FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07257889 | Guitas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Guitas (Alpine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for feeding wires through a braided shield, comprises steps of wrapping the ends of the wires with tape to create a plug end; inserting the plug end into a flexible tube that is mounted to an insert tool having a tapered end; feeding the insert tool through the braided shield to pull the wires through the braided shield; removing the plug end from the flexible tube; and unwrapping the tape from around the wires. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181478 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/825 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07257920 | Shaffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United Stated of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Shaffer (Waldorf, Maryland); Paul Fennewald (California, Missouri); John Monico (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Richard Higgins (Arlington, Virginia); James Waldron (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a reflective surface used in conjunction with an aiming device that provides the user targeting information on a surface directly on the aiming device. The reflective surface is moveably mounted directly behind the aiming device, where a user's eye would normally be positioned. In this configuration, a user, positioned at a point not directly behind the aiming device or system being used, may move the mirror to an angle appropriate to see where the system is being aimed, as indicated, on the surface of the aiming device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816577 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07257939 | Michaels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Michaels (Scottsboro, Alabama); Jerrold H. Arszman (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Sliding-Action Magneto-Mechanical Injector Throttling Device (SLAMMIT) provides on-demand, yet accurate, throttling of the mass flow of the fuel and/or oxidizer into the combustion chamber of a vortex injector. At least two SLAMMIT sub-assemblies comprise the SLAMMIT Device and each sub-assembly is integrated into a manifold and is driven to slide in a given direction by a drive block that is internal to the sub-assembly. The drive block is, in turn, actuated by an electromagnet that is external to the SLAMMIT sub-assembly. As the SLAMMIT sub-assemblies slide, flappers inside the sub-assemblies achieve the effective opening size of the injection orifices anywhere between fully open and fully closed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/640842 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07257990 | Bujas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roko S. Bujas (Leucadia, California); Ralf Dunkel (San Diego, California); William A. Raggio (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | By measuring ultralow moisture permeation through a barrier material sample at a temperature substantially above ambient, definitive values are produced on an accelerated basis that can be used to accurately predict long term daily performance of that barrier material. The sample is heated to a desired test temperature where there is controlled access to both its upstream and downstream surfaces, and HTO vapor is then supplied at predetermined relative humidity to the upstream surface by fracturing a glass ampoule containing not more than 10 millicuries of specific radioactivity for each test. Radioactive gas permeating from the downstream surface is collected by circulating a very slow flow of dry carrier gas past the downstream surface, which stream flows to an ionization chamber containing a beta-particle radiation monitor. Continuous monitoring generates signals that are converted to calculate instantaneous permeation rates through the sample, and operation at such elevated temperature is carried out until the values being monitored reach a steady state, allowing accurate prediction of the extent of long term barrier protection against moisture permeation the sample will exhibit. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114814 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258012 | Xie |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huikai Xie (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic integrated 3-axis accelerometer chip includes a single crystal substrate, the substrate including at least one single crystal membrane layer portion. A single sensor microstructure made from the single crystal membrane senses acceleration in each of the three orthogonal directions. At least one electronic circuit can also be disposed on the chip, such as a circuit for driving, detecting, controlling and signal processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363293 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258055 | Javorsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Javorsky (Dingsmans Ferry, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine gun mount is provided for mounting a machine gun in a movable support arm of a helicopter. The mount includes a gun cradle which is detachably connected to the gun and a pintle one end of which is adapted to pivotably mount the pintle, and thus the mount, on the movable support arm. This enables pivoting movement of the gun in a horizontal plane. The pintle is pivotably connected at the opposite end to the cradle so as to permit the cradle, and thus the gun, to be rotated in a vertical plane through 90 degrees between operative and stowed positions. A locking mechanism locks the cradle in the stowed position. A magazine is attached to one side of the cradle while a spent case and link frame and associated catch bag are attached to the opposite side. The magazine includes an inwardly projecting portion disposed below the cradle. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709044 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/37.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258156 | Santeler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith A. Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one feed core and at least one wall cooling core are assembled with a number of elements of a die for forming a cooled turbine engine element investment casting pattern. A sacrificial material is molded in the die. The sacrificial material is removed from the die. The removing includes extracting a first of the die elements from a compartment in a second of the die elements before disengaging the second die element from the sacrificial material. The first element includes a compartment receiving an outlet end portion of a first of the wall cooling cores in the assembly and disengages therefrom in the extraction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/523960 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258231 | Wertz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert O. Wertz (Mountain Home, Idaho); Charles A. Vatcher (Victorville, California); Charles M. Mann (Quartz Hill, California); Udo Kaltenthaler (California, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a bi-level pallet assembly wherein a pallet is mounted over another on posts supported by corner braces or on posts supported by panels therebetween so that the two pallets are married bunk-bed style together. Cargo is stored on each of the upper and lower pallets and driven by a forklift onto a cargo aircraft to double the normal cargo carrying capacity of such aircraft by utilizing formerly unused space above the first level of cargo. The bi-level pallet assembly of the invention can potentially double the cargo capacity of such aircraft and free up cargo aircraft to meet other demands with a considerable savings of dollars over traditional deployment costs. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147711 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Special receptacle or package 26/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258512 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Morrison (O'Fallon, Missouri); Thomas O. Blankenship (St. Charles, Missouri); Kenneth W. Bates (St. Charles, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A drill clamp comprising a clamp mechanism and a hole-locating pin. The clamp mechanism has a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion. The second clamp portion includes a drill-receiving opening sized for receiving a drill bit. The hole-locating pin is operatively connected to the first clamp portion. The clamp mechanism is adapted and configured for movement of the first and second clamp portions relative to each other between clamped and unclamped positions. The hole-locating pin is farther from the drill-receiving opening when the clamp mechanism is in the unclamped position than when the clamp mechanism is in the clamped position. The hole-locating pin and the drill-receiving opening are aligned with one another when the clamp mechanism is in the clamped position. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866222 |
