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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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| US 07287929 | Sokolowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Sokolowski (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania); William J. Peiffer (Moline, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart bollard includes a compartment wherein a smart bollard circuit may be located and the smart bollard circuit, in turn, includes at least one processor, a transceiver that may be connected in circuit with the processor and configured to communicate with a central control station in response to commands from the processor, at least one sensor provided for sensing for the presence of one or more airborne agents and at least one disinfection unit that is configured for receiving commands from the processor to effect a selected disinfection of a perimeter area about the bollard sleeve. Also, the processor may be configured to receive input from the at least one sensor concerning the presence of one or more airborne agents, analyze the input and provide commands to the at least one disinfection unit to effect a selected disinfection, and to communicate the presence of one or more airborne agents to the central control station via the transceiver. A method of response to a terrorist attack using the foregoing apparatus is also presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272427 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
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| US 07287987 | Heisen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T Heisen (Kent, Washington); Julio A Navarro (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical connector apparatus and method for connecting circuit traces on two or more independent circuit board assemblies. A compressible elastomeric member is wrapped with a flexible circuit assembly having a plurality of independent circuit traces, with each circuit trace including a pair of raised electrical contacts. The compressible member with the electrical circuit wrapped over it is supported by a holder assembly. The holder assembly is secured to one of a pair of adjacently positioned independent printed circuit assemblies. The compressible member is held by the holder assembly so that it is compressed against both of the printed circuit board assemblies. The raised electrical contacts electrically contact traces on each of the printed circuit assemblies to complete the electrical connections between the circuit assemblies. The apparatus is especially useful in applications where a large plurality of electrical connections need to be made between independent circuit board assemblies in a very limited space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140799 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288134 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shouheng Sun (Millwodd, New York); Heng Yu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dumbbell-shaped or flower-shaped nanoparticles and a process of forming the same, wherein the process comprises forming a mixture of a nanoparticle with a precursor in a first solvent, wherein the nanoparticle comprises a hydrophobic outer coating; heating the mixture; cooling the mixture to room temperature; modifying the hydrophobic outer coating into a hydrophilic outer coating; precipitating a solid product from the mixture, and dispersing the product in a second solvent. The nanoparticles comprise any of a semiconducting, magnetic, and noble metallic material, wherein the nanoparticles comprise a first portion comprising any of PbSe, PbS, CdSe, CdS, ZnS, Au, Ag, Pd, and Pt, and wherein the precursor comprises any of a cationic, neutral or particulate Au, Ag, Pd, Pt, or transition metal (Fe, Co, Ni) precursors of Fe(CO)5, Co(CO)8, Ni(CO)4 or their analogues. The first and second solvents comprise any of alkanes, arenes, ethers, nitrites, ketones, and chlorinated hydrocarbons. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/938897 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/348 |
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| US 07288234 | Salan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Department of the Navy as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry S. Salan (Hughesville, Maryland); John R. Luense (Accokeek, Maryland); Jim R. Griffenhagen (Springfield, Virginia); Michael A. Lateulere (Marbury, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system and method for using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a processing fluid additive for safely and effectively treating water-wet hogout propellant as well as any other water-wet propellants, explosives and hazardous wastes (solids and liquids) to make them compatible with the MSO process. The method includes the step of applying liquid PEG to the hazardous waste to create a slurry or feedstock that when fed directly into the MSO reactor vessel prevents the occurrence of smelt-water explosions due to the accumulation of dangerous levels of sodium chloride, and/or sodium sulfide in the molten salt bath. The PEG possesses special qualities that make it ideal for this purpose. It is a low cost, low viscosity, commercially available, non-hazardous (per OSHA standards), water soluble, low toxicity chemical that burns cleanly leaving little or no residue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373017 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288238 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Rajesh Kumar Saini (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Virginia Angelica Davis (Webster, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Lars Martin Ericson (Houston, Texas); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Sreekumar Thaliyil Veedu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped aggregates of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and resemble the Atlantic fish of the same name. Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives can be conveniently dispersed in materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, metal oxides and liquids. The process for preparing the alewives comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring, and slowly introducing water into the single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture to form the alewives. The alewives can be recovered, washed and dried. The properties of the single-wall carbon nanotubes are retained in the alewives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187729 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288328 | Darolia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramgopal Darolia (West Chester, Ohio); William Scott Walston (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An article for use in hostile thermal environments, such as a component of a gas turbine engine. The article includes a nickel-base superalloy substrate that is prone to formation of a deleterious secondary reaction zone (SRZ), and an overlay coating having a predominantly gamma prime-phase nickel aluminide (Ni3Al) composition suitable for use as an environmental coating, including a bond coat for a thermal barrier coating. The coating comprises a chromium-containing nickel aluminide intermetallic overlay coating of predominantly the gamma prime phase, in which aluminum is present in the coating in an amount approximately equal to the aluminum content of the superalloy substrate so as to inhibit diffusion of aluminum from the overlay coating into the superalloy substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904222 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288331 | Thompson 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) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Xiaofan Ren (Los Angeles, California); Peter Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Haiping Hong (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Chihaya Adachi (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Light emitting devices having charge transporting layers comprising one or more metal complexes are provided. More particularly, devices include hole transporting layers comprising at least one organometallic complex are disclosed. The present devices can further comprise an electron blocking layer for improved efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408542 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
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| US 07288391 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don A. Roth (Laramie, Wyoming); Randolph V. Lewis (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the fields of molecular biology and plant biology. Specifically, the invention is directed to the methods for expressing spider silk proteins in plants and the synthesis and purification of spider silk proteins therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/479638 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07288394 | Ostuni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuele Ostuni (Watertown, Massachusetts); Christopher S. Chen (Baltimore, Maryland); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of patterning materials, such as proteins, on a contoured surface by depositing them onto protrusions on a surface, and a cell containment device that may be constructed by this method, are provided. The method may involve selectively depositing a material on a substrate including a contoured surface including protrusions and recesses. By applying a first fluid to the contoured surface and allowing the first fluid to distribute across only a portion of the contoured surface, a material may be deposited on the protrusions and not the recesses, or on the recesses and not the protrusions. Such a method may be used to selectively pattern cells or other materials on substrates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668679 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288423 | Huffaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diana L. Huffaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sandy Birodavolu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for removing a mask in a selective area epitaxy process is provided. The method includes forming a first layer on a substrate and oxidizing the first layer. A patterned photoresist can be formed on the oxidized first layer. A portion of the oxidized first layer can then be removed using a wet chemical etch to form a mask. After removing the patterned photoresist a second layer can be epitaxially grown in a metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) chamber or a chemical beam epitaxy (CBE) chamber on a portion of the first layer exposed by the mask. The mask can then be removed the mask in the MOCVD/MBE chamber. The disclosed in-situ mask removal method minimizes both the atmospheric exposure of a growth surface and the number of sample transfers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326433 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288568 | Gribble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon W. Gribble (Norwich, Vermont); Tadashi Honda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Michael B. Sporn (Tunbridge, Vermont); Nanjoo Suh (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for chemopreventative treatment of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, and multiple sclerosis. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395372 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288623 | Ghadiri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reza M. Ghadiri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cyclic homodetic peptides having a repeating D-L-chirality motif are shown to have a stable disk conformation with the amino acid side chains extending radially outward and the carbonyl and amino groups extending axially upward or downward. Such cyclic peptides can be employed as subunits in the assembly of molecular tubes. Cyclic peptides having a repeating D-L-chirality motif and lacking mutually repulsive side-chains are shown to stack atop one another in an anti-parallel fashion and are shown to be held together by the formation of β-sheet hydrogen bonding. The stacked cyclic peptides form a molecular tube having a central channel. The diameter of the channel is determined by the size cyclic peptide. If the cyclic peptide includes ionizable amino acid residues, e.g. glutamic acid or lysine, assembly and disassembly of the molecular tubes can be controlled by varying the pH. If the cyclic peptide includes hydrophobic amino acid residues, the molecular tube will insert into a lipid membrane. In such instances, the molecular tube provides a transmembrane channel. The channel can be gated or ungated. Molecular tubes can be terminated with a terminal cyclic peptide having methylated amino groups in one orientation. Molecular tubes may be employed as drug carriers, molecular sieves, reaction vessels, membrane channels, and other uses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/196937 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/321 |
