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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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| US 07243560 | Coyle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Coyle (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Timothy A. Pletcher (Eastampton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of an apparatus for collecting biological aerosols from an air sample include a hollow tube adapted for pumping a liquid through an interior volume to an outer surface and a collection surface disposed on the outer surface and adapted for collecting the airborne particles from the surrounding air sample. Collection efficiency is enhanced by a charging mechanism that applies a charge to the airborne particles such that the airborne particles are deflected toward the collection surface. Embodiments of operation for the apparatus include the steps of providing the air sample, directing the air sample toward the hollow tube, and applying a charge to the airborne particles such that the airborne particles deposit on the collection surface/outer surface of said hollow tube. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140124 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07243609 | Ansay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Ansay (Johnston, Rhode Island); Harry Zervas (Lincoln, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a capsule sized to contain a weapon for launching and to withstand depth pressures. A telescoping nose section of the capsule, normally unextended around the weapon, extends at launch along a longitudinal axis of the capsule to provide the buoyancy used to lift the capsule out of a stored state and to ascent the capsule towards the surface. Once the surface is reached, a nose cone of the capsule is jettisoned to allow the weapon to exit the capsule. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178024 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07243890 | Hennessey 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) | Steven M. Hennessey (Argyle, New York); William S. Simard (West Sand Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A dry powder fire extinguisher recharging system charges and discharges a bottle with dry powder. The system includes a frame unit and various components associated with it, such as a clamp assembly to clamp a bottle assembly. The bottle assembly has a bottle in a pre-discharge or a discharge condition, and a valve. There are also components including locking plungers, a torque idler to torque and untorque the valve, a fill valve to recharge the bottle assembly, a fill gauge to pressurize the bottle assembly to the required pressures, a recharge line to charge the bottle assembly with the pressurizing agent, a discharge line to discharge a fully charged bottle, and a socket and an extension. The system also has a valve service area to re-service the valve, and a sprayer gun to remove dry powder residue from the valve during re-servicing of the valve. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908279 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07243921 | Larson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Larson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi); Joe G. Tom (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward J. Fransen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method providing a self-dispensing additive for buffering a projectile trapping medium and passivating spent projectiles trapped therein. The additive is a buffering compound formed as blocks of low-density foamed-concrete that self-dispenses the additive when contacted by the fired projectiles. The blocks contain dry components that may include one or more of low-solubility phosphate compounds, low-solubility aluminum compounds, iron compounds, sulfate compounds, and calcium carbonate mixed with a cementing material, water, and an aqueous-based foam in substantially stoichiometric amounts. The aqueous-based foam is added in a quantity sufficient to adjust the density of the block to neutral buoyancy in the projectile-trapping medium. The additive chemically stabilizes the medium while also passivating projectiles, in particular heavy-metal projectiles, trapped in the medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484558 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244034 | Karandikar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | M Cubed Technologies, Inc. (Monroe, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant G. Karandikar (Avondale, Pennsylvania); Jai R. Singh (Trumbull, Connecticut); Clarence A. Andersson (Wallingford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A mirror having low density, low CTE, high thermal conductivity, high elastic modulus, and a reflective, polishable surface. The instant mirror features a silicon-based metal coating as the reflective surface, and a composite body as a support or substrate for the reflecting surface. The composite body features carbon fibers reinforcing a matrix containing silicon metal and optionally some silicon carbide. The metal coating can be elemental silicon metal, possibly in amorphous form, and can be applied by a vapor deposition process such as chemical vapor deposition (e.g., plasma enhanced CVD) or physical vapor deposition such as evaporation or electron beam PVD. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663359 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/838 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244096 | Dins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan E. Dins (Tucson, Arizona); John Hogan (Gilbert, Arizona); Arun Kumar (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a rotating radial scoop used to move fluid from a larger radius to a smaller radius, comprising a blade at least partially circumscribing a central axis from an outer radius of the scoop to an capture radius of the scoop, wherein the inner surface of the blade is curved. A scoop having a blade with a curved inner surface extending from the scoop outer radius to a capture radius is disclosed. A turbine engine comprising the scoop, along with a method of providing a fluid to a bearing utilizing the scoop is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133715 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244295 | Detty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Detty (Rochester, New York); Michael D. Drake (Glendale, California); Ying Tang (Amherst, New York); Frank V. Bright (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a coating composition including a sol-gel matrix and a dendrimeric organochalcogeno derivative and a system including the coating composition and a substrate. The present invention also relates to a method of preventing fouling of surfaces subjected to a marine environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753926 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/15.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244321 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choong Paul Kim (Northridge, California); Charles C. Hays (Pasadena, California); William L. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite metal object comprises ductile crystalline metal particles in an amorphous metal matrix. An alloy is heated above its liquidus temperature. Upon cooling from the high temperature melt, the alloy chemically partitions, forming dendrites in the melt. Upon cooling the remaining liquid below the glass transition temperature it freezes to the amorphous state, producing a two-phase microstructure containing crystalline particles in an amorphous metal matrix. The ductile metal particles have a size in the range of from 0.1 to 15 micrometers and spacing in the range of from 0.1 to 20 micrometers. Preferably, the particle size is in the range of from 0.5 to 8 micrometers and spacing is in the range of from 1 to 10 micrometers. The volume proportion of particles is in the range of from 5 to 50% and preferably 15 to 35%. Differential cooling can produce oriented dendrites of ductile metal phase in an amorphous matrix. Examples are given in the Zr—Ti—Cu—Ni—Be alloy bulk glass forming system with added niobium. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735148 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244326 | Craig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon S. W. Craig (Palo Alto, California); Kenneth D. Schatz (San Jose, California); Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Paul S. Drzaic (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a device. The method comprises placing a functional element in a first opening formed in a template substrate and transferring the functional element to a device substrate having a second opening formed therein wherein the functional element is held within the second opening and against an adhesive film coupled to the device substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846753 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244357 | Herrington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MIOX Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney E. Herrington (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frank R. Hand (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Improvements in product water throughput from a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane filter achieved by thinner feed spacers in the RO element, enhanced recovery (ratio of permeate to feed), pressure recovery of the retentate fluid pressure opposing the feed water pressure, and fluid pulsing of the RO element feed stream. The system of the invention preferably comprises a dual head reciprocating pump, an RO element, and a differential pressure activated (“DPA”) valve. The DPA valve, in combination with connecting the two pump heads to reduce required pump pressures, generates energy recovery. The frequency and amplitude of the reciprocating pump create a pulse wave in the RO element that improves permeate quality and throughput. A control system preferably monitors system parameters to optimize the reciprocating pump speed and amplitude in order to obtain maximum throughput and permeate quality from any given RO element configuration. Also a highly compact, portable RO system comprising a piston and a DPA valve. The piston separates the feed chamber from the retentate chamber. The pressure difference between the two chambers determines the pressure recovery of the system. The DPA valve opens and closes hydraulically to automatically control the retentate discharge as the system is pumped. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759750 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244402 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Morten Sommer (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of microfluidic structures enables high throughput screening of protein crystallization. In one embodiment, an integrated combinatoric mixing chip allows for precise metering of reagents to rapidly create a large number of potential crystallization conditions, with possible crystal formations observed on chip. In an alternative embodiment, the microfluidic structures may be utilized to explore phase space conditions of a particular protein crystallizing agent combination, thereby identifying promising conditions and allowing for subsequent focused attempts to obtain crystal growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637847 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/245.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244500 | Watts 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) | Daniel J. Watts (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Laura Battista (Hamburg, New Jersey); James Zunino (Boonton Township, New Jersey); Nelson Colon (Verona, New Jersey); John Federici (Westfield, New Jersey); Gordon Thomas (Princeton, New Jersey); Hee C. Lim (Edison, New Jersey); Zafar Iqbal (Morristown, New Jersey); Joseph Argento (Newton, New Jersey); Haim Grebel (Livingston, New Jersey); Somenath Mitra (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Yan Zhang (Roselle, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An active coating system capable of collecting, analyzing, managing and adapting to data and/or its environment in real time. An exemplary embodiment of our inventive active coating system is corrosion resistant and includes a flexible sensor layer, a switch layer and a visual display layer. Operationally, the flexible sensor layer senses particular environmental conditions and the visual display layer provides visual indication of the condition(s) sensed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307611 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244527 | Klein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Electro Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin G. Klein (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for controlling a multi-cell battery. In one embodiment of the present invention, a stack of bipolar wafer cells may be connected in series. Each cell may have an area that may be expandable in response to pressure. Such an area may be aligned with a corresponding area of at least one adjacent cell. The invention further includes a trigger mechanism that may be responsive to a force created by pressure generated in a cell in the stack of bipolar cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/685473 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244826 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Marie Alix Poul (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel erbB2-binding internalizing antibodies. The antibodies, designated F5 and C1, specifically bind to c-erbB2 antigen and, upon binding, are readily internalized into the cell bearing the c-erbB2 marker. Chimeric molecules comprising the F5 and/or C1 antibodies attached to one or more effector molecules are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/250056 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244929 | Rodi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Rodi (Leimen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An encoder device for the determination of absolute angle or linear segments is described, with which the distance from the actual to the reference position is determined upon prompting and output via incremental signals. This encoder offers new functions for the incremental measuring system employed up to now. The transition to the absolute measuring system is also made possible according to requirements. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224375 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/231.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245040 | Mukavetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Mukavetz (Chandler, Arizona); John K. Harvell (Chandler, Arizona); Kevin R. Moeckly (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for maintaining a constant electrical output frequency in a turbogenerator with increased electrical loads are provided. The methods comprise biasing adjustable guide vanes of a compressor and/or a compressor bleed valve in response to the increased electrical load. A dual schedule system for carrying out the methods of the present invention is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182244 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245082 | Fleming |
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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) | Timothy P. Fleming (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-power relativistic magnetron wherein the cathode geometry is shaped to form a DC electric field that has a non-negligible azimuthal component causing preferential selection of the pi mode at startup (suppression of mode competition), a significant increase in radiated power output and time integrated efficiency when compared to standard relativistic magnetron cathode designs. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146976 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/39.670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245292 | Custy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward John Custy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile user interface device that allows a user to manipulate the graphical elements of a graphical user interface and provides tactile feedback to the user. The interface device comprises a substrate and a plurality of tactile elements. Each tactile element of the tactile user interface device comprises a means for sensing pressure from a user's finger to determine if the user has depressed the tactile element and a means for conveying tactile feedback information to the user. Tactile feedback information may be elevations, vibrations, textures, and temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663945 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245373 | Soller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); NIRStat LLC (Chatham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Patrick G. Phillipps (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Michael S. Parker (Uxbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer system includes a thermal light source for illuminating a sample, where the thermal light source includes a filament that emits light when heated. The system additionally includes a spectrograph for measuring a light spectrum from the sample and an electrical circuit for supplying electrical current to the filament to heat the filament and for controlling a resistance of the filament. The electrical circuit includes a power supply that supplies current to the filament, first electrical components that sense a current through the filament, second electrical components that sense a voltage drop across the filament, third electrical components that compare a ratio of the sensed voltage drop and the sensed current with a predetermined value, and fourth electrical components that control the current through the filament or the voltage drop across the filament to cause the ratio to equal substantially the predetermined value. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113347 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245424 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Dennis (Alexandria, Virginia); Brian Cole (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device amplifies light at wavelengths in the vicinity of 1420-1530 nm, using thulium doped silica-based optical fiber. This wavelength band is of interest as it falls in the low-loss optical fiber telecommunications window, and is somewhat shorter in wavelength than the currently standard erbium doped silica fiber amplifier. The device thus extends the band of wavelengths which can be supported for long-distance telecommunications. The additional wavelength band allows the data transmission rate to be substantially increased via wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), with minimal modification to the standard equipment currently used for WDM systems. The host glass is directly compatible with standard silica-based telecommunications fiber. The invention also enables modified silicate based amplifiers and lasers on a variety of alternative transitions. Specifically, an S-band thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) using a true silicate fiber host is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151176 |
| 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 359/341.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245559 | McDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications Incorporated Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry R. McDonald (San Diego, California); Gary W. Hicks (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus determine if an underwater intruder passes under a protective boundary. A sonar sensor system comprises a plurality of sonar sensor modules that are spaced on a protective boundary. A sonar sensor module comprises a sonar transducer (sonar array) that is characterized by an omni-directional radiation pattern that may overlap an omni-directional radiation pattern of an adjacent sonar sensor module transducer. The sonar sensor module collects sonar data such as range information of the target in relation to time. A central processor obtains the sonar data from each sonar module through a telemetry link. The central processor processes the sonar data from the plurality of sonar sensor modules in order to determine an estimated path of the target and may determine if the target should be considered as a threatening underwater intruder from a calculated threat level estimate based on this data. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967953 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245692 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianping Lu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jian Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | X-ray imaging systems and methods are provided that use temporal digital signal processing for reducing noise and for obtaining multiple images simultaneously. An x-ray imaging system can include an x-ray source adapted to generate a pulsed x-ray beam having a predetermined frequency and apply the pulsed x-ray beam to an object to be imaged. An x-ray detector can be adapted to detect x-ray radiation from the object and generate temporal data based on the x-ray radiation. A temporal data analyzer can be adapted to apply a temporal signal process to the temporal data to remove at least a portion of the temporal data having a different frequency than the predetermined frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410997 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245761 | Swaminathan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Swaminathan (New York, New York); Michael Grossberg (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An algorithm is provided for reducing distortion in an image captured by a camera or other imaging system having more than one optical viewpoint. The algorithm can use a captured image, statistical information regarding the depths of scene objects, and information regarding the geometrical characteristics of the imaging system to generate an approximation of a perspective projection representing the scene. The virtual viewpoint of the approximate perspective projection is selected so as to reduce distortion. The resulting image has less distortion than that of an image generated under an assumption that scene objects are infinitely distant. In addition, the parameters of any distortion reducing function can be optimized by minimizing an objective function representing the amount of image distortion. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/333198 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245801 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Boyd (Rochester, New York); John E. Heebner (Livingston, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and method for manipulating optical pulses to implement an optical switch and for pulse shaping (e.g., pulse compression and/or compression) are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises an optical switch apparatus that includes a plurality of resonators optically coupled to a waveguide, two output waveguides, an input light source, a control light source. The system selects some of the input signals emitted from the input light course using control signals emitted from the control light source to route to one of the output waveguides. In another embodiment, the system includes a waveguide optically coupled to a plurality of resonators, input light source, optional resonator modules that can change the refractive index of the resonators, and an optional amplifier. This system can change the shape of the pulses by changing a number of parameters, such as the incoming pulse amplitude and/or the refractive index of the resonators. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/394894 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
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| US 07246232 | Dutertre |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruno Dutertre (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An application of intrusion tolerant concepts to a software infrastructure for supporting secure group applications. This application is suited for use with network layer protocols such as TBRPF and is particularly adapted for wireless networks, and more specifically mobile ad hoc networks. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/186811 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/163 |
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| US 07246240 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac Chuang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Gottesman (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing secure quantum digital signatures. In one embodiment, a digital signature user creates a plurality of identical “public” keys having one or more bits and a corresponding quantum mechanical one-way function. Quantum digital signature recipients use a “swap test” to check the validity of a copy of the key, and compare the test results with others. The quantum digital signature user sends a signed message over any channel, including an insecure channel. The recipients evaluate the signed message, and quantify the number of incorrect keys. The message is deemed valid and original, or forged and/or tampered with, when the number of incorrect keys is less than a lower threshold, or exceeds an upper threshold, respectively. For an intermediate number of incorrect keys, the recipients determine message authenticity by comparing observations. Hardware useful for application of the method is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/134037 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Morten Sommer (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of microfluidic structures enables high throughput screening of protein crystallization. In one embodiment, an integrated combinatoric mixing chip allows for precise metering of reagents to rapidly create a large number of potential crystallization conditions, with possible crystal formations observed on chip. In an alternative embodiment, the microfluidic structures may be utilized to explore phase space conditions of a particular protein crystallizing agent combination, thereby identifying promising conditions and allowing for subsequent focused attempts to obtain crystal growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637847 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/245.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244557 | Nuñez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Nuñez (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Naohiro Inohara (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to intracellular signaling molecules, in particular the Nod1 protein. The present invention provides methods of identifying modulators of Nod1 signaling. The present invention further provides methods of altering Nod1 signaling. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845799 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244558 | Samal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siba K. Samal (College Park, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns cDNAs for making attentuated, infectious Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Another aspect of the invention relates to methods of making the cDNAs. Another aspect of the invention is a vector containing the cDNA optionally linked to an operable promoter. Within the scope of the invention are vaccines comprising the attenuated, infectious NDV. Also disclosed are methods of making the vaccines and methods of using the vaccines to prevent or treat Newcastle disease in an avian host. The present invention also concerns the nucleotide sequences of the entire genome of NDV, the leading region, the trailing region, and the NP region, as well as proteins encoded by these nucleotide sequences. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/926431 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244565 | Kasid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usha Kasid (Rockville, Maryland); Isamu Sakabe (Arlington, Virginia); Imran Ahmad (Wadsworth, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a SHINC-3 polynucleotide, which can be a nucleic acid encoding all or a portion of a SHINC-3 protein, or a complementary polynucleotide or antisense polynucleotide. In another aspect, the invention provides a SHINC-3 polypeptide, which can be a full-length SHINC-3 protein or a fragment thereof or an analog or homolog thereof. Desirably, the SHINC-3 polypeptide modulates apoptosis. In another aspect, the invention provides an antibody that specifically binds a SHINC-3 polypeptide. In another aspect, the invention provides diagnostic methods. For example, the method affords a method for identifying compounds that modulate apoptosis. In another aspect, the invention provides a method for detecting or evaluating the prognosis of a cancer. In another aspect, the invention provides diagnostic compositions for detection of cancer. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating apoptosis or invention or preventing a cancer, tumor growth and/or metastasis by administration of an agent that modulates the expression and/or activity of SHINC-3. In another aspect, the invention provides formulations of SHINC-3 polynucleotides or proteins. Preferably, such compositions will comprise liposomal formulations. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/411930 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244571 | Hakonarson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | deCODE genetics ehf. (Rreykjavik, Iceland); The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hakon Hakonarson (Reykjavik, Iceland); Michael M. Grunstein (Merion, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for inducing a pro-asthma/pro-inflammatory like state in a resident tissue cell, comprising contacting the cell with one or more cytokines, e.g., IL-1β, TNFα or both. Methods are also disclosed for identifying genes that regulate responses to anti-inflammatory drugs, to methods for drug screening, and to methods for identifying genes that correlate with various pro-asthma/pro-inflammatory disease phenotypes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022564 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244584 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California); Jon E. Adler (Washington, District of Columbia); Nick Ryba (Bethesda, Maryland); Ken Mueller (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a novel family of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/510332 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244590 | Lambeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. David Lambeth (Atlanta, Georgia); Guangjie Cheng (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nucleotides encoding for the production of novel regulatory proteins for Nox enzymes involved in generation of reactive oxygen intermediates that affect cell division. The present invention also provides vectors containing these nucleotides, cells transfected with these vectors, antibodies raised against these novel proteins, kits for detection, localization and measurement of these nucleotides and proteins, and methods to determine the activity of drugs to affect the biological activity of the regulatory proteins of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227975 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.200 |