| ART UNIT | 3722 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Cutting by use of rotating axially moving tool 48/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258746 | Wotzak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark G. Wotzak (Watervliet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating apparatus includes a cylindrical holding chamber having open ends, an opening formed in an inner surface and an inner diameter; a specimen having a curved inner surface with a radius of curvature that is equal to one half the inner diameter of the cylindrical holding chamber, the specimen having a size such that, when inserted in the opening in the inner surface of the cylindrical holding chamber, the inner surface of the cylindrical holding chamber and the curved inner surface of the specimen form a continuous surface; a counter bore formed radially outward from the opening in the inner wall of the cylindrical holding chamber; at least one evacuation hole extending from an interior of the cylindrical holding chamber through a wall of the cylindrical holding chamber to the counter bore; a flat formed on an exterior surface of the cylindrical holding chamber around the counter bore; and fastener holes formed around the counter bore and extending from the flat into the wall of the cylindrical holding chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/907217 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258809 | O'Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene J. O'Sullivan (Nyack, New York); Daniel Worledge (Poughquag, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An etching process is employed to selectively pattern the top magnetic film layer, the tunnel barrier, and the pinned bottom magnetic layer of a magnetic thin film structure. The pinned bottom magnetic film layer has an antiferromagnetic layer or a Ru spacer formed thereunder. The etching process employs various etching steps that selectively remove various layers of the magnetic thin film structure stopping on the antiferromagnetic layer or the Ru spacer. The progress of this etching process can be monitored by measuring the electrochemical potential difference of a part or wafer containing a magnetic structure with respect to a reference electrode simultaneously with the selective etching process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147513 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258863 | Oaks 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) | Edwin V. Oaks (Gambrills, Maryland); Kevin R. Turbyfill (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described a composition, Invaplex, derived from a gram negative bacteria for use in generating an immune response in a subject against one or more heterologous species or strains of gram-negative bacteria. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/150814 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/197.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259081 | Im |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and system for processing a thin film sample (e.g., a semiconductor thin film), as well as the thin film structure are provided. In particular, a beam generator can be controlled to emit at least one beam pulse. With this beam pulse, at least one portion of the film sample is irradiated with sufficient intensity to fully melt such section of the sample throughout its thickness, and the beam pulse having a predetermined shape. This portion of the film sample is allowed to resolidify, and the re-solidified at least one portion is composed of a first area and a second area. Upon the re-solidification thereof, the first area includes large grains, and the second area has a region formed through nucleation. The first area surrounds the second area and has a grain structure which is different from a grain structure of the second area. The second area is configured to facilitate thereon an active region of an electronic device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525288 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259122 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A shelter coating comprising polyvinyl alcohol and polyethyleneimine is disclosed. The shelter coating may optionally further include a photocatalyst capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The shelter coating may optionally include a singlet oxygen scavenger. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931121 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259140 | San Antonio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. San Antonio (Media, Pennsylvania); Barbara P. Schick (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Angela Verrecchio (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Heparin-binding peptides are provided of the formula R1(X1B1B2X2B3X3Y1R2)RnR3, R1(X1B1B2B3X2X3B4X4Y1R2)RnR3, and C(X1B1B2B3X2X3B4X4)nC; wherein X1, X2, X3, and X4 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydropathic amino acids; B1, B2, B3, and B4 are independently selected from the group consisting of basic amino acids; C is cysteine; Y1 is zero or one to ten amino acid residues, wherein at least one amino acid residue is proline; n is an integer from one to ten; and R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected segments containing from zero to twenty amino acid residues, provided, at least one of the segments R1, R2, and R3 comprises at least one hydrophobic amino acid residue. The peptide C(X1B1B2B3X2X3B4X4)nC is optionally cyclized via a disulfide bond formed between cysteine residues. The peptides are administered to reduce plasma LMWH and heparin levels and to reduce the anticoagulant effects of heparin and LMWH. The peptides are also administered to inhibit microbial growth and to inhibit mast cell serine proteases involved in various diseases and disorders. The peptides are also administered as carriers to deliver active agents. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/551005 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259167 | Nichols et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Nichols (Sparrows Point, Maryland); Rickey P. Hicks (Woodbridge, Virginia); Apurba K. Bhattacharjee (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a pharmacophore model for antimalarial activity and methods of making and using thereof. The pharmacophore comprises two hydrogen bond acceptor (lipid) functions and two hydrophobic (aromatic) functions. The pharmacophore model was made using a test set of tryptanthrin compounds which exhibit antimalarial activity. Also disclosed are tryptanthrin compounds having greater solubility and bioactivity as compared to prior art tryptanthrin compounds and methods of making and using thereof. Also disclosed are methods of treating malaria in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359625 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259252 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas Andrew Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974007 |
| 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 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259323 | Simburger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Simburger (Agoura, California); David G. Gilmore (West Hollywood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film solar cell thermal radiator configuration uses an embedded power bus to collect vertically migrating waste heat from electronic devices mounted on a thin film multilayer printed circuit board. The waste heat is vertically collected, horizontally spread, and vertically rejected through the a top coverglass glass layer around the side of a top silver contact of conventional thin film solar cells. The thermal radiator configuration enables the collection and rejection of the electronic component waste heat for maintaining thin film solar cells within desired temperature ranges. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420480 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259444 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Y. Chen (Oak Park, California); Donald A. Hitko (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, an optoelectronic device is provided having a pin photo diode including a semi-insulating substrate or layer, with a patterned implant region of a first dopant type. The pin photo diode includes an upper layer having semiconductor material with a second dopant type. An intermediate layer is provided having a substantially intrinsic semiconductor material. An upper layer contact is provided having a portion with a generally circular interior facing edge. The implant region has a first portion having an outer periphery substantially nonoverlapping with the interior facing edge of the upper layer contact. The implant region includes a contact portion located beyond the upper layer contact. A connecting portion couples the first portion and the contact portion of the implant region. In one embodiment, the device includes a heterojunction bipolar transistor coupled to the pin photo diode. The transistor may have a patterned implant region in the semi-insulating substrate or layer comprising the first dopant type. