lack at least a portion of the heparin-binding domain are described. The rPAI-1 isoforms disclosed herein may be used to modulate angiogenesis through blocking release of VEGF from a VEGF-heparin complex. Furthermore the rPAI-1 proteins may be used to inhibit cell proliferation and migration, induce apoptosis, and produce proteolytic fragments corresponding to angiostatin kringles 1–3 and kringles 1–4. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/506225 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241447 | Engelhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Engelhardt (Iowa City, Iowa); Dongsheng Duan (Iowa City, Iowa); Ziying Yan (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated and purified DNA molecule comprising at least one DNA segment, a biologically active subunit or variant thereof, of a circular intermediate of adeno-associated virus, which DNA segment confers increased episomal stability, persistence or abundance of the isolated DNA molecule in a host cell. The invention also provides a composition comprising at least two adeno-associated virus vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/684554 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241577 | Seifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Seifer (Holmdel, New Jersey); David T. MacLaughlin (Saugus, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for assessing the ovarian reserve and predicting the ovarian response to fertility treatments in a female subject. The serum levels of MIS are shown to be positively correlated with the production and retrieval of mature oocytes and serve as prognostic indicators for the female response to fertility treatment. The MIS levels can be monitored prior to and during fertility treatment and are useful to adjust the timing and dosage of treatments in order to produce optimal outcome in individual patients, to avoid ovarian hyperstimulation, or to indicate cancellation of an unsuccessful treatment. MIS can also be administered to women to stimulate follicle development and to prevent depletion of ovarian reserve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/225503 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07241580 | Duellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah J. Duellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Nancy E. Thompson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Richard R. Burgess (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of isolating, purifying, or concentrating a target compound. The method includes the steps of onjugating the target compound to an epitope for a polyol-responsive monoclonal antibody (PR-mAb) to yield a conjugate; and then contacting the conjugate to an immunoaffinity matrix comprising a PR-mAb specifically reactive with the PR-mAb epitope. Preferred epitopes for use in the method include amino acids of from 4 to about 30 amino acids, wherein the amino acid sequence comprises the sub-sequence D-X-S-R, (where X is any natural or unnatural amino acid), such as TKDPSRVG and TQDPSRVG. Additional epitopes for use in the method include SLAELLNGLGGS and PTSPSYSPTSPSYS. The method enables the rapid isolation of desired target compounds under gentle purification conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/148074 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07241584 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Madison, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Luciferase enzymes with greatly increased thermostability, e.g., at least half lives of 2 hours at 50° C., cDNAs encoding the novel luciferases, and hosts transformed to express the luciferases, are disclosed. Methods of producing the luciferases include recursive mutagenesis. The luciferases are used in conventional methods, some employing kits. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378168 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241732 | Puzas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Edward Puzas (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteoclast lacunae. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/490064 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 07241754 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zong-Qiang Tian (Fremont, California); Robert McDaniel (Palo Alto, California); David C. Myles (Kensington, California); Kedar Gautam Patel (Palo Alto, California); Misty Piagentini (Fremont, California); Zhan Wang (El Dorado Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | 2-Desmethyl ansamycins having a structure according to formula I, where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein, and other 2-desmethyl ansamycins are useful as antiproliferative agents |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868724 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241790 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Ivy, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to S1P analogs that have activity as S1P receptor modulating agents and the use of such compounds to treat diseases associated with inappropriate S1P receptor activity. The compounds have the general structure of Formula (I) wherein R11 is C5–C18 alkyl or C5–C18 alkenyl; Q is selected from the group consisting of C3–C6 optionally substituted cycloalkyl, C3–C6 optionally substituted heterocyclic, C3–C6 optionally substituted aryl C3–C6 optionally substituted heteroaryl and —NH(CO)—; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1–C4 alkyl, (C1–C4 alkyl)OH and (C1–C4 alkyl)NH2; R23 is H or C1–C4 alkyl, and R15 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, phosphonate, and of Formula (II) wherein X and R15 is selected from the group consisting of O and S; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or tautomer thereof |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/523337 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241795 | Boykin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Boykin (Atlanta, Georgia); Richard R. Tidwell (Pittsboro, North Carolina); W. David Wilson (Atlanta, Georgia); John R. Perfect (Durham, North Carolina); Chad F. Stephens (Villa Rica, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel 2,5-bis{[alkyl (or aryl) imino]aminophenyl}furans and thiophenes of the general formula in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, alkoxy, halide, and alkylhalide groups; R5 is H, alkyl or aryl; R6 is H, alkyl, aryl, or NR7R8, in which R7 and R8 are each independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl and aryl; and X is O, S or NR9, in which R9 is H or alkyl, and to the use of such compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/791425 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241797 | Horseman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson D. Horseman (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to