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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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| US 07246484 | Giffin, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rollin George Giffin, III (Cincinnati, Ohio); James Edward Johnson (Hamilton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of a FLADE counter-rotating fan aircraft gas turbine engine includes at least one row of FLADE fan blades disposed radially outwardly of and drivingly connected to one of axially spaced-apart first and second counter-rotatable fans. A core engine located downstream and axially aft of the first and second counter-rotatable fans is circumscribed by a fan bypass duct downstream and axially aft of the first and second counter-rotatable fans. The row of FLADE fan blades radially extend across a FLADE duct circumscribed about the first and second counter-rotatable fans and the fan bypass duct. A second low pressure turbine is drivingly connected to the first counter-rotatable fan and a first low pressure turbine is drivingly connected to the second counter-rotatable fan. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647881 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/268 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07246549 | Van Dyke-Restifo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Van Dyke-Restifo (Voorheesville, New York); Douglas F. Olcott (Germantown, Maryland); Dominick Scalise (Herkimer, New York); Ralph P. Mischitelli (Albany, New York); Lisa J. Madigan (Melrose, New York); Robert J. Mysliwiec (Cohoes, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A primer feed mechanism mounted on a carrier of an artillery piece includes a body assembly for mounting the primer feed mechanism on the carrier, the body assembly having guide rails and a follower plate; a tray assembly that is movable on the guide rails of the body assembly, the tray assembly including a housing and an injector arm assembly; an actuator drive link connected to the carrier; a quick release link connected to the actuator drive link; and a drive link assembly connected to the quick release link and to the injector arm assembly; wherein one end of the injector arm assembly includes a push pin that reciprocates in the housing to inject a primer and another end of the injector arm assembly includes a follower that travels in the follower plate of the body assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/907911 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/27.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247073 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gong Gu (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Burrows (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic light emitting device (OLED) is disclosed for which the hole transporting layer, the electron transporting layer and/or the emissive layer, if separately present, is comprised of a non-polymeric material. A method for preparing such OLED's using vacuum deposition techniques is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966417 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247212 | Kostar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Daniel Kostar (Nashua, New Hampshire); Douglas Melton Carper (Trenton, Ohio); Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An orthogonal stitch-weave method and fiber architecture. The architecture allows near-net-shape composite preforms to be fabricated, thereby reducing costs associated with complex preform shapes and increasing desired strengths of the composite. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/018221 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247227 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Hanson (Boise, Idaho); Won-Joo Kim (Boise, Idaho); Mike E. Pugh (Nampa, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | In devices such as flat panel displays, an aluminum oxide layer is provided between an aluminum layer and an ITO layer when such materials would otherwise be in contact to protect the ITO from optical and electrical defects sustained, for instance, during anodic bonding and other fabrication steps. This aluminum oxide barrier layer is preferably formed either by: (1) partially or completely anodizing an aluminum layer formed over the ITO layer, or (2) an in situ process forming aluminum oxide either over the ITO layer or over an aluminum layer formed on the ITO layer. After either of these processes, an aluminum layer is then formed over the aluminum oxide layer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/960912 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/199 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247290 | Lobovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Lobovsky (New Providence, New Jersey); Jim Matrunich (Mountainside, New Jersey); Mikhail Kozlov (Eatontown, New Jersey); Robert C. Morris (Flanders, New Jersey); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Coagulation spinning produces structures such as fibers, ribbons, and yarns of carbon nanotubes. Stabilization, orientation, and shaping of spun materials are achieved by post-spinning processes. Advantages include the elimination of core-sheath effects due to carbonaceous contaminants, increasing mechanical properties, and eliminating dimensional instabilities in liquid electrolytes that previously prohibited the application of these spun materials in electrochemical devices. These advances enable the application of coagulation-spun carbon nanotube fibers, ribbons, and yarns in actuators, supercapacitors, and in devices for electrical energy harvesting. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/700387 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247368 | Rogers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Kenneth Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon foams exhibiting a dielectric constant of from about 2 to about 6 and simultaneously an electrical resistivity in the range of between about 1.E+00 ohm-cm and about 1.E+06 ohm-cm, demonstrate excellent radar emission absorptivity in the megahertz and gigahertz ranges. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976426 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/304.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247393 | Hazel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio); Ramgopal Darolia (West Chester, Ohio); Brett Allen Rohrer Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); David John Wortman (Hamilton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An intermetallic composition suitable for use as an environmentally-protective coating on surfaces of components used in hostile thermal environments, including the turbine, combustor and augmentor sections of a gas turbine engine. The coating contains the gamma-prime (Ni3Al) nickel aluminide intermetallic phase and either the beta (NiAl) nickel aluminide intermetallic phase or the gamma solid solution phase. The coating has an average aluminum content of 14 to 30 atomic percent and an average platinum-group metal content of at least 1 to less than 10 atomic percent, the balance of the coating being nickel, one or more of chromium, silicon, tantalum, and cobalt, optionally one or more of hafnium, yttrium, zirconium, lanthanum, and cerium, and incidental impurities. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162839 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247402 | Haile et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sossina Haile (Altadena, California); Paul Ronney (Monrovia, California); Zongping Shao (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a power generator and method for forming the same. More specifically, the present invention comprises a chamber containing a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), with a spiral-wound counter-current heat exchanger encompassing the chamber. The spiral-wound counter-current heat exchanger includes a first inlet and an outlet, where both the first inlet and the outlet are connected with the chamber such that reactants introduced into the power generator flow into the first inlet and past the SOFC, where the reactants react to produce energy and reaction products. The reaction products thereafter transfer heat to the reactants and subsequently exit through the outlet. A reactor can be positioned downstream of the SOFC for converting reactants not reacted by the SOFC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875791 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247855 | Castellane 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) | Raymond M. Castellane (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi); Falih H. Ahmad (Cornelius, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable nuclear material detector generally includes a scintillating fiber radiation sensor, a light detector, a conditioning circuit, a frequency shift keying (FSK) circuit, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) circuit, an electronic controller, an amplitude spectral addition circuit, and an output device. A high voltage direct current (HVDC) source is provided to excite the light detector, while a separate power supply may be provided to power the remaining components. Portability is facilitated by locating the components of the detector within a handheld-sized housing. When bombarded by gamma particles, the radiation sensor emits light, which is detected by the light detector and converted into electrical signals. These electrical signals are then conditioned and converted to spectral lines. The frequency of a give spectral line is associated with a particular radioactive isotope, while the cumulative amplitude of all spectral lines having a common frequency is indicative of the strength and location of the isotope. All or part of this information (identity, strength, direction, and distance) may be provided on the output device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/795363 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247895 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); David Andrew Bullen (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for selectively actuating a cantilevered probe for applying a compound to a substrate in nanolithography. A probe having a probe electrode and a substrate having a counter electrode are provided. Voltage applied to the probe electrode and/or counter electrode provides electrostatic attraction between them, moving a probe tip into sufficient proximity to the substrate to apply the patterning compound. Alternatively, a flexible cantilevered probe anchored to a holder includes a layer of conductive material forming a probe electrode. A counter electrode on the holder faces the probe electrode. The holder and probe are positioned so that a probe tip applies the compound to the substrate. The probe is disposed between the substrate and the counter electrode. An electrostatic attractive force generated between the probe electrode and the counter electrode flexes the probe and lifts the tip away from the substrate to suspend writing. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377629 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248022 | Palanisamy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thirumalai G. Palanisamy (Morristown, New Jersey); Harmohan N. Singh (Rockaway, New Jersey); Hector M. Atehortua (North Bergen, New Jersey); Steven Hoenig (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with various embodiments, there is a method for determining the available energy of a battery. Various embodiments include the steps of applying an increasing current to the battery and measuring a response voltage of the battery when the increasing current is applied to the battery. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860308 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248207 | Ohnishi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katsumi Ohnishi (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for detecting targets using pulse-compressed radar signals are disclosed. In one application, relatively small targets that are masked by the time-sidelobes of a larger target's return signal can be detected. The methods include a signal expansion type algorithm that is used to process the pulse-compressed return signal. Specifically, a generalized Fourier expansion expression having a summation of PSF terms is used to expand the pulse-compressed signal. Each term represents a respective target and includes a point spread function and a complex coefficient. The signal expansion procedure can be used to determine a set of optimum complex coefficients, with one coefficient for each range bin. Doppler frequency can be used together with range to optimize the complex coefficients. Next, targets are detected by analyzing each range bin to determine whether the corresponding complex coefficient has an absolute magnitude greater than a pre-determined threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092367 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248228 | Harless et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Harless (Palm Bay, Florida); Michael Hoffman (Palm Bay, Florida); Dennis Calhoun (Palm Bay, Florida); Robert T. Fandrich, Jr. (Palm Bay, Florida); Andrew J. Vajanyi (Palm Bay, Florida); Therese Boyle (Palm Bay, Florida); David S. Albert (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A vibration isolation system (100) for a payload (102). The vibration isolation system provides a level of vibration isolation for all vibration translational and rotational components, while minimizing the moment of the payload mass relative to the isolation system. The system includes a base (104) and a plurality of vibration isolators (114). Each vibration isolator includes a semi-rigid first support member (202) having first portion (204) positioned below the base and an opposing second portion (206) positioned above the base, and a second support member (208) having a first portion (210) fixed to the base and an opposing second portion (212) extending above the base. An elastomeric coupling (228) couples the first support member to the second support member at a height that is approximately equal to a height of a center of gravity (302) of a combined mass of the base and the payload above the base. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487659 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/878 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248343 | Cardero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Silvio Antonio Cardero (Tucson, Arizona); Robert Edmund Majewski (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser radar (LADAR) system is provided with amplitude-weighted spatial coherent processing. An amplitude-weighted sum of time domain signals arising from several detectors within a detector array is formed and used for range doppler processing. Weighting coefficients are chosen to be proportional to the signal amplitude present for each of the separate signals from each detector within the array. The amplitude coefficients are determined using target returned energy arising from a continuous wave (CW) porch portion of the transmitted waveform. Amplitude-weighted spatial coherent processing improves the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879414 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248401 | Bryant |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle R. Bryant (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A common-aperture, multispectral device uses a folded beamsplitter to simultaneously image near infrared (NIR) and long wave infrared (LWIR) spectral bands. The folded-path optical design makes the sensor extremely compact and lightweight without compromising the F/# or field of view. The design is split into two channels; a NIR channel and a LWIR channel. A Zinc Sulfide environmental window provides the input to the device. The input first is split into the two channels via a Germanium (Ge) beam-splitter. For the NIR Channel, the input is focused directly onto a faceplate through a series of optics. For the LWIR Channel, the input is focused onto the Ge window via a folded design including a first Ge lens, a fold mirror, and then a second Ge lens. From the faceplate of the NIR channel and the Ge window of the LWIR channel, the input is then processed by respective focal planes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158353 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248496 | Katti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Shorewood, Minnesota); Owen J. Hynes (Maple Plain, Minnesota); Daniel S. Reed (Otsego, Minnesota); Hassan Kaakani (Excelsior, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A new read scheme is provided for an MRAM bit having a pinned layer (fixed) and a storage layer (free) sandwiching a nonmagnetic spacer layer. By applying a magnetic field to the bit at least partially orthogonal to the easy axis of the bit, the magnetization direction of the storage layer can be partially rotated or canted without switching the logical state of the MRAM bit. The resistivity of the bit is measured (calculated based on a voltage/current relationship) in two ways: (i) with the magnetization direction of the storage layer partially rotated in a first direction and (ii) with the magnetization direction of the storage layer in its bi-stable orientation parallel to the easy axis. Those measures can then be used to compare and determine the logical state of the storage layer. For instance, if the canted resistivity is greater than the uncanted resistivity then the magnetization directions of the pinned and storage layer are parallel, and if the canted resistivity is less than the uncanted resistivity then the magnetization directions of the pinned and storage layer are opposite. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273214 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248608 | Nettleton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Nettleton (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved monoblock laser cavity is made by elongating the Optical parametric oscillation (OPO) cavity. This can be accomplished by changing the coatings on the OPO material and Q-switch and by elongating the OPO cavity to approximately 2 to 3 times the OPO crystal length. The increase in the length of the OPO cavity will improve the beam divergence of the laser. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974798 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248751 | Schuler 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) | Jonathon M Schuler (Fairfax, Virginia); Dean A Scribner (Arlington, Virginia); J Grant Howard (Laplata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging sensor and for reducing the necessary focal length of a sensor while preserving system acuity. This system uniquely reduces the necessary focal length and enhances images by collecting a video sequence, estimating motion associate with this sequence, assembling video frames into composite images, and applying image restoration to restore the composite image from pixel, lens blur, and alias distortion. The invention synthetically increases the pixel density of the focal plane array. Thus it reduces the necessary size of the projected blur circle or equivalently it reduces the minimum focal length requirements. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808267 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248909 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jangwoen Lee (Irvine, California); Bruce J. Tromberg (Irvine, California); Albert E. Cerussi (Lake Forrest, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method utilizes a broadband diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) system to dynamically calculate the concentrations of multiple chromophores in vivo using a non-invasive probe. The device and method permit dynamic monitoring of multiple in vivo tissue chromophores non-invasively with sensitivities necessary for effective therapeutic monitoring. The device includes a probe containing first and second source optical fibers as well as first and second detector optical fibers. The probe is placed adjacent to a sample of interest and detects reflected light which is passed to a proximally located detector and spectrometer. The concentrations of multiple chromophores are determined in real time. In a preferred embodiment, the multiple tissue chromophores include at least two of methemoglobin (MetHb), deoxyhemoglobin (Hb-R), oxyhemoglobin (Hb-O2), water (H2O), and methylene blue (MB). The device and method can be used quantify and monitor methemoglobin formation in subjects suffering from methemoglobinemia. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103963 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248952 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cedric Sek-Kong Ma (Los Angeles, California); Robert Henry Miller (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of planning a path of a vehicle by defining a first plurality of constraints representing dynamics of the vehicle; defining a second plurality of constraints representing collisions with obstacles; defining a third plurality of constraints representing visibility to threats; and using the first, second and third plurality of constraints with mixed integer linear programming to generate a trajectory for a vehicle from a starting point to a destination point in an environment containing the obstacles and the threats. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060347 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07249006 | Lombardo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph S. Lombardo (Annapolis, Maryland); Fernando J. Pineda (Baltimore, Maryland); Howard S. Burkom (Baltimore, Maryland); Bruce K. Newhall (Columbia, Maryland); Rashid A. Chotani (Owings Mills, Maryland); Richard A. Wojcik (Columbia, Maryland); Wayne A. Loschen (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Background noise from relevant data sets, including for example over-the-counter sales data, absenteeism data, etc., is subtracted using a background estimation algorithm that outputs residual data. The effects of hypothetical anomalous events, such as a bio-terrorist attack, on the relevant data sets are modeled to create replica data. The replica data may be based on input from epidemiologists and various scenario templates including information on disease manifestation and other intelligence. The residual data and the replica data are then matched using a detector. Types of detectors include for example adaptive matched-filter detectors, change detectors and Bayesian Inference Networks. An alarm is triggered if a real anomalous event similar to a hypothetical anomalous event is detected. A Geographical Information System (GIS) may be used to display data from individual zip codes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/130404 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07249013 | Al-Onaizan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaser Al-Onaizan (Elmsford, New York); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Translating named entities from a source language to a target language. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: generating potential translations of a named entity from a source language to a target language using a pronunciation-based and spelling-based transliteration model, searching a monolingual resource in the target language for information relating to usage frequency, and providing output including at least one of the potential translations based on the usage frequency information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387032 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07249149 | Eatherton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William N. Eatherton (San Jose, California); Zubin D. Dittia (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for defining, creating and using tree bitmap data structures, such as for, but not limited to their use in performing lookup operations (e.g., longest prefix matching, etc.). The data structure typically includes a tree bitmap for identifying for each node of multiple nodes within a stride of a number of tree levels greater than one whether each node is a prefix or vacant node, the multiple nodes representing multiple tree levels, a lowest level subset of the multiple nodes corresponding to a lowest level of the tree levels in the stride, the lowest level subset of the multiple nodes including two or more nodes. A child bitmap is typically used for identifying which trie paths emanate and which trie paths do not emanate from the lowest level subset of the multiple nodes. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833532 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/104.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Stoianovici (Baltimore, Maryland); Louis R. Kavoussi (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor suitable for use in a medical imaging environment has (a) a cylindrical outer gear having a bore with a centerline and an internal surface with circumferentially distributed and radially directed teeth, (b) a means for mounting this outer gear such that it is constrained to move in rotational motion about its centerline, (c) a cylindrical planetary gear having a bore and an external surface having circumferentially distributed and radially directed teeth, (d) a means located within the planetary gear bore for applying a fluid pressure driven force to cause it to move in translational-circular motion about the outer gear's centerline, and (e) wherein the teeth of these gears are configured so as to cooperate such that the translational-circular motion of the planetary gear causes the rotational movement of the outer gear. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/501098 |
| ART UNIT | 3681 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Planetary gear transmission systems or components 475/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247307 | Szu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shousun Chen Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Edward Konadu, deceased (Ashanti Region, Ghana); Yvonne Ageyman Konadu, legal representative (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to conjugates of the O-specific polysaccharide of E. coli O157 with a carrier, and compositions thereof, and to methods of using of these conjugates and/or compositions thereof for eliciting an immunogenic response in mammals, including responses which provide protection against, or reduce the severity of, bacterial infections. More particularly it relates to the use of polysaccharides containing the tetrasaccharide repeat unit: (→3)-α-DGalpNAc-(1→2)-α-D-PerpNAc-(1→3)-α-L-Fucp-(1→4)-β-D-Glcp-(1→), and conjugates thereof, to induce serum antibodies having bactericidal (killing) activity against hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) causing E. coli, in particular E. coli O157. The conjugates, and compositions thereof, are useful as vaccines to induce serum antibodies which have bactericidal or bacteriostatic activity against E. coli, in particular E. coli O157, and are useful to prevent and/or treat illnesses caused by E. coli O157. The invention further relates to the antibodies which immunoreact with the O-specific polysaccharide of E. coli O157 and/or the carrier, that are induced by these conjugates and/or compositions thereof. The invention also relates to methods and kits using one or more of the polysaccharides, conjugates or antibodies described above. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/015436 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/241.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247310 | Ohno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cell-Medicine, Inc. (Ibaraki, Japan); Riken (Saitama, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadao Ohno (Ibaraki, Japan); Bao Gang Peng (Guang Shou, China PRC); Kam Leong (Ellicott City, Maryland); Shu Qin Liu (Ontario, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A tumor vaccine which comprises a microparticle or a lysate prepared from a solidified tumor material selected from the group consisting of a tumor tissue, a tumor cell, and a component thereof, and at least one cytokine and/or cytokine-inducing agent (e.g., a granulocyte-macrophage-colony stimulating factor and/or interleukin-2 and the like), and optionally an adjuvant. The vaccine can be easily prepared and widely applied for prevention of recurrence, inhibition of metastasis and therapeutic treatment regardless of a type of a tumor, and has excellent antitumor effect. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/890266 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247433 | Rose |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Rose (Dansville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of vaccinating a mammal against papillomavirus by administering papillomavirus virus-like particles transdermally to a mammal under conditions effective to induce an immune response to the papillomavirus. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/486564 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 07247436 | Keating et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark T. Keating (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael C. Sanguinetti (Salt Lake City, Utah); Igor Splawski (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The genomic structure including the sequence of the intron/exon junctions is disclosed for KVLQT1 and KCNE1 which are genes associated with long QT syndrome. Additional sequence data for the two genes ARE also disclosed. Also disclosed are newly found mutations in KVLQT1 which result in long QT syndrome. The intron/exon junction sequence data allow for the design of primer pairs to amplify and sequence across all of the exons of the two genes. This can be used to screen persons for the presence of mutations which cause long QT syndrome. Assays can be performed to screen persons for the presence of mutations in either the DNA or proteins. The DNA and proteins may also be used in assays to screen for drugs which will be useful in treating or preventing the occurrence of long QT syndrome. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911678 |