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895517 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259503 | Pei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qibing Pei (Fremont, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that conform to the shape of a polymer included in a transducer. The present invention provides methods for fabricating electromechanical devices including one or more electroactive polymers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335805 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/363 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259566 | Broadbent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heather A. Broadbent (St. Petersburg, Florida); David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida); George T. Steimle (St. Petersburg, Florida); Stanislav Ivanov (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention is a miniature planar oceanographic conductivity, temperature pressure (CTD) system based on a thin film material fabricated on a Liquid Crystalline Polymer (LCP). The micro-CTD system in accordance with the present invention analyzes water for salinity by measuring conductivity, temperature and depth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/358430 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259637 | O'Neal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy R. O'Neal (West Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus provides a correction value for an oscillator. At least one parameter sensor measures a system parameter influencing the oscillator. A lookup table determines a cycle adjustment value based on the system parameter. A processor joined to the oscillator implements the cycle adjustment value to correct for oscillator variation. Cycle adjustment values can be computed in both whole cycles and partial cycles through accumulated error thresholding. The parameter sensor can be a temperature sensor, a voltage sensor or both kinds of sensors. The lookup table and processor can have additional terms to account for hysteresis in the oscillator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217846 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259864 | Antonelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lynn T. Antonelli (Cranston, Rhode Island); Kenneth M. Walsh (Middletown, Rhode Island); Benoit G. Gauthier (Little Compton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic sensor used in underwater applications. The sensor includes a reflective material adhered to a structure, such as an outer submarine hull or any marine vessel hull. A laser interferometer is placed on the side of the structure with the reflective material. The laser interferometer sends a plurality of laser beams, in sequence or all at one time, to a plurality of points across the retro-reflective material. The laser beams reflect back to the interferometer, which captures the reflected beams using receiving optics. The phase modulation of the reflected laser beams is compared to a reference laser beam within the interferometer to obtain the vibration velocity characteristics of the hull surface structure. Since the reflective material is adhered to the structure, the structure vibration is the same as the vibration of the reflective material. From this vibration, the acoustic pressure associated with the structure may be calculated. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070400 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259925 | Ahn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byong H. Ahn (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a protective device for sensitive infrared sensors as Forward Looking Infrared imagers (FLIRs). A prior device using materials with higher order susceptibilities to electric polarization, which provides protection against extremely intense radiation from high-power lasers is combined with a low energy optical power limiters such as the chalcogenide glass and the vanadium dioxide which respond reversibly to infrared radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 1989 |
| APPL NO | 07/431170 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/886 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260023 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Statesof America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore G Jones (Alexandria, Virginia); Antonio C Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Phillip A Sprangle (Great Falls, Virginia); Leonard Dale Bibee (Slidell, Louisiana); Joseph R Penano (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating an acoustic source in a liquid includes transmitting an optical pulse through the liquid so the optical pulse reaches ILIB through pulse compression and ionizes a liquid volume. The pulse compression is achieved through at least one of a) group velocity dispersion induced longitudinal compression of a frequency chirped optical pulse and b) transverse self focusing via a nonlinear optical Kerr effect. The acoustic source can be generated at a controllable remote location many meters from the optical source. The optical source can be a laser or other suitable optical device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268400 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Time-of-day tracking with INS input is described. In one embodiment, a range rate and a range acceleration is generated from inertial navigation system data received from a moveable platform (e.g. an airborne platform). A time and frequency estimation filter receives the range rate, the range acceleration and a timing-based error signal from a time discriminator, and can then generate a time-of-day correction signal and a frequency correction signal. A time-of-day generator receives the time-of-day correction signal and generates a time-of-day correction, and a clock frequency generator receives the frequency correction signal and generates a frequency correction. The time discriminator receives a satellite synchronization signal from a satellite, the time-of-day correction from the time-of-day generator, and the frequency correction from the clock frequency generator. The time discriminator initially generates the timing-based error signal from the satellite synchronization signal, and subsequently generates the timing-based error signal from the time-of-day correction and the frequency correction to synchronize the satellite with the moveable platform. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556812 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Horology: Time measuring systems or devices 368/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260242 | Viggh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert E. M. Viggh (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of algorithms has been developed to estimate spectral reflectance in remote sensing imagery. These algorithms are called Surface Prior Information Reflectance Estimation (SPIRE) algorithms and estimate surface spectral reflectance using prior spatial and spectral information about the surface reflectance. This paper describes SPIRE algorithms that employ spatial processing of single channel data to estimate local changes in spectral reflectance under spatially and spectrally varying multiplicative and additive noise caused by variations in illumination and atmospheric effects. Rather than modeling the physics of the atmosphere and illumination (using a physics-based code such as ATREM), or using ground truth spectra at known locations to compensate for these effects (using the Empirical Line Method), prior information about the low spatial frequency content of the scene in each spectral channel is used instead. HYDICE VNIR-SWIR hyperspectral data were used to compare the performance of SPIRE, ATREM, and ELM atmospheric compensation algorithms. The Spatial SPIRE algorithm performance was found to be nearly identical to the ELM ground-truth based results, while Spatial SPIRE performed better than ATREM overall, and significantly better under high clouds and haze. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/642809 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260255 | Polichar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raulf M. Polichar (San Diego, California); Gary M. Rush (San Diego, California); Scott T. Smith (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital pixel data is obtained from radiographic imaging of one or more objects, and corresponds to an imaged area containing a feature to be measured. A data profile for a region around the measured feature is created from the digital pixel data. A reference profile is then created from the data profile. The reference profile represents an expected data profile for a reference condition of the objects, and accounts for the point spread function of the imager. The difference between the data profile and the reference profile is calculated. Based on that difference, the degree by which the actual condition of the objects varies from the reference condition is determined. The calculated difference can be compared to a lookup table mapping previously calculated differences to degrees of variation from the reference condition. The calculated difference can also be used as an input to an experimentally derived formula. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840652 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260299 | Di Teodoro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aculight Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabio Di Teodoro (Everett, Washington); Christopher D. Brooks (Kenmore, Washington); Charles A. Lemaire (Apple Valley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Sunday, May 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420758 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260643 | Chi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ed H. Chi (Palo Alto, California); Jeffery M Heer (Berkeley, California); Peter L. T. Pirolli (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for determining user types based on multi-modal clustering are provided. The topology, content and usage of a document collection or web site is determined. The user paths are identified using longest repeating subsequence techniques and a multi-modal information need vector is determined for each significant user path. Multi-modal vectors for each document in the significant path, content, uniform resource locators, inlink and outlink multi-modal vectors are determined and combined based on path position and access frequency. Multi-modal clustering is performed based on a multi-modal similarity function and a specified measure of similarity using a type of multi-modal clustering such as K-means or wavefront clustering. The identified clusters may be further analyzed based on changes to the weighting of the corresponding content, url, inlinks and outlinks multi-modal feature vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/820988 |
