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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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| US 07281482 | Beauchamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Beauchamp (Seekonk, Massachusetts); William P. Krol, Jr. (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of use for a marine vehicle to compensate for the effects of forward velocity of the vehicle and ambient currents of a water medium on lateral thrust from a lateral tunnel in the vehicle. A thruster in the tunnel has a variable pitch propeller rotated by a motor at a maintained constant speed to produce lateral thrust of flowing water through the tunnel. A power supply provides input power to the motor, and voltage and amp meters provide signals representative of the power. A computer generates pitch control signals from the representative signals, and a pitch actuator connected to the propeller and the computer is responsive to the pitch control signals to change the blade pitch of the propeller in order to maintain the lateral thrust at a predetermined level. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527644 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07281809 | Warren |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Warren (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a mirror structure includes assembling a supporting isogrid framework, assembling an isogrid back plane, interconnecting the supporting isogrid framework with the isogrid back plane by a truss core, and disposing an optical surface on the supporting isogrid framework. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/284499 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/848 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282282 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Su Ha (Champaign, Illinois); Brian Adams (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive direct organic fuel cell includes an organic fuel solution and is operative to produce at least 15 mW/cm2 when operating at room temperature. In additional aspects of the invention, fuel cells can include a gas remover configured to promote circulation of an organic fuel solution when gas passes through the solution, a modified carbon cloth, one or more sealants, and a replaceable fuel cartridge. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/664772 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282320 | Fourkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher E. Olson (Boylston, Massachusetts); Michael J. R. Previte (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A three dimensional optical data storage and retrieval system that includes a three dimensional optical data storage medium and an apparatus for providing access to data stored on the medium. The data storage medium includes an optical data storage material which either a low molecular weight or polymeric glassy solid that are capable of undergoing multi-photon excitation that are energetically different in the write and read cycles. The optical data storage materials provide substantially higher storage capacities relative to conventional materials, and show high robustness in that written and stored data can undergo multiple read cycles without erasure or overwriting. An apparatus for data recording and accessing stored data on the medium includes a controllable variable energy photo-emitting excitation source and an emission photo-detector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269016 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282329 | Manalis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Manalis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas Burg (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detecting an analyte in solution that has a suspended beam containing at least one microfluidic channel containing a capture ligand that bonds to or reacts with an analyte. The apparatus also includes at least one detector for measuring a change in the beam upon binding or reaction of the analyte. A method of making the suspended microfluidic channels is disclosed, as well as, a method of integrating the microfluidic device with conventional microfluidics having larger sample fluid channels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669883 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282391 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Stephen Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); Leena Paivikki Buchwalter (Hopewell Junction, New York); Raymond R. Horton (Dover Plains, New York); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Cornelia K. Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York); Steven Lorenz Wright (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic dive and method of fabricating an electronic device. The method including placing a placement guide over a top surface of a module substrate, the placement guide having a guide opening, the guide opening extending from a top surface of the placement guide to a bottom surface of the placement guide; aligning the placement guide to an integrated circuit chip position on the module substrate; fixing the placement guide to the module substrate; placing an integrated circuit chip in the guide opening, sidewalls of the placement guide opening constraining electrically conductive bonding structures on bottom surface of the integrated circuit chip to self-align to an electrically conductive module substrate contact pad on the top surface of the module substrate in the integrated circuit chip position; and bonding the bonding structures to the module substrate contact pads, the bonding structures and the module substrate contact pads in direct physical and electrical contact after the bonding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385121 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282456 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Qiangfei Xia (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, the structure of a patterned nanoscale or near nanoscale device (“nanostructure”) is repaired and/or enhanced by liquifying the patterned device in the presence of appropriate guiding conditions for a period of time and then permitting the device to solidify. Advantageous guiding conditions include adjacent spaced apart or contacting surfaces to control surface structure and preserve vertically. Unconstrained boundaries to permit smoothing of edge roughness. In an advantageous embodiment, a flat planar surface is disposed overlying a patterned nanostructure surface and the surface is liquified by a high intensity light source to repair or enhance the nanoscale features. |
| FILED | Monday, May 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/442900 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282466 | Long 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 W Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Wendy Baker (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to sulfur-functionalized polymer gels and carbon gels, including aerogels, and such carbon gels containing platinum or metal nanoparticles. The platinum-containing gels may be useful as fuel-cell electrodes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985072 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282576 | Riegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna T. Riegel (Washington, District of Columbia); Ronald Reiter (Sølzburg, Austria); Anton Wellstein (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the AIB1 protein as a coactivator that potentiates the transcriptional activity of nuclear hormone receptors. The gene is amplified in a subset of human breast cancers. One splice variant of AIB1 transcribes a mRNA that lacks the exon 3 sequence. Δ3-AIB1 mRNA encodes a 130 kDa protein that lacks the N-terminal basic helix-loop-helix and a portion of the PAS dimerization domain. This 130 kDa protein was detected in MCF-7 breast cancer cells at levels 5-10% of the full length protein, whereas in non transformed mammary epithelium lines the Δ3-AIB1 protein is present at significantly lower levels compared to the full length AIB1. The abundance of Δ3-AIB1 mRNA is increased in human breast cancer specimens relative to that in normal breast tissue. Functional reporter gene assays revealed that the ability of Δ3-AIB1 to promote transcription mediated by the estrogen or progesterone receptors was significantly greater than that of the full-length protein. The Δ3-AIB1 isoform was also more effective than AIB1 in promoting transcription induced by epidermal growth factor. Thus, over expression of Δ3-AIB1 plays an important role in sensitizing breast tumor cells to hormone or growth factor stimulation. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/751113 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282634 | Kuklinski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The apparatus of the present invention utilizes the heat energy of a weapon propulsion system to produce a vapor explosion. It includes an outer shell with a nozzle port and a body being made from a metal. The body surrounds a propulsion device and captures its waste heat to heat metal within the body. An explosive device is embedded in the body and can explode on transmission of a signal whereby the heated metal within the body produces a vapor explosion that significantly enhances the effectiveness and lethality of the weapon. The apparatus also discloses a second metal in the body and a heat shield for further enhancing effectiveness. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398735 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/20.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282753 | Kub 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) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Invention Is A Method For Making Power Device On A Semiconductor Wafer, Where The Backside Of The Wafer Has Been Thinned In Selected Regions To A Thickness Of About 25 Um By Reactive Ion Etching. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534310 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282777 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shun Lien Chuang (Urbana, Illinois); Jian Li (Pasadena, California); Rui Q. Yang (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting radiation, typically in the infrared. Photons are absorbed in an active region of a semiconductor device such that the absorption induces an interband electronic transition and generates photo-excited charge carriers. The charge carriers are coupled into a carrier transport region having multiple quantum wells and characterized by intersubband relaxation that provides rapid charge carrier collection. The photo-excited carriers are collected from the carrier transport region at a conducting contact region. Another carrier transport region characterized by interband tunneling for multiple stages draws charge carriers from another conducting contact and replenishes the charge carriers to the active region for photo-excitation. A photocurrent is generated between the conducting contacts through the active region of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227989 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282832 | Howard |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond T. Howard (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting rotating machine includes a stator assembly having at least one stator coil assembly. A rotor assembly, which includes an axial shaft, is configured to rotate within the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes at least one superconducting winding assembly. A first and second end plate are rigidly attached to the axial shaft at distal ends of the at least one superconducting winding assembly. An asynchronous field filtering shield surrounds the at least one superconducting winding assembly. A first interconnection assembly connects the shield to the first end plate. The first interconnection assembly allows for axial movement between the shield and the first end plate but restricts tangential movement between the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/956328 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283010 | Seefeldt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Seefeldt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for providing a power supply compensated voltage or current is presented. A supply compensated current and voltage source utilizes a differential amplifier connected to a bandgap reference voltage and a scaled power supply voltage. When power supply varies, the differential amplifier regulates a stable compensated output. The output may be a compensated voltage or current. In addition, multiple currents and voltages may be referenced from the differential amplifier. The stable compensated output may be supplied as a reference bias for external circuitry. In addition, the compensated output may be supplied to a voltage controlled oscillator. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254473 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283045 | Manz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul C. Manz (Matawan, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An information system, method, and computer program product is provided for the semi-distributed warning of existing or developing significant events and/or threats to all network bridges in the system, and then to affected users carrying a user warning and positioning device, while reporting the location of all user's carrying the user warning and positioning devices of the system to existing command and control systems. The present invention's future event warning capabilities permit those same users to be warned of impending events in enough time for the users to take positive actions in response to these events and/or address those events. The system of the present invention includes a pager-like user warning and positioning device, worn by or carried by the individual user, or mounted in a vehicle or vessel, having a geographical positioning means therein, which periodically transmits the geographical location of the individual user, vehicle or vessel to local network bridges, and listens for warning/notification event messages transmitted by the local network bridge. When an event/threat warning is received by an affected user warning and positioning device, the pager-like user warning and positioning alerts the user via indicia relative to the event/situation, including audible spoken warnings and instructions on how to react, and may retransmit the event/threat warning to other user warning and positioning devices in the network, provided the threat has not occurred and the event/threat warning has not been previously relayed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489806 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283103 | Wangsvick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad M. Wangsvick (Tucson, Arizona); Gary M. Salvail (Camarillo, California); Joseph A. Robson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact broadband antenna. The antenna includes a first mechanism for receiving input electromagnetic energy. A second mechanism provides radiated electromagnetic energy upon receipt of the input electromagnetic energy. The radiated electromagnetic energy is provided via an antenna element having one or more angled surfaces. A third mechanism directs the radiated electromagnetic energy in a specific direction. In a more specific embodiment, the third mechanism includes a reflective backstop that is selectively positioned behind the second mechanism to reflect back-radiated energy forward of the second mechanism, thereby causing reflected electromagnetic energy to combine in phase with forward-radiated energy from the second mechanism. The third mechanism further includes plural layers of dielectric material. One or more of the plural layers of dielectric material partially surround an angled radiating surface of the second mechanism, which is implemented via a substantially conical transmit element in the specific embodiment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838549 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/775 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283347 | Reid, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Reid, Jr. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital variable capacitor package is provided as having a ground plane disposed on predetermined portion of the top surface of a substrate. An elongated signal electrode may also be disposed on the substrate and including a first end defining an input and a second end extending to a substantially central region of the top surface of the substrate. This elongated signal electrode is disposed to be electrically isolated from the ground plane. A number of elongated cantilevers are disposed on the substrate and each include first ends coupled to the second end of the signal electrode and each further include second ends suspended over different predetermined portions of the ground plane. In operation, one or more of the cantilevers may be actuated to move portion thereof into close proximity to the ground plane for providing one or more discrete capacitance values. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217849 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283424 | Kuklinski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method are provided to accurately track the trajectory of high-speed underwater objects. A number of hoops with means for controlling the buoyancy thereof are aligned on a range in the anticipated path of the high speed projectile. The hoops are sufficiently large relative to the size of the projectile and anticipated path. Each hoop contains a number of independent hydrophones. The signals from the hydrophones may be analyzed to accurately determine position and track of an underwater projectile along the plane of each hoop. The system may be used as a fixed range or as a mobile range in a remote location. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499973 |
