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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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| US 07266939 | Woodall 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) | Robert Woodall (Panama City Beach, Florida); Felipe Garcia (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A moisture-absorbing material and method of making same are provided. Hollow fibrous tubes of cotton are sequentially dried, combed in a direction to substantially longitudinally align the hollow fibrous tubes of cotton, and stretched, twisted about and compressed in this direction. A powder material can be mixed with the hollow fibrous tubes of cotton. The powder material is inert with respect to the hollow fibrous tubes of cotton and initiates a chemical reaction that generates water when exposed to water. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768752 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Textiles: Spinning, twisting, and twining 057/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266986 | Shirley 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) | Fred D. Shirley (Clinton, Mississippi); Vincent P. Chiarito (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Stanley C. Woodson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Patrick Walter (Fort Worth, Texas); Stephen Weis (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic pressure testing or calibration system packaged as a portable unit for characterizing pressure sensors, such as transducers. Embodiments are packaged for carry on the body, are battery-operated, compatible with existing transducer mounts, and quickly learned and easily used by a single operator. The system supplies a pre-specified impulse (pressure pulse) of fluid, preferably a benign gas, such as air, or an inert gas such as helium or nitrogen. In select embodiments, the gas pulse has a fast rise time and its amplitude may be varied over a pre-specified dynamic range. For example, the rise time may emulate that of an impulse created during an explosion by a resultant pressure wave, i.e., less than 100 microseconds. Embodiments also incorporate a data acquisition capability that accurately captures and records both the supplied impulse and the response of the sensor under test. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991219 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.570 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266988 | Kranz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morgan Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Kranz (Madison, Alabama); Arthur A. Jenkins (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The Resettable Latching MEMS Shock Sensor provides the capability of recording external shock extremes without consuming electrical power. The device incorporates a shock sensitive suspended proof mass, spring-loaded contacts, latches, and actuators for device reset. The device can be designed, hardwired, or programmed to trigger at various shock levels. The device can be fabricated in a simple micromachining process that allows its size to be miniaturized for embedded and portable applications. During operation, the device consumes no quiescent power. The device can be configured to close a circuit, switch an interrupt signal, or switch some other electrical trigger signal between devices at the time of a shock extreme being reached, or it can be configured to latch and be polled at some time after the shock limit has occurred. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201485 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/12.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267005 | Kranz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Kranz (Madison, Alabama); Sherrie Burgett Holt (Grant, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A SOI-MEMS gyroscope has a three fold symmetrical construction such that is symmetrical in the x direction, the y direction and diagonally. The gyroscope is suspended above a silicon substrate by lateral flexures that are located at the corners of the proof mass and by central flexures that are positioned at the center regions of the proof mass. The proof mass, lateral flexures, and central flexures are formed of a silicon composition with the flexures supporting the proof mass such that the proof mass will not touch the underlying base silicon substrate even when subjected to extreme G forces. Comb finger actuators apply an electrostatic force to the proof mass in the x direction; and, when experiencing an external rotational rate around the z-axis, the Coriolis force acts along the y direction and the resulting deflection is sensed by a pair of comb-finger capacitors connected as a differential capacitive voltage divider. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070510 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267654 | Matula et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Matula (Kirkland, Washington); Paul Hilmo (Seattle, Washington); Michael Bailey (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflector (14) reflects energy emitting from an energy source (16) and focuses and directs it to a target. An aperture stop or suppressor disk (18) is positioned between the energy source (16) and target. The outer periphery of the aperture stop or suppressor disk (18) is an irregular curve (FIGS. 12 and 13). This shape of the periphery prevents diffraction enhancement to the direct wave. In another emobidment, the suppressor disk (18) is replaced by a suppressor member (18′) that is directly mounted on a frame portion of the energy source (16). This energy source (16) includes a spark-gap, or the like, and an open frame (36) that surrounds the spark-gap (52) or the like. This frame (32) includes a pair of laterally spaced apart frame members (42, 44) on the side of the frame (36) that faces the target (F2). The suppressor member (18′) is connected to these frame members (32, 44). It may have longitudinal grooves (48, 50) in its side edges into which the frame members (42, 44) snap-fit. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387975 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267779 | Arana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonel R. Arana (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aleksander J. Franz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Samuel B. Schaevitz (San Rafael, California); Martin A. Schmidt (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromachined device for efficient thermal processing at least one fluid stream includes at least one fluid conducting tube having at least a region with wall thickness of less than 50 μm. The device optionally includes one or more thermally conductive structures in thermal communication with first and second thermally insulating portions of the fluid conducting tube. The device also may include a thermally conductive region, and at least a portion of the fluid conducting tube is disposed within the region. A plurality of structures may be provided projecting from a wall of the fluid conducting tube into an inner volume of the tube. The structures enhance thermal conduction between a fluid within the tube and a wall of the tube. A method for fabricating, from a substrate, a micromachined device for processing a fluid stream allows the selective removal of portions of the substrate to provide desired structures integrated within the device. As an example, the micromachined device may be adapted to efficiently react fluid reactants to produce fuel for a fuel cell associated with the device, resulting in a system capable of conversion of chemical to electrical energy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183719 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267797 | Craighead et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Jun Kameoka (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting changes in the refractive index of a fluid in a small test volume. A change in the refractive index can indicate a change in the chemical composition of the fluid. The test volume has a depth comparable to or less than the wavelength of incident light. In one embodiment, an internal surface of the volume is coated with a binding partner selected to bind with a targeted molecule. When the targeted molecule binds to the binding partner, the optical properties of the system change. The refractive index is determined by illuminating the test volume with laser light and measuring transmitted or reflected light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/010939 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267823 | Hart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Katherine Hart (Frederick, Maryland); Julie Ann Wilson (Birmingham, Alabama); Gene Garrard Olinger, Jr. (Frederick, Maryland); Michael Adam Bailey (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Using CTL epitopes to the Ebola GP, NP, VP24, VP30, VP35 and VP40 virion proteins, a method and composition for use in inducing an immune response which is protective against infection with Ebola virus is described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384976 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267859 | Rabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oded Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paul R. Herz (San Diego, California); Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Arlington, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Yu-Ming Lin (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed invention provides for the fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) films on a wide variety of substrates. The substrate comprises a wafer layer and may further include an adhesion layer deposited on the wafer layer. An anodic alumina template is formed on the substrate. When a rigid substrate such as Si is used, the resulting anodic alumina film is more tractable, easily grown on extensive areas in a uniform manner, and manipulated without danger of cracking. The substrate can be manipulated to obtain free-standing alumina templates of high optical quality and substantially flat surfaces PAA films can also be grown this way on patterned and non-planar surfaces. Furthermore, under certain conditions the resulting PAA is missing the barrier layer (partially or completely) and the bottom of the pores can be readily accessed electrically. The resultant film can be used as a template for forming an array of nanowires wherein the nanowires are deposited electrochemically into the pores of the template. By patterning the electrically conducting adhesion layer, pores in different areas of the template can be addressed independently, and can be filled electrochemically by different materials. Single-stage and multi-stage nanowire-based thermoelectric devices, consisting of both n-type and p-type nanowires, can be assembled on a silicon substrate by this method. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/303653 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267943 | O'Connell 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) | Kevin P. O'Connell (Abingdon, Maryland); Akbar S. Khan (Joppa, Massachusetts); Cheng J. Cao (Glen Army, Maryland); Jennifer R. Bucher (Joppa, Maryland); Mark V. Gostomski (Bel Air, Maryland); James J. Valdes (Churchville, Maryland); Patricia E. Anderson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and assays for detecting bacteriophage MS2 in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009852 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267978 | Carey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Carey (Sherman Oaks, California); Arie S. Belldegrun (Los Angeles, California); Lilly Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for achieving successful treatment of disorders of the human prostate. In preferred embodiments, methods and compositions are provided that improve the specificity and safety of gene delivery vectors, and improve the prostate-specificity and activity of genetic constructs targeted for prostate-specific expression. Also disclosed are methods utilizing a variety of therapeutic genes, including those encoding tumor-specific therapeutics, e.g., TRAIL, tumor suppressors, cytotoxins, and the like, for the treatment of proliferative disorders of the prostate, and in particular, prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer and prostatic tumors. In preferred embodiments genetic constructs are disclosed comprising one or more prostate-specific chimeric enhancer elements in combination with one or more wildtype core enhancer elements and a prostate-specific proximal promoter that increase expression of selected heterologous genes operably positioned under their control. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/110681 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268004 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Lee (Meridian, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An active matrix display that does not require a transistor or similar current switching device at each pixel. Instead, the display employs in each pixel a temperature-controlled current source that provides to the field emitters of the pixel an amount of electrical current which varies in response to the temperature of a temperature sensor. Each pixel further includes a thermoelectric heat transfer circuit which transfers heat to or from the sensor in an amount which varies in response to the video signal. Consequently, the video signal controls the temperature of the sensor within a pixel's temperature-controlled current source, which controls the current flow through the pixel's field emitters. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342406 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268099 | de Rochemont |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Pierre de Rochemont (Dover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In the present invention, a superconducting (sc) ceramic filament is enclosed in a silver sheath which is sealed therearound by applying silver powder between the surfaces of said sheath, pressing the surfaces and powder into contact and then applying sufficient heat to fuse them together, which heat is below the melting point of the surfaces and powder and then sintering the so enclosed ceramic filament, which upon cooling, forms a superconductor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/337686 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/704 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268155 | Hasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tayyaba Hasan (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael R. Hamblin (Revere, Massachusetts); Nikos Soukos (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Conjugate molecules which include photosensitizer compositions conjugated to non-antibody non-affinity pair targeting moieties and methods of making and using such conjugates are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143593 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268188 | Jen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Larry R. Dalton (Silverdale, Washington); Jingdong Luo (Seattle, Washington); Marnie A. Haller (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A crosslinkable second-order nonlinear optical polymer having one or more polarizable chromophore moieties, one or more diene moieties, and one or more dienophile or dienophile precursor moieties, wherein the diene and dienophile moieties are reactive to form 4+2 cycloaddition products; a crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polymer having aligned, polarizable chromophore moieties and one or more 4+2 cycloaddition moieties, wherein the 4+2 cycloaddition moieties are reversibly, thermally reactive to provide diene moieties and dienophile moieties; lattices and devices that include the crosslinkable second-order nonlinear optical polymer; lattices and devices that include the crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polymer; and methods for making the crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566617 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268193 | Marrocco, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi Polymer Technologies, Inc. (Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew L. Marrocco, III (Fontana, California); Mark S. Trimmer (Monrovia, California); Ying Wang (Diamond Bar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Branched polyarylene polymers are provided comprising monovalent endcappers, divalent linear units, and polyvalent branching units. The composition of the polymers is controlled by adjusting the ratio of the three types of monomers. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073043 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268358 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Ming Ma (Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania); Eugene S. Fourkal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of optimizing a laser-accelerated proton radiation dose to a targeted region are disclosed. Disclosed methods include providing a plurality of modulated polyenergetic proton beamlets and irradiating the targeted region with the plurality of modulated beamlets. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445850 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268481 | Raina |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanwal K. Raina (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a conductive aluminum film and method of forming the same, wherein a non-conductive impurity is incorporated into the aluminum film. In one embodiment, the introduction of nitrogen creates an aluminum nitride subphase which pins down hillocks in the aluminum film to maintain a substantially smooth surface. The film remains substantially hillock-free even after subsequent thermal processing. The aluminum nitride subphase causes only a nominal increase in resistivity (resistivities remain below about 12 μΩ-cm), thereby making the film suitable as an electrically conductive layer for integrated circuit or display devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931516 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268482 | Hofmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Hofmann (Boise, Idaho); John K. Lee (Meridian, Idaho); David A. Cathey (Boise, Idaho); Glen E. Hush (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for stabilizing the threshold voltage in an active matrix field emission device is disclosed. The apparatus includes the formation of radiation-blocking elements between a cathodoluminescent display screen of the FED and semiconductor junctions formed on a baseplate of the FED. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330046 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268542 | Wellstood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick C. Wellstood (Fairfax, Virginia); Su-Young Lee (Berlin, Germany); John Matthews (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning SQUID microscope is set forth to provide improved output imaging. The SQUID microscope includes a vertically adjustable housing adapted to securely retain a SQUID loop or sensor. A scanning stage of the SQUID microscope is adapted to support a sample while moving the sample along a predetermined path to selectively position predetermined portions of the sample in close proximity to the SQUID loop or sensor to permit the loop or sensor to detect predetermined magnetic field information provided by the predetermined portions of the sample. A position control processor coupled to the scanning stage is operative to receive and process the predetermined magnetic field information to provide corresponding position noise information. Criteria are also presented for determining the expected level of position noise under given experimental conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/081361 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268607 | Brady, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Brady, III (Richardson, Texas); Stephen D. Gaalema (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrating capacitor circuit for an integrating amplifier and related methods are disclosed that allow for efficient detection of currents or charges, particularly those produced by pixel cells in a detector image array. By placing a capacitor-connected field-effect-transistor (FET) in parallel with an integration capacitor and setting its gate voltage to a selected voltage level, the current or charge from the detector depletes the charge on the gate of the FET capacitor while integrating on the capacitor. In addition, the gate voltage level can be adjusted to modify the current depleting characteristics of the capacitor-connected FET. The resulting operation of this integrating circuitry provides significant resulting advantages for the integrating amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140846 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268723 | Sanyal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Probal K. Sanyal (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining a position of a target within an acceptable tolerance using an iterative approach. A airborne or space-based measuring device is used to measure an estimated position of the target. The information from the measuring device is used in conjunction with either live captured or stored topography, or the like, information relating to the surface of the planet proximate the target to iteratively determine the actual position of the target. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133332 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268863 | Payton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Michael Payton (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A CW lightwave modulated by a continuously reiterated autocorrelated spectrum-spreading signal is launched into an end of a span of ordinary optical fiber cable. Portions of this lightwave back propagate to the launch end from a continuum of span locations because of innate fiber properties including Rayleigh effects. This is picked off the launch end and heterodyned producing an r.f. beat signal. The beat signal is processed by a plurality (can be thousands) of multifunction despreader, autocorrelator and de-multiplexer units respectively operated in different time delayed relationships to the timing base of launch signal reiteration. This provides r.f. time-domain reflectometry outputs representative of acoustic, or other signals incident upon virtual sensors at positions along the fiber corresponding to the various delay relationships. Material attenuation of undesired noises (e.g., reflections due to presence of couplers in the fiber cable line) is effected by the spectrum spreading and de-spreading. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056632 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100 |