| ART UNIT | 2152 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260694 | Flautner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARM Limited (Cambridge, United Kingdom); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krisztian Flautner (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Trevor N. Mudge (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory circuit for use in a data processing circuit is described, in which memory cells have at least two states, each state being determined by both a first voltage level corresponding to a first supply line and a second voltage level corresponding to a second supply line. The memory circuit comprises a readable state in which information stored in a memory cell is readable and an unreadable state in which information stored in said memory cell is reliably retained but unreadable. Changing the first voltage level but keeping the second voltage level substantially constant effects a transition between the readable state and the unreadable state. In use, the static power consumption of the memory cell in the unreadable state is less than static power consumption of the memory cell in the readable state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/526687 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260746 | Demsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian C. Demsky (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martin C. Rinard (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used for detection of inconsistent data structures. The state of a data structure is determined as “inconsistent” in accordance with a defined specification. In the event that a data structure is determined to be inconsistent, the data structure may be repaired. In the event that the repair fails in connection with a read or a write operation, the executing program may optionally take steps to allow the program to continue execution. In connection with a read operation, any value may be returned as a result of the read. In connection with a write operation, the data to be written is discarded such that no write of data is performed and program execution continues. The detection and repairs are determined in accordance with user specifications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723252 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260833 | Schaeffer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Schaeffer (Aston, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A network isolation apparatus is provided that permits data to be sent to a remote computer or network without a return path so that the isolated sensitive network may not be compromised. The isolation device spoofs the network so that the network believes it has a fully functional external connection. The invention has a first media converter for receiving data from a workstation on a sensitive network; this data is then passed to a second media converter and then transmitted to a remote computer. An optical signal generator sends signals to the workstation to imitate a standard transmit and receive connection, and also sends signals to the second media converter to imitate a standard transmit and receive connection. No physical connection exists for the remote computer workstation to compromise the sensitive network. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/622173 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U T Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Delos Kass (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Ronald Lee Graves (Knoxville, Tennessee); John Morse Elliot Storey (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Samuel Arthur Lewis, Sr. (Andersonville, Tennessee); Charles Scott Sluder (Knoxville, Tennessee); John Foster Thomas (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to use diesel fuel alchohol micro emulsions (E-diesel) to provide a source of reductant to lower NOx emissions using selective catalytic reduction. Ethanol is stripped from the micro emulsion and entered into the exhaust gasses upstream of the reducing catalyst. The method allows diesel (and other lean-burn) engines to meet new, lower emission standards without having to carry separate fuel and reductant tanks. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/361432 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258022 | Wenski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward G. Wenski (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-tensile testing system providing a stand-alone test platform for testing and reporting physical or engineering properties of test samples of materials having thicknesses of approximately between 0.002 inch and 0.030 inch, including, for example, LiGA engineered materials. The testing system is able to perform a variety of static, dynamic, and cyclic tests. The testing system includes a rigid frame and adjustable gripping supports to minimize measurement errors due to deflection or bending under load; serrated grips for securing the extremely small test sample; high-speed laser scan micrometers for obtaining accurate results; and test software for controlling the testing procedure and reporting results. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273480 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258731 | D'Urso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. D'Urso (Clinton, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrophobic disordered composite material having a protrusive surface feature includes a recessive phase and a protrusive phase, the recessive phase having a higher susceptibility to a preselected etchant than the protrusive phase, the composite material having an etched surface wherein the protrusive phase protrudes from the surface to form a protrusive surface feature, the protrusive feature being hydrophobic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900249 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258745 | Hu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Z. Hu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a method for fabricating hafnia film comprising the steps of providing a substrate having a surface that allows formation of a self-assembled monolayer thereon via covalent bonding; providing an aqueous solution that provides homogeneous hafnium ionic complexes and hafnium nanoclusters wherein the aqueous solution is capable of undergoing homogeneous precipitation under controlled conditions for a desired period of time at a controlled temperature and controlled solution acidity for desired nanocluster nucleation and growth kinetics, desired nanocluster size, desired growth rate of film thickness and desired film surface characteristics. The method further comprising forming the self-assembled monolayer on the surface of the substrate wherein the self-assembled monolayer comprises a plurality of hydrocarbon chains cross-linked together along the surface of the substrate, the hydrocarbon chains being uniformly spaced from one another and wherein each of the hydrocarbon chains having a functional anchoring group at a first end of the chain covalently bonded with the surface of the substrate and each of the hydrocarbon chains having a functional terminating group projected away from the surface wherein the functional terminating group provides a bonding site for the hafnium film to grow; and exposing the substrate to the aqueous solution for a desired period of time at a controlled temperature wherein the hafnium ionic complexes and the hafnium nanoclusters are deposited on the bonding site of the functional terminating group thereby forming the hafnia film wherein the hafnium bonded to the hydrocarbons and to one another provide a uniform ordered arrangement defined by the uniform arrangement of the hydrocarbons. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913896 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/925 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258752 | Maziasz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Maziasz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Robert W. Swindeman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Bruce A. Pint (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Santella (Knoxville, Tennessee); Karren L. More (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A wrought stainless steel alloy composition includes 12% to 25% Cr, 8% to 25% Ni, 0.05% to 1% Nb, 0.05% to 10% Mn, 0.02% to 0.15% C, 0.02% to 0.5% N, with the balance iron, the composition having the capability of developing an engineered microstructure at a temperature above 550° C. The engineered microstructure includes an austenite matrix having therein a dispersion of intragranular NbC precipitates in a concentration in the range of 1010 to 1017 precipitates per cm3. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397582 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258836 | Hill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Hill (Knoxville, Tennessee); Miguel Rodriguez, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Elias Greenbaum (Knoxville, Tennessee); James W. Klett (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A freeze resistant buoy system includes a tail-tube buoy having a thermally insulated section disposed predominantly above a waterline, and a thermo-siphon disposed predominantly below the waterline. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689261 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258866 | Werner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Labs (Northfield, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Werner (Northfield, Minnesota); Michael Strobel (Northfield, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A ringworm vaccine is disclosed comprising antigen isolated from at least one dermatophyte and a suitable carrier. The “antigen” can include a single antigen from a dermatophyte or a plurality of antigens as long as at least one antigen is included which will produce a sufficient immune response to confer resistance to ringworm infection upon the recipient of the vaccine. The antigen can also be isolated from more than one dermatophyte. If a preparation from more than one dermatophyte is made the antigen can include antigens which are common to all species of dermatophytes employed and/or antigens which are only specific to certain species. A method of producing such a ringworm vaccine is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/691387 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/274.