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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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| US 07260890 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. White (Marietta, Georgia); Madhavan Swaminathan (Marietta, Georgia); Venkatesh Sundaram (Norcross, Georgia); Sidharth Dalmia (Alpharetta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods for making liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) interconnect structures using a high temperature and low temperature single sided liquid crystalline polymer LCP where both the high and low temperature LCP are drilled to form a z-axis connection. The single sided conductive layer is a bus layer to form z axis conductive stud within the high and low temperature LCP, followed by a metallic capping layer of the stud that serves as the bonding metal between the conductive interconnects to form the z-axis connection. High and low temperature LCP layers are etched or built up to form circuit patterns and subsequently bonded together to form final multilayer circuit pattern where the low temperature LCP melts to form both dielectric to dielectric bond to high temperature LCP circuit layer, and dielectric to conductive bond, whereas metal to metal bonding occurs with high temperature metal capping layer bonding to conductive metal layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402315 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261006 | Randolph |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex N. Randolph (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Blast pressure gauges and methods for detecting blast pressure during a blast test. The gauges operate independently of power sources, are portable, and are used in harsh environments including test ranges. Each embodiment is constructed to detect blast pressures as required in the circumstances of a particular blast test. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122208 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261007 | Haglund et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Haglund (College Station, Texas); Andrew R. McFarland (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A circumferential slot virtual impactor includes a disk-shaped housing with an endless circumferential slot for receiving aerosols. The slot forms an acceleration nozzle, and a receiver nozzle spaced apart radially inwardly from the acceleration nozzle exit. In an annular gap between the two nozzles, negative pressure is selectively applied to draw a major flow of the aerosol axially away from the nozzles, while a minor flow of the aerosol is drawn radially inward and enters the receiver nozzle. A portion of the larger particles leaves the major flow and merges with the minor flow due to particle momentum, thus increasing the large-particle concentration of the minor flow. The acceleration nozzle incorporates convex curvature along its opposed interior surfaces, for a smoother aerosol flow and reduced large-particle deposition. |
| FILED | Monday, November 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/995745 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261008 | Saaski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research International, Inc. (Monroe, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elric W. Saaski (Bothell, Washington); Chuck C. Jung (Lynnwood, Washington); David A. McCrae (Richmond, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An air sampler having a fan; an air inlet tube; a main body having a cyclonic cup, a stripping column and a demister; and fluidic circuitry for inputting fluids to the main body and the air inlet tube, and for outputting fluids from the main body. Air flow through the air sampler may be generated by a fan that is either external or internal with respect to the main body's cyclonic cup. A thin film of stripping liquid and/or a fog of stripping liquid particles in the air inlet tube, the cyclonic cup, the stripping column and/or the demister strip a target material from the air flow through the air sampler. A passive fog generating slot or a passive spiral fog generating nozzle may be placed over the fluid input conduit in the center of the cyclonic cup. The air sampler's main body and/or an air inlet tube may be integrally formed as one part. The main body's inner surfaces may be selected to be hydrophilic, for better flow of the thin film of stripping liquid across them; and its intersecting internal surfaces may be provided with smoothly curved fillets for better air and liquid flow over them. The air sampler may be provided with a liquid level control that may have a reservoir float monitored by external optical sensors; a flexible, capacitive effect, dual electrode bearing substrate that is wrapped around the exterior of the air sampler's stripping column; or an external optical bubble sensor for the reservoir's output conduit. The air sampler may be so small, light and low in energy consumption that it may be battery powered and human-portable; and may be so efficient that it may be used to strip target material that is present in the incoming air in concentrations of only a few parts per trillion, or less. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/207946 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261035 | Munsinger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrence Lane Munsinger (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system controlling the operation of a safe and arm device. The embodiments include continually utilizing a rule based computation to generate an output signal to be sent to a controller affecting the operation of the safe and arm (S&A) device towards the safe condition or towards the armed condition. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053754 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261039 | Bittle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A Bittle (Somerville, Alabama); Gary T Jimmerson (Athens, Alabama); Julian L Cothran (Arab, Alabama); Donald H Blaise (Freeport, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A KE rod warhead for artillery rockets contains a multiplicity of KE rod penetrators housed in trays and packaged into bays or tier packs that are stacked and positioned around a center column of the warhead. The warhead has a skin which is severed upon the rocket entering a target area. The KE rods are situated and housed in such a manner that upon release the rods experience a minimum of pitching or tumbling upon entering the air stream giving the rods an optimal lethality against a designated target. The KE rod artillery rocket contains no explosive munitions, so it can be used without civilian and environmental concerns over unexploded ordnance. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279027 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261274 | Vatsaas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Vatsaas (Eagan, Minnesota); Wayne E. Eiden (Resemount, Minnesota); Clarie C. Engelhart (Chaska, Minnesota); Marie Guion, legal representative (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A vibration isolation mount, a vibration isolation system and a method of resiliently mounting a device, and particularly a device that is mounted in a cramped space with the vibration isolation mount including a dagger plate having an elastomer secured thereto to permit a resilient mounting of the dagger plate on a device and a dagger pin for mounting on the support housing for blind engagement with the dagger pin with the dagger pin forming a snug but non-interference fit with a sidewall of an alignment hole in the dagger plate. The method also includes the mounting of a device by resiliently securing a dagger plate to a device and then positioning the device on a dagger pin by moving the device along an axis parallel to the axis of the dagger pin and then securing a further portion of the device to a support housing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430624 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261764 | Pletcher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Allen Pletcher (Eastampton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a methods, apparatuses and systems that utilize electric currents to direct the deposition of particulate matter to various surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405787 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261852 | Rinzler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Zhihong Chen (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming optically transparent and electrically conductive SWNT films includes the steps of providing a porous membrane and dispersing a plurality of SWNTs into a solution, the solution including at least one surface stabilizing agent for preventing the SWNTs from flocculating out of suspension. The solution is then applied to the membrane. The solution is then removed, wherein the SWNTs are forced onto the surface of the porous membrane to form a SWNT film on the membrane. The method can include the step of separating the SWNT film from the porous membrane, such as by dissolving the membrane. An electrically conducting and optically transparent single wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) film provides a sheet resistance of less than 200 ohm/sq and at least 30% transmission at a wavelength of 3 μm. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/622818 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261857 | Suslick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth S. Suslick (Champaign, Illinois); Neal A. Rakow (Champaign, Illinois); Avijit Sen (Urbana, Illinois); William B. McNamara, III (Urbana, Illinois); Margaret E. Kosal (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves an artificial nose having an array comprising at least a first dye and a second dye in combination and having a distinct spectral response to an analyte. In one embodiment, the first and second dyes are from the group comprising chemoresponsive dyes, and the second dye is distinct from the first dye. In one embodiment, the first dye is selected from the group consisting of porphyrin, chlorin, chlorophyll, phthalocyanine, and salen, or their metal complexes. In another embodiment, the second dye is selected from the group of dyes consisting of acid-base indicator dyes and solvatochromic dyes. The present invention is particularly useful in detecting metal ligating vapors. Further, the array of the present invention can be connected to a visual display device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/279788 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261914 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronghua Wei (San Antonio, Texas); Thomas L. Booker (San Antonio, Texas); Christopher Rincon (San Antonio, Texas); James H. Arps (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method of forming a nitride layer on at least one metal or metal alloy biomedical device, comprising: providing a vacuum chamber with at least one biomedical device positioned thereon on a worktable within the vacuum chamber; reducing the pressure in the vacuum chamber; introducing nitrogen into the vacuum chamber so that the pressure in the vacuum chamber is about 0.01 to about 10 milli-Torr; generating electrons within the vacuum chamber to form positively charged nitrogen ions; providing a negative bias to the worktable so that the positively charged nitrogen ions contact the biomedical devices under conditions such that a nitride layer forms on the at least one prosthetic device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/811485 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261919 | Mehregany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLX Micro, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehran Mehregany (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Christian A. Zorman (Euclid, Ohio); Xiao-An Fu (Mayfield Village, Ohio); Jeremy L. Dunning (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing a ceramic film, particularly a silicon carbide film, on a substrate is disclosed in which the residual stress, residual stress gradient, and resistivity are controlled. Also disclosed are substrates having a deposited film with these controlled properties and devices, particularly MEMS and NEMS devices, having substrates with films having these properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/716006 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261954 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Xiaofan Ren (Los Angeles, California); Vadim Adamovich (Los Angeles, California); Steven R Cordero (Long Beach, California); Brian Wendell D'Andrade (Princeton, New Jersey); Bert Alleyne (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Light emitting devices having blocking layers comprising one or more metal complexes are provided. The blocking layers may serve to block electrons, holes, and/or excitons. Preferably, the devices further comprise a separate emissive layer in which charge and/or excitons are confined. Metal complexes suitable for blocking layers can be selected by comparison of HOMO and LUMO energy levels of materials comprising adjacent layers in devices of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353338 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262162 | Majetschak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany); University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias Majetschak (Mannheim, Germany); Kenneth G. Proctor (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for suppressing the immune system of a mammal using ubiquitin and derivatives and analogs thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373196 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262265 | Motamedi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solvay Advanced Polymers, L.L.C. (Alpharetta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farshad J. Motamedi (Claremont, California); Matthew L. Marrocco, III (Fontana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new family of high temperature thermoset resins having high glass transition temperatures and enhanced hygrothermal stability that are synthesized using inexpensive starting materials in essentially a single step process. A trifunctional aromatic, wherein at least one of the three functional groups comprises a halogen and the balance thereof comprises OH groups and wherein said aromatic has electron withdrawing properties, is polymerized using an excess of a diol. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779207 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262334 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lanny D. Schmidt (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jakob J. Krummenacher (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kevin N. West (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the production of a reaction product including a carbon containing compound. The process includes providing a film of a fuel source including at least one organic compound on a wall of a reactor, contacting the fuel source with a source of oxygen, forming a vaporized mixture of fuel and oxygen, and contacting the vaporized mixture of fuel and oxygen with a catalyst under conditions effective to produce a reaction product including a carbon containing compound. Preferred products include α-olefins and synthesis gas. A preferred catalyst is a supported metal catalyst, preferably including rhodium, platinum, and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620183 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/658 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262360 | Davis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Davis (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Underwater power generation for an underwater vessel is provided when the vessel transits through an underwater thermocline. At least a portion of the shell of the vessel is made from a thermally conductive material. Thermo-to-electric energy converters are electrically coupled together with each converter having a first surface thermally coupled to the shell's inner surface. A phase change material is thermally coupled to each opposing second surface of the converters. The phase change material has a phase change temperature that is between the upper and lower temperature extremes of the underwater thermocline's temperature range. The converters generate electrical power as the underwater vessel transits through the underwater thermocline. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644575 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262414 | Carrieri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur H. Carrieri (Abingdon, Maryland); Erik S. Roese (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A Thermal Luminescent (TL) spectroscopy system and method for remote sensing and detection of surface chemical contamination involves irradiation of a target surface with energy from a near infrared pump beam, and measurement of TL liberated by that surface within a middle infrared (MIR) region. Fundamental molecular vibration modes of target contaminants present are briefly activated after the surface has been driven out of thermal equilibrium. An emissivity contrast between strata and target contaminant develops, peaks, and then subsides during a finite thermal window of detection opportunity in which detection of fingerprint identifiers for target contaminants is most probable. Target contaminant identification employs neural network models trained and tested against known molecular absorption frequencies of target contaminants. The use of a pump beam that radiates energy outside the MIR spectra of received TL reduces possible interference with the very weak MIR signals given off by target contaminants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208128 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262859 | Larson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Genomics, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Larson (New Ipswich, New Hampshire); Gregory R. Yantz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Seward (Arlington, Massachusetts); David Johnson (Edmonton, Canada); Jeffrey R. Krogmeier (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and systems for detecting and or analyzing an agent in a sample with a chip having optical components incorporated therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250179 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262889 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenyang Sun (Malden, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A holographic imaging system is disclosed that includes a spectral electromagnetic field unit for providing a plurality of focal areas of a plurality of wavelengths of electromagnetic fields along a first direction, a lens system for directing the electromagnetic fields having the plurality of wavelengths from an object that may be positioned at least substantially near the plurality of focal areas toward a holographic recording, and a detector surface for receiving electromagnetic fields from the holographic recording. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113544 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262902 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photonic Systems, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William K. Burns (Alexandria, Virginia); Joelle Prince (Ayer, Massachusetts); Edward Ackerman (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical resonant modulator includes an optical ring resonator and an optical loop that is coupled to the optical ring resonator by two couplers. The optical ring resonator can have a hybrid design in which the ring resonator is formed on an electro-optically passive material and the optical loop is formed on an electro-optically active material. An amplification section can be inserted between the electro-optically passive and the electro-optically active sections. In analog applications, an optical resonator includes a Mach Zehnder interferometer section having an input and an output, with a feedback path coupling the output to the input. Applications of the optical modulator of the invention, and a method for modulating an optical signal also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969616 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263028 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Thomas (Pensacola, Florida); Paul R. Van Dyke (Fort Myers, Florida); Bruce Guy (Pensacola, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides means of enhancing the acoustic attenuation and vibration damping of a material by (1) embedding a plurality of small particles of either a high characteristic acoustic impedance or a low characteristic acoustic impedance or combinations of high and low characteristic acoustic impedance materials to form a matrix material to act as a acoustic attenuator or vibration damper; and (2) combing this matrix material with a second layer of a decoupling material that serves to effectively isolate the matrix material and reduce its tendency to vibrate sympathetically to the impinging acoustic energy. The mass of the resultant material may be very low while retaining excellent acoustic attenuation, vibration damping, and structural characteristics. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956529 |