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| US 07288641 | Adjei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Araba A. Adjei (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Bianca A. Thomae (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354763 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288648 | Hamilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Scott Hamilton (Bear River City, Utah); Vincent Mancini (Ogden, Utah); Clint Nelson (Perry, Utah); Sharon Yeung Dressen (Ogden, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of crystallizing an epsilon-polymorph of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazatetracyclo[5.5.0.05,903,11]-dodecane (CL-20). The method comprises combining the CL-20, at least one organic solvent, and at least one nonsolvent to form a crystallization solution. The crystallization solution is saturated and heated to a temperature greater than about 60° C., such as from about 71° C. to about 94° C. The organic solvent is removed from the crystallization solution while retaining a sufficient amount of the nonsolvent to crystallize the CL-20 as the epsilon-polymorph. The nonsolvent is separated from the epsilon-polymorph of CL-20. A composition of CL-20 comprising the epsilon-polymorph having a particle density of 2.035 g/ml is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/636373 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288871 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Santa Fe Science and Technology, Inc. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Lu (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Elisabeth Smela (Silver Spring, Maryland); Phillip N. Adams (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Guido Zuccarello (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin R. Mattes (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear electrochemical actuator is described where at least one electrically conductive (between 400 and 1000 S/cm), doped polyaniline solid fiber or a yarn produced from such fibers is disposed in an electrolyte inside of a electrically conductive polyaniline hollow fiber, thereby allowing 2-electrode operation without a metal backing. This is an example of the electrochemical devices of the present invention having a solid-in-hollow polymer fiber configuration. In a propylene carbonate electrolyte, the electrochemical and actuation behavior of the fibers was found to be influenced by the solubility and size of the polymer dopants. That is, solubility of the dopant in the electrolyte resulted in high electroactivity and strain in the fibers. Actuation of fibers was also affected by electrolyte anions, small anions resulting in anion-exchange dominated actuation, while large anions resulted in cation-exchange dominated actuation. Isotonic strains of 0.9% and isometric stresses of 0.9 MPa were realized for the solid-in-hollow polyaniline fiber actuators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886001 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288944 | Tonn |
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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) | David A. Tonn (Charlestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric constant waveguide measuring apparatus preferably comprises a rectangular waveguide aperture on each end with a width a and height b. The waveguide frame is preferably split to permit the waveguide to be opened for insertion of the unknown material into a middle reduced cross-sectional area portion of the waveguide frame. In one embodiment, a metal septum is inserted between two samples of the unknown material to thereby reduce the cross-sectional area of the waveguide aperture by splitting width a of the rectangular waveguide in half. The waveguide frame is closed and a frequency response of the waveguide is then measured. The dynamic dielectric constant of the unknown material is determined from the frequency of the lowest order minimum value of the frequency response of the waveguide apparatus wherein the unknown material has been inserted. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183307 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288975 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas); Gary D. Carpenter (Austin, Texas); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for fail-safe and restartable system clock generation provides recovery from failures due to incorrect clock generator settings or from marginal clock distribution components. Clock failure is detected at a point along the clock distribution path between the output of the clock generator and the downstream circuits. If a clock failure is detected, a second clock, which may be the clock generator reference clock, is used to operate the downstream circuits. The clock generator, which may be a phase-lock loop, is then restarted, either with a predetermined loop filter voltage at which downstream circuits are guaranteed to operate, or with a divider setting on the output of the clock generator that reduces the frequency so that downstream circuits are guaranteed to operate. Parameters of the clock generator can thereby be reset and operating conditions determined before restoring the output of the clock generator to the downstream circuits. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260563 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289060 | Abatzoglou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theagenis J. Abatzoglou (Huntington Beach, California); Raquel E. Maderazo (Marina del Rey, California); Jessica E. Swanson (El Segundo, California); Frederick A. Dominski (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radar classifies an unknown target illuminated with a large bandwidth pulse. The large bandwidth pulse may be algorithmically synthesized. The target reflects the large bandwidth pulse to form a return. The return is digitized into digital samples at range bin intervals. A computer extracts unknown range and amplitude pairs descriptive of the unknown target from the digital samples. Some range and amplitude pairs are located within one range bin interval. Principle scatterers are extracted from the unknown range and amplitude pairs using Modified Forward backward linear Prediction to form an unknown feature vector for the target. A plurality of pre-stored, known feature vectors containing known range and amplitude pairs are retrieved from the computer. The known range and amplitude pairs are descriptive of known targets, and are grouped in clusters having least dispersion for each of the known targets. The computer associates, for the principal scatterers, the unknown feature vector descriptive of the unknown target with each of the known feature vectors. The target is classified by using highest a posteriori conditional probability density obtained from comparing the known feature vectors with the unknown feature vector. The principal scatterers descriptive of the unknown, target are estimated using a Modified Forward Backward Linear Prediction. The Modified Forward Backward Linear Prediction also estimates range of the principal scatterers forming the unknown target. The principal scatterers are tested for decaying modes. The Modified Forward Backward Linear Prediction estimates are evaluated using Cramer Reo Bound computation for robustness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439584 |
| 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 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289388 | Intrator et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Intrator (Providence, Rhode Island); Leon N. Cooper (Providence, Rhode Island); Nicola Neretti (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for estimating the SNR in a sonar environment and for determining the effect of the estimated SNR on sonar ranging accuracy. The system includes a sensor, a transmitter, a receiver, a plurality of band-pass filters, a cross correlator, and a data analyzer. The transmitter transmits a first signal having a predetermined frequency range through a transmission medium. The sensor generates a second signal corresponding to an echo signal reflected from an object. The first and second signals are provided to the band-pass filters, each operative to pass a respective sub-band of frequencies. The filters provide filtered versions of the first and second signals to the cross correlator, which performs cross correlation operations on the filtered signals. A data analyzer analyzes the cross correlator output data to determine the variability of cross correlation peaks within each frequency sub-band, thereby allowing more accurate SNR estimations in noisy environments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559741 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289425 | Yeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hen-Geul Yeh (Cypress, California); Charles C. Wang (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications system includes a transmitter and receiver, the transmitter having a parallel fast Fourier transform (FFT) module operating in parallel to a conventional inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module for providing respective orthogonal outputs received by the receiver. The receiver has a parallel IFFT module and a conventional FFT module for providing respective orthogonal outputs. The respective orthogonal outputs are combined to form a composite signal that provides improved insensitivity to relative frequency offsets and Doppler frequency offsets. The parallel FFT and IFFT modules in the OFDM communication system provides improved signal diversity and performance in the presence of relative frequency offsets and Doppler frequency offsets, and provides improved tracking capability for the receiver with backward compatibility. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600310 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/208 |
