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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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| US 07293420 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C. (St. Petersberg, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Max (St. Pete Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved apparatus and methods for use in atmospheric moisture harvesters are disclosed. In particular, sectored or zoned cooling/condensation surfaces to optimize cooling efficiency are disclosed. In one embodiment, cooling is provided by dual-refrigerant, buffered cooling cells. In another embodiment, cooling is provided by thermoelectric cooling devices. Where thermoelectric cooling devices are used, an airway duct that covers both the cool side and the warm side of the devices can be provided, such that an airflow system that is driven by the difference in density between cooled, de-moisturized air and warmed air is established. Localized temperatures and moisture levels are monitored so that cooling can be adjusted as necessary to provide optimal, most energy-efficient condensation of moisture. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245130 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293478 | Kudo 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) | Rance Tetsuo Kudo (Oxnard, California); Raymond John Cappillino (Oxnard, California); Jesse Lynn McNolty (Santa Paula, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method which permits the environmentally safe testing of the Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting vehicle's foam delivery system by using a surrogate fluid to test the foam delivery system. The method uses piping, valves, and connecting elements to interface with the fire vehicle's foam delivery system, while minimizing the release of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) to the environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001615 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/865.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293742 | Sadeck |
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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) | James Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reefing assembly for a circular parachute having a canopy including a skirt portion, and suspension lines attached to the skirt portion. The assembly includes a tension structure bounding a central opening and having a plurality of straight segments. A plurality of cords, each cord having two ends, are each fixed to one end of one of the tension structure straight segments to define a loop, and a plurality of rings slidably disposed on each of the loops. Each of the rings is slidably connected to at least one of the suspension lines. The rings are clustered together at a central portion of their respective loops, and upon deployment of the canopy, slide along their respective loops to become substantially equidistantly disposed on their respective loops. The assembly facilitates a restrained opening of the canopy and thereby reduces opening shock load. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104745 |
| ART UNIT | 3609 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293948 | Bunch, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Textron Innovations, Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy J. Bunch, Jr. (Kallar, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastener includes a head, a threaded member, and a resilient shank portion interconnecting the head portion and the threaded portion. The shank portion includes a first end adjacent the head and a second end adjacent the threaded member. The shank includes a tubular section having an inner wall and an outer wall between the first end and the second end. The tubular section has a curved axial profile. The tubular section is axially elastically deformed as the fastener is torqued down. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/410854 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener 411/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294324 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Powell (Cary, North Carolina); Mark Brady (Carrboro, North Carolina); Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A high quality single crystal wafer of SiC is disclosed. The wafer has a diameter of at least about 3 inches (75 mm) and at least one continuous square inch (6.25 cm2) of surface area that has a basal plane dislocation volume density of less than about 500 cm−2 for a 4 degree off-axis wafer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147645 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/328.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294367 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Barron (Alexandria, Virginia); Bradley R. Ringeisen (Alexandria, Virginia); Heungsoo Kim (Fairfax, Virginia); Peter Wu (Ashland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of laser forward transfer is disclosed. Photon energy is directed through a photon-transparent support and absorbed by an interlayer coated thereon. The energized interlayer causes the transfer of a biological material coated thereon across a gap and onto a receiving substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863850 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/596 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294413 | Nagaraj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); D. Keith Patrick (Cincinnati, Ohio); Thomas John Tomlinson (West Chester, Ohio); David Walter Parry (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A protected article includes a substrate having a surface, and a protective system overlying and contacting a first portion of the surface of the substrate. The protective system has a nickel-base superalloy bond coat, an aluminide layer overlying and contacting the bond coat, and a dense vertically microcracked ceramic thermal barrier coating overlying and contacting the aluminide layer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073529 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294417 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jing Yu Lao (Saline, Michigan); Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to metal oxide materials with varied symmetrical nanostructure morphologies. In particular, the present invention provides metal oxide materials comprising one or more metallic oxides with three-dimensionally ordered nanostructural morphologies, including hierarchical morphologies. The present invention also provides methods for producing such metal oxide materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660348 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294455 | Nichols et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fixed-dried blood cells carrying an active agent are described, along with methods of making the same, methods of using the same, and compositions containing the same. The blood cells may be red blood cells or blood platelets. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845045 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294471 | Malkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | csKeys, LLC (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda H. Malkas (Indianapolis, Indiana); Robert J. Hickey (Indianapolis, Indiana); Pamela E. Bechtel (Tempe, Arizona); Min Park (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Derek J. Hoelz (Indianapolis, Indiana); Dragana Tomic (Baltimore, Maryland); Lauren Schnaper (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for purifying cancer-specific Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (csPCNA) is described, as well as an immunoassay based thereon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/083576 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294686 | Tripathy, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts); United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Tripathy, legal representative (Acton, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Sucharita Roy (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Bon-Cheol Ku (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Soo-Hyoung Lee (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Hematin, a hydroxyferriprotoporphyrin, is derivatized with one or more non-proteinaceous amphipathic groups. The derivatized hematin can serve as a mimic of horseradish peroxidase in polymerizing aromatic monomers, such as aromatic compounds. These derivatized hematins can also be used as catalysts in polymerizing aromatic monomers, and can exhibit significantly greater catalytic activity than underivatized hematin in acidic solutions. In one embodiment, polymerization is in the presence of a template, along which aromatic monomers align. An assembled hematin includes alternating layers of hematin and a polyelectrolyte, which are deposited on an electrically charged substrate. Assembled hematin can also be used to polymerize aromatic monomers. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337964 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294840 | Pauly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nucsafe, Inc. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Pauly (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael S. Blair (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mark Holdaway (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a system for removing or minimizing microphonic noise from a radiation detector signal, such as from a neutron detector, without creating excessive false counts in the electronics that count the radiation events. The system solves the microphonic noise problem using a 3-prong approach: (1) maintaining high dynamic range by avoiding large amplification and the possibility of saturation in the analog stages, (2) sampling the amplified analog signal using a high-resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and (3) implementing a digital filtering algorithm that rejects the noise due to microphonics while passing the signal of interest from the neutron interactions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365098 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294849 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An OLED includes a wide gap inert host material doped with two dopants. One of the dopants is an emissive phosphorescent material that can transport either electrons or holes. The other dopant is a charge carrying material that can transport whichever of the electrons and holes that is not transported by the phosphorescent dopant. The materials are selected so that the lowest triplet energy level of the host material and the lowest triplet energy level of the charge carrying dopant material are each at a higher energy level than the lowest triplet state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material. The device is capable, in particular, of efficiently emitting light in the blue region of the visible spectrum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472401 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294860 | Mazzola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi); SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc. (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Mazzola (Starkville, Mississippi); Joseph N. Merrett (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A switching element combining a self-aligned, vertical junction field effect transistor with etched-implanted gate and an integrated antiparallel Schottky barrier diode is described. The anode of the diode is connected to the source of the transistor at the device level in order to reduce losses due to stray inductances. The SiC surface in the SBD anode region is conditioned through dry etching to achieve a low Schottky barrier height so as to reduce power losses associated with the turn on voltage of the SBD. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/176625 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294928 | Bang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyong-Mo Bang (Sunnyvale, California); David Gibson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Young-Gon Kim (Cupertino, California); John B. Riley (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A bottom unit including a bottom unit semiconductor chip is mounted to a circuit board and one or more top elements such as packaged semiconductor chips are mounted to the bottom unit. Both mounting operations can be performed using the same techniques as commonly employed for mounting components to a circuit board. Ordinary packaged chips can be employed as the top elements, thereby reducing the cost of the assembly and allowing customization of the assembly by selecting packaged chips. The assembly achieves benefits similar to those obtained with a preassembled stacked chip unit, but without the expense of special handling of the bare dies included in the packaged chips. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656534 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295149 | Wolf |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Wolf (Holland, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A target missile identifier compares radar cross-section (RCS) information about the missile with a set including at least one template of RCS to make determination(s) of at least one of (a) the missile type (solid/liquid propellant), (b) missile main engine cutoff, andor (c) staging state of a multistage missile. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253309 |
| 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 07295150 | Burlet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd R. Burlet (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Tika M. Kude (Plymouth, Minnesota); James B. Oven (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Timothy J. Reilly (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a mechanical angle to a radar target utilizing a multiple antenna radar altimeter is described. The method comprises receiving radar return signals at the multiple antennas, populating an ambiguity resolution matrix with the electrical phase angle computations, selecting a mechanical angle from the ambiguity resolution matrix that results in a least amount of variance from the electrical phase angle computations, and using at least one other variance calculation to determine a quality associated with the selected mechanical angle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237231 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295164 | O'Loughlin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. O'Loughlin (Placitas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The maximum peak power density of an aperture antenna that occurs in the near field region relative to the average power density concentration at other ranges within the entire near field is increased by lowering the aspect ratio of the aperture antenna, whereby the transmitter power can be increased and the operating range and performance of the system improved for applications that operate in the near field. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271607 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295292 | Jumper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Jumper (Granger, Indiana); Stanislav Gordeyev (Mishawaka, Indiana); Alan Cain (St. Louis, Missouri); Terry Ng (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are described for a system for measuring aberrations in a wave front. In the improved system multiple closely-spaced, small-aperture laser beams traverse an aberrating flow that introduces deflections of small-aperture laser beams from which aberrated wavefronts can be constructed. These beams may then be focused on position sensing devices using focusing lenses. The position sensing devices may then detect the positions of these beams and a difference between the detected position and the unaberrated position of the beams detected. This information may then be used to determine information regarding the optical aberrations introduced by the flow that may be used, for example, in improving communications systems and/or laser weapon systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132312 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295308 | Samuels |
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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) | Alan C. Samuels (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous monitoring method and system wherein a porous substrate or film is used. The air from the environment is drawn through a region of the porous substrate by a simple air pump and the substances in the air are deposited or chemically adsorbed onto the surface of the substrate. The region of the substrate where the environmental air is drawn through is continuously monitored by an optical or spectrometric method. The substrate is in the form of a tape supplied by a feed reel in a reel-to-reel cartridge and taken up by a take-up reel as found in a film cartridge or a magnetic tape cartridge. The cartridge can be replaceable. A variety of materials may be employed as the substrate with an adequate surface area to effect accumulation of solid, liquid, aerosol, or gas phase compounds. An optical interrogation system is engineered such that the surface of the tape at the point where air from the environment is drawn through the substrate becomes the interaction region between the source output and the sample. As material from the environment accumulates in this region, the interaction of the source with the material is monitored by a suitable detector and supporting circuitry. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250703 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295312 | Gerhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grant R. Gerhart (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Roy M. Matchko (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining polarization profiles of points in a scene from video frames using Stokes parameters includes a scene having a region that emits scene light rays that correspond to the points in the scene, an optical chopper controller, a rotating Stokes filter wheel that includes five trigger holes, three rotating linear polarizers, a circular polarizer, and a reference screen, a color filter, a video camera having a video frame, and a computer system having a frame grabber apparatus. The scene light rays are transmitted through the Stokes filter and the color filter to the video camera. Images corresponding to the scene light rays are projected onto respective pixels in the video frame and recorded as two-dimensional (2-D) arrays, and the images corresponding to the scene light rays from four unique images, obtained from light transmitted consecutively through three linear polarizers and a circular polarizer of the rotating Stokes filter wheel, are used by programming in the computer system to calculate respective Stokes parameters of the points in the scene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434576 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295493 | Ames |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory H. Ames (South Kingstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An interferometric hydrophone is disclosed that comprises a first mandrel defining an interior that is open to surrounding fluid. A sensing optical fiber is wound upon the first mandrel. A second mandrel is positioned in surrounding relationship with respect to the first mandrel. The first and second mandrels define a first chamber therebetween. A case encloses the first and second mandrels and first chamber. The cylindrical case and the second cylindrical mandrel define a second chamber therebetween, which is sealed and filled with gas or vacuum. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/602431 |