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| US 07244604 | Richon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victoria M. Richon (Rye, New York); Xianbo Zhou (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Richard A. Rifkind (New York, New York); Paul A. Marks (Washington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features substantially pure HDAC9, HDAC9a, HDAC9(ΔNLS), HDAC9a(ΔNLS), an HDRP(ΔNLS) polypeptides, and isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. The present invention also features vectors containing HDAC9, HDAC9a, HDAC9(ΔNLS), HDAC9a(ΔNLS), and HDRP(ΔNLS) nucleic acid sequences, and cells containing those vectors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202268 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Rando (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to aminoglycoside compounds having antibiotic activity. Moreover, the present invention relates to L-aminoglycoside compounds and diastereomers thereof which posses antibiotic activity and are not susceptible to development of resistant bacterial strains. The present invention also relates to methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of aminoglycoside compounds provided by the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941623 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244714 | Gonda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aradigm Corporation (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Gonda (San Francisco, California); Hans Schreier (Sebastopol, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for delivering aerosolized formulations containing polynucleotides to specified regions within a subject's respiratory tract are disclosed. The methods find use in the delivery of ribozymes, antisense polynucleotides, and DNA and RNA expression vectors into airway epithelial cells, alveoli, pulmonary macrophages and other cells in the respiratory tract (including the oropharynx, nose, nasopharynx). These methods may be used for optimization of transfection efficiency and expression in vivo, and for in vivo expression, for example for generating an immune response, or inducing immunological tolerance. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/330903 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244724 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Spirogen, Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Liu (Chevy Chase, Maryland); B. Rao Vishnuvajjala (Rockville, Maryland); Kenneth M. Snader (Vero Beach, Florida); David E. Thurston (Foreham, United Kingdom); Philip Howard (St. Albans, United Kingdom); Stephen Gregson (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of formula I: or solvate thereof, wherein n is 1 to 10, and M and M′ are independently selected from monovalent pharmaceutically acceptable cations, or together represent a divalent pharmaceutically acceptable cation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/129207 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244814 | Mathews et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Mathews (Monclair, New Jersey); Tsafi Pe'ery (Monclair, New Jersey); Syed Reza (Cross Lanes, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Variants of the HIV-1 Tat protein exhibiting higher transcriptional activation and stronger P-TEFb binding than wild-type Tat are provided. In addition variants that can inhibit transcription activation by wild-type Tat are provided. Nucleic acid sequences encoding these variants, vectors and host cells for expression of these variants, and antibodies raised against these variants are also provided. In addition, methods for use of these variants and compositions containing these variants as research tools, as diagnostic tools and in the treatment of viral infections are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/505265 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Gutheil (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a process for preparing a peptide of formula I): Sub-[L]-[N(R1)-A-C(O)]p—[NH-A-C(O)]n+m—OH (I) comprising: (a) reacting an immobilized compound of formula (II): Sub-(L)-[N(R1)-A-C(O)]p—[NH-A-C(O)]n—OH (II) with an amino acid ester or peptide derivative of formula (III): H—[NH-A-C(O)]m—O(tBu) (III) in the presence of a coupling agent to yield a peptide compound of general formula (IV): Sub-[L]-[N(R1)-A-C(O)]p—[NH-A-C(O)]n+m—O(tBu); (IV) (b) removing the tBu (t-butyl) group to produce a solid-support bound carboxylic acid or peptide derivative of general formula (I); wherein n is a positive integer, e.g., 1–10, preferably 1–5; m is a positive integer, and P is 0–1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/848964 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244830 | Chaikof et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliot L. Chaikof (Atlanta, Georgia); Daniel Grande (Vitry-sur-Sein, France); Subramanian Baskaran (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A glycopolymer composition is provided comprising glycopolymer molecules having a polymer backbone; a first pendent unit comprising a linking group connected to said polymer backbone and a saccharide moiety connected to said linking group, optionally a second pendent unit; a phenyl ring at a first end of the polymer backbone; and a cyanoxyl group at the second end of the polymer backbone, useful as intermediates for making bioactive glycopolymers which bind to bioactive molecules, viruses, cells and substrates for protein separation, cell culture, ad drug delivery systems, as well as in targeting for treatment of wound healing and other pathological conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/451011 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/18.700 |
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| US 07244831 | Barany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Jianying Luo (Boston, Massachusetts); Marilyn Khanna (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Donald E. Bergstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Ligase detection reaction is utilized to distinguish minority template in the presence of an excess of normal template with a thermostable ligase. This process can be carried out with a mutant ligase, thermostable ligase, or a modified oligonucleotide probe. This procedure is particularly useful for the detection of cancer-associated mutations. It has the advantage of providing a quantitative measure of the amount or ratio of minority template. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405882 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07244853 | Schreiber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts); Scott M. Sternson (New York, New York); Jason C. Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christina M. Grozinger (Urbana, Illinois); Stephen J. Haggarty (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kathryn M. Koeller (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents and efficient methods for the synthesis thereof, the present invention provides novel compounds of general formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, n, X and Y are as defined herein. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula (I) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention further provides compounds capable of inhibiting histone deacetylatase activity and methods for treating disorders regulated by histone deacetylase activity (e.g., cancer and protozoal infections) comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I) to a subject in need thereof. The present invention additionally provides methods for modulating the glucose-sensitive subset of genes downstream of Ure2p. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621276 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/356 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245755 | Pan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaochuan Pan (Chicago, Illinois); Lifeng Yu (Chicago, Illinois); Chien-Min Kao (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for reconstructing a tomographic image from fan-beam or cone-beam data. The method includes the steps of collecting fan-beam or cone-beam data over an image space, converting the fan-beam or cone-beam data to parallel-beam data with respect to a rotation angle within the image space, performing a shift variant filtration of the parallel-beam data within the image space and converting the processed data to images through backprojection or other means. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/616671 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245962 | Ciaccio 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) | Edward J. Ciaccio (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Andrew L. Wit (Massapequa, New York); Alexis Christine Tosti (Gladstone, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for identifying and localizing a reentrant circuit isthmus in a heart of a subject during sinus rhythm is provided. The method may include (a) receiving electrogram signals from the heart during sinus rhythm via electrodes, (b) creating a map based on the electrogram signals, (c) determining, based on the map, a location of the reentrant circuit isthmus in the heart, and (d) displaying the location of the reentrant circuit isthmus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/485676 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert J. Warmack (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface wave chemical detector comprising at least one surface wave substrate, each of said substrates having a surface wave and at least one measurable surface wave parameter; means for exposing said surface wave substrate to an unknown sample of at least one chemical to be analyzed, said substrate adsorbing said at least one chemical to be sensed if present in said sample; a source of radiation for radiating said surface wave substrate with different wavelengths of said radiation, said surface wave parameter being changed by said adsorbing; and means for recording signals representative of said surface wave parameter of each of said surface wave substrates responsive to said radiation of said different wavelengths, measurable changes of said parameter due to adsorbing said chemical defining a unique signature of a detected chemical. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100839 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/590 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07243554 | Wenski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward G. Wenski (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-tensile testing system providing a stand-alone test platform for testing and reporting physical or engineering properties of test samples of materials having thicknesses of approximately between 0.002 inch and 0.030 inch, including, for example, LiGA engineered materials. The testing system is able to perform a variety of static, dynamic, and cyclic tests. The testing system includes a rigid frame and adjustable gripping supports to minimize measurement errors due to deflection or bending under load; serrated grips for securing the extremely small test sample; high-speed laser scan micrometers for obtaining accurate results; and test software for controlling the testing procedure and reporting results. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229111 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/800 |
