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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 09, 2007
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07278290 | Hughes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derke R. Hughes (Warwick, Rhode Island); Jeffrey T. Feaster (Wakefield, Rhode Island); James E. Hooper (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile impact energy and location measurement system is taught employing a target apparatus having an impact plate of a solid durable substance such as steel or titanium. Disposed over the plate is a layer of elastoluminescent material composed of zinc sulfide and manganese embedded in an elastomeric composite. This luminescent material is designed to emit light or exhibit luminescence when elastically strained, for example when a projectile strikes the material. Optical photosensitive sensors are deployed at strategic locations to observe and record color images of the target before during and after impact by a projectile. These images capture the target luminescence and impact location of the projectile. The images are transmitted to a traditional image processing system that can isolate the impact location and correlate the light wave length with a known kinetic energy value that was obtained through initial calibration of the system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489809 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/12.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278310 | Rice et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett A. Rice (Bloomington, Indiana); Travis M. Andreas (Springville, Indiana); James Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive piston-cylinder measurement system of a cylinder and a piston mounted for axial movement within the cylinder. The cylinder comprises a non-magnetic cylinder wall. A magnet is mounted within the piston. A plurality of magnetically activated switches, such as read switches, is mounted outside of the non-magnetic cylinder wall so as to be activated by piston movement. The measurement system provides a non-invasive means for measuring fluid extruded from a piston-cylinder extruder. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311583 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278315 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Op tech Ventures LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Klein (Pacific Palisades, California); Todd Sienicki (Los Angeles, California); Jerome Eichenbergeer (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Subsurface defects in a processed metal are detected by a laser-ultrasonic method involving generation of a surface acoustic wave at one location on the processed metal surface, and detection of a scattered acoustic wave at another location on the processed metal surface. The method can be used in-line to provide real time monitoring of laser cladding and other metal processing operations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242969 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278353 | Langan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surface Treatment Technologies, Inc. (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Langan (Catonsville, Maryland); Michael A. Riley (Towson, Maryland); W. Mark Buchta (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Shaped charge liners are made of reactive materials formed by thermal spray techniques. The thermally sprayed reactive shaped charge materials have low porosity and high structural integrity. Upon detonation, the reactive materials of the shaped charge liner undergo an exothermic reaction that raises the temperature and the effectiveness of the liner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/839638 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278354 | Langan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surface Treatment Technologies, Inc. (Halethrope, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Langan (Catonsville, Maryland); Michael A. Riley (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides shock initiation devices comprising multilayer structures with constituent layers that undergo an exothermic self-propagating reaction once initiated by shock. The multilayer structures may be used as components in shaped charges, EFP devices, warheads, munition casings, interceptors, missiles, bombs, and other systems. The reactive layer materials may be selected based on required structural properties, density and reaction temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855298 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278514 | Quigley |
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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) | James M. Quigley (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic filter is provided with a single flow chamber for exposure of a flexible rubber layer to liquid undergoing flow through the flow chamber with noise producing acoustic energy therein. The flexible rubber layer is supported on a cylindrical drum with slanted holes therein through which the exposure to the liquid in the flow chamber is effected. An axially sectioned drum with dimensionally different diameters, radial thicknesses and slanted holes therein is positioned over the rubber layer within an outer casing to establish a plurality of gas-filled cavities of different axial lengths and separated from each other along the axial length of the liquid flow chamber which is connected at its opposite axial ends by pipe sections to a piping system from which the liquid within the flow chamber is derived. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693849 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278516 | Zalewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Zalewski (Scottsdale, Arizona); Daniel J. Robinson (Scottsdale, Arizona); Mark Kyler (Mesa, Arizona); Donn Loper (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A lubrication system includes an inlet conduit having an inboard end attached to a bearing support and an outboard end for receiving lubricant. A lubricant inlet assembly is attached to the inlet conduit outboard end and has an inlet cap with a receptacle, an inlet cap body, and a cap base. The inlet receptacle is configured to mate with a lubricant supply line, where the inlet cap body has an outer cap enclosing an inner cap, the outer cap having a convoluted wall. An inlet conduit termination fitting has an outboard fitting section, with an o-ring in a circumferential groove, disposed inside the inlet cap, and an inboard fitting section attached to the inlet conduit outboard end. A cap heat shield encloses the inlet cap and a conduit heat shield is attached to the inlet conduit. The lubricant inlet assembly is mounted to an engine casing with a low-conductivity insulating gasket between the cap base and the engine casing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797844 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Lubrication 184/6.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278611 | Eidelman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shmuel Eidelman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Pulsed detonation engines (PDEs) are adapted for use in reaction control systems (RCS), such as thrusters for orbital correction and control (e.g., for earth-orbiting satellites), divert thrust generation and control for space-based interceptor devices, and for missile trajectory correction and motion control. According to one aspect of the invention, PDEs are adapted for motion control of so-called “kill vehicles,” which are small devices, typically launched from satellites, for strategic missile defense. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796279 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/171.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279115 | Sumakeris |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for preparing a substrate and epilayer for reducing stacking fault nucleation and reducing forward voltage (Vf) drift in silicon carbide-based bipolar devices. The method includes the steps of etching the surface of a silicon carbide substrate with a nonselective etch to remove both surface and subsurface damage, thereafter etching the same surface with a selective etch to thereby develop etch-generated structures from at least any basal plane dislocation reaching the substrate surface that will thereafter tend to either terminate or propagate as threading defects during subsequent epilayer growth on the substrate surface, and thereafter growing a first epitaxial layer of silicon carbide on the twice-etched surface. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389825 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279162 | Fischer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald W. Fischer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes the identification, making, and isolation of immunoglobulin and antigen useful for preventing, diagnosing, and treating staphylococcal infections. The invention further describes an in vivo animal model useful for testing the efficacy of pharmaceutical compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions of immunoglobulin and isolated antigen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/471285 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/165.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279229 | Budinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Edwin Budinger (Loveland, Ohio); Richard Ludwig Schmidt (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Mark David Veliz (Mason, Ohio); Michael Howard Rucker (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A nickel-base braze material suitable for closing holes in a high temperature component, such as a tip cap hole in a turbine blade. The braze material comprises first and second filler materials and a binder. The first filler material comprises particles of a first alloy, and the second filler material comprises particles of at least a second alloy having a lower melting temperature than the first alloy. The second alloy consists essentially of, by weight, about 8 to about 23 percent chromium, about 4 to about 18 percent cobalt, about 1.5 to about 6.0 percent tantalum, about 1.0 to about 6.0 percent aluminum, about 0.3 to about 1.5 percent boron, about 2.0 to about 6.0 percent silicon, up to 0.2 percent carbon, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/907218 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279230 | Kerans 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) | Ronald J. Kerans (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Triplicane A. Parthasarathy (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-reinforced metal-ceramic composite material having a hot ceramic side and a cool metal side and a graded ceramic-metal zone therebetween, wherein the ceramic content of said composite ranges from 100% at said hot ceramic side to 0% at said cool metal side and the metal content of said composite ranges from 0% at said hot ceramic side to 100% at said cool metal side, and wherein said fiber reinforcement is graded by coefficient of thermal expansion from the hot ceramic side to the cool metal side. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/784311 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279235 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Yujian You (Los Angeles, California); Andrei Shoustikov (Los Angeles, California); Scott Sibley (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul E. Burrows (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are Disclosed which are comprised of a heterostructure for producing electroluminescence wherein the heterostructure is comprised of an emissive layer containing a phosphorescent dopant compound. For example, the phosphorescent dopant compound may be comprised of platinum octaethylporphine (PtOEP), which is a compound having the chemical structure with the formula: |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/061832 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279237 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Yujian You (Los Angeles, California); Andrei Shoustikov (Los Angeles, California); Scott Sibley (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul E. Burrows (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are disclosed, which comprise a heterostructure for producing electroluminescence, wherein the heterostructure comprises an emissive layer containing a phosphorescent dopant compound. For example, the phosphorescent dopant compound may comprise platinum octaethylporphine (PtOEP), which is a compound having the chemical structure with the formula: |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509452 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279320 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill E. Parker (Floresville, Texas); Johnathan L. Kiel (Universal City, Texas); Homer Gifford (Hardy, Arkansas); Pedro J. Morales, legal representative (Floresville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new strain of Bacillus anthracis derived from the Sterne vaccine strain of Bacillus anthracis by growth on a high-nitrate-concentration, 3-amino-L-tyrosine growth medium. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828630 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279883 | Sohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lydia L. Sohn (Oakland, California); Omar A. Saleh (Holmdel, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lydia L. Sohn (Princeton, New Jersey); Omar A. Saleh (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantitative microchip Coulter counter is provided for use in detecting and measuring particles or macromolecules. The device comprises a conduit, a fluid handling system, and a measurement system. Preferably, the conduit is at least in part formed from an elastomeric material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056103 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279922 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Thomas G. O'Neill (Mountain View, California); Robert D. Hopkins (Hayward, California); Frankie Y. Liu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for performing on-chip voltage sampling of a weakly-driven node of a semiconductor device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the node is a floating node or is capacitively-driven. In some embodiments, it is involved in proximity-based communication. Sampling the node may include isolating the signal to be sampled using a source-follower amplifier before passing it to the sampling circuit. Sampling the node may include biasing the node to a desired voltage using a leaky transistor or other biasing circuit. In some embodiments, the biasing circuit may also be used to calibrate the sampler by coupling one or more calibration voltages to the node in place of a biasing voltage and measuring the sampler output. The sampler may be suitable for sub-sampling high frequency signals to produce a time-expanded, lower frequency version of the signals. The output of the sampler may be a current communicated off-chip for testing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/477050 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280016 | Taya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Minoru Taya (Mercer Island, Washington); Robert Yuanchang Liang (Seattle, Washington); Yasuo Kuga (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane actuator includes a magnetically actuatable membrane and a magnetic trigger. The membrane includes a shape memory alloy (SMA), and the magnetic trigger is configured to induce a martensitic transformation in the SMA, to produce a larger force than would be achievable with non-SMA-based materials. Such a membrane actuator can be beneficially incorporated into a wide variety of devices, including fluid pumps, shock absorbing systems, and synthetic jet producing devices for use in an aircraft. The membrane/diaphragm can be formed from a ferromagnetic SMA, or a ferromagnetic material can be coupled with an SMA such that the SMA and the ferromagnetic material move together. A hybrid magnetic trigger, including a permanent magnet and an electromagnet, is preferably used for the magnetic trigger, as hybrid magnetic triggers are easy to control, and produce larger magnetic gradients than permanent magnets or electromagnets alone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070385 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280070 | Pillai |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Unnikrishna Sreedharan Pillai (Harrington Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique for re-computing shading parameters for low sidelobe levels for a radar or sonar system is disclosed. When some of the sensor elements become inoperative, remaining shading parameters are recomputed using a new constraint. This approach leads to an overall gain pattern that is superior compared to the one without re-computing the weights. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000156 |
| 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 342/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280083 | Adamski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Roman Adamski (Port Hueneme, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna design, having two symmetrical phased array blade antenna elements which provide improved lateral target coverage with an increased effective radiated power and exhibits smooth null-free bi-directional antenna patterns. Each blade antenna element is coupled to a 180 degrees hybrid divider/combiner by a semi-rigid RF cable. Each blade antenna element is also connected to a sub-resonant choke balun for improved impedance matching and resultant distortion-less antenna patterns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506266 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/814 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280340 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TASER International, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick W. Smith (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Magne H. Nerheim (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for immobilizing a target such as a human or animal with a stimulus signal coupled to the target via electrodes provide the stimulus signal in accordance with a strike stage, a hold stage, and a rest stage. Systems include a launch device and separate projectile, where the projectile includes a battery, a waveform generator, and electrodes. The strike stage and hold stage may include pulses at a pulse repetition rate, for example, from 10 to 20 pulses per second, each pulse delivering a predetermined amount of charge, for example, about 100 microcoulombs at less than about 500 volts peak. The hold stage may continue immobilization at a lesser expenditure of energy compared to the strike stage. Because the strike stage and hold stage may immobilize by interfering with skeletal muscle control by the target's nervous system, a rest stage may allow the target to take a breath. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750374 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280435 | Thomenius et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Erik Thomenius (Clifton Park, New York); Rayette Ann Fisher (Niskayuna, New York); Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Robert Hazard (Schenectady, New York); Lowell Scott Smith (Niskayuna, New York); David Martin Mills (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device comprising an array of sensors that are reconfigurable by means of a switching network. The sensors may be optical, thermal or pressure sensors or ultrasonic transducers. More specifically, the device comprises: a multiplicity of sensor elements; a plurality of bus lines; a set of access switches for selectively connecting a set of the sensor elements in a row to a bus line, one of the access switches being connected to a first sensor element; a multiplicity of sets of matrix switches, each of the sets of matrix switches selectively connecting a respective sensor element of the multiplicity of sensor elements to a respective set of adjacent sensor elements, one of the matrix switches being connected to the first sensor element and to a second sensor element that is not a member of the set of sensor elements; and control circuitry that controls the access switches and the matrix switches in accordance with a selected switching configuration such that the first sensor element is connected to the bus line via said one access switch, while at the same time the second sensor element is connected to said one access switch via said one matrix switch. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/978196 |