| 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 07247437 | Waldor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew K. Waldor (Newton, Massachusetts); Elizabeth S. Egan (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions, methods and kits useful in modulating bacterial cell DNA replication and for treating pathogenic bacterial. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922792 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247438 | Reinherz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ellis Reinherz (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Linda Clayton (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Timothy D. Ocain (Framingham, Massachusetts); Raymond J. Patch (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for identifying agents which enhance the activity of a caspase according to the invention are described, as well as methods for enhancing caspase activity and methods for enhancing apoptosis in a lymphocyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/948124 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247445 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); James R. Myette (Waltham, Massachusetts); Zachary Shriver (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to 2-O sulfatase and uses thereof. In particular, the invention relates to recombinantly produced 2-O sulfatase, functional variants and nucleic acid molecules that encode these molecules. The invention also provides methods of using 2-O sulfatase for a variety of purposes, including degrading and analyzing glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) present in a sample. For instance, 2-O sulfatase may be used for determining the purity, identity, composition and sequence of glycosaminoglycans present in a sample. The invention also relates to methods of inhibiting angiogenesis and cellular proliferation as well as methods for treating cancer, neurodegenerative disease, atherosclerosis and microbial infection using 2-O sulfatase and/or GAG fragments produced by degradation with 2-O sulfatase. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/432824 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247457 | Nix et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Allan Nix (Bethlehem, Georgia); M. Steven Oberste (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of using enterovirus-specific primers for the detection and identification of enterovirus infection. Also provided are isolated nucleic acid molecules and kits useful for detection and diagnostic testing of enterovirus infection in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115860 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247475 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clive R. Wood (Boston, Massachusetts); Randal J. Kaufman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for the production of monoclonal antibodies is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/324255 |
| 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 435/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247489 | Bakker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama); Beckman Coulter, Inc. (Fullerton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bakker (Auburn, Alabama); Martin Telting-Diaz (Brooklyn, New York); Mike Bell (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of using ion-detecting microspheres containing an ionphore and a chromoionphore in clinical laboratory instrumentation such as flow cytometry for sample analysis. In one embodiment, the microspheres are contacted with a flowing stream of a sample under conditions that allow the ion-selective ionophores to complex with the ions in the sample, and to cause deprotonation of the chromoionophore. The complexes are then exposed to an excitation wavelength light source suitable for exciting the deprotonated chromoionophore to emit a fluorescence signal pattern. Detection of the fluorescence signal pattern emitted by the deprotonated chromoionophore in microspheres containing the complexes allows for determination of the presence of the target ions in the sample. In one embodiment, lead ion-detecting microspheres are provided that can detect nanomolar levels of lead ions with response times on the order of minutes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384082 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247614 | Clevenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles V. Clevenger (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); J. Bradford Kline (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A human prolactin-binding protein and compositions and methods using this protein are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/047327 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247615 | Schlom 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) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Kwong-yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to isolated peptides comprising agonist epitopes of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). In various aspects, the invention relates to peptides comprising agonist epitopes of the PSA-3 cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitope, and nucleic acids encoding peptides that comprise PSA-3 agonist epitopes. Also related are probes, primers, and vectors comprising these nucleic acids, as well as host cells comprising these vectors, and antibodies that bind to the PSA-3 agonist peptides. This invention further relates to diagnostic reagents and methods utilizing the disclosed nucleic acids or antibodies. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the nucleic acids, host cells, and peptides of the invention, as well as methods of treatment or prevention of prostate cancer employing such compositions, for example, for peptide-mediated, cell-mediated, and vector-mediated immunotherapies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/497003 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247619 | Kirkegaard et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Karla Kirkegaard (Palo Alto, California); Dana A. Dodd (Palo Alto, California); Stephen B. Deitz (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); John Doedens (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features recombinant viral vectors that take advantage of the activity of picornaviral protein 3A in modulating cytokine secretion and antigen presentation on MHC Class I (MHC I), which in turn provides for modulation of a Th1-mediated immune response to the transfected host cell. Specifically, a recombinant viral vector comprising a sequence encoding picornaviral protein 3A provides for decreased antigen presentation on MHC I and a decreased incidence of Th1-mediated immune response, while a recombinant picornaviral vector that is deficient in protein 3A production provides for increased cytokine secretion, increased antigen presentation on MHC I and increased Th1-mediated immune response towards the transfected host cell. The invention also features methods of inducing humoral or cellular immunity using the vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/276752 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247630 | Gong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baoqing Gong (Shoreline, Washington); J. Peter Klein (Vashon, Washington); Michael Coon (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel tricyclic compounds are disclosed having the general structure of Formulas I or II: were R1, R2 and R3 are defined in the written description of the invention. The compounds are useful for the treatment or prevention of symptoms or manifestations associated with diseases or disorders affected by intracellular cytokine signaling. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/349935 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247700 | Korsmeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley J. Korsmeyer (Weston, Massachusetts); Luca Scorrano (Padua, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel polypeptides and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them. Also disclosed are antibodies that immunospecifically bind to the polypeptide, as well as derivatives, variants, mutants, or fragments of the novel polypeptide, polynucleotide, or antibody specific to the polypeptide. Vectors, host cells, antibodies and recombinant methods for producing the polypeptides and polynucleotides, as well as methods for using same are also included. The invention further discloses therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of apoptosis associated disorders involving these novel human nucleic acids and proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/334006 |