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| US 07289460 | Thacker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland); General Dynamics Decision Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Thacker (Los Altos, California); Steven R. Peterson (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Scott Blanchard (Mesa, Arizona); Gregory E. Edlund (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a satellite communications system between satellites and terminal units that are sufficiently small to be handheld units and that operate within the earth power flux density limit. This is accomplished by using spreading spectrum waveform protocols that make efficient use of the allocated bandwidth. In one embodiment, a satellite communications system comprises at least one satellite, and at least one ground station each corresponding to one of the at least one satellite. Each ground station includes a spread spectrum transmitter and a spread spectrum receiver. Each of a plurality of mobile terminals includes a spread spectrum transmitter and a spread spectrum receiver. The spread spectrum transmitter of the at least one ground station is configured to communicate via the corresponding satellite with the spread spectrum receivers of the mobile terminals, and the spread spectrum receiver of the at least one ground station is configured to communicate via the satellite with the spread spectrum transmitter of the mobile terminals, using spread spectrum signals generated from baseband information signals narrower in bandwidth than the spread spectrum signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462094 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289694 | Hochberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Hochberg (Pasadena, California); Tom Baehr-Jones (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Segmented waveguides electrically coupled to a resonator and methods for electrically coupling waveguides to a resonator are disclosed. The resonator can be a split ring resonator. The disclosed structures can be useful to fabricate waveguide devices included, for example, in sensors and optical elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/280854 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/15 |
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| US 07289699 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Davis (Redondo Beach, California); James G. Ho (Los Angeles, California); Akhil R. Shah (Los Angeles, California); Thomas J. Jung (Rolling Hills Estates, California); Terrance T. Lam (Montebello, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical channel waveguide having a reflection grating and a related method for its fabrication. The grating is apodized to provide a desired reflection or transmission spectral characteristic, by varying the grating width along the length of the grating in the direction of light propagation. The grating has multiple parallel elements extending across the waveguide channel width, and apodization is effected by appropriate selection of the width of each element relative to the width of the channel, without varying the grating duty cycle or other parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835413 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289700 | Evans 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) | Douglass C. Evans (San Diego, California); Joseph D. Aboumrad (San Diego, California); Earl E. Floren (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The blazed grating optical fiber polarizing coupler comprises a first optical fiber with a Bragg diffraction grating formed in its core at substantially the Brewster's angle with respect to an optical axis of the first optical fiber, a second optical fiber, also with a Bragg diffraction grating formed in its core at substantially the Brewster's angle with respect to the optical axis of the second optical fiber. The Bragg diffraction grating of the first optical fiber is oriented substantially parallel to the Bragg diffraction grating of the second optical fiber so that the cladding of the first optical fiber and the cladding of the second optical fiber are interposed between the cores of the first and second fibers. An optical signal may be coupled from the first optical fiber into the second optical fiber and polarized in the process. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444809 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
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| US 07289707 | Chavez-Pirson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NP Photonics, inc (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arturo Chavez-Pirson (Tucson, Arizona); Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Wenyan Tian (Tucson, Arizona); Dan Nguyen (Tucson, Arizona); Tao Luo (Tucson, Arizona); Bor-Chyuan Hwang (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-noise, high-gain optical image amplifier includes a multi-mode pump source that injects optical energy into an active fiber's inner cladding to excite the dopant ions in a 2-D array of doped cores and provide gain. The cores are arranged to sample and collect light from an image incident on one end of the fiber, amplify the light and output an amplified pixilated image at the other end of the fiber. The multi-core active fiber preserves the spatial pattern and spectrum of the incident image. The cores may be configured as single-mode cores to preserve phase information or multi-mode cores to scramble the phase information. It is often desirable for the gain to be approximately uniform across the 2-D array. This can be achieved by pumping uniformly doped cores into their respective saturation regions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433264 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289708 | Kath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Kath (Evanston, Illinois); Gino Biondini (Columbus, Ohio); Sarah L. Fogal (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system to produce, either in numerical simulations or in experiments, specified amounts of first, second and higher order PMD in a controlled manner, in particular large amounts. Parameters can be adjusted to obtain specific ranges of first, second and higher order PMD, and importance sampling can be used to determine the probability that the resulting PMD events can be obtained in realistic situations. Individual results obtained using specific parameter values can be combined to produce even larger ranges of PMD. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474696 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289738 | Roberts 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) | Mark W. Roberts (San Diego, California); Markham E. Lasher (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system employs quantum entanglement by projecting photons through a nonlinear crystal. Some become parametrically down-converted into signal and idler photon pairs. The signal photons are projected to a receiver and the idler photons to a transmitter. The transmitter operator can alter the time width and a majority of the center wavelengths of the idler photons via a collapse event in the transmitter. Because of quantum entanglement, a corresponding change in the time width and center wavelengths of the signal photons as received at the receiver results. The purposeful causation of the collapse event or a lack of such purposeful causation can be used for binary communication. In addition, the sensing of an atmospheric condition may be performed by equating changes in received signal photon characteristics with changes in collapse conditions in the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705799 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289906 | van der Merwe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolph van der Merwe (Portland, Oregon); Eric A. Wan (Hillsboro, Oregon); Simon J. Julier (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of estimating the navigational state of a system entails acquiring observation data produced by noisy measurement sensors and providing a probabilistic inference system to combine the observation data with prediction values of the system state space model to estimate the navigational state of the system. The probabilistic inference system is implemented to include a realization of a Gaussian approximate random variable propagation technique performing deterministic sampling without analytic derivative calculations. This technique achieves for the navigational state of the system an estimation accuracy that is greater than that achievable with an extended Kalman filter-based probabilistic inference system. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099433 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289944 | Genovese |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as repressented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing hazardous incident decision support and training includes a user interface component that receives situation definition data, a hazard assessment component and a decision aid. Decision support advice and decision prompts are presented by the system in response to the situation definition interface and hazard assessment. The hazard assessment and expert advice of the system are updated with elapsed time. In another embodiment of the present invention, graphical user interfaces are provided to display a set of menu entries wherein individual menu entries represent a hazardous incident characteristic. The user may select one or more of the menu entries to create a situation definition. Such definitions may be used, for example, to identify a hazardous agent based upon user-inputted signs and symptoms data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713828 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289961 | Bocko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Bocko (Caledonia, New York); Zeljko Ignjatovic (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Data are embedded in an audio signal for watermarking, steganography, or other purposes. The audio signal is divided into time frames. In each time frame, the relative phases of one or more frequency bands are shifted to represent the data to be embedded. In one embodiment, two frequency bands are selected according to a pseudo-random sequence, and their relative phase is shifted. In another embodiment, the phases of one or more overtones relative to the fundamental tone are quantized. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870685 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07290154 | Palem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishna V. Palem (Atlanta, Georgia); Suresh Cheemalavagu (Marietta, Georgia); Pinar Korkmaz (Istanbul, Turkey); Bilge E. Akgul (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor having binary switches is configured to operate at a predetermined probability value that the logical value of each switch is correct. A supply voltage is coupled to the binary switches. A randomized signal detector is configured to detect a randomized signal, which may be amplified to a predetermined level if the randomized signal is low. A computing element outputs a probabilistic binary bit having a 0 or 1 with a predetermined probability value of being correct in correspondence with the supply voltage and/or an amplification level of a noise signal. Subsequently, an application executed by the processor receives the probabilistic binary bit for one or more additional operations. By operating on the probabilistic binary bits instead of conventional deterministic bits, the processor consumes less energy and completes its execution faster. For battery-powered portable electronic devices, use of processor configured for probabilistic binary bits substantially lengthens battery life. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115651 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07290207 | Colbath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Colbath (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Scott Shepard (Waltham, Massachusetts); Francis G. Kubala (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system facilitates the searching and retrieval of multimedia data items. The system receives data items from different types of media sources and identifies regions in the data items. The regions include document regions, section regions, and passage regions. Each of the section regions corresponds to one of the document regions and each of the passage regions corresponds to one of the section regions and one of the document regions. The system stores document identifiers that relate to the document regions in separate document records in a document table, section identifiers that relate to the section regions in separate section records in a section table, and passage identifiers that relate to the passage regions in separate passage records in a passage table. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610697 |