the use of pharmaceutical compositions to increase milk production alone or in combination with certain biological active ingredients. Specifically, the method relates to the use of pharmaceutical compositions that will act on the feedback of the intrinsic regulatory pathway in the mammalian mammary gland. The present invention provides for as a method of increasing bovine milk production as well as a method of correcting certain human lactation abnormalities. Preferably, the compounds used in the methods of the present invention are one or more active agents capable of inhibiting peripheral aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) enzymes, peripheral tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) enzymes, peripheral serotonin (5-HT) enzymes, or a combination of enzymes thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351474 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241803 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Blood Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibo Jiang (Fresh Meadows, New York); Asim Kumar Debnath (Fort Lee, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A group of compounds that inhibit HIV replication by blocking HIV entry was identified. Two representative compounds, designated NB-2 and NB-64, inhibited HIV replication (p24 production) with IC50 values <0.5 μg/ml. It was proved that NB-2 and NB-64 are HIV entry inhibitors by targeting the HIV gp41 since: 1) they inhibited HIV-mediated cell fusion; 2) they inhibited HIV replication only when they were added to the cells less than one hour after virus addition; 3) they did not block the gp120-CD4 binding; 4) they did not interact with the coreceptor CXCR4 since they failed to block anti-CXCR4 antibody binding to CXCR4-expressing cells; 5) they blocked the formation of the gp41 core that is detected by sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using a conformation-specific MAb NC-1; 6) they inhibited the formation of the gp41 six-helix bundle revealed by fluorescence native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (FN-PAGE); and 7) they blocked binding of D-peptide to the hydrophobic cavity within gp41 coiled coil domain, modeled by peptide IQN17. These results suggested that NB-2 and NB-64 may interact with the hydrophobic cavity and block the formation of the fusion-active gp41 coiled coil domain, resulting in inhibition of HIV-1 mediated membrane fusion and virus entry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706027 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241867 | Bakaletz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio); The Board of Regents of The Universoty of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren O. Bakaletz (Hilliard, Ohio); Robert S. Munson, Jr. (Hilliard, Ohio); David W. Dyer (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the polynucleotide sequence of a nontypeable stain of Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides and uses thereof. The invention also relates to NTHi genes which are upregulated during or in response to NTHi infection of the middle ear and/or the nasopharynx. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/795159 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Center for Blood Research, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Springer (Newton, Massachusetts); Motomu Shimaoka (Brookline, Massachusetts); Chafen Lu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for stabilizing a protein in a desired conformation by introducing at least one disulfide bond into the polypeptide. Computational design is used to identify positions where cysteine residues can be introduced to form a disulfide bond in only one protein conformation, and therefore lock the protein in a given conformation. Accordingly, antibody and small molecule therapeutics are selected that are specific for the desired protein conformation. The invention also provides modified integrin I-domain polypeptides that are stabilized in a desired conformation. The invention further provides screening assays and therapeutic methods utilizing the modified integrin I-domains of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/080026 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241881 | Vosshall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie B. Vosshall (New York, New York); Hubert O. Amrein (Durham, North Carolina); Richard Axel (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding an insect odorant receptor. This invention provides a nucleic acid molecule of at least 12 nucleotides capable of specifically hybridizing with the nucleic acid molecule encoding an insect odorant receptor. This invention also provides a purified, insect odorant receptor. This invention provides an antibody capable of specifically binding to an insect odorant receptor. This invention provides a method for identifying cDNA inserts encoding an insect odorant receptors. This invention provides a method of identifying a compound capable of specifically bind to an insect odorant receptor. This invention also provides a method of identifying a compound capable of activating the activity of an insect odorant receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/183708 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241894 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Horwitz (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Stuart T. Hazeldine (Taylor, Michigan); Thomas H. Corbett (Grosse Point Park, Michigan); Lisa Polin (Oak Park, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein Y is F, Cl, Br, methyl or methoxy; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are effective antitumor agents. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I or a salt thereof, intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I, and therapeutic methods comprising administering a compound of formula I or a salt thereof to a mammal in need thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009457 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242521 | Mandella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optical Biopsy Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Mandella (Cupertino, California); Gordon S. Kino (Stanford, California); Ning Y. Chan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical head for confocal microscopy that is especially advantageous for measurements on thick samples is provided. An interface between the optical head and the sample is index matched, to avoid beam aberration at this interface. The optical head includes a window having a convex surface facing away from the sample, so that light beams crossing this convex surface do so at or near normal incidence and are therefore not significantly aberrated. The window is rotationally symmetric about an axis perpendicular to the interface between the head and the sample. The head also includes at least two optical fibers, which can be used for input and/or output. Beams passing to and/or from the fibers are collimated by collimators. A single focusing element couples all the collimated beams to focused beams which pass through the window to intersect within a target region of the sample as confocal beams. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856511 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242748 | Loewen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lyncean Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roderick J. Loewen (Redwood City, California); Jeffrey Rifkin (Boulder, Colorado); Ronald D. Ruth (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mirror is reflective to light and transmissive to x-rays. The mirror has a continuous mirror surface and an x-ray aperture within a body portion of the mirror proximate the continuous mirror surface that is transmissive to x-rays. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101790 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07241340 | Janikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart K. Janikowski (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark D. Argyle (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert V. Fox (Idaho Falls, Idaho); W. Alan Propp (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William J. Toth (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Charles A. Allen (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David L. Miller (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to systems and methods for modifying various non-equidimensional substrates with modifying agents. The system comprises a processing chamber configured for passing the non-equidimensional substrate therethrough, wherein the processing chamber is further configured to accept a treatment mixture into the chamber during movement of the non-equidimensional substrate through the processing chamber. The treatment mixture can comprise of the modifying agent in a carrier medium, wherein the carrier medium is selected from the group consisting of a supercritical fluid, a near-critical fluid, a superheated fluid, a superheated liquid, and a liquefied gas. Thus, the modifying agent can be applied to the non-equidimensional substrate upon contact between the treatment mixture and the non-equidimensional substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627530 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241381 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); George J. Havrilla (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomasin C. Miller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cyndi A. Wells (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The method for screening binding between a target binder and potential pharmaceutical chemicals involves sending a solution (preferably an aqueous solution) of the target binder through a conduit to a size exclusion filter, the target binder being too large to pass through the size exclusion filter, and then sending a solution of one or more potential pharmaceutical chemicals (preferably an aqueous solution) through the same conduit to the size exclusion filter after target binder has collected on the filter. The potential pharmaceutical chemicals are small enough to pass through the filter. Afterwards, x-rays are sent from an x-ray source to the size exclusion filter, and if the potential pharmaceutical chemicals form a complex with the target binder, the complex produces an x-ray fluorescence signal having an intensity that indicates that a complex has formed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986519 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241878 | Somerville et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris R. Somerville (Portola Valley, California); Wolf Scheible (Golm, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Cellulose synthase (“CS”), a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of cellulose in plants is inhibited by herbicides comprising thiazolidinones such as 5-tert-butyl-carbamoyloxy-3-(3-trifluromethyl)phenyl-4-thiazolidinone (TZ), isoxaben and 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile (DCB). Two mutant genes encoding isoxaben and TZ-resistant cellulose synthase have been isolated from isoxaben and TZ-resistant Arabidopsis thaliana mutants. When compared with the gene coding for isoxaben or TZ-sensitive cellulose synthase, one of the resistant CS genes contains a point mutation, wherein glycine residue 998 is replaced by an aspartic acid. The other resistant mutation is due to a threonine to isoleucine change at amino acid residue 942. The mutant CS gene can be used to impart herbicide resistance to a plant; thereby permitting the utilization of the herbicide as a single application at a concentration which ensures the complete or substantially complete killing of weeds, while leaving the transgenic crop plant essentially undamaged. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721996 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241990 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Paul L. Tremblay (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser device includes a target position, an optical component separated a distance J from the target position, and a laser energy source separated a distance H from the optical component, distance H being greater than distance J. A laser source manipulation mechanism exhibits a mechanical resolution of positioning the laser source. The mechanical resolution is less than a spatial resolution of laser energy at the target position as directed through the optical component. A vertical and a lateral index that intersect at an origin can be defined for the optical component. The manipulation mechanism can auto align laser aim through the origin during laser source motion. The laser source manipulation mechanism can include a mechanical index. The mechanical index can include a pivot point for laser source lateral motion and a reference point for laser source vertical motion. The target position can be located within an adverse environment including at least one of a high magnetic field, a vacuum system, a high pressure system, and a hazardous zone. The laser source and an electro-mechanical part of the manipulation mechanism can be located outside the adverse environment. The manipulation mechanism can include a Peaucellier linkage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969461 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242141 | Pschenitzka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osram Opto Semiconductor GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Florian Pschenitzka (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the present invention pertains to an electroluminescent lighting device for area illumination. The lighting device is fault tolerant due, in part, to the patterning of one or both of the electrodes into strips, and each of one or more of these strips has a fuse formed on it. The fuses are integrated on the substrate. By using the integrated fuses, the number of external contacts that are used is minimized. The fuse material is deposited using one of the deposition techniques that is used to deposit the thin layers of the electroluminescent lighting device. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951479 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242311 | Hoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Hoff (Peoria, Illinois); Sivaprasad Akasam (Peoria, Illinois); Thomas M. Baker (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is performed to provide a multi-functional user interface on a work machine for displaying suggested corrective action. The process includes receiving status information associated with the work machine and analyzing the status information to determine an abnormal condition. The process also includes displaying a warning message on the display device indicating the abnormal condition and determining one or more corrective actions to handle the abnormal condition. Further, the process includes determining an appropriate corrective action among the one or more corrective actions and displaying a recommendation message on the display device reflecting the appropriate corrective action. The process may also include displaying a list including the remaining one or more corrective actions on the display device to provide alternative actions to an operator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975989 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/679 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242520 | Backus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sterling J. Backus (Erie, Colorado); Henry C. Kapteyn (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for optimizing multipass laser amplifier output utilizes a spectral filter in early passes but not in later passes. The pulses shift position slightly for each pass through the amplifier, and the filter is placed such that early passes intersect the filter while later passes bypass it. The filter position may be adjust offline in order to adjust the number of passes in each category. The filter may be optimized for use in a cryogenic amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/501206 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07240564 | Totman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter D. Totman (Ogden, Utah); Randy L. Everton (Brigham City, Utah); Mark R. Egget (Brigham City, Utah); David J. Macon (Ogden, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for detecting and determining event characteristics such as, for example, the material failure of a component, in a manner which significantly reduces the amount of data collected. A sensor array, including a plurality of individual sensor elements, is coupled to a programmable logic device (PLD) configured to operate in a passive state and an active state. A triggering event is established such that the PLD records information only upon detection of the occurrence of the triggering event which causes a change in state within one or more of the plurality of sensor elements. Upon the occurrence of the triggering event, the change in state of the one or more sensor elements causes the PLD to record in memory which sensor element detected the event and at what time the event was detected. The PLD may be coupled with a computer for subsequent downloading and analysis of the acquired data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/208518 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/827 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07240879 | Cepollina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cepollina (Annandale, Maryland); Richard D. Burns (Annapolis, Maryland); Jill M. Holz (Laurel, Maryland); James E. Corbo (Columbia, Maryland); Nicholas M. Jedhrich (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method and supporting apparatus for autonomously capturing, servicing and de-orbiting a free-flying spacecraft, such as a satellite, using robotics. The capture of the spacecraft includes the steps of optically seeking and ranging the satellite using LIDAR; and matching tumble rates, rendezvousing and berthing with the satellite. Servicing of the spacecraft may be done using supervised autonomy, which is allowing a robot to execute a sequence of instructions without intervention from a remote human-occupied location. These instructions may be packaged at the remote station in a script and uplinked to the robot for execution upon remote command giving authority to proceed. Alternately, the instructions may be generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) logic onboard the robot. In either case, the remote operator maintains the ability to abort an instruction or script at any time, as well as the ability to intervene using manual override to teleoperate the robot. In one embodiment, a vehicle used for carrying out the method of this invention comprises an ejection module, which includes the robot, and a de-orbit module. Once servicing is completed by the robot, the ejection module separates from the de-orbit module, leaving the de-orbit module attached to the satellite for de-orbiting the same at a future time. Upon separation, the ejection module can either de-orbit itself or rendezvous with another satellite for servicing. The ability to de-orbit a spacecraft further allows the opportunity to direct the landing of the spent satellite in a safe location away from population centers, such as the ocean. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124592 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241323 | Serio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Serio (Sturbridge, Massachusetts); Erik Kroo (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Marek A. Wojtowicz (Simsbury, Connecticut); Eric M. Suuberg (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid waste resource recovery in space is effected by pyrolysis processing, to produce light gases as the main products (CH4, H2, CO2, CO, H2O, NH3) and a reactive carbon-rich char as the main byproduct. Significant amounts of liquid products are formed under less severe pyrolysis conditions, and are cracked almost completely to gases as the temperature is raised. A primary pyrolysis model for the composite mixture is based on an existing model for whole biomass materials, and an artificial neural network models the changes in gas composition with the severity of pyrolysis conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328921 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242360 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Te-Kao Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); George M. Haney (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power dual band high gain antenna system is provided. The antenna system employs one or more feedhorn clusters to distribute power associated with the transmission of high power signals. A first feedhorn cluster is associated with a first frequency band and a second feedhorn cluster is associated with a second frequency band that operates in frequencies below the first frequency band. The antenna system includes a sub-reflector and a main reflector with a first focal point of the sub-reflector being substantially aligned with a focal point of the main reflector. The first feedhorn cluster and the second feedhorn cluster are arranged on a surface of the main reflector with radiating aperture phase centers substantially aligned with a second focal point of the sub-reflector. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273070 |