| 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 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247701 | Petasis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Xin Yao (Guilderland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic methods and compounds involving amino amides, peptides and peptidomimetics. Amino amide derivatives are prepared via the one-step three-component reaction of a glyoxamide, an amine, and an organoboron derivative. Conversion of the product to another glyoxamide intermediate allows the iterative use of this chemistry for the synthesis of peptides and peptidomimetics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227986 |
| 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 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247708 | Nelsestuen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vitamin K-dependent polypeptides with enhanced membrane binding affinity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate clot formation in mammals. Methods of modulating clot formation in mammals are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/298330 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/384 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247709 | Lambeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. David Lambeth (Atlanta, Georgia); Kathy K. Griendling (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Bernard P. Lassegue (Decatur, Georgia); Rebecca S. Arnold (Tucker, Georgia); Guangjie Cheng (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new genes encoding for the production of novel proteins involved in generation of reactive oxygen intermediates that affect cell division. The present invention also provides vectors containing these genes, cells transfected with these vectors, antibodies raised against these novel proteins, kits for detection, localization and measurement of these genes and proteins, and methods to determine the activity of drugs to affect the activity of the proteins of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377884 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248909 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jangwoen Lee (Irvine, California); Bruce J. Tromberg (Irvine, California); Albert E. Cerussi (Lake Forrest, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method utilizes a broadband diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) system to dynamically calculate the concentrations of multiple chromophores in vivo using a non-invasive probe. The device and method permit dynamic monitoring of multiple in vivo tissue chromophores non-invasively with sensitivities necessary for effective therapeutic monitoring. The device includes a probe containing first and second source optical fibers as well as first and second detector optical fibers. The probe is placed adjacent to a sample of interest and detects reflected light which is passed to a proximally located detector and spectrometer. The concentrations of multiple chromophores are determined in real time. In a preferred embodiment, the multiple tissue chromophores include at least two of methemoglobin (MetHb), deoxyhemoglobin (Hb-R), oxyhemoglobin (Hb-O2), water (H2O), and methylene blue (MB). The device and method can be used quantify and monitor methemoglobin formation in subjects suffering from methemoglobinemia. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103963 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron A. Diaz (Richland, Washington); Todd J. Samuel (Pasco, Washington); Juan D. Valencia (Kennewick, Washington); Kevin L. Gervais (Richland, Washington); Brian J. Tucker (Pasco, Washington); Leslie J. Kirihara (Richland, Washington); James R. Skorpik (Kennewick, Washington); Larry D. Reid (Benton City, Washington); John T. Munley (Benton City, Washington); Richard A. Pappas (Richland, Washington); Bob W. Wright (West Richland, Washington); Paul D. Panetta (Richland, Washington); Jason S. Thompson (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiparameter acoustic signature inspection device and method are described for non-invasive inspection of containers. Dual acoustic signatures discriminate between various fluids and materials for identification of the same. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361266 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
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| US 07246524 | Kholwadwala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepesh K. Kholwadwala (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gabriel A. Johnston (Trophy Club, Texas); Brandon R. Rohrer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul C. Galambos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a novel, lightweight, massively parallel device comprising microelectromechanical (MEMS) fluidic actuators, to reconfigure the profile, of a surface. Each microfluidic actuator comprises an independent bladder that can act as both a sensor and an actuator. A MEMS sensor, and a MEMS valve within each microfluidic actuator, operate cooperatively to monitor the fluid within each bladder, and regulate the flow of the fluid entering and exiting each bladder. When adjacently spaced in a array, microfluidic actuators can create arbitrary surface profiles in response to a change in the operating environment of the surface. In an embodiment of the invention, the profile of an airfoil is controlled by independent extension and contraction of a plurality of actuators, that operate to displace a compliant cover. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120843 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07246997 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoyue Liu (Clifton Park, New York); Herman Weigman (Niskayuna, New York); Shixiao Wang (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated centrifugal blower wheel for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) blower unit includes a first blade support, a second blade support, and a plurality of S-shaped blades disposed between the first and second blade supports, wherein each of the S-shaped blades has a trailing edge bent in a forward direction with respect to a defined direction of rotation of the wheel. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604671 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247024 | Bright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Bright (Knoxville, Tennessee); Budhendra L. Bhaduri (Knoxville, Tennessee); Phillip R. Coleman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jerome E. Dobson (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for spatially distributing a population count within a geographically defined area can include the steps of logically correlating land usages apparent from a geographically defined area to geospatial features in the geographically defined area and allocating portions of the population count to regions of the geographically defined area having the land usages, according to the logical correlation. The process can also include weighing the logical correlation for determining the allocation of portions of the population count and storing the allocated portions within a searchable data store. The logically correlating step can include the step of logically correlating time-based land usages to geospatial features of the geographically defined area. The process can also include obtaining a population count for the geographically defined area, organizing the geographically defined area into a plurality of sectors, and verifying the allocated portions according to direct observation. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/455105 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247242 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Moore (Edgewood, New Mexico); D. Richard Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for removing arsenic from water by addition of inexpensive and commonly available magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide, calcium oxide, or calcium hydroxide to the water. The hydroxide has a strong chemical affinity for arsenic and rapidly adsorbs arsenic, even in the presence of carbonate in the water. Simple and commercially available mechanical methods for removal of magnesium hydroxide particles with adsorbed arsenic from drinking water can be used, including filtration, dissolved air flotation, vortex separation, or centrifugal separation. A method for continuous removal of arsenic from water is provided. Also provided is a method for concentrating arsenic in a water sample to facilitate quantification of arsenic, by means of magnesium or calcium hydroxide adsorption. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/039947 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/662 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247273 | Nunes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Nunes (Danville, California); Fredrick R. Kelly (Modesto, California); Jeffrey S. Haas (San Ramon, California); Brian D. Andresen (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin layer chromatograph residue applicator sampler. The residue applicator sampler provides for rapid analysis of samples containing high explosives, chemical warfare, and other analyses of interest under field conditions. This satisfied the need for a field-deployable, small, hand-held, all-in-one device for efficient sampling, sample dissolution, and sample application to an analytical technique. The residue applicator sampler includes a sampling sponge that is resistant to most chemicals and is fastened via a plastic handle in a hermetically sealed tube containing a known amount of solvent. Upon use, the wetted sponge is removed from the sealed tube and used as a swiping device across an environmental sample. The sponge is then replaced in the hermetically sealed tube where the sample remains contained and dissolved in the solvent. A small pipette tip is removably contained in the hermetically sealed tube. The sponge is removed and placed into the pipette tip where a squeezing-out of the dissolved sample from the sponge into the pipette tip results in a droplet captured in a vial for later instrumental analysis, or applied directly to a thin layer chromatography plate for immediate analysis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229523 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247281 | Jahnke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred C. Jahnke (Rye, New York); Sanjay C. Parab (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A methanation assembly for use with a water supply and a gas supply containing gas to be methanated in which a reactor assembly has a plurality of methanation reactors each for methanating gas input to the assembly and a gas delivery and cooling assembly adapted to deliver gas from the gas supply to each of said methanation reactors and to combine water from the water supply with the output of each methanation reactor being conveyed to a next methanation reactor and carry the mixture to such next methanation reactor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/818680 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247383 | Kass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Kass (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); William P. Partridge, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated window design for optical transmission in combustion environments is described. The invention consists of an integrated optical window design that prevents and removes the accumulation of carbon-based particulate matter and gaseous hydrocarbons through a combination of heat and catalysis. These windows will enable established optical technologies to be applied to combustion environments and their exhaust systems. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/817413 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247403 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Heli Wang (Littleton, Colorado); John A. Turner (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A nitridation treated stainless steel article (such as a bipolar plate for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell) having lower interfacial contact electrical resistance and better corrosion resistance than an untreated stainless steel article is disclosed. The treated stainless steel article has a surface layer including nitrogen-modified chromium-base oxide and precipitates of chromium nitride formed during nitridation wherein oxygen is present in the surface layer at a greater concentration than nitrogen. The surface layer may further include precipitates of titanium nitride and/or aluminum oxide. The surface layer in the treated article is chemically heterogeneous surface rather than a uniform or semi-uniform surface layer exclusively rich in chromium, titanium or aluminum. The precipitates of titanium nitride and/or aluminum oxide are formed by the nitriding treatment wherein titanium and/or aluminum in the stainless steel are segregated to the surface layer in forms that exhibit a low contact resistance and good corrosion resistance. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071830 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248177 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission system in a downhole component comprises a data transmission element in both ends of the downhole component. Each data transmission element houses an electrically conducting coil in a MCEI circular trough. The electrically conducting coil comprises at least two generally fractional loops. In the preferred embodiment, the transmission elements are connected by an electrical conductor. Preferably, the electrical conductor is a coaxial cable. Preferably, the MCEI trough comprises ferrite. In the preferred embodiment, the fractional loops are connected by a connecting cable. In one aspect of the present invention, the connecting cable is a pair of twisted wires. In one embodiment the connecting cable is a shielded pair of twisted wires. In another aspect of the present invention, the connecting cable is a coaxial cable. The connecting cable may be disposed outside of the MCEI circular trough. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/878146 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248397 | Armstrong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell J. Armstrong (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arlee V. Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength-doubling optical parametric oscillator (OPO) comprising a type II nonlinear optical medium for generating a pair of degenerate waves at twice a pump wavelength and a plurality of mirrors for rotating the polarization of one wave by 90 degrees to produce a wavelength-doubled beam with an increased output energy by coupling both of the degenerate waves out of the OPO cavity through the same output coupler following polarization rotation of one of the degenerate waves. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416822 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248635 | Arneson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Arneson (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Terrance L. Bowman (Sumner, Washington); Frank N. Cornett (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); John F. DeRyckere (Eau Claire, Wisconsin); Brian T. Hillert (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Philip N. Jenkins (Eau Claire, Wisconsin); Nan Ma (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Joseph M. Placek (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Rodney Ruesch (Eau Claire, Wisconsin); Gregory M. Thorson (Altoona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a communications channel comprising a link level protocol, a driver, a receiver, and a canceller/equalizer. The link level protocol provides logic for DC-free signal encoding and recovery as well as supporting many features including CRC error detection and message resend to accommodate infrequent bit errors across the medium. The canceller/equalizer provides equalization for destabilized data signals and also provides simultaneous bi-directional data transfer. The receiver provides bit deskewing by removing synchronization error, or skewing, between data signals. The driver provides impedance controlling by monitoring the characteristics of the communications medium, like voltage or temperature, and providing a matching output impedance in the signal driver so that fewer distortions occur while the data travels across the communications medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/620373 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248969 | Patzek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek (Oakland, California); Dimitriy Borisovich Silin (Pleasant Hill, California); Asoke Kumar De (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system and method for determining optimal fluid injection pressure is based upon a model of a growing hydrofracture due to waterflood injection pressure. This model is used to develop a control system optimizing the injection pressure by using a prescribed injection goal coupled with the historical times, pressures, and volume of injected fluid at a single well. In this control method, the historical data is used to derive two major flow components: the transitional component, where cumulative injection volume is scaled as the square root of time, and a steady-state breakthrough component, which scales linearly with respect to time. These components provide diagnostic information and allow for the prevention of rapid fracture growth and associated massive water break through that is an important part of a successful waterflood, thereby extending the life of both injection and associated production wells in waterflood secondary oil recovery operations. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993598 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Seeley (Grand Blanc, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluidic switching device is particularly for use in chromatography is described. The device allows a rapid switching between chromatographic columns; particularly, in gas chromatography. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840767 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247384 | Cai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengzhi Cai (Houston, Texas); Chi Ming Yam (Stafford, Texas); Zhongdang Xiao (Nanjing, China PRC); Jianhua Gu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a practical method of grafting oligo- and/or poly(ethyleneglycol) (OEG and/or PEG) derivatives onto hydrogen-terminated silicon surfaces, including the surfaces of silicon scanning probe microscopy (SPM) tips, by hydrosilylation of OEG and/or PEG-terminated alkenes. This invention is related to the development of silicon-based bio-devices, including biochips, biosensors such as SPM probes, microarrays, micro-fluidic systems, and implantable microdevices. This invention is also a practical method to modify (many) SPM probe tips with OEG/PEG derivatives and to subsequently modify the tip apex with functional single molecules to improve the specificity and resolution of AFM imaging and measurements. The functional molecules include the dendritic adsorbates with a functional group at their focal point and with or without a tripod-shaped framework. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742047 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247719 | Benezra |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Benezra (Hampton Bays, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Oligonucleotide primers and polynucleotide probes provide selective amplification and detection of Id genetic sequences and are selected both (1) to provide the desired specificity so that they amplify only the specific Id type to which they are targeted; and (2) to introduce terminal restriction endonuclease cleavage sites into the amplicon that facilitate the incorporation of the amplicon into plasmid-based vectors. Detection of Id genetic sequences can be carried out using the labeled-amplicon by reamplifying the amplicon with the primers in the presence of labeled, for example radiolabeled, deoxynucleotide triphosphates. The probes of the invention correspond in sequence to the amplicons produced using the primers of the invention, after cleavage at the restriction endonuclease sites. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559062 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247731 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); David W. Old (Somerville, Massachusetts); John P. Wolfe (Brighton, Massachusetts); Michael Palucki (Belle Meade, New Jersey); Ken Kamikawa (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to novel ligands for transition metals. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of catalysts comprising these ligands in transition metal-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The subject methods provide improvements in many features of the transition metal-catalyzed reactions, including the range of suitable substrates, reaction conditions, and efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229043 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247842 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Guillaume Lessard (Rochester, New York); Lawrence A. Wade (La Canada, California); Jordan M. Gerton (Upland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for operating an apertureless microscope for observing one or more features to a molecular sensitivity on objects are described. More particularly, the method includes moving a tip of a probe coupled to a cantilever in a vicinity of a feature of a sample, which emits one or more photons at a detected rate relative to a background rate of the sample based upon the presence of the tip of the probe in the vicinity of the feature. The method modifies the detected rate of the feature of the sample, whereupon the modifying of the detected rate causes the feature of the sample to enhance relative to background rate of the feature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180976 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247895 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); David Andrew Bullen (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for selectively actuating a cantilevered probe for applying a compound to a substrate in nanolithography. A probe having a probe electrode and a substrate having a counter electrode are provided. Voltage applied to the probe electrode and/or counter electrode provides electrostatic attraction between them, moving a probe tip into sufficient proximity to the substrate to apply the patterning compound. Alternatively, a flexible cantilevered probe anchored to a holder includes a layer of conductive material forming a probe electrode. A counter electrode on the holder faces the probe electrode. The holder and probe are positioned so that a probe tip applies the compound to the substrate. The probe is disposed between the substrate and the counter electrode. An electrostatic attractive force generated between the probe electrode and the counter electrode flexes the probe and lifts the tip away from the substrate to suspend writing. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377629 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248413 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James P. Brody (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscopic lens, of size approximately 1 micron is used for its optical characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/095332 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/642 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248615 | Assefa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon Assefa (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leslie A. Kolodziekski (Belmont, Massachusetts); Gale S. Petrich (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microcavity structure includes a first waveguide that includes a first photonic crystal microcavity. A second waveguide includes a second photonic crystal microcavity. A microcavity active region is created by overlapping the first and second microcavities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721841 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07249149 | Eatherton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William N. Eatherton (San Jose, California); Zubin D. Dittia (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for defining, creating and using tree bitmap data structures, such as for, but not limited to their use in performing lookup operations (e.g., longest prefix matching, etc.). The data structure typically includes a tree bitmap for identifying for each node of multiple nodes within a stride of a number of tree levels greater than one whether each node is a prefix or vacant node, the multiple nodes representing multiple tree levels, a lowest level subset of the multiple nodes corresponding to a lowest level of the tree levels in the stride, the lowest level subset of the multiple nodes including two or more nodes. A child bitmap is typically used for identifying which trie paths emanate and which trie paths do not emanate from the lowest level subset of the multiple nodes. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833532 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/104.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07246777 | Kinstler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Kinstler (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided methods, apparatus, and computer program products for implementing a KINSTLER maneuver for an exit vehicle that is departing from a rotating space vehicle such that the exit vehicle does not contact the space vehicle during departure. A composite spin axis of the space vehicle is determined, which defines a plurality of spin axis planes that contain the exit vehicle along the exit flight path. The spin rate of the rotating space vehicle is determined about the composite spin axis, and the exit vehicle is launched from the space vehicle, providing the exit vehicle with a departure velocity having a VS component. Lateral thrust is applied to provide a lateral acceleration, which provides a turn rate of the exit vehicle's VS component in the spin axis plane about the composite spin axis that is proportionate to the spin rate of the rotating space vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/360923 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07247603 | Cantor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Star Cryoelectronics (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin Harold Cantor (Santa Fe, New Mexico); John Addison Hall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) is disclosed comprising a pair of resistively shunted Josephson junctions connected in parallel within a superconducting loop and biased by an external direct current (dc) source. The SQUID comprises a semiconductor substrate and at least one superconducting layer. The metal layer(s) are separated by or covered with a semiconductor material layer having the properties of a conductor at room temperature and the properties of an insulator at operating temperatures (generally less than 100 Kelvins). The properties of the semiconductor material layer greatly reduces the risk of electrostatic discharge that can damage the device during normal handling of the device at room temperature, while still providing the insulating properties desired to allow normal functioning of the device at its operating temperature. A method of manufacturing the SQUID device is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970539 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248149 | Bachelder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); E-Views Safety Systems, Inc. (Agoura Hills, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Bachelder (Irvine, California); Richard Wickline (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An intersection controlled by an intersection controller receives trigger signals from on-coming emergency vehicles responding to an emergency call. The intersection controller initiates surveillance of the intersection via cameras installed at the intersection in response to a received trigger signal. The surveillance may begin immediately upon receipt of the trigger signal from an emergency vehicle, or may wait until the intersection controller determines that the signaling emergency vehicle is in the field of view of the cameras at the intersection. Portions of the captured images are tagged by the intersection controller based on tag signals transmitted by the vehicle or based on detected traffic patterns that indicate a potential traffic violation. The captured images are downloaded to a processing facility that analyzes the images and automatically issues citations for captured traffic violations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/960129 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/425.