| ART UNIT | 2178 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Miller (Sapulpa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having sustained pain-relieving properties such that the composition may be administered to a subject to alleviate chronic pain. The composition includes an effective amount of at least one glutaminase inhibitor. A method for alleviating chronic pain in a subject for an extended period of time is also disclosed, in which the compound is administered to a subject suffering from chronic pain at a site of inflammation such that the administration of the compound results in a reduction in at least one of thermal and mechanical pain responses at the site of inflammation for a period of at least two days without any resulting acute pain behavior. The composition may further include an effective amount of at least one compound having analgesic effects such that the composition also alleviates acute pain. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245098 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288254 | Neville et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, NIH (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Neville (Bethesda, Maryland); Judith T. Thomas (Birmingham, Alabama); Francis T. Thomas (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating diabetes in a subject, comprising administering to the diabetic subject an immunotoxin, thereby reducing the subject's T-cell population, and administering to the subject pancreatic islet cells from a donor. The immune tolerance inducing treatment regimen, used optionally with adjunct immunosuppressive agents, prevents pancreatic islet cell rejection while maintaining long term islet cell function following xenogeneic and allogeneic pancreatic islet cell transplantation. Thus, the methods of the present invention provide a means for treating diabetes, wherein the need for exogenous insulin or immunosuppressive agents is decreased or eliminated. Also provided is a method of inhibiting a rejection response of a transplant recipient, comprising administering an immunotoxin during the peritransplant period, thereby transiently reducing the number of T-cell lymphocytes and promoting long-term survival of the transplant. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/810999 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288264 | Sawan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surfacine Development Company, L.L.C. (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel P. Sawan (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Tadmor Shalon (Palo Alto, California); Sundar Subramanyam (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Alexander Yurkovetskiy (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Contact killing antimicrobial articles, devices and formulations are described which kill microorganisms on contact. The articles, devices or formulations contain a non-leaching antimicrobial material which is a unique combination of an organic matrix having biocidal metallic materials non-leachably associated with the matrix. The antimicrobial material may used to form an antimicrobial coating or layer on a surface of the article or device, or may be dispersed in a vehicle or carrier to form a topical antiseptic or disinfectant, or solid shape having contact killing antimicrobial properties. When a microorganism contacts the article, device, or formulation, the biocidal metallic material is transferred to the microorganism in amounts sufficient to kill it. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/617566 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288266 | Smyth-Templeton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Smyth-Templeton (Rockville, Maryland); George N. Pavlakis (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly efficient cationic liposomes have been developed as an improved delivery system for biologically-active reagents. A novel structure, the sandwich liposome, is formed and comprises one or more biologically active agents internalized between two bilomellar liposomes. This structure protects the incoming agent and accounts for the high efficiency of in vivo delivery and for the broad tissue distribution of the sandwich liposome complexes. These novel liposomes are also highly efficient carriers of nucleic acids. By using extruded DOTAP:cholesterol liposomes to form complexes with DNA encoding specific proteins, expression has been improved dramatically. Highest expression was achieved in the lung, while increased expression was detected in several organs and tissues. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/360013 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288273 | Feldman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth S. Feldman (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A means and method for increasing or inhibiting the secretion of cytokines using gallotannins and ellagitannins is described. The preferred cytokine release inhibiting compounds are dimeric gallotannins having a linker molecule that misaligns the carbohydrate cores of the compounds. The preferred cytokine release promoting gallotannins and ellagitannins include a diaryl ether linker unit. In comparison to the more structurally complex ellagitannins, the compounds of this invention are structurally simpler, easier to synthesize, and more potent. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/130632 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288369 | Lemon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley M. Lemon (Galveston, Texas); MinKyung Yin (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a replication competent hepatitis C virus that includes a heterologous polynucleotide. The invention also includes methods for modifying a hepatitis C virus polynucleotide, selecting a replication competent hepatitis C virus polynucleotide, detecting a replication competent hepatitis C virus polynucleotide, and identifying a compound that inhibits replication of a hepatitis C virus polynucleotide. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006313 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288385 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Ma (San Diego, California); Tony Hunter (Del Mar, California); Suzanne C. Wolff (Carlsbad, California); Andrew Dillin (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The Smek (Suppressor of mek null) gene is described and characterized. Smek acts in the stress response pathway of animals by binding to and enhancing the transcription of FOXO, thereby providing the link between the stress response pathway and the insulin/IGF-1 pathway. Given the link between both the stress response pathway and the insulin/IGF-1 pathway and longevity, Smek1 represents an essential target for modulation of life span and the stress response. Methods of increasing life span and stress tolerance by modulation of Smek activity are disclosed, as are screening methods for identifying compounds that modulate Smek activity. In addition, recombinant animals expressing the Smek gene that have a longer life span and enhanced stress tolerance, and methods of using the Smek genet to modulate both longevity and stress tolerance, are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165819 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288396 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences Incorporated (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihao Hu (Castro Valley, California); Ralph Reid (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides and domains of leptomycin polyketide synthase and the nucleic acids encoding them are provided. Methods to prepare leptomycin, leptomycin analogs, and leptomycin derivatives are described, as are methods to prepare other polyketides using the nucleic acids encoding leptomycin polyketide synthase domains or modifying enzymes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937730 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 07288519 | Greene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Ramachandran Murali (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Akihiro Hasegawa (Chiba, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Exocyclic peptide mimetics that disable Fas were developed. A three dimensional model of the Fas receptor-ligand complex was constructed and structurally predicted regions of the receptor that were relevant to binding ligand were used to create constrained peptide mimetics. Exocyclic anti-Fas peptide mimetics were identified that block Fas receptor-ligand interactions, and modulate Fas biological activity both in vitro and in vivo. The mimetics are useful, e.g., for treating Fas-related pathologies. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445399 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
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| US 07288525 | Guttuso, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Guttuso, Jr. (Snyder, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for reducing the amount of homocysteine in the blood of an individual. The method comprises administering to the individual a composition comprising a homocysteine lowering agent in an amount effective to lower the amount of homocysteine in the blood of the individual. The homocysteine lowering agent is selected from A dipeptides consisting of isoleucine, leucine, valine, or glycine and combinations thereof; tripeptides consisting of isoleucine, leucine, valine, or glycine and combinations thereof; alpha-ketobutyrate; propionyl A CoA, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/321130 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
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| US 07288529 | Inghirami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giorgio Inghirami (Mt. Vernon, New York); Roberto Chiarie (Savigliano, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a transgenic animal model that constitutively expresses a protein encoded by the NPM-ALK gene in lymphoid tissue, and exhibits enhanced and accelerated development of a T cell lymphoproliferative disorder or B cell plasma cell tumor, together with the identification of cells transduced with the ALK tyrosine kinase gene or fusion proteins thereof, and methods for using this animal model and cells for screening compounds or treatments for antitumor activity. In preferred embodiments, the animal is a transgenic mouse that expresses a human NPM-ALK gene operably linked to human regulatory sequences, and the cells of the mouse have at least one copy of the NPM-ALK transgene, whereby the mouse constitutively expresses a protein encoded by the NPM-ALK transgene. The animals and cells of the invention are useful in the study of NPM-ALK-dependent lymphomagenesis and plasma cell tumors and in the development of treatments for these conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830877 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288568 | Gribble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon W. Gribble (Norwich, Vermont); Tadashi Honda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Michael B. Sporn (Tunbridge, Vermont); Nanjoo Suh (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for chemopreventative treatment of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, and multiple sclerosis. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395372 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/519 |