| 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 367/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280464 | Newhouse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael N. Newhouse (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Daniel M. Zange (Marion, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications system transmits data on a plurality of subcarriers and has a featureless synchronization signal. The OFDM communications system transmits synchronization tones on pseudorandomly selected subcarriers. A receiver generates the same synchronization tones and performs a correlation on the received signal with the receiver synchronization tones. The correlation is performed at the beginning and the end of the synchronization symbol. A product of the two correlations results in a magnitude peak and a phase difference. The magnitude peak is used to determine the location in time of the sync symbol and the phase difference is used to determine the frequency offset of the received signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/259767 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/203 |
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| US 07280604 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Space-time Doppler (STDO) coding techniques are describe for time-selective channels. In particular, a STDO coded system is capable of achieving a maximum Doppler diversity for time-selective frequency-flat channels. As demonstrated herein, this maximum diversity may be represented as Q+1, where Q is the number of bases in a generalized Basis Expansion Model (BEM) for time-frequency selective channels. In addition, linearly precoded transmissions are described to collect this maximum diversity gain. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421678 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280607 | McCorkle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. McCorkle (Vienna, Virginia); Martin Rofheart (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra wide bandwidth, high speed, spread spectrum communications system uses short wavelets of electromagnetic energy to transmit information through objects such as walls or earth. The communication system uses baseband codes formed from time shifted and inverted wavelets to encode data on a RF signal. Typical wavelet pulse durations are on the order of 100 to 1000 picoseconds with a bandwidth of approximately 8 GHz to 1 GHz, respectively. The combination of short duration wavelets and encoding techniques are used to spread the signal energy over a an ultra wide frequency band such that the energy is not concentrated in any particular narrow band (e.g. VHF: 30-300 MHz or UHF: 300-1000 MHz) and is not detected by conventional narrow band receivers so it does not interfere with those communication systems. The use of pulse codes composed of time shifted and inverted wavelets gives the system according to the present invention has a spatial resolution on the order of 1 foot which is sufficient to minimize the negative effects of multipath interference and permit time domain rake processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/305109 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chieh C. Cheng (Redlands, California); David A. Lesyna (Redlands, California); Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A patient positioning system for use with a radiation therapy system that monitors the location of fixed and movable components and pre-plans movement of the movable components so as to inhibit movement if a collision would be indicated. The positioning system can also coordinate movement of multiple movable components for reduced overall latency in registering a patient. The positioning system includes external measurement devices which measure the location and orientation of objects, including components of the radiation therapy system, in space and can also monitor for intrusion into the active area of the therapy system by personnel or foreign objects to improve operational safety of the radiation therapy system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/917220 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280728 | Berkey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E Berkey (Pine City, New York); Xin Chen (Corning, New York); Joohyun Koh (Painted Post, New York); Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, New York); Daniel A Nolan (Corning, New York); Donnell T Walton (Painted Post, New York); Ji Wang (Painted Post, New York); Luis A Zenteno (Painted Post, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber including: (i) a silica based, rare earth doped core having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) a silica based inner cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said inner cladding having a plurality of air holes extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber; (iii) a silica based outer cladding surrounding said inner cladding and having a third index of refraction n3, such that n2>n3, wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode within the operating wavelength range. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/971319 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280870 | Nurmikko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University Research Foundation (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arto V. Nurmikko (Providence, Rhode Island); John P. Donoghue (Providence, Rhode Island); J. Christopher Flaherty (Topsfield, Massachusetts); William R. Patterson, III (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | According to embodiments of the invention, one or more implants in a body may be connected with optical fibers for transmitting data and/or power to or from the implants. Aspects of the invention related to various embodiments of the actual implant as well as to various embodiments for connecting optical fibers to the implants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453785 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280925 | Eker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Eker (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Shawn A. Egnak (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Charles L. Savage (Holland, Pennsylvania); Margaret A. Connolly (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Vincent L. DiFilippo (Wallingford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention's efficient and economical maintenance strategy for a system of operation (such as involving various kinds of instrumentation) features a unique decision-making logic that incorporates reliability-centered maintenance principles. The initial logical inquiry filters out the non-critical cases, i.e., those instruments the failure of which does not jeopardize or compromise safety, or the environment, or an important function or operation. The logical construct proceeds as to the remaining (unfiltered) instruments in a series of logical steps wherein the satisfaction of one or more given conditions by a subject instrument directs the practitioner to the appropriate maintenance action for the subject instrument. Possible maintenance actions include the following: comparison check of the instrument with respect to the primary instrument; system operational check; repair of the instrument; replacement of the instrument; maintenance deferral until a scheduled failure finding task; system calibration procedure; individual maintenance procedure (on-site or off-site). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025825 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280944 | Beex 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) | A. A. Louis Beex (Blacksburg, Virginia); James R. Zeidler (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing method comprises: a) detecting sample auxiliary signals from an auxiliary signal and sample reference signals from a reference signal at different times; b) applying an auxiliary weight from a set of auxiliary weights to a corresponding sample auxiliary signal to create weighted sample auxiliary signals; c) applying a reference weight from a set of reference weights to a corresponding sample reference signal to create weighted sample reference signals; d) creating a summation value that represents the sum of the weighted sample auxiliary signals and the weighted sample reference signals; e) creating an error signal that represents the difference between the desired signal and the summation value; f) scaling the error signal to generate an update function; g) detecting the error signal; h) applying the update function to each of the auxiliary weights and reference weights; and i) returning to step (a). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465207 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280954 | Belenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kim E. Belenger (North Dighton, Massachusetts); James R. Gannon (Coventry, Rhode Island); Maryellen Doherty (Middletown, Rhode Island); Dennis K. Bruce (Berkley, Massachusetts); Thomas Filiberto (Wakefield, Rhode Island); John L. Lehet (Waterford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided by the present invention for developing functional software element that operates in an environment comprising a plurality of computer programs that are being simultaneously developed. A test facilitating computer program product is utilized to simulate the plurality of computer programs as seen by the functional software element. The functional software element has one or more internal software interfaces that interact with one or more simulated external software interfaces to provide an environment in which the operation of the functional element and the internal software interfaces thereof can be monitored. The test facilitating tool permits creation of files that may be utilized to create an operational scenario during which messages that are received by and sent from said functional software element can be monitored. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/137737 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280986 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois); Tian-Li Yu (Urbana, Illinois); Ali Yassine (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and program products for optimizing clustering of a design structure matrix. An embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of using a genetic operator to achieve an optimal clustering of a design structure matrix model. Other exemplary embodiments of the invention leverage the optimal clustering by applying a genetic operator on a module-specific basis. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774676 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07281092 | Rajamony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of managing cache hierarchies with adaptive mechanisms. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes, in response to selecting a data block for eviction from a memory cache (the source cache) out of a collection of memory caches, examining a data structure to determine whether an entry exists that indicates that the data block has been evicted from the source memory cache, or another peer cache, to a slower cache or memory and subsequently retrieved from the slower cache or memory into the source memory cache or other peer cache. Also, a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes, in response to determining the entry exists in the data structure, selecting a peer memory cache out of the collection of memory caches at the same level in the hierarchy to receive the data block from the source memory cache upon eviction. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/143328 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the university of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul K. Hansma (Isla Vista, California); Georg Fantner (Santa Barbara, California); Johannes H. Kindt (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanner for probe microscopy that avoids low resonance frequencies and accounts better for piezo nonlinearities. The x, y and z axes of a linear stack scanner are partially decoupled from each other while maintaining all mechanical joints stiff in the direction of actuation. The scanning probe microscope comprises a probe, a housing, at least two actuators, each coupled to the housing, and a support coupled to the housing and to at least a first of the actuators at a position spaced from the point at which the actuator is coupled to the housing. The support constrains the motion of the first actuator along a first axis while permitting translation along a second axis. The actuators are preferably orthogonally arranged linear stacks of flat piezos, preferably in push-pull configuration. The support can take different forms in different embodiments of the invention. In a particular embodiment, the scanner is a 2D scanner having a support frame with x and y axes, and a member for supporting an object to be moved such as a sample for a probe, the scanner comprising a flexure and flexure coupled cross-conformed piezos arranged along x and y axes. Expansion of the piezos is measured by at least two strain gauges disposed to measure the differential motion of at least two opposed actuators. The strain gauges are preferably arranged to compensate for ambient temperature changes, and preferably two or more strain gauges of identical type are disposed on each actuator to magnify the strain signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000589 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279160 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Kimihisa Ichikawa (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan); Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama); William J. Koopman (Indian Springs, Alabama); Jun Ohsumi (Kanagawa-ken, Japan); Albert F. Lobuglio (Birmingham, Alabama); Donald J. Buchsbaum (Alabaster, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An antibody of the invention interacts with human DR5 or with human DR4 to produce agonistic or antagonistic effects downstream of the receptor including inhibition of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Methods and uses for the antibodies, optionally in combination with various therapeutic agents, are detailed, including treatment of apoptosis-related disease and treatment of dysregulated cell growth. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/281479 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279172 | Aharoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rina Aharoni (Rehovot, Israel); Dvora Teitelbaum (Rehovot, Israel); Ruth Arnon (Rehovot, Israel); Michael Sela (Rehovot, Israel); Masha Fridkis-Hareli (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jack L. Strominger (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides heteropolymer compositions and peptide compositions, and methods of making and using therapeutic compositions comprising amino acid heteropolymers for treatment of a subject for an autoimmune or an inflammatory disease, the heteropolymer compositions made by solid state synthesis. The invention also provides kits for assaying binding of a composition to a water-soluble MHC protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/768872 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/280.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279281 | Richardson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Richardson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qianjin Lu (Hunan, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating an autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease. In particular, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing, monitoring and treating an autoimmune disease (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis) or chronic inflammatory disease (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus) based on detecting or altering (e.g., altering expression or methylation status of) autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease proteins (e.g., CD70 and CD40L). The present invention also provides kits for detecting methylation status of autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease proteins (e.g., CD70 and CD40L) and for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating autoimmune or chronic inflammatory diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/142123 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279288 | Khoshnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Khoshnan (S. Pas., California); Paul H. Patterson (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for protecting cells from the toxicity of mutant huntingtin (Htt) protein and for treatment of Huntington's disease (HD). The methods generally involve administering to cells or a patient an effective amount of an IKK inhibitor. In addition, methods are provided for identifying therapeutics for the treatment of HD. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218924 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — 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 07279289 | Blumenthal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology (Belleville, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rosalyn D. Blumenthal (West Orange, New Jersey); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides kits and methods for evaluating the myelosuppressive state of a patient. These methods and kits provide a useful adjunct for cytotoxic and myelosuppressive therapies. By establishing threshold levels of certain cytokines as a surrogate for myelosuppression, treatment protocols can be optimized to reduce myelotoxicity, while maximizing effective dose. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225189 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 07279294 | Morin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services, NIH (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrice J. Morin (Perry Hall, Maryland); Cheryl A. Sherman-Baust (Laurel, Maryland); Ellen S. Pizer (Bellevue, Washington); Colleen D. Hough (South Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods of diagnosing and prognosticating ovarian tumors by detecting increased expression of an ovarian tumor marker gene in a subject or in a sample from a subject. Also featured are kits for the aforementioned diagnostic and prognostic methods. In addition, the invention features methods of treating and preventing ovarian tumors, and methods of inhibiting the growth or metastasis of ovarian tumors, by modulating the production or activity of an ovarian tumor marker polypeptide. Further featured are methods of inhibiting the growth or metastasis of an ovarian tumor by contacting an ovarian tumor cell with an antibody that specifically binds an ovarian tumor marker polypeptide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/257021 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279304 | Walsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Thomas Walsh (Wellesley, Massachusetts); John W. Trauger (Somerville, Massachusetts); Rahul Manu Kohli (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael D. Burkart (Boston, Massachusetts); Mohammed A. Maraheil (Marburg, Germany); Henning Dieter Mootz (Haan, Germany); Dirk Schwarzer (Marburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of macrocyclic molecules from linear, synthetic thioester precursors is disclosed. An excised thioesterase domain isolated from either a polyketide synthases (PKS) or non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) multido system catalyzes the cyclization reaction. Thioester substrates also are described that are efficiently cyclized by the method of the present invention. Additionally, macrocyclic molecules, including macrolactones and macrolactams, that are prepared by the macrocyclization methods of the invention are described. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017324 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279324 | Barak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry S. Barak (Durham, North Carolina); Robert H. Oakley (Durham, North Carolina); Marc G. Caron (Durham, North Carolina); Stephane A. Laporte (Outremont, Canada); Alyson Wilbanks (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to modified G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). The modified GPCRs of the present invention include GPCRs that have been modified to have altered DRY motifs such that the modified GPCRs are constitutively desensitized. As such, the modified GPCRs of the present invention preferably localize to endocytic vesicles or endosomes in an agonist-independent manner. The invention also relates to methods of screening compounds and sample solutions for GPCR activity using the modified GPCRs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/054616 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07279327 | Curtis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristopher M. Curtis (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Boyd Yount (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Ralph S. Baric (Haw River, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A helper cell for producing an infectious, replication defective, coronavirus (or more generally nidovirus) particle cell comprises (a) a nidovirus permissive cell; (b) a nidovirus replicon RNA comprising the nidovirus packaging signal and a heterologous RNA sequence, wherein the replicon RNA further lacks a sequence encoding at least one nidovirus structural protein; and (c) at least one separate helper RNA encoding the at least one structural protein absent from the replicon RNA, the helper RNA(s) lacking the nidovirus packaging signal. The combined expression of the replicon RNA and the helper RNA in the nidovirus permissive cell produces an assembled nidovirus particle which comprises the heterologous RNA sequence, is able to infect a cell, and is unable to complete viral replication in the absence of the helper RNA due to the absence of the structural protein coding sequence in the packaged replicon. Compositions for use in making such helper cells, along with viral particles produced from such cells, compositions of such viral particles, and methods of making and using such viral particles, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474962 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279462 | Zanetti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nevagen LLC (LaJolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurizio Zanetti (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for stimulating an immune response by administering to a lymphoid tissue a nucleic acid molecule comprising an expression element operationally linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding one or more heterologous epitopes. The heterologous epitope can be inserted into a complementarity-determining region of an immunoglobulin molecule. The invention also provides a nucleic acid molecule comprising a hematopoietic expression element operationally linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a heterologous polypeptide. The invention additionally provides a method of treating a condition by administering a nucleic acid molecule comprising a hematopoietic cell expression element operationally linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a heterologous polypeptide, wherein the nucleic acid molecule is targeted to a hematopoietic cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/300959 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Glazer (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A high affinity, triplex-forming oligonucleotide and methods for use thereof wherein an oligonucleotide is used to form a triple-stranded nucleic acid molecule with a specific DNA segment of a target DNA molecule. Upon formation of the triplex, the binding of the oligonucleotide stimulates mutagenesis within or adjacent to the target sequence using cellular DNA synthesis or repair mechanisms thereby producing heritable changes in a human or animal. The mutation activates, inactivates or alters the activity and function of the target molecule. This mutation may be the result of a recombinagenic mechanism induced by the oligonucleotide. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/978333 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07279464 | Xiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong Xiang (San Diego, California); Ralph A. Reisfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA vaccine effective for eliciting an immune response against cells that present a carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) comprises a DNA operably encoding a CEA and a DNA operably encoding a CD40 ligand, SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO: 2, respectively, or its homotrimer, CD40LT. The DNA vaccine can be incorporated in a delivery vector such as an attenuated live bacterium or virus, or a liposome carrier. In a method embodiment, the DNA vaccine is administered orally to a mammal, such as a human, to elicit an immune response against CEA presenting cells such as colon cancer cells. A preferred method embodiment includes the additional step of treating the mammal with recombinant antibody fusion protein huKS1/4-IL2 to enhance the immune response effectiveness of the vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/195506 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279466 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Monte R. Rhodes (Humble, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Combretastatin A-4 has been previously selected for pre-clinical development as antineoplastic agent. However, it is essentially insoluble in water. New water soluble derivatives of combretastatin A-4 and its qualified analogs have been discovered and synthesized through a multistage process using other derivatives of combretastatin A-4 as intermediates. These water soluble derivatives are herein denominated as “Combretastatin A-4 Prodrugs”. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/364733 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279500 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy R. Martin (Richmond, Virginia); Raj K. Razdan (Gloucester, Massachusetts); Roger G. Pertwee (Cults, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Cannabinoid agonists and antagonists are provided for use in the treatment of disorders such as acute and chronic pain, inflammation, loss of appetite, convulsions, multiple sclerosis, nausea and vomiting. The cannabinoid agonists and antagonists contain a sulfonamide moiety incorporated into the cannabinoid side chain, and the side chain itself may be saturated or unsaturated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601757 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279534 | Luebben et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Brian Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides block copolymers containing at least one block of a poly(heteroaromatic) polymer and at least two blocks of a non-conjugated polymer. The chemically different blocks of the copolymer are covalently bonded to each other in an alternating fashion through an appropriate linkage group. The poly(heteroaromatic) block may exist in its neutral or oxidized form, and when in the oxidized form, it associates with organic or inorganic counter-anions to balance the charge. The poly(heteroaromatic) polymer is an intrinsically conducting polymer (ICP), and when in the oxidized form it is electrically conducting. When the ICP block or blocks of the block copolymer are in the doped form, the block copolymer is electrically conducting. Preferably the conducting block copolymers have conductivities in the range 10−6-103 S/cm. Block copolymers of this invention are soluble or dispersible in water, one or more organic solvents, or in a mixture thereof at a level of at least about 0.1 g/liter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/234968 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279549 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cognetix, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maren Watkins (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); David R. Hillyard (Salt Lake City, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-30 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895372 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279893 | Marinelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luca Marinelli (Schenectady, New York); Christopher Judson Hardy (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An image reconstruction technique determines linear combinations of receiver channel information that contribute the most to image SNR and quantifies the SNR loss for the reduced receiver channel set for image reconstruction to reduce the computational burden placed on the reconstruction engine of an MRI system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426728 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279899 | Michaeli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalom Michaeli (St. Paul, Minnesota); Michael G. Garwood (Medina, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Dennis J. Sorce (Cockeysville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, a system and method for modulating transverse and longitudinal relaxation time contrast in a rotating frame based on a train of radio frequency pulses. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244815 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280630 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A data consistency condition is derived for an array of attenuation values acquired with a divergent beam. Using this data consistency condition, estimates of selected attenuation values can be calculated from the other attenuation values acquired during the scan. Such estimates may be used to replace corrupted data in the acquired data set, or attenuation values may be added to the acquired data set to increase in-plane resolution of a reconstructed image. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/378072 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280704 | Peli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eliezer Peli (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An image processing technique produces modified images by extracting strong features of the original image, i.e., bars and edges, and superimposing such extracted features onto the original image. The invention combines the Hilbert transform of the image data with the image data in a pre-defined manner to produce the so-called energy function whose maxima correspond to the strong features of the image. Addition of these extracted features to the original image results in obtaining an enhanced image. In addition, the invention provides techniques for enhancing the real-world view of natural scenes. Another practice of the invention employs a plurality of oriented filters for extracting luminance features of an image. An apparatus of the invention displays the extracted luminance features as contour version of the original image. Another apparatus of the invention provides a minified contour image of a natural scene to assist a patient having a restricted peripheral vision in locating objects in the scene. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/619124 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07278280 | Ganni |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkatarao Ganni (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A unique process cycle and apparatus design separates the consumer (cryogenic) load return flow from most of the recycle return flow of a refrigerator and/or liquefier process cycle. The refrigerator and/or liquefier process recycle return flow is recompressed by a multi-stage compressor set and the consumer load return flow is recompressed by an independent consumer load compressor set that maintains a desirable constant suction pressure using a consumer load bypass control valve and the consumer load return pressure control valve that controls the consumer load compressor's suction pressure. The discharge pressure of this consumer load compressor is thereby allowed to float at the intermediate pressure in between the first and second stage recycle compressor sets. Utilizing the unique gas management valve regulation, the unique process cycle and apparatus design in which the consumer load return flow is separate from the recycle return flow, the pressure ratios of each recycle compressor stage and all main pressures associated with the recycle return flow are allowed to vary naturally, thus providing a naturally regulated and balanced floating pressure process cycle that maintains optimal efficiency at design and off-design process cycle capacity and conditions automatically. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076832 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278412 | Baldwin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl Dean Baldwin (Lacon, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustion-gas recirculation system has a mixing chamber with a mixing-chamber inlet and a mixing-chamber outlet. The combustion-gas recirculation system may further include a duct connected to the mixing-chamber inlet. Additionally, the combustion-gas recirculation system may include an open inlet channel with a solid outer wall. The open inlet channel may extend into the mixing chamber such that an end of the open inlet channel is disposed between the mixing-chamber inlet and the mixing-chamber outlet. Furthermore, air within the open inlet channel may be at a pressure near or below atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094379 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/568.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07278800 | Nickelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reva A. Nickelson (Shelley, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin M. Kostelnik (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Paul A. Sloan (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, components, and methods relating to subterranean containment barriers. Laterally adjacent tubular casings having male interlock structures and multiple female interlock structures defining recesses for receiving a male interlock structure are used to create subterranean barriers for containing and treating buried waste and its effluents. The multiple female interlock structures enable the barriers to be varied around subsurface objects and to form barrier sidewalls. The barrier may be used for treating and monitoring a zone of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273946 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/129.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279027 | Carolan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Kathryn Beverly Dyer, legal representative (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Merrill Anderson Wilson (West Jordan, Utah); Ted R. Ohm (Alliance, Ohio); Kurt E. Kneidel (Alliance, Ohio); David Peterson (Uniontown, Ohio); Christopher M. Chen (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Keith Gerard Rackers (Louisville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Planar ceramic membrane assembly comprising a dense layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material, wherein the dense layer has a first side and a second side, a porous layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material in contact with the first side of the dense layer, and a ceramic channeled support layer in contact with the second side of the dense layer. The planar ceramic membrane assembly can be used in a ceramic wafer assembly comprising a planar ceramic channeled support layer having a first side and a second side; a first dense layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the first side of the ceramic channeled support layer; a first outer support layer comprising porous mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material and having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the outer side of the first dense layer; a second dense layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the second side of the ceramic channeled layer; and a second outer support layer comprising porous mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material and having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the outer side of the second dense layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/394620 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279077 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bettelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William T. Zollinger (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kraig M. Wendt (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a chemical composition such as a chemical hydride is described and which includes the steps of selecting a composition having chemical bonds and which is capable of forming a chemical hydride; providing a source of hydrogen; and exposing the selected composition to an amount of ionizing radiation to encourage the changing of the chemical bonds of the selected composition, and chemically reacting the selected composition with the source of hydrogen to facilitate the formation of a chemical hydride. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/685370 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/157.440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279137 | Alford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael Alford (Lakewood, Colorado); Michael D. Diener (Denver, Colorado); James Nabity (Arvada, Colorado); Michael Karpuk (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides improved burners, combustion apparatus, and methods for carbon nanomaterial production. The burners of the invention provide sooting flames of fuel and oxidizing gases. The condensable products of combustion produced by the burners of this invention produce carbon nanomaterials including without limitation, soot, fullerenic soot, and fullerenes. The burners of the invention do not require premixing of the fuel and oxidizing gases and are suitable for use with low vapor pressure fuels such as those containing substantial amounts of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The burners of the invention can operate with a hot (e.g., uncooled) burner surface and require little, if any, cooling or other forms of heat sinking. The burners of the invention comprise one or more refractory elements forming the outlet of the burner at which a flame can be established. The burners of the invention provide for improved flame stability, can be employed with a wider range of fuel/oxidizer (e.g., air) ratios and a wider range of gas velocities, and are generally more efficient than burners using water-cooled metal burner plates. The burners of the invention can also be operated to reduce the formation of undesirable soot deposits on the burner and on surfaces downstream of the burner. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/098829 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279143 | Bromberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie Bromberg (Sharon, Massachusetts); Daniel R. Cohn (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Alexander Rabinovich (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Nikolai Alexeev (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasmatron-catalyst system. The system generates hydrogen-rich gas and comprises a plasmatron and at least one catalyst for receiving an output from the plasmatron to produce hydrogen-rich gas. In a preferred embodiment, the plasmatron receives as an input air, fuel and water/steam for use in the reforming process. The system increases the hydrogen yield and decreases the amount of carbon monoxide. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/918306 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279882 | Degtiarenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel V. Degtiarenko (Williamsburg, Virginia); Danny Wayne Dotson (Gloucester, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A beam position detector for measuring the properties of a charged particle beam, including the beam's position, size, shape, and intensity. One or more absorbers are constructed of thermo-resistive material and positioned to intercept and absorb a portion of the incoming beam power, thereby causing local heating of each absorber. The local temperature increase distribution across the absorber, or the distribution between different absorbers, will depend on the intensity, size, and position of the beam. The absorbers are constructed of a material having a strong dependence of electrical resistivity on temperature. The beam position detector has no moving parts in the vicinity of the beam and is especially suited to beam areas having high ionizing radiation dose rates or poor beam quality, including beams dispersed in the transverse direction and in their time radio frequency structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957763 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07279884 — Temperature compensated and self-calibrated current sensor using reference magnetic field