| 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 343/781.CA0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07243294 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Sam Dolinar (Sunland, California); Fabrizio Pollara (Lacanada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A coding system uses a serially concatenated coder driving an interleaver, which drives a trellis coder. This combination, while similar to a turbo coder, produces certain different characteristics. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/760514 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/792 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07241432 | Sharma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shashank Sharma (Sunnyvale, California); Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention presents a process to produce bulk quantities of nanowires of a variety of semiconductor materials. Large liquid gallium drops are used as sinks for the gas phase solute, generated in-situ facilitated by microwave plasma. To grow silicon nanowires for example, a silicon substrate covered with gallium droplets is exposed to a microwave plasma containing atomic hydrogen. A range of process parameters such as microwave power, pressure, inlet gas phase composition, were used to synthesize silicon nanowires as small as 4 nm (nanometers) in diameter and several micrometers long. As opposed to the present technology, the instant technique does not require creation of quantum sized liquid metal droplets to synthesize nanowires. In addition, it offers advantages such as lower growth temperature, better control over size and size distribution, better control over the composition and purity of the nanowires. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515051 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241584 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Madison, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Luciferase enzymes with greatly increased thermostability, e.g., at least half lives of 2 hours at 50° C., cDNAs encoding the novel luciferases, and hosts transformed to express the luciferases, are disclosed. Methods of producing the luciferases include recursive mutagenesis. The luciferases are used in conventional methods, some employing kits. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378168 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07241935 | Benning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Benning (East Lansing, Michigan); Wayne Riekhof (Morrice, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the production of Betaine lipids. The methods of the present invention comprise the expression of recombinant enzymes (e.g. from Rhodobacter sphaeroides) in host cells (e.g. bacteria, yeast, and plants) to produce Betaine lipid compounds including, but not limited to, Diacylglyceryl-O-4′-(N,N,N,-trimethyl) homoserine (DGTS). The methods and compositions of the present invention may be utilized such that the amount of phosphate containing fertilizer required for the growth of a particular plant is decreased. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620914 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242520 | Backus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sterling J. Backus (Erie, Colorado); Henry C. Kapteyn (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for optimizing multipass laser amplifier output utilizes a spectral filter in early passes but not in later passes. The pulses shift position slightly for each pass through the amplifier, and the filter is placed such that early passes intersect the filter while later passes bypass it. The filter position may be adjust offline in order to adjust the number of passes in each category. The filter may be optimized for use in a cryogenic amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/501206 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07241587 | Dodge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Dodge (Sunnyvale, California); Fernando Valle (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for producing products comprising improved host cells genetically engineered to have uncoupled productive and catabolic pathways. In particular, the present invention provides host cells having a modification in nucleic acid encoding an endogenous enzymatic activity that phosphorylates D-glucose at its 6th carbon and/or a modification of nucleic acid encoding an enzymatic activity that phosphorylates D-gluconate at its 6th carbon. Such improved host cells are used for the production of products, such as, ascorbic acid intermediates. Methods for making and using the improved host cells are provided. Nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for glucokinase and gluconokinase are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/117283 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242423 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Active Eye, Inc. (Pleasantville, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun-Ting Lin (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Linked zones define the temporal and spatial relationships among multiple zones of a surveillance area, and are used to model an object's disappearance from one zone, for potential reappearance at another zone. One or more zones are defined within each camera's field of view. Two zones are linked if an object that disappears from one zone is capable of appearing in the other zone. Each link has an associated delay parameter or function that characterizes the time delay, if any, between a disappearance and subsequent appearance. For each zone, a set of other zones that are linked to this zone is maintained. When an object disappears from a zone, the set of other zones that are linked to this zone is used to reduce the search space for object appearances corresponding to this disappearance. When the corresponding object appearance is found, the tracking function is handed-off to the tracking module associated with the zone in which the object appeared. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637728 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07242947 | Niu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Niu (Weston, Florida); Spyros Kyperountas (Coral Springs, Florida); Frederick L. Martin (Plantation, Florida); Jian Huang (Coral Springs, Florida); Qicai Shi (Coral Springs, Florida); Timothy Bancroft (Boca Raton, Florida); Neiyer S. Correal (Cooper City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and location determination module is provided for determining a location of one of a plurality of units using neighbor lists. Each unit is communicatively coupled to at least some of the other plurality of units, where at least some of the plurality of units are reference units, whose locations are known. The units communicate with other nearby units within communication range, to establish neighbor lists. A unit to be located then identifies an aggregate value corresponding to the number of occurrences of the reference units in the neighbor list of the unit to be located and the neighbor lists of each of a group of associated units. The location of the unit to be located is then determined, based upon the known locations of the reference units and the number of identified occurrences of the reference units in the corresponding neighbor lists. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/743961 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/456.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07241612 | Shapiro-Ilan 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) | David I. Shapiro-Ilan (Macon, Georgia); Wayne A. Gardner (Griffin, Georgia); Bruce Wood (Byron, Georgia); James R. Fuxa (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A biopesticidal composition for controlling insects (e.g., pecan weevils, the diaprepes root weevil, fall armyworm, fire ants), containing an agriculturally acceptable carrier and an effective insect (e.g., pecan weevils, the diaprepes root weevil, fall armyworm, fire ants) biopesticidal amount of a fungus selected from the group consisting of Beauveria bassiana having the identifying characteristics of Beauveria bassiana NRRL 30593, Metarhizium anisopliae having the identifying characteristics of Metarhizium anisopliae NRRL 30594, Beauveria bassiana having the identifying characteristics of Beauveria bassiana NRRL 30601, Beauveria bassiana having the identifying characteristics of Beauveria bassiana NRRL 30600, or mixtures thereof. Also, a method for controlling insects (e.g., pecan weevils, the diaprepes root weevil, fall armyworm, fire ants), involving applying an effective insect biopesticidal amount of the composition to the insects or to the plants, areas or substrates infested with the insects. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/640987 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Shirley (Boxboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of measuring three-dimensional position information of a onto a surface of an object including two sources of radiation separated by a distance, each source having a spectral distribution, and being coherent with respect to the other of the sources, a control system moving each of the sources relative to the other of the sources, and a detector positioned to receive radiation scattered from the point on the surface of the object. In another embodiment, the two sources of radiation include, an initial source of a beam of radiation having a spectral width, a beam separator in optical communication with the initial source of a beam of radiation generating a first optical beam and a second optical beam, and an imaging system optically connected to the beam separator. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128114 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07241571 | Mehrabian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margarete Mehrabian (Sherman Oaks, California); Aldons J. Lusis (Los Angeles, California); Hooman Allayee (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | 5-LO is expressed in the monocyte/macrophages (mono/mac) and foam cells of atherosclerotic lesions and is differentially expressed in CAST and CON6 mice relative to B6 mice. Mice heterozygous for a null mutation of 5-LO, when placed on an LDLR−/− background, have dramatically reduced atherosclerosis as compared to control LDLR−/− mice. In a genetic epidemiologic study, it is found that a common 5-LO polymorphism is strongly associated with carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) and coronary artery disease patients. These results indicate that 5-LO and the leukotriene biosynthetic pathway is a major contributor to atherogenesis in animal models, and in atherosclerosis susceptibility in humans. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/741292 |
| 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 |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07241754 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zong-Qiang Tian (Fremont, California); Robert McDaniel (Palo Alto, California); David C. Myles (Kensington, California); Kedar Gautam Patel (Palo Alto, California); Misty Piagentini (Fremont, California); Zhan Wang (El Dorado Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | 2-Desmethyl ansamycins having a structure according to formula I, where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein, and other 2-desmethyl ansamycins are useful as antiproliferative agents |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868724 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07242513 | Albert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E Ink Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Albert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Glen Crossley (Belmont, Massachusetts); Katharine Geramita (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karl R. Amundson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael L. Steiner (Methuen, Massachusetts); Paul Drzaic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Andrew Loxley (Allston, Massachusetts); Barrett Comiskey (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter J. Valianatos (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An encapsulated electrophoretic display having a plurality of non-spherical capsules disposed substantially in a single layer on a substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851706 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 10, 2007.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2007/fedinvent-patents-20070710.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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