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| US 07268930 | Padilla 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) | Rudy S. Padilla (San Diego, California); Michael G. Lovern (Chula Vista, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (Kapolei, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical modulator used for optically modulating electromagnetic energy. The optical modulator comprises a substrate and three substantially planar reflectors arranged substantially mutually orthogonal to each other. The planar reflectors comprise a base reflector disposed substantially in the plane of the substrate and first and second side reflectors operably coupled to the base reflector. The optical modulator further comprises a pair of electrically conductive traces operably connected to the base reflector, an electrically conductive pad operably connected to each of the conductive traces, at least one material layer deposited on the base reflector by which its reflection properties may be altered or modulated with an applied voltage, and a biasing source operably coupled to said conductive pads for providing a modulated voltage to the base reflector. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758721 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
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| US 07268937 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoff P. Andersen (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Randy Reibel (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A holographic wavefront sensor inclusive of a multiplexed hologram that can reconstruct one or more diffracted beams from a single object or input beam onto a distant image plane. The position of the reconstructed beams on the distant image plane indicates the relative amounts of different aberrations present in the input beam. Optical and computer realization of the employed hologram are accomplished along with sensor configurations in simple and more complex uses. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/138727 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/359 |
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| US 07269039 | Cheng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Township, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis Cheng (Ontario, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes an active rectifier (14) having control gates controllable to produce an output voltage on a DC bus (20), a gate control circuit (16) for producing gate control signals for controlling the active rectifier control gates, a first circuit (18) connected to the gate control circuit (16) for producing a command current magnitude signal and a power factor signal for use by the gate control circuit (16), a current line (30) providing a signal related to the DC load current to the first circuit (18), and a voltage line (32) providing a signal related to the DC bus voltage to the first circuit (18). The first circuit (18) includes a command current magnitude signal generator (34) producing the command current signal based on the DC load current and a power factor controller (44, 48) producing the power factor signal. The power factor controller (44, 48) includes a feed forward circuit (52, 56) for increasing the power factor signal in response to current fluctuations on the current line (30). Also a method of controlling a voltage on a DC bus with the device. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206734 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269097 | Steinbrecher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method of use for recovering data from an area. The data are gathered with at least one sensor converting the data to a digital packet. The packet is processed as encoded data and the encoded data is stored as a data frame. A reader transmits a signal to a plurality of the sensors and replicates the signal. Each sensor produces a reflected signal in response to the transmit signal and assigns a modulation frequency to the reflected signal. The reader receives the reflected signal. The reader separates frequency components of the reflected signal into upper and lower sidebands and separates the sidebands into data channels. The reader outputs the encoded data by processing the data channels. The reader decodes the encoded data to retrieve the data packet and the environmental data. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363302 |
| 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 367/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269222 | Borgen 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) | Gary Steward Borgen (Camarillo, California); David Escobar Marron (Oxnard, California); Christian Lauritz Houlberg (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A PCM encoder which receives asynchronous serial data and incorporating the serial data and eight channels of analog data into a PCM data stream. The encoder includes a microprocessor which processes the serial data provided in eight bit digital words and the analog data which the microprocessor converts to twelve bit digital words. The encoder also has a programmable gate array which receives six bits of data during each transfer of data from the microprocessor to the gate array. The gate array for the PCM encoder also receives a Frame Sync, and then processes the data to provide a data stream containing NRZL data and Bi Phase data. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914778 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269266 | Anjanappa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayur Technologies (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muniswamappa Anjanappa (Ellicott City, Maryland); Xia Chen (Catonsville, Maryland); Russell E. Bogacki (Richmond, Virginia); Abdo J. Babik (Bumpass, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A tooth microphone apparatus worn in a human mouth that includes a sound transducer element in contact with at least one tooth in mouth, the transducer producing an electrical signal in response to speech and a means for transmitting said electrical signal from the sound transducer to an external apparatus. The sound transducer can be a MEMS accelerometer, and the MEMS accelerometer can be coupled to a signal conditioning circuit for signal conditioning. The signal conditioning circuit can be further coupled to a transmitter. The transmitter can be an RF transmitter of any type, an optical transmitter, or any other type of transmitter. In particular, it can be a bluetooth device or a device that transmits into a Wi-Fi network or any other means of communication. The transmitter is optional. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/745226 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269312 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willie Ng (Agoura Hills, California); Andrew Walston (Toledo, Ohio); Robert R. Hayes (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An architecture that enables one to realize a FIR transversal filter with apodized, interlaced bipolar tap coefficients (an). The tap coefficients, an, are varied via the control of the optical powers emitted by an array of WDM laser sources. Also, a filter architecture where tap coefficients can be agilely reconfigured in both polarity and magnitude. One chirped fiber-grating may be used to implement a series of wavelength-dependent tap-weights. The filter designs can be utilized to eliminate the low-pass response centered at DC, allowing one to place the center frequency (fc)1 of the first passband at a targeted intermediate frequency (IF). |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701109 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269323 | Rodgers 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) | John Scott Rodgers (San Diego, California); Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI (NC#98374). The structure includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer and a 3D photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the substrate. The apparatus has a funnel waveguide configuration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/526890 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269354 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Silverman (Bensalem, Pennsylvania); Thomas W. Karras (Berwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic RF signal receiver utilizes a first RF to photonic modulator for receiving an optical carrier signal and an electrical signal from a local oscillator and producing an optical carrier signal with first optical sidebands offset from the carrier signal by the local oscillator frequency. A second RF to photonic modulator receives an electrical RF signal and the signals from the first modulator and produces second sidebands to each of the first optical sidebands from the first modulator with each of the second sidebands being offset from the first sidebands by the RF signal frequency. A detector then receives signals produced by the second modulator and produces an electrical IF signal for further processing. The receiver does not utilize a frequency translation device in the RF signal path and thereby eliminates RF loss, noise, and limited dynamic range characteristic of prior art electro-optical receivers. The two modulators can be biased for optimum linearity and for optimum rejection of in-band spurious signal products. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383955 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269411 | Corman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Corman (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Thomas S. Herm (Frontenac, Missouri); Steven A. Dorris (Ofallon, Missouri); Eric J. Martens (Crestwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a first data processing system access to a network via a second data processing system. An object is sent to the second data processing system, which object when instantiated on the second data processing system implements a network access program that can subscribe to information from the network and publish information to the network. Subscribed to information is received from the second data processing system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/869334 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/414.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269538 | O'Brien, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for characterizing sparse data as either signal or noise. In one embodiment, a two-dimensional area which contains a distribution of data points of the sparse data from a selected time period is divided into equal size cells wherein each cell has an expectation of containing at least one data sample. Based on the expected proportion of a plurality cells which will be nonempty in a random distribution, a Poisson distribution or a Binomial distribution is utilized to determine a data sample mean. A probability of a false signal is determined from the number of cells utilized. A probability is also computed from the sample mean and compared to the probability of a false signal to determine whether to characterize the sparse data as signal or noise. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863839 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269598 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An extension of an inverse inference search engine is disclosed which provides cross language document retrieval, in which the information matrix used as input to the inverse inference engine is organized into rows of blocks corresponding to languages within a predetermined set of natural languages. The information matrix is further organized into two column-wise partitions. The first partition consists of blocks of entries representing fully translated documents, while the second partition is a matrix of blocks of entries representing documents for which translations are not available in all of the predetermined languages. Further in the second partition, entries in blocks outside the main diagonal of blocks are zero. Another disclosed extension to the inverse inference retrieval document retrieval system supports automatic, knowledge based training. This approach applies the idea of using a training set to the problem of searching databases where information that is diluted or not reliable enough to allow the creation of robust semantic links. To address this situation, the disclosed system loads the left-hand partition of the input matrix for the inverse inference engine with information from reliable sources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855786 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269657 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason A. Alexander (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Wayne A. Kraus (Marion, Iowa); Sally C. Thurman (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing quality of service (QoS) service over a mobile IP network with dynamic domains, multiple or distributed QoS managers per domain and/or with network congestion feedback being used to establish an estimated total domain bandwidth which is used for regulating access to a domain. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143236 |
| ART UNIT | 2143 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Matula (Kirkland, Washington); Paul Hilmo (Seattle, Washington); Michael Bailey (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflector (14) reflects energy emitting from an energy source (16) and focuses and directs it to a target. An aperture stop or suppressor disk (18) is positioned between the energy source (16) and target. The outer periphery of the aperture stop or suppressor disk (18) is an irregular curve (FIGS. 12 and 13). This shape of the periphery prevents diffraction enhancement to the direct wave. In another emobidment, the suppressor disk (18) is replaced by a suppressor member (18′) that is directly mounted on a frame portion of the energy source (16). This energy source (16) includes a spark-gap, or the like, and an open frame (36) that surrounds the spark-gap (52) or the like. This frame (32) includes a pair of laterally spaced apart frame members (42, 44) on the side of the frame (36) that faces the target (F2). The suppressor member (18′) is connected to these frame members (32, 44). It may have longitudinal grooves (48, 50) in its side edges into which the frame members (42, 44) snap-fit. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387975 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267752 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. King (Rochester, New York); Oleg Lomakin (Pittsford, New York); Thomas B. Jones (Rochester, New York); Rajib Ahmed (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Rapid, size-based, deposition of particles from liquid suspension is accomplished using a nonuniform electric field created by coplanar microelectrode strips patterned on an insulating substrate. The scheme uses the dielectrophoretic force both to distribute aqueous liquid containing particles and, simultaneously, to separate the particles. Size-based separation is found within nanoliter droplets formed along the structure after voltage removal. Bioparticles or macromolecules of similar size can also be separated based on subtle differences in dielectric property, by controlling the frequency of the AC current supplied to the electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/189123 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267824 | Yamamoto |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet K. Yamamoto (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to novel methods and compositions for protecting cats from infection by a broad range of FIV strains using a multi-subtype FIV vaccine. Multi-subtype FIV vaccines comprising either cell free whole virus or cell lines infected with viruses are described. Methods for vaccinating cats with the subject vaccine compositions are also described. Cats vaccinated according to the methods and compositions of the subject invention exhibit protective humoral and cellular immune responses to FIV when challenged with homologous or heterologous strains of FIV. The subject invention also pertains to novel feline cell lines that are susceptible to infection by FIV and their methods of use. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408701 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/207.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267937 | Merali |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salim Merali (Queens, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Significantly low circulating S-adenosylmethionine levels were found to be diagnostic for human Pneumocystis carinii infection, and rise in levels towards normal correlated with successful treatment. Diagnosis of P. carinii injection and monitoring of progress of treatment based thereon are described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/477980 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267938 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janelle R. Anderson (Toronto, Canada); Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Noo Li Jeon (Irvine, California); Sui Huang (Boston, Massachusetts); Ravindra Kane (Troy, New York); Insung S. Choi (Yuseong-gu, South Korea); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes improved microfluidic systems and procedures for fabricating improved microfluidic systems, which contain one or more levels of microfluidic channels. The methods for fabrication the systems disclosed can provide a convenient route to topologically complex and improved microfluidic systems. The microfluidic systems can include three-dimensionally arrayed networks of fluid flow paths therein including channels that cross over or under other channels of the network without physical intersection at the points of cross over. The microfluidic networks can be fabricated via replica molding processes utilizing mold masters including surfaces having topological features formed by photolithography. The present invention also involves microfluidic systems and methods for fabricating complex patterns of materials, such as biological materials and cells, on surfaces utilizing the microfluidic systems. Specifically, the invention provides microfluidic surface patterning systems and methods for fabricating complex, discontinuous patterns on surfaces that can incorporate or deposit multiple materials onto the surfaces. The present invention also provides improved microfluidic stamps or applicators for microcontact surface patterning, which are able to pattern onto a surface arbitrary two-dimensional patterns, and which are able to pattern multiple substances onto a surface without the need for multiple steps of registration or stamping during patterning and without the need to selectively “ink” different regions of the stamp with different materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654587 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267941 | Snell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as represented by The Secretary of The Department of Health and Human Services, The National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia); Nektar Therapeutics AL (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Elizabeth Snell (Ardmore, Alabama); Michael J. Roberts (Williamsburg, Virginia); Toshiyuki Mori (Germantown, Maryland); Barry R. O'Keefe (Frederick, Maryland); Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides variants of cyanovirin-N and water-soluble polymer conjugates thereof. The cyanovirin-N of the invention are particularly suited for site-selective covalent attachment of one or more water soluble polymers, to provide polymer conjugates of cyanovirin-N variants exhibiting antiviral activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742465 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267946 | Runge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marschall S. Runge (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Bennett VanHouten (Durham, North Carolina); Scott W. Ballinger (Santa Fe, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention demonstrates that mitochondrial DNA damage occurs prior to, or simultaneous with, atherosclerotic lesion development, that aortic mitochondrial DNA damage increases with age, and that genotype and diet both influence the level of mitochondrial DNA damage. Hence, the present invention demonstrates that mitochondrial DNA damage occurs early in atherosclerosis, and may be an initiating event in atherogenesis, and provides methods to predict coronary atherosclerotic heart disease based upon the amount of mitochondrial DNA damage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/832069 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267947 | Pinkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to DNA sequences from regions of copy number change on chromosome 20. The sequences can be used in hybridization methods for the identification of chromosomal abnormalities associated with various diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198805 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07267951 | Alani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rhoda M. Alani (Baltimore, Maryland); Alison Z. Young (Baltimore, Maryland); Klaus J. Busam (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A tissue or biopsy sample is evaluated to determine if the sample is early-stage melanoma by determining the level of inhibitor of DNA-binding protein 1 (Id1) expression in cells of the sample; and comparing the determined amount of Id1 to a reference level. The presence of levels of Id1 in cells of the sample in excess of the reference level indicates that the sample is early-stage melanoma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453351 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07267954 | Burmeister |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margit Burmeister (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to ataxia, in particular to protein and nucleic acids encoding proteins associated with ataxia. The present invention provides assays for the detection of ataxia polymorphisms and mutations associated with disease or disease carrier states. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/699941 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267955 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Suzanne Baker (Nutley, New Jersey); Eric R. Fearon (Guilford, Connecticut); Janice M. Nigro (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for restoring wild-type p53 gene function to a cell. Such methods include gene therapy. Typically, this will stop tumor cells from proliferating. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956348 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267973 | Backer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SibTech, Inc. (Newington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marina V. Backer (W. Simsbury, Connecticut); Joseph M. Backer (W. Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an isolated nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein comprising (1) the A subunit of Shiga-like bacterial toxin, or a truncated or mutated version thereof; and (2) human vascular endothelial growth factor, or a truncated or mutated version thereof; wherein the fusion protein possesses ribosome inactivating activity and ability to bind to cellular VEGF receptors. The present invention is also directed to polypeptides the above combination of toxin and growth factor, as well as expression vectors and transformed cells incorporating the above nucleic acid. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating patients suffering from diseases relating to angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/765580 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267977 | Papadopoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vassilios Papadopoulos (North Potomac, Maryland); Martine Culty (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The expression and subcellular localization of peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptors (PBR) is shown in this application to correlate with the metastatic potential of cells, and increased cell proliferation. Inhibition of PBR expression, function or stability results in a decrease in cell proliferation. Compositions and methods for regulating and/or monitoring PBR and its expression are useful for the detection, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of solid tumors, in particular, breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/047652 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267993 | Pentrenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery A. Pentrenko (Auburn, Alabama); Vitaly J. Vodyanoy (Auburn, Alabama); Alexandre M. Samoylov (Auburn, Alabama); Iryna Sorokulova (Auburn, Alabama); Viswaprakash Nanduri (Auburn, Alabama); Bryan A. Chin (Auburn, Alabama); James M. Barbaree (Dadeville, Alabama); W. Charles Neely (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for identifying and characterizing one or more ligands of a peptide are provided. In particular, the invention provides a phage ligand sensor device (PLSD) comprising a sensor coupled to a binding element of interest. Binding elements of interest comprise phage displaying at least one foreign peptide. The PLSD and assays find particular use in identifying and characterizing ligand-peptide interactions. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/289725 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
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| US 07267994 | Meares et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claude F. Meares (Davis, California); Carlito B. Lebrilla (Davis, California); Nathaniel G. Butlin (Davis, California); Sarah M. Cheal (Davis, California); Todd M. Corneillie (Berkeley, California); Susan Lee (Woodland, California); Paul A. Whetstone (Davis, California); Nicolas L. Young (Richmond, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting, analyzing, and identifying biomolecules. More particularly, the invention provides Element Coded Affinity Tags comprising a metal chelate and a metal ion and methods of using the tags to detect, analyze, and identify biomolecules including polypeptides, nucleic acids, lipids, and polysaccharides. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854735 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/544 |
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| US 07268118 | Kleinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by The Secretary of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hynda K. Kleinman (Kensington, Maryland); Allan L. Goldstein (Washington, District of Columbia); Katherine M. Malinda (Millersville, Maryland); Gabriel Sosne (Oak Park, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition with a polypeptide including amino acid sequence LKKTET [SEQ ID NO:1] or a conservative variant thereof, the composition further including a carrier for application to a surface of a body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/853505 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17 |
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| US 07268121 | Nerenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Nerenberg (San Diego, California); Isao Kitajima (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antisense oligonucleotides which hybridize with nuclear factor-κB(NF-κB) mRNA and methods of using these oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/328861 |
| 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 07268125 | Bruns, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Azevan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Bruns, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Christophe D. G. Guillon (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ned D. Heindel (Easton, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Koppel (Indianapolis, Indiana); Marvin J. Miller (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel 2-(azetidin-2-on-1-yl)alkanedioic acid derivatives and 2-(azetidin-2-on-1-yl)alkoxyalkanoic acid derivatives are described for use in the treatment of disease states responsive to antagonism of the vasopressin V1a receptor |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/442788 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.20 |
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| US 07268143 | Jagtap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash Jagtap (Beverly, Massachusetts); Csaba Szabo (Gloucester, Massachusetts); Andrew L. Salzman (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aloka Roy (Acton, Massachusetts); William Williams (Ipswich, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel classes of Isoquinoline Derivatives. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of making and using the compounds, are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963293 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/285 |
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| US 07268155 | Hasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tayyaba Hasan (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael R. Hamblin (Revere, Massachusetts); Nikos Soukos (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Conjugate molecules which include photosensitizer compositions conjugated to non-antibody non-affinity pair targeting moieties and methods of making and using such conjugates are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143593 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
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| US 07268224 | Vedeckis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisianna State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne V. Vedeckis (Metairie, Louisiana); Mary B. Breslin (Kenner, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A new sequence, hGR 1Ap/e, has been isolated from human DNA upstream from the previously known 2.7 kbp human GR promoter region. This new sequence was found to contain a new promoter (the 1A GR promoter) and a new untranslated exon sequence (GR exon 1A) for the human glucocorticoid receptor protein (Hgr). Alternative splicing produces three different hGR 1A-containing transcripts, 1A1, 1A2, and 1A3. Exon 1A3-containing GR transcripts appear to be restricted to blood cell cancers and to the human brain. Glucocorticoid hormone treatment caused an up-regulation of exon 1A3-containing GR transcripts in T-lymphoblast cells, and a down-regulation of exon 1A3-containing transcripts in B-lymphoblast cells. Thus detection of exon 1A3-containing transcripts can be used for the diagnosis of patients with blood cell cancers, including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and to identify patients that would benefit from glucocorticoid hormone treatment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620641 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07268358 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Ming Ma (Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania); Eugene S. Fourkal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of optimizing a laser-accelerated proton radiation dose to a targeted region are disclosed. Disclosed methods include providing a plurality of modulated polyenergetic proton beamlets and irradiating the targeted region with the plurality of modulated beamlets. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445850 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. King (Rochester, New York); Oleg Lomakin (Pittsford, New York); Thomas B. Jones (Rochester, New York); Rajib Ahmed (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Rapid, size-based, deposition of particles from liquid suspension is accomplished using a nonuniform electric field created by coplanar microelectrode strips patterned on an insulating substrate. The scheme uses the dielectrophoretic force both to distribute aqueous liquid containing particles and, simultaneously, to separate the particles. Size-based separation is found within nanoliter droplets formed along the structure after voltage removal. Bioparticles or macromolecules of similar size can also be separated based on subtle differences in dielectric property, by controlling the frequency of the AC current supplied to the electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/189123 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
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| US 07267797 | Craighead et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Jun Kameoka (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting changes in the refractive index of a fluid in a small test volume. A change in the refractive index can indicate a change in the chemical composition of the fluid. The test volume has a depth comparable to or less than the wavelength of incident light. In one embodiment, an internal surface of the volume is coated with a binding partner selected to bind with a targeted molecule. When the targeted molecule binds to the binding partner, the optical properties of the system change. The refractive index is determined by illuminating the test volume with laser light and measuring transmitted or reflected light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/010939 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267859 | Rabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oded Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paul R. Herz (San Diego, California); Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Arlington, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Yu-Ming Lin (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed invention provides for the fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) films on a wide variety of substrates. The substrate comprises a wafer layer and may further include an adhesion layer deposited on the wafer layer. An anodic alumina template is formed on the substrate. When a rigid substrate such as Si is used, the resulting anodic alumina film is more tractable, easily grown on extensive areas in a uniform manner, and manipulated without danger of cracking. The substrate can be manipulated to obtain free-standing alumina templates of high optical quality and substantially flat surfaces PAA films can also be grown this way on patterned and non-planar surfaces. Furthermore, under certain conditions the resulting PAA is missing the barrier layer (partially or completely) and the bottom of the pores can be readily accessed electrically. The resultant film can be used as a template for forming an array of nanowires wherein the nanowires are deposited electrochemically into the pores of the template. By patterning the electrically conducting adhesion layer, pores in different areas of the template can be addressed independently, and can be filled electrochemically by different materials. Single-stage and multi-stage nanowire-based thermoelectric devices, consisting of both n-type and p-type nanowires, can be assembled on a silicon substrate by this method. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/303653 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/131 |