| 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 367/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295523 | Harchol-Balter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mor Harchol-Balter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); F. Thomson Leighton (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Daniel Lewin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In distributed networks of cooperating nodes, it is useful to perform resource discovery in a manner that is efficient but that also minimizes communication complexity. A system and method in which nodes in a network efficiently are provided with information about the presence of, and other information about, other nodes in the network provides tangible benefits. In general, in one aspect, a system and method according to the invention features a distributed method for communicating information among a plurality of nodes. The method includes communicating from the first node to the second node information about the first node and nodes that the first node is aware of. The method further includes adding or merging, by the second node, the information about the first node and nodes that the first node is aware of with information about nodes that the second node is aware of. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/576676 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295580 | Sumida |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Sumida (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for optimizing the numerical aperture (NA) of a laser active core. The laser active core comprises at least a first and second cladding pair. The first and second cladding pair have at least one NA value. At least one of the first and second cladding pair is doped with a dopant to change the first NA value to a second NA value. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846146 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295734 | Bayindir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Bayindir (Somerville, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dursen Saygin Hinczewski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shandon D. Hart (Maplewood, Minnesota); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality of distinct materials, e.g., of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials, and drawing the preform into a fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890948 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295740 | Sanghera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jasbinder S Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Pablo C Pureza (Burke, Virginia); Frederic H Kung (Alexandria, Virginia); Daniel Gibson (Greenbelt, Maryland); Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Ishwar D Aggarwal (Farifax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic band gap fiber and method of making thereof is provided. The fiber is made of a non-silica-based glass and has a longitudinal central opening, a microstructured region having a plurality of longitudinal surrounding openings, and a jacket. The air fill fraction of the microstructured region is at least about 40%. The fiber may be made by drawing a preform into a fiber, while applying gas pressure to the microstructured region. The air fill fraction of the microstructured region is changed during the drawing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623359 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295831 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3E Technologies International, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryon K. Coleman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John M. Fossaceca (Fredrick, Maryland); William J. Brown (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for wireless intrusion detection, prevention and security management. The method and system provides autonomous wireless intrusion detection and prevention, with minimal or no operator intervention. The method and system integrates a physical layer (e.g., OSI layer 1) a smart wireless radio frequency (RF) antenna subsystem with a data-link layer (e.g., OSI layer 2) wireless security system management platform. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773866 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295962 | Marcu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a translation memory (TMEM) and a decoder. The decoder may translate an input text segment using a statistical MT decoding algorithm, for example, a greedy decoding algorithm. The system may generate a cover of the input text segment from text segments in the TMEM. The decoder may use the cover as an initial translation in the decoding operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143382 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295978 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (New York, New York); BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Mark Schwartz (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jason Charles Davenport (Walpole, Massachusetts); James Donald Van Sciver (Wayland, Massachusetts); Long Nguyen (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for recognizing speech receives an input speech vector and identifies a Gaussian distribution. The system determines an address from the input speech vector (610) and uses the address to retrieve a distance value for the Gaussian distribution from a table (620). The system then determines the probability of the Gaussian distribution using the distance value (630) and recognizes the input speech vector based on the determined probability (640). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/655325 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296163 | Cybenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Cybenko (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for encrypting a program for execution on a remote host computer on a network, such that correct execution by the remote host computer is ensured, and such that the remote host computer remains unaware of the computations or data associated with execution. Results from the computations at the remote host computer are transmitted to a control computer, on the network, which decodes the results to useful data representative as output from the program. In a first step of the method, the program is encoded as a unitary matrix multiplication, Uij, of i dimensions by j dimensions. Un is the set of unitary matrices of size n, forms a non-commutative group under matrix multiplication, and has a unique group-invariant Haar measure probability distribution; Uij is thus an element of Un. In a second step, an input data string to the program is encoded as a vector bj of n dimensions. The first and second steps can be performed in either order. In a third step, two independent identically distributed unitary matrices Xij, Yij are generated from the Haar distribution over Un. Preferably, Xij, Yij are randomly generated. In a fourth step, U′ is computed as XUY* and sent to the remote host over the network. In a fifth step, b′ is computed as Yb and sent to the remote host over the network. The fourth and fifth steps can be performed in either order. In a sixth step, the remote host computes the product of XUY* and Yb and sends the result to the control computer on the network. In a seventh step, the control computer computes X*XUb to determine the multiplication of Ub, the desired output of the program. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/759402 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296237 | Crocker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shinkuro, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Crocker (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeffrey Kay (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A data replication system and method. The method and apparatus provides for an efficient means of replicating data over a network in the form of a file between two individuals, or within defined groups of individuals, using a variety of devices to access the Internet, including computers, personal data assistants (“PDA”s) and wireless devices. A group is formed through an exchange of invitation, acceptance, and welcome messages. A group member designates a replication directory on the group member's computer. Files placed in the directory are replicated and stored in the replication directory of each of the other members of the group. Any change to a replicated file causes a message by one member to be sent to all other members. Changes are conveyed via patches that represent the changes made to a replicated file. Replicated files are saved without replacing previous versions of the replicated file. The group formation and file replication processes are accomplished using existing network protocols. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390377 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296274 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Cohen (Livermore, California); Deanna T. Rogers (Fremont, California); Vicentiu Neagoe (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and/or system and/or apparatus providing deception and/or execution alteration in an information system. In specific embodiments, deceptions and/or protections are provided by intercepting and/or modifying operation of one or more system calls of an operating system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678609 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07294187 | Chow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Foundation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence C. Chow (Germantown, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A bone or dental implant material in the form of a paste includes a mixture of calcium phosphate and/or calcium-containing powders and a solution that is (1) an acidic calcium phosphate solution saturated with respect to one or more calcium phosphate compounds, (2) a concentrated acid solution, or (3) salt solutions with a cationic component other than calcium. The paste is stable, resistant to washout and will form hydroxyapatite and harden relatively rapidly to a cement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941443 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294455 | Nichols et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fixed-dried blood cells carrying an active agent are described, along with methods of making the same, methods of using the same, and compositions containing the same. The blood cells may be red blood cells or blood platelets. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845045 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294458 | Philpott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Rensselaer, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Philpott (Albany, New York); Barbara Weiser (Albany, New York); Harold Burger (Albany, New York); Christina Kitchen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and can be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergoing HAART, the predominant populations of virus can be shifted back to CCR5-mediated entry after the CXCR4-specific strains have emerged. The present invention relates to a diagnostic method to monitor coreceptor use in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The present invention further relates to a diagnostic method applied to HIV-positive individuals undergoing HAART to monitor the suppression of CXCR4 specific strains. The diagnostic methods can be used to assist in selecting antiretroviral therapy and to improve predictions of disease prognosis over time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/695846 |