| 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 367/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263063 | Sastry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ambatipudi R. Sastry (Fremont, California); Richard G. Ogier (Half Moon Bay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are a system and method of providing quality of service assurances for transmitting packets over a channel capable of transmission at a nominal bandwidth. A plurality of classes is defined. Each class represents an aggregate behavior of packets and is allocated a nominal departure rate at which the packets of that class are transmitted when an available bandwidth of the channel is substantially at the nominal bandwidth. Each class is assured a minimum allocation of the available bandwidth for transmitting packets of that class if the available bandwidth of the channel is operating at less than the nominal bandwidth. The minimum allocations to each of the classes can be proportionally different than the nominal departure rates allocated to these classes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/900618 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263190 | Moritz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elan Moritz (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | To secure the confidentiality of data stored in data storage devices, a position determination system is mechanically coupled to the data storage devices and continuously determines a position thereof. A processor, provided with an authorized location for the data storage devices, facilitates transfer of data to and from the data storage devices. Specifically, when the position of the data storage devices matches the authorized location, the processor facilitates transfer of data from the data storage devices without any modification of the data. However, when the position of the data storage means does not match the authorized location, the processor inflates the data by dispersing it in a very large set of irrelevant data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828523 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263208 | Crosby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Crosby (Panama City, Florida); Suzanne Stetson (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for selecting a threshold for use in detecting anomalous objects, or targets, in images with a tractable false alarm rate. A method includes steps of identifying a number of peak values from a plurality of values; calculating an average peak value from the identified peak values derived in the previous step; and calculating the threshold according to the average peak value; the number of identified peak values; and a predetermined number of false alarms. In this manner, object classifications are accurate; the number of false alarms is reduced; and redundant classifications are minimized for each image. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637080 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263226 | Stein |
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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 W. Stein (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer program product for detecting anomalies from multidimensional data comprises: a) receiving multidimensional data; b) estimating background parameters of a normal compositional model from the multidimensional data; c) estimating abundance values of the normal compositional model from the background parameters and the multidimensional data; d) determining an anomaly detection statistic from the multidimensional data, the background parameters, and abundance values; and e) classifying an observation from the multidimensional data as either a background reference or an anomaly from the anomaly detection statistic. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645260 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/190 |
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| US 07263588 | Moritz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elan Moritz (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A data storage system has data storage devices dispersed over a geographic area such that any two of the data storage devices are separated by a distance measured in miles or kilometers. A processing system coupled to the data storage devices performs several functions that culminate in the generation of a data package for each data bit of a data file that is to be stored. Each such data package includes a value of the data bit, a bit storage location, identification of the data file with which the data bit is associated, and an ordered-position bit number associated with the data bit. The data processing system distributes data packages associated with a data file approximately evenly amongst the data storage devices for storage thereat. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847682 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/161 |
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| US 07263602 | Schmit |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herman Schmit (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of associating virtual stripes to physical stripes in a pipelined or ring structure comprises associating a first set of virtual stripes with at least two physical stripes and associating a second set of virtual stripes, disjoint from the first set, with at least two additional physical stripes. The present invention is also directed to a method of configuring a plurality of processing elements based on a less than global, but not purely local, association. The configuration method of the present invention may be implemented in a device arranged in stripes of processing elements. The method comprises configuring either of at least two physical stripes with a virtual stripe from a first set of virtual stripes and configuring either of at least two additional physical stripes with a virtual stripe from a second set of virtual stripes, said first and second virtual sets being disjoint. The present invention is also directed to a reconfigurable device comprising a controller, a memory device responsive to the controller, a plurality of processing elements arranged in stripes, a plurality of intra-stripe interconnections for connecting processing elements within a stripe, a plurality of local inter-stripe connections for connecting the output of one stripe to the input of one and only one other stripe, a plurality of global inter-stripe connections for connecting at least one but less than all of the physical stripes to the memory, and an input bus and an output bus, each connected to at least one physical stripe. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222645 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/227 |
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| US 07263718 | O'Brien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Secure Computing Corporation (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard O'Brien (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Raymond Lu (Shoreview, Minnesota); Terrence Mitchem (Andover, Minnesota); Spencer Minear (Fridley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An inventive security framework for supporting kernel-based hypervisors within a computer system. The security framework includes a security master, one or more security modules and a security manager, wherein the security master and security modules execute in kernel space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/726290 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/6 |
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| US 07261857 | Suslick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth S. Suslick (Champaign, Illinois); Neal A. Rakow (Champaign, Illinois); Avijit Sen (Urbana, Illinois); William B. McNamara, III (Urbana, Illinois); Margaret E. Kosal (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves an artificial nose having an array comprising at least a first dye and a second dye in combination and having a distinct spectral response to an analyte. In one embodiment, the first and second dyes are from the group comprising chemoresponsive dyes, and the second dye is distinct from the first dye. In one embodiment, the first dye is selected from the group consisting of porphyrin, chlorin, chlorophyll, phthalocyanine, and salen, or their metal complexes. In another embodiment, the second dye is selected from the group of dyes consisting of acid-base indicator dyes and solvatochromic dyes. The present invention is particularly useful in detecting metal ligating vapors. Further, the array of the present invention can be connected to a visual display device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/279788 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/55 |
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| US 07261875 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chun Li (Missouri City, Texas); Wayne Tansey (Houston, Texas); Chusilp Charnsangavej (Houston, Texas); Sidney Wallace (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns a design for dendritic poly(amino acid) polymer carriers, also known as nonlinear polymers, and their applications. These dendritic poly(amino acid) carriers have multiple functional groups at the polymer surface. In addition, they have heterofunctional groups on the poly(amino acid) side chains for drug or diagnostic agent attachment. They are designed to allow sufficient preservation of the binding affinity of the targeting ligand while conjugating therapeutic or diagnostic agents to the polymers. The present invention also describes methods of production of the polymer carriers and methods for the treatment or diagnosis of diseases employing the polymer carriers. The present invention also includes methods to introduce targeting moieties site-specifically to the end of polymer chains. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/327455 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