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| US 07267938 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janelle R. Anderson (Toronto, Canada); Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Noo Li Jeon (Irvine, California); Sui Huang (Boston, Massachusetts); Ravindra Kane (Troy, New York); Insung S. Choi (Yuseong-gu, South Korea); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes improved microfluidic systems and procedures for fabricating improved microfluidic systems, which contain one or more levels of microfluidic channels. The methods for fabrication the systems disclosed can provide a convenient route to topologically complex and improved microfluidic systems. The microfluidic systems can include three-dimensionally arrayed networks of fluid flow paths therein including channels that cross over or under other channels of the network without physical intersection at the points of cross over. The microfluidic networks can be fabricated via replica molding processes utilizing mold masters including surfaces having topological features formed by photolithography. The present invention also involves microfluidic systems and methods for fabricating complex patterns of materials, such as biological materials and cells, on surfaces utilizing the microfluidic systems. Specifically, the invention provides microfluidic surface patterning systems and methods for fabricating complex, discontinuous patterns on surfaces that can incorporate or deposit multiple materials onto the surfaces. The present invention also provides improved microfluidic stamps or applicators for microcontact surface patterning, which are able to pattern onto a surface arbitrary two-dimensional patterns, and which are able to pattern multiple substances onto a surface without the need for multiple steps of registration or stamping during patterning and without the need to selectively “ink” different regions of the stamp with different materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654587 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07267958 | Dordick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Dordick (Schenectady, New York); Douglas S. Clark (Orinda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for conducting high-throughput interactions between test compositions and analytes, comprising one or more test compositions, and a plurality of independent micromatrices, wherein each said micromatrix encapsulates at least one said test composition; and said micromatrices are made of a material that is permeable to an analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/287442 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267975 | Strobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Bryn Daisy (Anchorage, Alaska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of a novel endophytic fungus, Muscodor vitigenus, from the liana, Paullinia paullinioides. This fungus produces naphthalene under certain cultural conditions that has chromatographic and mass spectral properties that are identical to authentic naphthalene. In a preferred embodiment, the naphthalene in the gas phase of M. vitigenus is useful in the repellency of unwanted insect pests. The unique biological activity of the novel endophyte suggests a wide range of potential practical applications, particularly in the area of insect repellents, insecticides, antimicrobials, anthelmintics and vermicides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687546 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.100 |
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| US 07268243 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Jun Tian (LaPorte, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Bis(salicylaldiminato)titanium complex with optionally substituted phenyl or cyclohexyl on nitrogen catalyzes highly syndiospecific polymerization of propylene. Syndiotactic polypropylene with defects of the type rmr having [rrrr] content greater than 0.70 and block copolymer containing block(s) of the syndiotactic polypropylene and block(s) of poly(ethylene-co-propylene) and/or poly(alpha-olefin-co-propylene) are obtained. Certain of the catalysts provide living polymerization. Living olefin polymers and olefin terminated oligomers and polymers are also products. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/503239 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/56 |
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| US 07268873 | Sevick-Muraca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva M. Sevick-Muraca (College Station, Texas); Zhigang Sun (Natick, Massachusetts); Yingqing Huang (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for measuring isotropic scattering coefficients of suspensions using multiply scattered radiation that is modulated in amplitude at selected modulation frequencies. The radiation may be light. Quantities describing diffusion of the multiply scattered radiation are preferably measured at a plurality of distances between source and receiver and a plurality of frequencies. Linear regression techniques are provided for maximizing accuracy of the scattering data at a selected wavelength of a radiation. Methods are provided for inversing an integral equation so as to determine a calculated value of scattering coefficient. Parameters are varied to minimize the difference between the calculated and measured scattering coefficients and thereby to determine volume fraction, particle size distribution and interparticle force between the particles in a suspension. By incorporating a first principles model to account for interparticle force, the measurements can be used to determine a parameter governing interparticle forces in a suspension. The suspension may be in a liquid or a gas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474224 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
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| US 07269313 | Yanik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Stanford, California); Shanhui Fan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Light pulses can be stopped and stored coherently, with an all-optical process that involves an adiabatic and reversible pulse bandwidth compression occurring entirely in the optical domain. Such a process overcomes the fundamental bandwidth-delay constraint in optics, and can generate arbitrarily small group velocities for light pulses with a given bandwidth, without the use of any coherent or resonant light-matter interactions. This is accomplished only by small refractive index modulations performed at moderate speeds and has applications ranging from quantum communications and computing to coherent all-optical memory devices. A complete time reversal and/or temporal/spectral compression and expansion operation on any electromagnetic field is accomplished using only small refractive index modulations and linear optical elements. This process does not require any nonlinear multi-photon processes such as four-wave mixing and thus can be implemented using on-chip tunable microcavity complexes in photonic crystals. The tuning process requires only small refractive index modulations, and moderate modulation speeds without requiring any high-speed electronic sampling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001492 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
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| US 07269587 | Page |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Page (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000375 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/7 |
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| US 07266969 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Batelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Larry E. Seiber (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Laura D. Marlino (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Curtis W. Ayers (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a direct contact refrigerant cooling system using a refrigerant floating loop having a refrigerant and refrigeration devices. The cooling system has at least one hermetic container disposed in the refrigerant floating loop. The hermetic container has at least one electronic component selected from the group consisting of capacitors, power electronic switches and gating signal module. The refrigerant is in direct contact with the electronic component. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/166502 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/310 |
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| US 07266982 | Guza |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Guza (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus (10, 110) and method to form a workpiece (32, 132) into a useful product (28, 128) using a pressurized fluid (14), also termed as “hydroforming”. The workpiece may be a tube or may be one or a plurality of sheets of a material. The apparatus has a chamber (12) adapted to contain a quantity of a fluid, a hydroforming means positioned within the chamber, and means for substantially immersing the workpiece in the fluid before, during and after the hydroforming operation. Dies (16, 18) enclose the workpiece and provide a cavity of desired shape against which the workpiece is expanded by the pressurized fluid. The chamber may be open or closed to the atmosphere during operation and the fluid temperature and/or level may be controlled. |
| FILED | Monday, June 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423544 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/60 |