| 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 367/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283425 | Stevenson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willard Stevenson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A water flow noise measuring apparatus comprising: a frame; a beam comprising a distal and a proximal end, where the proximal end is pivotably coupled to the frame; a hydrophone capable of detecting water flow noise and generating water flow noise data, where the hydrophone is coupled to the beam at a predetermined distance from the proximal end; an angular displacement sensor capable of detecting the angular displacement of the beam with respect to the frame and generating a displacement detection signal, where the angular displacement sensor is operably coupled to the beam and the frame; and a computer capable of receiving the water flow noise data and the displacement detection signal, determining the tangential velocity of the hydrophone from the displacement detection signal, and generating an output signal representing the water flow noise data as a function of the tangential velocity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512538 |
| 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 367/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283475 | Fortin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher S. Fortin (No. Kingston, Rhode Island); David B. Cousins (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A network tap [120/220] monitors traffic transmissions in a network [100/200]. The tap records transmission time information [501] between data transmitted in the network. From the transmission time information, the tap calculates differences in transmission times [500], and assumes the differences in transmission times are distributed as fractional gaussian noise. Housdorff dimensions are calculated for the fractional gaussian noise distributions. The Housdorff dimensions are used to generate traffic analysis information for the network, even when the data transmitted on the network is encrypted. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/264777 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283664 | Magee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Magee (Rio Medina, Texas); Ernest A. Franke (San Antonio, Texas); Jeremy K. Zoss (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of interactively using a computer to select a sensor combination for analyzing images of a scene in order to distinguish between objects or patterns. Two or more images are acquired, each image from a different sensor. One or more regions of interest (ROIs) are then defined in the scene. A parallel axis plot is then used to display pixel traces of pixels from the ROI, with each axis of the plot representing one of the images. One or more axes may then be constrained, by selecting a range of values on an axis. Pixel traces that satisfy the constraint are illustrated graphically. Further analysis is performed by displaying pixel images of the constrained image, and by performing statistical analysis of the constraint(s). |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351115 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283712 | Shaw 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) | L. Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Peter A. Thielen (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a glass fiber, a Raman device and a method. The fiber is a hollow core photonic bandgap chalcogenide glass fiber that includes a hollow core for passing light therethrough, a Raman active gas disposed in said core, a microstructured region disposed around said core, and a solid region disposed around said microstructured region for providing structural integrity to said microstructured region. The device includes a coupler for introducing at least one light signal into a hollow core of a chalcogenide photonic bandgap fiber; a hollow core chalcogenide photonic bandgap glass fiber; a microstructured fiber region disposed around said core; a solid fiber region disposed around said microstructured region for providing structural integrity to said microstructured region; and a Raman active gas disposed in the hollow core. The method includes the steps of introducing a light beam into a hollow core chalcogenide photonic bandgap glass fiber filled with a Raman active gas disposed in the core, conveying the beam through the core while it interacts with the gas to form a Stokes beam of a typically higher wavelength, and removing the Stokes beam from the core of the fiber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122203 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283751 | Bruesselbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans W. Bruesselbach (Monte Nido, California); Monica Minden (Monte Nido, California); Metin S. Mangir (Santa Monica, California); Cris Jones (Malibu, California); David M. Pepper (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for compensating for phase fluctuations incurred by an optical beam travelling through free space, especially a turbulent atmosphere. A transmitting station transmits a plurality of uniquely tagged optical beams through free space. The plurality of uniquely tagged optical beams are received at a receiving station, where a parameter of each uniquely tagged optical beam is quantified. Information associated with the quantified parameter for each uniquely tagged optical beam is then sent back to the transmitting station via a wireless feedback link. Using the information, the transmitting station adjusts at least one uniquely tagged optical beam to compensate for phase fluctuations. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759509 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283908 | Posey 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) | Pamela Posey (Carriere, Mississippi); Ruth H Preller (Slidell, Louisiana); Gretchen Dawson (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for estimating ocean surface height and currents at points within a geographic grid. The method includes receiving a user selected location, receiving bathymetric data from a global database, determining whether the user selected location corresponds to a land location or a water covered location by referring to the bathymetric data. If the user selected location is a water-covered location, current and ocean height deviation are estimated for the user selected location. If the user selected location is a land location, current and ocean height deviation for the closest grid point that is water covered are estimated. In exemplary embodiments, the system is rapidly relocatable, has worldwide coverage, and can run on a PC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268399 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283933 | Roach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Roach (St. Charles, Missouri); James J. Sheahan, Jr. (Florissant, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for monitoring a reliability status of an actuator include determining a virtual actuator load value (VALV) based on various load factor parameters of a structural system component controlled by the actuator, absent sensed load values from the actuator. A virtual output force value (VOFV) is determined based on various actuator operational control values that occur in response to a position command from a main control and monitoring system of the structural system. A virtual torque efficiency (VTE) of the actuator is calculated based on the VALV and the VOFV. The VTE of the actuator is periodically calculated as the measured load factor parameters and the measured actuator operational control values change during operation of the structural system. The VTE data is collected, stored and analyzed to monitor the reliability status of the actuator during the life of the actuator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/359740 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
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| US 07283962 | Meyerhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Meyerhoff (Silver Spring, Maryland); John H. L. Hansen (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | As disclosed herein, the present invention provides methods and systems for detecting, measuring, or monitoring the presence of absence of at least one emotion in a subject from a speech sample obtained from the subject. In particular, the methods and systems of the present invention comprise extracting at least one feature from the speech sample, assigning the speech sample a score using a weighted frequency band scoring scheme, and comparing the score with a general reference model or a control. As disclosed, the methods, systems and computer programs of the present invention provide detection error rates of about 4.7% or less, preferably about 3.0% or less, more preferably about 2.0% or less, most preferably about 1.0% or less and thereby reduced the detection error rate by about 60.0% or more, preferably about 70.0% or more, more preferably about 80.0% or more, even more preferably about 90% or more, and most preferably 95.0% or more than the detection error rates of prior art methods. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392881 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07282205 | Schofield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren J. Schofield (Royston, United Kingdom); Suzanne U. Emerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimpanzee monoclonal antibodies and antigen binding fragments including a γ1-chain CDR3 region that bind hepatitis A virus (HAV) antigen are disclosed herein. The antibodies neutralize HAV. Also disclosed are methods for using these antibodies and antigen binding fragments in the detection of hepatitis A virus, the inhibition of infection of a subject with hepatitis A virus, and in screening for agents that affect HAV. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/494676 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/141.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282206 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Wynn (Silver Spring, Maryland); Monica G. Chiaramonte (Rockville, Maryland); Mary Collins (Natick, Massachusetts); Debra Donaldson (Medford, Massachusetts); Lori Fitz (Arlington, Massachusetts); Tamlyn Neben (Walnut Creek, California); Matthew J. Whitters (Hudson, Massachusetts); Clive Wood (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for treating or inhibiting the formation of tissue fibrosis using IL-13 antagonists, including without limitation soluble forms of the IL-13 receptor. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/671034 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07282364 — Polynucleotides encoding antigenic HIV type B polypeptides, polypeptides and uses thereof