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| US 07261882 | Watkins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reagents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda May Rothblum Watkins (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating pain by delivery of anti-inflammatory cytokines, proinflammatory cytokine antagonists, and agents that act to reduce or prevent proinflammatory cytokine actions, to the nervous system are described. These agents can be delivered using gene therapy techniques. Alternatively, the agents can be delivered in protein compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742641 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
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| US 07261884 | Kappe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle, Washington); Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan H. I. Kappe (Seattle, Washington); Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski (Heidelberg, Germany); Ann-Kristin Mueller (Dossenheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513649 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07261885 | Falck-Pedersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik S. Falck-Pedersen (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Jason G. D. Gall (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an adenoviral vector comprising (a) at least a portion of an adenoviral genome comprising a major late transcription unit containing a terminal exon, wherein the terminal exon comprises a 5′ splice acceptor DNA sequence element and a 3′ polyadenylation signal sequence, and (b) a non-native nucleic acid sequence encoding a protein that does not contribute to the adenoviral vector entry into a host cell, wherein the non-native nucleic acid sequence is positioned within the terminal exon, such that the non-native nucleic acid sequence is selectively expressed in cells within which the adenoviral vector can replicate. The invention further provides an adenoviral vector composition and a method for treating or preventing a pathologic state in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammal the adenoviral vector composition of the invention in an amount sufficient to treat or prevent the pathologic state in the mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911957 |
| 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 424/93.200 |
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| US 07261896 | Hallenbeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Hallenbeck (Kensington, Maryland); Hidetaka Takeda (Rockville, Maryland); Maria Spatz (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for reducing stroke-related tissue damage by treating a mammal with E-selectin. Preferably, this treatment induces E-selectin tolerance in the mammal. Another aspect of the invention is a method for inducing E-selectin tolerance in a mammal through intranasal administration of E-selectin, preferably including booster administrations. The present methods are especially adapted for use in patients at increased risk of stroke or who may become at increased risk of stroke. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/296423 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07261900 | Leppla 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) | Stephen H. Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); Mary Jo Rosovitz (Germantown, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Rachel Schneerson (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to improved methods of producing and recovering sporulation-deficient B. anthracis mutant stains, and for producing and recovering recombinant B. anthracis protective antigen (PA), especially modified PA which is protease resistant, and to methods of using of these PAs or nucleic acids encoding these PAs for eliciting an immunogenic response in humans, including responses which provide protection against, or reduce the severity of, B. anthracis bacterial infections and which are useful to prevent and/or treat illnesses caused by B. anthracis, such as inhalation anthrax, cutaneous anthrax and gastrointestinal anthrax. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/638006 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/246.100 |
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| US 07261901 | Apicella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Apicella (Solon, Iowa); Jennifer L. Edwards (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides, polynucleotides and vaccines for use against Neisseria gonorrhoeae colonization or infection and/or Neisseria meningitidis colonization or infection. The vaccines contain an immunogenic amount of a neisserial protein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/665990 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/249.100 |
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| US 07262018 | Gelboin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry V. Gelboin (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Kristopher W. Krausz (Columbia, Maryland); Frank J. Gonzalez (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides monoclonal antibodies and other binding agents to human cytochrome P450 2C19 having advantageous properties, including capacity substantially to inhibit enzyme activity of human cytochrome P450 2C19 and lack of specific binding to other human cytochrome P450s. The binding agents of the invention are useful inter alia in methods for screening drugs for metabolism by cytochrome P450 2C19, and in methods of measuring P450 2C19 levels in individuals relative to P450 2C19 levels in a control population. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941285 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07262020 | Hellerstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc K. Hellerstein (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to techniques for measuring and comparing relative molecular flux rates of different biological molecules by administering isotope-labeled water to one or more tissues or individuals and comparing the molecular flux rates of two or more biological molecules, including biological molecules in different chemical classes. The methods find use in several applications including diagnosing, prognosing, or monitoring a disease, disorder, or condition, the in vivo high-throughput screening of chemical entities and biological factors for therapeutic effects in various disease models, and the in vivo high-throughput screening of chemical entities and biological factors for toxic effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872280 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
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| US 07262027 | Cole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Ohio (Toledo, Ohio); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); United States of America Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garry T. Cole (Toledo, Ohio); Jieh-Juen Yu (Toledo, Ohio); Jianmin Xue (Toledo, Ohio); Chiung-Yu Hung (Toledo, Ohio); Kalpathi R. Seshan (Toledo, Ohio); Theo N. Kirkland, III (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions of novel polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, which polypeptides are useful for generating an immunological response in an individual and in therapeutic application of Coccidioides spp. infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794287 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07262040 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093797 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07262049 | Marasco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A Marasco (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Sandra Ogueta (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A vector system that will produce a pseudotyped lentiviral vector that can be used to deliver a desired gene is disclosed. The vector constructs that are described include a number of modifications that enhance the safety of the vector. The vector can be used to more specifically target cells for expression of certain genes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/953344 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07262171 | Piljac et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Paradigm Biomedical, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatjana Piljac (Zagreb, Croatia); Goran Piljac (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various methods are provided, including wound healing with reduced fibrosis, treatment of burn shock, treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis, prevention and treatment of organ transplant rejection, treatment of depression and schizophrenia and treatment of the signs of aging, such as wrinkles, each of which uses administration of a composition containing one or more rhamnolipids as an active ingredient. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/644984 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 07262173 | Kasid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia); NeoPharm, Inc. (Waukegan, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usha Kasid (Rockville, Maryland); Prafulla Gokhale (Superior, Colorado); Jin Pei (Arlington, Virginia); Rajshree Mewani (Arlington, Virginia); Imran Ahmad (Wadsworth, Illinois); Anatoly Dritschilo (Bethesda, Maryland); Aquilur Rahman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the use of oligonucleotide containing cationic liposomal formulations to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, particularly as a means to sensitize cancerous tumor tissues to the efficiencies of chemotherapy. This is particularly advantageous in the context of treating raf expressing tumors such as breast, lung, pancreatic and prostate tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/075994 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07262213 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung K. Chu (Athens, Georgia); Yung-Chi Cheng (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | (−)-(2S,4S)-1-(2-Hydroxymethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)cytosine (also referred to as (−)-OddC) or its derivative and its use to treat cancer in animals, including humans. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/646980 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/396 |