| 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 07294459 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annie Yang (Boston, Massachusetts); Frank McKeon (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes the cloning of p63, a gene at chromosome 3q27-29, that bears homology to the tumor suppressor p53. The p63 gene encodes at least six different isotypes. p63 was detected in a variety of human and mouse tissue and demonstrates remarkably divergent activities, such as the ability to transactivate p53 reporter genes and induce apoptosis. Isotopes of p63 lacking a transactivation domain act as dominant negatives towards the transactivation by p53 and p63. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/174493 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294465 | Somlo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Somlo (Westport, Connecticut); Toshio Mochizuki (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a purified and isolated wild type PKD2 gene, as well as mutated forms of this gene. The present invention also provides one or more single-stranded nucleic acid probes which specifically hybridize to the wild type PKD2 gene or the mutated PKD2 gene, and mixtures thereof, which may be formulated in kits, and used in the diagnosis of ADPKD associated with the mutated PKD2 gene. The present invention also provides a method for diagnosing ADPKD caused by a mutated PKD2 gene, as well as a method for treating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease caused by a mutated PKD2 gene. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040384 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294468 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Winifred Bell (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel A. Haber (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Pasi Antero Janne (Newton, Massachusetts); Bruce E. Johnson (Brookline, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Lynch (Newton, Massachusetts); Matthew Meyerson (Concord, Massachusetts); Juan Guillermo Paez (Boston, Massachusetts); William R. Sellers (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Jeffrey E. Settleman (Newton, Massachusetts); Raffaella Sordella (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for determining the responsiveness of cancer to an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) treatment. In a preferred embodiment, the presence of at least one variance in the kinase domain of the erbB1 gene confers sensitivity to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor gefitinib. Thus, a diagnostic assay for these mutations will allow for the administration of gefitinib, erlotinib and other tyrosine kinase inhibitors to those patients most likely to respond to the drug. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294621 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294471 | Malkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | csKeys, LLC (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda H. Malkas (Indianapolis, Indiana); Robert J. Hickey (Indianapolis, Indiana); Pamela E. Bechtel (Tempe, Arizona); Min Park (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Derek J. Hoelz (Indianapolis, Indiana); Dragana Tomic (Baltimore, Maryland); Lauren Schnaper (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for purifying cancer-specific Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (csPCNA) is described, as well as an immunoassay based thereon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/083576 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294476 | Johns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger A. Johns (Reistertown, Maryland); Yuanxiang Tao (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Several lines of evidence have shown a role for the nitric oxide (NO)/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) signaling pathway in the development of spinal hyperalgesia. However, the roles of effectors for cGMP are not fully understood in the processing of pain in the spinal cord. cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) Iα but not PKGIβ was localized in the neuronal bodies and processes, and was distributed primarily in the superficial laminae of the spinal cord. Intrathecal administration of an inhibitor of PKGIα, Rp-8-[(4-Chlorophenyl)thio]-cGMPS triethylamine, produces significant antinociception. Moreover, PKGIα protein expression was dramatically increased in the lumbar spinal cord after noxious stimulation. This upregulation of PKGIα expression was completely blocked not only by a neuronal NO synthase inhibitor, and a soluble guanylate cyclase inhibitor, but also by an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, MK-801. Noxious stimulation not only initially activates but also later upregulates PKGIα expression in the superficial laminae via an NMDA-No-cGMP signaling pathway, suggesting that PKGIα plays an important role in the central mechanism of inflammatory hyperalgesia in the spinal cord. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/200169 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294487 | MacLeod et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. MacLeod (Austin, Texas); C. Marcelo Aldaz (Austin, Texas); Sara S. Gaddis (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for the detection of gene expression and analysis of both known and unknown genes. The invention is a highly sensitive, rapid and cost-effective means of monitoring gene expression, as well as for the analysis and quantitation of changes in gene expression for a defined set of genes and in response to a wide variety of events.” It is an important feature of the present invention that no single molecular species of cDNA gives rise to more than one fragment in the collection of products which are subsequently amplified and representative of each expressed gene. This achievement is facilitated by immobilizing the cDNA prior to digesting and then digesting with sequentially with two frequently cutting enzymes. Linker oligomers are ligated to each cut site following the respective digestion. Primers, complementary to the oligomer sequence with an additional 3′ variable sequence are used to amplify the fragments. Using an array of fragments theoretically facilitates the amplification of all of the possible messages in a given sample. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/840722 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294494 | Roca |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto Roca (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | RecA protein mutants and RecA homolog protein mutants which contain one or more mutations in the MAW motif are presented. The mutants rely on replacement of wildtype amino acid residues in the MAW motif with specific replacement residues to alter the three-dimensional structure of the MAW motif and to change the protein's DNA-binding properties. Three classes of mutants are described: mutants which will reduce the protein's dependence on ATP to initiate DNA-binding; mutants which more tightly bind DNA; and combination mutants which possess both of these properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864607 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294497 | Kaplan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey B. Kaplan (Monsey, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated nucleic acid sequences and amino acid sequences for soluble, β-N-acetylglucosaminidase or active fragments or variants thereof which promote detachment of bacterial cells from a biofilm are provided. An isolated mutant bacteria which forms biofilm colonies which tightly adhere to surface but which are unable to release cells into the medium or spread over the surface is also provided. In additions, methods are described for modulating detachment of bacterial cells from biofilm by mutating soluble,β-N-acetylglucosamimidase or altering its expression or activity are also provided. Also provided are compositions, methods and devices for preventing, inhibiting and treating bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/538902 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294689 | Fasano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessio Fasano (West Friendship, Maryland); Stefanie N. Vogel (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Agonist polypeptide of a receptor protein has been identified. The agonist can be used to facilitate drug and antigen absorption. Suitable routes of administration include oral, nasal, transdermal, and intravenous. Pharmaceutical formulations may comprise a therapeutic agent or an immunogenic agent in combination with the agonist polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/891492 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294699 | Nelsestuen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vitamin k-dependent polypeptides with enhanced membrane binding affinity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate clot formation in mammals. Methods of modulating clot formation in mammals are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855068 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294706 | Basilico et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudio Basilico (New York, New York); Moosa Mohammadi (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions that may be used to modulate binding of a fibroblast growth factor (FGF) polypeptide to an FGF receptor (FGFR). In preferred embodiments, the methods and compositions of the invention modulate binding of a particular FGF polypeptide, the FGF4 polypeptide, to its receptor. The invention provides, in particular, variant FGF polypeptides that have at least one amino acid residue substitutions, insertion or deletion which alters the polypeptdies' binding affinity for an FGFR. The invention also provides models for the three-dimensional structure of a dimerized complex of FGF-FGFR-heparin. Using these models, key amino acid residues are identified and novel compounds (including novel variants of FGF and FGFR) can be identified which modulate FGF binding to its receptor. Such new compounds are therefore useful, e.g., as agonist and antagonist for FGF signaling and for bioactivities associated therewith. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771238 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294755 | Readhead et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); Imperial College Innovations Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol W. Readhead (Pasadena, California); Robert Winston (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an in vivo method of incorporating exogenous genetic material into the genome of a vertebrate, which involves administering to a male vertebrate's testis a gene delivery mixture comprising a viral vector, such as a retroviral vector, to deliver a polynucleotide encoding a desired trait or product. Also disclosed is an in vitro method of incorporating exogenous genetic material into the genome of a vertebrate, in which germ cells are obtained from a donor male vertebrate and are genetically modified in vitro, before being transferred to a recipient male vertebrate. After the transfer, the male vertebrate bearing the genetically modified germ cells is bred with a female vertebrate such that a transgenic progeny is produced that carries the polynucleotide in its genome. Also disclosed are non-human transgenic vertebrates produced in accordance with the method, including transgenic progeny. A transgenic cell derived from the transgenic vertebrate is also disclosed, being a germ cell, such as a spermatozoan or ovum, a precursor cell of either of these, or a somatic cell. A method of producing a non-human transgenic vertebrate animal line comprising native germ cells carrying in their genome at least one xenogeneic polynucleotide is disclosed, as is vertebrate semen containing the transgenic male germ cells useful in practicing the method. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/570357 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295653 | Loewen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lyncean Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roderick J. Loewen (Redwood City, California); Ronald D. Ruth (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive optical resonator stores optical pulses within a cavity to increase the optical power level of input pulses via resonant reflections without the use of an internal optical gain medium. In one embodiment for a Compton backscattering system, the optical resonator is a passive high finesse optical resonator that includes a mirror that is transmissive to x-rays. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102479 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07293497 | Donahue |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dresser, Inc. (Addison, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Donahue (Colgate, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of embodiments of a piston may have a shape that provides enhanced piston guidance. In such embodiments, the piston shape may include an axial profile that is configured to provide certain thrust load characteristics. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265948 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Expansible chamber devices 092/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293613 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Goldberg (New York, New York); Gregory J. Myers (Cornwall, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for downhole coring while receiving logging-while-drilling tool data. The apparatus includes core collar and a retrievable core barrel. The retrievable core barrel receives core from a borehole which is sent to the surface for analysis via wireline and latching tool The core collar includes logging-while-drilling tools for the simultaneous measurement of formation properties during the core excavation process. Examples of logging-while-drilling tools include nuclear sensors, resistivity sensors, gamma ray sensors, and bit resistivity sensors. The disclosed method allows for precise core-log depth calibration and core orientation within a single borehole, and without at pipe trip, providing both time saving and unique scientific advantages. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639551 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293955 | Lawlor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramgen Power Systrms, Inc. (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P. Lawlor (Bellevue, Washington); Mark A. Novaresi (San Diego, California); Charles C. Cornelius (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas compressor based on the use of a driven rotor having a compression ramp traveling at a local supersonic inlet velocity (based on the combination of inlet gas velocity and tangential speed of the ramp) which compresses inlet gas against a stationary sidewall. In using this method to compress inlet gas, the supersonic compressor efficiently achieves high compression ratios while utilizing a compact, stabilized gasdynamic flow path. Operated at supersonic speeds, the inlet stabilizes an oblique/normal shock system in the gasdyanamic flow path formed between the rim of the rotor, the strakes, and a stationary external housing. Part load efficiency is enhanced by the use of a pre-swirl compressor, and using a bypass stream to bleed a portion of the intermediate pressure gas after passing through the pre-swirl compressor back to the inlet of the pre-swirl compressor. Inlet guide vanes to the compression ramp enhance overall efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087336 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294233 | Banerjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sujit Banerjee (Marietta, Georgia); Howard Corcoran (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for altering the tack of a material, namely a polymer used as an adhesive, also known as stickies, or pitch. The present invention reduces the tack of the stickies and pitch by exposing the materials for a short duration to low-energy pulsed electrical discharges between a pair of electrodes that are submerged in a liquid medium, such as a fiber stream, water, a pulp slurry, or whitewater. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/322832 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294291 | Wagh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun S. Wagh (Naperville, Illinois); M. David Maloney (Evergreen, Colorado); Gary H. Thompson (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of stabilizing nuclear material is disclosed. Oxides or halides of actinides and/or transuranics (TRUs) and/or hydrocarbons and/or acids contaminated with actinides and/or TRUs are treated by adjusting the pH of the nuclear material to not less than about 5 and adding sufficient MgO to convert fluorides present to MgF2; alumina is added in an amount sufficient to absorb substantially all hydrocarbon liquid present, after which a binder including MgO and KH2PO4 is added to the treated nuclear material to form a slurry. Additional MgO may be added. A crystalline radioactive material is also disclosed having a binder of the reaction product of calcined MgO and KH2PO4 and a radioactive material of the oxides and/or halides of actinides and/or transuranics (TRUs). Acids contaminated with actinides and/or TRUs, and/or actinides and/or TRUs with or without oils and/or greases may be encapsulated and stabilized by the binder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782278 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/625 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294306 | Haas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Haas (San Ramon, California); Randall L. Simpson (Livermore, California); Joe H. Satcher (Patterson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inspection tester that can be used anywhere as a primary screening tool by non-technical personnel to determine whether a surface contains explosives. It includes a body with a sample pad. First and second explosives detecting reagent holders and dispensers are operatively connected to the body and the sample pad. The first and second explosives detecting reagent holders and dispensers are positioned to deliver the explosives detecting reagents to the sample pad. A is heater operatively connected to the sample pad. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610904 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294323 | Klingler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William T. Zollinger (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kraig M. Wendt (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a chemical hydride is described and which includes selecting a composition having chemical bonds and which is capable of forming a chemical hydride; providing a source of a hydrocarbon; and reacting the composition with the source of the hydrocarbon to generate a chemical hydride. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/778789 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294417 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jing Yu Lao (Saline, Michigan); Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to metal oxide materials with varied symmetrical nanostructure morphologies. In particular, the present invention provides metal oxide materials comprising one or more metallic oxides with three-dimensionally ordered nanostructural morphologies, including hierarchical morphologies. The present invention also provides methods for producing such metal oxide materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660348 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294427 | Kelley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); United States of America Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana A. Kelley (New Milford, Connecticut); Mohammad Farooque (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gasket for use in a fuel cell system having at least one externally manifolded fuel cell stack, for sealing the manifold edge and the stack face. In accordance with the present invention, the gasket accommodates differential movement between the stack and manifold by promoting slippage at interfaces between the gasket and the dielectric and between the gasket and the stack face. |