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| US 07288641 | Adjei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Araba A. Adjei (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Bianca A. Thomae (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354763 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07288644 | Finkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terri H. Finkel (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jiyi Yin (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides cellular gene products which have anti-apoptotic activity in HIV-1 infected cells. Other pro-apoptotic genes and methods of use thereof are also disclosed. The compositions of the invention may be used to advantage to develop novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of HIV infection. The compositions of the invention may also be used to advantage to develop novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of disorders associated with inordinate cellular apoptosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368803 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07288665 | Holton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Holton (Tallahassee, Florida); Zhuming Zhang (Montclair, New Jersey); Paul A. Clarke (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for the preparation of taxol and other taxanes through selective derivatization of the C(7) and C(10) hydroxyl groups of 10-DAB, particularly a novel process using a new strategy in which the C(10) hydroxyl group is protected or derivatized prior to the C(7) hydroxyl group; and the provision of C(7) and C(10) derivatized 10-DAB compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/063477 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288759 | Frangioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Frangioni (Wayland, Massachusetts); Alec M. De Grand (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based, in part, on the discovery that by combining certain components one can generate a tissue-like phantom that mimics any desired tissue, is simple and inexpensive to prepare, and is stable over many weeks or months. In addition, new multi-modal imaging objects (e.g., beads) can be inserted into the phantoms to mimic tissue pathologies, such as cancer, or merely to serve as calibration standards. These objects can be imaged using one, two, or more (e.g., four) different imaging modalities (e.g., x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence) simultaneously. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222949 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288936 | Larson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peder E. Larson (Los Altos Hills, California); John M. Pauly (Redwood City, California); Steven M. Conolly (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In imaging a first species having a short T2 magnetic resonance parameter in the presence of a second and third species having longer T2 parameters, a method of suppressing signals from the longer T2 species comprises the steps of: a) applying a RF saturation pulse with multiple suppression bands for the second and third species to excite nuclei spins of the longer T2 species with the magnitude of the RF pulse being sufficiently low so as not to excite nuclei spins of the short T2 species, the RF saturation pulse being sufficiently long to rotate the longer T2 species nuclei spins into a transverse plane, and b) dephasing the longer T2 species nuclei spins in the transverse plane. An imaging pulse sequence is then applied to image the short T2 species. Alternatively, the method can comprise the steps of a) applying a first inversion pulse for selective inverting species of the second longer T2 species, b) obtaining first image signals after step a, c) applying a second inversion pulse for selectively inverting species of the third longer T2 species, d) obtaining second image signals after step c), and e) combining the first image signals and the second image signal to image the first short T2 species with the longer second and third species cancelling in the combination. In each of these methods, either the second or third longer T2 species can be suppressed without suppressing the other by applying the RF saturation or inversion pulse only to the species to be suppressed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180339 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289211 | Walsh, Jr. et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph T. Walsh, Jr. (Evanston, Illinois); Paul Wu (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of visually quantifying a test material along with an imaging apparatus for practicing the method is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) illuminating the test material at a known angle of incidence with diffuse light of a known and adjustable polarization state; (b) receiving light from the test material with a polarization state modified by the test material; (c) measuring an intensity of the polarization components of the received light for each illuminated pixel substantially simultaneously; (d) calculating the Stokes Vector in two dimensions for each illuminated pixel; and (e) creating an image map for the known polarization state. The method may also include adjusting the known polarization or the incident angle of the diffuse light to create additional image maps. The method and apparatus are intended for use in medical imaging including minimally invasive surgery. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103726 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07287372 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald N. Coleman (Corby, United Kingdom); Mary L. Kesse (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain exhaust after-treatment devices, at least periodically, require the addition of unburnt hydrocarbons in order to create reductant-rich exhaust conditions. The present disclosure adds unburnt hydrocarbons to exhaust from at least one combustion chamber by positioning, at least partially within a combustion chamber, a mixed-mode fuel injector operable to inject fuel into the combustion chamber in a first spray pattern with a small average angle relative to a centerline of the combustion chamber and a second spray pattern with a large average angle relative to the centerline of the combustion chamber. An amount of fuel is injected in the first spray pattern into a non-combustible environment within the at least one combustion chamber during at least one of an expansion stroke and exhaust stroke. The exhaust with the unburnt amount of fuel is moved into an exhaust passage via an exhaust valve. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/159903 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287506 | Reiners et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Reiners (Washington, Illinois); Mahmoud A. Taher (Peoria, Illinois); Dong Fei (Peoria, Illinois); Andrew N. McGilvray (East Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In one particular embodiment, an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine comprises a block, a head, a piston, a combustion chamber defined by the block, the piston, and the head, and at least one thermoelectric device positioned between the combustion chamber and the head. In this particular embodiment, the thermoelectric device is in direct contact with the combustion chamber. In another particular embodiment, a cylinder head configured to sit atop a cylinder bank of an internal combustion engine is provided. The cylinder head comprises a cooling channel configured to receive cooling fluid, valve seats configured for receiving intake and exhaust valves, and thermoelectric devices positioned around the valve seats. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520107 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/193.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287522 | Dupree et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald L. Dupree (Washington, Illinois); Brandon Dykstra (Peoria, Illinois); James J. Callas (Peoria, Illinois); Kevin L. Martin (Washburn, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine system includes an engine such as a compression ignition internal combustion engine, including a heat exchanger in an exhaust system thereof. The heat exchanger including at least one carbon foam block for cooling exhaust gas with cooling air. An exhaust system segment includes a carbon foam based heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between exhaust gas and cooling air at least in part via the carbon foam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/319024 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/568.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07287541 | McMurtrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan D. McMurtrey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Joesph V. Burch (Shelley, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, apparatus and method of controlling the flow of a fluid are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a flow control device includes a valve having a flow path defined therethrough and a valve seat in communication with the flow path with a valve stem disposed in the valve seat. The valve stem and valve seat are cooperatively configured to cause mutual relative linear displacement thereof in response to rotation of the valve stem. A gear member is coupled with the rotary stem and a linear positioning member includes a portion which complementarily engages the gear member. Upon displacement of the linear positioning member along a first axis, the gear member and rotary valve stem are rotated about a second axis and the valve stem and valve seat are mutually linearly displaced to alter the flow of fluid through the valve. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760015 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288136 | Gray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | McMahan L. Gray (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. Champagne (Fredericktown, Pennsylvania); Yee Soong (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Thomas Filburn (Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for making low-cost CO2 sorbents that can be used in large-scale gas-solid processes. The improved method entails treating an amine to increase the number of secondary amine groups and impregnating the amine in a porous solid support. The method increases the CO2 capture capacity and decreases the cost of utilizing an amine-enriched solid sorbent in CO2 capture systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/034008 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288227 | Yershov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennadiy Yershov (Hinsdale, Illinois); Oleg Alferov (Woodridge, Illinois); Alexander Kukhtin (Hinsdale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of illumination and illumination apparatus are provided in a biochip reader. Illumination is provided by a non-collimated laser source or a light emitting diode (LED). The light is directed to opposing sides of a glass substrate by a pair of optical fiber bundles. The glass substrate carries a bioarray. Each of the optical fiber bundles are splayed out to make a fan, the fan being one fiber thick and defining a line of optical fiber faces. This process randomizes any non-uniformity in the illumination source, creating a more uniform illumination source. A respective divergent diffuser engages each row of optical fiber faces coupling and diffusing light substantially evenly through the opposing sides of the glass substrate to illuminate the bioarray supported by the glass substrate. The glass substrate functions as a secondary light guide. The divergent diffusers separate the optical fiber faces from the edges of the glass substrate, protecting the optical fibers from mechanical damage. A glass holder supports the glass substrate carrying the bioarray. The glass holder including a plastics springs member in spring contact engagement with the glass substrate for positioning said bioarray in a focal plane. Light also can be directed to opposing ends of the glass substrate by a second pair of optical fiber bundles. Also a single optical fiber bundle can be used to direct light in one side of the glass substrate or three optical fiber bundles can be used to direct light into the glass substrate. This method of illumination provides a superior signal to noise ratio as compared with conventional illumination systems. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/619284 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288332 | Findikoglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Almos National Security, LLC (Los Almos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alp T. Findikoglu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vladimir Matias (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive layer for biaxially oriented semiconductor film growth and a thin film semiconductor structure such as, for example, a photodetector, a photovoltaic cell, or a light emitting diode (LED) that includes a crystallographically oriented semiconducting film disposed on the conductive layer. The thin film semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a first electrode deposited on the substrate; and a semiconducting layer epitaxially deposited on the first electrode. The first electrode includes a template layer deposited on the substrate and a buffer layer epitaxially deposited on the template layer. The template layer includes a first metal nitride that is electrically conductive and has a rock salt crystal structure, and the buffer layer includes a second metal nitride that is electrically conductive. The semiconducting layer is epitaxially deposited on the buffer layer. A method of making such a thin film semiconductor structure is also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245721 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288371 | Bavykin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei G. Bavykin (Darien, Illinois); Andrei D. Mirzabekov (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a novel method of discriminating a highly infectious bacterium Bacillus anthracis from a group of closely related microorganisms. Sequence variations in the 16S and 23S rRNA of the B. cereus subgroup including B. anthracis are utilized to construct an array that can detect these sequence variations through selective hybridizations. The identification and analysis of these sequence variations enables positive discrimination of isolates of the B. cereus group that includes B. anthracis. Discrimination of single base differences in rRNA was achieved with a microchip during analysis of B. cereus group isolates from both single and in mixed probes, as well as identification of polymorphic sites. Successful use of a microchip to determine the appropriate subgroup classification using eight reference microorganisms from the B. cereus group as a study set, was demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, November 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/287455 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288759 | Frangioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Frangioni (Wayland, Massachusetts); Alec M. De Grand (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based, in part, on the discovery that by combining certain components one can generate a tissue-like phantom that mimics any desired tissue, is simple and inexpensive to prepare, and is stable over many weeks or months. In addition, new multi-modal imaging objects (e.g., beads) can be inserted into the phantoms to mimic tissue pathologies, such as cancer, or merely to serve as calibration standards. These objects can be imaged using one, two, or more (e.g., four) different imaging modalities (e.g., x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence) simultaneously. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222949 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288771 | Neal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Neal (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T Mihalczo (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting fissile and fissionable material originating external to the system includes: a 6Li loaded glass fiber scintillator for detecting thermal neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays; a fast scintillator for detecting fast neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays, the fast scintillator conjoined with the glass fiber scintillator such that the fast scintillator moderates fast neutrons prior to their detection as thermal neutrons by the glass fiber scintillator; and a coincidence detection system for processing the time distributions of arriving signals from the scintillators. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/549269 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288772 | Elmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Todd A. Palmer (Livermore, California); Alan T. Teruya (Livermore, California); Chris C. Walton (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for characterization of a micro beam comprising a micro modified Faraday cup assembly including a first layer of material, a second layer of material operatively connected to the first layer of material, a third layer of material operatively connected to the second layer of material, and a fourth layer of material operatively connected to the third layer of material. The first layer of material comprises an electrical conducting material and has at least one first layer radial slit extending through the first layer. An electrical ground is connected to the first layer. The second layer of material comprises an insulating material and has at least one second layer radial slit corresponding to the first layer radial slit in the first layer of material. The second layer radial slit extends through the second layer. The third layer of material comprises a conducting material and has at least one third layer radial slit corresponding to the second layer radial slit in the second layer of material. The third layer radial slit extends through the third layer. The fourth layer of material comprises an electrical conducting material but does not have slits. An electrical measuring device is connected to the fourth layer. The micro modified Faraday cup assembly is positioned to be swept by the micro beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116697 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289009 | Christenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd R. Christenson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marc A. Polosky (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) device is disclosed that includes a shuttle suspended for movement above a substrate. A plurality of permanent magnets in the shuttle of the MEM device interact with a metal plate which forms the substrate or a metal portion thereof to provide an eddy-current damping of the shuttle, thereby making the shuttle responsive to changes in acceleration or velocity of the MEM device. Alternately, the permanent magnets can be located in the substrate, and the metal portion can form the shuttle. An electrical switch closure in the MEM device can occur in response to a predetermined acceleration-time event. The MEM device, which can be fabricated either by micromachining or LIGA, can be used for sensing an acceleration or deceleration event (e.g. in automotive applications such as airbag deployment or seat belt retraction). |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941447 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289207 | Grace et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen M. Grace (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Martin R. Sweet (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Roy M. Goeller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Leland Jean Morrison (White Rock, New Mexico); Wynne Kevin Grace (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jerome D. Kolar (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical biosensor has a first enclosure with a pathogen recognition surface, including a planar optical waveguide and grating located in the first enclosure. An aperture is in the first enclosure for insertion of sample to be investigated to a position in close proximity to the pathogen recognition surface. A laser in the first enclosure includes means for aligning and means for modulating the laser, the laser having its light output directed toward said grating. Detection means are located in the first enclosure and in optical communication with the pathogen recognition surface for detecting pathogens after interrogation by the laser light and outputting the detection. Electronic means is located in the first enclosure and receives the detection for processing the detection and outputting information on the detection, and an electrical power supply is located in the first enclosure for supplying power to the laser, the detection means and the electronic means. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842750 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289329 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanghua Chen (Canton, Michigan); Sayeed Ahmed (Canton, Michigan); Lizhi Zhu (Canton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A power converter integrates at least one planar transformer comprising a multi-layer transformer substrate and/or at least one planar inductor comprising a multi-layer inductor substrate with a number of power semiconductor switches physically and thermally coupled to a heat sink via one or more multi-layer switch substrates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964000 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/707 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07288238 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Rajesh Kumar Saini (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Virginia Angelica Davis (Webster, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Lars Martin Ericson (Houston, Texas); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Sreekumar Thaliyil Veedu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped aggregates of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and resemble the Atlantic fish of the same name. Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives can be conveniently dispersed in materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, metal oxides and liquids. The process for preparing the alewives comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring, and slowly introducing water into the single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture to form the alewives. The alewives can be recovered, washed and dried. The properties of the single-wall carbon nanotubes are retained in the alewives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187729 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288391 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don A. Roth (Laramie, Wyoming); Randolph V. Lewis (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the fields of molecular biology and plant biology. Specifically, the invention is directed to the methods for expressing spider silk proteins in plants and the synthesis and purification of spider silk proteins therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/479638 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288394 | Ostuni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuele Ostuni (Watertown, Massachusetts); Christopher S. Chen (Baltimore, Maryland); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of patterning materials, such as proteins, on a contoured surface by depositing them onto protrusions on a surface, and a cell containment device that may be constructed by this method, are provided. The method may involve selectively depositing a material on a substrate including a contoured surface including protrusions and recesses. By applying a first fluid to the contoured surface and allowing the first fluid to distribute across only a portion of the contoured surface, a material may be deposited on the protrusions and not the recesses, or on the recesses and not the protrusions. Such a method may be used to selectively pattern cells or other materials on substrates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668679 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288405 | Shuler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shuler (Ithaca, New York); Gregory T. Baxter (Salinas, California); Aaron Sin (Ithaca, New York); Robert Andrew Harrison (Toronto, Canada); Scott Meyers (Norristown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, in vitro cell cultures, systems, and methods are provided for microscale cell culture analogous (CCA) device. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/133977 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288608 | Bowman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Kristi Anseth (Boulder, Colorado); Bilge Hacioglu (Boulder, Colorado); Charlie Nuttelman (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A thiol-ene polymeric material is disclosed. The material is produced by the photopolymerization of reactants having thiol and olefin moieties. The material can incorporate encapsulated components, including cells. Additionally, the material can be derivatized by reacting the polymeric material with components such as proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269916 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288666 | Grubbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Grubbs (Pasadena, California); Peter Schwab (East Hanover, New Jersey); Sonbinh T. Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Ruthenium and osmium carbene compounds that are stable in the presence of a variety of functional groups and can be used to catalyze olefin metathesis reactions on unstrained cyclic and acyclic olefins are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making the carbene compounds. The carbene compounds are of the formula where M is Os or Ru; R<1> is hydrogen; R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, and substituted or unsubstituted aryl; X and X<1> are independently selected from any anionic ligand; and L and L<1> are independently selected from any neutral electron donor. The ruthenium and osmium carbene compounds of the present invention may be synthesized using diazo compounds, by neutral electron donor ligand exchange, by cross metathesis, using acetylene, using cumulated olefins, and in a one-pot method using diazo compounds and neutral electron donors. The ruthenium and osmium carbene compounds of the present invention may be used to catalyze olefin metathesis reactions including, but not limited to, ROMP, RCM, depolymerization of unsaturated polymers, synthesis of telechelic polymers, and olefin synthesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472137 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288825 | Rafferty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Noble Peak Vision Corp. (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conor S. Rafferty (New York, New York); Clifford A. King (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector is formed from a body of semiconductor material substantially surrounded by dielectric surfaces. A passivation process is applied to at least one surface to reduce the rate of carrier generation and recombination on that surface. Photocurrent is read out from at least one electrical contact, which is formed on a doped region whose surface lies entirely on a passivated surface. Unwanted leakage current from un-passivated surfaces is reduced through one of the following methods. (a) The un-passivated surface is separated from the photo-collecting contact by at least two junctions (b) The un-passivated surface is doped to a very high level, at least equal to the conduction band or valence band density of states of the semiconductor (c) An accumulation or inversion layer is formed on the un-passivated surface by the application of an electric field. Electrical contacts are made to all doped regions, and bias is applied so that a reverse bias is maintained across all junctions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/210223 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288985 | Serrano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo José Serrano (Atlanta, Georgia); Paul Edward Hasler (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are discussed for using a floating-gate MOSFET as a programmable reference circuit. One example of the programmable reference circuit is a programmable voltage reference source, while a second example of a programmable reference circuit is a programmable reference current source. The programmable voltage reference source and/or the reference current source may be incorporated into several types of circuits, such as comparator circuits, current-mirror circuits, and converter circuits. Comparator circuits and current-mirror circuits are often incorporated into circuits such as converter circuits. Converter circuits include analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326833 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/543 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289708 | Kath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Kath (Evanston, Illinois); Gino Biondini (Columbus, Ohio); Sarah L. Fogal (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system to produce, either in numerical simulations or in experiments, specified amounts of first, second and higher order PMD in a controlled manner, in particular large amounts. Parameters can be adjusted to obtain specific ranges of first, second and higher order PMD, and importance sampling can be used to determine the probability that the resulting PMD events can be obtained in realistic situations. Individual results obtained using specific parameter values can be combined to produce even larger ranges of PMD. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474696 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289972 | Rieser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blackburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian J. Rieser (Middletown, Maryland); Thomas W. Rondeau (Blacksburg, Virginia); Charles Bostian (Blacksburg, Virginia); Walling R. Cyre (Blacksburg, Virginia); Timothy M. Gallagher (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A genetic algorithm (GA) approach is used to adapt a wireless radio to a changing environment. A cognitive radio engine implements three algorithms; a wireless channel genetic algorithm (WCGA), a cognitive system monitor (CSM) and a wireless system genetic algorithm (WSGA). A chaotic search with controllable boundaries allows the cognitive radio engine to seek out and discover unique solutions efficiently. By being able to control the search space by limiting the number of generations, crossover rates, mutation rates, fitness evaluations, etc., the cognitive system can ensure legal and regulatory compliance as well as efficient searches. The versatility of the cognitive process can be applied to any adaptive radio. The cognitive system defines the radio chromosome, where each gene represents a radio parameter such as transmit power, frequency, modulation, etc. The adaptation process of the WSGA is performed on the chromosomes to develop new values for each gene, which is then used to adapt the radio settings. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875619 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07288238 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Rajesh Kumar Saini (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Virginia Angelica Davis (Webster, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Lars Martin Ericson (Houston, Texas); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Sreekumar Thaliyil Veedu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped aggregates of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and resemble the Atlantic fish of the same name. Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives can be conveniently dispersed in materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, metal oxides and liquids. The process for preparing the alewives comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring, and slowly introducing water into the single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture to form the alewives. The alewives can be recovered, washed and dried. The properties of the single-wall carbon nanotubes are retained in the alewives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187729 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288405 | Shuler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shuler (Ithaca, New York); Gregory T. Baxter (Salinas, California); Aaron Sin (Ithaca, New York); Robert Andrew Harrison (Toronto, Canada); Scott Meyers (Norristown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, in vitro cell cultures, systems, and methods are provided for microscale cell culture analogous (CCA) device. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/133977 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288490 | Delzeit |
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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) | Lance D. Delzeit (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for fabricating an array of two or more carbon nanotube (CNT) structures on a coated substrate surface, the structures having substantially the same orientation with respect to a substrate surface. A single electrode, having an associated voltage source with a selected voltage, is connected to a substrate surface after the substrate is coated and before growth of the CNT structures, for a selected voltage application time interval. The CNT structures are then grown on a coated substrate surface with the desired orientation. Optionally, the electrode can be disconnected before the CNT structures are grown. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009854 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289061 | Komjathy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Attila Komjathy (La Crescenta, California); Lawrence Sparks (La Crescenta, California); Anthony J. Mannucci (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and article of manufacture provide ionospheric ground-truth measurements for use in a wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). Ionospheric pseudorange/code and carrier phase data as primary observables is received by a WAAS receiver. A polynomial fit is performed on the phase data that is examined to identify any cycle slips in the phase data. The phase data is then leveled. Satellite and receiver biases are obtained and applied to the leveled phase data to obtain unbiased phase-leveled ionospheric measurements that are used in a WAAS system. In addition, one of several measurements may be selected and data is output that provides information on the quality of the measurements that are used to determine corrective messages as part of the WAAS system. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187244 |