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258927 | Foltyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Foltyn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Articles are provided including a base substrate having a layer of an oriented material thereon, and, a layer of hafnium oxide upon the layer of an oriented material. The layer of hafnium oxide can further include a secondary oxide such as cerium oxide, yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, scandium oxide, calcium oxide and magnesium oxide. Such articles can further include thin films of high temperature superconductive oxides such as YBCO upon the layer of hafnium oxide or layer of hafnium oxide and secondary oxide. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/021800 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258928 | Paranthaman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); American Superconductor (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Urs Schoop (Westborough, Massachusetts); Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Cornelis Leo Hans Thieme (Westborough, Massachusetts); Darren T. Verebelyi (Oxford, Massachusetts); Martin W. Rupich (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laminated conductor includes a metallic substrate having a surface, a biaxially textured buffer layer supported by the surface of the metallic substrate, the biaxially textured buffer layer comprising Y2O3 and a dopant for blocking cation diffusion through the Y2O3, and a biaxially textured conductor layer supported by the biaxially textured buffer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192488 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258942 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-Shyung Chou (Richland, Washington); Jeffry W. Stevenson (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A mica based compressive seal has been developed exhibiting superior thermal cycle stability when compared to other compressive seals known in the art. The seal is composed of compliant glass or metal interlayers and a sealing (gasket) member layer composed of mica that is infiltrated with a glass forming material, which effectively reduces leaks within the seal. The compressive seal shows approximately a 100-fold reduction in leak rates compared with previously developed hybrid seals after from 10 to about 40 thermal cycles under a compressive stress of from 50 psi to 100 psi at temperatures in the range from 600° C. to about 850° C. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656300 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — 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 07259018 | Benner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Henry Benner (Danville, California); Ronald M. Krauss (Berkeley, California); Patricia J. Blanche (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical diagnostic method and instrumentation system for analyzing noncovalently bonded agglomerated biological particles is described. The method and system comprises: a method of preparation for the biological particles; an electrospray generator; an alpha particle radiation source; a differential mobility analyzer; a particle counter; and data acquisition and analysis means. The medical device is useful for the assessment of human diseases, such as cardiac disease risk and hyperlipidemia, by rapid quantitative analysis of lipoprotein fraction densities. Initially, purification procedures are described to reduce an initial blood sample to an analytical input to the instrument. The measured sizes from the analytical sample are correlated with densities, resulting in a spectrum of lipoprotein densities. The lipoprotein density distribution can then be used to characterize cardiac and other lipid-related health risks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/293610 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259230 | Klaehn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Alan K. Wertsching (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Christopher J. Orme (Shelley, Idaho); Thomas A. Luther (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael G. Jones (Pocatello, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A PBI compound includes imidazole nitrogens at least a portion of which are substituted with an organic-inorganic hybrid moiety. At least 85% of the imidazole nitrogens may be substituted. The organic-inorganic hybrid moiety may be an organosilane moiety, for example, (R)Me2SiCH2— where R is selected from among methyl, phenyl, vinyl, and allyl. The PBI compound may exhibit similar thermal properties in comparison to the unsubstituted PBI. The PBI compound may exhibit a solubility in an organic solvent greater than the solubility of the unsubstituted PBI. The PBI compound may be included in separatory media. A substituted PBI synthesis method may include providing a parent PBI in a less than 5 wt % solvent solution. Substituting may occur at about room temperature and/or at about atmospheric pressure. Substituting may use at least 5 equivalents in relation to the imidazole nitrogens to be substituted or, preferably, about 15. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862921 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259286 | Jothimurugesan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); The University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kandaswamy Jothimurugesan (Ponca City, Oklahoma); James G. Goodwin, Jr. (Clemson, South Carolina); Santosh K. Gangwal (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An attrition resistant precipitated bulk iron catalyst is prepared from iron oxide precursor and a binder by spray drying. The catalysts are preferably used in carbon monoxide hydrogenation processes such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. These catalysts are suitable for use in fluidized-bed reactors, transport reactors and, especially, slurry bubble column reactors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344896 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259369 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David A. Dahl (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Carla J. Miller (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Paul L. Tremblay (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Timothy R. McJunkin (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Ion mobility spectrometer apparatus may include an ion interface that is operable to hold positive and negative ions and to simultaneously release positive and negative ions through respective positive and negative ion ports. A first drift chamber is operatively associated with the positive ion port of the ion interface and encloses an electric field therein. A first ion detector operatively associated with the first drift chamber detects positive ions from the first drift chamber. A second drift chamber is operatively associated with the negative ion port of the ion interface and encloses an electric field therein. A second ion detector operatively associated with the second drift chamber detects negative ions from said second drift chamber. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209534 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259716 | Dubbert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale F. Dubbert (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Peter A. Dudley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A Quadrature Error Corrected Digital Waveform Synthesizer (QECDWS) employs frequency dependent phase error corrections to, in effect, pre-distort the phase characteristic of the chirp to compensate for the frequency dependent phase nonlinearity of the RF and microwave subsystem. In addition, the QECDWS can employ frequency dependent correction vectors to the quadrature amplitude and phase of the synthesized output. The quadrature corrections cancel the radars' quadrature upconverter (mixer) errors to null the unwanted spectral image. A result is the direct generation of an RF waveform, which has a theoretical chirp bandwidth equal to the QECDWS clock frequency (1 to 1.2 GHz) with the high Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) necessary for high dynamic range radar systems such as SAR. To correct for the problematic upconverter local oscillator (LO) leakage, precision DC offsets can be applied over the chirped pulse using a pseudo-random noise dither. The present dither technique can effectively produce a quadrature DC bias which has the precision required to adequately suppress the LO leakage. A calibration technique can be employed to calculate both the quadrature correction vectors and the LO-nulling DC offsets using the radar built-in test capability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686168 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260124 | Ebbers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Ebbers (Livermore, California); Kathleen I. Schaffers (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A material for harmonic generation has been made by substitutional changes to the crystal LaCa4(BO3)3 also known as LaCOB in the form Re1xRe2yRe3zCa4(B03)3O where Re1 and Re2, (rare earth ion 1 and rare earth ion 2) are selected from the group consisting of Sc, Yttrium, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu; Re3 is Lanthanum; and x+y+z=1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/652424 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260483 | Gard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric E. Gard (San