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| US 07267754 | Willit |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Willit (Ratavia, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved process and device for the recovery of the minor actinides and the transuranic elements (TRU's) from a molten salt electrolyte. The process involves placing the device, an electrically non-conducting barrier between an anode salt and a cathode salt. The porous barrier allows uranium to diffuse between the anode and cathode, yet slows the diffusion of uranium ions so as to cause depletion of uranium ions in the catholyte. This allows for the eventual preferential deposition of transuranics present in spent nuclear fuel such as Np, Pu, Am, Cm. The device also comprises an uranium oxidation anode. The oxidation anode is solid uranium metal in the form of spent nuclear fuel. The spent fuel is placed in a ferric metal anode basket which serves as the electrical lead or contact between the molten electrolyte and the anodic uranium metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761916 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267947 | Pinkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to DNA sequences from regions of copy number change on chromosome 20. The sequences can be used in hybridization methods for the identification of chromosomal abnormalities associated with various diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198805 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07267948 | Vo-Dinh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tuan Vo-Dinh (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A Raman integrated sensor system for the detection of targets including biotargets includes at least one sampling platform, at least one receptor probe disposed on the sampling platform, and an integrated circuit detector system communicably connected to the receptor. The sampling platform is preferably a Raman active surface-enhanced scattering (SERS) platform, wherein the Raman sensor is a SERS sensor. The receptors can include at least one protein receptor and at least one nucleic acid receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/229600 |
| 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 |
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| US 07268552 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Michael J. Chen (Downers Grove, Illinois); Robert J. Klingler (Glenview, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Honer Glen, Illinois); Marc ter Horst (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A Toroid Cavity Detector (TCD) is provided for implementing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of chemical reactions under conditions of high pressures and temperatures. A toroid cavity contains an elongated central conductor extending within the toroid cavity. The toroid cavity and central conductor generate an RF magnetic field for NMR analysis. A flow-through capillary sample container is located within the toroid cavity adjacent to the central conductor to subject a sample material flowing through the capillary to a static magnetic field and to enable NMR spectra to be recorded of the material in the capillary under a temperature and high pressure environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158302 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269604 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reagan W. Moore (San Diego, California); Arcot Rajasekar (Del Mar, California); Michael Y. Wan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of and method for maintaining data objects in containers across a network of distributed heterogeneous resources in a manner which is transparent to a client. A client request pertaining to containers is resolved by querying meta data for the container, processing the request through one or more copies of the container maintained on the system, updating the meta data for the container to reflect any changes made to the container as a result processing the re quest, and, if a copy of the container has changed, changing the status of the copy to indicate dirty status or synchronizing the copy to one or more other copies that may be present on the system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693599 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP17997 | 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 ‘Otisco’, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 42% more woody biomass than one of its parents (‘SX64’) and 33% more biomass than a current production cultivar (‘SV1’). ‘Otisco’ produced greater than 2.5-fold more stem biomass than two other current production cultivars, ‘SX67’ and ‘SX61’. ‘Otisco’ 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 after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. ‘Otisco’ displays a low incidence of rust disease and is not damaged by potato leafhoppers. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244987 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07267721 | Kauzlarich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlboro, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Kauzlarich (Davis, California); Richard K. Baldwin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Group IV nanocrystals, such as, for example, silicon nanocrysals and germanium nanocrystals, with chemically accessible surfaces are produced in solution reactions. Group IV halides can be reduced in organic solvents such as 1,2-dimethoxyethane (glyme), with soluable reducing agents to give halide-terminated group IV nanocrystals, which can then be easily functionalized with alkyl lithium, Grignard or other reagents to synthesize group IV nanocrystals having air and moisture stable surfaces. Synthesis can occur at ambient temperature and pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900965 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268861 | Treado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemImage Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Nelson (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Scott Keitzel (Export, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical imaging system is provided which uses a near infrared radiation microscope. The system includes an illumination source which illuminates an area of a sample using light in the near infrared radiation wavelength and light in the visible wavelength. A multitude of spatially resolved spectra of transmitted, reflected, emitted or scattered near infrared wavelength radiation light from the illuminated area of the sample is collected and a collimated beam is produced therefrom. A near infrared imaging spectrometer is provided for selecting a near infrared radiation image of the collimated beam. The filtered images are collected by a detector for further processing. The visible wavelength light from the illuminated area of the sample is simultaneously detected providing for the simultaneous visible and near infrared chemical imaging analysis of the sample. Two efficient means for performing three dimensional near infrared chemical imaging microscopy are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366762 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268862 | Treado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chem Image Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Nelson (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Scott Keitzer (Export, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical imaging system is provided which uses a near infrared radiation microscope. The system includes an illumination source which illuminates an area of a sample using light in the near infrared radiation wavelength and light in the visible wavelength. A multitude of spatially resolved spectra of transmitted, reflected, emitted or scattered near infrared wavelength radiation light from the illuminated area of the sample is collected and a collimated beam is produced therefrom. A near infrared imaging spectrometer is provided for selecting a near infrared radiation image of the collimated beam. The filtered images are collected by a detector for further processing. The visible wavelength light from the illuminated area of the sample is simultaneously detected providing for the simultaneous visible and near infrared chemical imaging analysis of the sample. Two efficient means for performing three dimensional near infrared chemical imaging microscopy are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366887 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07268876 — General virtual interface algorithm for in-situ spectroscopic ellipsometric data analysis
| US 07268876 | Johs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | J.A. Woollam Co., Inc (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blaine D. Johs (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of characterizing the outermost material on an article manufactured by deposition or removal of material from its surface, which requires no prior knowledge of the composition of the article. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/713816 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269201 | Hershey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Erik Hershey (Ballston Lake, New York); Harold Woodruff Tomlinson, Jr. (Scotia, New York); Kenneth Brakeley Welles II (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuits are provided for transmitted reference spread spectrum systems using a noise-like digital sequence with delayed replica. The circuits produce the digital spreading sequences at extremely high speed, and are capable of providing a great degree of signal spreading. A first embodiment is composed of a low speed section and a high-speed section. This embodiment allows for greater power efficiency without sacrificing sequence speed. In addition, the embodiment also allows shaping of the spectrum of the high-speed digital sequence. Further, this embodiment generates an m-sequence and its near delay by storing decimated pieces of the entire m-sequence over a plurality of end-around circulating shift registers or so-called ring counters. The ring counters can be run at low speed and there is no exclusive-oring operation. A time-delayed transmitted reference spread spectrum transmitter is provided using digital noise generators that are capable of very high speed operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/681705 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269427 | Hoctor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Thomas Hoctor (Saratoga Springs, New York); John Erik Hershey (Ballston Lake, New York); Nick Andrew Van Stralen (Ballston Lake, New York); Harold Woodruff Tomlinson, Jr. (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involve tracking the location of objects within an area of interest using transmitted-reference ultra-wideband (TR-UWB) signals. The system includes at least three base stations communicating with a central processor, at least one mobile device and at least one fixed beacon transmitter of known location. The mobile device is equipped with a transmitter for transmitting a TR-UWB signal to a base station, which then determines a location of the mobile device based on time difference of arrival information between the beacon transmitters and mobile devices measured at all the base stations. Preferably, the area of interest includes a plurality of mobile devices each transmitting a delay-hopped TR-UWB signal according to a code-division multiple access scheme. The mobile devices may be attached to a patient and/or a medical asset within the hospital for tracking purposes. Additionally, patient medical information may be transmitted with the TR-UWB signals to allow patient monitoring to occur simultaneously with asset/patient tracking. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/973140 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/456.