| 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 |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07288840 | Furman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce K. Furman (Poughquag, New York); Yves Martin (Ossining, New York); Theodore G. van Kessel (Millbrook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for cooling a surface having a metal structure made of a material with high thermal conductivity, and designed to provide efficient cooling of the surface while minimizing mechanical stress between the metal structure and the surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037670 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288945 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Martinez (Austin, Texas); Stephen A. Cerwin (Mico, Texas); Todd H. Goyen (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are described for efficiently detecting an object. The system includes at least one electrode for measuring a displacement current. The at least one electrode is coupled to a floating ground configuration provided by an op-amp, where the inverting node of the op-amp is coupled to electrode and the non-inverting node is coupled to a signal generator. The system may include a single capacitance sensor for detecting an object. Systems may include a plurality of capacitance sensors in an array configuration for detecting an object. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201753 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07290144 | Kitaj et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Thomas Kitaj (Gilbert, Arizona); Sherman W. Paskett (Scotsdale, Arizona); Douglas Allan Hardy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Frank Edward Seeker (Glendale, Arizona); Steve Robert Tugenberg (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable electronic device (10) stores a number of cipher-text software modules (14) to which access is granted after evaluating a user's token (55, 80, 82), a software-restriction class (58) for a requested software module (14), and/or a currently active access-control model (60). Access-control models (60) span a range from uncontrolled to highly restrictive. Models (60) become automatically activated and deactivated as users are added to and deleted from the device (10). A virtual internal user proxy that does not require users to provide tokens (80, 82) is used to enable access to modules (16) classified in a global software-restriction class (62) or when an uncontrolled-access-control model (68) is active. Both licensed modules (76) and unlicensed modules (18,78) may be loaded in the device (10). However, no keys are provided to enable decryption of unlicensed modules (18,78). |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177555 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07288238 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Rajesh Kumar Saini (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Virginia Angelica Davis (Webster, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Lars Martin Ericson (Houston, Texas); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Sreekumar Thaliyil Veedu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped aggregates of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and resemble the Atlantic fish of the same name. Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives can be conveniently dispersed in materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, metal oxides and liquids. The process for preparing the alewives comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring, and slowly introducing water into the single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture to form the alewives. The alewives can be recovered, washed and dried. The properties of the single-wall carbon nanotubes are retained in the alewives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187729 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07289907 | Meinig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Meinig (Seattle, Washington); Scott E. Stalin (Seattle, Washington); Alex I. Nakamura (Bellevue, Washington); Hugh B. Milburn (Lake Forest Park, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is the NOAA Deep ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) system, which utilizes a seafloor tsunameter linked to an ocean surface buoy via bi-directional communication system for near real-time measurement and reporting of tsunamis. The buoy is equipped with a bi-directional satellite and acoustic modem communication system for transmitting data between remote locations, such as tsunami warning centers and the tsunameter on the seafloor. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133324 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US PP18151 | NeSmith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott NeSmith (Molena, Georgia); Arlen D. Draper (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The most distinctive feature of the southern highbush blueberry, ‘Camellia’, is its combination of excellent fruit attributes, especially size and color, its relatively late flowering for a mid- to early-season variety and its excellent plant vigor under field and high density growth conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282299 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07289206 | 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 (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A detection system is used during irradiation of an interaction region of a structure including embedded material with laser light. The detection system includes a collimating lens positioned to receive light emitted from the interaction region. The detection system further includes an optical fiber optically coupled to the collimating lens and a spectrometer optically coupled to the optical fiber. The spectrometer is adapted for analysis of the light for indications of the embedded material within the interaction region. The spectrometer includes an input slit adapted to receive light from the optical fiber. The input slit has a width selected to provide sufficient light transmittance and sufficient resolution. The spectrometer further includes an optical grating adapted to receive light from the input slit and to separate the light into a spectrum of wavelengths. The spectrometer further includes a collection lens adapted to receive a selected range of wavelengths of the separated light from the optical grating. The spectrometer further includes a light sensor adapted to receive the selected range of wavelengths and to generate a signal corresponding to an intensity of the received light. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803267 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07288499 | Lovell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S Lovell (Arvada, Colorado); Craig S Turchi (Lakewood, Colorado); Thomas E Broderick (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A regenerable, high-capacity sorbent for removal of mercury from flue gas and processes and systems for making and using the sorbent. A phyllosilicate substrate, for example vermiculite or montmorillinite, acts as an inexpensive support to a thin layer for a polyvalent metal sulfide, ensuring that more of the metal sulfide is engaged in the sorption process. The sorbent is prepared by ion exchange between the silicate substrate material and a solution containing one or more of a group of polyvalent metals including tin (both Sn(II) and Sn(IV)), iron (both Fe(II) and Fe(III)), titanium, manganese, zirconium and molybdenum, dissolved as salts, to produce an exchanged substrate. Controlled reaction of a sulfide ion source with the one or more polyvalent metals that are exchanged on the silicate substrate produces the sorbent. The sorbent is used to absorb elemental mercury or oxidized mercury species such as mercuric chloride from flue gas containing acid gases (e.g., SO2, NO and NO2, and HCl) and other gases over a wide range of temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783264 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07289060 | Abatzoglou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theagenis J. Abatzoglou (Huntington Beach, California); Raquel E. Maderazo (Marina del Rey, California); Jessica E. Swanson (El Segundo, California); Frederick A. Dominski (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radar classifies an unknown target illuminated with a large bandwidth pulse. The large bandwidth pulse may be algorithmically synthesized. The target reflects the large bandwidth pulse to form a return. The return is digitized into digital samples at range bin intervals. A computer extracts unknown range and amplitude pairs descriptive of the unknown target from the digital samples. Some range and amplitude pairs are located within one range bin interval. Principle scatterers are extracted from the unknown range and amplitude pairs using Modified Forward backward linear Prediction to form an unknown feature vector for the target. A plurality of pre-stored, known feature vectors containing known range and amplitude pairs are retrieved from the computer. The known range and amplitude pairs are descriptive of known targets, and are grouped in clusters having least dispersion for each of the known targets. The computer associates, for the principal scatterers, the unknown feature vector descriptive of the unknown target with each of the known feature vectors. The target is classified by using highest a posteriori conditional probability density obtained from comparing the known feature vectors with the unknown feature vector. The principal scatterers descriptive of the unknown, target are estimated using a Modified Forward Backward Linear Prediction. The Modified Forward Backward Linear Prediction also estimates range of the principal scatterers forming the unknown target. The principal scatterers are tested for decaying modes. The Modified Forward Backward Linear Prediction estimates are evaluated using Cramer Reo Bound computation for robustness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439584 |
| 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 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07288238 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Rajesh Kumar Saini (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Sivarajan (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Virginia Angelica Davis (Webster, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Lars Martin Ericson (Houston, Texas); Satish Kumar (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Sreekumar Thaliyil Veedu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped aggregates of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and resemble the Atlantic fish of the same name. Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives can be conveniently dispersed in materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, metal oxides and liquids. The process for preparing the alewives comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring, and slowly introducing water into the single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture to form the alewives. The alewives can be recovered, washed and dried. The properties of the single-wall carbon nanotubes are retained in the alewives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187729 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07288399 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenhua Xu (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated PAPSS1 nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as PAPSS1 allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to joint disease or cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416116 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07288642 | Thomae et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bianca A. Thomae (Bay Village, Ohio); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as are sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining the sulfonator status of a subject also are described. In addition, methods for predicting the therapeutic efficacy of a compound in a subject are described, as are methods for estimating the dose of a compound to be administered to a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/702981 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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