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| US 07243717 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Scott Dahlgren (Alpine, Utah); Tracy H. Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Lehi, Utah); David S. Pixton (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus in a drill string comprises an internally upset drill pipe. The drill pipe comprises a first end, a second end, and an elongate tube intermediate the first and second ends. The elongate tube and the ends comprising a continuous an inside surface with a plurality of diameters. A conformable spirally welded metal tube is disposed within the drill pipe intermediate the ends thereof and terminating adjacent to the ends of the drill pipe. The conformable metal tube substantially conforms to the continuous inside surface of the metal tube. The metal tube may comprise a non-uniform section which is expanded to conform to the inside surface of the drill pipe. The non-uniform section may comprise protrusions selected from the group consisting of convolutions, corrugations, flutes, and dimples. The non-uniform section extends generally longitudinally along the length of the tube. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711454 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/242.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244321 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choong Paul Kim (Northridge, California); Charles C. Hays (Pasadena, California); William L. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite metal object comprises ductile crystalline metal particles in an amorphous metal matrix. An alloy is heated above its liquidus temperature. Upon cooling from the high temperature melt, the alloy chemically partitions, forming dendrites in the melt. Upon cooling the remaining liquid below the glass transition temperature it freezes to the amorphous state, producing a two-phase microstructure containing crystalline particles in an amorphous metal matrix. The ductile metal particles have a size in the range of from 0.1 to 15 micrometers and spacing in the range of from 0.1 to 20 micrometers. Preferably, the particle size is in the range of from 0.5 to 8 micrometers and spacing is in the range of from 1 to 10 micrometers. The volume proportion of particles is in the range of from 5 to 50% and preferably 15 to 35%. Differential cooling can produce oriented dendrites of ductile metal phase in an amorphous matrix. Examples are given in the Zr—Ti—Cu—Ni—Be alloy bulk glass forming system with added niobium. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735148 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244359 | Teter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Teter (Edgewood, New Mexico); Patrick V. Brady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James L. Krumhansl (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and medium for decontamination of water containing anionic species including arsenic and chromium, wherein compounds comprising divalent and trivalent metal oxides and sulfides are used to form surface complexes with contaminants under pH conditions within the range of potable water. In one embodiment natural and synthetic spinels and spinel-like materials are used as the sorbent substance. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955292 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/683 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244605 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Elizabeth Golightly (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976660 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244930 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl E. Nelson (Livermore, California); John D. Valentine (Redwood City, California); Brock R. Beauchamp (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test to enhance the detection of an elevated level of radiation, by determining whether a set of observations are consistent with a specified model within a given bounds of statistical significance. In particular, the SPRT is used in the present invention to maximize the range of detection, by providing processing mechanisms for estimating the dynamic background radiation, adjusting the models to reflect the amount of background knowledge at the current point in time, analyzing the current sample using the models to determine statistical significance, and determining when the sample has returned to the expected background conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205921 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244950 | Elmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Todd A. Palmer (Livermore, California); Alan T. Teruya (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a probe for determining the orientation of electron beams being profiled. To accurately time the location of an electron beam, the probe is designed to accept electrons from only a narrowly defined area. The signal produced from the probe is then used as a timing or triggering fiducial for an operably coupled data acquisition system. Such an arrangement eliminates changes in slit geometry, an additional signal feedthrough in the wall of a welding chamber and a second timing or triggering channel on a data acquisition system. As a result, the present invention improves the accuracy of the resulting data by minimizing the adverse effects of current slit triggering methods so as to accurately reconstruct electron or ion beams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158481 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244959 | Datskos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Panagiotis G. Datskos (Knoxville, Tennessee); Slobodan Rajic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Irene Datskou (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for detecting electromagnetic radiation employs a deflectable micromechanical apparatus incorporating multiple quantum wells structures. When photons strike the quantum-well structure, physical stresses are created within the sensor, similar to a “bimetallic effect.” The stresses cause the sensor to bend. The extent of deflection of the sensor can be measured through any of a variety of conventional means to provide a measurement of the photons striking the sensor. A large number of such sensors can be arranged in a two-dimensional array to provide imaging capability. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/358933 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245061 | Mentesana |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Mentesana (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-beam friction liner adapted to increase performance and efficiency and reduce wear in a piezoelectric motor or actuator or other device using a traveling or standing wave to transfer energy in the form of torque and momentum. The micro-beam friction liner comprises a dense array of micro-beam projections having first ends fixed relative to a rotor and second ends projecting substantially toward a plurality of teeth of a stator, wherein the micro-beam projections are compressed and bent during piezoelectric movement of the stator teeth, thereby storing the energy, and then react against the stator teeth to convert the stored energy stored to rotational energy in the rotor. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775006 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/323.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245074 | Shiang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic electroluminescent devices having improved light extraction include a light-scattering medium disposed adjacent thereto. The light-scattering medium has a light scattering anisotropy parameter g in the range from greater than zero to about 0.99, and a scatterance parameter S less than about 0.22 or greater than about 3. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850700 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245680 | Dimsdle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologiex, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey William Dimsdle (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facilitate data recovery; amplitude scale tracking to track-out rapid and severe scale variations and facilitate successful demodulation and data retrieval; 2N power carrier recovery; incoherent demodulation where coherent carrier recovery is not possible or practical due to signal degradation; coherent demodulation; multipath equalization to equalize frequency dependent multipath; and demodulation filtering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454808 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245742 | Carrano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmen J. Carrano (Livermore, California); James M. Brase (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A surveillance system looks through the atmosphere along a horizontal or slant path. Turbulence along the path causes blurring. The blurring is corrected by speckle processing short exposure images recorded with a camera. The exposures are short enough to effectively freeze the atmospheric turbulence. Speckle processing is used to recover a better quality image of the scene. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610152 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07246217 | Tomkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Tomkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William J. Camp (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple processor computing apparatus includes a physical interconnect structure that is flexibly configurable to support selective segregation of classified and unclassified users. The physical interconnect structure includes routers in service or compute processor boards distributed in an array of cabinets connected in series on each board and to respective routers in neighboring row cabinet boards with the routers in series connection coupled to routers in series connection in respective neighboring column cabinet boards. The array can include disconnect cabinets or respective routers in all boards in each cabinet connected in a toroid. The computing apparatus can include an emulator which permits applications from the same job to be launched on processors that use different operating systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110344 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Morten Sommer (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of microfluidic structures enables high throughput screening of protein crystallization. In one embodiment, an integrated combinatoric mixing chip allows for precise metering of reagents to rapidly create a large number of potential crystallization conditions, with possible crystal formations observed on chip. In an alternative embodiment, the microfluidic structures may be utilized to explore phase space conditions of a particular protein crystallizing agent combination, thereby identifying promising conditions and allowing for subsequent focused attempts to obtain crystal growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637847 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/245.