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| US 07262269 | Lam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Derick H. Lau (Gold River, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a cell-growth-on-bead assay for screening a one-bead-one-compound combinatorial bead library to identify synthetic ligands for cell attachment and growth or proliferation of epithelial and non-epithelial cells. Cells are incubated with a compound bead library for 24 to 72-hours, allowing them to attach and grow on the beads. Those beads with cells growing are removed, and the ligand on the bead is identified. Also provided are ligands specific for cancer cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/682659 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/317 |
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| US 07262270 | Weissenhorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Winfried Weissenhorn (Grenoble, France); David Prashker, legal representative (Magnolia, Massachusetts); Nicholas Mantis (Williamstown, Massachusetts); Marian R. Neutra (Sherborn, Massachusetts); Pamela Kozlowski (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a fusion protein construct (gp41HA) consisting of the ectodomain of the HIV-1IIIB envelope glycoprotein gp41 fused to a fragment of the influenza virus HA2 hemagglutinin protein. Immunization in-vivo via an intraperitoneal prime followed by intranasal or intragastric boosts with gp41HA induces high concentrations of serum IgG antibodies and fecal IgA antibodies that reacted with gp41 in HIV-1IIIB viral lysate and are cross-reactive with gp41 in HIV-1MN lysate. Followup analyses by indirect immunofluorescence showed that both serum IgG and fecal IgA recognized human peripheral blood mononuclear cells infected with either syncytium-inducing (SI) or non-syncytium-inducing (NSI) North American HIV-1 field isolates, but not uninfected cells. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655667 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07262282 | Imperiali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Melissa D. Shults (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a sensor and methods for determining kinase activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/819587 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/409 |
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| US 07262288 | Cech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Cech (Boulder, Maryland); Joachim Lingner (Epalinges, Switzerland); Toru Nakamura (San Diego, California); Karen B. Chapman (Mill Valley, California); Gregg B. Morin (Oakville, Canada); Calvin B. Harley (Palo Alto, California); William H. Andrews (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. The polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are useful for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of human diseases, for changing the proliferative capacity of cells and organisms, and for identification and screening of compounds and treatments useful for treatment of diseases such as cancers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/721506 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07262290 | Berrettini |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade H. Berrettini (Haverford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A mammalian KIR 4.1 gene and gene products which are predictive of a susceptibility or predisposition to neurological disorders such as multiple epilepsy phenotypes are provided. Methods of predicting an individual's susceptibility in developing or having a neurological disorder via detection of these diagnostic markers are also provided. In addition, compositions and methods for identifying compositions for use in the treatment of neurological disorders via these genes and gene products are described. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344890 |
| 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 536/23.500 |
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| US 07262298 | Wentland |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Wentland (Menands, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | 4-Hydroxybenzomorphans containing carboxamide or thiocarboxamide at the 3-position are useful as analgesics, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266651 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262301 | O'Halloran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois); Masayasu Taki (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzoxazole fluorescent sensor compounds and related ratiometric imaging methods for zinc metal ion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519367 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263162 | Thorne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Thorne (Ithaca, New York); Zachary Stum (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin O'Neill (Rotterdam, Netherlands); Jan Kmetko (Sunbury, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample mounts (10) for mounting microcrystals of biological macromolecules for X-ray crystallography are prepared by using patterned thin polyimide films (12) that have curvature imparted thereto, for example, by being attached to a curved outer surface of a small metal rod (16). The patterned film (12) preferably includes a tapered tip end (24) for holding a crystal. Preferably, a small sample aperture is disposed in the film for reception of the crystal. A second, larger aperture can also be provided that is connected to the sample aperture by a drainage channel, allowing removal of excess liquid and easier manipulation in viscous solutions. The curvature imparted to the film (12) increases the film's rigidity and allows a convenient scoop-like action for retrieving crystals. The polyimide contributes minimally to background and absorption, and can be treated to obtain desired hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228455 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263467 | Sackellares et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Chris Sackellares (Gainesville, Florida); Leonidas D. Iasemidis (Scottsdale, Arizona); Deng-Shan Shiau (Gainesville, Florida); Linda Dance (Gainesville, Florida); Panos M. Pardalos (Gainesville, Florida); Wanpracha A. Chaovalitwongse (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Characterizing the behavior of a chaotic, multi-dimensional system is achieved by measuring each of a number of signals associated with the system, and generating therefrom, a spatio-temporal response based on each signal. Multiple dynamical profiles are then generated for each spatio-temporal response, where each of the multiple dynamical profiles correspond to a different one of multiple dynamical parameters. Over a period of time, a determination is made as to whether a certain level of dynamic entrainment and/or disentrainment exists between the dynamical profiles associated with a selected one or a selected combination of dynamical parameters. Seizure warnings and/or predictions are provided based on this determination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/673329 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07260935 | Colibaba-Evulet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei Colibaba-Evulet (Clifton Park, New York); Michael John Bowman (Niskayuna, New York); Simon Ralph Sanderson (Clifton Park, New York); Anthony John Dean (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A low emission turbine includes a reverse flow can-type combustor that generally includes a primary and secondary fuel delivery system that can be independently controlled to produce low CO, UHC, and NOx emissions at design set point and at conditions other than design set point. The reverse flow can-type combustor generally includes an annularly arranged array of swirler and mixer assemblies within the combustor, wherein each swirler and mixer in the array includes a primary and secondary fuel delivery system that can be independently controlled. Also disclosed herein is a can-type combustor that includes fluid passageways that perpendicularly impinge the outer surface of a heat shield. Processes for operating the can-type combustors are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/143266 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07260956 | Schabron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Susan S. Sorini-Wong (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one embodiment of the inventive technology relates to a frozen environmental sample temperature control system that comprises a frozen formulation having water in an amount from substantially 87% to 78% by weight of the formulation, and salt in an amount from substantially 13% to 22% by weight of the formulation, the system further including at least one container containing the frozen formulation; and a cooler having insulating material disposed between an outer wall and an inner surface that defines an inner chamber into which the at least one container and the at least one frozen environmental sample may be placed for storage and/or transport. Various embodiments may incorporate specific types of insulating material and/or adaptations to an inner surface of the cooler to enhance the insulation effected thereby. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167992 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261154 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus in a drill string comprises an internally upset drill pipe. The drill pipe comprises a first end, a second end, and an elongate tube intermediate the first and second ends. The elongate tube and the ends comprising a continuous an inside surface with a plurality of diameters. A conformable metal tube is disposed within the drill pipe intermediate the ends thereof and terminating adjacent to the ends of the drill pipe. The conformable metal tube substantially conforms to the continuous inside surface of the metal tube. The metal tube may comprise a non-uniform section which is expanded to conform to the inside surface of the drill pipe. The non-uniform section may comprise protrusions selected from the group consisting of convolutions, corrugations, flutes, and dimples. The non-uniform section extends generally longitudinally along the length of the tube. The metal tube may be adapted to stretch as the drill pipes stretch. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/710936 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/242.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261804 | Cooper |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for recovery of intact graphitic fibers from fiber/polymer composites is described. The method comprises first pyrolyzing the graphite fiber/polymer composite mixture and then separating the graphite fibers by molten salt electrochemical oxidation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676532 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/687 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261833 | Seabaugh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NexTech Materials, Ltd. (Lewis Center, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew M. Seabaugh (Columbus, Ohio); Scott L. Swartz (Columbus, Ohio); William J. Dawson (Dublin, Ohio); Buddy E. McCormick (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Aqueous coating slurries useful in depositing a dense coating of a ceramic electrolyte material (e.g., yttrium-stabilized zirconia) onto a porous substrate of a ceramic electrode material (e.g., lanthanum strontium manganite or nickel/zirconia) and processes for preparing an aqueous suspension of a ceramic electrolyte material and an aqueous spray coating slurry including a ceramic electrolyte material. The invention also includes processes for depositing an aqueous spray coating slurry including a ceramic electrolyte material onto pre-sintered, partially sintered, and unsintered ceramic substrates and products made by this process. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889234 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261871 | Iyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivekanantan S. Iyer (Delft, Netherlands); K. Peter C. Vollhardt (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A simple method for the production or synthesis of carbon nanotubes as free-standing films or nanotube mats by the thermal decomposition of transition metal complexed alkynes with aryl, alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl substituents. In particular, transition metal (e.g. Co, Ni, Fe, Mo) complexes of diarylacetylenes, e.g. diphenylacetylene, and solid mixtures of these complexes with suitable, additional carbon sources are heated in a vessel. More specifically, the heating of the transition metal complex is completed at a temperature between 400-800° C. and more particularly 550-700° C. for between 0.1 to 24 hours and more particularly 0.5-3 hours in a sealed vessel under a partial pressure of argon or helium. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/261366 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261940 | Klimov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jennifer A. Hollingsworth (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Scott A. Crooker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Hyungrak Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Multifunctional nanocomposites are provided including a core of either a magnetic material or an inorganic semiconductor, and, a shell of either a magnetic material or an inorganic semiconductor, wherein the core and the shell are of differing materials, such multifunctional nanocomposites having multifunctional properties including magnetic properties from the magnetic material and optical properties from the inorganic semiconductor material. Various applications of such multifunctional nanocomposites are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/004167 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262040 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093797 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262334 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lanny D. Schmidt (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jakob J. Krummenacher (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kevin N. West (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the production of a reaction product including a carbon containing compound. The process includes providing a film of a fuel source including at least one organic compound on a wall of a reactor, contacting the fuel source with a source of oxygen, forming a vaporized mixture of fuel and oxygen, and contacting the vaporized mixture of fuel and oxygen with a catalyst under conditions effective to produce a reaction product including a carbon containing compound. Preferred products include α-olefins and synthesis gas. A preferred catalyst is a supported metal catalyst, preferably including rhodium, platinum, and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620183 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/658 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262981 | Stevanovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ljubisa Dragoljub Stevanovic (Clifton Park, New York); Regan Andrew Zane (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique is provided for direct digital phase control of resonant inverters based on sensing of one or more parameters of the resonant inverter. The resonant inverter control system includes a switching circuit for applying power signals to the resonant inverter and a sensor for sensing one or more parameters of the resonant inverter. The one or more parameters are representative of a phase angle. The resonant inverter control system also includes a comparator for comparing the one or more parameters to a reference value and a digital controller for determining timing of the one or more parameters and for regulating operation of the switching circuit based upon the timing of the one or more parameters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/853695 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263246 | Duan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yixiang Duan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Weenqing Cao (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for the detection of oxygen using optical fiber based evanescent light absorption. Methylene blue was immobilized using a sol-gel process on a portion of the exterior surface of an optical fiber for which the cladding has been removed, thereby forming an optical oxygen sensor. When light is directed through the optical fiber, transmitted light intensity varies as a result of changes in the absorption of evanescent light by the methylene blue in response to the oxygen concentration to which the sensor is exposed. The sensor was found to have a linear response to oxygen concentration on a semi-logarithmic scale within the oxygen concentration range between 0.6% and 20.9%, a response time and a recovery time of about 3 s, ant to exhibit good reversibility and repeatability. An increase in temperature from 21° C. to 35° C. does not affect the net absorption of the sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357154 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP17946 | Abrahamson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence P. Abrahamson (Marcellus, New York); Richard F. Kopp (Marietta, New York); Lawrence B. Smart (Geneva, New York); Timothy A. Volk (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A distinct female cultivar of Salix viminalis×S. miyabeana named ‘Tully Champion’, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 25% more woody biomass than two current production clones (Salix dasyclados ‘SV1’ and Salix miyabeana ‘SX64’), more than 2.5-fold greater biomass than one of its parents (Salix miyabeana ‘SX67’), and nearly 3-fold more biomass than another production clone (Salix sacchalinensis, ‘SX61’) when grown in the same field for the same length of time (two growing seasons after coppice) in Tully, N.Y. ‘Tully Champion’ can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested repeatedly after two to four years of growth. ‘Tully Champion’ displays a low incidence of rust disease and is not damaged by potato leafhoppers. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244635 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07261353 | Storms |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AerospaceComputing, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce L. Storms (Arnold, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A drag-reduction concept for vehicles with open cavities includes dividing a cavity into smaller adjacent cavities through installation of one or more vertical dividers. The dividers may extend the full depth of the cavity or only partial depth. In either application, the top of the dividers are typically flush with the top of the bed or cargo bay of the vehicle. The dividers may be of any material, but are strong enough for both wind loads and forces encountered during cargo loading/unloading. For partial depth dividers, a structural angle may be desired to increase strength. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097052 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/24.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261521 | Yagoobi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamal Seyed Yagoobi (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrohydrodynamic conduction liquid pumping system includes a vessel configured to contain a liquid or a liquid/vapor therein. This vessel can be of a elongate conduit configuration, an elongate channel configuration or a liquid enclosure configuration. At least a single pair of electrodes are disposed in a spaced apart relation to each other on the vessel and configured to be oriented in the liquid. A power supply is coupled to the electrodes and operable to generate electric fields in between the pair of electrodes, the electric forces inducing a net liquid movement relative to the vessel. Various electrode designs are embraced within the concept of this invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/504996 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261783 | MacKay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rebecca A. MacKay (Strongsville, Ohio); Timothy P. Gabb (Independence, Ohio); James L Smialek (Strongsville, Ohio); Michael V. Nathal (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A nickel-base superalloy article for use in turbines has increased creep resistance and lower density. The superalloy article includes, as measured in % by weight, 6.0-12.0% Mo, 5.5-6.5% Al, 3.0-7.0% Ta, 0-15% Co, 2.0-6.0% Cr, 1.0-4.0% Re, 0-1.5% W, 0-1.5% Ru, 0-2.0%-Ti, 0-3.0% Nb, 0-0.2% Hf, 0-0.02% Y, 0.001-0.005% B, 0.01-0.04% C, and a remainder including nickel plus impurities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946286 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261860 | Vellinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Space Hardware Optimization Technology, Inc. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Vellinger (Floyds Knobs, Indiana); Rachel A. Ormsby (Edwards, California); David J. Kennedy (Greenville, Indiana); Nathan A. Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky); Leo A. Shulthise (Louisville, Kentucky); Michael A. Kurk (Georgetown, Indiana); George W. Metz (Sellersburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for centrifugation and robotic manipulation of specimen samples, including incubating eggs, and uses thereof are provided. The device may advantageously be used for the incubation of avian, reptilian or any type of vertebrate eggs. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for holding samples individually, rotating them individually, rotating them on a centrifuge collectively, injecting them individually with a fixative or other chemical reagent, and maintaining them at controlled temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric composition. The device is applicable to experiments involving entities other than eggs, such as invertebrate specimens, plants, microorganisms and molecular systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270977 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07261919 | Mehregany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLX Micro, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehran Mehregany (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Christian A. Zorman (Euclid, Ohio); Xiao-An Fu (Mayfield Village, Ohio); Jeremy L. Dunning (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing a ceramic film, particularly a silicon carbide film, on a substrate is disclosed in which the residual stress, residual stress gradient, and resistivity are controlled. Also disclosed are substrates having a deposited film with these controlled properties and devices, particularly MEMS and NEMS devices, having substrates with films having these properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/716006 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262047 | Venkateswaran |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kasthuri J. Venkateswaran (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to discovery and isolation of a biologically pure culture of a Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 isolate with UV sterilization resistant properties. This novel strain has been characterized on the basis of phenotypic traits, 16S rDNA sequence analysis and DNA-DNA hybridization. According to the results of these analyses, this strain belongs to the genus Bacillus. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rDNA sequence of the Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 isolate is AY167879. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124414 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262543 | Moses et al. |
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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) | Robert W. Moses (Seaford, Virginia); Christopher L. Fox, legal representative (Yorktown, Virginia); Melanie L. Fox, legal representative (Hayes, Virginia); Richard L. Chattin (Newport News, Virginia); Qamar A. Shams (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for monitoring performance capacity of a piezoelectric material that may form part of an actuator or sensor device. A switch is used to selectively electrically couple an inductor to the piezoelectric material to form an inductor-capacitor circuit. Resonance is induced in the inductor-capacitor circuit when the switch is operated to create the circuit. The resonance of the inductor-capacitor circuit is monitored with the frequency of the resonance being indicative of performance capacity of the device's piezoelectric material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943655 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/316.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263162 | Thorne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Thorne (Ithaca, New York); Zachary Stum (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin O'Neill (Rotterdam, Netherlands); Jan Kmetko (Sunbury, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample mounts (10) for mounting microcrystals of biological macromolecules for X-ray crystallography are prepared by using patterned thin polyimide films (12) that have curvature imparted thereto, for example, by being attached to a curved outer surface of a small metal rod (16). The patterned film (12) preferably includes a tapered tip end (24) for holding a crystal. Preferably, a small sample aperture is disposed in the film for reception of the crystal. A second, larger aperture can also be provided that is connected to the sample aperture by a drainage channel, allowing removal of excess liquid and easier manipulation in viscous solutions. The curvature imparted to the film (12) increases the film's rigidity and allows a convenient scoop-like action for retrieving crystals. The polyimide contributes minimally to background and absorption, and can be treated to obtain desired hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228455 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263510 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faith T. Chandler (Fairfax Station, Virginia); William D. Valentino (Oviedo, Florida); Monica F. Philippart (Orlando, Florida); Kristine M. Relvini (Oviedo, Florida); Colette I. Bessette (Chuluota, Florida); Nathanael P. Shedd (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for automatically performing Human Factors Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for a process are provided. At least one task involved in a process is identified, where the task includes at least one human activity. The human activity is described using at least one verb. A human error potentially resulting from the human activity is automatically identified, the human error is related to the verb used in describing the task. A likelihood of occurrence, detection, and correction of the human error is identified. The severity of the effect of the human error is identified. The likelihood of occurrence, and the severity of the risk of potential harm is identified. The risk of potential harm is compared with a risk threshold to identify the appropriateness of corrective measures. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825775 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07262046 | Ka-Yiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | San Ka-Yiu (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Henry Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing yields of succinate using aerobic culture methods and a multi-mutant E. coli strain are provided. Also provided is a mutant strain of E. coli that produces high amounts of succinic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/200385 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262075 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ankur Aggarwal (Smyrna, Georgia); Pulugurtha Markondeya Raj (Atlanta, Georgia); Rao R. Tummala (Stone Mountain, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-temperature process that combines high-aspect-ratio polymer structures with electroless copper plating to create laterally compliant MEMS structures. These structures can be used as IC-package interconnects that can lead to reliable, low-cost and high-performance nano wafer-level packaging. High-aspect-ratio low CTE polyimide structures with low stress, high toughness and strength were fabricated using plasma etching. The dry etching process was tuned to yield a wall angle above 80 degrees leading to an aspect ratio higher than 4. The etching process also leads to roughened sidewalls for selective electroless plating on the sidewalls of the polymer structures. These fabricated structures show reduction in the stresses at the interfaces and superior reliability as IC-package nano interconnects. Metal-coated polymer structures from MEMS fabrication techniques can provide low-cost high-performance solutions for wafer-level-packaging. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032301 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262163 | McLaughlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. McLaughlin (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Thomas S. Yokum (Greensboro, North Carolina); Frederick M. Enright (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Philip H. Elzer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | “Minimalist” antimicrobial peptides are disclosed based on 50 to 80% α,α-dialkylated amino acids. The peptides are short, cationic, amphipathic, and possess a high helix propensity. Polar α,α-dialkylated amino acids are also disclosed. These peptides are easy and inexpensive to synthesize via solid-phase techniques. The peptides exhibit in vitro anti-bacterial properties at concentrations that are not lethal to normal mammalian cells. The peptides exhibit in vivo bioactivity against intracellular pathogens. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414342 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262221 | Uhrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn E. Uhrich (Plainfield, New Jersey); Lu Tian (Morrisville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polymeric compounds that can form micelles in solutions. These compounds have a hydrophobic, core that is coupled to a plurality of hydrophilic moieties. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754900 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262301 | O'Halloran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois); Masayasu Taki (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzoxazole fluorescent sensor compounds and related ratiometric imaging methods for zinc metal ion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519367 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262408 | Asmussen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jes Asmussen (East Lansing, Michigan); Timothy Grotjohn (Okemos, Michigan); Ning Xi (Okemos, Michigan); Timothy P. Hogan (Grand Ledge, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and process for manufacturing changes of a substrate in a work region which is 100×100×100 microns or smaller is described. The apparatus uses a plasma source adjacent to the work region to produce radiation or matter which changes the surface. An atomic force microscope or laser can be used in addition. The process and apparatus can be used to produce MEMS devices on a substrate for use in a wide variety of applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452891 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07262010 | Schaad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman W. Schaad (Meyersville, Maryland); Phillip E. Gaush (Charles Town, West Virginia); Meric Ozakman (Kucuk Esat, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal agent of bacterial brown rot of potato, is often carried latently in seed potato tubers. Primers and a probe were designed for a real-time BIO-PCR assay technique for detecting potato tubers latently infected with R. Solanacearum. Using naturally infected potato tubers, as few as 20 cells/ml extract could be detected. Two of 14 naturally infected potato tubers with no disease symptoms were positive by the newly described real-time BIO-PCR (pre-enrichment on agar or in liquid medium) assay but not by direct real-time PCR. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283346 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07262046 | Ka-Yiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | San Ka-Yiu (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Henry Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing yields of succinate using aerobic culture methods and a multi-mutant E. coli strain are provided. Also provided is a mutant strain of E. coli that produces high amounts of succinic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/200385 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07262029 | Fisher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applera Corporation (Foster City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Virgil Fisher (El Granada, California); Paolo Vatta (San Mateo, California); Shaheer H. Khan (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel dye-labeled ribonucleotide analogs and methods for synthesizing those analogs. The compounds of the invention are especially useful for DNA sequencing by the polymerase chain reaction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006691 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263357 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, South Korea); The University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbett, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits security keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided security key. In another embodiment of the present invention, an authentication server transmits security keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs to which the STA is likely to move, so that when the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided security key. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752675 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/432.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07262027 | Cole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Ohio (Toledo, Ohio); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); United States of America Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garry T. Cole (Toledo, Ohio); Jieh-Juen Yu (Toledo, Ohio); Jianmin Xue (Toledo, Ohio); Chiung-Yu Hung (Toledo, Ohio); Kalpathi R. Seshan (Toledo, Ohio); Theo N. Kirkland, III (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions of novel polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, which polypeptides are useful for generating an immunological response in an individual and in therapeutic application of Coccidioides spp. infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794287 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263467 | Sackellares et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Chris Sackellares (Gainesville, Florida); Leonidas D. Iasemidis (Scottsdale, Arizona); Deng-Shan Shiau (Gainesville, Florida); Linda Dance (Gainesville, Florida); Panos M. Pardalos (Gainesville, Florida); Wanpracha A. Chaovalitwongse (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Characterizing the behavior of a chaotic, multi-dimensional system is achieved by measuring each of a number of signals associated with the system, and generating therefrom, a spatio-temporal response based on each signal. Multiple dynamical profiles are then generated for each spatio-temporal response, where each of the multiple dynamical profiles correspond to a different one of multiple dynamical parameters. Over a period of time, a determination is made as to whether a certain level of dynamic entrainment and/or disentrainment exists between the dynamical profiles associated with a selected one or a selected combination of dynamical parameters. Seizure warnings and/or predictions are provided based on this determination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/673329 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07263357 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, South Korea); The University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbett, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits security keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided security key. In another embodiment of the present invention, an authentication server transmits security keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs to which the STA is likely to move, so that when the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided security key. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752675 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/432.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263540 | Kuehnel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Kuehnel (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for and method of generating as many as K random bits by generating a first pseudo-random bit, generating a second pseudo-random bit, delaying the second pseudo-random bit a number of times, storing the delayed pseudo-random bits, and combining the first pseudo-random bit with each of the delayed second pseudo-random bits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794546 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07262859 | Larson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Genomics, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Larson (New Ipswich, New Hampshire); Gregory R. Yantz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Seward (Arlington, Massachusetts); David Johnson (Edmonton, Canada); Jeffrey R. Krogmeier (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and systems for detecting and or analyzing an agent in a sample with a chip having optical components incorporated therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250179 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07261860 | Vellinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Space Hardware Optimization Technology, Inc. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Vellinger (Floyds Knobs, Indiana); Rachel A. Ormsby (Edwards, California); David J. Kennedy (Greenville, Indiana); Nathan A. Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky); Leo A. Shulthise (Louisville, Kentucky); Michael A. Kurk (Georgetown, Indiana); George W. Metz (Sellersburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for centrifugation and robotic manipulation of specimen samples, including incubating eggs, and uses thereof are provided. The device may advantageously be used for the incubation of avian, reptilian or any type of vertebrate eggs. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for holding samples individually, rotating them individually, rotating them on a centrifuge collectively, injecting them individually with a fixative or other chemical reagent, and maintaining them at controlled temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric composition. The device is applicable to experiments involving entities other than eggs, such as invertebrate specimens, plants, microorganisms and molecular systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270977 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
07261028 — Ordnance system with common bus, method of operation and aerospace vehicle including same
| US 07261028 | Devries et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek Devries (Farr West, Utah); Bill Slade (Newark, Delaware); Bonnie Uresk (Brigham City, Utah); Scott R. Jamison (River Heights, Utah); Robert A. Rauscher (Moorestown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An ordnance system and method for controlling an ordnance system is provided. The system and method utilizes an addressable common, or shared, bus configured to transmit and receive data thereon. The addressable bus has further coupled thereto an ordnance controller including a control process and a telemetry process configured to control the addressable bus. The ordnance system further includes at least one initiator coupled to the addressable bus and responsive to the control process and at least one telemetry sensor coupled to the addressable bus and configured to interact with the telemetry process. The method provides control for the ordnance system by receiving telemetry data from a telemetry sensor over an addressable bus with an ordnance being further controlled by an ordnance controller over the addressable bus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/744930 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07262171 | Piljac et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Paradigm Biomedical, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatjana Piljac (Zagreb, Croatia); Goran Piljac (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various methods are provided, including wound healing with reduced fibrosis, treatment of burn shock, treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis, prevention and treatment of organ transplant rejection, treatment of depression and schizophrenia and treatment of the signs of aging, such as wrinkles, each of which uses administration of a composition containing one or more rhamnolipids as an active ingredient. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/644984 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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