Francisco, California); Keith R. Coffee (Patterson, California); Matthias Frank (Oakland, California); Herbert J. Tobias (Kensington, California); David P. Fergenson (Alamo, California); Norm Madden (Livermore, California); Vincent J. Riot (Berkeley, California); Paul T. Steele (Livermore, California); Bruce W. Woods (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method and system of identifying individual aerosol particles in real time. Sample aerosol particles are collimated, tracked, and screened to determine which ones qualify for mass spectrometric analysis based on predetermined qualification or selection criteria. Screening techniques include one or more of determining particle size, shape, symmetry, and fluorescence. Only qualifying particles passing all screening criteria are subject to desorption/ionization and single particle mass spectrometry to produce corresponding test spectra, which is used to determine the identities of each of the qualifying aerosol particles by comparing the test spectra against predetermined spectra for known particle types. In this manner, activation cycling of a particle ablation laser of a single particle mass spectrometer is reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916737 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07258687 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beth Friedman (La Jolla, California); David Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California); Patrick D. Lyden (San Diego, California); Nozomi Nishimura (La Jolla, California); Christopher B. Schaffer (La Jolla, California); Lee Frederick Schroeder (San Diego, California); Philbert Tsai (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrashort laser pulses are used to induce photodisruptive breakdown in vasculature in an animal to controllably produce hemorrhage, thrombosis or breach of the blood-brain barrier in individual, specifically-targeted blood vessels. Damage is limited to the targeted vessels such that neighboring vessels exhibit no signs of vascular damage, including vessels directly above and directly below the targeted vessel. Ultrashort laser pulses of lower energy are also used to observe and quantify the baseline and altered states of blood flow. Observation and measurement may be performed by TPLSM, OCT or other known techniques, providing a real-time, in vivo model for the dynamics and effects of vascular injury. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/538548 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258774 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hou-Pu Chou (Sunnyvale, California); Anne Y. Fu (San Clemente, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device comprises pumps, valves, and fluid oscillation dampers. In a device employed for sorting, an entity is flowed by the pump along a flow channel through a detection region to a junction. Based upon an identity of the entity determined in the detection region, a waste or collection valve located on opposite branches of the flow channel at the junction are actuated, thereby routing the entity to either a waste pool or a collection pool. A damper structure may be located between the pump and the junction. The damper reduces the amplitude of oscillation pressure in the flow channel due to operation of the pump, thereby lessening oscillation in velocity of the entity during sorting process. The microfluidic device may be formed in a block of elastomer material, with thin membranes of the elastomer material deflectable into the flow channel to provide pump or valve functionality. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/970122 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258853 | Strom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry B. Strom (Brookline, Massachusetts); Wlodzimierz Maslinski (Warsaw, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are mutant IL-15 polypeptides and methods for using these polypeptides to modulate the immune response in a patient. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245243 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258857 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Stern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kevan Herold (Scarsdale, New York); Shi Du Yan (Tenafly, New Jersey); Ann Marie Schmidt (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey); Ira Lamster (Wyckoff, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for treating inflammation in a subject which comprises administering to the subject soluble receptor for advanced glycation endproduct (sRAGE) in an amount effective to inhibit binding of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) to RAGE thereby treating inflammation in the subject. The present invention also provides for a method for treating inflammation in a subject which comprises administering to the subject an agent in an amount effective to inhibit the interaction between receptor for advanced glycation endproduct (RAGE) and its ligand thereby treating inflammation in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/872185 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258859 | Martin 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) | Roland Martin (Bethesda, Maryland); Henry McFarland (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bibiana Bielekova (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a subject with multiple sclerosis is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method is provided for treating a subject with multiple sclerosis that includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an IL-21 receptor antagonist, wherein the subject has failed to respond treatment with beta interferon, thereby treating the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607598 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07258984 | Cheung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ambrose Cheung (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleic acid sequence which regulates the autolytic activity of bacteria is provided. Methods for identifying and using agents which interact with the gene to inhibit bacterial growth and infectivity also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152497 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259004 | Strobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Uvidelio F. Castillo (Saukville, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated strains of a Streptomyces spp. which are endophytes of dicotyledonous plants and to methods for selecting such strains. The present invention also relates to compounds having biological activity selected from the group consisting of munumbicin A, munumbicin B, munumbicin C and munumbicin D, kakadumycin A, kakadumycin B, and kakadumycin C. The present invention further relates to compositions of such compounds and to methods of protecting plants against attack by a plant pathogen and methods of inhibiting bacterial growth, fungal growth, viral infection, growth of parasitic organisms, and cancer cell growth with such compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406006 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259141 | Thorson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vancomycin analogs and methods related to synthesis of these analogs via chemoenzymatic techniques. In a preferred embodiment, the vancomycin analogs have a structural moiety selected from the group consisting of: |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908624 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259142 | Roller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter P Roller (Rockville, Maryland); Ya-Qui Long (Bethesda, Maryland); Feng-Di T. Lung (Taichung, Taiwan); C. Richter King (Washington, District of Columbia); Dajun Yang (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Johannes H. Voigt (Cranford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of formula: in which (i) aa1 is Adi and aa4 is Glu or (ii) each of aa1 and aa4 is Adi, L is sulfur, sulfoxide, oxygen or methylene, which compound (and its conjugates) bind to an SH2 domain in a protein comprising an SH2 domain, is non-phosphorylated, is redox-stable in vivo, is characterized by an IC50 in vivo of less than about 4.0 μM with respect to the SH2 domain in Grb2, and, upon binding to the SH2 domain of Grb2, has a turn conformation. A conjugate comprising a compound as described above and a carrier agent, a composition comprising (i) a compound or a conjugate as described above and (ii) a carrier, a method of inhibiting binding of an SH2 domain in a protein comprising an SH2 domain to a target protein in an animal, wherein the SH2 domain is contacted with a target protein-binding inhibiting effective amount of a compound or a conjugate as described above, and a method of synthesizing such conjugates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224819 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259236 | Cao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia-ning Cao (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a novel retinoblastoma binding protein-related gene that encodes an antigenic epitope, IKPSLGSKK (SEQ ID NO:3), which is differentially expressed in cancers, such as breast, lung, colon, pancreas, and ovarian cancer. Polynucleotides that encode and polypeptides that comprise the antigenic epitope and variants thereof are disclosed. Also, disclosed are methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides of the present invention in immunotherapies and immunoassays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/471934 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259252 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert L. Letsinger (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert C. Mucic (Glendale, California); James J. Storhoff (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Skokie, Illinois); Thomas Andrew Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid. The methods comprise contacting the nucleic acid with one or more types of particles having oligonucleotides attached thereto. In one embodiment of the method, the oligonucleotides are attached to nanoparticles and have sequences complementary to portions of the sequence of the nucleic acid. A detectable change (preferably a color change) is brought about as a result of the hybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticles to the nucleic acid. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising particles. The invention further provides methods of synthesizing unique nanoparticle-oligonucleotide conjugates, the conjugates produced by the methods, and methods of using the conjugates. In addition, the invention provides nanomaterials and nanostructures comprising nanoparticles and methods of nanofabrication utilizing nanoparticles. Finally, the invention provides a method of separating a selected nucleic acid from other nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974007 |