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244572 | Schwabacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan W. Schwabacher (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Peter Geissinger (Shorewood, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Linear arrays of chemosensors or chemical compounds are supported by an optical fiber that allows one to rapidly assay the entire array using changes in optical properties such as fluorescence. The location of the agent along the fiber determines the identity of the agent in these linear arrays. Combinatorial libraries may be constructed on the fiber as well as assayed on the optical fiber. A system and method of analyzing the entire array of agents on an optical fiber using a light source, an optical fiber, and a detector are also described. The time delay between the excitation and detection determines the location being assayed along the fiber and therefore the identity of the agent being assayed. The present invention may find uses in the medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, defense, and food industries. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/535300 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244610 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Henry Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing yields of succinate using aerobic culture methods and a multi-mutant E. coli strain are provided. Also provided is a mutant strain of E. coli that produces high amounts of succinic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987511 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244670 | Karabacak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tansel Karabacak (Troy, New York); Toh-Ming Lu (Loudonville, New York); John Robert Barthel (East Nassau, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for fabricating an integrated circuit entail directing a vapor flux toward a substrate surface from a plurality of directions associated with a plurality of azimuth angles, and selecting a deposition angle of the vapor flux, relative to a normal incidence, to obtain a substantially conformal film. The surface feature can be associated with, for example, one or more vias and/or one or more trenches. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872083 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244799 | Prasad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhagavatula L. V. Prasad (Pune, India); Savka Stoeva (Evanston, Illinois); Kenneth J. Klabunde (Manhattan, Kansas); Christopher Sorensen (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel siloxanes are provided in the form of nanoscale bodies having discrete, observable structures, such as elongated wires, tubes, filaments and coils, having a length of at least about 100 nm and a diameter of from about 2-200 nm. The siloxanes are synthesized by reacting a substituted silane in a solvent system comprising water and a polar organic solvent, and in the presence of a metallic nanoparticle catalyst such as gold. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888165 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244853 | Schreiber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts); Scott M. Sternson (New York, New York); Jason C. Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christina M. Grozinger (Urbana, Illinois); Stephen J. Haggarty (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kathryn M. Koeller (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents and efficient methods for the synthesis thereof, the present invention provides novel compounds of general formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, n, X and Y are as defined herein. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula (I) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention further provides compounds capable of inhibiting histone deacetylatase activity and methods for treating disorders regulated by histone deacetylase activity (e.g., cancer and protozoal infections) comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I) to a subject in need thereof. The present invention additionally provides methods for modulating the glucose-sensitive subset of genes downstream of Ure2p. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621276 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/356 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244941 | Roos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Recovery Technologies, Inc. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee); Edward J. Sommer, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for screening articles utilizing a plurality of operators, with each operator utilizing an interactive display to identify and electronically mark objects within an article to be further examined. An operator positioned at an interactive display views electronic images of an article to be screened after it has been conveyed past a sensor array which transmits sequences of images of the series either directly or through a computer to the interactive display. The operator selects objects within the article displayed on the screen for further examination using the interactive feature of the display thereby registering the objects selected within the computer. The computer then provides sequential information identifying actions to be taken and information and data to be recorded. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375228 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/358.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244997 | Appelbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Robert Appelbaum (Providence, Rhode Island); Douwe Johannes Monsma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kasey Joe Russell (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic system includes a three terminal device having a light emitting portion and a magnetically sensitive portion. The magnetically sensitive portion is for modulating light emission from the light emitting portion. The device is a spin valve transistor having a light-emitting quantum well in its collector. The device can convert a magnetic digital signal to both an electrical digital signal and an optical digital signal, wherein either or both of these signals can be provided as a device output. The magnetically sensitive portion of the device is formed of a pair of magnetically permeable layers. When the layers are aligned electron current can pass through with sufficient energy to reach a quantum well where they recombine, generating light. The device may be used to read a magnetic storage medium, such as a disk drive. Or it can be used to provide a display or a memory array composed of single device magnetic write, optical read memory cells. Amplification can be provided to the transistor by adjusting the collector base voltage to provide secondary electrons by impact ionization to provide greater electron current and a correspondingly larger optical emission signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615552 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245102 | Spong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Spong (Champaign, Illinois); Romeo Ortega (Orsay, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of compensating wave reflections in transmission lines is provided. The system includes a compensator that transforms a transmission line (which connects an actuator and a motor) into a delay transfer to remove wave reflections, by exploiting a scattering variables representation of the transmission line. The compensator can be a filter with delays that transforms the transmission line into a delay transfer through appropriate linear combinations of delayed or un-delayed voltages and currents. The filter may admit a discrete-time finite-dimensional realization that preserves the wave reflection removal properties for signals. A back-to-back rectifier-inverter or hybrid filter implementation may realize the filter. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/692712 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245761 | Swaminathan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Swaminathan (New York, New York); Michael Grossberg (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An algorithm is provided for reducing distortion in an image captured by a camera or other imaging system having more than one optical viewpoint. The algorithm can use a captured image, statistical information regarding the depths of scene objects, and information regarding the geometrical characteristics of the imaging system to generate an approximation of a perspective projection representing the scene. The virtual viewpoint of the approximate perspective projection is selected so as to reduce distortion. The resulting image has less distortion than that of an image generated under an assumption that scene objects are infinitely distant. In addition, the parameters of any distortion reducing function can be optimized by minimizing an objective function representing the amount of image distortion. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/333198 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07246047 | Ghaboussi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamshid Ghaboussi (Urbana, Illinois); Youssef M. A. Hashash (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for modeling the interaction of granular material with equipment includes the steps of numerically representing the material with an array having a plurality of cells, determining which of the cells may be unstable using a self-organizing computational model, and modeling the motion of the unstable cells using the model. Preferably, output is provided in virtual reality format in real time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409963 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07246054 | Szymanski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boleslaw K. Szymanski (Newtonville, New York); Gang Chen (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Lookback is defined as the ability of a logical process to change its past locally (without involving other logical processes). Logical processes with lookback are able to process out-of-timestamp order events, enabling new synchronization protocols for the parallel discrete event simulation. Two of such protocols, LB-GVT (LookBack-Global Virtual Time) and LB-EIT (LookBack-Earliest Input Time), are presented and their performances on the Closed Queuing Network (CQN) simulation are compared with each other. Lookback can be used to reduce the rollback frequency in optimistic simulations. The relation between lookahead and lookback is also discussed in detail. Finally, it is shown that lookback allows conservative simulations to circumvent the speedup limit imposed by the critical path. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436890 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244578 | Hammond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Administrators of the Tulane Education Fund (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Grant Hammond (New Orleans, Louisiana); Cheryl Anne Nickerson (River Ridge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for utilizing a form of optimized suspension culture to examine the infectivity of pathogenic organisms and agents in human cells and tissues. Also provided are methods using a rotating wall vessel to predict chemosensitivity of cells and tissues to toxins and chemotherapeutic agents. These culture conditions potentiate spatial colocalization and three-dimensional assembly of individual cells into large aggregates which more closely resemble the in vivo tissue equivalent. In this environment, dissociated cells can assemble and differentiate into macroscopic tissue aggregates several millimeters in size. These culture conditions allow for better cellular differentiation and formation of three-dimensional cellular aggregates, more efficient cell-to-cell interactions, the in in vivo-like exchange of growth factors and greater molecular scaffolding facilitating mechanical stability for cells. The suspension culture system offers a new approach for studying microbial infectivity from the perspective of the host-pathogen interaction and also for analyzing chemosensitivity to toxins and chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474075 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244612 | Goodridge |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Goodridge (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method for the development of assays for the simultaneous detection of multiple bacteria. A bacteria of interest is selected. A host bacteria containing plasmid DNA from a T even bacteriophage that infects the bacteria of interest is infected with T4 reporter bacteriophage. After infection, the progeny bacteriophage are plating onto the bacteria of interest. The invention also includes single-tube, fast and sensitive assays which utilize the novel method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246779 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/306.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244799 | Prasad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhagavatula L. V. Prasad (Pune, India); Savka Stoeva (Evanston, Illinois); Kenneth J. Klabunde (Manhattan, Kansas); Christopher Sorensen (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel siloxanes are provided in the form of nanoscale bodies having discrete, observable structures, such as elongated wires, tubes, filaments and coils, having a length of at least about 100 nm and a diameter of from about 2-200 nm. The siloxanes are synthesized by reacting a substituted silane in a solvent system comprising water and a polar organic solvent, and in the presence of a metallic nanoparticle catalyst such as gold. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888165 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245373 | Soller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); NIRStat LLC (Chatham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Patrick G. Phillipps (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Michael S. Parker (Uxbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer system includes a thermal light source for illuminating a sample, where the thermal light source includes a filament that emits light when heated. The system additionally includes a spectrograph for measuring a light spectrum from the sample and an electrical circuit for supplying electrical current to the filament to heat the filament and for controlling a resistance of the filament. The electrical circuit includes a power supply that supplies current to the filament, first electrical components that sense a current through the filament, second electrical components that sense a voltage drop across the filament, third electrical components that compare a ratio of the sensed voltage drop and the sensed current with a predetermined value, and fourth electrical components that control the current through the filament or the voltage drop across the filament to cause the ratio to equal substantially the predetermined value. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113347 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245642 | Pilgrim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Pilgrim (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Daniel J. Kane (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An external cavity laser and a method of generating laser light via an external cavity laser comprising emitting laser light from a source, collimating light output by the source, receiving collimated light with a diffraction grating, reflecting light received from the diffraction grating back to the diffraction grating with a cavity feedback mirror, wherein at least a portion of the mirror is curved, and tuning the external cavity laser to a set of wavelengths. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783193 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07243879 | Fanucci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael J. King (Topsfield, Massachusetts); James J. Gorman (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the manufacture of lattice fins for fluid-born bodies is provided. In one embodiment, lattice fins having a metallic cell structure are manufactured from strips or sheets of metal. In another embodiment, composite lattice fins are manufactured from a log assembly of elongated mandrels covered with a fiber reinforced composite material. After curing, individual fins are sliced from the log assembly. Upon removal of the mandrels, a cell structure is obtained. Combinations of the two embodiments are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/313222 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/123.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244926 | Ja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiou-jyh Ja (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Lloyd Salsman (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Brian Strecker (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert Shelton (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Frederick G. Johnson (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically-powered integrated microstructure pressure sensing system for sensing pressure within a cavity. the pressure sensing system comprises a pressure sensor having an optical resonant structure subject to the pressure within the cavity and having physical properties changing due to changing pressures within the cavity. A substrate supports the optical resonant structure. An input optical pathway evanescently couples light into the optical resonant structure. An output optical pathway collects light from the optical resonance structure. A light source delivers a known light input into the input optical pathway whereby the known light input is evanescently coupled into the optical resonant structure by the input optical pathway and a portion of such light is collected from the optical resonant structure by the output optical pathway. A light detector receives the portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure, and generates a light signal indicative of such portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure. A temperature compensation sensor generates a temperature signal indicative of the temperature near the optical resonant structure. A spectrum detection device receives the light signal and temperature signal. The spectrum detection device analyzing the light signal and the temperature signal with a detection algorithm to generating a pressure signal indicative of the pressure within the cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068587 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244941 | Roos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Recovery Technologies, Inc. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee); Edward J. Sommer, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for screening articles utilizing a plurality of operators, with each operator utilizing an interactive display to identify and electronically mark objects within an article to be further examined. An operator positioned at an interactive display views electronic images of an article to be screened after it has been conveyed past a sensor array which transmits sequences of images of the series either directly or through a computer to the interactive display. The operator selects objects within the article displayed on the screen for further examination using the interactive feature of the display thereby registering the objects selected within the computer. The computer then provides sequential information identifying actions to be taken and information and data to be recorded. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375228 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/358.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07244564 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max F. Rothschild (Ames, Iowa); Kwan-Suk Kim (Ames, Iowa); Nguyet Thu Nguyen (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are genetic markers for animal growth, fatness, meat quality, and feed efficiency, methods for identifying such markers, and methods of screening animals to determine those more likely to produce desired growth, fatness, meat quality, and feed efficiency and preferably selecting those animals for future breeding purposes. The markers are based upon the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms in an HMGA nucleotide sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388703 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244607 | Martin 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) | Phyllis A. W. Martin (Lanham, Maryland); Ashaki D. S. Shropshire (Washington, District of Columbia); Dawn E. Gundersen-Rindal (Silver Spring, Maryland); Michael B. Blackburn (Woodbine, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chromobacterium suttsuga sp. nov., a new species of the genus Chromobacterium which possesses insecticidal activity, is described. The invention also relates to insecticidally-active metabolites obtained from the strain and to insecticidal compositions comprising cultures of the strain and/or supernatants, filtrates, and extracts obtained from the strain, and use thereof to control insect pests. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678023 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07244386 | Sreenivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of planarizing a substrate with a template spaced-apart from the substrate having a liquid disposed therebetween, the method including: contacting the liquid with the template forming a first shape therein; and impinging radiation upon the liquid causing a reduction in volume of the liquid, with the first shape compensating for the reduction in volume such that upon impinging the actinic radiation upon the liquid, the liquid forms a contoured layer having a substantially planar shape. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951014 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07244926 | Ja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiou-jyh Ja (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Lloyd Salsman (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Brian Strecker (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert Shelton (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Frederick G. Johnson (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically-powered integrated microstructure pressure sensing system for sensing pressure within a cavity. the pressure sensing system comprises a pressure sensor having an optical resonant structure subject to the pressure within the cavity and having physical properties changing due to changing pressures within the cavity. A substrate supports the optical resonant structure. An input optical pathway evanescently couples light into the optical resonant structure. An output optical pathway collects light from the optical resonance structure. A light source delivers a known light input into the input optical pathway whereby the known light input is evanescently coupled into the optical resonant structure by the input optical pathway and a portion of such light is collected from the optical resonant structure by the output optical pathway. A light detector receives the portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure, and generates a light signal indicative of such portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure. A temperature compensation sensor generates a temperature signal indicative of the temperature near the optical resonant structure. A spectrum detection device receives the light signal and temperature signal. The spectrum detection device analyzing the light signal and the temperature signal with a detection algorithm to generating a pressure signal indicative of the pressure within the cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068587 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07244578 | Hammond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Administrators of the Tulane Education Fund (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Grant Hammond (New Orleans, Louisiana); Cheryl Anne Nickerson (River Ridge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for utilizing a form of optimized suspension culture to examine the infectivity of pathogenic organisms and agents in human cells and tissues. Also provided are methods using a rotating wall vessel to predict chemosensitivity of cells and tissues to toxins and chemotherapeutic agents. These culture conditions potentiate spatial colocalization and three-dimensional assembly of individual cells into large aggregates which more closely resemble the in vivo tissue equivalent. In this environment, dissociated cells can assemble and differentiate into macroscopic tissue aggregates several millimeters in size. These culture conditions allow for better cellular differentiation and formation of three-dimensional cellular aggregates, more efficient cell-to-cell interactions, the in in vivo-like exchange of growth factors and greater molecular scaffolding facilitating mechanical stability for cells. The suspension culture system offers a new approach for studying microbial infectivity from the perspective of the host-pathogen interaction and also for analyzing chemosensitivity to toxins and chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474075 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07244498 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Lee Cook (Lakewood, Colorado); Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Andrew William Myers (Arvada, Colorado); Bryan Matthew Smith (Boulder, Colorado); Brian John Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Cory Kreutzer (Brighton, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado); Manfred Meiser (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-modified nanoparticles of boehmite, and methods for preparing the same. Aluminum oxyhydroxide nanoparticles are surface modified by reaction with selected amounts of organic acids. In particular, the nanoparticle surface is modified by reactions with two or more different carboxylic acids, at least one of which is an organic carboxylic acid. The product is a surface modified boehmite nanoparticle that has an inorganic aluminum oxyhydroxide core, or part aluminum oxyhydroxide core and a surface-bonded organic shell. Organic carboxylic acids of this invention contain at least one carboxylic acid group and one carbon-hydrogen bond. One embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with two or more acids one of which additional carries at least one reactive functional group. Another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that have been surface modified with multiple acids one of which has molecular weight or average molecular weight greater than or equal to 500 Daltons. Yet, another embodiment of this invention provides boehmite nanoparticles that are surface modified with two or more acids one of which is hydrophobic in nature and has solubility in water of less than 15 by weight. The products of the methods of this invention have specific useful properties when used in mixture with liquids, as filler in solids, or as stand-alone entities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120650 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07245040 | Mukavetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Mukavetz (Chandler, Arizona); John K. Harvell (Chandler, Arizona); Kevin R. Moeckly (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for maintaining a constant electrical output frequency in a turbogenerator with increased electrical loads are provided. The methods comprise biasing adjustable guide vanes of a compressor and/or a compressor bleed valve in response to the increased electrical load. A dual schedule system for carrying out the methods of the present invention is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182244 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07245962 | Ciaccio 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) | Edward J. Ciaccio (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Andrew L. Wit (Massapequa, New York); Alexis Christine Tosti (Gladstone, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for identifying and localizing a reentrant circuit isthmus in a heart of a subject during sinus rhythm is provided. The method may include (a) receiving electrogram signals from the heart during sinus rhythm via electrodes, (b) creating a map based on the electrogram signals, (c) determining, based on the map, a location of the reentrant circuit isthmus in the heart, and (d) displaying the location of the reentrant circuit isthmus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/485676 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07244390 | Bates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SSCCS, LLC, A Limited Liability Company, State of Ohio (Waterville, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry C. Bates (Waterville, Ohio); Jim Stehlik (Waterville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methodology for abating fungi in a building supported on a ground surface and having an upper enclosed living space and a lower enclosed space beneath the upper enclosed space and proximate or beneath the ground. The apparatus includes a blower positioned in the lower enclosed space and having an air inlet and an air exhaust; a plurality of intake conduits having inlet ends adapted to open in the lower enclosed space proximate a lower boundary of that space and outlet ends connected to the inlet of the blower; a plurality of exhaust conduits having inlet ends connected to the exhaust of the blower and outlet ends discharging into the lower enclosed space; a plurality of ultraviolet lamps establishing germicidal killing zones intercepting and cleansing air moving from the lower enclosed space to the inlet of the blower; and a condenser positioned between the outlet ends of the intake conduits and the blower inlet, forming a part of a refrigerant loop, and serving to dehumidify the air moving from the outlet ends of the intake conduits to the inlet of the blower. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855256 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07244834 | Gardella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Gardella (Needham, Massachusetts); Henry M. Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts); John T. Potts, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Harald Jüppner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel parathyroid hormone (PTH) peptides and analogs thereof of the PTH(1–34) fragment are disclosed that combine the N-terminal signaling domain (residues 1–9) and the C-terminal binding domain (residues 15–31) via a linker. Nucleic acid molecules and peptides for PTH(1–9)-(Gly)5-PTH(15–31) (PG5) and PTH(1–9)-(Gly)7-PTH(15–31) and a novel PTH receptor are disclosed. Additionally, methods of screening for PTH agonists, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366391 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07245068 | Merkulov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Anatoli V. Melechko (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for controlled alignment of catalyticaly grown nanostructures in a large-scale synthesis process. An apparatus includes an electrode including: a protruding section defining an edge; and a nonprotruding section coupled to the protruding section, where the edge is adapted to deflect an electric field generated with the electrode and at least one section selected from the group consisting of the protruding section and the nonprotruding section is adapted to support a substrate for the growth of elongated nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089098 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 17, 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.
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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:
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