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248342 | Degnan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Degnan (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to a 3-dimensional imaging lidar, which utilizes modest power kHz rate lasers, array detectors, photon-counting multi-channel timing receivers, and dual wedge optical scanners with transmitter point-ahead correction to provide contiguous high spatial resolution mapping of surface features including ground, water, man-made objects, vegetation and submerged surfaces from an aircraft or a spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730195 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07249003 | Fijany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute Of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir Fijany (Pasadena, California); Farrokh Vatan (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The diagnosis problem arises when a system's actual behavior contradicts the expected behavior, thereby exhibiting symptoms (a collection of conflict sets). System diagnosis is then the task of identifying faulty components that are responsible for anomalous behavior. To solve the diagnosis problem, the present invention describes a method for finding the minimal set of faulty components (minimal diagnosis set) that explain the conflict sets. The method includes acts of creating a matrix of the collection of conflict sets, and then creating nodes from the matrix such that each node is a node in a search tree. A determination is made as to whether each node is a leaf node or has any children nodes. If any given node has children nodes, then the node is split until all nodes are leaf nodes. Information gathered from the leaf nodes is used to determine the minimal diagnosis set. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353673 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07249153 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew F. Cheng (Potomac, Maryland); S. Edward Hawkins, III (Ellicott City, Maryland); Lillian Nguyen (Ellicott City, Maryland); Christopher A. Monaco (Silver Spring, Maryland); Gordon G. Seagrave (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method, system, and computer program product for implementation of a capable, general purpose compression algorithm that can be engaged “on the fly”. This invention has particular practical application with time-series data, and more particularly, time-series data obtained form a spacecraft, or similar situations where cost, size and/or power limitations are prevalent, although it is not limited to such applications. It is also particularly applicable to the compression of serial data streams and works in one, two, or three dimensions. The original input data is approximated by Chebyshev polynomials, achieving very high compression ratios on serial data streams with minimal loss of scientific information. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633447 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07247213 | Reynolds, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Future Pipe Industries, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harris A. Reynolds, Jr. (Houston, Texas); Thomas J. Walsh (Houston, Texas); Chris A. Lundberg (Kingwood, Texas); Joel D. Shaw (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a connection for composite tubing is disclosed. The method includes maintaining tension on the composite fibers while “winding in” the connector to the composite tubing. The tension on the fibers results in the fibers bridging across traps of the connector as they are being wound. The bridging results in improved load bearing characteristics of the connection. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/694553 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248360 | Horchner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPD Biomarker Discovery Sciences, LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uwe Horchner (Woodside, California); Aaron B. Kantor (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for laser scanning provides spectral flexibility needed for the spectroscopic monitoring of highly multiplexed samples, such as cellular and particle assays in whole blood or other suspensions. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, the system comprises a scanner to direct an excitation laser through a sample, an objective to collect light emitted by the sample in response to the excitation laser, a spectrograph to disperse the emitted light over a plurality of wavelengths as a spectrum, and a charge coupled device for detecting the spectrum. The system can be used with samples having a variety of reporter tags, including one or more SERS tags, fluorescent organic and protein tags, and quantum dot tags. A laser scanning apparatus and method of using the same is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090673 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07248949 | Love et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Dwight Love (Herndon, Virginia); Michael P. McLaughlin (McLean, Virginia); Roland O. Lejeune (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Stochastic models of aircraft flight paths and a method for deriving such models from recorded air traffic data. Each stochastic model involves identifying the flight plan for one or more aircraft; identifying important parameters from each flight plan, such as aircraft type, cruise altitude, and airspeed; optionally identifying flight plan amendments for each flight; representing each route of flight as a series of navigational fixes; representing at least one aircraft flight parameter probabilistically; modeling realistic differences in at least one dimension between each planned route of flight and the flight path as it might actually be flown; and communicating the modeled deviations or simulated flight paths to the user. At least one aircraft flight parameter is represented as a random variable with a particular statistical distribution, such as a normal (Gaussian), Laplacian, or logistic distribution; or with a more complex algorithm containing one or more random elements. The modeled flight parameters may be any of lateral position, longitudinal position, climb altitude, descent altitude, climb airspeed, descent airspeed, cruise airspeed, cruise altitude transition, or response time to a flight plan amendment. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970279 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07247384 | Cai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengzhi Cai (Houston, Texas); Chi Ming Yam (Stafford, Texas); Zhongdang Xiao (Nanjing, China PRC); Jianhua Gu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a practical method of grafting oligo- and/or poly(ethyleneglycol) (OEG and/or PEG) derivatives onto hydrogen-terminated silicon surfaces, including the surfaces of silicon scanning probe microscopy (SPM) tips, by hydrosilylation of OEG and/or PEG-terminated alkenes. This invention is related to the development of silicon-based bio-devices, including biochips, biosensors such as SPM probes, microarrays, micro-fluidic systems, and implantable microdevices. This invention is also a practical method to modify (many) SPM probe tips with OEG/PEG derivatives and to subsequently modify the tip apex with functional single molecules to improve the specificity and resolution of AFM imaging and measurements. The functional molecules include the dendritic adsorbates with a functional group at their focal point and with or without a tripod-shaped framework. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742047 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07247432 | Robb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank T. Robb (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Pongpan Laksanalamai (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Small heat shock proteins, e.g., Pyrococcus fuiosus (Pfu-sHSP and/or Pfu-tsHSP), confer thermotolerance on cellular cultures and on proteins in cellular extracts during prolonged incubation at elevated temperature, demonstrating the ability to protect cellular proteins and maintain cellular viability under heat stress conditions. Such heat shock proteins are effective to combat enzymatic aggregation and intracellular precipitation during heat stress, and thereby enable enhancement of the utility and stability of enzymes in various applications, e.g., Taq polymerase in PCR applications, digestive enzymes in microbial degradative applications, etc. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390292 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07248763 | Kossakovski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OEwaves, Inc. (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri A. Kossakovski (S. Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes optical resonators substantially free of hydrogen and hydroxyl radicals and related fabrication techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885892 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 24, 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
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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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
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