| US 07282364 | Megede et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Zur Megede (San Francisco, California); Susan Barnett (San Francisco, California); Ying Lian (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding immunogenic HIV polypeptides. Uses of the polynucleotides in applications including immunization, generation of packaging cell lines, and production of HIV polypeptides are also described. Polynucleotides encoding antigenic HIV polypeptides are described, as are uses of these polynucleotides and polypeptide products therefrom, including formulations of immunogenic compositions and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976619 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282373 | Ebright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Yon W. Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-assembled relay probe for detecting a target material is provided including: a first peptide tag bound to the target material; and a first fluorescent conjugate including a first fluorochrome and a first tag binding group; wherein the first fluorescent conjugate selectively associates with the first tag. The probe further includes a second peptide tag bound to the target material; and a second fluorescent conjugate including a second fluorochrome having a longer wavelength and distinct excitation and emission maxima from the first fluorochrome and a second tag binding group. Upon exposure to the target material, the first and second fluorescent conjugates independently associate with the first and second peptide tags, respectively, so as to be a distance apart represented by about 0.1 times R0 to about 2 times R0, such that upon excitation of the first fluorescent conjugate, fluorescence resonance energy transfer results in excitation of the second fluorescent conjugate, yielding detectable emission from the second fluorescent conjugate. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257292 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282477 | Schiemann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Schiemann (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are Cystatin C (CysC) homologues, including CystC homologues that act as antagonists or inhibitors of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β). Also disclosed are methods to identify CystC homologues that are antagonists or inhibitors of TGF-β and compositions and therapeutic methods using CystC and homologues thereof to regulate the activity of TGF-β, and TGF-β-mediated tumor malignancy and invasion and other TGF-β-mediated fibrotic or proliferative conditions and diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967093 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282490 | Chabas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dorothee Chabas (Paris, France); Lawrence Steinman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for reducing the amount of osteopontin in an osteopontin-expressing cell comprising introducing into the cell a nucleic acid which specifically inhibits osteopontin expression in the cell. This invention also provides methods for inhibiting the onset of, and treating, osteopontin-related disorders, as well as compositions for practicing the same. This invention further provides methods for determining the amount of osteopontin in a sample, and a kit for practicing the same. This invention also provides methods for determining whether an agent reduces the amount of osteopontin in an osteopontin-expressing cell. Finally, this invention provides methods for treating a subject afflicted with a disorder mediated by an endogenous protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/495893 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282491 | Darwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katerina Heran Darwin (New York, New York); Carl F. Nathan (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treating Mycobacterium pathogen infection in a subject that involve: inhibiting proteasomal activity in a pathogen under conditions effective to make the pathogen susceptible to antibacterial host defenses; inhibiting enzyme activity in a pathogen under conditions effective to make the pathogen susceptible to antibacterial host defenses, where the enzyme is a DNA repair enzyme or a flavin-like co-factor synthesis enzyme, or inhibiting proteasomal and enzyme activity under conditions to make the pathogen susceptible to antibacterial host defenses. The present invention also relates to methods for screening compounds that inhibit proteasomal and protease activity, DNA repair enzyme activity, or flavin-like co-factor synthesis enzyme activity, where the inhibitory compounds have an ability to sensitize bacteria to the antibacterial effects of oxidative/nitrosative stress. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730555 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282521 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuo-Hsiung Lee (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Fang-Rong Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Yojiro Sakurai (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Chin Ho Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides moronic acid derivatives of the general formula: which have antiviral activity, along with compositions containing the same and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134904 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/548 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282556 | Parkos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Parkos (Norcross, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides that can modulate SIRPα-CD47 functions and methods of use of the polypeptides are presented. In addition, polynucleotides that encode the polypeptides referred to above are presented. Further, pharmaceutical compositions to treat conditions are presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/473495 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282557 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California); Jon E. Adler (Pacific Beach, California); Juergen Lindemeier (Werl, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of sensory cell specific G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of sensory cell specific G-protein coupled receptors. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/096144 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282564 | Mello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); Carnegie Institute of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Andrew Fire (Baltimore, Maryland); Hiroaki Tabara (Worcester, Massachusetts); Alla Grishok (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Genes involved in double-stranded RNA interference (RNAi pathway genes) are identified and used to investigate the RNAi pathway. The genes and their products are also useful for modulating RNAi pathway activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/645746 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282572 | Sanders |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ECI Biotech, Inc. (Worcester, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell C. Sanders (West Boylston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for expressing proteins as a fusion chimera with a domain of p26 or alpha crystallin type proteins to improve the protein stability and solubility when over expressed in bacteria such as E. coli is provided. Genes of interest are cloned into the multiple cloning site of the Vector System just downstream of the p26 or alpha crystallin type protein and a thrombin cleavage site. Protein expression is driven by a strong bacterial promoter (TAC). The expression is induced by the addition of 1 mM IPTG that overcomes the lac repression (lac Iq). The soluble recombinant protein is purified using a fusion tag. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439511 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282576 | Riegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna T. Riegel (Washington, District of Columbia); Ronald Reiter (Sølzburg, Austria); Anton Wellstein (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the AIB1 protein as a coactivator that potentiates the transcriptional activity of nuclear hormone receptors. The gene is amplified in a subset of human breast cancers. One splice variant of AIB1 transcribes a mRNA that lacks the exon 3 sequence. Δ3-AIB1 mRNA encodes a 130 kDa protein that lacks the N-terminal basic helix-loop-helix and a portion of the PAS dimerization domain. This 130 kDa protein was detected in MCF-7 breast cancer cells at levels 5-10% of the full length protein, whereas in non transformed mammary epithelium lines the Δ3-AIB1 protein is present at significantly lower levels compared to the full length AIB1. The abundance of Δ3-AIB1 mRNA is increased in human breast cancer specimens relative to that in normal breast tissue. Functional reporter gene assays revealed that the ability of Δ3-AIB1 to promote transcription mediated by the estrogen or progesterone receptors was significantly greater than that of the full-length protein. The Δ3-AIB1 isoform was also more effective than AIB1 in promoting transcription induced by epidermal growth factor. Thus, over expression of Δ3-AIB1 plays an important role in sensitizing breast tumor cells to hormone or growth factor stimulation. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/751113 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282582 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kannan Muthukumaran (Raleigh, North Carolina); Marcin Ptaszek (Raleigh, North Carolina); H. Z. Syeda Huma (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a metal complex comprises combining a 1-monoacyldipyrromethane with a compound of the formula R1R2MX, wherein M is boron, R1 and R2 are each independently organic substituents; and X is an anion leaving group; to produce a metal complex of the formula DMR1R2 wherein DH is a 1-monoacyldipyrromethane. The methods and complexes are useful for the purification and synthesis of dipyrromethanes and porphyrins. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559138 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282590 | Ojima |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iwao Ojima (Port Jefferson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the formula Y-A-Z, wherein: A is a 5, 6, or 7 member ring that is monocyclic or is fused to 1 to 3 additional 4 to 8 member rings; wherein ring A and, independently, the fused additional rings are carbocyclic or heterocyclic, and saturated or unsaturated, wherein unsaturated rings are aromatic or non-aromatic; wherein Y and Z are substituents at adjacent positions on ring A; Y represents: Z represents: X and E represent O, S, or NRa or NRb; each of a, b, c, d, e and f independently represents 0 or 1; a+c equals 0, 1, or 2; b+d equals 0, 1, or 2; a+b+c+d+e+f equals 1, 2, or 3; provided that when f is 1, then d is 1, and when d is 0, then f is 0; and when both e and b are 0, then neither R1 nor R2 is chloro or bromo; v represents 0 or 1, provided that when v is 0, then J is hydrogen, a metal ion, or a quaternary ammonium ion; and X is O and G is H; either G is hydrogen, a metal ion, a quaternary ammonium ion, lower alkyl, or comprised of a pharmaceutically active chemical compound or the precursor thereof; or X-G represents a carbonyl-activating group; J is lower alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, omega-hydroxycarbonyl-(lower alkyl), omega-(lower alkoxy)carbonyl-(lower alkyl), omega-(X-G)-carbonyl-(lower alkyl) group, or comprised of a specific binding agent; and Ra, Rb, R1, R2, R3, R4 are as defined in the specification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053655 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282915 | Giaquinto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York); The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy Otto John Giaquinto (Burnt Hills, New York); Harvey Ellis Cline (Schenectady, New York); Christopher Judson Hardy (Niskayuna, New York); Charles Lucian Dumoulin (Ballston Lake, New York); Paul Arthur Bottomley (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF coil assembly for use in a multiple receive-channel MRI system is provided. The RF coil assembly is configured as a multi-turn-element RF coil assembly to operate as a surface-coil array in cooperation with the MRI system which is configured to operate in a multiple-channel receive mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962819 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282917 | Brau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anja C. S. Brau (Menlo Park, California); Philip James Beatty (Menlo Park, California); Stefan Skare (Palo Alto, California); Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for parallel imaging that performs auto-calibrating reconstructions with a 2D (for 2D imaging) or 3D kernel (for 3D imaging) that exploits the computational efficiencies available when operating in certain data “domains” or “spaces”. The reconstruction process of multi-coil data is separated into a “training phase” and an “application phase” in which reconstruction weights are applied to acquired data to synthesize (replace) missing data. The choice of data space, i.e., k-space, hybrid space, or image space, in which each step occurs is independently optimized to reduce total reconstruction time for a given imaging application. As such, the invention retains the image quality benefits of using a 2D k-space kernel without the computational burden of applying a 2D k-space convolution kernel. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278039 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283937 | Goldberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Goldberg (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for processing data values in a data set to create a data value representation having a signal side. The data set contains valid data values and noise data values where the number of the valid data values is statistically insignificant with respect to the number of noise data values. The system determines a statistically significant portion of the signal side and fits a curve to the statistically significant portion which extends beyond the statistically significant portion of the signal side. Once the curve is determined, the system can determine a data-validity confidence value for one of the data values responsive to the curve. The data-validity confidence value can be used determine that a data value in a set of spectral data is not a noise data value. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314986 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07282282 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Su Ha (Champaign, Illinois); Brian Adams (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive direct organic fuel cell includes an organic fuel solution and is operative to produce at least 15 mW/cm2 when operating at room temperature. In additional aspects of the invention, fuel cells can include a gas remover configured to promote circulation of an organic fuel solution when gas passes through the solution, a modified carbon cloth, one or more sealants, and a replaceable fuel cartridge. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/664772 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282470 | Tucker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Tucker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert H. Comstock (Gardendale, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A decontamination formulation and method of making that neutralizes the adverse health effects of both chemical and biological compounds, especially chemical warfare (CW) and biological warfare (BW) agents, and toxic industrial chemicals. The formulation provides solubilizing compounds that serve to effectively render the chemical and biological compounds, particularly CW and BW compounds, susceptible to attack, and at least one reactive compound that serves to attack (and detoxify or kill) the compound. The formulation includes at least one solubilizing agent, a reactive compound, a bleaching activator, a sorbent additive, and water. The highly adsorbent, water-soluble sorbent additive (e.g., sorbitol or mannitol) is used to “dry out” one or more liquid ingredients, such as the liquid bleaching activator (e.g., propylene glycol diacetate or glycerol diacetate) and convert the activator into a dry, free-flowing powder that has an extended shelf life, and is more convenient to handle and mix in the field. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/623370 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282676 | Bouchier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis A. Bouchier (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lester H. Arakaki (Edgewood, New Mexico); Eric S. Varley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for controlling the electric resistance heating of a metallic chemical preconcentrator screen, for example, used in portable trace explosives detectors. The length of the heating time-period is automatically adjusted to compensate for any changes in the voltage driving the heating current across the screen, for example, due to gradual discharge or aging of a battery. The total deposited energy in the screen is proportional to the integral over time of the square of the voltage drop across the screen. Since the net temperature rise, ΔTs, of the screen, from beginning to end of the heating pulse, is proportional to the total amount of heat energy deposited in the screen during the heating pulse, then this integral can be calculated in real-time and used to terminate the heating current when a pre-set target value has been reached; thereby providing a consistent and reliable screen temperature rise, ΔTs, from pulse-to-pulse. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/341764 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282727 | Retsky |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Retsky (Trumbull, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is disclosed for an electron beam directed energy device. The device consists of an electron gun with one or more electron beams. The device includes one or more accelerating plates with holes aligned for beam passage. The plates may be flat or preferably shaped to direct each electron beam to exit the electron gun at a predetermined orientation. In one preferred application, the device is located in outer space with individual beams that are directed to focus at a distant target to be used to impact and destroy missiles. The aimings of the separate beams are designed to overcome Coulomb repulsion. A method is also presented for directing the beams to a target considering the variable terrestrial magnetic field. In another preferred application, the electron beam is directed into the ground to produce a subsurface x-ray source to locate and/or destroy buried or otherwise hidden objects including explosive devices. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187519 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283339 | Tekletsadik |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SuperPower, Inc (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kasegn D. Tekletsadik (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A single trigger/shunt coil is utilized for combined induced magnetic field triggering and shunt impedance. The single coil connected in parallel with the high temperature superconducting element, is designed to generate a circulating current in the parallel circuit during normal operation to aid triggering the high temperature superconducting element to quench in the event of a fault. The circulating current is generated by an induced voltage in the coil, when the system current flows through the high temperature superconducting element. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/436870 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283422 | Shook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Michael Shook (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Samuel D. LeRoy (Houston, Texas); William M. Benzing (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining the existence and characteristics of a gradational pressurized zone within a subterranean formation are disclosed. One embodiment involves employing an attenuation relationship between a seismic response signal and increasing wavelet wavelength, which relationship may be used to detect a gradational pressurized zone and/or determine characteristics thereof. In another embodiment, a method for analyzing data contained within a response signal for signal characteristics that may change in relation to the distance between an input signal source and the gradational pressurized zone is disclosed. In a further embodiment, the relationship between response signal wavelet frequency and comparative amplitude may be used to estimate an optimal wavelet wavelength or range of wavelengths used for data processing or input signal selection. Systems for seismic exploration and data analysis for practicing the above-mentioned method embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420077 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — 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 367/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Keenan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for spectrally compressing data sets enables the efficient analysis of very large multivariate images. The spectral compression algorithm uses a factored representation of the data that can be obtained from Principal Components Analysis or other factorization technique. Furthermore, a block algorithm can be used for performing common operations more efficiently. An image analysis can be performed on the factored representation of the data, using only the most significant factors. The spectral compression algorithm can be combined with a spatial compression algorithm to provide further computational efficiencies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/772548 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283948 | Holzrichter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California); Greg C. Burnett (Livermore, California); Lawrence C. Ng (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for characterizing, synthesizing, and/or canceling out acoustic signals from inanimate sound sources is disclosed. Propagating wave electromagnetic sensors monitor excitation sources in sound producing systems, such as machines, musical instruments, and various other structures. Acoustical output from these sound producing systems is also monitored. From such information, a transfer function characterizing the sound producing system is generated. From the transfer function, acoustical output from the sound producing system may be synthesized or canceled. The methods disclosed enable accurate calculation of matched transfer functions relating specific excitations to specific acoustical outputs. Knowledge of such signals and functions can be used to effect various sound replication, sound source identification, and sound cancellation applications. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165565 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07282327 | McGall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn H. McGall (San Jose, California); Anthony D. Barone (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of the following structure: are useful as nucleic labeling compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641677 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282550 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas); Nicholas A. Stacey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a composition to form a layer on a substrate having uniform etch characteristics. To that end, the composition has a plurality of components, a subset of which has substantially similar rates of evaporation for an interval of time. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919062 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282733 | Ong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Lu Jiang (Oakville, Canada); Yu Qi (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/832503 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282735 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film transistor composed of: (a) a semiconductor layer including a thiophene compound, wherein the thiophene compound comprises one or more substituted thiophene units, one or more unsubstituted thiophene units, and optionally one or more divalent linkages; (b) a gate dielectric; and (c) a layer contacting the gate dielectric disposed between the semiconductor layer and the gate dielectric, wherein the layer comprises a substance comprising a fluorocarbon structure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276694 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283308 | Cossairt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuality Systems, Inc. (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver Strider Cossairt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael Thomas (Belmont, Massachusetts); Rick K. Dorval (Goffstown, New Hampshire); Gregg Ethan Favalora (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In general, in one aspect, the invention features systems that include a spatial light modulator, a scanning optical component configured to direct light from the spatial light modulator along a plurality of different paths, a projection optical assembly including a plurality of projection lens modules corresponding to the plurality of different paths, wherein each projection lens module is configured to receive light from the spatial light modulator directed along the corresponding path and projects an image of the spatial light modulator to a common image space. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073913 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07281318 | Marshall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Marshall (Seattle, Washington); Douglas B. Weems (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Richard C. Bussom (West Chester, Pennsylvania); David M. Anderson (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a composite structural member with an integrated electrical circuit is provided. The structural member includes a plurality of layers of structural reinforcement material, and two or more electrical devices are disposed at least partially between the layers with an intermediate layer of the structural reinforcement material disposed between the electrical devices. At least one electrical bus is disposed in the structural member, and each electrical device is connected to the bus by a conductive electrode. Thus, the electrodes can extend through the intermediate layer of the structural reinforcement material to connect each of the electrical devices to one or more of the buses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/848703 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/621 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07281808 | Knowles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QorTek, Inc. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Knowles (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Eli Hughes (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin, nearly wireless adaptive optical device capable of dynamically modulating the shape of a mirror in real time to compensate for atmospheric distortions and/or variations along an optical material is provided. The device includes an optical layer, a substrate, at least one electronic circuit layer with nearly wireless architecture, an array of actuators, power electronic switches, a reactive force element, and a digital controller. Actuators are aligned so that each axis of expansion and contraction intersects both substrate and reactive force element. Electronics layer with nearly wireless architecture, power electronic switches, and digital controller are provided within a thin-film substrate. The size and weight of the adaptive optical device is solely dominated by the size of the actuator elements rather than by the power distribution system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872974 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/846 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282291 | Narayanan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sekharipuram R. Narayanan (Altadena, California); Shiao-Pin S. Yen (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for forming a water-free electrolyte membrane useful in fuel cells. Also provided is a water-free electrolyte membrane comprising a quaternized amine salt including poly-4-vinylpyridinebisulfate, a poly-4-vinylpyridinebisulfate silica composite, and a combination thereof and a fuel cell comprising the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722352 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282777 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shun Lien Chuang (Urbana, Illinois); Jian Li (Pasadena, California); Rui Q. Yang (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting radiation, typically in the infrared. Photons are absorbed in an active region of a semiconductor device such that the absorption induces an interband electronic transition and generates photo-excited charge carriers. The charge carriers are coupled into a carrier transport region having multiple quantum wells and characterized by intersubband relaxation that provides rapid charge carrier collection. The photo-excited carriers are collected from the carrier transport region at a conducting contact region. Another carrier transport region characterized by interband tunneling for multiple stages draws charge carriers from another conducting contact and replenishes the charge carriers to the active region for photo-excitation. A photocurrent is generated between the conducting contacts through the active region of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227989 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07281419 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuefeng Wang (Schenectady, New York); Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe array for includes a handle, a first probe and a second probe. The first probe has a first shank, connected to the handle, and a first tip; and the second probe has a second shank, connected to the handle, and second tip. The first tip contains a different material from the second tip. The probe array may be used to write on a surface by contacting the first tip with a surface, where a first ink is on the first tip. This writing method may further include lifting the first tip from the surface and contacting the second tip with the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/234401 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282105 | Plunkett et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Susan E. Plunkett (Richmond, Virginia); James J. Stone (Charlottesville, Virginia); Mark Stephen Braiman (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Miniature planar IR waveguides of thickness 30–50 μm, consisting of 12-mm long, 2-mm wide strips of Ge supported on ZnS substrates and tapered quasi-tapered waveguides, tapered from a thickness of 1 mm at the ends to a minimum of 1–100 μm at the center, are disclosed. The surface sensitivity is increased as a function of incidence or bevel angle. The tapered waveguide improves the efficiency of the optical coupling both into the waveguide from an FTIR spectrometer, and out of the waveguide onto a small-area IR detector. The tapering makes it possible to dispense with using an IR microscope couple light through the waveguide, enabling efficient coupling with a detector directly coupled to an immersion lens. This optical arrangement makes such thin supported waveguides more useful as sensors, because they can be made quite long (e.g. 50 mm) and mounted horizontally. Furthermore, even with a 20-μm×1-mm cross section, sufficient throughput is obtained to give signal/noise ratios in excess of 1000 over most of the 1000–5000 cm-1 range, with just 2 min of scanning at 8 cm-1 resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/320895 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07283611 — Segmentation algorithmic approach to step-and-shoot intensity modulated radiation therapy
| US 07283611 | Luan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuang Luan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Danny Z. Chen (Granger, Indiana); Xiaobo S. Hu (Granger, Indiana); Chao Wang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Xiaodong Wu (Iowa City, Iowa); Cedric X. Yu (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method comprising recursively partitioning an intensity modulated beam into plateaus; and partitioning the plateaus into segments. The present invention also provides a method for controlling administration of radiation therapy to a patient based on static leaf prescriptions. In addition, the present invention provides a method for partitioning an IMB. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085510 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283716 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado); The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wounjhang Park (Superior, Colorado); Jeong-Bong Lee (Plano, Texas); Mark T. Tinker (Plano, Texas); Ethan F. Schonbrun (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is described based on flexible photonic crystal, which is comprised of a periodic array of high index dielectric material embedded in a flexible polymer. Dynamic, real time tunability is achieved by the application of a variable force with a MEMS actuator or other means. The force induces changes in the crystal structure of the photonic crystal, and consequently modifies the photonic band structure. The concept was demonstrated by a theoretical investigation on the effect of mechanical stress on the anomalous refraction behavior of the flexible PC, and a very wide tunability in beam propagation direction was observed. Experimental studies on fabrication and characterizations of the flexible photonic crystal structures were also carried out. High quality flexible PC structures were fabricated by e-beam lithography and anisotropic etching processes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969148 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07282391 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Stephen Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); Leena Paivikki Buchwalter (Hopewell Junction, New York); Raymond R. Horton (Dover Plains, New York); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Cornelia K. Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York); Steven Lorenz Wright (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic dive and method of fabricating an electronic device. The method including placing a placement guide over a top surface of a module substrate, the placement guide having a guide opening, the guide opening extending from a top surface of the placement guide to a bottom surface of the placement guide; aligning the placement guide to an integrated circuit chip position on the module substrate; fixing the placement guide to the module substrate; placing an integrated circuit chip in the guide opening, sidewalls of the placement guide opening constraining electrically conductive bonding structures on bottom surface of the integrated circuit chip to self-align to an electrically conductive module substrate contact pad on the top surface of the module substrate in the integrated circuit chip position; and bonding the bonding structures to the module substrate contact pads, the bonding structures and the module substrate contact pads in direct physical and electrical contact after the bonding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385121 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282790 | Coteus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Shawn Anthony Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Dale J. Pearson (Bedford Hills, New York); Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Planar Memory Module (PAMM) device comprising a generally planar card comprising a first side and a second side, the first side having a plurality of couplings and the second side having a plurality of connectors, a plurality of memory devices coupled to the card via a first portion of the plurality of couplings, and at least one hub chip coupled to the card via a second portion of the plurality of couplings. Each of the plurality of couplings is connected to an associated one of the plurality of connectors. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146495 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/685 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282960 | Belluomini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy Ann Belluomini (Austin, Texas); Robert Kevin Montoye (Austin, Texas); Aniket Mukul Saha (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logical circuit having a pre-charge element separately controlled by a voltage-asymmetric clock controlled provides increased noise immunity in dynamic digital circuits. By clocking the pre-charge element with a signal having a reduced swing in the voltage direction that turns off the pre-charge element, the pre-charge element provides a small current that prevents the dynamic summing node of a gate from erroneously evaluating due to noise, and eliminates the need for a keeper device. Providing the reduced-swing asymmetric clock as a separate signal prevents performance degradation in the rest of the circuit. Specifically, the foot devices in the dynamic portion of the circuit are controlled with the full swing clock so that evaluation is not compromised by noise or slowed. Foot and pull-up devices in any static portion of the circuit are also controlled with the full-swing clock so that switching speed and leakage immunity are not affected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/168718 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07283015 | Rockenbauch |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig A. Rockenbauch (Severna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An impedance matching device comprises a dielectric material having a ground plane affixed to one surface, a microstripline conductor disposed on an opposite surface, and a movable dielectric plate. The movable dielectric plate has a higher dielectric constant than the dielectric material, a user-selectable shape, and a conductive coating on the top surface. The bottom surface of the movable dielectric plate engages a portion of the microstripline conductor, and is movable transversely to the microstripline conductor to increase or decrease the impedance of the microstripline conductor and linearly to change the phase of the microstripline conductor. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233217 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07282287 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Power Corporation (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew P. Wilson (Groton, Connecticut); Harold T. Couch (Simsbury, Connecticut); Gennady Resnick (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The air blower (18) of a fuel cell power plant (9) is used to force water out of the coolant flow fields (27) of a fuel cell stack (10), a coolant pump (35) and a heat exchanger (40) through a valve (46) which is closed during normal operation. The water removal occurs as part of a shutdown procedure in which the fuel cell stack continues to operate so that it provides the power for the air pump and to assist in water removal (such as retaining low vapor pressure). The water flow to an accumulator (33) is blocked by a valve (29) during the shutdown procedure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/996512 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07282222 | Phillips |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Phillips (Amarillo, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for delivering cells to a target tissue in a mammal using glycoconjugate to traffic the cell to a desired organ in the mammal. The methods according to the present invention are especially applicable to administering stem cells such as those derived from the bone marrow or from umbilical cord tissue. The methods are also useful for targeting a gene of interest to a tissue in a mammal by introducing a cell containing the gene of interest and administering a glycoconjugate to the mammal. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388964 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 07283656 | Blake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio); Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Kansas City, Missouri); Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia); Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Blake (Brunswick, Ohio); Pablo Gonzalez (Forney, Texas); Randall Lee Mueller (Kansas City, Missouri); V. Srinivas Nori (Norcross, Georgia); Steven Q. Purser (Plano, Texas); Thomas Edwin Schaadt (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Assessing the quality of an electronic image comprises determining a quality rating for the electronic image, associating image quality thresholds with purposes for electronic images, selecting the purpose that corresponds to the electronic image, identifying an image quality threshold associated with the selected purpose, and determining whether the quality rating meets the image quality threshold. The electronic image is suitable for its intended purpose if its quality rating meets the threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/079120 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07282489 | Levy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Denise Y. Burton (Bensalem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for reverse gene therapy, wherein a gene therapy vector encoding a gene product (e.g. a protein) which is usually only expressed in cells of an abnormal tissue is delivered to a cell of an animal afflicted with a disease or disorder to alleviate the disease or disorder. In one embodiment, a plasmid vector encoding HERG (A561V) protein is delivered to a cell of an animal afflicted with re-entrant atrial flutter-mediated cardiac arrhythmia. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422551 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282563 | Evans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Evans (Los Angeles, California); Duane E. Keith, Jr. (Woodland Hills, California); Robert H. Edwards (Los Angeles, California); Daniel Kaufman (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Genes encoding opioid receptors (including opioid-like receptor (ORL) proteins) can be retrieved from vertebrate libraries using the murine probe disclosed herein under low-stringency conditions. The DNA sequence shown in |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/290748 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07282706 | Russell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Russell (College Station, Texas); John A. McLean (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a novel arrangement of optical devices for the rapid patterning of laser profiles used for desorption and/or ionization sources in analytical mass spectrometry. Specifically, the new optical arrangement provides for a user-defined laser pattern at the sample target that can be quickly changed (on a microsecond timescale) to different dimensions (or shapes) for subsequent laser firings. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056852 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284274 | Walls et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cigital, Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Walls (East Setauket, New York); Viren Shah (Ashburn, Virginia); Anup K. Ghosh (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for certifying software for essential and security-critical systems. The system and method provide a methodology and corresponding analysis engines increase the level of confidence that common vulnerabilities are not present in a particular application. A pipeline system consisting of independent modules which involve increasingly complex analysis is disclosed. The pipeline approach allows the user to reduce computation time by focusing resources on only those code segments which were not eliminated previously in the pipeline. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/050764 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 16, 2007.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2007/fedinvent-patents-20071016.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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