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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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| US 07284357 | McInerney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. McInerney (Champaign, Illinois); Sean W. Morefield (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent F. Hock (Mahomet, Illinois); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A barrier to fluid passage is embedded within, instead of atop, porous material to retain the durability of the surface of the porous material. In one embodiment, a thin set mortar is applied to a concrete slab. A pleated metal foil is pressed into the wet mortar and a bond is established. The mortar is allowed to set and a top, or finish, section of concrete is then poured over the foil and finished conventionally. Provisions are made for sealing expansion joints in concrete slab floors and at the juncture of floor and wall. The foil may be provided in multiple layers to provide a mechanical bond via mortar oozing through perforations or along pleats in each of the top and bottoms layers, while providing a solid layer through which a fluid will not pass, at least in one direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368473 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/741.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284431 | Barger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Barger (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system for sensing ground motion is provided. The system generally comprises a shell and a case within the shell and connected by a suspension. The mass of the case is greater than the mass of the shell. An electrode within the shell detects relative motion between the shell and the case. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/713499 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284487 | Milton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Milton (New Market, Alabama); Mark W. Kirkham (Huntsville, Alabama); Robert S. Michaels (Scottsboro, Alabama); Jon A. Freeman (Huntsville, Alabama); Bryce D. Brubaker (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Stereolithography is used to fabricate directly a single-piece, missile-usable, accurate, flightweight igniter without the use of intermediate, non-operational molds or prototypes in the fabrication process. The same prototype-less, direct stereolithography can be used to produce other missile-usable parts by designing each such part to be of a single-piece configuration and by using material that is suitable for both stereolithography and functional missile application. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885525 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284570 | Gracik 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) | Thomas D. Gracik (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Andrew J. Field (Rockville, Maryland); William D. Kuran (Potomac, Maryland); Frederick Oberman (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Controlled flow of liquid is conducted between aligned inlet and outlet pipe sections through a valve housing within which a solid valve element is sealed and supported for electrically powered displacement between a fully open position establishing unrestricted flow and a fully closed position blocking inflow from the inlet pipe section and outflow from the outlet pipe section. The valve element is operatively displaced either by rotation or by linear movement under electrically powered control through a valve stem connected thereto, while a manual actuator is also connected to the valve stem outside of the valve housing for imparting reduced dithering displacement to the valve element so as to insure that it is in proper and readied working condition. Such electrically powered operational displacement of the valve element is sensed in response to movement of the valve stem. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076104 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284600 | Thoman 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) | Steve Thoman (Leonardtown, Maryland); Ronald Trabocco (Trappe, Pennsylvania); Mary Donnellan (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight thermal heat transfer apparatus, including a core section and a laminate composite section. The core section is substantially similar to a diamond shape. The laminate composite section has a plurality of thermally conductive fibers, which are disposed around the core section and oriented at a configuration similar to the core section. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/602441 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284958 | Dundas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Allison Advanced Development Company (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason E. Dundas (Post Falls, Idaho); Ted J. Freeman (Avon, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine blade platform including a par of platform retention members. The pair of platform retention members are configured to be located on opposite sides of a disk lug. The retention members interact with the disk lug to restrain radial movement of the platform during rotation of a disk. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799223 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/193.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285000 | Pleskach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Pleskach (Orlando, Florida); Paul Koeneman (Palm Bay, Florida); Carol Gamlen (Melbourne, Florida); Steven R. Snyder (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-fluidic interconnection. The interconnection includes a body (200) formed of a ceramic material. The body (200) is provided with an aperture (206) having a profile suitable for receiving an interconnecting conduit (400). The interconnecting conduit (400) can be formed of the same type of ceramic material as the body (200). The conduit (400) is defined by an outer shell (403) with a hollow bore (402) for transporting a fluid. A mating portion (404) of the conduit has an exterior profile that matches the profile of the aperture. Moreover, the mating portion (404) of the conduit (400) can be compression fitted within the aperture (206). Conductive traces (406, 208) on the conduit and the body can be electrically connected to complete the electro-fluidic interconnection. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202530 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285209 | Yu et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Guanghua Yu (Rockaway, New Jersey); Chang-Wei Jen (Bedminster, New Jersey); Montfort Thierry (Long Valley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses an apparatus for filtration of water from hydrocarbons comprised of a fresh-feed inlet, a first dead end filter, that is hydrophobic, a second sweeping-flow filter, that is hydrophobic, a common housing containing both the first and second filters, a system for the recirculation of the retentate, a chamber for water settling, and an outlet for clean fuel permeate. This invention takes advantage of the properties of the functional groups of a surfactant, by using the surfactant to allow a hydrophobic medium to attract water, attach the water molecules to the hydrophobic medium, and then allow for agglomeration of the water molecules, which finally become large enough to detach and be swept away by the sweeping-flow. This invention can thus be used to remove high concentrations of water, up to 5%, in hydrocarbons, while allowing a high flow rate by preventing blockage of the final filter by water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865482 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/195.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285487 | DeHon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | André DeHon (Pasadena, California); Raphael Rubin (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network for interconnecting processing element nodes which supports rich interconnection while having a number of switching elements which is linear in the number of processing elements interconnected. Processing elements connect to the lowest level of the tree and the higher levels of the tree make connections between the processing elements. The processing elements may be laid out in a two dimensional grid and one or more horizontal and vertical trees may be used to connect between the processing elements with corner switches used to connect between the horizontal and vertical trees. The levels of the tree can be accommodated in multiple layers of metalization such that the entire layout requires a two-dimensional area which is linear in the number of processing elements supported. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/897582 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285509 | Bayya 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) | Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a BGG glass material with excellent optical and mechanical properties and to a method for its preparation characterized by the use of a halogen component. The BGG glass material is essentially devoid of water, has excellent optical transmission in the visible and mid-infrared wavelength range, and can be easily molded in small and large sizes and complex shapes at a low cost. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758750 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285591 | Winey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Irene Winey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Reto Haggenmueller (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fangming Du (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania); Wei Zhou (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are processes for preparing nanotube composite materials and fibers that provide exceptional nanotube alignment and dispersion. The disclosed processes include contacting nanotube dispersions with polymer melts. Also disclosed are nanotube composite fibers having high nanotube concentrations, exceptional nanotube alignment, and high thermal conductivity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/805705 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285907 | D'Andrade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D'Andrade (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to efficient organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) doped with multiple light-emitting dopants, at least one dopant comprising a phosphorescent emitter, in a thin film emissive layer or layers. The present invention is directed to an efficient phosphorescent organic light emitting device utilizing a plurality of emissive dopants in an emissive region, wherein at least one of the dopants is a phosphorescent material. Thus, the present invention provides an organic light emitting device comprising an emissive region, wherein the emissive region comprises a host material, and a plurality of emissive dopants, wherein the emissive region is comprised of a plurality of bands and each emissive dopant is doped into a separate band within the emissive region, and wherein at least one of the emissive dopants emits light by phosphorescence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211385 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286079 | Blunt 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) | Shannon D. Blunt (Alexandria, Virginia); Karl R. Gerlach (Chesapeake Beach, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for non-coherently detecting slow-moving targets in high resolution sea clutter includes a binary detector for converting high resolution radar returns, produced in response to a radar pulse scan of a plurality of identical pulses, into corresponding binary outputs based on a comparison of range cell magnitudes with a detector threshold. A range extent filter converts these binary outputs into an output indicating the presence or absence of a cluster of the returns that are closely spaced in range, while a third, persistence integration stage determines target range extent persistence over a predetermined time period. A detector stage declares detection of a target based on a comparison of the output of the third stage with a selected threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110737 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286236 | Molaskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford T. Molaskey (St. Petersburg, Florida); Douglas A. Chamberlin (Trinity, Florida); Paris Wiley (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting radiation events in a ring laser gyro is provided. The system includes one or more photodetectors, that produce photocurrent signals to monitor the ring laser gyro. Further, the system includes one or more comparator circuits actuating at one or more thresholds. The one or more comparator circuits are responsive to the photodetectors to detect when a radiation event occurs based on the photocurrent signal. The system further includes a path length control circuit responsive to the one or more comparator circuits, that restores operating conditions for the ring laser gyro when a radiation event occurs. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966634 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286333 | Kubinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Kubinski (Mission Viejo, California); Tuan T. Phan (Arcadia, California); Gregory H. Smith (Placentia, California); Huan N. Nguyen (Garden Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Switch card apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a circuit includes a first portion having a first switch adapted to be coupled to a first voltage, a second portion including a second switch, and a third portion including a third switch. The first portion activates the first switch to couple the first voltage to the second portion. Similarly, the second portion activates the second switch in response to a second input signal and the first voltage to couple a second voltage to the third portion. Finally, the third portion activates the third switch in response to a third input signal and in response to the second voltage from the second portion to couple a control voltage to a load. Embodiments of the invention provide the desired reliability suitable for a variety of electrical systems, including arming and firing applications over a wide voltage and wide current range. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975858 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286359 | Khbeis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The U.S. Government as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Khbeis (Severn, Maryland); George Metze (Millersville, Maryland); Neil Goldsman (Takoma Park, Maryland); Akin Akturk (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling device for a microcircuit provides a direct path of thermal extraction from a high heat producing area to a cooler area. A thermal insulation layer is formed on a body having at least one component thereon that generates the high heat producing area. At least one via is formed through an entire thickness of the insulation layer and is in direct communication with the high heat producing area. Heat from the high heat producing area is channeled through each via to the cooler area, which may be ambient atmosphere or a good thermal conductor, such as a heat sink. A thermal conductive material may be deposited within the via and increase the rate of thermal extraction therethrough. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842731 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/704 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286393 | Hynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Owen J. Hynes (Otsego, Minnesota); Romney Katti (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Harry H. L. Liu (Plymouth, Minnesota); Michael S. Liu (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is connected in parallel with an MTJ structure of an MRAM bit to shunt photocurrent away from and/or limit voltage across the MTJ structure during a dose rate event. The device may include at least one transistor and/or at least one diode. One device may be used to protect an entire row and/or column of MRAM bits. As a result, the MRAM bits are protected during a dose rate event. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096179 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286421 | Abraham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David William Abraham (Croton, New York); Philip Louis Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for minimizing errors that may occur when writing information to a magnetic memory cell array with an operating write current due to changes in the local magnetic fields and. A test write current is sent to a reference memory cell and the effect of the test current on the orientation of the magnetization in the reference cell is monitored. The write current is then modified to compensate for any changes in the optimum operating point that have occurred. Arrays of reference magnetic memory cells having varying properties may be used to more accurately characterize any changes that have occurred in the operating environment. A phase difference between a time varying current used to drive the reference cell and the corresponding variations in the orientation of the magnetization in the reference cell may also be used to further characterize changes in the operating environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695010 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286444 | Bahder 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) | Thomas B. Bahder (Clarksville, Maryland); William M. Golding (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for synchronizing a first clock with a second clock, wherein the clocks are separated, are disclosed. A representative system, among others, includes a correlated particle emitter that emits a first particle stream and a second particle stream. Particles in the first particle streams are quantum mechanically correlated with particles in the second particle stream. The system also includes: a first target having the first clock and a first particle detector, and a second target having the second clock and a second particle detector. The first target uses the first clock and the first particle detector to determine arrival times of particles included in the first particle stream, and the second target uses the second clock and the second particle detector to determine arrival times of particles included in the first particle stream. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926064 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Horology: Time measuring systems or devices 368/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286583 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois); Richard Chan (Champaign, Illinois); Gabriel Walter (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing controllable light pulses includes the following steps: providing a heterojunction bipolar transistor structure including collector, base, and emitter regions of semiconductor materials; providing an optical resonant cavity enclosing at least a portion of the transistor structure; and coupling electrical signals with respect to the collector, base, and emitter regions, to switch back and forth between a stimulated emission mode that produces output laser pulses and a spontaneous emission mode. In a form of the method, the electrical signals include an AC excitation signal, and part of each excitation signal cycle is operative to produce stimulated emission, and another part of each excitation signal cycle is operative to produce spontaneous emission. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068561 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286607 | Shockley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Condit Shockley (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of communicating digital signal information through diversity signaling with a constrained amount of transmission energy-per-bit available Etot. The method includes steps of: measuring channel noise Nj and channel transmission loss gj on each of a first plurality of diversity channels; and transmitting the digital signal information from a first communications device on each of a second plurality J diversity channels, each with a channel energy allocation Ej responsive to the measurements of channel noise Nj and channel transmission loss gj; wherein j is an integer such that 1≦j≦J, and wherein the second plurality J diversity channels are selected from the first plurality of diversity channels, responsive to the measurements of channel noise Nj and channel transmission loss gj, and wherein the second plurality J diversity channels are selected responsive to the function wherein γ is a non-negative number. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/335288 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286638 | Ledoux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Passport Systems, Inc. (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Ledoux (Harvard, Massachusetts); William Bertozzi (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and systems of scanning a target for potential threats using the energy spectra of photons scattered from the target to determine the spatial distributions of average atomic number and/or mass in the target. An exemplary method comprises: illuminating each of a plurality of voxels of the target with a photon beam; determining an incident flux upon each voxel; measuring the energy spectrum of photons scattered from the voxel; determining, using the energy spectrum, the average atomic number in the voxel; and determining the mass in the voxel using the incident flux, the average atomic number of the material in the voxel, the energy spectrum, and a scattering kernel corresponding to the voxel. An exemplary system may use threat detection heuristics to determine whether to trigger further action based upon the average atomic number and/or mass of the voxels. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177758 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286844 | Redi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); Eric Gustav Brett (Westford, Massachusetts); William Dugald Watson, Jr. (Pepperell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (105) determines a power level for transmitting to a neighboring node in a wireless network. The system (105) receives a message indicating a three-dimensional position and orientation of the neighboring node and a type of directional antenna of the neighboring node that transmitted the message. The system (105) determines the power level for transmitting to the neighboring node based on the three-dimensional position and orientation of the neighboring node and the type of the directional antenna. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355556 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286942 | Kish 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) | Laszlo B. Kish (College Station, Texas); Gabor Schmera (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of fluctuation enhanced gas-sensing using SAW devices includes processes for improved chemical analyte detection, identification, and quantification through the measurement and spectral analysis of frequency fluctuations in the instantaneous frequency of a chemical sensor arranged to produce an oscillatory output signal when exposed to chemical substances. The system and method may use a chemical sensor, such as a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device. The spectral analysis produces the power spectral density of the frequency fluctuations, which are represented as a pattern that includes information about the analyte(s) such as, total adsorbed gas mass and diffusion coefficients. The diffusion coefficients may then be used to determine the number of molecule types and/or the concentration of each. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677684 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07286947 — Method and apparatus for determining jitter and pulse width from clock signal comparisons
| US 07286947 | Cranford, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hayden C. Cranford, Jr. (Cary, North Carolina); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for determining jitter and pulse width from clock signal comparisons provides a low cost and production-integrable mechanism for measuring a clock signal with a reference clock, both of unknown frequency. The measured clock signal is sampled at transitions of a reference clock and the sampled values are collected in a histogram according to a folding of the samples around a timebase which is either swept to detect a minimum jitter for the folded data or is obtained from direct frequency analysis for the sample set. The histogram for the correct estimated period is statistically analyzed to yield the pulse width, which is the difference between the peaks of the probability density function and jitter, which corresponds to width of the density function peaks. Frequency drift is corrected by adjusting the timebase used to fold the data across the sample set. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279651 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286982 | Gersho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Gersho (Santa Barbara, California); Vladimir Cuperman (Goleta, California); Tian Wang (Goleta, California); Kazuhito Koishida (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced low-bit rate parametric voice coder that groups a number of frames from an underlying frame-based vocoder, such as MELP, into a superframe structure. Parameters are extracted from the group of underlying frames and quantized into the superframe which allows the bit rate of the underlying coding to be reduced without increasing the distortion. The speech data coded in the superframe structure can then be directly synthesized to speech or may be transcoded to a format so that an underlying frame-based vocoder performs the synthesis. The superframe structure includes additional error detection and correction data to reduce the distortion caused by the communication of bit errors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894854 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287013 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ultra-Scan Corporation (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Schneider (Snyder, New York); Fred W. Kiefer (Clarence, New York); James T. Baker (Lockport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method of deciding whether a data set is acceptable for making a decision. A first probability partition array and a second probability partition array may be provided. A no-match zone may be established and used to calculate a false-acceptance-rate (“FAR”) and/or a false-rejection-rate (“FRR”) for the data set. The FAR and/or the FAR may be compared to desired rates. Based on the comparison, the data set may be either accepted or rejected. The invention may also be embodied as a computer readable memory device for executing the methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273824 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287087 | Bush et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Francis Bush (Latham, New York); John Erik Hershey (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications network comprising at least one source unit is configured to generate messages for relay to a portal node through at least one smart node. The smart node includes a dynamic reprioritization controller capable of dynamically reprioritizing the relayed messages prior to relay transmission by a transmitter according to received programming instructions. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/697562 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287122 | Rajamony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of managing a distributed cache structure having separate cache banks, by detecting that a given cache line has been repeatedly accessed by two or more processors which share the cache, and replicating that cache line in at least two separate cache banks. The cache line is optimally replicated in a cache bank having the lowest latency with respect to the given accessing processor. A currently accessed line in a different cache bank can be exchanged with a cache line in the cache bank with the lowest latency, and another line in the cache bank with lowest latency is moved to the different cache bank prior to the currently accessed line being moved to the cache bank with the lowest latency. Further replication of the cache line can be disabled when two or more processors alternately write to the cache line. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/960611 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287140 | Asanovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krste Asanovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emmett J. Witchel (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fine-grained memory protection system and technique provide computer memory protection at least to a word granularity. A permissions table having permission values associated with a computer memory is arranged as protection domains. The permissions table can be cached in a protection lookaside buffer (PLD) and/or in sidecar registers. A software calls across protection domains (a cross-domain call) can be facilitated with a switch gate and a return gate. In some embodiments, a gate table is provided to store the switch gates and return gates, each having gate values. In some embodiments, a stack permission stable allows stack frames to be associated with the cross-domain call. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/899776 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287252 | Bussiere 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) | Gregory A. Bussiere (Portsmuth, Rhode Island); Rother V. Hodges (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Robert J. Pallack, Jr. (Westport, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a network computing environment with a distributed software system utilizing Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), a Universal Client and Consumer tool that creates Client and Consumer implementations for use in interacting with any existing Servers and/or Suppliers in the system, and displaying the data resulting from the interactions for the purpose of validating the operation, functionality and performance of the Servers and Suppliers. The tool creates a graphical user interface for the user to select Servers or Suppliers to evaluate. The tool identifies the Server or Supplier IDL interface, and then creates either a Client or Consumer Implementation that uses the same corresponding IDL interface. The tool then attempts to connect to the Server or Supplier and where appropriate allow the user to invoke methods. Data received from the Servers and/or Suppliers is displayed on a video device and logged for later analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263295 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing a line-scanning laser ophthalmoscope (LSLO) are disclosed. The LSLO uses a substantially point source of light, such as an infrared laser or a super-luminescent diode. The point source is expanded to a line. The LSLO scans the line of light in a direction perpendicular to the line across a region of an eye having an undilated pupil The reflected light is received confocally, using monostatic beam geometry. A beam separator, such as a turning prism or mirror, diverts one of the incoming light and the reflected light to separate the light. An optical stop prevents non-confocally received light from reaching a one-dimensional detector, such as a linear CCD array. An electrical signal responsive to the output light at each of a plurality of locations along the line of output light is processed to provide images of the scanned portion of the eye. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864081 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285099 | Peterka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Peterka (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for rotation test stimulus and analysis methods overcome many of the limitations of traditional clinical tests of peripheral vestibular function. An embodiment includes a rotational stimuli applied to the rotational motion for testing that includes two separate components, a bias component and a probe component. The bias component for rotational motion is designed to temporarily turn off vestibular responses in one ear while the responsiveness in the opposite ear is simultaneously evaluated using the probe component of the stimulus. Responses from application of these stimuli are analyzed by isolating and separating the bias response from the probe response. The bias and probe component responses are parameterized by applying curve fits of mathematical functions to the isolated bias and probe component responses. These parameters characterize the patient's vestibular function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762211 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285289 | Nagy et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jon O. Nagy (Bozeman, Montana); Robert F. Bargatze (Bozeman, Montana); John W. Jutila (Bozeman, Montana); Jim E. Cutler (New Orleans, Louisiana); Pati M. Glee (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nanoparticle vaccines comprised of a carrier, particularly polymerized lipids, having multiple copies of an antigen or combinations of different antigens displayed on the carrier. Such antigen-displaying nanoparticles may also display a targeting molecule on its surface in order to direct it to a specific site or cell type to optimize a desired immune response. The present invention also relates to encapsulating an antigen or combinations of different antigens within such nanoparticles, with or without a targeting molecule displayed on its surface. The antigens used in this invention are effective to produce an immune response against a variety of pathological conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/413607 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285386 | Ozbun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Mexico, and Educational Institution of the State of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle A. Ozbun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an animal model system for the study of papillomaviruses, especially anogenital papillomaviruses, especially those causing anogenital and/or head and neck cancers. The Rhesus papillomavirus (especially RhPV1) is a useful model for human papillomaviruses which cause anogenital infections and cancers of the anogenital region and/or the head, neck and respiratory system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/978239 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285391 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia Univeristy in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York); Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey); Galina Kovalevskaya (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of predicting pregnancy outcome in a subject by determining the amount of an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of hCG in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated molecular isoforms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated hCG in a sample. The present invention additionally provides an antibody which specifically binds to an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of human chorionic gonadotropin. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting trophoblast or non-trophoblast malignancy in a sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931956 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285395 | Ntambi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Ntambi (Madison, Wisconsin); Makoto Miyazaki (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The cloning of a fourth mouse SCD gene, mSCD4, as well as its corresponding cDNA and amino acid sequences are disclosed. Mouse SCD4 is expressed mainly in the heart tissue and synthesizes the bulk of monounsaturated fatty acids in the heart. The disclosure here enables new tools (e.g., nucleic acids, polypeptides, antibodies, vectors, recombinant cells, and transgenic and knock-out animals) for studying the function of various SCD isoforms and their connection to various disease conditions. New tools for converting saturated fatty acyl-CoA to monounsaturated acyl-CoA and for identifying SCD modulators including isoform-specific modulators are also enabled. In addition, given that accumulation of lipid in the heart (fatty heart) can have deleterious consequences, the present invention also provides a new prevention and treatment target for fatty heart as well as methods for screening candidate drugs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147606 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285414 | Van Meir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin G. Van Meir (Tucker, Georgia); Ainsley C. Nicholson (Lilburn, Georgia); Dawn E. Post (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising a novel recombinant virus which replicates selectively in cells or tissues that are hypoxic or have an activated HIF pathway. The novel compositions of the invention comprise a recombinant virus genetically engineered to have a hypoxia/HIF-responsive element, or a multiplicity of such elements, operably linked to a promoter which is in turn operably linked to a nucleic acid(s) encoding a peptide(s) which regulates or modulates replication of the virus and/or encode a therapeutic molecule. The invention also includes constructs useful for screening of agents which interact with proteins or genes in the hypoxia-inducible pathway or are jointly translated under hypoxia and animal models useful for monitoring a variety of hypoxic conditions in a non-invasive manner. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900067 |
| 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 07285525 | Ploegh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Harold A. Chapman (Newton, Massachusetts); Richard J. Riese (Brookline, Massachusetts); Paula R. Bryant (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew S. Bogyo (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and products for suppressing a class II MHC-restricted immune response in a mammal, or in mammalian cells, are described. The methods depend upon inhibiting invariant chain proteolysis by cathepsin S from class II MHC/invariant chain complexes, thereby reducing the competency of class II MHC molecules for binding antigenic peptides, reducing presentation of antigenic peptides by class II MHC molecules, and suppressing immune responses. The methods may be employed in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, allergic responses, and organ or tissue graft rejection. Pharmaceutical and therapeutic compositions which are peptide-based inhibitors of cathepsin S are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/126223 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 07285532 | Economides et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aris N. Economides (Tarrytown, New York); Neil Stahl (Carmel, New York); David M. Valenzuela (Yorktown Heights, New York); George D. Yancopoulos (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating and/or inhibiting a bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-related disorder or condition by administering a BMP antagonist to a subject suffering from a BMP-related disorder or condition such that the BMP-related disorder or condition is treated. The method is carried out with a human noggin or a human noggin deletion mutant. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735345 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285556 | Benish et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele A. Benish (Pearland, Texas); Michael Lawless (St. Charles, Missouri); Raymond J. Budde (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Various thienopyrimidine-based analog compounds are able to selectively inhibit the Src family of tyrosine kinases. Compounds of the present invention, capable of such selective inhibition, are of the basic structure seen in formulae (I), (II) or (III): These compounds are useful in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases including hyperproliferative diseases, hematologic allergic/immunological diseases, or viral infections. Methods of synthesis of these compounds and their methods of inhibiting the Src family of tyrosine kinases are presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/399816 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/260.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285630 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiron M. Das (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Jim Jung-Chin Lin (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel isoform of tropomyosin is disclosed. The isoform is closely related to epithelial human tropomyosin (hTM) and more particularly to hTM5 except the last coding exon. The novel isoform, is called TC22. Northern blot analysis with TC22-specific probe revealed that normal culture cell lines and normal epithelial tissues expressed very little, if at all, TC22 message, whereas their transformed counterparts and tumor tissues including dysfunction of the alimentary canal, significantly increased the expression of TC22. Assays directed at determining the level of TC22 are useful in diagnostics and therapeutics of dysfunction of the alimentary canal. Specific antibodies and mimics for TC22 are also disclosed for use in diagnostics and therapeutics of dysfunction of the alimentary canal. |
| FILED | Monday, July 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/201501 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285655 | Cadet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Cadet (Elmont, New York); George B. Stefano (Melville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules, host cells that contain an isolated nucleic acid molecule, and substantially pure polypeptides. For example, the invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules that encode polypeptides having mu3 opiate receptor activity, host cells that contain an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide having mu3 opiate receptor activity, and substantially pure polypeptides that have mu3 opiate receptor activity. In addition, the invention provides methods and materials for identifying mu3 opiate receptor agonists and antagonists. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454213 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285699 | Golic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stowers Institute for Medical Research (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent G. Golic (Salt Lake City, Utah); Wei J. Gong (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A gene targeting method for use in a host organism whereby the host organism is transfected with an ends-out donor construct. Further transfecting the host organism with two transgenes expressing endonuclease and recombinase enzymes. The endonuclease and recombinase enzymes are used so that homologous recombination occurs between the DNA segment of the donor construct and a selected gene of the host organism, thus forming a host with containing the recombinogenic donor. The progeny of the host organism, which include the recombinogenic donor are then selected. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/434668 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285954 | Nezafat 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) | Reza Nezafat (Newton, Massachusetts); Richard B. Thompson (Edmonton, Canada); Elliot R. McVeigh (Phoenix, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase contrast magnetic resonance images are produced using interleaved spiral k-space scanning with a bipolar phase contrast gradient. Spiral scanning is configured so that acquisition impulse response defines a central alias free portion in a partial field of view, and signal acquisition is arranged so that moving spins are contained with this central alias free portion. First and second signals are acquired with alternate phase encodings, and a complex difference of the acquired signals is obtained. The complex difference is substantially free of aliasing artifacts within the central portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227406 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286864 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Gerard G. Skebe (Eastlake, Ohio); Troy S. Prince (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a dry physiological recording electrode that can be used without skin preparation or the use of electrolytic gels. The dry physiological recording electrode comprising a substrate having an upper and a lower surface, and at least one penetrator(s) protruding from the upper surface of the substrate. The penetrator(s) is capable of piercing through the stratum corneum or outer layer of the skin, and transmitting an electric potential from the lower layers of the epidermis through the penetrator(s) which can be measured, or detecting agents from the lower layers of the epidermis primarily the stratum germinativum layer. At least one epidermis stop may be provided resulting in the formation of detritus troughs interposed between adjacent penetrator(s) and epidermis stops. The present invention also includes a method of sensing biopotentials in the skin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401559 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286973 | Noel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Marianne E. Bowman (San Diego, California); Stephane Richard (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the structure of the enzyme 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methylerythritol (CDP-ME) synthase, a member of the cytidyltransferase family of enzymes from Escherichia coli. CDP-ME is a critical intermediate in the mevalonate-independent pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis in a number of prokaryotic organisms, in algae, in the plastids of plants, and in the malaria parasite. Since vertebrates synthesize isoprenoid precursors using a mevalonate pathway, CDP-ME synthase and other enzymes of the mevalonate-independent pathway for isoprenoid production represent attractive targets for the structure-based design of selective antibacterial, herbicidal, and antimalarial drugs. Accordingly, the present invention provides methods for screening for compounds that inhibit enzymes of the mevalonate-independent pathway and pharmaceutical compositions and antibacterial formulations thereof. Further provided are methods of inhibiting the enzymes of the pathway and bacterial terpenoid synthesis and methods for treating a subject suffering from a bacterial infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/240636 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07284528 | Natkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Natkin (Canton, Michigan); Bret Oltmans (Stacy, Minnesota); John E. Allison (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Thomas J. Heater (Milford, Michigan); Joy Adair Hines (Plymouth, Michigan); Grant K. Tappen (Washington, Michigan); Dietmar Peiskammer (Rochester, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A crank shaft support assembly for increasing stiffness and reducing thermal mismatch distortion in a crank shaft bore of an engine comprising different materials. A cylinder block comprises a first material and at least two crank journal inserts are insert-molded into respective crank journal regions of the cylinder block and comprise a second material having greater stiffness and a lower thermal coefficient of expansion that the first material. At least two bearing caps are bolted to the respective crank journal inserts and define, along with the crank journal inserts, at least two crank shaft support rings defining a crank shaft bore coaxially aligned with a crank shaft axis. The bearing caps comprise a material having higher stiffness and a lower thermal coefficient of expansion than the first material and are supported on the respective crank journal inserts independently of any direct connection to the cylinder block. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373544 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/195.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284604 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P Robertson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Richard L. Christiansen (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of optically determining a change in magnitude of at least one dimensional characteristic of a sample in response to a selected chamber environment. A magnitude of at least one dimension of the at least one sample may be optically determined subsequent to altering the at least one environmental condition within the chamber. A maximum change in dimension of the at least one sample may be predicted. A dimensional measurement apparatus for indicating a change in at least one dimension of at least one sample. The dimensional measurement apparatus may include a housing with a chamber configured for accommodating pressure changes and an optical perception device for measuring a dimension of at least one sample disposed in the chamber. Methods of simulating injection of a gas into a subterranean formation, injecting gas into a subterranean formation, and producing methane from a coal bed are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/737061 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/250.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285243 | Springston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Springston (Upton, New York); Judith Lloyd (Westbury, New York); Jun Zheng (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the quantitative determination of atmospheric hydroperoxyl radical comprising: (a) contacting a liquid phase atmospheric sample with a chemiluminescent compound which luminesces on contact with hydroperoxyl radical; (b) determining luminescence intensity from the liquid phase atmospheric sample; and (c) comparing said luminescence intensity from the liquid phase atmospheric sample to a standard luminescence intensity for hydroperoxyl radical. An apparatus for automating the method is also included. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/930587 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285362 | Harrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Joseph R. Delmastro (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Frederick F. Stewart (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Thomas A. Luther (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion transporting solvent maintains very low vapor pressure, contains flame retarding elements, and is nontoxic. The solvent in combination with common battery electrolyte salts can be used to replace the current carbonate electrolyte solution, creating a safer battery. It can also be used in combination with polymer gels or solid polymer electrolytes to produce polymer batteries with enhanced conductivity characteristics. The solvents may comprise a class of cyclic and acyclic low molecular weight phosphazenes compounds, comprising repeating phosphorus and nitrogen units forming a core backbone and ion-carrying pendent groups bound to the phosphorus. In preferred embodiments, the cyclic phosphazene comprises at least 3 phosphorus and nitrogen units, and the pendent groups are polyethers, polythioethers, polyether/polythioethers or any combination thereof, and/or other groups preferably comprising other atoms from Group 6B of the periodic table of elements. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/848480 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285575 | Satcher, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a sol-gel polymerization process for synthesizing metal-doped organic gels. The process polymerizes metal salts of hydroxylated benzenes or hydroxylated benzene derivatives with alkyl or aryl aldehydes to form metal-doped, wet, organic gels. The gels can then be dried by supercritical solvent extraction to form metal-doped aerogels or by evaporation to form metal-doped xerogels. The aerogels and xerogels can then be pyrolyzed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457131 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285784 | Rowland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Rowland (Alamo, California); Douglas E. Howard (Livermore, California); James L. Wong (Dublin, California); James L. Jessup (Tracy, California); Greg M. Bianchini (Livermore, California); Wayne O. Miller (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time method and computer system for identifying radioactive materials which collects gamma count rates from a HPGe gamma-radiation detector to produce a high-resolution gamma-ray energy spectrum. A library of nuclear material definitions (“library definitions”) is provided, with each uniquely associated with a nuclide or isotope material and each comprising at least one logic condition associated with a spectral parameter of a gamma-ray energy spectrum. The method determines whether the spectral parameters of said high-resolution gamma-ray energy spectrum satisfy all the logic conditions of any one of the library definitions, and subsequently uniquely identifies the material type as that nuclide or isotope material associated with the satisfied library definition. The method is iteratively repeated to update the spectrum and identification in real time. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828010 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286043 | Carrender et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute K1-53 (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis L. Carrender (Morgan Hill, California); Ronald W. Gilbert (Gilroy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of inventorying multiple objects utilizing a multi-level or a chained radio frequency identification system. The system includes a master tag and a plurality of upper level tags and lower level tags associated with respective objects. The upper and lower level tags communicate with each other and the master tag so that reading of the master tag reveals the presence and absence of upper and lower level tags. In the chained RF system, the upper and lower level tags communicate locally with each other in a manner so that more remote tags that are out of range of some of the upper and lower level tags have their information relayed through adjacent tags to the master tag and thence to a controller. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425232 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/10.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286295 | Sweatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David D. Gill (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apposition microoptical compound lens comprises a plurality of lenslets arrayed around a segment of a hollow, three-dimensional optical shell. The lenslets collect light from an object and focus the light rays onto the concentric, curved front surface of a coherent fiber bundle. The fiber bundle transports the light rays to a planar detector, forming a plurality of sub-images that can be reconstructed as a full image. The microoptical compound lens can have a small size (millimeters), wide field of view (up to 180°), and adequate resolution for object recognition and tracking. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/290050 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/619 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286575 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California); Raymond J. Beach (Livermore, California); Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California); William F. Krupke (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is provided for producing near-diffraction-limited laser light, or amplifying near-diffraction-limited light, in diode pumped alkali vapor photonic-band-gap fiber lasers or amplifiers. Laser light is both substantially generated and propagated in an alkali gas instead of a solid, allowing the nonlinear and damage limitations of conventional solid core fibers to be circumvented. Alkali vapor is introduced into the center hole of a photonic-band-gap fiber, which can then be pumped with light from a pump laser and operated as an oscillator with a seed beam, or can be configured as an amplifier. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447391 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286580 | Dane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Metal Improvement Company, Inc. (Paramus, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Brent Dane (Livermore, California); Lloyd Hackel (Livermore, California); Fritz B. Harris (Rocklin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system, such as a master oscillator/power amplifier system, comprises a gain medium and a stimulated Brillouin scattering SBS mirror system. The SBS mirror system includes an in situ filtered SBS medium that comprises a compound having a small negative non-linear index of refraction, such as a perfluoro compound. An SBS relay telescope having a telescope focal point includes a baffle at the telescope focal point which blocks off angle beams. A beam splitter is placed between the SBS mirror system and the SBS relay telescope, directing a fraction of the beam to an alternate beam path for an alignment fiducial. The SBS mirror system has a collimated SBS cell and a focused SBS cell. An adjustable attenuator is placed between the collimated SBS cell and the focused SBS cell, by which pulse width of the reflected beam can be adjusted. |
| FILED | Monday, May 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/383352 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286626 | Mizia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Mizia (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Richard N. Wright (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William D. Swank (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Tedd E. Lister (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Patrick J. Pinhero (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron absorbing coating for use on a substrate, and which provides nuclear criticality control is described and which includes a nickel, chromium, molybdenum, and gadolinium alloy having less than about 5% boron, by weight. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/303549 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286867 | Schlyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Schlyer (Bellport, New York); Craig L. Woody (Setauket, New York); William Rooney (Miller Place, New York); Paul Vaska (Sound Beach, New York); Sean Stoll (Wading River, New York); Jean-Francois Pratte (Stony Brook, New York); Paul O'Connor (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined PET/MRI scanner generally includes a magnet for producing a magnetic field suitable for magnetic resonance imaging, a radiofrequency (RF) coil disposed within the magnetic field produced by the magnet and a ring tomograph disposed within the magnetic field produced by the magnet. The ring tomograph includes a scintillator layer for outputting at least one photon in response to an annihilation event, a detection array coupled to the scintillator layer for detecting the at least one photon outputted by the scintillator layer and for outputting a detection signal in response to the detected photon and a front-end electronic array coupled to the detection array for receiving the detection signal, wherein the front-end array has a preamplifier and a shaper network for conditioning the detection signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966412 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286970 | Gardner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shea Nicole Gardner (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for tailoring treatment regimens to individual patients with diseased cells exhibiting evolution of resistance to such treatments. A mathematical model is provided which models rates of population change of proliferating and quiescent diseased cells using cell kinetics and evolution of resistance of the diseased cells, and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models. Cell kinetic parameters are obtained from an individual patient and applied to the mathematical model to solve for a plurality of treatment regimens, each having a quantitative efficacy value associated therewith. A treatment regimen may then be selected from the plurlaity of treatment options based on the efficacy value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/338559 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07284409 | Hasselbrink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest F. Hasselbrink (Londonderry, New Hampshire); Mark Libardoni (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kristine Stewart, legal representative (Ann Arbor, Michigan); J. Hunter Waite (Dexter, Michigan); Bruce P. Block (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal modulator device for gas chromatography and associated methods. The thermal modulator device includes a cooling member, an electrically conductive capillary in direct thermal contact with the cooling member, and a power supply electrically coupled to the capillary and operable for controlled resistive heating of the capillary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070796 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07284792 | Dabney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Dabney (Tanner, Alabama); Susan V. Elrod (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A cushion system for use with a child safety seat has a plurality of bladders assembled to form a seat cushion that cooperates with the seat's safety harness. One or more sensors coupled to the safety harness sense tension therein and generate a signal indicative of the tension. Each of the bladders is individually pressurized by a pressurization system to define a support configuration of the seat cushion. The pressurization system is disabled when tension in the safety harness has attained a threshold level. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/047342 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Chairs and seats 297/216.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285142 | Mohajeri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nahid Mohajeri (Rockledge, Florida); Ali Tabatabaie-Raissi (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating hydrogen includes the steps of providing an amine borane (AB) complex, at least one hydrogen generation catalyst, and a solvent, and mixing these components. Hydrogen is generated. The hydrogen produced is high purity hydrogen suitable for PEM fuel cells. A hydrolytic in-situ hydrogen generator includes a first compartment that contains an amine borane (AB) complex, a second container including at least one hydrogen generation catalyst, wherein the first or second compartment includes water or other hydroxyl group containing solvent. A connecting network permits mixing contents in the first compartment with contents in the second compartment, wherein high purity hydrogen is generated upon mixing. At least one flow controller is provided for controlling a flow rate of the catalyst or AB complex. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/414572 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285306 | Parrish |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clyde F. Parrish (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-healing system for an insulation material initiates a self-repair process by rupturing a plurality of microcapsules disposed on the insulation material. When the plurality of microcapsules are ruptured reactants within the plurality of microcapsules react to form a replacement polymer in a break of the insulation material. This self-healing system has the ability to repair multiple breaks in a length of insulation material without exhausting the repair properties of the material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/684064 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285844 | Hayworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ken J. Hayworth (Northridge, California); Karl Y. Yee (Pasadena, California); Kirill V. Shcheglov (Los Angeles, California); Youngsam Bae (Gardena, California); Dean V. Wiberg (La Crescenta, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Chris S. Peay (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Multiple Internal Seal Ring (MISR) Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) vacuum package that hermetically seals MEMS devices using MISR. The method bonds a capping plate having metal seal rings to a base plate having metal seal rings by wafer bonding the capping plate wafer to the base plate wafer. Bulk electrodes may be used to provide conductive paths between the seal rings on the base plate and the capping plate. All seals are made using only metal-to-metal seal rings deposited on the polished surfaces of the base plate and capping plate wafers. However, multiple electrical feed-through metal traces are provided by fabricating via holes through the capping plate for electrical connection from the outside of the package through the via-holes to the inside of the package. Each metal seal ring serves the dual purposes of hermetic sealing and providing the electrical feed-through metal trace. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865344 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/659 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285932 | A'Harrah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph C. A'Harrah (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Active and adaptive systems and methods to prevent loss of control incidents by providing tactile feedback to a vehicle operator are disclosed. According to the present invention, an operator gives a control input to an inceptor. An inceptor sensor measures an inceptor input value of the control input. The inceptor input is used as an input to a Steady-State Inceptor Input/Effector Output Model that models the vehicle control system design. A desired effector output from the inceptor input is generated from the model. The desired effector output is compared to an actual effector output to get a distortion metric. A feedback force is generated as a function of the distortion metric. The feedback force is used as an input to a feedback force generator which generates a loss of control inhibitor system (LOCIS) force back to the inceptor. The LOCIS force is felt by the operator through the inceptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975119 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285933 | A'Harrah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph C. A'Harrah (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Active and adaptive systems and methods to prevent loss of control incidents by providing tactile feedback to a vehicle operator are disclosed. According to the present invention, an operator gives a control input to an inceptor. An inceptor sensor measures an inceptor input value of the control input. The inceptor input is used as an input to a Steady-State Inceptor Input/Effector Output Model that models the vehicle control system design. A desired effector output from the inceptor input is generated from the model. The desired effector output is compared to an actual effector output to get a distortion metric. A feedback force is generated as a function of the distortion metric. The feedback force is used as an input to a feedback force generator which generates a loss of control inhibitor system (LOCIS) force back to the inceptor. The LOCIS force is felt by the operator through the inceptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/188227 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286214 | Reinersman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip N. Reinersman (Tampa, Florida); Kendall L. Carder (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid method is presented by which Monte Carlo techniques are combined with iterative relaxation techniques to solve the Radiative Transfer Equation in arbitrary one-, two- or three-dimensional optical environments. The optical environments are first divided into contiguous regions, or elements, with Monte Carlo techniques then being employed to determine the optical response function of each type of element. The elements are combined, and the iterative relaxation techniques are used to determine simultaneously the radiance field on the boundary and throughout the interior of the modeled environment. This hybrid model is capable of providing estimates of the under-water light field needed to expedite inspection of ship hulls and port facilities. It is also capable of providing estimates of the subaerial light field for structured, absorbing or non-absorbing environments such as shadows of mountain ranges within and without absorption spectral bands such as water vapor or CO2 bands. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925854 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286573 | Ning |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cun-Zheng Ning (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for converting a Type 2 quantum well semiconductor material to a Type 1 material. A second layer of undoped material is placed between first and third layers of selectively doped material, which are separated from the second layer by undoped layers having small widths. Doping profiles are chosen so that a first electrical potential increment across a first layer-second layer interface is equal to a first selected value and/or a second electrical potential increment across a second layer-third layer interface is equal to a second selected value. The semiconductor structure thus produced is useful as a laser material and as an incident light detector material in various wavelength regions, such as a mid-infrared region. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923160 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07285380 | Noel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Michael B. Austin (La Jolla, California); Marianne E. Bowman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises crystalline polyketide synthases, isolated non-native polyketide synthases having the structural coordinates of said crystalline polyketide synthases, and nucleic acids encoding such non-native polyketide synthases. Also disclosed are methods of producing mutant polyketide synthases, and methods of altering the activity and/or substrate specificity of putative polyketide synthases. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/450230 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285700 | Maliga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pal Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Marina Skarjinskaia (Highland Park, New Jersey); Zora Svab Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for obtaining Arabidopsis and Brassica plants. Specifically, the method provides culturing protocols and compositions that facilitate the regeneration of transformed plants following delivery of beneficial DNA molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460716 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285894 | da Cunha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Bangor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mauricio Pereira da Cunha (Orono, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A Surface Acoustic Wave device including a resonator or a delay line formed from an electrically conductive material having a high melting temperature disposed upon the surface of a substrate formed from one of the LGX family of crystals or gallium phosphate. The Surface Acoustic Wave Device is operative as a sensor at high temperatures. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046712 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286514 | Bar-Ness et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeheskel Bar-Ness (Marlboro, New Jersey); Songping Wu (North Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been specified by IEEE 802.11a standard as the transmission technique for high-rate wireless local area networks (WLANs). Performance of an OFDM system, however, is heavily degraded by random Wiener phase noise, which causes both common phase error (CPE) and inter-carrier interference (ICI). A method and algorithm is disclosed for efficiently eliminating the effect of phase noise in OFDM based WLANs. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731693 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286864 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Gerard G. Skebe (Eastlake, Ohio); Troy S. Prince (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a dry physiological recording electrode that can be used without skin preparation or the use of electrolytic gels. The dry physiological recording electrode comprising a substrate having an upper and a lower surface, and at least one penetrator(s) protruding from the upper surface of the substrate. The penetrator(s) is capable of piercing through the stratum corneum or outer layer of the skin, and transmitting an electric potential from the lower layers of the epidermis through the penetrator(s) which can be measured, or detecting agents from the lower layers of the epidermis primarily the stratum germinativum layer. At least one epidermis stop may be provided resulting in the formation of detritus troughs interposed between adjacent penetrator(s) and epidermis stops. The present invention also includes a method of sensing biopotentials in the skin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401559 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287140 | Asanovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krste Asanovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emmett J. Witchel (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fine-grained memory protection system and technique provide computer memory protection at least to a word granularity. A permissions table having permission values associated with a computer memory is arranged as protection domains. The permissions table can be cached in a protection lookaside buffer (PLD) and/or in sidecar registers. A software calls across protection domains (a cross-domain call) can be facilitated with a switch gate and a return gate. In some embodiments, a gate table is provided to store the switch gates and return gates, each having gate values. In some embodiments, a stack permission stable allows stack frames to be associated with the cross-domain call. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/899776 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07286223 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A detection system is used during irradiation of an interaction region of a structure with laser light. The structure includes embedded material. The detection system includes a focusing lens positioned to receive light emitted from the interaction region. The detection system further includes an optical fiber optically coupled to the focusing lens to receive light from the focusing lens. The detection system further includes a spectrometer optically coupled to the optical fiber to receive light from the optical fiber. The spectrometer is adapted for analysis of the light for indications of the embedded material within the interaction region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/691444 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286638 | Ledoux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Passport Systems, Inc. (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Ledoux (Harvard, Massachusetts); William Bertozzi (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and systems of scanning a target for potential threats using the energy spectra of photons scattered from the target to determine the spatial distributions of average atomic number and/or mass in the target. An exemplary method comprises: illuminating each of a plurality of voxels of the target with a photon beam; determining an incident flux upon each voxel; measuring the energy spectrum of photons scattered from the voxel; determining, using the energy spectrum, the average atomic number in the voxel; and determining the mass in the voxel using the incident flux, the average atomic number of the material in the voxel, the energy spectrum, and a scattering kernel corresponding to the voxel. An exemplary system may use threat detection heuristics to determine whether to trigger further action based upon the average atomic number and/or mass of the voxels. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177758 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07286082 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Po-Hsin Hsu (Irvine, California); Mohinder S. Grewal (Anaheim Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to provide navigation signals to a space vehicle includes an uplink system for a geostationary earth satellite having clock steering derived from smoothed receiver clock error, long term clock error average, and long term clock offset average information. A proportional-integral-differential controller can be used to generate clock adjustment commands to a frequency standard clock. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/063782 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286214 | Reinersman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip N. Reinersman (Tampa, Florida); Kendall L. Carder (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid method is presented by which Monte Carlo techniques are combined with iterative relaxation techniques to solve the Radiative Transfer Equation in arbitrary one-, two- or three-dimensional optical environments. The optical environments are first divided into contiguous regions, or elements, with Monte Carlo techniques then being employed to determine the optical response function of each type of element. The elements are combined, and the iterative relaxation techniques are used to determine simultaneously the radiance field on the boundary and throughout the interior of the modeled environment. This hybrid model is capable of providing estimates of the under-water light field needed to expedite inspection of ship hulls and port facilities. It is also capable of providing estimates of the subaerial light field for structured, absorbing or non-absorbing environments such as shadows of mountain ranges within and without absorption spectral bands such as water vapor or CO2 bands. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925854 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07284699 | Hamilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryl S. Hamilton (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for tracking the nesting of delivery items can include using a passive RFID-type or an auto-detection type communication device to determine which mail handler picks up a particular tray from a location, such as the end of a conveyor system. When the mail handler places the tray in a container, another RFID-type device can be used to detect into which container the mail handler placed the tray. This information may then be passively and/or wirelessly transmitted to an application server that may store the information in a database to verify and validate, in real time, that the tray was placed into the correct container. These methods and systems are equally applicable to other nesting environments, including for example, the placing of containers into transportation vehicles. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956384 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07286718 | Aradhye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hrishikesh B. Aradhye (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text characters to determine in which direction the open portions face. By determining the respective densities of characters opening in each direction (e.g., right or left), the method can establish in which direction the text as a whole is orientated. The present invention may be adapted for use in automated mail processing, to determine the orientation of checks in automated teller machine envelopes, or the orientation of scanned or copied documents, or documents sent via facsimile, or to determine the orientation of digital photographs that include text (e.g., road signs, business cards, driver's licenses, etc.), among other applications. A fast, substantially automatic determination of text orientation according to the present invention will reduce the labor expense and processing delay required for manual orientation. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/764655 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07285403 | Jeffries et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); United States as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wisconsin); Haiying Ni (Beijing, China PRC); Jose Miguel Laplaza (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are xylose-fermenting recombinant yeast strains expressing xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase, and xylulokinase and having reduced expression of PHO13 or a PHO13 ortholog, as well as methods of fermenting xylose to obtain ethanol using the recombinant yeast strains. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398807 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07286359 | Khbeis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The U.S. Government as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Khbeis (Severn, Maryland); George Metze (Millersville, Maryland); Neil Goldsman (Takoma Park, Maryland); Akin Akturk (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling device for a microcircuit provides a direct path of thermal extraction from a high heat producing area to a cooler area. A thermal insulation layer is formed on a body having at least one component thereon that generates the high heat producing area. At least one via is formed through an entire thickness of the insulation layer and is in direct communication with the high heat producing area. Heat from the high heat producing area is channeled through each via to the cooler area, which may be ambient atmosphere or a good thermal conductor, such as a heat sink. A thermal conductive material may be deposited within the via and increase the rate of thermal extraction therethrough. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842731 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/704 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07285209 | Yu et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Guanghua Yu (Rockaway, New Jersey); Chang-Wei Jen (Bedminster, New Jersey); Montfort Thierry (Long Valley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses an apparatus for filtration of water from hydrocarbons comprised of a fresh-feed inlet, a first dead end filter, that is hydrophobic, a second sweeping-flow filter, that is hydrophobic, a common housing containing both the first and second filters, a system for the recirculation of the retentate, a chamber for water settling, and an outlet for clean fuel permeate. This invention takes advantage of the properties of the functional groups of a surfactant, by using the surfactant to allow a hydrophobic medium to attract water, attach the water molecules to the hydrophobic medium, and then allow for agglomeration of the water molecules, which finally become large enough to detach and be swept away by the sweeping-flow. This invention can thus be used to remove high concentrations of water, up to 5%, in hydrocarbons, while allowing a high flow rate by preventing blockage of the final filter by water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865482 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/195.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07285386 | Ozbun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Mexico, and Educational Institution of the State of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle A. Ozbun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an animal model system for the study of papillomaviruses, especially anogenital papillomaviruses, especially those causing anogenital and/or head and neck cancers. The Rhesus papillomavirus (especially RhPV1) is a useful model for human papillomaviruses which cause anogenital infections and cancers of the anogenital region and/or the head, neck and respiratory system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/978239 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07285092 | Duric et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nebojsa Duric (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peter J. Littrup (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Earle Holsapple, III (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan); Robert Henry Barter (Oakland, California); Thomas L Moore (Livermore, California); Stephen G. Azevedo (Livermore, California); Sidney W. Ferguson (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for examining tissue are provided in which the tissue is maintained in a position so that it may be insonified with a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves. The insonifying acoustic waves are scattered by the tissue so that scattered acoustic radiation including a mix of reflected and transmitted acoustic waves is received. A representation of a portion of the tissue is then derived from the received scattered acoustic radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323354 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285270 | DeLeo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce A. DeLeo (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treating pain. Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) antibodies or binding fragments thereof are used to prevent or reduce behavioral hypersensitivity associated with pain. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521167 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285274 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra Chang (Honolulu, Hawaii); Kenton Kramer (Kaneohe, Hawaii); William Gosnell (Honolulu, Hawaii); Tani Nishimura (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for the induction of a protective immunize response in primates against a lethal challenge of Plasmodium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925385 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07285419 | Shade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher W. Shade (Champaign, Illinois); Robert J. M. Hudson (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of analyzing mercury containing samples for inorganic and organomercurial complexes are disclosed. The methods are highly sensitive and are especially suited to samples containing significant amounts of organic matter. Kits and devices for mercury analysis are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/171461 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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