| US 07279884 | Yakymyshyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Field Metrics, Inc (Seminole, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Paul Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida); Michael Allen Brubaker (Loveland, Colorado); Pamela Jane Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described to provide temperature compensation and self-calibration of a current sensor based on a plurality of magnetic field sensors positioned around a current carrying conductor. A reference magnetic field generated within the current sensor housing is detected by the magnetic field sensors and is used to correct variations in the output signal due to temperature variations and aging. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556932 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/117.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279885 | Yakymyshyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Field Metrics, Inc (Seminole, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Paul Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida); Michael Allen Brubaker (Loveland, Colorado); Pamela Jane Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described to provide temperature compensation and self-calibration of a current sensor based on a plurality of magnetic field sensors positioned around a current carrying conductor. A reference magnetic field generated within the current sensor housing is detected by a separate but identical magnetic field sensor and is used to correct variations in the output signal due to temperature variations and aging. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556947 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/117.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279899 | Michaeli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalom Michaeli (St. Paul, Minnesota); Michael G. Garwood (Medina, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Dennis J. Sorce (Cockeysville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, a system and method for modulating transverse and longitudinal relaxation time contrast in a rotating frame based on a train of radio frequency pulses. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244815 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280268 | Lucht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Lucht (West Lafayette, Indiana); Waruna D. Kulatilaka (West Lafayette, Indiana); Thomas N. Anderson (Seguin, Texas); Thomas L. Bougher (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical parametric oscillators (OPO) and systems are provided. The OPO has a non-linear optical material located between two optical elements where the product of the reflection coefficients of the optical elements are higher at the output wavelength than at either the pump or idler wavelength. The OPO output may be amplified using an additional optical parametric amplifier (OPA) stage. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173173 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07278298 | Hansma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the university of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul K. Hansma (Isla Vista, California); Georg Fantner (Santa Barbara, California); Johannes H. Kindt (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanner for probe microscopy that avoids low resonance frequencies and accounts better for piezo nonlinearities. The x, y and z axes of a linear stack scanner are partially decoupled from each other while maintaining all mechanical joints stiff in the direction of actuation. The scanning probe microscope comprises a probe, a housing, at least two actuators, each coupled to the housing, and a support coupled to the housing and to at least a first of the actuators at a position spaced from the point at which the actuator is coupled to the housing. The support constrains the motion of the first actuator along a first axis while permitting translation along a second axis. The actuators are preferably orthogonally arranged linear stacks of flat piezos, preferably in push-pull configuration. The support can take different forms in different embodiments of the invention. In a particular embodiment, the scanner is a 2D scanner having a support frame with x and y axes, and a member for supporting an object to be moved such as a sample for a probe, the scanner comprising a flexure and flexure coupled cross-conformed piezos arranged along x and y axes. Expansion of the piezos is measured by at least two strain gauges disposed to measure the differential motion of at least two opposed actuators. The strain gauges are preferably arranged to compensate for ambient temperature changes, and preferably two or more strain gauges of identical type are disposed on each actuator to magnify the strain signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000589 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279534 | Luebben et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Silvia DeVito Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Brian Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Carolina Wilson (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides block copolymers containing at least one block of a poly(heteroaromatic) polymer and at least two blocks of a non-conjugated polymer. The chemically different blocks of the copolymer are covalently bonded to each other in an alternating fashion through an appropriate linkage group. The poly(heteroaromatic) block may exist in its neutral or oxidized form, and when in the oxidized form, it associates with organic or inorganic counter-anions to balance the charge. The poly(heteroaromatic) polymer is an intrinsically conducting polymer (ICP), and when in the oxidized form it is electrically conducting. When the ICP block or blocks of the block copolymer are in the doped form, the block copolymer is electrically conducting. Preferably the conducting block copolymers have conductivities in the range 10−6-103 S/cm. Block copolymers of this invention are soluble or dispersible in water, one or more organic solvents, or in a mixture thereof at a level of at least about 0.1 g/liter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/234968 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279883 | Sohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lydia L. Sohn (Oakland, California); Omar A. Saleh (Holmdel, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lydia L. Sohn (Princeton, New Jersey); Omar A. Saleh (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantitative microchip Coulter counter is provided for use in detecting and measuring particles or macromolecules. The device comprises a conduit, a fluid handling system, and a measurement system. Preferably, the conduit is at least in part formed from an elastomeric material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/056103 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280268 | Lucht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Lucht (West Lafayette, Indiana); Waruna D. Kulatilaka (West Lafayette, Indiana); Thomas N. Anderson (Seguin, Texas); Thomas L. Bougher (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical parametric oscillators (OPO) and systems are provided. The OPO has a non-linear optical material located between two optical elements where the product of the reflection coefficients of the optical elements are higher at the output wavelength than at either the pump or idler wavelength. The OPO output may be amplified using an additional optical parametric amplifier (OPA) stage. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173173 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280604 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Space-time Doppler (STDO) coding techniques are describe for time-selective channels. In particular, a STDO coded system is capable of achieving a maximum Doppler diversity for time-selective frequency-flat channels. As demonstrated herein, this maximum diversity may be represented as Q+1, where Q is the number of bases in a generalized Basis Expansion Model (BEM) for time-frequency selective channels. In addition, linearly precoded transmissions are described to collect this maximum diversity gain. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421678 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280697 | Perona et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pietro Perona (Altadena, California); Markus Weber (Munich, Germany); Max Welling (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Unsupervised learning of object category from images is carried out by using an automatic image recognition system. A plurality of training images are automatically analyzed using an interest operator which produces an indication of features. Those features are clustered using a vector guantizer. The model is learned from the features using expectation maximization to assess a joint probability of which features are most relevant. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/066318 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280986 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois); Tian-Li Yu (Urbana, Illinois); Ali Yassine (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and program products for optimizing clustering of a design structure matrix. An embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of using a genetic operator to achieve an optimal clustering of a design structure matrix model. Other exemplary embodiments of the invention leverage the optimal clustering by applying a genetic operator on a module-specific basis. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774676 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07279163 | Holt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Petter S. Holt (Colbert, Georgia); Cam R. Greene (Jefferson, Georgia); Henry D. Stone (Colbert, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Oil-in-Water emulsion vaccines induce higher biliary IgA responses which decrease mucosal/internal organ invasion and fecal shedding, increase specific activity of serum IgG subpopulations, and increase the relative avidity index of serum IgG subpopulations, resulting in increased protection from disease in animals. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/101943 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279166 | Meng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Martijn Fenaux (Redwood City, California); Patrick G. Halbur (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to infectious DNA clones, infectious chimeric DNA clones of porcine circovirus (PCV), vaccines and means of protecting pigs against viral infection or postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) caused by PCV2. The new chimeric infectious DNA clone and its derived, avirulent chimeric virus are constructed from the nonpathogenic PCV1 in which the immunogenic ORF gene of the pathogenic PCV2 replaces a gene of the nonpathogenic PCV1, preferably in the same position. The chimeric virus advantageously retains the nonpathogenic phenotype of PCV1 but elicits specific immune responses against the pathogenic PCV2. The invention further embraces the immunogenic polypeptide expression products. In addition, the invention encompasses two mutations in the PCV2 immunogenic capsid gene and protein, and the introduction of the ORF2 mutations in the chimeric clones. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808964 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279448 | Erhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The PENN State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sevim Z. Erhan (Peoria, Illinois); Atanu Adhvaryu (Peoria, Illinois); Brajendra K. Sharma (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel class of chemically-modified vegetable oils is prepared by reacting epoxidized triglyceride oils with thiols. The resultant poly(hydroxy thioether) derivatives have utility as antiwear/antifriction additives for environmentally-friendly industrial oils and automotive applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887127 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07278857 | Fork et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David K. Fork (Los Altos, California); Thomas Hantschel (Wevelgem, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | A spring contact has a post-release outer upper surface in compression and a post-release outer lower surface in compression. A compressive lower layer of spring material may be formed at a thickness that is three-eighths or less of a tensile upper layer of spring material. A low modulus of elasticity cladding material may also be applied to the outer surface of the spring contact with a lower surface of the cladding material being formed with a compressive stress. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/347740 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07279085 | Hudspeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heather Diane Hudspeth (Clifton Park, New York); Reed Roeder Corderman (Niskayuna, New York); Renee Bushey Rohling (Burnt Hills, New York); Lauraine Denault (Nassau, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to gated nanorod field emission devices, wherein such devices have relatively small emitter tip-to-gate distances, thereby providing a relatively high emitter tip density and low turn on voltage. Such methods employ a combination of traditional device processing techniques (lithography, etching, etc.) with electrochemical deposition of nanorods. These methods are relatively simple, cost-effective, and efficient; and they provide field emission devices that are suitable for use in x-ray imaging applications, lighting applications, flat panel field emission display (FED) applications, etc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185007 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07278324 | Smits et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan M. Smits (Monument, Colorado); Marlen T. Kite (Hayes, Virginia); Thomas C. Moore (Poquoson, Virginia); Russell A. Wincheski (Williamsburg, Virginia); JoAnne L. Ingram (Norfolk, Virginia); Anthony N. Watkins (Hampton, Virginia); Phillip A. Williams (Suffolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor has a plurality of carbon nanotube (CNT)-based conductors operatively positioned on a substrate. The conductors are arranged side-by-side, such as in a substantially parallel relationship to one another. At least one pair of spaced-apart electrodes is coupled to opposing ends of the conductors. A portion of each of the conductors spanning between each pair of electrodes comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes arranged end-to-end and substantially aligned along an axis. Because a direct correlation exists between the resistance of a carbon nanotube and its strain, changes experienced by the portion of the structure to which the sensor is coupled induce a corresponding change in the electrical properties of the conductors, thereby enabling detection of crack growth in the structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155923 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/799 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280941 | Bonanni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierino Gianni Bonanni (Clifton Park, New York); Brent Jerome Brunell (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for performing a fault estimation based on residuals of detected signals includes determining an operating regime based on a plurality of parameters, extracting predetermined noise standard deviations of the residuals corresponding to the operating regime and scaling the residuals, calculating a magnitude of a measurement vector of the scaled residuals and comparing the magnitude to a decision threshold value, extracting an average, or mean direction and a fault level mapping for each of a plurality of fault types, based on the operating regime, calculating a projection of the measurement vector onto the average direction of each of the plurality of fault types, determining a fault type based on which projection is maximum, and mapping the projection to a continuous-valued fault level using a lookup table. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025145 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07278327 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy N. Chang (Montville, New Jersey); Biao Cheng (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Simultaneous pressure and position information is accurately measured in a sensor realized by utilizing first and second sensor elements that each exhibit a decreasing width over the length of the sensor element and that are arranged overlapping each other and in a substantially complementary orientation to one another with respect to the width so that the point of narrowest width of the first sensor element overlaps the point of the widest width of the second sensor element. Pressure applied to the sensor causes each sensor element to generate an electrical signal that is proportional to both the applied pressure and the surface area at the location of the applied pressure. As a result of the complementary orientation and overlapping for these sensor elements, the first and second sensor elements generate an asymmetric pair of signals that uniquely define the applied pressure by position and magnitude. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/189338 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07279137 | Alford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael Alford (Lakewood, Colorado); Michael D. Diener (Denver, Colorado); James Nabity (Arvada, Colorado); Michael Karpuk (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides improved burners, combustion apparatus, and methods for carbon nanomaterial production. The burners of the invention provide sooting flames of fuel and oxidizing gases. The condensable products of combustion produced by the burners of this invention produce carbon nanomaterials including without limitation, soot, fullerenic soot, and fullerenes. The burners of the invention do not require premixing of the fuel and oxidizing gases and are suitable for use with low vapor pressure fuels such as those containing substantial amounts of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The burners of the invention can operate with a hot (e.g., uncooled) burner surface and require little, if any, cooling or other forms of heat sinking. The burners of the invention comprise one or more refractory elements forming the outlet of the burner at which a flame can be established. The burners of the invention provide for improved flame stability, can be employed with a wider range of fuel/oxidizer (e.g., air) ratios and a wider range of gas velocities, and are generally more efficient than burners using water-cooled metal burner plates. The burners of the invention can also be operated to reduce the formation of undesirable soot deposits on the burner and on surfaces downstream of the burner. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/098829 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07280122 | Bobrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Bobrow (Arlington, Massachusetts); R. Bruce Roberts (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Colin Ware (Durham, New Hampshire); Ronald M. Pickett (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one example, icons in a link-analysis display that represent data objects satisfying a selection criterion are made to execute distinctive motion. In another example, three-dimensional models of moving bodies in whose features components of respective data objects are encoded are projected onto a screen plane, and the resultant values are used to generate the display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431678 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/619 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07280377 | Johnson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Johnson (Washington, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, a backup fuel cell, for example, is coupled to a utility power grid, through a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit may include an inverter circuit, pulse generating circuit and control circuit. The inverter circuit is configured to receive a DC signal and output a first AC signal, and the pulse generating circuit generates a pulse signal in response to a change in a parameter associated with a second utility generated AC signal. The control circuit is coupled to the inverter circuit, and is configured to receive the pulse signal. In addition, the control circuit supplies a control signal to the inverter circuit to adjust a parameter associated with the first AC signal in response to the pulse. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/918354 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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