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07267752 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. King (Rochester, New York); Oleg Lomakin (Pittsford, New York); Thomas B. Jones (Rochester, New York); Rajib Ahmed (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Rapid, size-based, deposition of particles from liquid suspension is accomplished using a nonuniform electric field created by coplanar microelectrode strips patterned on an insulating substrate. The scheme uses the dielectrophoretic force both to distribute aqueous liquid containing particles and, simultaneously, to separate the particles. Size-based separation is found within nanoliter droplets formed along the structure after voltage removal. Bioparticles or macromolecules of similar size can also be separated based on subtle differences in dielectric property, by controlling the frequency of the AC current supplied to the electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/189123 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268814 | Pain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California); Thomas J. Cunningham (Pasadena, California); Guang Yang (West Covina, California); Monico Ortiz (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Imaging techniques and devices for performing time-delayed integration based on active pixel sensors. An integrator array is integrated on the chip with the active pixel sensors to perform correlated double sampling and the signal summing based switching capacitor banks. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/680239 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268939 | McDowell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark McDowell (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A Microscope Imaging System (CMIS) with intelligent controls is disclosed that provides techniques for scanning, identifying, detecting and tracking microscopic changes in selected characteristics or features of various surfaces including, but not limited to, cells, spheres, and manufactured products subject to difficult-to-see imperfections. The practice of the present invention provides applications that include colloidal hard spheres experiments, biological cell detection for patch clamping, cell movement and tracking, as well as defect identification in products, such as semiconductor devices, where surface damage can be significant, but difficult to detect. The CMIS system is a machine vision system, which combines intelligent image processing with remote control capabilities and provides the ability to auto-focus on a microscope sample, automatically scan an image, and perform machine vision analysis on multiple samples simultaneously. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363300 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269513 | Herwitz |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley R. Herwitz (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a Sense-And-Avoid Display System (SAVDS) that integrates airborne target position data from a ground-based radar with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) position data from the UAV ground control station (GCS). The UAV GCS receives the UAV position data from a global positioning system (GPS) element in the flight management autopilot system in the UAV. Using a high-resolution display, the SAVDS shows the GPS position of the UAV in relation to other radar-detected airborne targets operating in the same airspace. With the SAVDS co-located adjacent to the GCS computer controlling the UAV, the SAVDS instructs the UAV operator to change the heading and/or elevation of the UAV until any potential midair aircraft conflict is abated. The radar-detected airborne target data and the UAV GPS data are integrated and displayed with georeferenced background base maps that provide a visual method for tracking the UAV and for performing collision avoidance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120263 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07266885 | Swanson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Swanson (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an electrode brain probe assembly, using a flexible substrate comprising a polymeric layer bearing a conductive material coating. Photolithography and electroplating are used to form a set of contacts and conductors on the polymeric layer of the flexible substrate. Also, the flexible substrate is shaped to have a distal end and to be at least 5 mm long, but less than 5 mm wide and less than 1 mm thick. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295097 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/825 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266982 | Guza |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Guza (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus (10, 110) and method to form a workpiece (32, 132) into a useful product (28, 128) using a pressurized fluid (14), also termed as “hydroforming”. The workpiece may be a tube or may be one or a plurality of sheets of a material. The apparatus has a chamber (12) adapted to contain a quantity of a fluid, a hydroforming means positioned within the chamber, and means for substantially immersing the workpiece in the fluid before, during and after the hydroforming operation. Dies (16, 18) enclose the workpiece and provide a cavity of desired shape against which the workpiece is expanded by the pressurized fluid. The chamber may be open or closed to the atmosphere during operation and the fluid temperature and/or level may be controlled. |
| FILED | Monday, June 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423544 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269598 | Marchisio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insightful Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An extension of an inverse inference search engine is disclosed which provides cross language document retrieval, in which the information matrix used as input to the inverse inference engine is organized into rows of blocks corresponding to languages within a predetermined set of natural languages. The information matrix is further organized into two column-wise partitions. The first partition consists of blocks of entries representing fully translated documents, while the second partition is a matrix of blocks of entries representing documents for which translations are not available in all of the predetermined languages. Further in the second partition, entries in blocks outside the main diagonal of blocks are zero. Another disclosed extension to the inverse inference retrieval document retrieval system supports automatic, knowledge based training. This approach applies the idea of using a training set to the problem of searching databases where information that is diluted or not reliable enough to allow the creation of robust semantic links. To address this situation, the disclosed system loads the left-hand partition of the input matrix for the inverse inference engine with information from reliable sources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855786 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07267985 | Vance |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki Vance (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Calmodulin-like polypeptides named rgs-CaM are disclosed. cDNAs coding rgs-CaM are also provided. In addition, methods of using rgs-CaM cDNAs and polypeptides for modulating gene expression in plants are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/924051 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07268273 | Chaney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); The University of Sheffield (Sheffiedl, United Kingdom); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rufus L. Chaney (Beltsville, Maryland); J. Scott Angle (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yin-Ming Li (Potomac, Maryland); Alan J. M. Baker (S. Yorkshire, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to recovering metals, such as nickel and cobalt, by phytomining or phytoextracting soils rich in metals wherein the desired metal is selectively accumulated in hyperaccumulator plants by adjusting the soil pH. The metals are ultimately recovered from above-ground plant tissues at economically acceptable levels without further contaminating the metal-containing sites. The invention also relates to metal-hyperaccumulating plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/437607 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Houston (Bealeton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for inspecting semiconductor module packages which includes a cylindrical base section, a truncated spherical section superimposed on the cylindrical base capable of being rotated and tilted on the cylindrical base section, and a tray section superimposed on the truncated section. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/067846 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269057 | Haddad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadim F. Haddad (Oakton, Virginia); Neil E. Wood (Centreville, Virginia); Adam Bumgarner (Woodbridge, Virginia); Wayne Neiderer (Manassas, Virginia); Shankarnarayana Ramaswamy (Chantilly, Virginia); Scott Doyle (Centreville, Virginia); Tri-Minh Hoang (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for connecting circuit elements within an integrated circuit for reducing single-event upsets is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a first and second circuit elements that are substantially identical to each other. In order to reduce the single-event upsets to the first and second circuit elements, each of the first and second circuit elements is divided into a first sub-element and a second sub-element. The first sub-element of the first circuit element is connected to the second sub-element of the second circuit element. The second sub-element of the first circuit element is connected to the first sub-element of the second circuit element. As a result, the nodal spacings between the sub-elements within the first and second circuit elements are effectively increased without demanding additional real estate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116024 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07269306 | Koeneman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. Koeneman (Palm Bay, Florida); Timothy E. Dimmick (Oviedo, Florida); Kevin R. Harper (Palm Bay, Florida); Curtis R. Niemeier (Indialantic, Florida); Todd E. Deese (Malabar, Florida); Paul Pilipovich (Satellite Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for exciting flexural waves on an optical fiber (102) is provided. The system includes a substrate (114, 118), an actuator (106), and a mechanical optical fiber coupling (104). The actuator is formed of an electromechanical transducer material. The actuator is mounted on the substrate. The mechanical optical fiber coupling (for example, an adhesive media) forms a secure mechanical connection between the actuator and the optical fiber. The mechanical optical fiber coupling is configured for communicating mechanical vibrations from the actuator to the optical fiber. However, it should be understood that the mechanical optical fiber coupling is exclusive of a tapered horn. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/477107 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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