| 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 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260248 | Kaufman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MediSpectra, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Kaufman (Newton, Massachusetts); Philippe Schmid (Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of relating a plurality of images based on measures of similarity. The methods of the invention are useful in the segmentation of a sequence of colposcopic images of tissue, for example. The methods may be applied in the determination of tissue characteristics in acetowhitening testing of cervical tissue, for example. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099881 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260250 | Summers 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) | Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland); Marek Franaszek (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Gheorghe Iordanescu (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Candidate anomalies in an anatomical structure are processed for classification. For example, false positives can be reduced by techniques related to the anomaly's neck, wall thickness associated with the anomaly, template matching performed for the anomaly, or some combination thereof. The various techniques can be combined for use in a classifier, which can determine whether the anomaly is of interest. For example, a computed tomography scan of a colon can be analyzed to determine whether a candidate anomaly is a polyp. The technologies can be applied to a variety of other scenarios involving other anatomical structures. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/671749 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39788 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. French Anderson (Bethesda, Maryland); R. Michael Blaese (Rockville, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Primary human cells which are genetically engineered with DNA (RNA) encoding a marker or therapeutic which is expressed to be expressed in vivo. Such engineered cells may be used in gene therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701022 |
| 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 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39789 | Raulet et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Raulet (Berkeley, California); Andreas Diefenbach (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Neoplasia is treated by administering to a mammalian host a composition comprising ligands for the NKG2D receptor. In addition, other NKG2D ligands, proteins specific for the neoplastic cells and cytokines may be included to enhance the immune response. The composition may be cells comprising expression constructs for the ligands, liposomes or combinations of protein molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057105 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); Balaji Lakshminarayanan (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a monolithic device utilizing cascaded, switchable slow-wave CPW sections that are integrated along the length of a planar transmission line. The purpose of the switchable slow-wave CPW sections elements is to enable control of the propagation constant along the transmission line while maintaining a quasi-constant characteristic impedance. The device can be used to produce true time delay phase shifting components in which large amounts of time delay can be achieved without significant variation in the effective characteristic impedance of the transmission line, and thus also the input/output return loss of the component. Additionally, for a particular value of return loss, greater time delay per unit length can be achieved in comparison to tunable capacitance-only delay components. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/906626 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259984 | Kan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin C. Kan (Ithaca, New York); Zengtao Liu (Sunnyvale, California); Chungho Lee (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal nanocrystal memories are fabricated to include higher density states, stronger coupling with the channel, and better size scalability, than has been available with semiconductor nanocrystal devices. A self-assembled nanocrystal formation process by rapid thermal annealing of ultra thin metal film deposited on top of gate oxide is integrated with NMOSFET to fabricate such devices. Devices with Au, Ag, and Pt nanocrystals working in the F-N tunneling regime, with hot-carrier injection as the programming mechanism, demonstrate retention times up to 106s, and provide 2-bit-per-cell storage capability. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718662 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260122 | Sanders |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Sanders (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An external cavity laser may be swept rapidly in frequency and cavity length to prevent formation of modes providing improved spectral response and light characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997100 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260287 | Assefa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon Assefa (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); Reginald E. Bryant (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexei A. Erchak (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shanhui Fan (Palo Alto, California); Erich P. Ippen (Belmont, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leslie A. Kolodziejski (Belmont, Massachusetts); Elefterios Lidorikis (Arlington, Massachusetts); Gale S. Petrich (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michelle L. Povinelli (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano-electromechanical optical switch includes an input optical waveguide that is provided with an optical signal. At least two output optical waveguides are coupled to the input optical waveguide. The deflection of the input optical waveguide aligns with one of either of the two output optical waveguides so as to allow transmission of the optical signal to one of either of the two output optical waveguides. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916837 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260746 | Demsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian C. Demsky (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martin C. Rinard (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used for detection of inconsistent data structures. The state of a data structure is determined as “inconsistent” in accordance with a defined specification. In the event that a data structure is determined to be inconsistent, the data structure may be repaired. In the event that the repair fails in connection with a read or a write operation, the executing program may optionally take steps to allow the program to continue execution. In connection with a read operation, any value may be returned as a result of the read. In connection with a write operation, the data to be written is discarded such that no write of data is performed and program execution continues. The detection and repairs are determined in accordance with user specifications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723252 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07259007 | Bobrowicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlycoFi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Bobrowicz (White River Junction, Vermont); Terrance A. Stadheim (White River Junction, Vermont); Stefan Wildt (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the elimination of mannosylphosphorylation on the glycans of glycoproteins in the yeast genus Pichia. The elimination of mannosylphosphorylated glycoproteins results from the disruption of the PNO1 gene and the newly isolated P. pastoris MNN4B gene. The present invention further relates to methods for producing modified glycan structures in host cells that are free of glycan mannosylphosphorylation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/020808 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/255.