| FILED | Monday, December 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022977 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294606 | Suplinskas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Specialty Materials, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Suplinskas (Haverhill, Massachusetts); Douglas Finnemore (Ames, Iowa); Serquei Bud′ko (Ames, Iowa); Paul Canfield (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemically doped boron coating is applied by chemical vapor deposition to a silicon carbide fiber and the coated fiber then is exposed to magnesium vapor to convert the doped boron to doped magnesium diboride and a resultant superconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/989803 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295026 | Van Berkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Van Berkel (Clinton, Tennessee); Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael James Ford (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method utilizes an image analysis approach for controlling the probe-to-surface distance of a liquid junction-based surface sampling system for use with mass spectrometric detection. Such an approach enables a hands-free formation of the liquid microjunction used to sample solution composition from the surface and for re-optimization, as necessary, of the microjunction thickness during a surface scan to achieve a fully automated surface sampling system. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144882 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295146 | McMakin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas L. McMakin (Richland, Washington); David M. Sheen (Richland, Washington); Thomas E. Hall (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to remove human features utilizing at least one transmitter transmitting a signal between 200 MHz and 1 THz, the signal having at least one characteristic of elliptical polarization, and at least one receiver receiving the reflection of the signal from the transmitter. A plurality of such receivers and transmitters are arranged together in an array which is in turn mounted to a scanner, allowing the array to be passed adjacent to the surface of the item being imaged while the transmitter is transmitting electromagnetic radiation. The array is passed adjacent to the surface of the item, such as a human being, that is being imaged. The portions of the received signals wherein the polarity of the characteristic has been reversed and those portions of the received signal wherein the polarity of the characteristic has not been reversed are identified. An image of the item from those portions of the received signal wherein the polarity of the characteristic was reversed is then created. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088470 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295448 | Zhu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lizhi Zhu (Canton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A power converter architecture interleaves full bridge converters to alleviate thermal management problems in high current applications, and may, for example, double the output power capability while reducing parts count and costs. For example, one phase of a three phase inverter is shared between two transformers, which provide power to a rectifier such as a current doubler rectifier to provide two full bridge DC/DC converters with three rather than four high voltage inverter legs. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861319 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295734 | Bayindir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Bayindir (Somerville, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dursen Saygin Hinczewski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shandon D. Hart (Maplewood, Minnesota); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality of distinct materials, e.g., of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials, and drawing the preform into a fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890948 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296274 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Cohen (Livermore, California); Deanna T. Rogers (Fremont, California); Vicentiu Neagoe (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and/or system and/or apparatus providing deception and/or execution alteration in an information system. In specific embodiments, deceptions and/or protections are provided by intercepting and/or modifying operation of one or more system calls of an operating system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678609 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07293401 | Papamoschou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitri Papamoschou (Mission Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is a technique to suppress noise in a jet engine. A noise suppressor includes an exhaust duct to exhaust a first stream from an air stream taken from an inlet. The exhaust duct has an exit end. The air stream is divided into the first stream and a second stream. The second stream has an axis. A stream director attached to vicinity of the exit end directs the first stream to a direction that is away from or sideward relative to the axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393173 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293449 | Hasselbrink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest F. Hasselbrink (Londonderry, New Hampshire); Mark Libardoni (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kristine Stewart, legal representative (Ann Arbor, Michigan); J. Hunter Waite (Dexter, Michigan); Bruce P. Block (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal modulator device for gas chromatography and associated methods. The thermal modulator device includes a recirculating fluid cooling member, an electrically conductive capillary in direct thermal contact with the cooling member, and a power supply electrically coupled to the capillary and operable for controlled resistive heating of the capillary. The capillary can include more than one separate thermally modulated sections. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134873 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293613 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Goldberg (New York, New York); Gregory J. Myers (Cornwall, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for downhole coring while receiving logging-while-drilling tool data. The apparatus includes core collar and a retrievable core barrel. The retrievable core barrel receives core from a borehole which is sent to the surface for analysis via wireline and latching tool The core collar includes logging-while-drilling tools for the simultaneous measurement of formation properties during the core excavation process. Examples of logging-while-drilling tools include nuclear sensors, resistivity sensors, gamma ray sensors, and bit resistivity sensors. The disclosed method allows for precise core-log depth calibration and core orientation within a single borehole, and without at pipe trip, providing both time saving and unique scientific advantages. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639551 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07293743 | Cepollina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cepollina (Annandale, Maryland); Richard D. Burns (Annapolis, Maryland); Jill M. Holz (Laurel, Maryland); James E. Corbo (Columbia, Maryland); Nicholas M. Jedhrich (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method and supporting apparatus for autonomously capturing, servicing and de-orbiting a free-flying spacecraft, such as a satellite, using robotics. The capture of the spacecraft includes the steps of optically seeking and ranging the satellite using LIDAR; and matching tumble rates, rendezvousing and berthing with the satellite. Servicing of the spacecraft may be done using supervised autonomy, which is allowing a robot to execute a sequence of instructions without intervention from a remote human-occupied location. These instructions may be packaged at the remote station in a script and uplinked to the robot for execution upon remote command giving authority to proceed. Alternately, the instructions may be generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) logic onboard the robot. In either case, the remote operator maintains the ability to abort an instruction or script at any time, as well as the ability to intervene using manual override to teleoperate the robot. In one embodiment, a vehicle used for carrying out the method of this invention comprises an ejection module, which includes the robot, and a de-orbit module. Once servicing is completed by the robot, the ejection module separates from the de-orbit module, leaving the de-orbit module attached to the satellite for de-orbiting the same at a future time. Upon separation, the ejection module can either de-orbit itself or rendezvous with another satellite for servicing. The ability to de-orbit a spacecraft further allows the opportunity to direct the landing of the spent satellite in a safe location away from population centers, such as the ocean. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670270 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295309 | Morrison |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis R. Morrison (Kemah, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for analyzing microparticles is provided which includes a chamber with an inlet and an outlet for respectively introducing and dispensing a flowing fluid comprising microparticles, a light source for providing light through the chamber and a photometer for measuring the intensity of light transmitted through individual microparticles. The device further includes an imaging system for acquiring images of the fluid. In some cases, the device may be configured to identify and determine a quantity of the microparticles within the fluid. Consequently, a method for identifying and tracking microparticles in motion is contemplated herein. The method involves flowing a fluid comprising microparticles in laminar motion through a chamber, transmitting light through the fluid, measuring the intensities of the light transmitted through the microparticles, imaging the fluid a plurality of times and comparing at least some of the intensities of light between different images of the fluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734753 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295719 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Space Alliance, LLC (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tina L. Robertson (Merritt Island, Florida); Michael C. Raney (Cocoa, Florida); Dennis M. Dougherty (Merritt Island, Florida); Peter C. Kent (Titusville, Florida); Russell X. Brucker (Titusville, Florida); Daryl A. Lampert (Saint Cloud, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods through which pictorial views of an object's configuration, arranged in a hierarchical fashion, are navigated by a person to establish a visual context within the configuration. The visual context is automatically translated by the system into a set of search parameters driving retrieval of structured data and content (images, documents, multimedia, etc.) associated with the specific context. The system places “hot spots”, or actionable regions, on various portions of the pictorials representing the object. When a user interacts with an actionable region, a more detailed pictorial from the hierarchy is presented representing that portion of the object, along with real-time feedback in the form of a popup pane containing information about that region, and counts-by-type reflecting the number of items that are available within the system associated with the specific context and search filters established at that point in time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466508 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295884 | Spexarth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary R. Spexarth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method is provided for designing a restraint layer of an inflatable vessel. The restraint layer is inflatable from an initial uninflated configuration to an inflated configuration and is constructed from a plurality of interfacing longitudinal straps and hoop straps. The method involves providing computer processing means (e.g., to receive user inputs, perform calculations, and output results) and utilizing this computer processing means to implement a plurality of subsequent design steps. The computer processing means is utilized to input the load requirements of the inflated restraint layer and to specify an inflated configuration of the restraint layer. This includes specifying a desired design gap between pairs of adjacent longitudinal or hoop straps, whereby the adjacent straps interface with a plurality of transversely extending hoop or longitudinal straps at a plurality of intersections. Furthermore, an initial uninflated configuration of the restraint layer that is inflatable to achieve the specified inflated configuration is determined. This includes calculating a manufacturing gap between pairs of adjacent longitudinal or hoop straps that correspond to the specified desired gap in the inflated configuration of the restraint layer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158354 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296211 | Cole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Cole (Endwell, New York); James E. Bishop (Newark Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for transferring a packet across a data link. The packet may include a stream of data symbols which is delimited by one or more framing symbols. Corruptions of the framing symbol which result in valid data symbols may be mapped to invalid symbols. If it is desired to transfer one of the valid data symbols that has been mapped to an invalid symbol, the data symbol may be replaced with an unused symbol. At the receiving end, these unused symbols are replaced with the corresponding valid data symbols. The data stream of the packet may be encoded with forward error correction information to detect and correct errors in the data stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/348659 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07293613 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Goldberg (New York, New York); Gregory J. Myers (Cornwall, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for downhole coring while receiving logging-while-drilling tool data. The apparatus includes core collar and a retrievable core barrel. The retrievable core barrel receives core from a borehole which is sent to the surface for analysis via wireline and latching tool The core collar includes logging-while-drilling tools for the simultaneous measurement of formation properties during the core excavation process. Examples of logging-while-drilling tools include nuclear sensors, resistivity sensors, gamma ray sensors, and bit resistivity sensors. The disclosed method allows for precise core-log depth calibration and core orientation within a single borehole, and without at pipe trip, providing both time saving and unique scientific advantages. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639551 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294417 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jing Yu Lao (Saline, Michigan); Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to metal oxide materials with varied symmetrical nanostructure morphologies. In particular, the present invention provides metal oxide materials comprising one or more metallic oxides with three-dimensionally ordered nanostructural morphologies, including hierarchical morphologies. The present invention also provides methods for producing such metal oxide materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660348 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294849 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An OLED includes a wide gap inert host material doped with two dopants. One of the dopants is an emissive phosphorescent material that can transport either electrons or holes. The other dopant is a charge carrying material that can transport whichever of the electrons and holes that is not transported by the phosphorescent dopant. The materials are selected so that the lowest triplet energy level of the host material and the lowest triplet energy level of the charge carrying dopant material are each at a higher energy level than the lowest triplet state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material. The device is capable, in particular, of efficiently emitting light in the blue region of the visible spectrum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472401 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295088 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Arlington, Virginia); Sheng-Shian Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | High-Q micromechanical resonator devices and filters utilizing same are provided. The devices and filters include a vibrating polysilicon micromechanical “hollow-disk” ring resonators obtained by removing quadrants of material from solid disk resonators, but purposely leaving intact beams or spokes of material with quarter-wavelength dimensions to non-intrusively support the resonators. The use of notched support attachments closer to actual extensional ring nodal points further raises the Q. Vibrating micromechanical hollow-disk ring filters including mechanically coupled resonators with resonator Q's greater than 10,000 achieve filter Q's on the order of thousands via a low-velocity coupling scheme. A longitudinally mechanical spring is utilized to attach the notched-type, low-velocity coupling locations of the resonators in order to achieve a extremely narrow passband. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040766 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295137 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhixin Liu (College Station, Texas); Samuel S. Cheng (Houston, Texas); Angelos D. Liveris (Stafford, Texas); Zixiang Xiong (Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the intermediate data using an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf encoder in order to generate compressed output data representing the input data. Similarly, a Wyner-Ziv decoder may be realized by: (1) applying an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf decoder to compressed input data using side information to generate intermediate values, and (b) jointly decoding the intermediate values using the side information to generate decompressed output data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/086778 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295614 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiandong Shen (Santa Clara, California); Wai-Yip Chan (Kingston, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for compressing, decompressing, and transmitting video data. The systems and methods include pixel by pixel motion estimation and compensation and efficient quantization of residual errors. The present invention applies block estimation of the residual error produced by motion compensation. The block estimation is applied by a local decoder to generate synthesized blocks of video data. The block estimation approximated uses a set of predetermined motion estimation errors that are stored as error vectors in a codebook. The codebook is included in an encoder of the present invention and converts an error vector for each block to an error vector index. The error vector index, which introduces minimal transmission burden, is then sent from the encoder to a target decoder. A receiving decoder also includes a copy of the codebook and converts the error vector index to its associated error vector for reconstruction of video data. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/945116 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295734 | Bayindir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Bayindir (Somerville, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dursen Saygin Hinczewski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shandon D. Hart (Maplewood, Minnesota); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality of distinct materials, e.g., of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials, and drawing the preform into a fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890948 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296163 | Cybenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Cybenko (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for encrypting a program for execution on a remote host computer on a network, such that correct execution by the remote host computer is ensured, and such that the remote host computer remains unaware of the computations or data associated with execution. Results from the computations at the remote host computer are transmitted to a control computer, on the network, which decodes the results to useful data representative as output from the program. In a first step of the method, the program is encoded as a unitary matrix multiplication, Uij, of i dimensions by j dimensions. Un is the set of unitary matrices of size n, forms a non-commutative group under matrix multiplication, and has a unique group-invariant Haar measure probability distribution; Uij is thus an element of Un. In a second step, an input data string to the program is encoded as a vector bj of n dimensions. The first and second steps can be performed in either order. In a third step, two independent identically distributed unitary matrices Xij, Yij are generated from the Haar distribution over Un. Preferably, Xij, Yij are randomly generated. In a fourth step, U′ is computed as XUY* and sent to the remote host over the network. In a fifth step, b′ is computed as Yb and sent to the remote host over the network. The fourth and fifth steps can be performed in either order. In a sixth step, the remote host computes the product of XUY* and Yb and sends the result to the control computer on the network. In a seventh step, the control computer computes X*XUb to determine the multiplication of Ub, the desired output of the program. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/759402 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07294506 | Daniell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Daniell (Winter Park, Florida); William Moar (Auburn University, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates in part to tobacco chloroplast transformation vectors comprising a multi-gene operon that generates a polycistron that encodes a biopharmaceutical protein and a chaperonin. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/770183 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07294758 | Polston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane E. Polston (North Port, Florida); Ernest Hiebert (Gainesville, Florida); Ahmed M. Abouzid (Gainesville, Florida); Wayne B. Hunter (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to materials and methods for producing plants that are resistant to infection by geminiviruses and other related viruses. Methods of the invention comprise transforming a plant with a polynucleotide wherein when the polynucleotide is expressed in the plant, the transformed plant exhibits resistance to plant viral infections. Exemplified herein is the use of a polynucleotide encoding a Rep protein derived from tomato mottle geminivirus. The methods of the invention can be used to provide resistance to viral infection in plants such as tomato and tobacco. The present invention also concerns transformed and transgenic plants in plant tissue that express a polynucleotide encoding a plant virus Rep protein, or a fragment or variant thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134994 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07294507 | Harvey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AviGenics, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia); Markley C. Leavitt (Watkinsville, Georgia); Youliang Wang (Monroe, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes nucleic acid molecules comprising an artificial chromosome and an avian ovomucoid gene expression controlling region operably linked to the coding sequence of a useful polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856218 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07295586 | Kwon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Finisar Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hoki Kwon (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | GaAs(1−x)Sbx layers are grown by MOCVD. For lattice matching with InP, x is set to 0.5, while beneficial alternatives include setting x to 0.23, 0.3, and 0.4. During MOVCD, TMGa (or TEGa), TMSb, and AsH3 (or TBAs) are used to fabricate the GaAs(1−x )Sbx layer. Beneficially, the GaAs(1−x)Sbx layer's composition is controlled by the ratio of As to Sb. The MOCVD growth temperature is between 500° C. and 650° C. The GaAs(1−x)Sbx layer is beneficially doped using CCl4 or CBr4. A heavily doped GaAs(1−x)Sbx layer can be used to form a tunnel junction with n-doped layers of InP, AlInAs, or with lower bandgap materials such as AlInGaAs or InGaAsP. Such tunnel junctions are useful for producing long wavelength VCSELs. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/078473 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07295831 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3E Technologies International, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryon K. Coleman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John M. Fossaceca (Fredrick, Maryland); William J. Brown (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for wireless intrusion detection, prevention and security management. The method and system provides autonomous wireless intrusion detection and prevention, with minimal or no operator intervention. The method and system integrates a physical layer (e.g., OSI layer 1) a smart wireless radio frequency (RF) antenna subsystem with a data-link layer (e.g., OSI layer 2) wireless security system management platform. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773866 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
| US 07294327 | McClanahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tennessee Valley Authority (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timmons S. McClanahan (Florence, Alabama); Michael C. Crim (Florence, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A relatively simple and energy efficient multiple stage cryogenic process for the purification of a hydrogen-rich stream by the removal of acid gases, mainly CO2 and H2S, by method of autorefrigeration and delivering or producing those acid gases, mainly CO2, at pressure sufficiently high for disposal by containment, commonly known as sequestration. Autorefrigeration is comprised of (a) condensing acid gases from the syngas stream by cooling the syngas, (b) separating the liquefied acid gases from the syngas, and (c) evaporating the liquefied acid gases at a pressure lower than that of the syngas to provide cooling. The process is composed of multiple autorefrigeration stages to generate multiple acid gas product streams with a pressure as high as practical in each stream so as to lessen the power needed to pressurize the acid gas streams for sequestration. The final autorefrigeration stage utilizes an antifreeze liquid that allows the final stage to operate below the freezing point of CO2; thus allowing more acid gas removal. The antifreeze liquid is an alcohol or a mixture of alcohols with a freezing point lower than about minus 110 degrees F. and a boiling point higher than about 100 degrees F. The process includes hydrogen recovery and recycle as well as recovery of the energy contained in the sulfur bearing compounds. The process is especially well suited for CO2 removal/sequestration from a coal (or petroleum coke) gasification process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/384279 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/578.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip L. Sibrell (Charles Town, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of and system for removing phosphorus from wastewater using a waste sludge that has a high affinity for phosphorus. So the waste sludge can be used in a flow-through contact reactor to remove the phosphorus from a wastewater stream, the waste sludge is pelletized. The waste sludge pellets are packed into one or more flow-through contact reactors. In the configuration described herein, phosphorus removal is maximized by flowing the wastewater through the reactor(s) in a “pulsed” manner, rather than continuously. Thus, wastewater is flowed through the reactor(s) for a period of time and stopped for a period of time. By giving the sludge absorbent a rest period, the absorption capacity of the sludge is increased significantly, thus decreasing the frequency of regeneration or replacement of the sludge. Sludge regeneration can be accomplished with a stripping step using an alkaline solution of pH 13, followed by rinsing with water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124638 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/669 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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