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259102 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Wang (Austin, Texas); Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of etching a multi-layer structure formed from a layer of a first material and a layer of a second material differing from the first material to obtain a desired degree of planarization. To that end, the method includes creating a first set of process conditions to etch the first material, generating a second set of process conditions to etch the second material; and establishing an additional set of process conditions to concurrently etch the first and second materials at substantially the same etch rate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/240708 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259391 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Liu (Niskayuna, New York); Anil Raj Duggal (Niskayuna, New York); Christian Maria Anton Heller (Albany, New York); Donald Franklin Foust (Glenville, New York); Tami Janene Faircloth (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes a plurality of organic electronic devices disposed on a substrate, wherein each of the organic electronic devices comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. Furthermore, the device includes an organic layer disposed between the first and second electrodes of each of the plurality of organic electronic devices. Additionally, the device includes an interconnect element, wherein the interconnect element is configured to electrically couple the respective first and second electrodes of each of the plurality of organic electronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/020338 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07259692 | Eichenberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Eichenberg (Parma Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for hybrid power management. The system includes photovoltaic cells, ultracapacitors, and pulse generators. In one embodiment, the hybrid power management system is used to provide power for a highway safety flasher. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931205 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/908 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07259981 | MacLeod |
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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) | Todd C. MacLeod (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonvolatile analog memory uses pairs of ferroelectric field effect transistors (FFETs). Each pair is defined by a first FFET and a second FFET. When an analog value is to be stored in one of the pairs, the first FFET has a saturation voltage applied thereto, and the second FFET has a storage voltage applied thereto that is indicative of the analog value. The saturation and storage voltages decay over time in accordance with a known decay function that is used to recover the original analog value when the pair of FFETs is read. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296719 |
| ART UNIT | 2809 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07258495 | Hughes, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Charles Hughes, Jr. (Corning, New York); Karen Irene Matthews (Horseheads, New York); William James Miller (Horseheads, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to lensed fiber stub assemblies and optical and optoelectronic packages including them. The fiber stub assemblies include a section of lensed fiber having a lensed end having a lens face, and a distal end having an endface, a lens alignment ferrule affixed to and holding the lensed end of the lensed fiber, and a package attachment ferrule having a distal endface and an exterior surface, the package attachment ferrule affixed to and holding the distal end of the lensed fiber. The lensed fiber stub assemblies of the present invention allow for hermetic packaging of optical and optoelectronic devices, good manufacturing throughput, facile package connectorization, acceptable device thermal performance, and ease of alignment in the packaging process. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/475488 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260755 | Carpenter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Dale Carpenter (Austin, Texas); Ramyanshu Datta (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit includes a testable delay path. A transition of a delay path input signal causes a subsequent transition of a delay path output signal. A pulse generator receives the delay path input and output signals and produces a pulse signal having a pulse width indicative of the delay between the delay path input and output signal transitions. A delay line receives the pulse signal from the pulse generator. The delay line generates information indicative of the pulse signal pulse width. The delay line may include multiple stages in series where each stage reduces the pulse width of the pulse signal. The delay line may include a high skew inverter having PMOS and NMOS transistors having significantly different gains. The pulse generator is configured to produce a positive going pulse signal regardless of whether the delay path is inverting or non-inverting. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071554 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/724 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07260026 | Wu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Time-of-day tracking with INS input is described. In one embodiment, a range rate and a range acceleration is generated from inertial navigation system data received from a moveable platform (e.g. an airborne platform). A time and frequency estimation filter receives the range rate, the range acceleration and a timing-based error signal from a time discriminator, and can then generate a time-of-day correction signal and a frequency correction signal. A time-of-day generator receives the time-of-day correction signal and generates a time-of-day correction, and a clock frequency generator receives the frequency correction signal and generates a frequency correction. The time discriminator receives a satellite synchronization signal from a satellite, the time-of-day correction from the time-of-day generator, and the frequency correction from the clock frequency generator. The time discriminator initially generates the timing-based error signal from the satellite synchronization signal, and subsequently generates the timing-based error signal from the time-of-day correction and the frequency correction to synchronize the satellite with the moveable platform. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556812 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Horology: Time measuring systems or devices 368/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07259122 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A shelter coating comprising polyvinyl alcohol and polyethyleneimine is disclosed. The shelter coating may optionally further include a photocatalyst capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The shelter coating may optionally include a singlet oxygen scavenger. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931121 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07257987 | O'Brien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. O'Brien (Clackamas, Oregon); Thomas R. Smith (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for analyzing samples, such as gas samples, are described. One method comprises providing a gas sample, increasing pressure applied to the gas sample to compress the sample to a smaller volume and provide a pneumatically focused gas sample, and analyzing the pneumatically focused gas sample using any of a variety of analytical techniques. Also disclosed are systems for gas analysis, including systems for analysis of pneumatically focused, and thereby concentrated, gas samples and for analysis of particulate matter in gas samples. Analytical systems constructed within personal computer cases also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/546111 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07258854 | Kmiec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B Kmiec (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Howard B Gamper (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael C Rice (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented are methods and compositions for targeted chromosomal genomic alterations using modified single-stranded oligonucleotides. The oligonucleotides of the invention have at least one modified nuclease-resistant terminal region comprising phosphorothioate linkages, LNA analogs or 2′-O-Me base analogs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209787 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260283 | Lieberman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Lieberman (Torrance, California); Claudio O. Egalon (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Distributed fiber optic chemical and physical sensors provide a relatively highly uniform response over the length of the fiber by, for example, varying such properties as the core/cladding index of refraction ratio to compensate for the non-linearity in sensitivity due for example to the loss of higher order modes in multi-mode fibers. The variation of the ratio changes the absorption coefficient of the fiber and can be used to compensate for any non-linearity in response. Other techniques for compensation also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/364237 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260456 | Fowell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Fowell (Rolling Hills Estates, California); Yeong-Wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reducing centroiding error of a star sensor having a plurality of pixels is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of computing a star sensor angular slew rate of ω pixels per star sensor integration period τ, collecting star sensor data while slewing the star sensor according to the selected star sensor angular slew rate ω, and filtering the collected star sensor data according to a frequency determined by the selected star sensor angular slew rate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064375 |
| 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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